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Telling Our Stories of Home
SOHP is excited to co-sponsor Telling our Stories of Home: Exploring and Celebrating Changing African Diaspora Communities, hosted by the Stone Center in collaboration with UNC faculty, staff, and community partners. The two week event held on March 31-April 2 (Weds – Saturday) and April 6 -8 (Weds-Friday), will highlight and celebrate the talents of women from Africa and the African Diaspora focusing on the theme of home – what is home; where is home; returning home; uprooted from home. Artists from the…
Find out more »Lunchtime Colloquium
Join us for our next brownbag lunchtime colloquium! Ryan Shaw, SILS professor and SOHP Faculty Affiliate, will speak about his research on oral history accessibility and demo some transcription and audio synchronization interfaces he is currently testing. You can read more about this work here.
Find out more »Interns’ Oral History Performance
Come see the SOHP Spring 2016 performance! This semester the interns have continued their focus on the Black Pioneers, the first group of students to desegregate UNC. The performance is a culmination of the their training in oral history, using the words of their interviewees to showcase the intersection of gender and race in these Pioneers' experiences at UNC and beyond. Light refreshments will be served. We hope to see you there!
Find out more »HIST 670 Oral History Performance
Join us for an oral history performance by students in Dr. Seidman's HIST 670 Oral History Seminar! This semester the class studied Race, Gender and Entrepreneurship through oral history. The students have been exploring how small-business owners in the Triangle and Triad experience entrepreneurship. How is it shaped by their race, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, and immigration status? How and why did they get started—what motivated them? How do they understand their role as a businessperson, whether in their family, their community, or…
Find out more »Process Series Opening Reception
Join us at the Love House for the Opening Reception for the Process Series! The SOHP is collaborating with the Process Series to present "The Black Pioneers Project," based on the oral history interviews the 2015-2016 SOHP undergraduate interns conducted with the Black Pioneers, the first African American to graduate from UNC. Performances will be held this November. The reception will feature light refreshments and music by Nick DiEugenio and Mimi Solomon. Come learn about the Process Series and their…
Find out more »Southern Research Circle Poster Presentation
Come join us for a Poster Session presenting research from the 2016 Summer Research Grant and Fellowship Recipients, featuring our own Field Scholar, Charlotte Fryar!
Find out more »Oral History Association Conference
SOHP will be at the annual meeting of the Oral History Association (OHA). We will be helping to celebrate 50 years of OHA, and showcasing our work on the "Mapping the Voices of North Carolina's Past, " interactive map for teachers, and our podcast, Press Record! Visit the conference site to learn more!
Find out more »Black Pioneers Project
Join the SOHP to showcase it's collaboration with the Process Series for this event featuring the dramatic rendering of oral histories conducted in 2015-2016 by the SOHP undergraduate interns on the Black Pioneers, the first group of African Americans to attend UNC-Chapel Hill.
Find out more »The Black Pioneers Project
Join the SOHP to showcase it's collaboration with the Process Series for this event featuring the dramatic rendering of oral histories conducted in 2015-2016 by the SOHP undergraduate interns on the Black Pioneers, the first group of African Americans to attend UNC-Chapel Hill.
Find out more »The Sonic South
Join SOHP on May 10, 2018 @ 7:30pm for the Sonic South, a live listening event which brings together the creative forces of audio producers and the powerful voices of Southern women from the SOHP archive.
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