September 2014
Lunchtime Colloquium
SOHP is hosting our first brown bag lunch colloquium of the semester! To kick things off, each of our four field scholars will discuss their summer research and interviews, and solicit feedback.
Find out more »October 2014
Lunchtime Colloquium
This brown bag lunch colloquium will feature Bryan Giemza, the new director of the Southern Historical Collection.
Find out more »November 2014
Lunchtime Colloquium
At this colloquium, Jessie English will present on the New Roots Latino Oral History Project, co-sponsored by SOHP. Please come out, bring your lunch, and enjoy a conversation about Jessie's work on this project.
Find out more »December 2014
Lunchtime Colloquium
The SOHP's final fall colloquium will be a discussion of Sherna Berger Gluck's recent article, "Reflecting on the Quantum Leap: Promises and Perils of Oral History on the Web," published in The Oral History Review 2014, Vol 41, No. 2. For more information please email field scholar Evan Faulkenbury.
Find out more »Southern Cultures: Best of Food Issue + Winter Issue double release party
Please join us at the Center as we celebrate the release of two new issues of Southern Cultures!
Find out more »Fall 2014 Intern Performance
Join us for a performance by the Fall 2014 SOHP interns as they wrap up their semester of oral history work on the topic of women's history at UNC Chapel Hill. This event is free and open to the public.
Find out more »January 2015
February 2015
Lunchtime Colloquium: Amy Evans
"Agnes," by Amy C. Evans, 2014 Join us for this brown bag lunchtime colloquium with Amy Evans, who will be discussing her work as an artist and documentarian.
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April 2015
Lunchtime Colloquium
Featuring Susan Davis of Better Broadcasts; learn more about her here.
Find out more »SOHP Intern Performance – UPDATED TIME
Come see the SOHP Spring 2015 interns present the culmination of their semester's work on the history of feminist activism at UNC. April 29, 1 pm!
Find out more »September 2015
New Roots/Nuevas Raíces Roundtable Discussion
Since 2007, faculty, staff, and students at UNC have conducted oral history interviews on issues related to Latino migration to North Carolina and the formation of Latino communities. This project, called New Roots, was awarded an NEH grant in 2014 to make the collection accessible to new regional, national, and global audiences, particularly within Spanish-speaking Latino and Latin American communities. At this Tell About the South, hear from New Roots partners, including the Latino Migration Project, the Southern Oral History…
Find out more »Rostros del Tiempo Art Reception
This fall the Center is honored to showcase a photography collection titled Rostros del Tiempo: Faces of Time. Taken by Charles D. Thompson, Jr., these portraits depict the faces of former Braceros (or sometimes their widows, who stand for them) who once worked in U.S. fields, harvesting crops and providing food for American consumers from 1942-1964. These elderly men and women gather every Sunday in Ciudad Juarez to protest because they still have not received the retirement benefits they earned…
Find out more »Lunchtime Colloquium
Join us for our monthly brown bag lunchtime discussion! This colloquium will feature our field scholars, Evan Faulkenbury, Taylor Livingston, and Kimber Thomas, who will be speaking about their recent research and soliciting feedback.
Find out more »Oral History Workshop
SOHP Field Scholar Evan Faulkenbury will host a basic "How To Do Oral History" workshop covering such topics as: Identifying people and preparing to interview them for a research paper or project Recording the interview Asking the right questions (and avoiding the wrong ones) Navigating awkward situations Using oral history to improve your research And more! Everyone is welcome, especially those with no experience in oral history, or those looking to improve their interviewing skills. If you're able to join…
Find out more »October 2015
Lunchtime Colloquium
Join us for our monthly brown bag lunchtime discussion! Led by field scholar Evan Faulkenbury, we'll discuss the similarities and differences between oral history and ethnography. The following readings are a helpful intro to our topic, but are not required to attend: David Cline, "Defining Oral History: Working Definitions" Donald Ritchie, "An Oral History of Our Time," from Doing Oral History Alessandro Portelli, "What Makes Oral History Different," from The Oral History Reader Tim Lloyd, "On the Differences between Folklore Fieldwork and…
Find out more »Tell About the South: Evan Faulkenbury
The money to pay for the Civil Rights Movement had to come from somewhere. In this talk, Evan Faulkenbury will tell the story of theVoter Education Project (VEP) and how philanthropic foundations paid for and influenced the course of the movement during the 1960s. The VEP solicited grants from foundations, then dispersed the money to hundreds of grassroots voter registration campaigns across the eleven states of the Old Confederacy. With these grants, ranging from $200 to $20,000, local civil rights…
Find out more »November 2015
Lunchtime Colloquium
For our next SOHP lunchtime brown bag colloquium we will discuss an article from a recent issue of Oral History Review: Alexander Freund, "Under Storytelling's Spell? Oral History in a Neoliberal Age." It's all about the form of storytelling and how it is super popular right now - perhaps to the detriment to the field of oral history. As SOHP thinks about its future making our collections more accessible to the general public and academic audiences, his ideas should provoke some thought…
Find out more »December 2015
Interns’ Oral History Performance
Join us as our Fall 2015 undergraduate interns perform their work from this semester, which focused on the Black Pioneers--the first cohort of black students to attend UNC Chapel Hill. All are welcome, and light refreshments will be served.
Find out more »February 2016
Lunchtime Colloquium: Ashley D. Farmer
Join us for our first brown-bag lunchtime colloquium of the Spring 2016 semester. Our guest will be Dr. Ashley D. Farmer, a postdoc in Duke University's Department of History and soon-to-be Assistant Professor in History and African American Studies at Boston University. She is coming to share about her work using oral history on Black Power and black women's movements. You can read more about her on her personal website: www.ashleydfarmer.com. She also blogs regularly for the African American Intellectual History Society: www.aaihs.org
Find out more »Tell About the South: Taylor Livingston
Please join us at the Center for a lunchtime discussion titled “Social Medicine: Prenatal Care in a Group Setting” from SOHP Field Scholar Taylor Livingston.
Find out more »April 2016
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 »May 2016
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 »September 2016
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!
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