The Columbia University student COVID-19 oral history collection is comprised of eighteen interviews conducted by students of Professor Ana Paulina Lee’s course Contemporary Civilization II. Students took the interviews in April and May of 2020, shortly after the pandemic hit New York City, and Columbia University’s courses converted from in-person to online. As such, they […]
Over the course of its seventy-year history, oral history has gone through a few iterations — the Oral History Research Office, the Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia Center for Oral History Research, and, today, the Oral History Archives at Columbia. In each of its incarnations, in addition to conducting interviews for collections, oral historians […]
Oral history is largely associated with telling stories. The Spring ’21 Oral History Master of Arts (OHMA) student exhibition is approaching the craft of oral history through these two questions: How do we know that we are listening? How do our narrators know they are being heard? Across more than a dozen live […]
What: How We Listen — like a book club, but for oral histories! When: Saturday, March 27th, 2pm Join OHAC for the first How We Listen session, a new event series focused on sharing oral history audio from our deep and wide archives. Let’s figure out what it means to really hear the […]
February 25, 2021, 6:10 PM 7:30 PM Changing the Narrative on Gun Violence: Survivors Want You to ‘Sit Down and Listen’ Holly Werner-Thomas 👉🏾This collection will be archived in the Oral History Archives at Columbia. March 11, 2021, 6:10 PM 7:30 PM Documenting State Violence, Building Archives of Survival Gabriel Solis March 18, 2021, […]