Friday, January 26th, 2018, 12:00 – 2:00 p.m. Join the Interdisciplinary Center for Innovative Theory and Empirics (INCITE), home to the Columbia Center for Oral History Research Office, for an Experimental Design Workshop. The workshop will feature two presentations: Kate Khanna on “The Intersectional Nature of Masculinity: Social Class Threat and the Dynamic Nature of Gender Attitudes” […]
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Increasing visibility of the Muslim world
The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR), recently awarded Columbia University and its peer institutions — The Free Library of Philadelphia, the University of Pennsylvania, Haverford College, and Bryn Mawr College — $500,000 to digitize Islamic manuscripts and paintings dating from 1000 to 1900. “Arising from an extraordinary confluence of collecting foresight, scholarly curiosity, and shared expertise, […]
The New Museum is looking for a new Oral History Fellow!
This hybrid position would be an ideal fit for graduate students with an interest in oral history, Contemporary art, and digital humanities. You can see the first phase of the project here. Please see the call below for details. BTW, the first fellow for this program completed the CCOHR master’s degree in oral history. The deadline […]
LGBTQ+ alumni oral histories from Columbia’s Center for Oral History Research
Jamie Beckenstein, Project Coordinator for LGBTQ+ Columbia Oral Histories, shared a few of the themes that emerged from interviewing Columbia alums for the Columbia LGBTQ Oral History Project: We were correct to assume that Columbia’s location in Manhattan allowed narrators potential access to public queer worlds, but the ways that the narrators choose to access these […]
Codex Conquest
Did you ever wish you could collect rare books? In the game Codex Conquest: The Game of Book History, YOU are the curator for a national collection, acquiring books from the 15th century onward while completing with other countries for the greatest collection, and contending with events that impact your library (fires, donations) along the […]