From our colleagues in the Oral History Master’s Program… “Narrative is radical, creating us at the very moment it is being created.” – Toni Morrison “What the colonial process does, or any process of domination, is [enact] the erasure of the memory of the subjugated. You erase the memory of who they are, the memories […]
NYPL Library School Records: A Student Project
At the Rare Book and Manuscript Library (RBML), we are fortunate to have dedicated and curious students who help us maintain and provide access to our collections. Just this past year, Itzel Franco (CC 2026) and Sarah Noon (GS 2024) helped us improve the condition and description of a brittle but valuable collection of records […]
Event | Hearing Cuban Voices in a Time of Crisis
Date: Tuesday, 17 September 2024 Time: 6pm – 8pm Hosted by the Bildner Center for Western Hemisphere Studies. Please note that this panel will take place in 9100 Skylight Room, CUNY Graduate Center. To register, email bildner@gc.cuny.edu. Once registration is full, please tune in to the panel via this Zoom link on the day […]
An A-to-Z of Oral History | G is for (40% oral history collection on) gun violence in America, 2017-2020
An A-to-Z of Oral History at Columbia is a monthly posting featuring the people, events, and organizations in the Oral History Archive at Columbia’s collections, as well as behind-the-scenes info about oral history methodology. * This post is adapted from the catalog record description written by David Olson, OHAC archivist. Collection title: Forty […]
Exhibition Opening | I See My Light Shining
The Bishop Gallery, in collaboration with Incite Institute at Columbia University, is pleased to announce the opening of “I See My Light Shining,” an evocative exhibition inspired by Jacqueline Woodson’s oral history initiative of the same name. The exhibit opens on August 24th and will run through August 31st. “I See My Light […]