We see them every day, handing them a key as they walk in each morning, and receiving it back toward the end of the day. Most often they are hunkered down over a particular archive, getting to understand a portion of one of our archives better than anybody here. We await the longer scholarly projects […]
Event | Push Play
Thursday, April 5, 2018, 6:00 PM 7:30 PM, Knox Hall Room 509 Push Play explores the embodied experience of interviewing as a way of examining how we remember, how we ask narrators to engage in memory, and what is, or is not, included in the archive. We draw on creativity and sense of play as a way of […]
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Now tweeting via @CULHebrewMss : images from the RBML’s Hebrew manuscript collection. You can also find more materials with Internet Archive. Ketubah : Korfu. Corfu, 1817. https://t.co/uIT853b6PB pic.twitter.com/qR27n4Rikf — Columbia Hebrew Manuscripts (@CULHebrewMss) March 18, 2018 […]
Event | Performing Listening in the Context of Memorial Audio Walks
Thursday, March 29, 2018, 6:00 – 7:30 pm, Knox Hall 509 The Columbia Center for Oral History Research continues its series on Oral History and the Arts. Does a performance of memory need to include words? When is it necessary and appropriate to re-present someone else’s oral history testimony? What roles do listening, remembering and […]
Historic CU LGBT achievement! Earl Hall on National Register of Historic Place
This week, Earl Hall at Columbia University was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, following its nomination by the NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project and in recognition of Earl Hall as a venue for meetings and dances of the Student Homophile League, the first gay student organization in the country. Professor Andrew Dolkart conducted […]