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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Archivist’s Pick: A Glance at the Chinese Republican Era and Beyond

At the RBML, we recently installed a small exhibition in the Archivist’s Pick Cubes on materials related to Chinese history and culture, pertaining to the people of the Chinese Republican era (1912-1949) and beyond. These materials were acquired through Columbia affiliates such as alumni, professors, and their family and friends. Many were Chinese intellectuals, diplomats, […]

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An A-to-Z of Oral History at Columbia: “F” is for “fair use”

  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.             In this second post related to ethics (see the first post here, which in […]

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