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Tag: Oral History
Event | Online film screening of Spaceship Earth and filmmaker conversation
In this time of creating pods with family and friends, watching filmmaker Matt Wolf’s documentary Spaceship Earth [trailer] at the start during the early days of COVID lockdown was fascinating look at groups dynamics. Yes, there is science, but it was also…there was DRAMA. How did a groups of counterculture-oriented scientists decide to embark on […]
Oral History Showcase now online
The OHAC Showcase offers digital exhibitions and space for collaboration and experimentation in oral history. Stop by for behind-the-scenes insights into the practice and methodology of oral history collecting, archiving, and exhibiting. Now showing: an online posting of the Dynamic Archives exhibition from October 2018. […]
RBML – 2020 in Review
2020 was a year like no other. It started normally enough, but on March 16, 2020, Columbia University closed its physical facilities as part of the New York State-mandated PAUSE that sought to control the spread of COVID. For months, staff were permitted onsite only for essential security and maintenance checks. As restrictions loosened over […]
Oral History | Closing out WHO’s 2020 Year of the Nurse and the Midwife
Of 2020’s many unanticipated events, that the World Health Organization’s declared this year as the Year of the Nurse and the Midwife is striking for it’s poignancy and importance. Nurses and healthcare workers are more than “essential.” The Oral History Archives at Columbia (OHAC) has a number of interviews related to nursing and midwifery: […]