Columbia Center for Oral History

02/09/2015

ATTENTION! We will be gradually phasing out this page, in favor of the Columbia University Oral History Research Office. PLEASE LIKE OUR NEW PAGE for further oral history updates at Columbia and beyond!

02/02/2015

Apply now for the 2015 Summer Institute on population health!

The Columbia Center for Oral History Research housed at INCITE is pleased to announce its 2015 Oral History Institute, “Narrating Population Health: Oral History, Disparity, and Social Change,” to be held June 15-26, 2015 at Columbia University in New York City. Increasing economic disparities, war,…

01/14/2015

Don't miss this wonderful opportunity to apply for the Alliance for a Historical Dialogue Fellowship Program!

The AHDA fellowship program gives participants the opportunity to engage in training, networking, project work, and academic study in historical dialogue and related fields at Columbia University in New York City. The comprehensive fellowship program provides fellows with the opportunity to hone pra…

06/15/2014

Join us Tuesday, June 17 at 6pm for a public screening of "One Generation's Time: The Legacy of Silme Domingo and Gene Viernes" followed by a conversation with documentary co-producer Ron Chew and Weeksville Heritage Center vice director Jennifer Scott.

The Columbia Center for Oral History Research Presents A Public Screening and Conversation: One...

04/28/2014

Sady Sullivan, of the Brooklyn Historical Society, recently discussed the innovative oral history project, Crossing Borders Bridging Generations with us. Watch the video on our Youtube Channel to learn more about how BHS is using oral history to stimulate community dialogue!

Crossing Borders, Bridging Generations (cbbg.brooklynhistory.org) is an oral history project exploring the history and experiences of mixed-heritage people a...

04/22/2014

Join us this Thursday (4/24) for our last public workshop of the semester: Lost Neighborhood: Making Oral History Central in a Museum Exhibition

Ville de Montréal Archives, VM94,SY,SS1,SSS15,U124-002 6-8 PM 509 Knox Hall, 606 W. 122nd Street Co-sponsored by the Department of Museum Anthropology Like other North American cities during the 1950s up to the 1970s, Montreal was transformed by major urban renewal projects. A modern city emerged,…

03/21/2014

Join CCOH and OHMA this Thursday when Sady Sullivan, of the Crossing Borders, Bridging Generations project (http://cbbg.brooklynhistory.org) joins us to discuss CBBG's experimental project design and hosting forums where people practice talking about race/ethnicity (and intersecting identities) together.

This event is FREE, open to the public and a great way to find out more about oral history!

Thursday, March 27, 2014

509 Knox Hall, 606 W. 122nd St.

6-8PM

The Oral History Master of Arts (OHMA) Program, INCITE, the Columbia Center for Oral History Resea...

02/18/2014

THURSDAY (2/20): Oral historian and interdisciplinary artist Abbie Reese discusses undertaking a long-term oral history and photography project with cloistered nuns who observe monastic silence and take vows of enclosure. This event is free and open to the public.

02/12/2014

The Columbia Center for Oral History Research joins the Interdisciplinary Center for Innovate Theory and Empirics [INCITE] in a pathbreaking new partnership.

In a pathbreaking move that has strengthened the Columbia Center for Oral History (CCOH), the Inte...

01/28/2014

CCOH's Mary Marshall Clark discusses Boston College's Belfast Project, ethics and oral history protections in recent Chronicle of Higher Education feature.

Anthony McIntyre made one thing clear: The project had to remain absolutely secret. If Boston College wanted him to interview former members of the Irish Republican Army, he needed that guarantee. They would be talking about dangerous things—bombings, shootings, and murder.