I'm teaching a new #class "Solidarity Memory Work"
We'll learn about #solidarity#movements in allied professions (academic history, journalism, etc.) then discuss (1) how to actively #document and #preserve current movements and organizations, and (2) activate that #records already in #collections to motivate and guide contemporary organizers
🆕 We begin the week of 25 April with excellent news: Luís Trindade, Zélia Pereira and José Neves have had their projects funded by the FCT under the "25 April and Portuguese Democracy" competition. :ablobcatrave:
ℹ️ To find out more details of the new projects, read the news on our website:
Just published a review essay and reflection of Harvard Business School's recent conference "Oral History of Business in the Global South" in the April Interfaces.
I decided to try a new blog thingy, starting with a bit of opinion on history with focus on actual #oralHistory / lived history, and how it shapes people.
"In 1965, Rev. Jesse Jackson launched Operation Breadbasket ... a movement to help formally organize Chicago ministers to promote more employment opportunities for local Black individuals. ... CTS recently completed collecting an oral history of Rev. Jackson’s civil rights work in Chicago as a way to preserve the stories of the Civil Rights Movement in Chicago."
"The American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress is partnering with StoryCorps to tell a more diverse and holistic story of the pandemic as told by the people who lived through it. You’re invited to take part! The Center invites everyone to share their experiences, especially frontline workers, medical professionals, and emergency service workers."
Any #Histodons or #GLAM folks know of a fairly comprehensive list of digitally accessible #WWII#OralHistory projects? Particularly interested in soldiers oral histories, but not exclusively.
"... the [Independence Seaport Museum] is embarking on a new, multi-year project, 'Breaking Uncommon Ground on the Delaware River,' an initiative that will collect oral histories from African-American Philadelphians who lived and worked along the Delaware River in the mid- to the late 20th- and 21st-centuries."
taz: "Buch über Kölner Avantgarde: Jammern auf hohem Niveau - Das Buch 'Wir waren hochgemute Nichtskönner' will über Kölner Subkulturen der 1980er und 90er Jahre erzählen. Geht das Konzept auf?"
Stumbled upon an old FB comment by philologist Kirill Ospovat. He wrote:
"Grandfather of mine was invited to Lubyanka [the KGB HQ] once to give lectures on Latin American literature. He did not dare to refuse, so he came and began lecturing. He started with biographies: "co-operated with the local communist party" and so on. A senior officer in the audience politely interrupted: "Lev Samoilovich, you can leave that out, this we already know".
🆕 Raquel Ribeiro was one of the people involved in the development of the bilingual audiovisual platform Creole Connections / Conexiones Creoles, launched during the Festival Internacional de Cine Comunitario Afro (FICCA) KUNTA KINTE (Medellín, Colombia).
On the morning of 29 September, Sue Onslow, IHC’s 2023 Visiting Scholar, will presente a seminnar on her experience as an #OralHistory practitioner, namely interviewing actors in the Zimbabwe independence process.
Evidence the oral stories of Australia's First Nations might be 10,000 years old: In 1970, Lardil man Goobalathaldin (or Dick Roughsey) completed his autobiography "Moon and Rainbow" in which he recounted his ancestors' stories. Among them was a story telling of a time when the North Wellesley Islands were connected to the Australian mainland. https://phys.org/news/2023-08-evidence-oral-stories-australia-nations.html
In the mid-1990s I carried out a series of interviews with #homeless Irishmen living in Arlington House hostel in #London's Camden Town. Now the transcripts of those interviews are being brought back to life by the Irish in Britain project.
Something wholesome from the #archive, very heartwarming thing said to the interviewer at the end of an #OralHistory interview (May 1979): "You have listened to me ramble off and you have asked me some good questions and I appreciate people like you very much. You're not just sitting back and letting the world go by." https://archivesspace.ubalt.edu/repositories/2/archival_objects/17941