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2010 Oral History Summer Institute Announced!
The Columbia University Oral History Research Office is delighted to announce the 2010 Annual Summer Institute. The Institute, “Oral History from the Ground Up: Space, Place and Memory,” will be held from June 7- June 18, 2010. The Institute will examine the meaning that space, place and memory hold in producing individual, social, cultural and political narratives.
Find out more and APPLY here
Oral History MA Program Open House!
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Interested in getting a Masters Degree? Join us for our Open House Informational Session!
Please be our guest on February 10th at 6pm for a fun and informative panel discussion and reception for the Oral History MA Program. We will have alumni, current students available to you to answer questions about this degree! Special guest speaker Adam Bush will talk about how he has used Oral History in his career.
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Date: February 10th, 2010
Time: 6pm
Location: Philosophy Hall on the Morningside Campus, 116th Street.
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Spring 2010 OHRO Work Study Students Needed!
We seek Work-Study eligible students who have a strong, fluent command of written and spoken English to work with the Oral History Research Office at least 10 hours/week. Students' main responsibilities will include: administrative duties (phone, photocopying, etc.), patron/researcher services and working with current in-process oral history projects.
Assistants will learn to "audit edit" transcriptions of interviews (compare the audio to the written transcript); edit transcripts, including researching people and events named in the transcript; abstract and index transcripts; create and update project status reports. Great attention to detail and strong research skills are needed.
Applicants must also have very good people skills as they will be helping a wide variety of researchers that come to our office and possibly interacting with interviews and interviewers. Previous office or customer service experience is helpful, but not required. Knowledge of MS Word and Excel and good internet research skills are required.
We also seek at least one applicant with excellent technical skills, such as an aptitude with recording and computer equipment.
Interested? Contact Charis Shafer at ces2173@columbia.edu or 212-854-4012
Fall 2009 Oral History Workshop Series Announced!
The Fall 2009 Oral History Workshop Series offers public seminars on a wide range of issues raised by a consideration of how oral history methodologies impact disciplines in the social sciences as well as the humanities. This season's presenting scholars include Silvia Salvatici, Peter S. Bearman, Marianne Hirsch, Leo Spitzer, Helen Benedict, Natasha Lightfoot, Amy Starecheski and Seth East Anziska.
Please click here for more information and to RSVP.
2010 SUMMER INSTITUTE
Details regarding the theme of the 2010 Summer Institute on Oral History will be released in JANUARY 2010. Applications will be considered until March 2010, although early decisions are available for those who need to apply for funding or visas. The dates for the 2010 Summer Institute will be June 7 to June 18. Tuition will be $1500. Limited scholarships are available.
Please contact Elizabeth Grefrath (ecg2109@columbia.edu) with all 2010 Summer Institute questions.
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Awards Columbia Grant to Preserve Oral History Recordings
Columbia University Libraries will receive $371,000 from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for a two-year project to preserve 820 recordings containing almost 1200 hours of sound. The audiotapes are part of the Oral History Research Office’s collection of recorded interviews and memoirs, and have been selected because they are among the most important and the most threatened by imminent deterioration due to the inherent fragility of the media.
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AG Foundation Grant Funds Oral History of Women in the Visual Arts
Agnes Gund, one of New York’s most generous patrons of the arts, has given the Columbia University Oral History Research Office a grant to record an oral history of women in the visual arts. The project will be named “The Elizabeth Murray Oral History of Women in the Visual Arts” in honor of the recently deceased celebrated painter and printmaker.
Through the two-year project, the Oral History Research Office will conduct life and career histories of twenty women artists, collectors and curators whose contributions have impacted the art world in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The interviews will be made available to the public through the Columbia University Libraries, as well as through deposit in museum and arts-based archives.
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