Oral History Research Office

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.

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2010 SUMMER INSTITUTE

Details regarding the theme of the 2010 Summer Institute on Oral History will be released by December 2009. Applications will be considered until February 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 May 31 to June 11. 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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