The Columbia University Summer Institute on Oral History will be held from July 8 -19, 2002. The theme of the Institute, Oral History in Contemporary Contexts: Documenting Narratives of War, Conflict and Displacement in the Era of Globalization, will  focus on the challenges of using oral history to document war, conflict and displacement in situations of both immediate and remembered trauma.  We will look at the special methodological considerations of documenting individual and social memory where collective interpretations of experience differ in significant ways from written and public accounts.  We will explore the variety of ways in which oral history, an international movement located within and outside the academy, provides a shared social context in which to record, interpret and disseminate oral narratives of displacement and exile, migration and settlement, war and conflict in an era of globalization. We will also offer practical workshops on interviewing, developing public and community oral history projects, recording and editing oral history in multimedia environments, as well as seminars and lectures on the themes of the Institute.

Faculty for this year’s Institute include: Mary Marshall Clark, Director, Oral History Research Office,  Ronald J. Grele, Director Emeritus of the Oral History Research Office;  Gina Herrmann, visiting scholar, Oral History Research Office;  Peter Maguire, author and historian;  Susan McCormick, the University of Albany;  Alessandro Portelli, the University of Rome;  Kim Lacy Rogers, Dickinson College;  Silvia Salvitici, the University of Rome;  Linda Shopes, Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission;  and Jessica Wiederhorn, Associate Director, Oral History Research Office.

FACULTY

Mary Marshall Clark is the Director of the Oral History Research Office at Columbia University. Formerly, she was an oral historian and filmmaker at the New York Times. She is the current President of the Oral History Association. Ms. Clark lectures widely on the uses and theories of oral history.

Ronald J. Grele is the former director of the Oral History Research Office. He is author of Envelopes of Sound: The Art of Oral History as well as numerous articles on the theory and method of oral history. Dr. Grele is past president of the Oral History Association, and lectures widely on the theories and uses of oral history.

Gina Herrmann is Assistant Professor of Spanish Literature and Culture at the University of Oregon. She has two books projects underway: The Self Writing War: The Radical Memoir in Spain and Voices of the Vanquished: Oral Histories of Women in the Spanish Civil War.  Dr. Herrmann is a graduate of the 2001 Summer Institute and is currently a Visiting Scholar at the Oral History Research Office.

Peter Maguire is a historian and the author of Law and War:  An American Story.  Since 1994, he has been conducting interviews with Khmer Rouge victims and perpetrators in Cambodia.  His second book, Facing Death, will be published by Columbia University Press in 2003.  Dr. Maguire has taught the Law and Theory of War at Columbia University, Bard College, and Australia's Southern Cross University.

Susan McCormick is the Associate Editor of the Journal for MultiMedia History (www.albany.edu/jmmh), an electronic journal that explores the use of multimedia in the documentation and dissemination of historical scholarship. She is a producer for Talking History: Aural History Productions (www.talkinghistory.org), a production, distribution, and instructional center for all forms of "aural" history.  Both projects are based in the Department of History, University at Albany - SUNY.  Ms. McCormick regularly conducts workshops on oral history and new media.

Alessandro Portelli is Professor of American Literature at the University of Rome. He is author of The Death of Luigi Trastulli and Other Stories: Form and Meaning in Oral History; The Battle of Valle Guilia: Oral History and the Art of Dialogue and most recently; The Order Has Been Carried Out: Rome, the Ardeantine Caves, and Memory, winner of the prestigious Viareggio prize in Italy. His essays on oral history and narrative have appeared in many journals throughout the world.

Kim Lacy Rogers is Professor of History at Dickinson College in Pennsylvania. She is co-editor, with Eva N. McMahan, of Interactive Oral History Interviewing, and author of Righteous Lives: Narratives of the New Orleans Civil Rights Movement. Dr. Rogers is editor of Trauma and Life Stories: International Perspectives.

Silvia Salvatici is Researcher in Contemporary History at the University of Teramo and Consultant for the International Organization for Migration (Psychosocial and Cultural Integration Unit). She is co-editor with Luisa Passerini and Natale Losi of the volume Archives of Memory. Supporting Traumatized Communities through Narration and Remembrance (IOM, Geneva, 2001) and author of the essay Memory Telling. Individual and Collective Identities in Post-War Kosovo within the same volume.

Linda Shopes is a historian at the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. She has worked on, consulted for, and written about oral and public history projects for over two decades.  Dr. Shopes is co-editor of The Baltimore Book: New Views of Local History and, most recently, an on-line essay, Making Sense of Oral History, on the History Matters website.  She is coeditor of Palgrave's Studies in Oral History series and a past president of the Oral History Association.

Thomas G. Weiss is Presidential Professor at The Graduate Center of The City University of New York and Director of the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies; he is also co-director of the UN Intellectual History Project and editor of Global Governance. Since arriving at The Graduate Center in 1998, Dr. Weiss has also been research director of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty (2000-2001) and academic fellow at the Carnegie Corporation of New York.

Jessica Wiederhorn is the Associate Director of the Oral History Research Office at Columbia University.  Previously, she was the Manager of Academic Affairs at Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, where she presented the Foundation’s work at conferences and symposia worldwide. Ms. Wiederhorn has viewed more than 400 videotaped interviews of Holocaust survivors and witnesses, providing guidance and coaching to interviewers throughout the United States.

PROGRAM

Sunday July 7,2002

Reception: 6:00 - 8:00 PM

At the home of Jessica Wiederhorn

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Monday July 8, 2002

9:15 - 12:00 Noon

Introductions, Faculty and Fellows

Practice Interviews

12:00 - 2:00 PM Lunch

2:00 - 3:30 PM

Ronald J. Grele, An Introduction to Oral History Method and Theory

3:45 - 5:30 PM

Presentations of Fellows’ Projects

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Tuesday July 9, 2002

9:15 - 12:00 Noon

Mary Marshall Clark, Jessica Wiederhorn, The Oral History Interview: Historical and Contemporary Contexts

12:00 - 1:00 PM Lunch

1:00 - 3:45 PM

Silvia Salvatici, Memory Telling: Individual and Collective Identities in Post-War

Kosovo: The Archives of Memory Project

4:00 - 5:00 PM

Tour of the Oral History Research Office

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Wednesday July 10, 2002

9:15 - 12:00 Noon

Linda Shopes, Developing Community Oral History Projects

12:00 - 1:30 PM Lunch

1:30 -3:00 PM

Linda Shopes, Developing Community Oral History Projects, continued

3:30 - 5:00 PM

Mary Marshall Clark, From Memory to History: Documenting September 11, 2001 through Life Stories in the Context of Nationalism and War

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Thursday July 11, 2002

9:15 -12:30 PM

Gina Herrmann, Silvia Salvitici, The Cases of Spain and Kosovo: Gender and Memory in Remembering War and Conflict

12:30 - 2:00 Lunch

2:00 - 4:00 PM

Thomas G. Weiss, The Responsibility to Protect

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Friday July 12, 2002

9:15 - 12:00 Noon

Alessandro Portelli, The Globalization of Memory and the Genres of Oral History

12:00 -1:30 PM Lunch 

1:30 - 4:00 PM

Panel: Oral History in an Era of Globalization: Historical Models and Contemporary Challenges. Mary Marshall Clark, Ronald J. Grele, Alessandro Portelli, Silvia Salvatici, Jessica Wiederhorn,

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Saturday July 13, 2002

9:30 AM -

Day Trip to Ellis Island

7:00 - 9:00 PM

Sail around the harbor - South Street Seaport

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Sunday July 14, 2002

Free Day

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Monday July 15, 2002

9:15 - 12:30 PM

Documenting Contemporary Situations of Conflict and Trauma: September 11, 2001 as a Case Study: Interviewers’ Perspectives.

Gerald Albarelli, Muslims, Sikhs and Others

Zohra Saed and Amy Starecheski, Afghan American Stories and Memories

Emilyn Brown, Remembering September 11, 2001 from the Site of the African Burial Grounds

12:30 - 2:00 PM Lunch

2:00 - 3:15 PM

Faculty Comments and Group Discussion on September 11, 2001 ^,Interviews.

3:30 - 5:00 PM

Alessandro Portelli, Genres of Interpretation in Remembering Narratives of War and Trauma: The Case of the Fosse Ardeantine Massacre

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Tuesday July 16, 2002

9:15 - 12:00 Noon

Documenting Living Memories of War and Conflict.

Kim Rogers, Public and Private Trauma in Soldier Narratives of Vietnam

Peter Maguire, Documenting Perpetrators and Victims in Cambodia Then and Now

12:00 - 100 PM Lunch

1:00 - 2:30 PM

Group Discussion: On Interviewing Perpetrators

2:30 - 5:00 PM

Steve Rowland, Equipment Workshop

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Wednesday July 17, 2002

9:15 - 12:00 Noon

Susan McCormick, From the Archive to the Web: Sharing Public Stories [a multimedia workshop]

12:00 - 1:30 Lunch

1:30 - 5:00 PM

Susan McCormick, multimedia workshop continued

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Thursday July 18, 2002

9:15 - 12:00 Noon

Ronald J. Grele. Workshop on Grant Writing

12:00 - 1:30 PM Lunch

1:30 - 5:00 PM

Roundtable Discussion on Fellows’ Projects

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Friday July 19, 2002

9:30 - 12:00 Noon

Evaluation and Good-byes.

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