SUMMER INSTITUTE ON ORAL HISTORY
June 16-27, 2003
Telling Lives: Memory, Orality and Testimony
in Oral History
The 2003 Summer Institute in Oral History will
focus on the ethical, methodological and theoretical challenges of
documenting the power of testimony, and oral history, to shape
public discourse and strengthen communities whose histories have
been subjugated or silenced within dominant historical paradigms
and media accounts.
Within these parameters, we will explore the
subjectivity of gendered, ethnic, cultural and other identity based
narratives - particularly the ways in which these accounts subvert
and correct public myth and memory. We will also probe the ways in
which oral history, in its historical origins and its contemporary
uses, is a radical form of testimony in which both collective and
individual memory are preserved in texts, and other media, as
social history and literary genre.
Faculty in the 2003 Summer Institute will
include Alessandro Portelli of the University of Rome; Silvia
Salvatici of the Archives of Memory Project, Florence; Linda
Shopes, of the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission; Rina
Benmayor of California State University Monterey Bay; Bonnie
Gurewitsch of the Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to
the Holocaust; Steve Rowland, CultureWorks; Revan Schendler of
Smith College; Mary Marshall Clark, Director, Oral History Research
Office; Jessica Wiederhorn, Associate Director, Oral History
Research Office; Ronald Grele, Director Emeritus, Oral History
Research Office.
For more information, contact:
Jessica Wiederhorn
Oral History Research Office
801 Butler Library, Box 20
535 West 114th Street, MC 1129
New York, NY 10027
Phone: (212) 854-4012
Fax: (212) 854-5378
E-mail: Jessica
Wiederhorn
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