2009 Summer Institute on Oral History
Columbia University
Oral History Research Office
NARRATING THE BODY: ORAL HISTORY, NARRATIVE AND EMBODIED PRACTICE
Sunday, May 31, 2009
Welcome Reception, 6-8pm, 90 Morningside Drive, Apartment 3A at the home of Ronald Grele
Special Thanks for the Welcome Reception goes to Dr. Michael Ryan, Director of the Rare Books and Manuscripts Library
The Institute will meet in 203 Butler, Columbia University Libraries.
The Public Lectures will be held in 754 Schermerhorn Extension, Columbia University Morningside Campus.
Monday, June 1
9:00 – 12:00 Introductory Exercises: Faculty and Fellows
12:00 – 1:30 Lunch
1:30 – 3:30 Narrating the Body Roundtable: Mary Marshall Clark (Chair), Lynn Garafola, Rita Charon, Kathy Davis
3:45-5:00 Discussion
Tuesday, June 2
9:00 – 11:00 Rita Charon,The Self-Telling Body and the Other-Receiving Body
11:30 – 1:00 Writing Illness Narratives Workshop and Lunch (food will be provided)
1:00 – 3:00 Kathy Davis, Putting the Body on the Map: The History of Our Bodies, Ourselves
3:45 – 5:30 Ynestra King, Anti-Normative Bodies: Lessons from Disability Narratives
Wednesday, June 3
10:00 – 12:30 Jose Carlos Sebe Bom Meihy, The Body as Test Ground for the Migratory Process
12:30 – 2:00 Lunch
2:00 – 4:00 Perspectives on the History of Oral History
Ronald Grele, “The First 30 Years: Europe and the United States" and Jose Carlos Sebe Bom Meihy, “The First 30 Years and After: Brazil”
Respondents: Mary Marshall Clark and Amy Starecheski
6:00 – 7:30 Kathy Davis, Feminism as Traveling Theory: The Case of Our Bodies, Ourselves
Thursday, June 4
9:00-11:00 Oral History, Translation and the Dance Chaired by Jeff Friedman
Victoria Geduld, "Context and Narrative in Oral History, A Case Study, " Alessandra Nicifero, "What Dancing Bodies Tell Us About Society: Bill T. Jones, An Eloquent Example," and MiRi Park, "Producing and Presenting Dance-Related Oral Histories
11:00-11:15 Break
11:15-12:00 Discussion
12:00-1:15 Lunch with Fellows
1:15-2:45 Interview, interviewer and interviewee TBD
2:45-3:00 Break
3:00-3:45 Discussion of interview
3:45-5:00 Jeff Freidman, Talking to the Future about the Past: How Oral History and Performance Articulate Time in Narrative
Friday, June 5
9:00-12:00 Creating and Managing Oral History Projects: Design to Dissemination: Mary Marshall Clark, Ronald J. Grele, Corie Trancho-Robie, Amy Starecheski
12:00-1:30 Lunch
1:30-5:00 Laura Starecheski, Solid Gold: Broadcast Quality Recording for Oral Historians
Saturday, June 6
11:00-1:00 Steve Rowland, It Is All About Storytelling: Weaving Oral Histories into Media Projects
1:00-2:00 Lunch
2:00-5:30 Linda Shopes, Editing Oral History for Publication
Sunday, June 7 FREE DAY
Monday, June 8
9:00 – 10:45 Alessandro Portelli, Narratives of Hunger
11:00 -12:00 Group Discussion
12:00 – 2:00 Lunch in Shared Interest Groups
2:15-4:00 Dorinda Welle, Narratives of Homelessness and Survival: Case Studies
4:00-5:00 Discussion
Tuesday, June 9
9:00-12:00 Oral History as an Interdisciplinary Research Methodology
Mary Marshall Clark (Memory), Peter Bearman (Sociology), Ronald Grele (History), Alessandro Portelli (Folklore), Dorinda Welle (Medical Anthropology), Amy Starecheski (Anthropology)
12:00-1:00 Discussion
1:00-2:30 Lunch in Discussion Groups
2:30 - 4:00 Amy Starecheski, Community and Activist Oral History Projects
4:00 - 5:00 Discussion
Wednesday, June 10
9:00 – 10:30 Mary Marshall Clark, Making Stories from Trauma Narratives: Intersubjectivity in the Trauma Interview and After
11:00 – 12:00 Discussion
12:00 - 12:30 Lunch
12:45 – 4:30 Fellows Presentations
5:30 – 7:00 Alessandro Portelli, Struggle and Survival: Narratives of the Body, Illness and Death in Harlan County, Kentucky
Thursday, June 11
9:00 – 11:00 Ynestra King, Reading from a Work in Progress
Marsha Hurst and Sayantani DasGupta, Readings from Stories of Illness and Healing:Women Write Their Bodies
11:00-12:00 Discussion
12:00 – 1:30 Lunch
1:30 – 5:00 Fellows Presentations
Closing Picnic: 6-8 p.m.
Friday, June 12
9:00 – 11:30 Final Discussion of Projects & Evaluations
11:30 – 12:30 CHECK OUT
12:30 – 2:00 Farewell Brownbag Lunch
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