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go to the Introduction to Oral History for Research event

Sep 25 ^{Friday 10:00 am}

Introduction to Oral History for Research
Oral History Workshops
An interactive half-day oral history workshop with Amy Starecheski.
go to the Songs in the Key of Life at 50: Symposium event

Sep 25 ^{Friday 10:00 am}

Songs in the Key of Life at 50: Symposium To mark the 50th anniversary of Stevie Wonder's Songs in the Key of Life, CSSD is organizing a full-day symposium and accompanying concert.
go to the Take Two: Elliott Skinner x Songs in the Key of Life event

Sep 25 ^{Friday 7:00 pm}

Take Two: Elliott Skinner x Songs in the Key of Life CSSD is proud to co-present, along with Pique-nique, Boom Collective, and The Radio in the Orchard, a concert featuring musician Elliott Skinner.
go to the The Bronx Before & After: Photo Match Night event

Oct 6 ^{Tuesday 5:00 pm}

The Bronx Before & After: Photo Match Night Event #2 of the “History Keepers” programming at the Mott Haven Library (NYPL), focused on empowering our communities in the South Bronx to preserve, document, and share their stories.
go to the Remembering Gathers a World: Listening as an Occasion of Possibility event

Oct 8 ^{Thursday 6:00 pm}

Remembering Gathers a World: Listening as an Occasion of Possibility A dialogue on listening as a decolonial, relational oral history practice rooted in Black, Caribbean, and Global South memory traditions, exploring the field's role amid institutional defunding and censorship.
go to the Kitchen Table Histories event

Nov 3 ^{Tuesday 5:00 pm}

Kitchen Table Histories Event #3 of the “History Keepers” programming at the Mott Haven Library (NYPL), focused on empowering our communities in the South Bronx to preserve, document, and share their stories.
go to the Lost Landmarks & Community Story Circle event

Dec 1 ^{Tuesday 5:00 pm}

Lost Landmarks & Community Story Circle Event #4 of the “History Keepers” programming at the Mott Haven Library (NYPL), focused on empowering our communities in the South Bronx to preserve, document, and share their stories.
go to the Unhomely Earth: The New Geopolitics of the Underground and the Extraterrestrial event

Apr 3, 2027

Unhomely Earth: The New Geopolitics of the Underground and the Extraterrestrial The Unsettlement Project's inaugural symposium explores how climate crisis, war, and extractive AI technologies are reshaping the relationship between the earth and the human.

Event Series

Keeping Memory: Oral History Practices that Host Kin and Community
The Thursday Evening Event Series is a collection of events hosted by OHMA on various themes related to oral history.
Narrative Workshop
Assembling researchers from across disciplines to discuss narrative from different theoretical and methodological perspectives.
Oral History Workshops
Incite’s Oral History Master of Arts program hosts dozens of free workshops and events every year.
South Bronx History Keepers
"History Keepers" programming that focuses on empowering our communities in the South Bronx to preserve, document, and share their stories.

Past events

go to the Will You Remember What I Choose to Forget? event

Sep 18 ^{Friday 10:00 am}

Will You Remember What I Choose to Forget? Filmmaker Avantika Seth returns to her family's two houses in Shimla to explore how physical space, kinship, and ritual reshape the practices and ethics of oral history.
go to the Map the Bronx: Community Memory Workshop event

Sep 8 ^{Tuesday 5:00 pm}

Map the Bronx: Community Memory Workshop Event #1 of the “History Keepers” programming at the Mott Haven Library (NYPL), focused on empowering our communities in the South Bronx to preserve, document, and share their stories.
go to the Art and Black Power: Mapping Malcolm at the Apollo event

May 1 ^{Friday 8:00 pm}

Art and Black Power: Mapping Malcolm at the Apollo An arts and culture celebration of the impact of Malcolm X on the Black Arts Movement and radical world-making practices.
go to the Behind the Scenes of the Obama Presidency Oral History Project event

Apr 15 ^{Wednesday 12:00 pm}

Behind the Scenes of the Obama Presidency Oral History Project In this event, members of the OPOH team that created this project will share the backstory to this project, the lessons they learned, and the innovations they created.
go to the Gathering The Folk: A Celebration of the Life and Work of Zora Neale Hurston event

Mar 28 ^{Saturday 12:00 pm}

Gathering The Folk: A Celebration of the Life and Work of Zora Neale Hurston
go to the Chinatown Records Sonic Histories: Living Room Stories Workshop event

Mar 5 ^{Thursday 6:30 pm}

Chinatown Records Sonic Histories: Living Room Stories Workshop Exploring the ways that stories live all around us and how you can tune in through song to get started remembering your own sonic history.
go to the Heat Stories: Memory, Place, and a Changing Climate event

Feb 26 ^{Thursday 6:00 pm}

Heat Stories: Memory, Place, and a Changing Climate
go to the Criminalizing Race: Immigration Detention and Latine Communities in the US event

Feb 25 ^{Wednesday 6:30 pm}

Criminalizing Race: Immigration Detention and Latine Communities in the US
go to the Criminalizing Women: Gender and the Prison Industrial Complex event

Nov 13, 2025 ^{Thursday 5:30 pm}

Criminalizing Women: Gender and the Prison Industrial Complex Join us for a conversation with researchers and organizers around the prison industrial complex and the criminalization of women.
go to the Oral History, Empathy, and Mutual Listening event

Nov 8, 2025 ^{Saturday 1:00 pm}

Oral History, Empathy, and Mutual Listening Participants will learn tools for teaching empathy through the practice of mutual listening.

Our programming is made possible by the Paul F. Lazarsfeld endowment at Columbia University.