Free and open to the public. Registration required.
The Oral Storytelling Symposium’s goal is to explore oral storytelling as a primal, narrative, cultural, historical, archival, ancient, scientific and contemporary force at the center of our lives, one of humanity’s greatest tools for organizing information, understanding our individual and collective selves, and making sense of the world around us. The symposium is hosted in association with the Columbia Center for Oral History Research.
Guest speakers:
Mary Marshall Clark, Director of the Columbia Center for Oral History Research
Liz Strong, Oral Historian, INCITE at Columbia University, Project Manager for Obama Presidency Oral History
Madeline Alexander, Project Manager for I See My Light Shining: An Oral History of our Elders
Adolphe Pierre-Louis, New Mexico based photojournalist, The Intersection between Visual Art and Oral Storytelling.
Additional speakers:
Ellery Washington: A Story of Storytelling. I See My Light Shining, African American Elders of New Mexico Oral History project.
Jefferey Hogrefe and Scott Ruff: Weeksville Heritage Oral History project.
Heather Lewis, Keena Suh, Alan Minor and Luke Ohlson: Elevated Voices: Elders Speak about Transportation Access
Ellen Berkovitch: Red Water Road, Dine Village Oral Histories.
Kath Barbadoro: Standup Comedy as a form of Oral Storytelling
Sameetah Agha: Imperialism, Colonial Resistance and Gender: Oral Histories in the Afghanistan/Pakistan Borderland.
Eric Rosenblum: On podcasting …
Chris Brownell: A Short Story of Long Lines, an interpretive and controversial history of the "line."
Wednesday, October 25th:
6-7:30pm, Opening remarks and reception, Ellery Washington, A Story of Storytelling, with Fulla Abdul-Jabbar.
Thursday, October 26th:
9am coffee.
10am—2:30pm Talks + Question and Answer Sessions.
10am Heather Lewis, Keena Suh, Alan Minor and Luke Ohlson: Elevated Voices: Elders Speak about Transportation Access
10:30am Adolphe Pierre-Louis, New Mexico based Photojournalist, The Intersection between Visual Art and Oral Storytelling
11:00am Eric Rosenblum: On podcasting …
11:30am Chris Brownell: A Short Story of Long Lines, an interpretive and controversial history of the "line."
12:00pm Kath Barbadoro: Standup Comedy as a form of Oral Storytelling
12:30-2pm Lunch
2-3pm Panel Discussion.
3:15-5pm Telling Stories Workshop.
Friday, October 27th:
9am coffee.
10am—2:30pm Talks + Question and Answer Sessions.
10am Sameetah Agha: Imperialism, Colonial Resistance and Gender: Oral Histories in the Afghanistan/Pakistan Borderland.
10:30am Jefferey Hogrefe and Scott Ruff: Weeksville Heritage Oral History project.
11:00am Ellen Berkovitch: What Oppenheimer Left Out, Voices from Red Water
Pond Road.
11:30am Madeline Alexander, Project Manager for I See My Light Shining: An Oral History of our Elders
12:00pm Liz Strong, Oral Historian, INCITE at Columbia University, Project Manager for Obama Presidency Oral History
12:30-2pm Lunch.
2-3pm Panel Discussion.
3:15-5pm Holding Stories Workshop.
6p-7p Keynote Address, Mary Marshall Clark, Memorial Hall.
7pm Closing Reception