2014 Oral History Institute: "Second Generation Memories and Stories"

[Linh Chuong]

It costs money but also sounds really cool: 

"The Center for Oral History Research/INCITE (Interdisciplinary Center for Innovative Theory and Empirics) is pleased to announce its 2014 Oral History Institute, “Second Generation Memories and Stories,” to be held June 16-27, 2014 at Columbia University in New York City. The program will explore the ways in which memories are formed and transmitted through family, cultural, political and social frames and experiences. Oral history has been a central methodology in exploring global themes of identity and post-memory through second-generation stories of immigration, migration, poverty, trauma and genocide, displacement and exile. Oral history also provides a setting for intimate exchanges between families, communities and cultures in a way that preserves and secures local and indigenous knowledge across generations, cultures and ethnicities: engendering individual and social resilience.

We encourage applicants to use the Institute to explore a broad range of applications of second-generation oral history research in contemporary contexts and fields including public health and medicine, immigration studies (including the impact of post-9/11 US policies on immigrant communities), sociology and social science more generally. The program will include presentations on how scholars, museums and memorials have used second-generation oral histories, and testimony, in ways that are crucial to illuminating forgotten or misunderstood experiences. The Institute will also include practical workshops in digital storytelling, interviewing and editing."

APPLICATION DUE: April 15, 2014

Note on Tuition and Housing Fee: Tuition for the Institute is $2,200. There may be additional fees for field trips. You may arrange your own housing or take advantage of low-cost on-campus housing for approximately $75-85/night. Limited fellowships are available.

-Linh 

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張弘玲
Linh Hong Chuong 

國際研究員
2013-2014 CAMSA-Taiwan International Fellow 

廢除亞洲現代奴隸聯盟 - 台灣辦事處
Coalition to Abolish Modern-day Slavery in Asia-Taiwan 
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