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What is Oral History and What Is It Good For?
Presented by the Program for Community-Engaged Scholarship (ProCES)
A lecture by Amy Starecheski
Director, Oral History Master of Arts Program, Columbia University
As a uniquely co-created primary source document or as an intersubjective and temporally dynamic method of qualitative research, oral history is a powerful research tool. This talk will discuss the history and future of oral history as a research method and as a tool for social change, all in the context of a contemporary moment when oral history is in vogue as never before.
This lecture is free and open to the public.
This lecture is co-sponsored by the Global History Lab, Lewis Center for the Arts, Princeton LGBTQIA Oral History Project, Program in the History of Science, UNOW & Then, and Voices of Princeton.
Voices of Princeton is a collaborative oral history project with the goal to collect, share, and archive stories and memories of Princetonians. The project is a partnership between the Princeton Public Library, the Historical Society of Princeton, the Arts Council of Princeton, and the Witherspoon-Jackson Historical and Cultural Society. More information and completed interviews can be found at voicesofprinceton.org.
University programs and activities are open to all eligible participants without regard to identity or other protected characteristics. Sponsorship of an event does not constitute institutional endorsement of external speakers or views presented.
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