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.