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Will You Remember? What I Choose to Forget?

February 6, 2026March 12, 2026 ohma

Will You Remember What I Choose to Forget? is a 150-minute oral history documentary film created with my own family across two domestic spaces in Shimla, North India: the old […]

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Observing Spring: Oral History, Language, and Translation as Possibility

October 23, 2025November 21, 2025 ohma

Jace Chen Chinese language policies, movement towards linguistic unification, and recent studies in dialect usage indicate that most Chinese dialects are becoming placeless. That the spaces to speak dialects are […]

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Re/searching in Second Spring

May 23, 2024June 6, 2024 ohma

Re/searching in Second Spring Ru-Jün Zhou An experimental approach to oral history, focusing on the midlife experiences of Chinese immigrant and Chinese American women, is presented through a spiral research […]

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South of the River

October 25, 2023 ohma

South of the River Pengyuan Hu I thought about my attachment to laowu, to the pond at the front and the winding village paths leading to the old house. I […]

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That Something Else (2014)

July 21, 2016September 17, 2016 ohma

“That Something Else”: Botkin, Portelli and Ellison on Democratic Pluralism and the Dialogical Encounter Benji de la Piedra, 2014 Featured project in the 2016 Thesis Showcase Series, “Oral History: From […]

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