Desire On The Line:Oral Histories of Absence and Return
Desire On The Line: Oral Histories of Absence and Return is a multimodal thesis on how people sustain attachment when bodies cannot be together. It centers on Humsafar, a listening […]
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Heirlooming: Rethinking Memory and Relationality through Embodiment and Collapsed Time
In this thesis, Hilary Seeley presents an intervention into the standard scholarly practice of oral history and an invitation to holistic memory work. Confronting the limitations and losses of the […]
Memory Work & Shifting Lens: What Remembering Makes New (Methodological Statement & Reflection)
This thesis employs oral history methods to document the educational journey of the interviewer’s mother, contributing to a broader effort to recover and center often unrecorded stories of women’s lives […]
Will You Remember? What I Choose to Forget?
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 […]
All The Space You Cannot See
All The Space You Cannot See is a film and companion piece about my mother, who is deceased. It is an attempt to see her face and hear her voice, […]
Oral History Techniques for Ballet Class: Migration and Memory in Cuban Pedagogy
Oral History Techniques for Ballet Class follows the career trajectories of three Cuban ballet teachers who have migrated to the United States, exploring how they have adapted and translated Cuban […]
Waiting for the Wind to Change: Oral Histories in the Post-Soviet Diaspora, Brighton Beach
This thesis, Waiting for the Wind to Change, is a documentary novel that examines how individuals navigate uncertainty. It is based on six oral history interviews with people the author […]
Working with Uncertainty: Censorship, Inductive Reasoning, and Creative Practice in Chinese Tongren Communities
Digital censorship in the People’s Republic of China operates as a condition of uncertainty: posts disappear without warning, visibility shifts without explanation, and creators are left to infer boundaries from […]
LAKOU SEKRÈ // SAKRE
LAKOU SEKRÈ // SAKRE is an altar to the queer Haitian experience in Brooklyn. The participatory, oral history installation is inspired by el secreto abierto, or the open secret ~ […]
Voices from Wupatki: An Oral History Excercise in Decolonization and Indigenization
Florencia Ruiz Mendoza American history and its foundational myths will only be completed if we include Indigenous history in our historical and foundational narrative. The Wupatki pueblos of Arizona tell […]
Reframing Archives – Individuals & Imaginative Inventories
Reframing Archives – Individuals & Imaginative Inventories Dharini Chand We all tend to share a curated version of ourselves with the world. In doing so, the rest of us—our identity […]
That Something Else (2014)
“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 […]
Then, Now, Next (2014)
Then, Now, Next: Oral History and Social Change By the 2014 OHMA Cohort, May 1, 2015 Co-Curated by Amy Starecheski, OHMA Associate Director & Helen Gibb, 2014 Check out the […]
The Banishment of Carrots (2012)
The Banishment of Carrots: A Collection of Works About Dementia Sam Robson, 2012 Featured project in the 2016 Thesis Showcase Series, “Oral History: From Creation to Interpretation” In “The Banishment […]
Groundswell (2010)
Groundswell: Oral History for Social Change, A Synthesis By Sarah Loose, 2010 Found on oralhistoryforsocialchange.org Read more about this project through Groundswell In September 2011, Groundswell: Oral History for Social […]