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The Oral Storytelling Symposium

Published: October 20, 2023; Aithor: Julia Sonrisa

The Oral Storytelling Symposium’s goal is to explore oral storytelling as a primal, narrative, cultural, historical, archival, ancient, scientific, and contemporary force at the center of our lives, one of humanity’s greatest tools for organizing information, understanding our individual and collective selves, and making sense of the world around us. The symposium is hosted in association with the Columbia Center for Oral History Research (https://www.ccohr.incite.columbia.edu).

Guest speakers:

• Mary Marshall Clark, Director of the Columbia Center for Oral History Research
• Liz Strong, Oral Historian, INCITE at Columbia University, Project Manager for Obama Presidency Oral History
• Madeline Alexander, Project Manager for I See My Light Shining: An Oral History of our Elders
• Adolphe Pierre-Louis, New Mexico-based photojournalist, The Intersection between Visual Art and Oral Storytelling.

Additional speakers:

• Ellery Washington: A Story of Storytelling. I See My Light Shining, African American Elders of New Mexico Oral History Project.
• Jefferey Hogrefe and Scott Ruff: Weeksville Heritage Oral History Project.
• Heather Lewis, Keena Suh, Alan Minor, and Luke Ohlson: Elevated Voices: Elders Speak about Transportation Access
• Ellen Berkovitch: Red Water Road, Dine Village Oral Histories.
• Kath Barbadoro: Standup Comedy as a form of Oral Storytelling
• Sameetah Agha: Imperialism, Colonial Resistance and Gender: Oral Histories in the Afghanistan/Pakistan Borderland.
• Eric Rosenblum: On podcasting ...
• Chris Brownell: A Short Story of Long Lines, an interpretive and controversial history of the “line.”

Dates, times

Alumni Reading Room

Wednesday, October 25th:

6:00-7:30 pm, Opening remarks and reception, Ellery Washington, A Story of Storytelling, with Fulla Abdul-Jabbar.

Thursday, October 26th:

9 am coffee.

10 am — 2:30 pm Talks + Question and Answer Sessions.

10 am Heather Lewis, Keena Suh, Alan Minor, and Luke Ohlson: Elevated Voices: Elders Speak about

Transportation Access

10:30 am Adolphe Pierre-Louis, New Mexico-based Photojournalist, The

The intersection between Visual Art and Oral Storytelling

11:00 am Eric Rosenblum: On podcasting ...

11:30 am Chris Brownell: A Short Story of Long Lines, an interpretive and controversial history of the"line."

12:00 pm Kath Barbadoro: Standup Comedy as a Form of Oral Storytelling

12:30-2 pm Lunch

2-3 pm Panel Discussion.

3:15-5 pm Telling Stories Workshop.

Friday, October 27th:

9 am coffee.

10 am — 2:30 pm Talks + Question and Answer Sessions.

10 am Sameetah Agha: Imperialism, Colonial Resistance and Gender: Oral

Histories in the Afghanistan/Pakistan Borderland.

10:30 am Jefferey Hogrefe and Scott Ruff: Weeksville Heritage Oral History Project.

11:00 am Ellen Berkovitch: What Oppenheimer Left Out, Voices from Red Water Pond Road.

11:30 am Madeline Alexander, Project Manager for I See My Light Shining: An

Oral History of Our Elders

12:00 pm Liz Strong, Oral Historian, INCITE at Columbia University, Project Manager for Obama Presidency Oral History

12:30-2 pm Lunch.

2-3 pm Panel Discussion.

3:15-5 pm Holding Stories Workshop.

6-7 pm Keynote Address, Mary Marshall Clark, Memorial Hall.

7 pm Closing Reception

Free!

Registration

Detailed information and discussion of the event.