Join us for our first co-working session of the new year! Bring your oral history admin, questions, project design, and/or get your release forms composed and workshopped! Optional breakout rooms for this co-working session are available for the second half of co-working to promote discussion. Free/all are welcome. Registration details will be available in this spot on Feb 1.

What happens when oral history becomes a tool for collective healing? In this session, we'll explore how oral history methodology can be used to create space for sacred remembering, feeling, and imagining. Drawing from three projects centering Black women leaders—a salon healing circle, an elder visioning session, and a podcast—I'll share how I've held different spaces to invite Black women to honor the wisdom in oral history and apply insight to modern life.

We'll discuss how oral history allows us to see patterns repeat and imagine something new. How moving from quick sound bites to depth becomes an act of collective suturing….Read More

Join this Hop-On as organizers of the Oral History Worker Collective, Sarah Dziedzic and David Wolinsky, talk about why the Collective was founded and its broader purpose to build connections between peer practitioners. They'll highlight one of the field's resources on oral history labor––the Independent Oral History Practitioner's Toolkit, an exhaustive how-to for contract oral history work––and introduce a new companion workbook. Sarah and David will also guide attendees ….Read More

Using the asylum interview as a case study, this workshop examines what happens when people are forced to tell their stories repeatedly in high-stakes, transactional contexts—asylum interviews, social worker intakes, medical assessments—where narratives must yield specific survival outcomes. We'll explore the fundamental differences between these extractive systems and oral history practice, and develop concrete strategies for….Read More