EnglishEspañolEnglish The OHL would like to recognize that the National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA) extended complimentary registration for the annual conference to all residents of Puerto Rico, and we express gratitude for their solidarity. November 13 NWSA Women of Color Leadership Project Cohort OHL Research Associate Natalia Betancourt Malavé joined the 2025 NWSA Women of…
EnglishEspañolEnglish On November 12, 2025, Ricia Chansky, Marci Denesiuk, Zaira Arvelo Alicea, and Bryan Ramos Romero presented the panel “Finding Stories: Linking Multimodal Public-Facing Outputs to Digital Archives” at the 2025 Latin America & Caribbean Digital Humanities Symposium (online). Their presentation explored how archival inclusion must be paired with access and visibility for preserved stories.…
EnglishEspañolEnglish Join OHL Director Ricia Chansky and OHL Community Programs Manager Zaira Arvelo Alicea at the upcoming Humanities Action Lab (HAL) Translocal Learning Studio to hear about the OHL’s new projects and new processes. The Translocal Learning Studio is a free virtual meeting space that is open to all and brings together HAL teams from…
EnglishEspañolEnglish On November 7, 2025, OHL at UPRM presenters Jaquelina E. Alvarez, José Morales Benítez, Natalia Hernández Mejías, and Natalia Betancourt Malavé presented the panel “OHL@UPRM: Prácticas éticas con enfoque comunitario en el desarrollo de proyectos en humanidades digitales” at the 2025 Latin America & Caribbean Digital Humanities Symposium. They discussed how the Oral History…
EnglishEspañolEnglish On October 16, OHL Director Ricia Chansky was presented the 2025 Oral History Association (OHA) Article Award for her essay “Oral History and the Climate Crisis: Listening in the Aftermath of Disaster,” which was published in the fall issue of Oral History Review. In it, she discusses the creation of the Oral History Laboratory…
EnglishEspañolEnglish The OHL participated in the 2025 Oral History Association Annual Meeting in Atlanta. On October 16, Ricia Chansky and Marci Denesiuk presented a roundtable, “The Kids Are Alright: Youth Agency and Oral History” (pictured above). Their presentation explored various means of seeing and making visible youth agency and action. They shared some of their…
EnglishEspañolEnglish OHL Research Associate Natalia Betancourt Malavé has been accepted into the 2025 Women of Color Leadership Project (WoCLP) cohort of the National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA). The WoCLP is a year-long initiative that supports early-career faculty, graduate students, and activists of color in honing their leadership capacities and expanding their professional networks. Participants receive…
EnglishEspañolEnglish The UPRM Film Certificate is partnering with the Puerto Rico Film Festival to screen selected movies from the 2025 festival program, including The Water Protectors, a short documentary film by Carhianie Vargas Padín produced by the Oral History Lab in collaboration with the Blue Water Task Force of Surfrider Foundation Rincón and the Humanities Action Lab with funding from the Mellon…
EnglishEspañolEnglish OHL Director Ricia Chansky and OHL Graduate Research Assistant Bryan Ramos Romero will present at the next online Co-Creation Café hosted by the Hunter College at CUNY School of Arts & Sciences. This series fosters discussion about community-centered research and will focus on the Humanities Action Lab (HAL) exhibition and working group, Climates of Inequality, which Ricia…
EnglishEspañolEnglish Solar hub in Rubias, Yauco The Oral History Lab (OHL) film crew has finished filming for its upcoming documentary on energy justice in the Puerto Rican archipelago. This film follows the installation of an Energy Resilience Hub in Barrio Rubias, Yauco that was built through a collaboration between Rubias Aqueduct Community Group, Centro Hemisférico de Cooperación (CoHemis),…