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),…
EnglishEspañolEnglish OHL Director Ricia Chansky and Old San Juan Heritage Foundation founder and OHL community partner Lorel Cubano will take part in the Puerto Rican Studies Association (PRSA) 2025 Biennial Symposium, “Telling and Archiving our Stories: Interrogating the Field of Puerto Rican Studies”. Chansky and Cubano will join the morning plenary Panel 1: “Archives and…
EnglishEspañolEnglish OHL Director Ricia Anne Chansky will join the “Living Knowledge: Ethics, Practice, and Community in Multimodal History” working group at the Department of Knowledge Systems and Collective Life research hub of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. As part of this group of international researchers, Ricia will theorize ethical post-disaster climate…
EnglishEspañolEnglish OHL Faculty Researcher Marci Denesiuk was awarded an Oral History Association (OHA) Presenter Scholarship for their upcoming 2025 Annual Meeting in October. Denesiuk will be presenting a roundtable with OHL Director, Ricia Chansky, entitled “The Kids Are Alright: Youth Agency and Oral History.” Chansky and Denesiuk will share some of their work done with…
EnglishEspañolEnglish The Water Protectors was selected for the 1st edition of CineNext, which will be a part of the Puerto Rico Film Festival’s program this year! Tickets are now available for two different screening dates and locations: September 19th, 9:00 a.m., Mayagüez Town Center, sala #1 September 20th at 2:30 p.m., Teatro Balboa The Water Protectors…