Workshop on Narrator Experience and Storytelling Ethics

July 9 Workshop on Narrator Experience and Storytelling Ethics

EnglishEspañolEnglish Mi María book narrator and OHL Community Programs Manager, Zaira Arvelo Alicea, will help facilitate the Voice of Witness (VOW) workshop, “Narrator Experience + Storytelling Ethics.” As the first session in a three-part VOW series on Oral History Storytelling Skills and Ethics, this online workshop explores “ethics-driven, empathy-based approach to oral history storytelling, with a focus on trauma-informed practices…

OHL at the 2025 ACURIL conference

OHL at the 2025 ACURIL conference

EnglishEspañolEnglish OHL Librarian, Natalia Hernandez Mejías, and former OHL intern, Sonny Weeks, presented a paper, “Protecting Oral Histories: Navigating Privacy Challenges in Digital Environments,” at the 2025 ACURIL conference, the biggest library conference in the Caribbean. In addition, Hernandez Mejías also shared a poster titled “Digital Humanities in Puerto Rico: Initiatives and Collaborations of the…

Ricia Chansky at the 2025 IABAA Conference

OHL Director delivers keynote address at the 2025 IABAA Conference

EnglishEspañolEnglish OHL Director Ricia Chansky delivered a keynote address at the International Auto/Biography Association (IABA) Conference 2025, “Story as Resistance: Signs of Life in the Great Silencing.” She also offered a workshop—”Ethics in Interviewing”—and was on a panel for the IABA Students and New Scholars Network and a panel celebrating the 40th anniversary of the journal…

PerlArte Director Lorel Cubano and OHL Director Ricia Chansky at film La Perla en que vivimos... screening May 24, 2025

May 24th screening of La Perla en que vivimos… in Mayagüez

EnglishEspañolEnglish On May 24, the film La Perla en que vivimos… was screened at Mayagüez’s Western Plaza Cinema as part of a film festival organized by CineMásCorto. La Perla en que vivimos… is a short documentary by award-winning filmmaker Guillermo Gómez Álvarez produced by the Oral History Lab in collaboration with Colectivo PerlArte with support…