EnglishEspañolEnglish Pictured from left to right: Zaira Arvelo Alicea, (UPRM), Ricia Anne Chansky, (UPRM), José Morales Benítez, (UPRM), Lorel Cubano Santiago (PerlArte), Pluma Bárbara (CAMJI Lares) At the recent 2025 Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Puerto Rico Section Conference, panelists from the OHL and the community came together to discuss the work being done to protect…
EnglishEspañolEnglish The OHL will be present at the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Puerto Rico Section Conference, which will take place at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez campus from March 27 to 29, 2025. This Land is Ours: Panel Presentation Learn about the work being done to protect the land in Lares and…
EnglishEspañolEnglish The OHL will be present at the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Puerto Rico Section Conference, which will take place at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez campus from March 27 to 29, 2025. Todavía Estamos Aquí: Screening and Discussion Join us for the screening of Todavía Estamos Aquí, a documentary based on…
EnglishEspañolEnglish The Oral History Lab (OHL) and the UPRM General Library are pleased to invite you to this semester’s activities. March 21 (10:00 am – 12:00 AST): Prácticas ágiles para la optimización de procesos y el trabajo en equipo. We invite you to this presentation on how working with oral histories can be complex, as we manage a…
EnglishEspañolEnglish February 8-9, 2025: The documentary Todavía Estamos Aquí was screened again in Casa Pueblo, Adjuntas—this time at the First Community Film Meeting. The project invited dialogue between members of the film’s team and the audience, composed of filmmakers and industry professionals, where the importance of community filmmaking as a tool to amplify voices from…
EnglishSpanishEnglish On March 7, 2025, the Oral History Lab Director, Ricia Anne Chansky, interviewed Edgardo Miranda Rodríguez, creator of La Borinqueña, at the opening of his new exhibit, Arte de la Borinqueña, on display at Humanidades Puerto Rico through August 20, 2025. Edgardo will give a virtual presentation at the Universidad de Puerto Rico Recinto de…
EnglishSpanishEnglish The Oral History Lab (OHL) and the UPRM General Library are pleased to invite you to this semester’s activities. March 7 (10:00 am – 12:00 AST): Técnicas para anonimizar a las personas participantes de la entrevista. We invite you to this presentation on how to maintain confidentiality in oral history research. Together with librarian…
EnglishSpanishEnglish Ricia Anne Chansky published her essay, “Oral History and the Climate Crisis: Listening in the Aftermath of Disaster” in the fall issue of Oral History Review. In it, she discusses the creation of the Oral History Laboratory at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez through projects that encompass climate justice and link the…
EnglishSpanishEnglish On December 17, 2024, faculty members from the UPRM Library, Prof. Jaqueline Alvárez, Prof. José J. Morales Benítez, and Prof. Natalia Hernández Mejías, participated in the Coloqueo podcast, broadcast by the Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña. During the conversation, they discussed the Oral History Lab (OHL) projects and the processes of describing, disseminating, and preserving…
EnglishSpanishEnglish The Oral History Lab (OHL) is excited to announce that we have been awarded a grant from the Mellon Foundation for $1,833,000. With this generous funding, the OHL will have three years of financial support to expand our ability to record and preserve oral histories from across the archipelago. Amplifying these eyewitness testimonies from…