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…
EnglishSpanishEnglish With years of commitment and solidarity, UPR Caribe Digital has participated in multiple community projects. At this event, Dr. Nadjah Ríos Villarini will share the success stories of this program, as well as the challenges that arise when managing digital humanities initiatives. Time: 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. (AST). Friday, February 21, 2025. Register…
EnglishSpanishEnglish Oral histories from the Mi María: Surviving the Storm: Voices from Puerto Rico book project are now archived with Columbia University Libraries. The Voice of Witness Book Series published Mi María in 2021 (Haymarket Books). The narratives in this book were shaped from oral history interviews, which are now preserved in Columbia University Libraries’…