The OHL at the 2025 ASA Annual Meeting
EnglishEspañolEnglish November 19 Public Humanities Day: “You Can’t Erase Us: Testimony as Resistance in the Time of Climate Denial” Bryan Ramos Romero, Ricia Chansky, Marci Denesiuk, Lorel Cubano, and Zaira Arvelo Alicea Zaira Arvelo Alicea, Ricia Chansky, Lorel Cubano, Marci Denesiuk, and Bryan Ramos Romero presented “You Can’t Erase Us: Testimony as Resistance in the…
The OHL joins HAL’s Translocal Learning Studio on Mutual Aid Storytelling on November 17
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…
The OHL at the 2025 NWSA Annual Conference
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…
Finding Stories: OHL online presentation at the Latin America & Caribbean Digital Humanities Symposium
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.…
OHL debate prácticas éticas en el Simposio de Humanidades Digitales de América Latina y el Caribe
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…
The OHL at the 2025 Oral History Association Annual Meeting
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…
OHL at Humanities Action Lab’s Oct. 9th Co-Creation Café on climate justice
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…
The OHL at the Puerto Rican Studies Association 2025 Biennial Symposium: Telling and Archiving our Stories
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…
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…
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…