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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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’…