EnglishEspañolEnglish Maxy Survives the Hurricane / Maxy sobrevive el huracán, a children’s book created with students in UPRM classes given by OHL Director Ricia Chansky and published in 2021 by Arte Público Press, has sold over 7000 copies. The book was was written in response to oral histories recorded in the Mi María project and…
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…
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 OHL Research Associate Natalia Betancourt Malavé has been accepted into the 2025 Women of Color Leadership Project (WoCLP) cohort of the National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA). The WoCLP is a year-long initiative that supports early-career faculty, graduate students, and activists of color in honing their leadership capacities and expanding their professional networks. Participants receive…
EnglishEspañolEnglish The UPRM Film Certificate is partnering with the Puerto Rico Film Festival to screen selected movies from the 2025 festival program, including The Water Protectors, a short documentary film by Carhianie Vargas Padín produced by the Oral History Lab in collaboration with the Blue Water Task Force of Surfrider Foundation Rincón and the Humanities Action Lab with funding from the Mellon…
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…
EnglishEspañolEnglish Solar hub in Rubias, Yauco The Oral History Lab (OHL) film crew has finished filming for its upcoming documentary on energy justice in the Puerto Rican archipelago. This film follows the installation of an Energy Resilience Hub in Barrio Rubias, Yauco that was built through a collaboration between Rubias Aqueduct Community Group, Centro Hemisférico de Cooperación (CoHemis),…
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…
EnglishEspañolEnglish OHL Director Ricia Anne Chansky will join the “Living Knowledge: Ethics, Practice, and Community in Multimodal History” working group at the Department of Knowledge Systems and Collective Life research hub of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. As part of this group of international researchers, Ricia will theorize ethical post-disaster climate…
EnglishEspañolEnglish OHL Faculty Researcher Marci Denesiuk was awarded an Oral History Association (OHA) Presenter Scholarship for their upcoming 2025 Annual Meeting in October. Denesiuk will be presenting a roundtable with OHL Director, Ricia Chansky, entitled “The Kids Are Alright: Youth Agency and Oral History.” Chansky and Denesiuk will share some of their work done with…