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EnglishSpanishEnglish OHL Director Ricia Chansky will be an instructor in the Climate and Health Responder Course: Disaster Risk Reduction and Adaptation in the Americas and the Caribbean hosted by the Global Consortium on Climate and Health Education at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. Chansky’s session, “Hurricane Risk Reduction, Urban Preparedness, Community Communication,” is…
EnglishSpanishEnglish Natalia Hernández Mejías: RECORD+PRESERVE The OHL presented at the 2026 Oral History Association (OHA) Annual Meeting in Portland, Oregon from October 14 to 17. Under this year’s theme, Landscapes of Memory, OHL members, Ricia Chansky, Jaquelina Álvarez, Natalia Hernández Mejías and Marci Denesiuk, led discussions on living archives, climate change responses, and trauma-informed practices.…
EnglishSpanishEnglish OHL Director Ricia Chansky’s essay “Eating in crisis: social capital and post-disaster food security” has been published in the Oral History Society’s (OHS) autumn 2026 issue of the Oral History Journal. See the OHS blog, Voices of the Earth in times of crisis, where a new video has been added of Chansky introducing her…
EnglishEspañolEnglish OHL Director Ricia Chansky was elected to the Leadership Team of the Oral History Association (OHA) as a member of the Nominating Committee. This committee identifies and supports future leaders who will propel the work of the OHA research community forward. Chansky will officially begin her two-year term this November. Español La directora de…
EnglishEspañolEnglish OHL media products on display at the HAL convening / Productos multimedia de OHL expuestos en la reunión de HAL OHL Director Ricia Anne Chansky and Community Programs Manager Zaira Arvelo Alicea were at the Humanities Action Lab (HAL) national convening at Hunter College, CUNY in New York City from October 6-8. The event,…
Photo (from left to right) / Foto (de izquierda a derecha) José Fabián Rosa, Luz Rivera-Cantwell, Douglas Lang, Ricardo Avillan, Guillermo Gómez Álvarez, Zaira Arvelo Alicea EnglishEspañolEnglish The OHL is excited to announce that we’re working with award-winning filmmaker Guillermo Gómez Álvarez and Fundación de Culebra to produce our next documentary. On September 30, two…
EnglishEspañolEnglish The OHL, the General Library, and the Film Certificate Program invite you to a screening of the participatory documentary El llamado de la montaña: Historias de resistencia desde Adjuntas, created in collaboration with the Adjuntas community. The event will feature filmmakers Dunja Fehimovic and Cecilia Sosa and will be followed by an open discussion.…
EnglishEspañolEnglish OHL Librarian Natalia Hernández Mejías and OHL Director Ricia Chansky have published their essay “Living Archives” in a special issue of The Bilingual Review/La Revista Bilingüe, which is “a collection of English and Spanish language articles illustrating how a cariño and querencia framework has the ability to center values of familismo, confianza and respeto,…
Photo / Foto Ricia Chansky, OHL Director, welcomes attendees / Ricia Chansky, Directora OHL, da la bienvenida a los asistentes EnglishEspañolEnglish On September 24, the new OHL documentary film Rubias, canto de luz was screened on the UPRM campus. The screening was followed by a panel discussion with community leaders, engineers, and the OHL film…
EnglishEspañolEnglish Join us on September 24, for a screening of the new OHL documentary film Rubias, canto de luz on the UPRM campus. Everyone is welcome! For decades, the community of Barrio Rubias has endured natural disasters and solved infrastructure breakdowns by themselves. But as community members age, the need for stability becomes more urgent.…