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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.…
EnglishEspañolEnglish A new South Holyoke mural by the creator of La Borinqueña, Edgardo Miranda-Rodriguez, was recently unveiled to the public as part of the new Puerto Rican Cultural District in Holyoke, MA. The mural “celebrates Puerto Rican heritage and the power of storytelling” and reflects some of the work done in an ongoing collaboration between…
EnglishEspañolEnglish On August 7, 2026, OHL Co-Director Jaquelina Álvarez and OHL Librarian Natalia Hernández participated in Foro Colegial hosted by Dr. Mariam Ludim, Director of RUM Press. During the interview, they shared details about a recent recognition received by the lab. At the ACURL 2026 conference, the OHL was honored with the ACURIL Caribbean University,…
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. “Eating in crisis” explores how we eat in the aftermath of disaster when our access to food, preservation, systems of procurement and means…
Photo (from left to right) / Foto (de izquierda a derecha) Guillermo Gómez Alvarez, Paulo García Berrios, Lorel Cubano, Jorge Santiago Fernández, Zaira Arvelo Alicea, Pluma Bárbara Moreno, Caitlin Serrano Alicea EnglishEspañolEnglish Guillermo Gómez Alvarez (back/detrás), Zaira Arvelo Alicea, Pluma Bárbara Moreno, Lorel Cubano On August 22, the OHL film crew finished filming for its…