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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…
EnglishEspañolEnglish The Water Protectors was selected for the 1st edition of CineNext, which will be a part of the Puerto Rico Film Festival’s program this year! Tickets are now available for two different screening dates and locations: September 19th, 9:00 a.m., Mayagüez Town Center, sala #1 September 20th at 2:30 p.m., Teatro Balboa The Water Protectors…
EnglishEspañolEnglish OHL Librarian Natalia Hernández Mejías has recently published a review in the journal Acceso about the third edition of the of Technical Guidelines for Digitizing Cultural Heritage Materials published by the Federal Agency Digital Guidelines Initiative (FADGI). In her review, Hernández Mejías highlights key points from this 129-page document that provides information on digitizing a wide range of materials. It is…
EnglishEspañolEnglish Documentarian Guillermo Gómez Álvarez, Lorel Cubano Santiago of Colectivo PerlArte, and OHL Director Ricia Anne Chansky will virtually join the book launch for Terra:Soul published by Porch Water Press at Columbia University. Gómez Álvarez’s new film about PerlArte that was produced by the OHL, La Perla: En Que Vivimos, is featured in the publication. The launch will…
EnglishEspañolEnglish The OHL is excited to be part of the American Studies Association Public Humanities Day at Humanidades Puerto Rico on November 19 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Mark your calendar for our presentation, “You Can’t Erase Us: Testimony as Resistance in the Time of Climate Denial” as well as other film screenings, performances, and…
