A compendium of all the presentations the OHL @UPRM has been a part 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 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…
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 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 Librarian, Natalia Hernandez Mejías, and former OHL intern, Sonny Weeks, presented a paper, “Protecting Oral Histories: Navigating Privacy Challenges in Digital Environments,” at the 2025 ACURIL conference, the biggest library conference in the Caribbean. In addition, Hernandez Mejías also shared a poster titled “Digital Humanities in Puerto Rico: Initiatives and Collaborations of the…
EnglishEspañolEnglish OHL Director Ricia Chansky delivered a keynote address at the International Auto/Biography Association (IABA) Conference 2025, “Story as Resistance: Signs of Life in the Great Silencing.” She also offered a workshop—”Ethics in Interviewing”—and was on a panel for the IABA Students and New Scholars Network and a panel celebrating the 40th anniversary of the journal…
EnglishEspañolEnglish Don’t miss “Climate Change, Natural Disaster, and Oral History,” a conversation about climate change and oral history featuring esteemed scholars Stewart Weaver (University of Rochester), Ricia Chansky (OHL Director, University of Puerto Rico), and Liz Skilton (University of Louisiana). At The Albert Lepage Center for History in the Public Interest at Villanova University on…
EnglishEspañolEnglish The Oral History Lab (OHL) and the UPRM General Library are pleased to invite you to this semester’s activities. April 4 (10:00 am – 12:00 AST): Nvivo para análisis cualitativo de las entrevistas. We invite you to this presentation to discover how NVivo can facilitate the coding and analysis process of your oral history…
