A compendium of all the presentations the OHL @UPRM has been a part of.
EnglishEspañolEnglish Join the OHL at the Oral History Association’s (OHA) virtual three-day symposium Trauma-Informed Interviewing, Reckoning & Beyond on June 23, 24 and 25, 2026. Registration details and preliminary program are available on the symposium webpage. Please see below for information about when members of the OHL team will present: Director Ricia Chansky, Librarian Natalia Hernández Mejías, Faculty…
EnglishEspañolEnglish Join us on March 19 for “Construyendo una propuesta sólida: narrativa persuasiva y presupuesto estratégico,” the final webinar in the OHL series “La ruta del grant.” Date and time: Thursday, March 19 – 10:30 am (AST) In this webinar, Isabel Rosa (GPC) will offer practical tools to strengthen the narrative and budget components of…
EnglishEspañolEnglish Join us on March 17 for “Fondos externos: bases de datos y criterios de búsqueda,” the second webinar in the OHL series “La ruta del grant.” Date and time: Tuesday, March 17 – 10:30 am (AST) In this webinar, Luis Oscar and OHL Librarian Natalia Hernández Mejías will present databases and resources for identifying…
EnglishEspañolEnglish On March 10, a new OHL webinar series “La ruta del grant” will begin with “Encontrando el grant adecuado: pareando proyectos con oportunidades de financiamiento.” This series will offer three workshops that focus on key aspects of the application process for obtaining external funding. The program is designed for cultural and documentation initiatives, as…
EnglishEspañolEnglish Join OHL Director Ricia Chansky and Emma Ly from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee to learn about making zines at a new series of virtual workshops on media-making organized by the Humanities Action Lab (HAL). Learn about why HAL partners chose to create zines, how making zines supports their larger organizational and community goals, and…
EnglishEspañolEnglish The Oral History Lab at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez (OHL) participated in a screening and discussion of We Are Still Here at the San Francisco Public Library as part of the program “Film, Community, and Resistance in Puerto Rico.” The film was presented by Eduardo Lugo Hernández and Carhianie Vargas Padin (pictured…
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 The OHL would like to recognize that the National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA) extended complimentary registration for the annual conference to all residents of Puerto Rico, and we express gratitude for their solidarity. November 13 NWSA Women of Color Leadership Project Cohort OHL Research Associate Natalia Betancourt Malavé joined the 2025 NWSA Women 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.…
