A compendium of all the presentations the OHL @UPRM has been a part of.

Humanities Action Lab Co-Creation Cafe

OHL at Humanities Action Lab’s Oct. 9th Co-Creation Café on climate justice

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…

The OHL at the Puerto Rican Studies Association 2025 Biennial Symposium: Telling and Archiving our Stories

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…

OHL at the 2025 ACURIL conference

OHL at the 2025 ACURIL conference

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…

Ricia Chansky at the 2025 IABAA Conference

OHL Director delivers keynote address at the 2025 IABAA Conference

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…

OHL Director Speaks at "Climate Change, Natural Disaster, and Oral History"

OHL Director Speaks at “Climate Change, Natural Disaster, and Oral History” event on April 21

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…

The OHL at LASA-PUERTO RICO

The OHL at LASA-PUERTO RICO

EnglishEspañolEnglish Pictured from left to right: Zaira Arvelo Alicea, (UPRM), Ricia Anne Chansky, (UPRM), José Morales Benítez, (UPRM), Lorel Cubano Santiago (PerlArte), Pluma Bárbara (CAMJI Lares) At the recent 2025 Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Puerto Rico Section Conference, panelists  from the OHL and the community came together to discuss the work being done to protect…