A compendium of all the presentations the OHL @UPRM has been a part of.
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…
EnglishEspañolEnglish Oral History Lab Director Ricia Anne Chansky has been selected as one of the “20 of the best climate storytellers from around the world” to be featured in the Climate Storytellers’ Summit cohosted by the My Climate Story Project; the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication; the Penn Center for Science, Sustainability, and the…
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…
EnglishEspañolEnglish The OHL will be present at the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Puerto Rico Section Conference, which will take place at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez campus from March 27 to 29, 2025. This Land is Ours: Panel Presentation Learn about the work being done to protect the land in Lares and…
EnglishEspañolEnglish The OHL will be present at the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Puerto Rico Section Conference, which will take place at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez campus from March 27 to 29, 2025. Todavía Estamos Aquí: Screening and Discussion Join us for the screening of Todavía Estamos Aquí, a documentary based on…
EnglishSpanishEnglish On December 17, 2024, faculty members from the UPRM Library, Prof. Jaqueline Alvárez, Prof. José J. Morales Benítez, and Prof. Natalia Hernández Mejías, participated in the Coloqueo podcast, broadcast by the Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña. During the conversation, they discussed the Oral History Lab (OHL) projects and the processes of describing, disseminating, and preserving…
EnglishEspañolEnglish On Thursday, September 5, 2024 at 10:30 in the General Library’s Conference Room (Sala A) digital humanities projects based on oral narratives collected by OHL community partners will be presented under the auspices of the project “Speaking in the Silences: Constructing Community Archives Throughout the Puerto Rican Archipelago” of the American Council of Learned…