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…
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EnglishEspañolEnglish An article, “How Community Cinema Creates More Inclusive Stories in Puerto Rico,” highlights work from the OHL while discussing a recent report on community cinema in Puerto Rico. The report was part of the AHRC project, “(De)Colonial Ecologies in 21st-century Insular Hispanic Caribbean Film,” by Newcastle University in England, which was co-produced with independent news…
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EnglishEspañolEnglish The Water Protectors is going to have its first official screening in Rincón on Saturday, December 20 at 6:00 p.m. in Rincón’s plaza. It will be shown with the main film un Pueblo de Coral by ISER Caribe. The Water Protectors has also been selected for el Festival de Cine y Derechos Humanos de…
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EnglishEspañolEnglish Maxy Survives the Hurricane / Maxy sobrevive el huracán, a children’s book created with students in UPRM classes given by OHL Director Ricia Chansky and published in 2021 by Arte Público Press, has sold over 7000 copies. The book was was written in response to oral histories recorded in the Mi María project and…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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EnglishEspañolEnglish On October 16, OHL Director Ricia Chansky was presented the 2025 Oral History Association (OHA) Article Award for her essay “Oral History and the Climate Crisis: Listening in the Aftermath of Disaster,” which was published in the fall issue of Oral History Review. In it, she discusses the creation of the Oral History Laboratory…
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