EnglishEspañolEnglish Watch the trailer for the OHL’s upcoming documentary, Veredas de libertá, which explores the subject of land rights as experienced in rural and urban spaces in the Puerto Rican archipelago. Veredas de libertá is a film by Guillermo Gómez Álvarez produced by the Oral History Lab at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez in…
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EnglishEspañolEnglish The OHL event invites you to a virtual panel titled La entrevista, sus usos y sus retos: perspectivas desde las Ciencias Sociales, taking place on Wednesday, November 18, from 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. This event will bring together three researchers with extensive experience using interviews as a tool to document social, historical, political,…
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Photo left to right / Foto izquierda a derecho: Jaquelina Álvarez, Marci Denesiuk, Ricia Chansky EnglishEspañolEnglish OHL Co-Directors Ricia Chansky and Jaquelina Álvarez and Faculty Researcher Marci Denesiuk gave a workshop in trauma-informed oral history at the University of Puerto Rico’s Río Piedras campus on November 5. The workshop was hosted by the team of…
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EnglishEspañolEnglish OHL Director Ricia Chansky will be an instructor in the Climate and Health Responder Course: Disaster Risk Reduction and Adaptation in the Americas and the Caribbean hosted by the Global Consortium on Climate and Health Education at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. Chansky’s session, “Hurricane Risk Reduction, Urban Preparedness, Community Communication,” is…
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EnglishEspañolEnglish Natalia Hernández Mejías: RECORD+PRESERVE The OHL presented at the 2026 Oral History Association (OHA) Annual Meeting in Portland, Oregon from October 14 to 17. Under this year’s theme, Landscapes of Memory, OHL members, Ricia Chansky, Jaquelina Álvarez, Natalia Hernández Mejías and Marci Denesiuk, led discussions on living archives, climate change responses, and trauma-informed practices.…
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EnglishEspañolEnglish OHL Director Ricia Chansky’s essay “Eating in crisis: Social capital and post-disaster food security” has been published in the Oral History Society’s (OHS) autumn 2026 issue of the Oral History Journal. See the OHS blog, Voices of the Earth in times of crisis, where a new video has been added of Chansky introducing her…
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EnglishEspañolEnglish OHL Director Ricia Chansky was elected to the Leadership Team of the Oral History Association (OHA) as a member of the Nominating Committee. This committee identifies and supports future leaders who will propel the work of the OHA research community forward. Chansky will officially begin her two-year term this November. Español La directora de…
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EnglishEspañolEnglish OHL media products on display at the HAL convening / Productos multimedia de OHL expuestos en la reunión de HAL OHL Director Ricia Anne Chansky and Community Programs Manager Zaira Arvelo Alicea were at the Humanities Action Lab (HAL) national convening at Hunter College, CUNY in New York City from October 6-8. The event,…
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Photo (from left to right) / Foto (de izquierda a derecha) José Fabián Rosa, Luz Rivera-Cantwell, Douglas Lang, Ricardo Avillan, Guillermo Gómez Álvarez, Zaira Arvelo Alicea EnglishEspañolEnglish The OHL is excited to announce that we’re working with award-winning filmmaker Guillermo Gómez Álvarez and Fundación de Culebra to produce our next documentary. On September 30, two…
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EnglishEspañolEnglish The OHL, the General Library, and the Film Certificate Program invite you to a screening of the participatory documentary El llamado de la montaña: Historias de resistencia desde Adjuntas, created in collaboration with the Adjuntas community. The event will feature filmmakers Dunja Fehimovic and Cecilia Sosa and will be followed by an open discussion.…
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