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.…

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…

EnglishEspañolEnglish The OHL participated in the 2025 Oral History Association Annual Meeting in Atlanta. On October 16, Ricia Chansky and Marci Denesiuk presented a roundtable, “The Kids Are Alright: Youth Agency and Oral History” (pictured above). Their presentation explored various means of seeing and making visible youth agency and action. They shared some of their…

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…

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…