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…

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…