Education Narratives Project - by Oral History Summer School

04/21/2026

2026 | MAY WORKSHOP, ORAL HISTORY SPRING-ISH SCHOOL-GRAM, VOL 3 -

Memorials serve as sites of invitation. To remember. To rest. To witness. To gather. To organize. The Void, an ongoing counter-memorial to HIV / AIDS, prioritizes gathering in public space as a radical invitation to honor our dead - together, out loud - to feel, discuss and take action around the o...

01/29/2026

2026 | WINTER DIGEST, ORAL HISTORY WINTER SCHOOL-GRAM, No 2 -

12/23/2025

2025 | WINTER EDITION! HAPPY NEW YEAR! ORAL HISTORY WINTER SCHOOL-GRAM, No 2 -

Start the New Year by channeling your curiosity and passion into a plan of self-study! We'll help you map your enthusiasm onto a workable timeline--and to articulate a sequence of steps to deepen your relationship to one (or more) of your interests. This workshop will guide participants through the....

11/04/2024

2024 | NEW WORKSHOP! ELECTION EVE EDITION! ORAL HISTORY SUMMER SCHOOL-GRAM, VOL 6 -

Oral history and journalism were once described as "kissing cousins" by journalist Mark Feldstein, but how, exactly, are they related? What lives at the intersection of these two sets of best practices, and how does the ambidextrous oral history-journalist trouble though moments when the two practic...

08/09/2024

2024 | ORAL HISTORY SUMMER SCHOOL-GRAM, VOL 4 -

03/14/2024

2024 | ORAL HISTORY WINTER SCHOOL-GRAM, VOL 3 -

02/07/2024

2024 | ORAL HISTORY WINTER SCHOOL-GRAM, VOL 2 -

Over the last weekend in January, local and regional OHSS alums gathered in Hudson, NY for our first ever Interview Corps. Our group collected 28 interviews for our archive, Community Library of Voice and Sound, which now contains 500-plus community interviews plus ambient sounds and songs. On d...

01/04/2024

2024 | ORAL HISTORY WINTER SCHOOL-GRAM, VOL I -

Oral History Summer School, in collaboration with Wave Farm, is pleased to announce Archive Remix, which will support artists’ use of Oral History Summer School’s growing audio archive, the Community Library of Voice and Sound (CLOVS). As of November 2023, CLOVS is comprised of nearly 500 or...

12/05/2023

OHSS NEWSLETTER, DECEMBER: WORKSHOPS, JOBS, AUDIO CANDYGRAMS -

NEW WORKSHOP!  The Oral History Manuscript: Writing from Oral History Dates: Saturday, December 16 - Monday, December 18 Format: Online, via Zoom Instructors: Suzanne Snider, Dao X. Tran, M.E. O’Brien, Eman Abdelhadi, Rae Garringer, Sara Sinclair Participants: This workshop will be capped at 20...

12/04/2023

Workshop: Oral History & Writing, Dec 16-18 ONLINE -

Schedule: Day 1, 10 AM to 6 PM:  Introductions, Guided project planning/assessment, plus a refresher of oral history values and characteristics with an eye/ear toward writing.  Day 2, 10 AM to 6 PM: Responsive writing exercises following a survey of oral history-centered literature and structures ...