What Are They Talking About? #Oral History in the 21st Century
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- Fall 2013 Texts
- September 3 Introduction
- Week 2 September 10 What is oral history
- Week 3 September 17 The Interview: Subject and Background
- Memory Exercise due for discussion October 1
- Week 5 October 1 Memory/Oral History as a Resource/propaganda tool
- Interview Essay – details on line Due: October 22 Week 7 October 15 HOLIDAY Week 8
- Week 9 October 29 Stewardship/Preservation/Archiving Memoirs and oral history
- Written vs. Oral, compare oral history to memoir, essay details on line Due: November 5 Week 9 November 5
- Prepare the following presentation for November 28
- Week 11 November 12 Visit to St. Francis and tour of church: oral history and documentaries
- THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY Class TBA may be trip to the library for a research session Week 13 December 3
- Week 15 December 10 Final Projects
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FRSEM-UA 4622 Linda Dowling Almeida lindaalmeida@hotmail.com 212/998-3950 Tuesday, 9:30 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. Glucksman Ireland House Office Hours: Tuesday 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. and by appointment Fall 2013 Texts: Remembering Ahanagran: Storytelling in a Family’s Past, Richard White The Voice of the Past: Oral History (3rd edition), Paul Thompson The New Irish, Ray O’Hanlon Call of the Lark, Maura Mulligan (suggested) Purpose: The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the techniques, practice, and place of the oral history interview including: the background research on a subject; drafting interview questions; how to conduct the interview; the ethics and etiquette of oral history; its significance to the historical literature; and composing and editing the research/study documents from an interview such as a scope and content report, finding log and story board. We will use interviews from the Oral History project found in the Archive of Irish America as resources and investigate opportunities to apply digital mapping techniques to the body of interviews assembled in the Archive. As a complement to this work students will be introduced to a historical and cultural overview of the Irish American experience in the 20th century to frame the interview contents in context. Course Requirements: We meet once a week, attendance is mandatory and will be considered in the determination of final grades, along with class participation, the readings, and smaller writing assignments that stem from the class readings and discussion. Work is assigned on a weekly basis and is outlined in the syllabus distributed at the start of the semester. The syllabus is also available on blackboard throughout the semester as are most readings, special assignments, and announcements for the class. The two featured assignments for the semester, in addition to regular reading and writing assignments, are an independent interview with a subject of the student’s choice and a digital mapping project drawing on interviews previously recorded and deposited in the Archives of Irish America. All books are available at the bookstore, but feel free to use library loans or purchase the texts elsewhere. All other articles/readings will be found on line in NYU Classes.
Memory Exercise – 15% October 1 Interview Essay – 20% October 22 Memoir Essay – 15% November 5 Oral Critique – 15% November 28 Mapping Project –20% TBA Attendance and Participation – 15%
What is objective of the course. Discuss semester projects, expectations. Review interviews in the Archive: look at elements of the project. Read: “Irish America, 1900-1940”, Kevin Kenny, The American Irish: A History “Irish America, 1940-2000”, Linda Dowling Almeida, Making the Irish American (MIA) “The History of Oral History”, Rebecca Sharpless, Handbook of Oral History, ed. Tomas L. Charlton, Lois E. Myers, and Rebecca Sharpless “Looking for Jimmy”, Peter Quinn, MIA “The Future of Irish America”, Peter Quinn, MIA Assignment: Read oral interview of Ed Moloney by Mick Maloney and select excerpts for a story board Week 2 September 10 What is oral history? Class: The oral tradition in history Who are the Irish in America? Review background of Irish in United States 1600-present Read: “The Interview”, The Voice of the Past: Oral History, Paul Thompson, pp. 222-245 “A Life Story Interview Guide”, Thompson, pp. 309-323
Review etiquette of interviews, communication with candidates, etc. Screen Human Subjects protocol from NYU Office of Special Projects. http://www.nyu.edu/ucaihs/tutorial/1/ Discuss history/historiography of oral history as a practice Discuss excerpt selections from Week 1 assignment Discuss interviewing techniques, how to ask questions, determine focus/structure of interview Review particular histories/context of candidates for 2011 Review written assignment on scope and content essay Practice interviews, using Story Corps questionaire Listen to interviews, critique style, discuss how to conduct an interview/work with the interview candidate to solicit responses Read: Thompson, “Evidence” and “Memory and the Self”, pp 118-189 Remembering Ahanagran, Richard White Memory Exercise due for discussion October 1. See Blackboard for details Assignment: Complete first draft of questions for guest interview, Ray O’Hanlon Due Sept. 24 Week 4 September 24 Memory: The Science and the Flaws “The Death of Luigi Trastulli”, Alessandro Portelli, The Death of Luigi Trastulli and Other Stories: Form and Meaning in Oral History “”What Makes Oral History Different”, Alessandro Portelli, The Death of Luigi Trastulli Student led discussion on reading topics including White’s Ahanagran James S. Donnelly, Jr., “The Construction of the Memory of the Famine in Ireland and the Irish Diaspora, 1850-1900”, Eire-Ireland, 31:1&2, Spring/Summer, 1996, 26-61 Screen: Sleuthing Mary Shanley
Memory exercises discussed Week 6 October 8: Interview Guest: Ray O’Hanlon Read: Carl Ryant, “Oral History and Business History”, The Journal of American History, Vol. 75, No. 2, Sept. 1988, pp. 560-566 (reader) Jo Blatti, “Public History and Oral History”, The Journal of American History, Vol. 77, No. 2, Sept. 1990, 615-625 (reader) Oral History and Archives: Documenting Context”, James E. Fogerty Assignment: Interview Essay – details on line Due: October 22 Week 7 October 15 HOLIDAY Week 8 October 22 Mapping: Digital Technology and the Archives Read:
Thompson, 265-290 Maura Mulligan, Call of the Lark Assignment: TBA
Visit by Memoirist Maura Mulligan Review Archives of Irish America How are oral histories collected, archived. Review existing examples, including Archives of Irish America, Ellis Island, Aisling Center, Mick Moloney, Myriam Nyhan Read: “Publishing Oral History: Oral Exchange and Print Culture,” Richard Candida Smith “Making Sense of ‘Mistakes’ in Oral Sources”, Eugene Hynes Gary Owens, “The Carrickshock Incident, 1831: Social Memory and an Irish cause celebre”, Cultural and Social History 2004: 1, pp. 36-64 Ronald Grede, “Oral History as Evidence”
Discuss significance of oral histories: value as evidence, resource Assignment: Prepare the following presentation for November 28: Evaluate a website that uses oral history and be prepared to make a short presentation on it to class. Submit a two page written summary (500-750 words) of your evaluation; it should include full title of the site/project full web address of the site/project date you accessed the site broad subject specific content visual design audio design
http://migration.ucc.ie/oralarchive/testing/breaking/index.html This site is moving/try it but it may not work.
http://www.movinghere.org.uk/galleries/histories/irish/irish.htm Notable New Yorkers http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/digital/collections/nny/ Ground One: Voices from Post-9/11 Chinatown http://www.911digitalarchive.org/chinatown/ University of Alaska Fairbanks Oral History Program (Project Jukebox) http://uaf-db.uaf.edu/jukebox/PJWeb/pjprojects.htm BBC History: Wars and Conflict World War II: Voices of D-Day http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/dday_audio.shtml
http://www.loc.gov/vets/ The Rutgers Oral History Archive, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, Cold War http://oralhistory.rutgers.edu/ Washington State University Civil Rights Oral History Interviews http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/xcivilrights.html Regional Oral History Office, University of California, Berkeley Suffragists Oral History Project http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/ROHO/projects/suffragist/
http://www.baylor.edu/oral_history/ Society for American Baseball Research http://www.sabr.org Story Corps www.storycorps.net Week 11 November 12 Visit to St. Francis and tour of church: oral history and documentaries Individual appointments with Professor Almeida to review mapping project status to date November 19 Mapping Project Status Review of Final Interview Project Week 12 November 25 THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY Class TBA may be trip to the library for a research session Week 13 December 3 Web Site Critique Presentations Class: Student presentations of website critiques (November 8 assignment) Discuss GIH website Give examples of how and where current GH Oral Histories have been cited. Assignment: Complete final project. Week 15 December 10 Final Projects Class: Present final projects Directory: content -> dam -> nyu-as dam -> Resolution dam -> American bar association adopted by the house of delegates dam -> Chevrolet – the Story of a Global Brand A. Louis Chevrolet and the Legend of Beaune dam -> Embargo until 12/17/12 dam -> October/November 2015 Teacher's Guide Table of Contents dam -> Boston College Athletics Advisory Board Annual Report, 2011-12 dam -> Executive Board of the United Nations Development Programme, the United Nations Population Fund and the United Nations Office for Project Services dam -> Boston College Athletics Advisory Board Annual Report, 2010-11 nyu-as -> War and Negotiation in Two Dimensions Jeffrey Alan Carnegie Download 29.38 Kb. Share with your friends:
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