This workshop builds off the Oral History Association 2020 panel "Telling COVID's Stories: Implications for the Field," which will be open to the public and held online on Wed. Oct. 21 from 3:30–5 p.m. EST and Jason M. Kelly's September 2020 article in OHR titled "The COVID-19 Oral History Project: Some Preliminary Notes from the Field" where he discusses the challenges of the Covid-19 Oral History Project launched by IUPUI in April 2020. The Covid-19 Oral History Project has partnered with JOTPY to make Covid-19 oral histories available to the public. In this workshop, academics and oral historians will discuss the process of interpreting and analyzing Covid-19 Oral Histories after collection.
Speaker Panel:
Jason M. Kelly, PhD, Director of the Covid-19 Oral History Project at Indiana University-Purdue University: Indianapolis
Stephen Sloan, PhD, Director of Baylor University's Oral History Institute
Carmen Coury, PhD, Assistant Professor at Southern Connecticut State University and oral historian of Latin America
Doug Boyd, PhD, Director of Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History at the University of Kentucky Libraries
Denise Milstein, PhD, Environmental Sociologist at Columbia University and Co-Director of the NYC COVID-19 Oral History, Narrative and Memory Archive
Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez, PhD, Director of the VOCES Oral History Center
Jackie Pedota, M.Ed., UT Austin doctoral student working on VOCES of a Pandemic Oral History Mini-Project