Center for Oral History
Celebrating Community Knowledge for Social Change
The Center for Oral History (COH), in the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, collects, documents, preserves and highlights the recollections of Native Hawaiians and the multi-ethnic people of Hawaiʻi. It produces oral histories and interpretive historical materials about lifeways, key historic events, social movements and Hawaiʻi’s role in the globalizing world, for the widest possible use.
COH was first established in 1976 by the Hawaiʻi State Legislature as a part of the Social Science Research Institute in the College of Social Sciences at UH Mānoa. COH also develops books, articles, podcasts, and videos based on oral histories, serves as a resource center for oral history materials, and trains groups and individuals in oral history research.
TODAY from 12 NOON to 1:15 in Kuykendall 409A. #BrownBagBiography Tom Coffman with discuss his book Tadaima! I Am Home: A Transnational Family History. See you there.
UHM students - consider taking this hands-on, make-your-own Internet type of class that explores the way digital media create, maintain, and socially mediate race and ethnicity in both old and new ways. No coding or web development required!
Let's fill the theater for these wonderful students! Mālama Our History: Celebrating 30 Years of Hawaiʻi History Day -
Saturday, December 7 at the Doris Duke Theater from 4:00 to 6:30. Free for 18 and under. $12 General Admission, $10 for museum members. https://www.facebook.com/hihumanities/photos/gm.591329268341408/3458668000840395/?type=3&theater
Native communities around the world are indispensable #storytellers, paving the way for oral historians today. We want to celebrate scholar Dr. Nepia Mahuika on his new book, Rethinking Oral History and Tradition: An Indigenous Perspective
Rethinking Oral History and Tradition
Indigenous peoples have our own ways of defining oral history. For many, oral sources are shaped and disseminated in multiple forms that are more cult...
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TOMORROW Justyn Ah Chong, ʻĀina Paikai, and Richard Hamasaki are coming to Brown Bag Biography with their wonderful and award-winning short film "Down on the Sidewalk in Waikīkī" - Don't miss it! Kuykendall 410, Noon to 1:15, Tuesday, November 26.
Nat'l touring play http://legendofkoolau.com this weekend on Oahu, next week on Kauai. Here's interview with former Gov. John Waihee https://bit.ly/2QwJLwb
Oral history provides the opportunity to explore intersubjectivity and positionality. Here, @danielcfisher shares his work with the @CJOHPdotorg centered in Toronto. The moving video excerpts from interviews below demonstrate shared authority in practice
Voices from the Chinese Jamaican Oral History Project
Oral history provides the opportunity to explore intersubjectivity and positionality. Here, Daniel Clarkson Fisher shares his work with the Chinese Ja...
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Tiffany Lani Ing joins us this week to talk about her book "Reclaiming Kalākaua: Nineteenth-Century Perspectives on a Hawaiian Sovereign"--out now from @UHPRESSNEWS. Brown Bag on Thursday, Nov. 21 at noon
We're thrilled! Professor J. Kēhaulani Kauanui, American Studies & Anthropology, Wesleyan University will discuss: “From Identification to Disavowal: Engaging Feminism in the Work of Haunani-Kay Trask” at this Thursday's Brown Bag Biography, 11/14, noon to 1:15 in Kuykendall 410
The International Oral History Association is pleased to announce that the 2019 issue of Words and Silences/Palabras y Silencios is now available online.
In English: https://www.ioha.org/memory-and-narration/
En Español: https://www.ioha.org/es/memoria-y-narracion/
Watch Dr. Aluli on Long Story Short tonight on PBS Hawaiʻi. We are also interviewing Dr. Aluli for our Kahoʻolawe Aloha ʻĀina Movement oral history project.
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“Dr. Aluli admits his personal mission to restore the health of Kahoʻolawe, and the health of Molokaʻi’s people. Hear more by watching L...
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Hear from Mauro Plateros who was recently featured on @hiconversation on a segment discussing the Hanapepe Massacre. Here Plateros recounts the early tensions between Visayan and Ilocano plantation workers during the 1924 strike that led to 16 Filipino laborers being killed.
The Voice of Witness Education Program brings human rights issues and narratives into the curricula of schools and universities throughout the U.S. Learn more: http://bit.ly/2pBd0mD
#Oralhistory results from interactions btw interviewee & interviewer, & intersubjectivities of that relationship. Liz Strong experienced variations of this dynamic over 9 months of pregnancy, which she shares in this post about interviewing while pregnant
The Intersubjectivities of Interviewing and Pregnancy
All oral history interviews result from the interaction between interviewee and interviewer, and the intersubjectivities within that relationship. Ora...
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I learned last night that a wonderful, kind soul I was scheduled to interview has passed away. Please collect your family stories now before it’s too late. RIP Mr. DeCabooter #oralhistory
Happy Halloween, spoopy friends! Marion Lee Loy was interviewed about her experiences as a public school teacher in Hawaiʻi. She recounted an encounter with night marchers while teaching at Kohala. 👻 Read more here: https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/handle/10125/30107
In this post, current #OHMAstudent, Lauren Instenes, will discuss the complexities of the process Dr. Tim Raphael describes as "activating the archive" by taking you on the journey of a story she previously attempted to “activate”:
http://oralhistory.columbia.edu/blog-posts/the-journey-of-a-story
Publish or perish...or #podcast? We know there are many people passionate about history who aren’t researchers. Our interpretive materials enable us to share pivotal moments in #history that our collection can illuminate. Read the director’s column.
OHC Director's Column, October 2019
by Martin Meeker @MartinDMeeker Recording, transcribing, and making oral histories accessible represents only a portion of the work that we do a...
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Also in featured is a story on the Hanapepe Massacre with excerpts from an oral history we conducted in 1978. If you missed it yesterday, you can listen here!
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“If you've ever made it to the House or Senate Chambers at the State Capitol, you likely noticed one of two massive tapestries hanging in either...
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2 great talks this Thursday, October 31! "Competing Images of Four Nineteenth Century Native Hawaiian Pastors," Nancy J. Morris, Librarian Emerita at UHM Library, at Noon in Kuykendall 409A and "Translating Palestine," YOUSEF ALJAMAL in Kuykendall 410 from 3-4:15 pm
