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2015 Summer Institute
The Columbia Center for Oral History Research housed at INCITE is pleased to announce its 2015 Oral History Institute, “Narrating Population Health: Oral History, Disparity, and Social Change,” to be held June 15-26, 2015 at Columbia University in New York City. Increasing economic disparities, war, political conflict and identity-based forms of discrimination have resulted in an unprecedented global crisis in equitable health practices and the distribution of resources. Specifically, we will look at concrete ways that oral history reveals those disparities within communities that face discrimination and stigma, and offers new paradigms for understanding and response. This Summer Institute is partially funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Health & Society Scholars Program.
Areas of focus will include: HIV/AIDS, mass incarceration, reproductive rights, harm reduction, addiction, stigma and discrimination and the impact of the built environment on health such as asthma and other diseases. The program will focus on ways that scholars and advocates have used oral history to illuminate the impact of inequitable distribution of health resources in local and global communities.
2015 Summer Institute Program
The program held workshops on interviewing, analysis, digital oral history applications, and interdisciplinary research methods with presentations from medical researchers, historians, population health experts and sociologists. Applicants used the Institute to explore a range of oral history-research applications, and will select participants based on a successful pairing of the oral history method with other modes of inquiry and analysis in engaging the topics of population health from interdisciplinary perspectives.
The 2015 Application is Now Closed
Applicants should expect to hear from us in early May
Sessions included:
Confronting Disparities: Life Narratives in Health Research
Mary Marshall Clark, Director of the Columbia Center for Oral History Research and Co-Director, Oral History Master of Arts Program at the Interdisciplinary Center for Innovative Theory and Empirics of Columbia University
Peter Bearman, Director of the Interdisciplinary Center for Innovative Theory and Empirics, Co-Director, Oral History Master of Arts Program, Co-Director, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health and Society Scholars Program, and Member of the National Academy of Sciences
Reflections on health, history, pain, race and advocacy
Keith Wailoo, Townsend Martin Professor of History and Public Affairs and Vice Dean, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University
Community Oral History and Fundamental Interventions
Adam Reich, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Columbia University
Terrell Frazier, Education and Outreach Director, Columbia Center for Oral History Research
Recorder exercise and training
Doug Boyd, Director, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History at the University of Kentucky Libraries
Panel: Listening with Care in Mind: Oral History and Narrative Medicine
Amy Starecheski, Associate Director, Oral History Master of Arts Program at the Interdisciplinary Center for Innovative Theory and Empirics of Columbia University
Studying up and down: eliciting narratives of structural causes and personal experiences of inequality, stigma, and addiction
Helena Hansen, Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at NYU Langone Medical Center, Professor of Anthropology at the NYU Washington Square Campus, and Research Scientist at the Nathan Kline Institute Division of Services Research, New York University
Sickle Cell Disease and Ethics of Treatment in Interviewing
Gina Jae, PhD Candidate, Sociomedical Sciences, Columbia University
Measuring in Liters: A Continuous Journey through Chambers of Sickled Cells
Darryl Alladice, performance poet
Speaking Truth to Power: Testifying about Lead Poisoning and Environmental Racism
David Rosner, Ronald H. Lauterstein Professor of Sociomedical Sciences and Professor of History at Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Columbia University
Oral History in the Digital Age
Doug Boyd
Organizing at the Intersection: A Public Interview
Terrell Frazier
Kenyon Farrow, HIV prevention treatment activist and writer
Editing for digital publication
Doug Boyd
Editing for Written Publication
Linda Shopes, Former President of the U.S. Oral History Association, Freelance Editor and Consultant in Oral and Public History
Phoenix House: A Public Interview
Kristin Murphy, PhD Candidate, Sociology, Columbia University
Ronald Williams, Founder and Director, Stay 'n' Out
Creating a Record: Oral History during the AIDS Epidemic
Ronald Bayer, Professor of Sociomedical Sciences and Co-Director, Center for the History and Ethics of Public Health
Gerald Oppenheimer, Professor of Sociomedical Sciences, Columbia University
Panel: What is the Oral History Interview?
Mary Marshall Clark
Terrell Frazier
Amy Starecheski
Ronald J. Grele, Director Emeritus of the Columbia Center for Oral History
An interview with Dr. David Ferris on HIV/AIDS
George Gavrilis, Research Fellow, Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life at Columbia University
David Ferris, MD
From Story to Writing and Research: Analyzing Oral History Narratives
Mary Marshall Clark
Ronald Bayer
Gerald Oppenheimer
George Gavrilis
Reclaiming Justice: Oral History, Health Activism and the Law
Virginia Espino, Program Coordinator for Latina and Latino History, UCLA Center for Oral History Research
Film Screening: No More Babies for Life
Framing dialogues on race, body, and gender in health activism
Alondra Nelson, Dean of Social Science, Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies, and Director, Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Columbia University
Dorothy Roberts, George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology and the Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights at the University of Pennsylvania
The Biopolitics of Narrating Health and Justice
Dorothy Roberts
Lynn Paltrow (discussant), Founder and Director, National Advocates for Pregnant Women
