Oral History Summer Institute: UC Berkeley

August 14-18, 2006

Memory, Media, Meaning is the theme for a week-long intensive, academically
oriented institute on the theory, methodology, and practice of oral/video
history, sponsored by the Regional Oral History Office, at U.C. Berkeley,
August 14-18, 2006. Designed for academic, independent, public, and
community scholars engaged in serious research that in some manner utilizes
oral/video history and/or interview-based methodologies. It is geared to
scholars and practitioners with a wide-range of interests and expertise,
from graduate students just beginning their research to advanced scholars,
professors and teachers looking to update their skills or learn a new
research methodology. Museum and other institutionally based research
projects are welcome and have always comprised a significant part of the
institute.

The Institute revolves around the specific work of its participants and the
larger historical questions they seek to address. We offer a unique
opportunity to workshop your project in small groups tied to our faculty
specialists and a cross-section of practitioners whose interests and
problems are similar. Participants will use the institute to develop their
own work both conceptually and methodologically -honing the focus of their
projects and developing their facility with interviewing in a variety of
learning settings including presentations by ROHOs academic faculty,
one-on-one tutorials, seminar-style discussions and workshops. Particular
attention to analysis and application of narratives that are collected.

This year's visiting scholar is Susanna Kaiser, author of Postmemories of
Terror: A New Generation Deals with the Legacy of the Dirty War (Palgrave
Studies in Oral History. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005) which is based
on oral histories with young Argentineans, exploring their generation's
knowledge of the dictatorship derived from generational stories and media
representations. Dr. Kaiser teaches media, mass communications and Latin
American Studies at the University of San Francisco. Resident faculty
include: Vic Geraci, author of The Rise of Santa Barbara's Wine Industry,
Martin Meeker, author of Contacts Desired: Gay and Lesbian Communications
and Community, Elizabeth Castle, author of the forthcoming, Women were the
Backbone, Men were the Jawbone: American Indian Women's Activism in the Red
Power Movement, Lisa Rubens, author, An Oral History of Women in California,
and Notes From the Field: New Directions in Oral History -in progress. [see
http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/ROHO
for research areas and project
collections]

A daily schedule and reader will be provided, with time allocated for
practice with equipment, touring, fun. One evening is devoted to an oral
history of California food and wine, including a wine tasting. Tuition
$850. Credit card payment cannot be arranged. Housing and most meals must be
arranged separately. There are no scholarships.

http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/ROHO/education/institute/application.html
Applications are due May 12 and notices of acceptance will be sent May 19.

Please address all questions to lrubenslibrary.berkeley.edu with "Summer
Institute" in the subject line of your email.

Lisa Rubens, Historian
Director, Advanced Oral History Summer Institute
ROHO, UC Berkeley
510 643-2057