School of Media Studies

One-Day Oral History Training Workshops with OHMA, May 11

May 11 | One-Day Oral History Training Workshops with OHMA

Join us for an intensive day of workshops with OHMA faculty and alumni!  Register now – these always sell out!

LocationColumbia University, Knox Hall

Registration: $30 – 100 per half-day workshop, sliding scale. Full day video workshop sliding scale from $100-$200Please find registration info here.

For our oral history workshops, please pay what you can. We suggest $30 for students, recent graduates, or others who are financially constrained, while we suggest that professionals and those with more resources should pay more.

All profits from these events go towards our annual merit scholarship for an incoming OHMA student.

Prospective Students: OHMA offers an application fee waiver for all attendees of our 2019 One-Day Oral History Training Workshops! Please email us at ohma@columbia.edu once you’ve submitted your application so that we can send the waiver to Columbia’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.

Schedule at a glance

ALL DAY: 9:30AM – 5PM

Video Production for Visual Storytelling and Oral History, Oscar Frasser

Morning Workshops: 9:30AM-12:30PM

Introduction to Audio Editing with Hindenburg, Michael Garofalo

Introduction to Oral History Interviewing, Fanny Julissa García

Considering Identity in Oral History: Interviewing Across Difference, Mary Marshall Clark and Alissa Funderburk

Oral History 101, Amy Starecheski

Afternoon Workshops: 2PM-5PM

Interviewing Immersion, Sara Sinclair

Navigating Ethics, Trauma, and Risk in Oral History, Zoë West

Oral History and Social Justice: Towards a Participatory Oral History Research Approach, Lynn Lewis

Oral History as Spontaneous Literature: Writing the Life History, Nyssa Chow

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Submit your application

Undergraduate

To apply to any of our Bachelor's programs (Except the Bachelor's Program for Adult Transfer Students) complete and submit the Common App online.

Graduates and Adult Learners

To apply to any of our Master's, Doctural, Professional Studies Diploma, Graduates Certificate, or Associate's programs, or to apply to the Bachelor's Program for Adult and Transfer Students, complete and submit the New School Online Application.

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