Fall 2025 Oral History (OHMA) GR5016 section 001

Roots and Branches of Oral History

Roots & Branches of Oral

Call Number 11479
Day & Time
Location
T 10:10am-1:00pm
To be announced
Points 4
Grading Mode Standard
Approvals Required None
Instructor Mary M Clark
Type SEMINAR
Method of Instruction In-Person
Course Description

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Methods, Theory, and Interpretation is an ideation laboratory, a play space, a workshop, a space to think

about our practice alongside cross-disciplinary perspectives and inquiry—from and E. Patrick Johnson on

identity and performance, to Judith Butler on Precarious Life and Grievable Life, to Alessandro Portelli’s

emphasis on the dialogic, to Ariella Aïsha Azoulay imagining “an otherwise” in the form of Potential

Histories—we will engage ways that these fields/theories might inform our oral history practice. This

class is an invitation to complicate our questions, trouble our certainties, and engage in ever-evolving

work of defining our individual approach(es), to oral history theory, practice, and interpretation.

Through readings, interview listening assignments, and workshop sessions, we will consider the space of

the interview as a site of interpretation and potentiality. What (more) is it possible to hear in the oral

history? And, what might interrupt that hearing? What (more) is it possible to articulate in the oral

history? And, what might interrupt that articulation? What constitutes a ‘life’?

Web Site Vergil
Department Oral History
Enrollment 0 students (18 max) as of 9:06PM Tuesday, July 29, 2025
Subject Oral History (OHMA)
Number GR5016
Section 001
Division Interfaculty
Open To GSAS
Note OHMA Students only or instructor permission required
Section key 20253OHMA5016G001