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| About the Summer Institute The Regional Oral History Office [ROHO] at the University of California, Berkeley is offering a one-week advanced institute on the methodology, theory, and practice of oral/video history. This intensive workshop will take place at the Townsend Center for the Humanities on the UC Berkeley campus from the afternoon of Sunday, August 15, through Friday, August 20, 2004. The institute will be led by Richard Cándida Smith, Director of ROHO and Professor in the Department of History at UC Berkeley, with two distinguished visiting scholars: Luisa Passerini, Professor of History at the European University in Florence, Italy, and Ana Maria Mauad, Professor of History and Coordinator for the Laboratory of Oral History and Iconography, at Universidade Fluminense Federal, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The institute is designed for graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, college faculty, and independent scholars who use oral history interviews as part of a research project. This institute is geared, as well, to community historians and others who are engaged in oral history work on an on-going basis. We will select forty participants from these categories, striving for a balance between diversity and a clustering of project interests. The institute's program focuses on the specific research topics of participants, with the goal of deepening their research questions and sharpening their methods. It is the participants' projects, and the larger historiographic questions they engage, that provide the platform from which the faculty and ROHO staff direct their expertise. The institute provides a rigorous academic environment in which the special characteristics of interviews as historical evidence are evaluated. The daily structure varies, composed of lectures, workshops, seminars, and demonstration presentations. Specific issues in oral history will be addressed: preparation for interviewing, legal release, interview techniques, analysis of completed research projects, web archiving and access. Institute members will be given readings and a schedule of presentations, workshops, and discussion sections before the institute begins. Institute faculty will be present throughout the week and time will be allocated for participants to consult with them as well as with the ROHO staff. Tuition for the institute is $700. Housing and most meals must be arranged separately, but a range of housing options in the Berkeley community is available. Applications are due by April 30 and notification of acceptance will be made by May 17. The institute is wheelchair accessible. If there are other special needs, please contact mandres@library.berkeley.edu. Regional Oral History Office (ROHO) |