Full schedule:
THURSDAY, APRIL 9
8:30 AM – Registration / Coffee
9:30 AM – Opening Remarks (main room)
9:45 – 10:45 AM – Pecha Kucha, 20 images each for 20 seconds (main room)
Barner Effect
Owen Rogers, Library of Congress Veterans History Project
Andrew Huber, Library of Congress Veterans History Project
Graying of AIDS
Katja Heinemann, The Graying of AIDS Co-Director
Naomi Schegloff, The Graying of AIDS Co-Director
11:00 AM – 12:15 PM – Session I (breakout rooms)
Staring out to Sea: Teaching Oral History and Digital Humanities
Roundtable discussion
Abigail Perkiss, Kean University
Dan Royles, Richard Stockton College of New Jersey
Chelsey Mendoza, Richard Stockton College of New Jersey
Kirolos Sadallah, Richard Stockton College of New Jersey
Kaii Abdullah, Kean University
Narrative Ethics for the Oral History Interview: A Narrative Medicine Perspective
Panel
Jonathan C Chou, Columbia University – “A Priori Responsibility: Post-ableist Ethics for the Oral History Interview”
Jacqueline P. Ngo, Columbia University – “Narrative Humility in the Clinical Encounter”
Ianthe Schepel, Columbia University – “Therapeutic Fascination, Brotherhood, and Embodied Testimony after Stroke”
Oral History & Narrative Medicine: Ethical, Spatial, and Mindful Interviewing
Panel
Cameron Vanderscoff, Columbia University – “Ethics and Encounter in the Interview”
Cameron Donald, Columbia University – “Illness and Disability Narrative, and Conceptualizing Identity”
Erica Fugger, Columbia University – “Narrativizing Mindfulness in Healthcare”
12:30 PM – 2:00 PM — Lunch (included with registration, main room)
Pogue Award presentation
Business Meeting
2:15 PM – 3:30 PM – Session 2 (breakout rooms)
Encountering Trauma: Self Care for Oral Historians
Roundtable discussion
Helen Gibb, Columbia University
Liz Strong, Columbia University
Philip Napoli, Brooklyn College
Health Care Delivery, Hospital-Based Medicine, and Narratives of Change at Mary Washington Healthcare
Panel
Jess Rigelhaupt, University of Mary Washington – “’This is a People Business’ and the Narration of Institutional Change at Mary Washington Healthcare”
Abigail Fleming, University of Mary Washington – “Medicinal Justice: How Mary Washington Healthcare Serves the Fredericksburg Community through Social Programs”
Grace Mann, University of Mary Washington – “‘There Isn’t Any Other Profession Like This:’ Hospice Nurses”
Ellen Peiser, University of Mary Washington – “Keeping the Heart in Health Care”
Ethical Relationships in Health Narratives
Panel
Lisa Polay, Columbia University – “The Urgency and Impact of Illness in Interviewing”
Charles Ethan Paccione, Columbia University – “Contemplative Therapy Program for Cancer Care”
Anna F. Kaplan, American University – “Treading Lightly: When Interviewing a Relative is Interviewing Too Close”
3:45 PM – 4:15 PM — (main room)
Clinical Oral History: A 360 Degree Portrait
Panel
Danielle Spencer, Columbia University
Stephanie Adler Yuan, Columbia University
4:30 PM – 6:00 PM — Reception (Smokin’ Betty’s)
FRIDAY, APRIL 10
9:00 AM – Registration
9:30 AM – Intro to Oral History Workshop
All day – Telling Untold Histories Unconference
This conference is in partnership with the Telling Untold Histories of the Mid-Atlantic Center for the Humanities. Participants are encouraged to register for both events. Registrants for the OHMAR conference only should click option two, “OHMAR Conference ONLY.”