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  • Select digitized interviews now online at UW Digital Collections

  • Multi-media projects

  • 2012 Oral History Day

    Frontier Airlines Center
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin
    Wednesday, April 18 to Sunday, April 22, 2012
    • Oral History Panels: Saturday, April 21, 2012
    • 8:30 am to 12:00 Noon, Oral History: A Tool for Research, A Tool for Life
    • 12:00 noon to 1:30 pm, Lunch
    • 1:30 pm to 4:00pm, Using Oral History: Roundtable of Examples from Wisconsin
    • Complete list of panel participants and workshop details can be found here

  • Wisconsin Oral History Day on the Web

    • Wisconsin Oral History Day Blog
    • The blog includes summaries of the 2010 and 2009 events, plus entries on other projects
    • Recordings from 2010:


      • Plenary session / keynote address

      Introduction: Robert S. Smith, Associate Professor, UW - Milwaukee

      Presenter: J. Todd Moye, Associate Professor, University of North Texas


      Summary:

      Moye will offer an overview of the Tuskegee Airmen Narratives. Then, he will use a couple of short case studies from the oral histories to show how victims of intense racism used humor to remember and explain that experience many years later.


      Comments: Stephen Kercher, Associate Professor, UW - Oshkosh & Director of UWO's Black Thursday Oral History Project

      Scroll over and press play to listen:


      Cross-generational/cultural interviewing, Part I (Hmong student panel).

      Chair: Chia Youyee Vang, Assistant Professor & Hmong Diaspora Studies Program Coordinator, UW - Milwaukee
      Student Presenters: Pa Kou Lee, Baognia Yang and Sue Her Lee Yang, Undergraduate Student, UW - Madison

      Scroll over and press play to listen:


      Cross-generational/cultural interviewing, Part II (Manitowoc student projects).

      Chair: Laura Apfelbeck, Instructor, UW - Manitowoc
      Presenters: Apfelbeck, Instructor, UW - Manitowoc
      Susan Frost, Advertising Consultant/Shady Lane Assisted Living Facility & Instructor, UW - Green Bay
      Peggy Turnbull, Librarian, UW - Manitowoc

      Scroll over and press play to listen:


    • Recordings from 2010 may also be accessed through Minds@UW
    • Recordings from 2009 may also be accessed through Minds@UW