In Context Journal

12/14/2016

One of our co-founders wrote about at the 2016 Oral History Association Meeting for the Columbia University Oral History Masters Program blog. Check it out!

In this post, OHMA alumna Cindy Choung (2009), recipient of our first OHMA Alumni Conference Travel Grant, writes on dialogue and difference among oral history practitioners at the 2016 Oral History Association Meeting. She offers thoughts on creating space for connection and reflection between oral...

11/11/2016

Our hearts are heavy but our vision is clear: listening is a critically important act. In Leyla Vural's exploration of Jill Stauffer's "Ethical Loneliness," we identify and face our limits:

"If a narrator is to be able to tell her story on her own terms, the interviewer has to 'make an effort to create a setting where people can draw their own lines and make their own decisions about it. If we don’t begin at a minimum with this, the project of what Stauffer calls 'just hearing' is doomed. Stauffer means 'just' in both senses: simply listening and giving a fair hearing to. But as she illustrates, there’s nothing simple about the act of listening."

Read more: http://www.incontextjournal.com/vural-reading-in-berlin/

Reading in Berlin: Thoughts on Jill Stauffer’s Ethical Loneliness by Leyla Vural Issue #1 Stumbling stones remembering five homeless men who were sent to their death at Sachsenhausen were installed near Berlin’s World Clock in April. Image provided by author The TV Tower at Alexanderplatz dominates…

11/04/2016

Some listening for your Friday!

"There are some challenges faced by everyday people who live in New Orleans that were not addressed...." The latest episode of The Listening Post, hosted by In Context Journal contributor Jesse Hardman, airs on WWNO, and brings in voices of New Orleans community members on development projects around the city - listen here: https://soundcloud.com/listening-post-nola/lpdevelopment110216

The Listening Post is "a project that creates an expansive conversation around New Orleans about what’s happening in the city, and how that news impacts citizens. The project focuses on marginalized communities that are often spoken for by the media, without an opportunity to represent themselves."

Read Jesse's piece, "Planting Questions in New Orleans," at the link.

http://www.incontextjournal.com/hardman-planting-questions-in-new-orleans/

Planting Questions in New Orleans by Jesse Hardman Issue #1 Image provided by author Three years ago I moved to New Orleans because of a question. I was sitting having a beer with a local news director who had just been tasked with creating a new news department, but didn’t have funding for any staf...

10/28/2016

Happy Friday from ICJ! Here's some viewing for your weekend - an experimental film from Jacob J. Podber, whom we had the great pleasure of meeting at the Oral History Association annual meeting last week.

"Vishneva, Belarus Soviet Union Poland, is grounded in the oral history testimony of a Holocaust survivor and has been deconstructed by the interviewee’s son. Unlike most oral histories that focus on the words of the interviewee, Vishneva uses silent images from the interview superimposed with typed memories that describe the unspoken pain borne by father and son through more than half a century."

http://www.incontextjournal.com/podber-vishneva-belarus-soviet-union-poland/

Vishneva, Belarus Soviet Union Poland by Jacob J. Podber Issue #1 Still from Vishneva, Belarus Soviet Union Poland Statement from the artist Vishneva, Belarus Soviet Union Poland, is grounded in the oral history testimony of a Holocaust survivor and has been deconstructed by the interviewee’s son. U...

10/14/2016

We're all here! Repping ICJ at OHA!

10/14/2016

Michael Frisch ("Sharing authority since 1966") visits us at OHA and shares ideas for future collaborations. 😍

10/14/2016

The Liz / Elizabeth contributors to Issue 1 meet at OHA!

10/12/2016

"Our origin story starts with a gripe ...."

Letter from the Editors: Questions by Editors Image from The Boston Cooking School magazine of culinary science and domestic economics, 1896 Dear Readers, Typically, the Editor’s Letter of a publication’s inaugural issue tells how the publication came to be. An idea sparked lying awake late at night...

10/12/2016

Our first issue is here! Issue 1, Questions, has something for everyone: a short experimental film, a song, a painted portrait, an audio documentary, an excerpt from a graphic memoir, and thoughtful essays and reviews. United by our inaugural theme, each contribution explores how openness and experimentation propel and shape our work as documentarians, journalists, activists, oral historians, scholars, and artists. Thank you to our thoughtful, creative and intrepid contributors for their work, and to you, our audience, for reading, listening, watching, and sharing.
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Dear Readers, Typically, the Editor’s Letter of a publication’s inaugural issue tells how the publication came to be.