By The American University of Armenia Newsroom | Jun 24, 2024

On April 12, students, faculty, and community members from the American University of Armenia (AUA) and the University of Connecticut (UConn) gathered to share their experiences of conducting and participating in oral history projects.

Together, attendees puzzled over questions students posed, anchored in their own practice: how does oral history shift our focus from product or output to process? How do we work with language, particularly where oral history processes move across many different languages and face contexts of linguistic oppression? How do we make recorded and written history more inclusive, non-oppressive, and decolonial?

[This] workshop was a truly meaningful and thought-provoking exchange that opened up many avenues for further exploration and mutual learning between AUA and UConn around oral history research and practice.

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