The Center for Oral History Research/INCITE (Interdisciplinary Center for Innovative Theory and Empirics) is pleased to announce its 2014 Oral History Institute, “Second Generation Memories and Stories,” to be held June 16-27, 2014 at Columbia University in New York City. The program will explore the ways in which memories are formed and transmitted through family, cultural, political and social frames and experiences. Oral history has been a central methodology in exploring global themes of identity and post-memory through second-generation stories of immigration, migration, poverty, trauma and genocide, displacement and exile. Oral history also provides a setting for intimate exchanges between families, communities and cultures in a way that preserves and secures local and indigenous knowledge across generations, cultures and ethnicities.

Tuition for the Institute is $2,200. There may be additional fees for field trips. You may arrange your own housing or take advantage of low-cost on-campus housing for approximately $75-85/night. Limited fellowships are available.