[Matthew K. Gold (he/him)]

*Thursday, November 1, 2018 | 6:10 – 7:30pm*

Columbia University Oral History Master of the Arts (OHMA) invites you to
our fall 2018 workshop series on Oral History and the Future

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Please see details below and stay tuned for future announcements for the
rest of the workshops in this series.
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*WHEN*: Thursday, November 1, 2018, 6:10 – 7:30 pm

*UPDATED LOCATION*: 606 West 115th Street, Kraft Center room 5A/B, Columbia
University

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Accelerating Change: Oral History, Innovation, and Impact

Oral history is experiencing an explosive phase of growth around the
world. Beyond the interview, digital technologies are creating access
points to archived oral histories that were once unimaginable. Free and
open source technologies such as OHMS can synchronize textual searches of
small and large-scale oral history interviews and collections to the
corresponding moment in the recorded audio or video, which creates
revolutionary possibilities and potential for a single oral history
interview to impact the historical record significantly. Archives that
previously noted hundreds of annual uses of their oral history interviews
are now experiencing several hundred thousand online uses each year. This
dramatic increase in scale has had a notable impact on the usage of extant
oral history interviews and collections, but it also raises questions
pertaining to individual privacy and the ethics of access.

In this workshop, Doug Boyd will focus on the impact of innovative
technologies on the practice and the purpose of oral history. In addition
to focusing on oral history and access, Boyd will reflect on the emergence
of technologies including 360-degree, automatic speech recognition, and the
role of artificial intelligence in the archive, as well as reflect on the
changing role of the oral history archive itself.
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*Doug Boyd Ph.D.* serves as the Director of the Louie B. Nunn Center for
Oral History at the University of Kentucky Libraries

and
is a recent president of the Oral History Association. Boyd manages the Oral
History in the Digital Age

collaborative
initiative publishing current best practices and models for collecting,
curating and disseminating oral histories. Additionally, Boyd leads the
team at the University of Kentucky that envisioned, designed and
implemented the open source and free OHMS system
,
which synchronizes text with audio and video online. Recently, Boyd created
the open source digital transfer tool

Exactly

for
safely transferring born-digital archival material to an archive.

Boyd is the co-editor (with Mary A. Larson) of the book Oral History and
Digital Humanities: Voice, Access, and Engagement
published
by Palgrave MacMillan in 2014, and he is the author of the book Crawfish
Bottom: Recovering a Lost Kentucky Community
which
was published in August 2011 by the University Press of Kentucky. He
authors the blog Digital Omnium: Oral History, Archives, and Digital
Technology

and
is the author of numerous articles pertaining to oral history, archives and
digital technologies.

In addition to writing, Boyd co-hosts and co-produces The Wisdom Project
podcast
co-hosts the Saving Stories

radio
program and podcast on Lexington’s NPR station WUKY and he recently served
as Executive Producer on the documentaries Kentucky Bourbon Tales:
Distilling the Family Business and Quest for the Perfect Bourbon.

Previously, Doug Boyd managed the Digital Program for the University of
Alabama Libraries, served as the Director of the Kentucky Oral History
Commission, and prior to that worked as the Senior Archivist for the oral
history collection at the Kentucky Historical Society. Doug Boyd received
his Ph.D. and M.A. degrees in Folklore from Indiana University and his
B.A. degree in History from Denison University in Granville, Ohio.

*INFORMATION*: For more information, please email Amy Starecheski at
aas39@columbia.edu <%20aas39@columbia.edu>.

This event is part of a yearlong series on Oral History and the Future
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The
event is *FREE *and open to the public. *Refreshments* will be served.
Please RSVP on the Facebook event page.

*Upcoming Events*

Check out our upcoming events below:

– Words Transmitted; Worlds Apart

– Spring Open House

– One-Day Oral History Training Workshops with OHMA

Oral History Master of Arts (OHMA) is an interdisciplinary Master of Arts
degree program in the field of oral history, the first program of its
kind. Our mission is to train the next generation of oral historians to
deploy our deep traditions of ethical, creative, and rigorous oral history
practice to meet the challenges of today’s and tomorrow’s changing worlds.

Through the collection, archiving, and analysis of individual, community,
and institutional histories, we preserve the critical first-person
narratives that capture the spirit of our society for generations to come.

Jointly run by the Columbia Center for Oral History Research

(CCOHR), one of the preeminent oral history centers in the world, and
the Interdisciplinary
Center for Innovative Theory and Empirics

(INCITE), a lively hub for transdisciplinary research in the humanities and
social sciences, OHMA connects students with both the intellectual
resources of a major research university, and the intimate society of a
small cohort of talented students. Columbia University’s oral history
program, founded in 1948, is widely acknowledged as the original home of
academic oral history in the United States.
*FOR MORE INFORMATION*: Please contact Amy Starecheski ,
Director of OHMA, or visit the OHMA site

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