"First, Do No Harm." Tread Carefully Where Oral History, Trauma, and Current Crises Intersect
Tue, Jan 26, 2021 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EST
Jennifer Cramer will consider strategies to undertake current-event crisis oral histories, like COVID-19, advocating for project designs that include robust trauma mitigation efforts. From the perspective of a project managers and a director of a repository, she also discusses what to take into consideration with regard to the sustainability of crisis oral history projects during the current period of increasing change and political unrest. This webinar is based on her article, which recently appeared in the Oral History Review issue dedicated to the implications of interviewing during and about COVID-19.
Biography: Since 2005, as Director of the T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History, Jennifer A. Cramer has overseen all oral history projects for the LSU Libraries and manages an oral history collection of over 6,000 interviews with topics on Louisiana politics, culture, military, the environmental movement, civil rights, women's history, and coastal changes. Responsibilities include collection development, access, preservation, pubic programming, development, and teaching oral history seminars. Cramer served as the Media Review Editor for The Oral History Review from 2010-2018, and as a council member for OHA from 2016-2020, where she has been a member since 2000.
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Tanya Zanish-Belcher
Director of Special Collections and Archives
Wake Forest University
Winston Salem NC
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