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Projects of the Columbia Oral History M.A. Program

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Desire On The Line:Oral Histories of Absence and Return

February 6, 2026February 18, 2026 ohma

Desire On The Line: Oral Histories of Absence and Return is a multimodal thesis on how people sustain attachment when bodies cannot be together. It centers on Humsafar, a listening […]

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Heirlooming: Rethinking Memory and Relationality through Embodiment and Collapsed Time 

February 6, 2026February 19, 2026 ohma

In this thesis, Hilary Seeley presents an intervention into the standard scholarly practice of oral history and an invitation to holistic memory work. Confronting the limitations and losses of the […]

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Will You Remember? What I Choose to Forget?

February 6, 2026March 12, 2026 ohma

Will You Remember What I Choose to Forget? is a 150-minute oral history documentary film created with my own family across two domestic spaces in Shimla, North India: the old […]

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Hogar de la Distancia: Memory Transmission Containers (2017)

September 25, 2018September 25, 2018 ohma

Hogar de la Distancia: Memory Transmission Containers By Fernanda Espinosa, 2017 Found on Lucid Press. Through the project Hogar de la distacia (Home of Distance), Fernanda Espinosa interviewed Ecuadorian immigrants in […]

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Chicago/Turabian Student Theses: StudentLastName, FirstName. “ThesisTitle.” Oral History master's thesis, Columbia University, YearofPublication. Student Audio Pieces: StudentLastName, FirstName. “AudioPieceTitle.” Oral History Works. Audio interview excerpt, NarratorFirstNameLastName, DateofPublication. SoundCloudURL. © All rights reserved to author.
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