April 2, 2024, 3:00-4:30 PM at Crawford 115
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Come join us for a book talk and lecturer on conducting Oral History from an Indigenous perspective.
Dr. Mahuika (Ngāti Porou) is the immediate past president of the National Oral History Association of New Zealand and Associate Professor in History, School of Humanities Media and Creative Communication at Massey University, New Zealand. He is the author of the groundbreaking book, Rethinking Oral History and Tradition: An Indigenous Perspective, which provides a provoking discussion on decolonizing the field of oral history and acknowledges that Indigenous oral accounts are oral history. According to Dr. Amy Starecheski, Director of the Oral History Master of Arts Program at Columbia University described it as, “a book deeply needed by the field of oral history […] that has the potential to destabilize productively and transform how we as oral historians think about our work.”
This event is cosponsored by the Center for Oral History, the Department of Ethnic Studies, the Department of Anthropology, the Center for Pacific Islands Studies, and the Center for Biographical Research.
