Our Inheritance: An Interactive Oral History Experience
Oral history weaves connections between generations, between places, between people. In this year's curating projects, students explore the place of oral history in diasporas, families, social movements, kitchens, gardens, and nations. We invite you to ponder these questions with us: What does it mean to accept this inheritance? What is the work of remembering, of listening, of amplifying? How do we listen to the material objects that carry oral histories, from clothes to dolls to plants to landscapes?
- A language-learning party in Queens
- A walking tour to eat and chat with Sunset Park food vendors
- A virtual reality experience about visually impaired filmmakers
- A dinner party to which you may or may not be invited
- A Dominican-style sala filled with stories of women’s resistance
- An intimate conversation about adoption
- A collaging party to play with archives of Asian American student activism
- A radio show about Lao music and stories
- A listening party with first-generation and/or low-income Stanford alumni
- A virtual exhibit of Covid art
- An encounter with Mexico’s Indigenous art and culture
- A conversational introduction to Lu Chinese cuisine
- A recreation of road-trip storytelling
- A workshop on family history