Voices of Migration: An Oral History Collaborative

Our first VIRTUAL Ramsey Library Brown Bag Talk. Featuring Michelle Bettencourt - Department of Languages and Literatures. This presentation describes three distinct courses that experiment with integrating oral history as both text and product. Each course varies in its student body and mode of instruction (online, hybrid, and in person) but all share the use of oral history and digital tools and archives to explore the migrant experience. The presentation includes a brief overview of the courses' aims and methods and examines examples from the student project websites, unearthing what the collected oral histories reveal about our changing communities and interrogating how the digital collective may serve to build community within and beyond the college classroom.