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Oral History and Community Memory: Class Discussion Topics

• What is Oral History?
• Oral History Projects and Collections
• What is Ethnography?
• Ethnography Projects and Collections
• Arkansas Traveler’s Project (contact: Alli Hogue)
• Ethics & Sponsored Projects Office
• Release Forms/Ownership
• Photography
• Videography
• Video Editing Software
• Care of Ethnography Lab & Equipment
• Paying for OH: Grants and Proposals for Clinton project/Arkansas Heritage Council/SURF
• Knowledge Database: FranaWiki
• Creating/Editing Wikis/Standards that Apply
• Transcription/Processing Transcripts/Footnoting/Archiving
• Sources/Background Research
• Interviewer’s Field Notes
• Life History Forms
• Public Relations/Correspondence/Professionalism
• Compiling Interview Topics & Questions
• Practice Interviewing on Each Other
• Personal Project
• Clinton Library & Downtown Little Rock Project
• Practice Interviewing on Doctor/Final Exam
• Oral History Documentaries/Musicals/Websites/Radio/Interpretive Skits
• UCA Folklore Collection (contact: Jimmy Bryant)
• Oral History in Scholarly Work
• Visiting the Library & Heifer HQ/Doe’s Eat Place
• Interviewing Style/Silence/Location/Active Listening
• Gathering Artifacts/Manuscript Material from Interviewee
• Criticisms of Oral History/Memory/Intersubjectivity/Presentism/Usable Pasts/Mythmaking
• Interviewing Elites/Ordinary People
• Improving your methods/Reflecting on Interviews Conducted/Retrospective essay
• Types of Interviewing Products: Transcripts, Audio, Video
• Impact of Oral History on the Community
• Curriculum Development
• Assignment Read and Critique a Past Oral History: Clinton Project, Rick Scott, Women’s Abuse, HCOL history
• Clinton Library Visit by Skip Rutherford or Jose Guzzardi or Amanda Harris?
• Downtown Revitalization
• New Urbanism, Gentrification (contact: Patrick Taylor)