Friday, Aug. 30
3:00pm-5:00pm PST

This workshop will approach the practice of oral history through a de-colonial, anti-capitalist, and reparative lens. Rather than treating oral history as a research method that produces intellectual property, we will ask: what might it mean to listen, sit with, and ethically steward memories in a time of ongoing war and genocide? What does it mean to share and hold stories and silences with care and intentionality, especially when memory workers in war zones—librarians, writers, artists, seed keepers, and other knowledge-bearers—are strategically murdered by the settler state? What does it look, sound, and feel like to enact “local” forms of oral history from where we are? Readings will include work by Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Yusef Omowale, and Winona Wheeler, and participants will be encouraged to draw on technologies that are readily available and accessible to them.

Crystal Mun-hye Baik (she/her) is a guest living on unceded Tongva land (greater Los Angeles area). She is a feminist memory worker and Associate Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies at UC Riverside. Her publications include Reencounters: On the Korean War & Diasporic Memory Critique (Temple University Press, 2020). Beginning in Fall 2024, she will co-lead a UC-wide Multicampus Research Group that brings together faculty, librarians, seed keepers, artists, and others to uplift how memory keepers are ethically gathering and preserving their cultural histories during times of war, genocide, and catastrophic upheaval.

To register for “Listening Against Genocide,” donate to Dana (suggested donation $60 USD, please donate more if you can!) then fill out the registration form.