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5th Annual John W. Chambers II Oral History Graduate Fellowship Lecture
CANCELLED Event will be postponed until a later date.
Friday, April 14, 2023, 12 PM EST
Hybrid Event
The 2022-2023 Chambers Fellows are Laura De Moya-Guerra and Yulia Cherniavskaia.
Laura De Moya-Guerra "Chinese in Colombia: One Community, Divergent Voices"
De Moya-Guerra is a doctoral student in the Department of History specializing in the history of migration, diasporas and mobility in Colombia in the 20th century. Her talk, "Chinese in Colombia: One Community, Divergent Voices," examines how different generations of Chinese immigrants and their descendants experience and relate to and within the diaspora. Through oral history, her scholarship focuses on the voices and perspectives of these historical subjects, which are often not represented in traditional written sources. In this way, it is possible to account for the dynamics of the community and how gender and class impact relationships within the diasporic community. The interviews she conducted also illustrate the diversity found in Colombia's Chinese community.
Yulia Cherniavskaia "Knowledge is Happiness": Popularizing Science in the USSR and the Late-Soviet Ideal of a Well-Rounded Person
Cherniavskaia is a doctoral student in the Department of History specializing in modern European, women's and gender and global and comparative history. Her dissertation explores the popularization of science and humanistic knowledge in the postwar USSR. It focuses on the Soviet Society for the Dissemination of Knowledge (Znanie), a mass-education institution that propagated new knowledge to Soviet citizens through public lectures and popular science brochures. Her project examines how Soviet ideologists and Znanie activists conceived of popularly-available science as means to mold all Soviet citizens into modern, educated subjects--seen as a key prerequisite for a future communist society. She uses oral history to explore how Soviet actors, who popularized and disseminated new knowledge, make sense of Soviet ideals of personhood, knowledge and humanism today. What often motivated Znanie activists was a belief in the liberating and progressive nature of science and its ability to transform people and societies. Tracing the impact of these activities, her work situates popular education as central to Soviet subjectivity and its lived experience after the Second World War.
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Rutgers School of Arts and Sciences Building, 1 Spring Street, 4th Floor, New Brunswick, NJ
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The Chambers Fellowship Lecture is co-sponsored by the Rutgers Oral History Archives, Rutgers Living History Society, Department of History, and Office of the Executive Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences.
Rutgers Living History Society Annual Meeting has been cancelled
October 21, 2022
College Avenue Student Center
College Avenue Campus
126 College Avenue
Brunch begins at 9:00 AM
Program begins at 10:00 AM
Admission is $25 per person
Svetlana Alexievich, 2022 Stephen E. Ambrose Oral History Award Recipient
Alexievich is a Nobel Prize-winning journalist, oral historian and author. Her works include The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II; Last Witnesses: An Oral History of the Children of World War II; Boys in Zinc: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War; Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster; and Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets. Born in Ukraine and raised in Belarus, she writes in Russian. Her books have been translated into fifty-two languages and published in fifty-five nations. She won the 2015 Nobel Prize for Literature "for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time," becoming the first winner for works based entirely on interviews. As she is unable to attend the event in person, Alexievich will instead deliver her acceptance speech via video.
Previous recipients of the Stephen E. Ambrose Oral History Award include Tom Brokaw, Steven Spielberg, Studs Terkel, Rick Atkinson, Ken Burns, David Isay, Elizabeth and Michael Norman, Isabel Wilkerson, Michael Beschloss, Peter Bergen, Jaqueline Dowd Hall, Ric Burns, John Whiteclay Chambers II, James Bradley, Deborah Gray White and Doug Stanton.
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80th Anniversary Commemoration of Pearl Harbor Day
December 7, 2021, 10:30 AM
Class of 1942 World War II Memorial Plaza, Voorhees Mall, College Avenue Campus
Refreshments 11 AM, Van Dyck Hall 211
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Special Online Exhibit
In commemoration of the 80th anniversary of Pearl Harbor Day, the Rutgers Oral History Archives presents Voices of Veterans, an online exhibit showcasing passages from oral history interviews of men and women, many of them Rutgers alumni, who served in World War II and in conflicts in Korea, Vietnam, the Persian Gulf, Iraq and Afghanistan.
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John Whiteclay Chambers II Oral History Graduate Fellowship Lecture
"Fighting Back: How Anti-Rape Activists Fostered Feminism on Campus"
Presented by Anna Richey, Doctoral Fellow, Department of History
Wednesday, April 13 7 PM
Zoom Webinar
The 2021-'22 Chambers Fellow is Anna Richey, a doctoral fellow in the Department of History. Her lecture, entitled “Fighting Back: How Anti-Rape Activists Fostered Feminism on Campus,” will examine students in both the Women’s Liberation and Civil Rights Movements and their work to stop rape within their communities.
Oral histories play a central role in Richey's research by centering the voices of survivors and activists, as they redefined public discourse on gendered violence. These interviews illuminate the powerful history of student-led grassroots organizing, the implementation of Title IX within higher education, and the growth of the supposedly “safe space” of the modern college campus.
The Chambers Fellowship Lecture is co-sponsored by the Rutgers Oral History Archives, Rutgers Living History Society, Department of History, and Office of the Executive Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences.
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For more information about the Chambers Fellowship, click here.
