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Oral History in Practice: Documenting Refugee Stories

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Join us for a conversation with Diya Abdo about oral history as a tool for documenting refugee experiences and advocating for immigrant justice. Diya founded Every Campus A Refuge (ECAR), which advocates for housing refugee families on college and university campuses and supporting them in their resettlement, and led an oral history project recording newcomer experiences.

In this conversation, we’ll explore topics including:

  • Practices around relationship-building, privacy, and ethics for storytelling projects with immigrants and refugees
  • Ṣawt (“voice” in Arabic), a new oral history project that records and amplifies the voices and experiences of refugees hosted by colleges and universities
  • Creatively adapting oral histories into a variety of formats, including comics, literary narratives, videos, and powerful visuals

May 21, 2025, 2pm–3pm (PDT), virtual 

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