Tuesday, May 25, 2021

Conversations about Sharing Oral History Projects

A Roundtable with:

Dr. Carly Adams (University of Lethbridge)

Dr. Adams received a B.H.K from the University of Windsor (2001) and a Ph.D. from The University of Western Ontario (2007). Dr. Adams' research interests include historical and sociological inquiry of sport, recreation and leisure. She is currently working on two research projects: The Nikkei Memory Capture Project is a trans-national oral history collaboration (with Dr. Darren Aoki at Plymouth University, UK) exploring the stories of Japanese Canadians in southern Alberta after the Second World War. Her SSHRC (Sport Participation Research Initiative) funded project, in collaboration with Dr. Hart Cantelon, explores issues of community revitalization and rural survival in Southern Alberta through a case study of the Warner Hockey School in Warner, Alberta. Dr. Adams is currently the Editor of Sport History Review.

Dr. Jenna Bailey (Bailey & Soda Films, Centre for Oral History & Tradition at the University of Lethbridge)

Jenna is an award-winning oral historian, writer, and documentary filmmaker. She is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of Lethbridge, and a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Oral History and Tradition (COHT) at the University of Lethbridge. Jenna has worked on numerous community oral history projects including the multi-award-winning Shiloh Centre for Multicultural Roots Project and the Coyote Flats Pioneer Village project, both of which won the Governor General's History Award for Excellence in Community Programming (2015, 2018). Jenna is also the author of the best-selling book Can Any Mother Help Me? (Faber).

Dr. Carol Williams (University of Lethbridge)

Carol is Director of the Centre for Oral History and Tradition (2015-2021) and a Professor of Women and Gender Studies and History at the University of Lethbridge situated on Treaty 7 Territory. Her scholarship traverses three themes: reproductive justice and politics; women and gender history; and the cultural histories of photography. Publications include the edited collection, Indigenous Women: From Labor to Activism (IUP 2012); Framing the West: Race, Gender, and the Photographic ‘Frontier’ (OUP 2003); “Reproductive self-determination and the persistence of “family values” in Alberta from the 1960s to the 1990s” in Compelled to Act, eds. Carter and Langford (UMP 2020) and “Residential School Photographs: The Visual Rhetoric of Indigenous Removal and Containment” in Out of Bounds: Photography and Migration, ed. Sheehan (RutgersUP2018). Most recently, Carol co-organized, with Hali Heavy Shield and Kalli Eagle Speaker, an exhibit of beadwork at the Galt Museum and Archives titled [in Blackfoot] Iiksisawaato’p Kainaiwa O’tookátákssin: Maana’pii ki niita’piitsitapii saatstakssin/ [English] “We visit with Kainaiwa Beadwork: a new way and the real way of designs,” (Feb-June 2021). Her essay, “Reading a Regional Colonial Photographic Archive: Residential Schools in Southern Alberta,” is forthcoming in Adjusting the Len: Indigenous Activism, Colonial Legacies, and Photographic Heritage edited by Norwegian scholars. Sigrid Lien and Hilde Wallem Nielsen (UBC Winter 2021).