Upcoming Events
Aural Notes from the Margins: Community Solidarities, Radical Memory Work, and Other Ways of Knowing
Virtual
In this virtual conversation, participants from the Beyond Best Practices (BBP) working group, including VOW’s Dao Tran and Ela Banerjee, will discuss their radical memory work, community-centered oral history, and imaginative archival work from this past year. A group of BIPOC memory workers (featuring oral historians, interdisciplinary scholars, educators, archivists, writers, editors, and DJs), BBP participants will discuss the systemic challenges they face as they pursue their memory work within institutional contexts.
Storytelling for Social Change Webinar
Virtual
In this free webinar, VOW will provide an introduction to our storytelling methodology and the use of oral history to document and amplify powerful first-person testimonies. We will explore the power of personal narrative as a format and discuss key elements of the oral history process, including best practices in ethical interviewing and project creation. The webinar will also feature guest speaker Katrina M. Powell, editor of the upcoming book Beginning Again: Stories of Movement and Migration in Appalachia.
This event is for anyone interested in using first-person narratives to build community and advance justice.
Global Stories from the Automated Welfare State
The Firehouse in Cole Valley, 259 Frederick Street, San Francisco, CA
Voice of Witness invites you to a behind-the-scenes look at the at the upcoming oral history collection, Global Stories from the Automated Welfare State. Join project co-editor Virginia Eubanks in conversation with author Dave Eggers to examine how the shift towards an automated welfare state has become a growing human rights crisis, and the importance of sharing stories from those most directly affected.
Digital tools increasingly mediate access to basic human needs such as housing, food, physical safety, medical care, financial capital, employment, and family integrity. Global Stories from the Automated Welfare State uncovers the largely untold human stories behind the worldwide shift to algorithmic public assistance. The first-person narratives in this book illustrate how threats to fair decision-making processes, equitable outcomes, and even material survival are already occurring all over the world, particularly in poor and working-class communities.
