Oral History Off the Record

Hosts Cassandra Marsillo and Hana Sherafati Zanganeh interview Katrina Srigley and Elder John Sawyer, two teachers at Nipissing University who bravely pushed away western/colonial barriers in order to build safer spaces and make way for knowledge sharing in the classroom. In this episode, Katrina and Elder John walk us through the difficulties they faced over the past decade to build classrooms that help students find belonging and value in their experiences. In their own words, their classroom is a “re-enactment of reconciliation.”

For resources pertaining to this episode, please visit this document.

Music by Tvari (“Tokyo Cafe”). Editing by Cassandra Marsillo and Hana Sherafati Zanganeh. Special thanks to Lou Raskin and the SpokenWeb Project. This podcast is made possible thanks to the Social Science and Humanities Research Council and Concordia University.

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Hosts Cassandra Marsillo and Hana Sherafati Zanganeh interview Anna Sheftel and Stacey Zembrzycki, who started the Kitchen Table Collective (KTC) in 2023. KTC is an online network that meets virtually eight times a year to discuss members’ work, developments in the field of oral history, and how we are collectively navigating the politics of our institutions, communities, and everyday lives. It was created, in part, to celebrate a decade of Sheftel and Zembrzycki’s book Oral History Off the Record, which this podcast is named for! Members of KTC include scholars, artists, activists, and independent practitioners, all of whom are leaders in the work they are doing around the world.

Episode resources:

• The Oral History Association (OHA)
• Oral History Off the Record: Toward an Ethnography of Practice
• Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling (COHDS)
• Yow, Valerie. “‘Do I like Them Too Much?’: Effects of the Oral History Interview on the Interviewer and Vice-Versa.” The Oral History Review 24, no. 1 (1997): 55–79. http://www.jstor.org/stable/3675397.
• COHDS oral history resources

On shared/sharing authority:

• Shopes, Linda. “Commentary: Sharing Authority.” The Oral History Review 30, no. 1 (2003): 103–10. http://www.jstor.org.lib-ezproxy.concordia.ca/stable/3675354.
• Zembrzycki, Stacey. According to Baba: A Collaborative Oral History of Sudbury’s Ukrainian Community. UBC Press, 2014.

Music by Tvari (“Tokyo Cafe”). Editing by Cassandra Marsillo and Hana Sherafati Zanganeh. Special thanks to Lou Raskin and the SpokenWeb Project. This podcast is made possible thanks to the Social Science and Humanities Research Council and Concordia University. Hosted on Acast.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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