Seminar Discussion - Module 7 by Karissa Patton https://padlet.com/karissapatton/module7 For Breakout room Discussion notes en-us 2021-09-28 19:22:06 UTC 2021-10-26 18:14:17 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f913.png Seminar Discussion Questions karissapatton https://padlet.com/karissapatton/module7/wish/1775754317 1. What is community collaboration? 
       a. What does reciprocity look like within an oral history project?

2. What are some questions or ideas you had about the readings?

3. How did these readings help you understand oral history as a practice? 
       a. Did it change how you thought about oral history practice?

4. How would you use these readings to help you with your own papers/research?

OTHER GUIDING Qs (just here for the notes):

1. Wheeler discusses the loss of community memories and knowledge thanks to centuries of colonialism. What does she say about creativity and community solutions in response to collective memory loss?
       a. Wheeler probes the paradox of recording oral traditions in written formats. Describe this paradox and describe the methods Wheeler suggests to use literary strategies to share oral stories in a ethical and deliberate way.

2. Zembryzcki states that ‘“shared authority’ is a neat term that captures the essence and highest ideal of the oral history enterprise.”  How does her work show how sharing authority is messier in practice than in theory?
a. What lessons can you gain from Zembryzcki’s community collaboration approach?

3. Describe the approach Brown and Peers take to ensure community collaboration. 
       a. What are some examples Brown and Peers give to show how they negotiated community collaborative approach within an academic system (ie. grant applications)?
]]> 2021-09-28 19:24:34 UTC https://padlet.com/karissapatton/module7/wish/1775754317 Simran https://padlet.com/karissapatton/module7/wish/1845669084 1. working with the community and being able to gain knowledge and provide something meaningful back to the community. 
a) you can either provide labor back to the community or a gift to the person you interviewed as long as it provides something back to the community. 
2. how do you recognize interview fatigue and how do you overcome that while you are doing your interview.
3. the articles provide multiple perspectives to the preconceptions that i had about oral history. the readings helped bring oral history into a academic field. 
a. the readings definitely changed the way I perceived oral history and made it a lot more academic
4. I think that the readings helped root the researcher within an oral history interview. It also helped to bring more perspectives to when you are going through your interview and trying to build your paper helping to bring more substance to the research that you did and other ways that you can gain more knowledge from your research.

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1) Community Collaboration: working with the community to complete the task and making sure that the narrators community is involved throughout the whole project.

1a) Reciprocity: sharing of resources (photographs), ensuring that you properly thank them, gifts, helping with other research they might want, etc.

2) Questions/ideas about the readings: Ali: according to baba was useful for me since I am interviewing a family friend. thinking on the line between personal/professional.
Ellie: what to do about knowledge gaps and how to manage that. Also power dynamics, reflecting on equality and creating relationships in a respectful way, how to ask the community to help in a proper way.
Megan: humiliated memory and trauma, how far can you go before someone is uncomfortable or feeling distressed.

3) Oral history as a practice: made us think of the complexity and layers of the whole process of doing a project, recognizing reciprocity is important

3a) Not really, just made us more aware of how intense the practice is and how many things there are to consider.

4) How these readings will help our research: even more aware of reciprocity and engaging properly with the narrators, and the importance of ethics and making sure you are respectful and aware of your narrators comfort levels.



]]> 2021-10-26 17:32:40 UTC https://padlet.com/karissapatton/module7/wish/1845804523 Group 2- Carol, Alyssa, Robin, Marissa, Alexe https://padlet.com/karissapatton/module7/wish/1845809763 1) What is community collaboration? 
- building relationships and being involved with the community you are serving
-Being a true servant of the community, working with members in aligning service with their needs. Also, it includes making sure research and services not only benefit the community but are made easily available or accessible to the members. 
            a. What does reciprocity look like within an oral history project? 
- service work: labour of all kinds- gardening, cleaning, baking, food preservation, genealogy, helping in the background at community events, helping to repatriate materials to the community if they were taken away, making printed copies of previously published research on the community that they could include in their private or community collection, etc.
- small gifts that have significance: (for Indigenous community) tobacco, sweetgrass braid, sage, cedar, homemade gifts; (for all communities) jam, handmade crafts, art, handmade poetry or prose, family tree/ family history information 
- skills: grant application on their behalf, document preservation, teaching workshops on accessing published research, Chicago-style citations or referencing, offering to help do some research for their own personal project, using computer or documentation skills to advertise and/or community events
- fun: organizing simple local activities that relate to the oral history project and which have relevance to the community (like watching a locally relevant movie that is of high interest, or organizing an article-reading/book club)
-I wrote a letter to a couple of reviewers at national newspapers, inviting them to read the book of the person I interviewed, explaining the historical and cultural importance/relevance for their readership.
2. Questions: Are there strategies for navigating skillset gaps between generations? For example, older people may feel more comfortable using a phone than a computer, while Millennials may feel more comfortable using texting and email to communicate rather than chatting over the phone.
]]> 2021-10-26 17:34:29 UTC https://padlet.com/karissapatton/module7/wish/1845809763 Breakout Room #1 - Hayley, Caylee, Devon, Kale https://padlet.com/karissapatton/module7/wish/1845816042 - Shared authority can me messy and challenging to achieve, especially when you have a connection to someone involved in your research. 
- While we were left somewhat uncertain the best approach to addressing the issue of gaps in community memory, we all agreed that the solution needs to be looked for within the community. 
- Community collaboration and reciprocity seem to be very similar elements of the oral history process. 

2. Reciprocity:
- The sharing of knowledge gained through your research with the community and allowing them to use it for their own needs, and desires as a community.]]> 2021-10-26 17:36:35 UTC https://padlet.com/karissapatton/module7/wish/1845816042 Tasha and Aleah nrandelltremblett1 https://padlet.com/karissapatton/module7/wish/1845830767 1 - constant communication, respect, looks different depending on the group of people. working together, 
1a - very similar, can be in many forms, not just monetary but also acts, listen to what those your working with saying and follow their lead. 
2 - as grads we found that some of the readings are repetitive, some articles could be less in length because they say the same thing as others, we understand the importance of this for undergrads to learn these things but we find we are not left with as many questions at the end of the week's readings. the lessons of community engagement and oral history are very valuable and important for research which we find important but they answer themselves. 
3 - the importance of shared authority and reciprocity, the continued learning process is ongoing. - Ukrainian babas. 
3, a - not really because we already touched on how it is an ongoing relationship that is reciprocal non-authoritative in practice. 
4 - reaffirming the shared authority, reciprocal relationship with our narrators, never wanting to seem like a power/figurehead using them for personal/academic gain. they are a good guideline of practices and understanding that showcase how to go about oral history and community collaboration as we go about our research. 

]]> 2021-10-26 17:41:45 UTC https://padlet.com/karissapatton/module7/wish/1845830767 Gaberielle & Kamila https://padlet.com/karissapatton/module7/wish/1845836256 1. Community collaboration is when people work within the society to merge ideas to answer the question. It's bringing people together in an atmopshere to create a support system where people can systematially solve emerging problems.
   a. The appreciation given back. Examples being gifts, returing aid for thier work, service work.
2. Questons/Ideas
Gaberielle: Knowing/Understanding the boundries of questions we may pose in order to keep our interviewee comfortable.


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