Selected Past Events
May 5, 2004 – “Migrant Pathways of Simultaneous Incorporation”
Nina Glick Schiller, Professor of Anthropology & Thad Guldbrandsen, Research Assistant Professor, Anthropology present highlights from their research in Manchester, NH and how it relates to Seacoast migration past and present.
June 16, 2004 – “Women’s Voices, Women’s Choices: New Hampshire Women’s Oral History Project ”
Mary Moynihan, Research Asst. Professor of Women’s Studies, UNH & Sylvia Foster, Educational Program Coord. President’s Comm., UNH discuss methods and conceptual underpinnings of their research in women’s oral history.
July 12, 2004 – “Chinese Immigration in Maine: 19th and 20th Centuries”
Gary W. Libby, Attorney/Portland, ME, presents legal, oral and historical research on Chinese immigration in Maine during the 19th & 20th centuries.
July 22, 2004 – “How Strange it Seems: Finding Texts in All the Ordinary Places”
Michael Hoberman, Asst. Professor of English, Fitchburg State College presents research on Jewish cultural life in rural New England and methods used in oral history collection.
July 26, 2004 – “Ethnomusicology and Oral History from Cape Breton”
Burt Feintuch, Director Center for the Humanities/ Prof. of Eng. Professor Feintuch will discuss his research pertaining to the musical tradition and oral history of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.
September 15, 2004 – “ Black Portsmouth: Three Centuries of African-American Heritage”
Sept. Valerie Cunningham, Pres. Black Heritage Trail - Portsmouth, NH, Mark Sammons, Exec. Dir. Wentworth-Coolidge Mansion Co-authors of the book “Black Portsmouth” discuss their findings and shed light on the seacoast’s unheralded past. Oral history research that helped to inform the book will be emphasized.
September 23 & 24, 2005 – Second Annual Community Conference “Newcomers, Neighbors, and Networks: A community Conference on Immigration and Language in New England,” hosted by Center for the Study of Community and Center for New England Culture (UNH). To be held at Strawbery Banke Museum and the Community Campus, Portsmouth, NH.
October 3, 2005 – Catherine Lutz, Author of Homefront: A Military City and the American 20th Century, to speak. MUB Theatre, University of New Hampshire.
October 17, 2005– Book signing and reception with the editors (Burt Feintuch and David H. Watters) of The Encyclopedia of New England: The Culture and History of an American Region (foreword by Donald Hall), at Strawbery Banke Museum’s Tyco Visitor’s Center.
October 26, 2005 – Thad Guldbrandsen & Martha Pinello will speak at Old York Historical Society (www.oyhs.org) at noon.