Alessandro Portelli | Oral History Summer Institute

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Alessandro Portelli speaks at the 2023 Oral History Summer Institute @ Columbia.

Knox Hall [Room 509]

As part of the <a href="https://www.ccohr.incite.columbia.edu/oral-history-summer-institute2023" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Oral History Summer Institute</a>, Alessandro Portelli presents "From Red to Black Political change in a Working-Class Town".Alessandro Portelli has taught American Literature at the Universities of Siena and Rome from 1974 to 2012. From 2004 to 2008 he served as Rome’s Mayor’s advisor on historical memory; in 2005-6 he was a member of Rome’s city council. He is the founder and chairman of the Circolo Gianni Bosio, an independent organization for the study and promotion of people’s cultures, folk music and oral history.He has served as visiting professor, research fellow and in other capacities at several universities worldwide, including Manchester, Aberdeen, Columbia, University of Kentucky, Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. In 2013, he was awarded an honorary degree from the University of La Plata. His work published in English includes The Death of Luigi Trastulli and other Stories. Form and Meaning in Oral History (Suny Press, 1991), The Text and the Voice. Writing, Speaking and Democracy in American Literature (Columbia University Press, 1994), The Battle of Valle Giulia. Oral History and the Art of Dialogue (Wisconsin University press, 1997), The Order has Been Carried Out. History, Memory and Meaning of a Nazi Massacre in Rome (Palgrave, 2003, Oral History Association best book award; originally published as L’ordine è già stato eseguito. Roma, le Fosse Ardeatine, la memoria, 1999, Viareggio Book Prize), I Can Almost See the Lights of Home (Journal of MultiMedia History, Oral History Association award for best non-print work in oral history), They Say in Harlan County: an Oral History (Oxford University Press, 2011; Weatherford Appalachian Book prize; It. translation, America profonda, 2012, Onofri Book Prize), Hard Rain: Bob Dylan, oral cultures, and the Meaning of History (Columbia University Press, 2022). His work has been translated in several languages, including Spanish, Catalan, Finnish, Portuguese (two collections of his essays have appeared in Brazil and in Portugal). He has published in many academic journals intellectually and writes regularly for il manifesto daily in Rome, produces radio programs and has edited a number of records based on his field recordings of Italian folk music. His current project is a collection of music and life stories from immigrants to Italy from different parts of the world (We Are Not Going Back. Migrant Music of Resistance, Memory and Pride, 2016).A﻿bout the Oral History Summer InstituteBi-annually, the Columbia Center for Oral History Research sponsors a Summer Institute in New York City, which brings together oral historians, scholars, activists, and others for two weeks of advanced conversation in the theory and practice of oral history. Participants work with the Center’s world-class staff, network with oral historians from around the world and go to exhibits in New York City. Each year we focus on a different theme that reflects our work from throughout the past year. Our 2023 Institute, Oral History and Social Change, invites participants to explore how the stories we tell invite social and political change.F﻿or more information on the Summer Institute, visit <a href="https://www.ccohr.incite.columbia.edu/oral-history-summer-institute2023" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">our website</a>.

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