Diaries in Times of Crisis

August 6, 2020, 11am-12:30pm, Online Via Zoom | We write during crisis and disasters for many reasons. To occupy our minds, to cope with our feelings. And, I would suggest, to record what it is like to live through such an experience. As a social historian, I have done a lot of oral history, or remembered history. Interviewing people about their lives, about specific events or places. And writing about that, always with the sense of urgency – a need to capture the lived experience before those voices are gone.

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