Lecture:  Dr. Charles Hardy III, Professor of History at West Chester University (Pennsylvania), is a pioneer in oral history and new media. Dr. Hardy has decades of experience producing radio, video, and web-based documentaries. He has been awarded numerous honours,...

Lecture:  On Thursday, June 2, 2016 the Winnipeg Public Library hosted a conversation between the Oral History Centre’s Kent Davies (CKUW 95.9 FM, Stylus) and Writer/Author Sheldon Birnie (Winnipeg Free Press, Vice, Noisey, Exclaim!) about Birnie’s most recent work...

Lecture:  The Oral History Centre hosted faculty, students, and the community for an international workshop on oral history from 1–3 October 2015. The interdisciplinary workshop focused on the principles and practices in oral history, from theoretical concerns to...

Presentation:  The Canadian Food History Symposium, a catered affair (generously sponsored by the Provost and Vice President Academic & the Dean of Arts), brought together guests and students to hear five student presentations from Dr. Janis Thiessen’s Canadian...

Lecture:  Royden Loewen is the Chair in Mennonite Studies and Professor of History. In that capacity he is also editor of the Journal of Mennonite Studies and director of the Mennonite History Graduate Fellowship Program. He is also series editor of the “Ethnicity and...

Presentation:  The third annual Student Oral History Conference was held at the University of Winnipeg's Oral History Centre on May 31, 2014, giving students the opportunity to share their oral history research research with the public.  Each presentation was recorded...

Lecture:  On Tuesday, January 14, 2014 the University of Winnipeg History Department, The Riley Fellowship in Canadian History and the University of Winnipeg Oral History Centre presented, The Inmates are Running the Asylum: Stories from MPA.  A documentary about a...

Presentation:  At the Oral History Centre, Room 2B23, Bryce Hall, University of Winnipeg on Saturday, November 30. The second annual Community and Student Oral History Conference provided student and community presenters the opportunity to share their research with...

Presentation:  The Riley Fellowship Lecture Series in partnership with the Department of History at the University of Winnipeg presented the Canadian Food History Symposium on October 26, 2013 at the University of Winnipeg in 2M70 Manitoba Hall. Featuring Dr. Ian...

Lecture:  UWinnipeg’s Sanford Riley Fellow Dr. Susan Hill is a Haudenosaunee citizen (Mohawk Nation/Wolf Clan) and lives at the Grand River Territory (Six Nations). She is an Associate Professor in the departments History and First Nations Studies and director of...

Podcast:  UFCW represents workers in the retail, meat packing, and garment industries. The UFCW Local 832 is a local union of the United Food and Commercial Workers union. It represents workers at a variety of workplaces in Winnipeg and elsewhere in Manitoba, Canada....

Podcast:  The Oral History Centre, CKUW 95.9 FM and the Finding Your Voice literary project have partnered to create the Find Your Voice Podcast. The Finding Your Voice literary project published “The Past is Another Country,” an anthology of stories by New Canadians....

Interview:  The Oral History Centre presents a series of three interviews conducted with leading oral historians Ronald Grele, Alessandro Portelli, and Linda Shopes, renowned for their contributions to the field of oral history.   Rather than a professional and...

Podcast:Punk Rock was once outlawed in Revolutionary Cuba. Seen by some as a foreign and invasive cultural phenomenon. For years, Cuban punk-rockers bought and sold records illegally. Some musicians were repressed and their shows banned. Now attitudes have changed...

Interview:  The “German Honorary Consul Winnipeg 1981-2009 Oral History Project” was initiated in 2009 by Dr. Alexander Freund, Chair in German-Canadian Studies at the University of Winnipeg. It was motivated by the retirement of Gerhard and Deborah Spindler from the...

Podcast:  On January 17th 2006, the Winnipeg Free Press announced that a private holding company had worked out a tentative deal to buy the 25000 square foot complex and the property at Portage Avenue and Landside Street. That complex was the historic downtown...