Doing Oral History as Critical Historiography (Dr. Rommel Curaming)

Iniimbitahan ang lahat na matunghayan ang lektura ni Dr. Rommel Curaming na pinamagatang "Doing Oral History as Critical Historiography". Ito ay gaganapin sa ika -6 ng Nobyembre, 2025 mula 2:30 n.h. hanggang 4:00 n.h. sa PH 116-118, Bulwagang Palma. Ang talastasan ay bahagi ng pagdiriwang ng ika-115 anibersaryo ng pagkakatatag ng UP Departamento ng Kasaysayan.

ABSTRAK: Often looked down as, at best, written history's poor cousin, oral history struggles to shake off its sense of insecurity, even up to now when more historians have acknowledged the value of oral history. What if we overturn the situation and use oral history—its historical development, procedures and assumptions—as a mirror through which the nature of written history may be better understood? Sharing my approach to teaching a course on oral history, I shall show that one of the best ways for history students to critically engage and deeply understand the capabilities and limitations of written history and historical methodology, is by doing oral history, step-by-step, from understanding the nature of oral sources, conceptualization, selection of informants, interviewing, transcription, interpretation and writing narrative, and reflect on assumption of historical methods. The whole process results not only in a profound understanding of the nature of historical knowledge and methodology, but also in appreciation of oral history as a distinct and complementary, certainly not inferior, approach to the historical reconstruction.

Tagapagsalita: Rommel A. Curaming is a Senior Assistant Professor at the History and International Studies Programme and former Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) at the Universiti Brunei Darussalam (UBD). He obtained a PhD in at the Australian National University (ANU) and was a Postdoctoral Fellow at La Trobe University and the National University of Singapore (NUS). The empirical and thematic areas of his research focus on the analysis of the politics of the (supposedly) non-political, particularly historical knowledge production, consumption and distribution in Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines. He published in journals such as Critical Asian Studies, South East Asia Research, Time and Society, Sojourn, Philippine Studies, among others. His book Power and Knowledge in Southeast Asia: State and Scholars in Indonesia and the Philippines was published by Routledge (2020)

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