Workshops:
In 2017 the University of Texas at Tyler, Center for Social Science Research, in conjunction with the Maya Research Program, will supported a series of three, one-day workshops to train community members and academic researchers in the Voices from Small Places approach to documenting small communities. Voices from Small Places focuses on the documentation of places with populations of less than 100 and uses a unique approach combining four distinct methods to identify, document, and preserve the history of small communities. The history of these places is then made available not only to the communities themselves, but to researchers and the public, thus keeping these communities alive for future generations and contributing to the larger understanding of our own heritage. Each workshop explains how participants can use the Voices from Small Places approach to create new community histories and make them available to the public.
The morning session for each workshop presented an overview of the Voices from Small Places project, followed by a discussion of the methods used, including oral history, photovoice, historic resource surveys, and archival digitization, and how these methods come together to create unique community histories.
The afternoon session focused on the required equipment, best practices, project organization, and community relations needed to successfully participate in the Voices from Small Places project.
This program was made possible in part by a grant from Humanities Texas, the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Additional funding was provided by the East Texas Historical Association.
In 2017 the University of Texas at Tyler, Center for Social Science Research, in conjunction with the Maya Research Program, will supported a series of three, one-day workshops to train community members and academic researchers in the Voices from Small Places approach to documenting small communities. Voices from Small Places focuses on the documentation of places with populations of less than 100 and uses a unique approach combining four distinct methods to identify, document, and preserve the history of small communities. The history of these places is then made available not only to the communities themselves, but to researchers and the public, thus keeping these communities alive for future generations and contributing to the larger understanding of our own heritage. Each workshop explains how participants can use the Voices from Small Places approach to create new community histories and make them available to the public.
The morning session for each workshop presented an overview of the Voices from Small Places project, followed by a discussion of the methods used, including oral history, photovoice, historic resource surveys, and archival digitization, and how these methods come together to create unique community histories.
The afternoon session focused on the required equipment, best practices, project organization, and community relations needed to successfully participate in the Voices from Small Places project.
This program was made possible in part by a grant from Humanities Texas, the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Additional funding was provided by the East Texas Historical Association.