Oral history: a web of relationship | Alessandro Portelli | TEDxNTUA

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History, the study of memory, is usually seen as an objective description of the past. But, according to oral historians, changing the way we examine our memories - individual and collective alike - adds nuance to the history we know.
To Portelli, the slips, associations, and downright mistakes of witness and ethnographic accounts tell us more about the meaning of an event than simply what happened. In our “age of memory”, Portelli makes sense of its living sources as no other historian has done, highlighting the intimate link between oral histories and collective memories. Because in oral history, people are sources and sources are people. Alessandro Portelli, an Italian scholar, is renowned for his work in American literature, culture, oral history, and musicology. He founded Circolo Gianni Bosio, dedicated to studying and promoting people's cultures, folk music, and oral history. As a professor of Anglo-American literature at the University of Rome La Sapienza, he is best known in the U.S. for his comparative oral history work on industrial conflicts in Harlan County, Kentucky, and Terni, Italy.
Portelli held positions at various global universities, including Columbia, Princeton, Manchester, Aberdeen, and the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. Notably, he served as Rome's Mayor's advisor on historical memory from 2004 to 2008 and was a member of Rome's city council for 2005-2006. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx

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