Browse Exhibits (24 total)
SCARC Oral History Online
This website contains a hyperlinked alphabetical listing of all the narrators whose oral history interviews have been contextualized and made available online by the Oregon State University Libraries Special Collections and Archives Research Center (SCARC). More than 1,200 hours of content has been released by the SCARC Oral History Program since 2011 and new interviews are being added frequently.
As nearly all of the interviews that are itemized within SCARC Oral History Online are hosted on resources that are external to this website, it is recommended that users explore links using new browser tabs.
Women's Words, Women's Work: Spaces of Community, Change, Tradition, Resistance at Oregon State University
This website is a companion to a physical exhibit of the same name mounted in the Special Collections and Archives Research Center (SCARC) from June to December 2018. It explores the social and cultural expectations that have framed women's experiences on the Oregon State campus over 150 years and makes extensive use of SCARC's manuscript, photograph and oral history collections.
Voices of Oregon Burlesque
Since the early 2000s, American Burlesque has experienced a revival as a means of personal expression and growth, often giving a voice to traditionally overlooked LGBTQ+ populations and multi-cultural communities. This new genre of performance art combines elements of traditional Burlesque with contemporary values of feminism and queer theory, challenging the status quo of hetero-normative social standards. Growing from a fringe entertainment into a mainstream performance art form and economic force, Burlesque encompasses a wide variety of contemporary interpretations.
With multi-cultural inclusivity as its guiding principle, people of all ages, sizes, gender identities, backgrounds, and physical abilities are participating in and reinventing Burlesque for the new millennium. This collection of oral histories from producers, creators, and performers documents the resurgence of Burlesque as a multi-cultural social movement across the state of Oregon.
Voices of the Forests, Voices of the Mills
Oregon's remarkable landscape touches oceans, crosses mountains and spans vast deserts. But no aspect of the natural environment is more synonymous with Oregon than its forests, which cover nearly half of the state. Since the beginning, Oregon's forest lands have served as home, workplace, laboratory and sanctuary to its inhabitants, and have played a central role in forging the region's culture and its character. This website - which will grow over time - seeks to document the points of view that have emerged from timber country by providing access to the voices of those who are deeply connected to it.