1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Oral History Symposium
Join us for our three-day Oral History Symposium on November 15, 16, and 18 at Ventura College in room ASC 150.
Wednesday November 15
- Student Presentations at 1 p.m.
- Donna Granata and Hiroko Yoshimoto, Artist-Teacher, discussion at 2 p.m.
Thursday, November 16
Student Presentations 1 p.m.
- Faculty Moderators: Dr. Michael Ward and Professor Colleen Coffey
Afternoon Guest Speakers and Presentations | 2 p.m
- Scott Corbett---"Memory, Imagination, and History," Japanese and Asian American experiences in Ventura County during the Interwar years
- John McNally and Howard Bufford----Ventura's Veteran of the battle of Bastogne
- Kat Lisowska---"The 1969 Flood and the Destruction of the Ventura Marina"
- Lauren Coyne--"Ventura County and the 1969 Flood Revisited."
Reception 5 p.m.
Evening Panel 6 p.m. - 8 p.m.
- Presentations and Discussions: "The History of Ventura, Its Culture, Politics, and Development"
- Moderator: Dr. Michael Ward and Professor Colleeen Coffey
- Introductions by Michael Ward
- Panelists: Betsy Blanchard Chess - "Daughter of the Land", Al Guillen- "Limoneria", Gwen Alferes- "The History of Foster Park", Susie Arellanes-Willeford- Cabrillo Village: A History of El Campo" focusing on the lives of Ventura County's Immigrant Agricultural Workers in the Twentieth Century.
Saturday November 18 | 9 a.m. - Noon
- Student Presentations
- Guest Speaker Glenda Jackson - "Over a Century of Memories: Photographs, Memorabilia, and Ephemera of Ventura County," Author, Historian, & Ephermemra Collection on display
- Guest Speaker Kat Lisowska - "Russia in Ventura County: Holy Trinity---El Rio's Hidden Gem"
