Research Presentations
Here below is a sample of the types of research and pedagogy talks that I have given in New York, in Miami, in Brazil, and across the Northeast. If you or your department is interested in scheduling a talk, just reach out to me at moelze (at) adelphi (dot) edu. Talks are in English, Spanish, or Portuguese, contingent on audience preference.
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Compositores do Inconsciente:
Como a psicoanálise transformou a harmonia brasileira. Em 1931, um grupo de professores do conservatório do Rio de Janeiro fizeram que fosse obrigatório os alunos estudarem psicologia e psicanálise. Dentro de dez anos, partes deste novo currículo se formalizaram como base do currículo musical no pais tudo. Nessa apresentação musical, o historiador e violinista Dr. Micah Oelze revela uma historia esquecida do Brasil: que compositores importantes e reconhecidos começaram a se acreditar engenheiros sociais, aproveitando da psicanalise para criar um novo método da composição com a esperança de fazer evoluir o inconsciente do ouvinte brasileiro. Micah Oelze junta musica erudita e popular, palestra com espectáculo, fala com música para explicar a historia esquecida da harmonia brasileira. |
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Deslocação Harmônico: Os compositores do MPB e os acordes que acabaram com a ditadura.
Em São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, e Belo Horizonte nos anos 1970, compositores brasileiros usaram novas estruturas harmonicas dentro de músicas que denunciaram os abusos de direitos humanos que formaram parte da ditadura militar brasileira. Estes compositores chegaram a ser expertos de harmonia precisamente porque a censura fez impossível comunicar com ouvintes através das palavras directas. Mais o que os historiadores não tem reconhecido até agora é que as harmonias formaram parte duma estratégia consciente de incomodar aos ouvintes duma forma coletiva. Nessa apresentação musical, o historiador e musicólogo Dr. Micah Oelze (Adelphi University, New York) combina palestra com espectáculo musical para ensinar e explicar as estruturas harmonicas que deram emoção às mais poderosas músicas do MPB. Oelze ensina e demostra estes conceitos musicais dum jeito que todos podem entender--e sentir--independente do seu nível de experiencia musical. |
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The Pedagogy Workshop Suite: #ResearchMedia
My classroom interventions are designed to get students to understand the intense relevance of history. The aim is to raise up the next generation of scholars, by which I mean students committed to a lifelong pursuit of understanding themselves and their world. Latin America is every day more tightly woven into the US experience, meaning that studying the region provides students cultural awareness of home as much as abroad.
Over the past five years I have developed a suite of projects I call #ResearchMedia. The goal is make creative--sometimes subversive--interventions in social media so that the advertising is minimizing and the critical thinking expanded. Imagine a twitter account where students intentionally have 0 followers. This is the beginning of the Twitt@rchive. Or envision an Instagram project where students are not allowed to snap a photo until after they find a political hashtag at work around them. This is the Histagram. Such interventions get young scholars working with history beyond the walls of the classroom. More significantly, they transform student interactions with social media and with their communities.
I outline a couple of these project below, and I often get workshops on any one of these, or day-long trainings on the suite. Reach out to me at my Adelphi email address if you want to know more.
Over the past five years I have developed a suite of projects I call #ResearchMedia. The goal is make creative--sometimes subversive--interventions in social media so that the advertising is minimizing and the critical thinking expanded. Imagine a twitter account where students intentionally have 0 followers. This is the beginning of the Twitt@rchive. Or envision an Instagram project where students are not allowed to snap a photo until after they find a political hashtag at work around them. This is the Histagram. Such interventions get young scholars working with history beyond the walls of the classroom. More significantly, they transform student interactions with social media and with their communities.
I outline a couple of these project below, and I often get workshops on any one of these, or day-long trainings on the suite. Reach out to me at my Adelphi email address if you want to know more.
The Histagram
A Histagram is a student-shot photo that illustrates a course concept at work in the student’s everyday environment. The term is a portmanteau of “History” and “Instagram,” the social-media platform that allows for live-stream photo documentation of everyday life. But in our history classes, Instagram gets transformed into a portal of scholarly research and historical archiving. Students search for #hashtagged course concepts at work in their own environments (such as #structuralviolence and #institutionalracism) and, when they find such a case, they snap a picture and make connections with historical authors with early cases (to @webdubois).
The project allows teachers to assess student understanding of course concepts. What is more, the project helps students to develop a critical eye, inviting them to revisit their ordinary experiences with the eyes of a scholar.
The project allows teachers to assess student understanding of course concepts. What is more, the project helps students to develop a critical eye, inviting them to revisit their ordinary experiences with the eyes of a scholar.
Time-Machine Millionaire
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The Time-Machine provides students of modern US history and modern Latin American history courses the unprecedented opportunity to recognize the value and relevance of historic awareness. Eight times throughout the semester, eight students take the stage in what appears to be a model UN style debate. But there is one difference: half the students have just been "blasted" through a time machine and speak as the historical actors we spent the last two weeks discussing in class. These actors are consultants to a real-life political issue in the news right now. They provide counsel and experiential knowledge from their successes and words of warning from their own mistakes. Rules & prompts can be shared upon request; I include in the link below a sample prompt.
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