Public History Speakers Series

As a child, Stacey Zembrzycki listened to her Baba’s stories about Sudbury, Ontario’s small but polarized Ukrainian community and about what it was like growing up ethnic during the Depression. Her book, According to Baba, discloses with honesty and respect what happened when Stacey tried to capture the community’s experiences through oral history research. Her grandmother Olga looms large in the narrative, wrestling authority in the interview process away from her granddaughter and then eventually coming to share it. Together, the two women lay the groundwork not only for an insightful and deeply personal social history of Sudbury’s Ukrainian community but also for collaborative oral history research and writing.  

 Zembrzycki will talk about shared authority, community-based research and the ways her experiences with her Baba, Olga, have impacted her oral history scholarship and publications, her work with Holocaust refugees and her efforts to explore the connections between mining, health, and the environment and their impact on postwar immigrant communities in Sudbury.

Location: Zoom (Virtual Event)

Price: FREE