https://lvcomm.com/contact daily 0.75 2024-03-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55c3d45ae4b0ae48388cb545/1680544823602-QH8CP2QLJFQRFXDZUALQ/patrick-fore-0gkw_9fy0eQ-unsplash.jpeg Contact https://lvcomm.com/home daily 1.0 2023-04-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55c3d45ae4b0ae48388cb545/1680545426288-SSX654OSUZN8CNSPHTJX/thumb_DSCF0185_1024.jpeg Leyla Vural is an oral historian, writer, and editor. https://lvcomm.com/what-we-do daily 0.75 2024-03-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55c3d45ae4b0ae48388cb545/1680450601509-BZ4DOLHSCFXV996KMLEH/HI_listening_headphones.jpg Services https://lvcomm.com/samples daily 0.75 2024-03-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55c3d45ae4b0ae48388cb545/67c9072f-3adc-4e95-a537-3b35dc8b624b/stolperstein.jpg Samples - Make it stand out Amor Mundi, the weekly newsletter of The Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College, selected Leyla Vural’s piece, “Reading in Berlin: Thoughts on Jill Stauffer's Ethical Loneliness,” as one of its "favorite essays...from around the web." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55c3d45ae4b0ae48388cb545/1561590240193-XEL41QEXOGIPBAG8SKFA/StonewallOralHistoryProject.png Samples The Stonewall Oral History Project—a project of the National Park Service in partnership with The LGBT Community Center and the Tenement Museum—is about LGBTQ life in New York before and after Stonewall, as much as it is about the uprising itself. Leyla conducted more than 20 of the 80 interviews in this collection. The interviews are available online and held at The LGBT Community Center National History Archive. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55c3d45ae4b0ae48388cb545/a8f8d3f7-ee49-46e5-9393-3c04bec02cc2/Unseen+Professors.png Samples - Make it stand out The catalogue accompanying The Unseen Professors sculpture exhibit (Nov. 2021-Feb. 2022) at Tim Kim Gallery in New York includes a lengthy excerpt from John Pai’s oral history with Leyla Vural. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55c3d45ae4b0ae48388cb545/1617410825030-GDG02D6FNHZSOPINAF7F/OHA+cover.png Samples Leyla Vural’s review of Janis Thiessen’s Not Talking Union: An Oral History of North American Mennonites and Labour was published online in November 2020 and in the spring 2021 print edition of Oral History Review. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55c3d45ae4b0ae48388cb545/1573145838449-1VK0MBJUWUBKO356RVN1/OHS+cover.png Samples Leyla Vural’s piece, Potter’s field as heterotopia, is the public history essay in the Autumn 2019 issue of the Oral History Society’s journal, Oral History. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55c3d45ae4b0ae48388cb545/166fb1bf-c531-41a8-aed9-970fc9dc21fd/Bank+book+cover.png Samples - Make it stand out To commemorate the Amalgamated Bank’s centennial in 2023, Leyla Vural wrote, edited, and art directed a book, “Stories from 100 Years of Social Responsibility,” consisting of more than 50 stories, each based on archival research or an interview she conducted. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55c3d45ae4b0ae48388cb545/752613e9-fb85-417d-a56f-febe33f51eae/NYPAP.png Samples - Make it stand out The New York Preservation Archive Project’s Saving Preservation Stories oral history collection captures the narratives of New Yorkers who usually get left out of the historic preservation story. A team of interviewers, including Leyla Vural, has conducted these interviews over several years. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55c3d45ae4b0ae48388cb545/65c06307-a303-4cfa-945d-27f94bb42b4b/you_are_here_cover_2023.png Samples - Make it stand out Leyla Vural’s essay “rest in peace? the moral topography of New York City’s potter’s field” was published in the 2023 issue of the peer-reviewed journal, you are here: the journal of creative geography. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55c3d45ae4b0ae48388cb545/14e22bed-7065-4bf1-b8ee-c410cadbda6e/Llquid+Steel.png Samples - Make it stand out Liquid Steel, by art critic and poet John Yau and published by Rizzoli New York In 2023, is the first comprehensive monograph of John Pai’s work. The book draws heavily on the oral history Leyla Vural conducted with John Pai. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55c3d45ae4b0ae48388cb545/d9562107-43fa-4a8b-b8bb-3f6340687118/IMG_3703.jpeg Samples - Make it stand out Leyla presented this paper, “I Remembered You,” at a conference on loss at McGill University. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55c3d45ae4b0ae48388cb545/1617412227707-1WO2U00PGNWFS72XOIXT/Col+and+72nd.png Samples In the Columbus Avenue and the Upper West Oral History Project, local merchants, developers, long-time residents, and neighborhood activists tell the story of neighborhood change as they shaped and experienced it since the late 1960s. The Columbus Avenue Business Improvement District sponsored this project and the interview collection is held at the New-York Historical Society. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55c3d45ae4b0ae48388cb545/1465013360309-DSAJ10WV1UMKTFQA0KEX/Doors_Ashim_DSilva.jpg Samples https://lvcomm.com/the-whole-island-is-a-cemetery daily 0.75 2020-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55c3d45ae4b0ae48388cb545/1477843832511-OW5ZVSSSOGJOYMBVDWLM/image-asset.jpeg The Whole Island Is a Cemetery A medical examiner's truck returning from Hart Island after having brought bodies for burial. https://lvcomm.com/about-leyla daily 0.75 2025-09-09 https://lvcomm.com/reading-in-berlin daily 0.75 2025-07-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55c3d45ae4b0ae48388cb545/1617401803586-SD8408FE4TJQ5NCV40EO/Picture1.png Reading in Berlin The TV Tower at Alexanderplatz dominates the Berlin skyline. (All photos by Leyla Vural) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55c3d45ae4b0ae48388cb545/1617402340478-TTXW82IUU6IKHXK8QY25/stolper+steine.png Reading in Berlin Stumbling stones remembering five homeless men who were sent to their death at Sachsenhausen were installed near Berlin’s World Clock in Alexanderplatz in April 2016. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55c3d45ae4b0ae48388cb545/1617402184495-TAK3T7T3NVTH0JCEV0MK/holocaust+sculpture.png Reading in Berlin Holocaust memorial on Grosse Hamburger Strasse in Berlin. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55c3d45ae4b0ae48388cb545/1617402682486-P9NGFURDLBLCX1RSQLDK/stasi+headquarters.png Reading in Berlin While the main building of the Stasi headquarters (shown here) in Berlin is now a museum, part of the enormous complex is being used as temporary housing for refugees. https://lvcomm.com/book-review-not-talking-union daily 0.75 2021-04-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55c3d45ae4b0ae48388cb545/1617409165047-CJF7WO9JK4CNY9EVU4RL/Not+Talking+Union+An+Oral+History+of+North+American+Mennonites+and+Labour_Page_2.jpg Book review not talking union https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55c3d45ae4b0ae48388cb545/1617409164970-ATB5R3X5KRGLNYCMRJ6P/Not+Talking+Union+An+Oral+History+of+North+American+Mennonites+and+Labour_Page_3.jpg Book review not talking union https://lvcomm.com/i-remembered-you daily 0.75 2022-03-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55c3d45ae4b0ae48388cb545/4386d729-0227-45d4-bc70-435e6dcd7adb/Doc2.jpg I Remembered You - Make it stand out New York City map, 1966 https://lvcomm.com/about daily 0.75 2025-01-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55c3d45ae4b0ae48388cb545/1458356185738-1M68TFEYMZMVE2UPLB4L/Leyla_interviewing_Junior.jpeg About Leyla Vural. 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