Keynote: Désirée Rochat, PhD, FRQSC Postdoctoral fellow, COHDS
“Curating stories of Blackness in Montreal: on Black women’s community-anchored knowledge work (1970s-1980s)”
Désirée Rochat is a community educator and holds a PhD in Educational studies from McGill University. Guided by an integrative approach, her academic and community work connect historical research, archival preservation and education. She aims to document, theorize and transmit (hi)stories of community activism, through the preservation and promotion of archives of Black community-based organizations. Her latest project “Black lives in/and archives” aims to foster an archival ecosystem dedicated to caring for and activating the archives of Black communities in Montreal.
SCHEDULE:
11 a.m – 12 p.m.
Keynote Speaker
12 p.m. – 1 p.m.
Lunch
1 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Annual General Assembly
- – Electing
- – Reporting
- – Envisioning
See here for last year’s AGA meeting minutes.
REGISTRATION
Register to attend in-person. For any questions regarding this event please contact cohds.chorn@concordia.ca
LB 1019 (Sunroom), COHDS
