With Kelann Currie-Williams
This workshop will provide a hands-on introduction to using Stories Matter— a free, open-source oral history database software that allows for the archiving of digital video and audio materials, and enables oral historians to annotate, analyze, and evaluate audio and video recordings of interviews. First developed in 2010 at COHDS, this second iteration of the software known as Stories Matter 2.0. provides previous and new users the ability to recover old databases and create new workspaces for various oral history projects. Participants will be supported via guided walkthroughs and live demos on how to build their projects using a software that emphasizes orality and individual interviewees as central to the narration of stories.
Kelann Currie-Williams is a writer and PhD Candidate at Concordia University’s Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture, working at the intersections of Visual Culture Studies, History, Black Studies, and Cultural Studies. Their research focuses on the image-making and photographic preservation histories of the Afro-Caribbean diaspora in Canada from the late 19th to late 20th centuries. Kelann was a 2023-2024 scholar-in-residence and 2024-2025 Student Representative at the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling.
REGISTRATION
Please note that all our events are free and open to all, but registration is mandatory.
This technical workshop has a maximum number of sixteen participants. To have your name added to our waiting list once this maximum number is reached, please contact: cohds.chorn@concordia.ca
LOCATION
In-person at the COHDS Media Lab (LB-1042).
You will find us on the tenth floor of Concordia’s Library Building, 1450 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W., Montreal, Quebec.
COHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal.
