With Lea Kabiljo Join us for our second session of “Casual COHDS,” a monthly drop-in event for members of the COHDS community and anyone curious about oral history to gather, converse, and connect over coffee, tea, and snacks in a relaxed setting. If you would like to meet other members of the COHDS community, or […]
with Joseph Plaster Joseph Plaster’s prize-winning Kids on the Street: Queer Kinship and Religion in San Francisco’s Tenderloin (Duke University Press, February 2023) explores the informal support networks that enabled abandoned and runaway “kids on the street” to survive in central city tenderloin districts across the United States, and San Francisco's Tenderloin in particular, over […]
with Marwan Bassiouni. Hosted by Chedly Belkhodja (Concordia) and Paul May (UQAM) Islam comes in all shapes and colours. It is now Western and a part of the national identity and landscape of many countries. Since January 2018, Marwan Bassiouni has visited mosques in various countries in order to document their presence in the landscape […]
with Jamilah Dei-Sharpe and Joan Lee (President) MC by CBC's Dionne Codrington In 1982, the West Island Black Community Association (WIBCA) was founded as one of Montreal’s first Black Anglophone associations. The film is guided by the oral histories of WIBCA’s founding elders, who recount their grassroots efforts to support Black communities in Montreal for […]
"Our immigrant plant teachers offer a lot of different models for how not to make themselves welcome on a new continent But Plantain is not like that. Its strategy was to be useful, to fit into small places, to coexist with others around the dooryard, to heal wounds White Man's Footstep , generous and healing, grows […]
With Liam Devitt, Gabryelle Iaconetti, Barbara Lorenzkowski, and Sonya Di Sclafani To obtain the informed consent of our research participants is both an ethical and institutional obligation for oral historians working at Canadian universities. This workshop seeks to demystify the process of applying for ethics certification. Three emerging scholars will reflect on their experiences in […]
With Kelann Currie-Williams Join us for another session of “Casual COHDS,” a monthly drop-in event for members of the COHDS community and anyone curious about oral history to gather, converse, and connect over coffee, tea, and snacks in a relaxed setting. If you would like to meet other members of the COHDS community, or simply […]
May 12-26, 2025 Open to university students (for credit course) and community members Call for applications COHDS Summer Institute 2025 Storytelling, as both an art and a practice, occupies a central role in many cultures. The evocative power of oral history has made a major impact in the worlds of public history, museum/curatorial practice, and […]
