Latest Past Events

Summer Institute: Oral History & Creative Practice (for credit)

LB-1019 (sunroom), COHDS 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W., Montreal

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 […]

Identity, Care Labor, and Matrilineal Stories– Bodies Carrying Exhibit Programming

LB-1019 (sunroom), COHDS 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W., Montreal

Description by Cristina Alejandra Jimenez Gomez, Javi Fuentes Bernal and David Diaz Méndez. This is an event composed of two artist presentations followed by a joint Q&A. It will begin with a performance and talk by Cristina Alejandra Jimenez Gomez (Resonant roots: an intergenerational storytelling), followed by a presentation from Javi Fuentes Bernal and David […]

Walking Interludes- Bodies Carrying Exhibit Programming

LB-1019 (sunroom), COHDS 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W., Montreal

Description by speaker Sunjay Mathuria. "Walking Interludes is a reflective reading about walking, place, race, identity, and memory. In this reading, I share short excerpts from my field journal that I kept during my research visits to Belfast and Lahore. In an autoethnographic style, these vignettes focus on movement (walking) through the cities and consider […]