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, Joan Lee (President), and Ray Resvick 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 […]
with Manuela Ochoa, Luana Sampaio, and Patricia Branco Cornish. Conflict and dictatorship are challenging topics to discuss and engage new audiences. However, scholars have tasked themselves with finding creative ways to revisit narratives of these difficult pasts to foster public awareness and prevent socio-political violence from happening in the future. Art has been a long-standing […]
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 […]
Bodies carry and transmit traces of memories, sites, and stories—both as acts of care and as burdens to bear. Bodies Carrying: Traces & Stories is a twofold conversation taking the form of a group exhibition and a program consisting of workshops, performances, and talks. This is an experiment in transforming the Centre for Oral History […]
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 […]
COHDS is partnering with the Montreal Holocaust Museum and the Cummings Centre to present the following event, The Generations After: “Olga, Erika, and Me” Podcast at the Montreal Holocaust Museum on Tuesday, September 9, 7 pm. The creator of the podcast, Ilanit-Michele, and her mother, Erika Eriksson, will be in attendance to discuss their experiences as second and third […]
with Andrew Jackson You are warmly invited to join us for an artist talk with Andrew Jackson at the McCord Museum, 690 Sherbrooke St. W. Jackson’s exhibition Little Burgundy – Evolving Montreal is a foray into this south-western district of the city. Over a two-year period, the photographer documented important landmarks for the Black […]
With Constanza Ramírez Molano and Luis C. Sotelo Held in Spanish with consecutive interpretation by Franklin R. Bonivento. This event will take the form of a conversation in which Colombian artist and researcher Constanza Ramírez Molano presents three of her recent works. The dialogue will be moderated by Luis C. Sotelo, director of the […]
The event will take place in person at the University of Michigan-Deaborn’s James C. Renick University Center, Kochoff Hall C, and online via zoom. You are warmly invited to a special book launch celebrating REMNANTS and What Remains: Moments from a Life Among Holocaust Survivors, the latest publication by Henry "Hank" Greenspan. The event […]
with Karen Dubinsky You are cordially invited to join author Karen Dubinsky on Thursday October 9, 4-6 pm for a discussion of her new book: Strangely, Friends: A History of Cuban-Canadian Encounters. Strangely, Friends delves into the rich, often overlooked history of personal and cultural connections between Cubans and Canadians. From the early days of […]
Walking tour participants will meet at the Union United Church at 3007 Rue Delisle, Montréal, QC H4C 1M8 at 2:55 pm “Photographing Change: Reform and Photography in 1960s Little Burgundy” is a walking tour which invites guests to learn about and engage in discussion on the expropriation photos of Little Burgundy. Taken throughout the 1960s, these photos show the expropriated […]
With Alisa Kovalenko and Stéphane Siohan The Chair in European Intellectual History of the Munk School, Marci Shore, is pleased to collaborate with the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling of Concordia to invite you to the first screening of My Dear Theo (2025) with Alisa Kovalenko and Stéphane Siohan who will share […]
with Nico Contreras, Sonia Bustos, and Priscilla Opazo Castillo Rábanos Olas Jacarandas Aleonarse (2025, 10min) is an audiovisual collage born out of oral histories of migration, community, and the transformative power of art. Through blending interviews and choreographic exploration with Tiohtiá:ke/Montréal-based artists Sonia Bustos and Priscilla Opazo, the film shares interlinking reflections on political […]
with Jad Orphée Chami and Noël Vezina Join us on Wednesday, November 19th, at 7 PM, at the ALLab, Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling, for How to say ‘longing’, a contemplative performance by movement artist Noël Vézina and composer Jad Orphée Chami. This intimate exploration of dualities—music and movement, composition and improvisation, the […]
Held in Spanish with consecutive interpretation by Franklin R. Bonivento. In this event Constanza Ramírez Molano ends her residency at the ALlab by presenting two interviews carried out with the method CONNECTED. This method proposes a journey from the intimate to the collective through narration, listening, and dialogue. It begins with mutual recognition between interviewer […]
With Steven High The workshop will invite you to engage deeply with a videotaped interview of a Rwandan genocide survivor recorded as part of the Montreal Life Stories project. We will explore different ways of interpreting an interview recording and transcription including narrative analysis, life course visualization, analysis of emotion, etc. We will send the interview […]
With Vladimir Chindea and HotDocs We are pleased to present, in collaboration with HotDocs, three Citizen Minutes documentaries: Hommes-relais, Becoming Ruby, and Red Girl Rising. Each of these films runs approximately ten minutes and speaks directly to COHDS’s core values of inclusion, resilience, solidarity, and hope. Together, they are sure to captivate viewers and […]
With Sonya Di Sclafani In Montreal’s Hungarian community, food is not only a reflection of stability, tradition, and assimilation, but also carries meanings of family, nostalgia, and joy. Palacsintá, a sweet or savory Hungarian crêpe, is a well-loved and easy dish that can be filled with jam, ground walnut purée, farmer's cheese, cabbage, and […]