Events for March 27 - February 18, 2021

  • Moving-with Anastasis Corporal, a path to implicated witnessing

    Online

    Sarah Ashford Hart will present her contribution to the special issue Oral History Performance, Listening and Transitional Justice (RiDe, Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance, Vol. 28, Issue 1, 2023), which was […]

  • “Covid in the House of Old” Closing Event: Roundtable – “Care in Crisis”

    LB-1019 (Sunroom), COHDS 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W., Montreal, Québec, Canada

    With Arron Derfel (Montreal Gazette), Lorraine McCrary (Wabash College, US), Sayendri Panchadhyayi (NLSIU, India), Camille Robert (UQAM), Penny Vera Sanso (Birkbeck, London), and Marie-Claude Thifault (University of Ottawa). The conversation […]

  • Cultures of Listening

    Online

    with Dr. Johanna Motzkau, Senior Lecturer, School of Psychology and Counseling, Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, The Open University, UK. In this talk, Dr. Johanna Motzkau presents the term “cultures of listening” as an analytical tool to […]

  • The Clear Blue Skies: Diaries from Ukraine

    Online

    with Scott Illingworth. Associate Chair of the Graduate Acting Program at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. What does it take to work with vulnerable populations to create […]

  • Roundtable: De-Industrial Heritage

    Online

    with Steven High, Brian Rosa, Paula Fernández Álvarez, Guilherme Pozzer, Myriam Guillemette, Jorge Magaz-Molina, and Laura Littlefair English What does deindustrialization studies have to offer heritage studies—and what can scholars […]

  • Voices of the Immigrant Workers’ Centre

    LB-1019 (Sunroom), COHDS 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W., Montreal, Québec, Canada

    with Lauren Laframboise and Stefan Christoff  In 2007, Montreal-based garment manufacturer Lamour prepared to shutter its Canadian production activities, gradually laying off nearly 500 of its employees to circumvent labour […]

  • Stories Beyond Borders: Mapping the Imaginative Spaces of Movement and Migration

    LB-1019 (Sunroom), COHDS 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W., Montreal, Québec, Canada

    with Stéphane Martelly, Maricia Fischer-Souan, and Kelly Norah Drukker English In this panel presentation and discussion, writers and scholars working within the disciplines of oral history, sociology, and creative writing […]

  • Gaming & Oral History

    LB-1019 (Sunroom), COHDS 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W., Montreal, Québec, Canada

    with Carl Therrien, Jonathan Lessard, and Dany Guay-Bélanger English Videogames are a fairly young medium. Emerging as a commercial good in the early 1960s, they have slowly made their way […]

  • Book launch of “mmm…Manitoba: The Stories Behind the Food We Eat”

    LB-1019 (Sunroom), COHDS 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W., Montreal, Québec, Canada

    By Kimberley Moore & Janis Thiessen, University of Winnipeg with: Rhonda Hinther, Jo McCutcheon, Ian Mosby Chairs | Présidence : Janis Thiessen and Kimberley Moore In 2018, Janis Thiessen (History, […]

  • Dictatorship, Disasters, and Diaspora: Gathering Collective Memories in Haiti and beyond

    LB-1019 (Sunroom), COHDS 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W., Montreal, Québec, Canada

    (photo source: Centre International de Documentation et d’Information Haïtienne, Caribéenne et Afro-canadienne (the International Center for Haitian, Caribbean, and Afro-Canadian Documentation and Information), also known as the CIDIHCA Collections.) with […]