with Dany Guay-Bélanger, Patricia Branco Cornish, Kelann Currie-Williams, Kelly Norah Drukker, Lauren Laframboise, Cassandra Marsillo, and Eleni Polychronakos English In Fall 2023, we launched our Scholars-in-Residence program, seeking to bring together oral history practitioners, artists, and creative storytellers. Our call resonated beyond expectations. We were delighted to welcome to COHDS seven brilliant scholars and oral historians […]

with Hourig Attarian, Melissa Bilal, Arpine Ghambaryan, Houry Pilibbossian, and Julia Cabral Tordeur English  This roundtable brings together an intergenerational group of oral historians working in diverse Armenian contexts: Melissa Bilal, Houry Pilibbossian, Julia Cabral Tordeur, Arpi Ghambaryan, and Hourig Attarian. The conversation will focus on various facets of research creation in the projects the […]

with the Frictions of Futurity & Cure in Transplant Medicine project team English Digital storytelling (DST) is of growing interest within health care settings to better understand patient experience and translate knowledge between health care professionals and patients. DST is a relational tool that can be used for education, advocacy, creative expression, and therapeutic intervention.  […]

with the Saathi Montreal Archive Project English  A conversation between some of the members of the 1990s Tiohtia:ke/Montreal-based, South Asian-focused LGBTQ+ group the Saathis. As many of the Saathis are artists, performers and activists, they are also invited to reflect on their creative journeys as racialized queer people in Montreal.       The Saathi Montreal […]

With Sara Lucas and Luis Sotelo Dr. Luis Sotelo Castro and PhD candidate Sara Lucas from the Acts of Listening Lab and The Listening Choir will discuss how musical interventions, particularly community choral music, can catalyze dialogue in communities that have experienced collective trauma. We will explore how this form of participatory art, whether used in reperformances of […]

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 […]

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 take a moment […]

Join the Radio Elsewheres collective for a two-hour event introducing our ongoing radio art project and offering a preview of its upcoming third edition. The next iteration, , will take place from October 16 to November 5, 2025, at Art Windsor-Essex, presented within Elsewhere, on Record — a solo exhibition by Velibor Božović curated by […]

This Brown Bag Meeting will be an informal, lunchtime conversation between Mireille Paquet (Concordia Research Chair on the Politics of Immigration; Director of IRMS) and Luis C. Sotelo Castro (Director of the Acts of Listening Lab, Department of Theatre, Concordia).  The session will explore the intersection of Perspective Taking and Active Listening, two frameworks that […]

Photo description: Marjorie Villefranche in a collective oral history interview at La Maison d'Haïti   With Philippe Blouin, Michael Ferguson, Cassandra Marsillo, Tesfa Peterson, Léa Denieul Pinsky, and Désirée Rochat   This conversation explores a central topic: How do oral historians navigate the web of relationships that tie them to the community they are working […]