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Symposium Channels of Testimony: Artistic Mediations of Listening

How does art channel and reshape the way we listen to lived experience? Join Amy Starecheski, Director of Columbia University’s Oral History Master of Arts, and Luis C. Sotelo, Director of Concordia University’s Acts of Listening Lab (ALLab), for a conversation with three artist–scholar teams funded by ALLab to explore bold new pathways for mediating testimony through creative […]

The River That is Not: Teaching Oral History and Photography through Fieldwork

Concordia University, LB-1042 (COHDS) 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd O, Montreal

With Lea Kabiljo This event marks the opening of The river that is not, an exhibition presenting a research project developed in collaboration with students from the visual arts program at the Universidad Laica Eloy Alfaro de Manabí, Ecuador, and presented at COHDS from March 9 to April 20. Developed as a short-term teaching intervention, the […]

Screening of Hommes-relais, Becoming Ruby and Red Girl Rising

Concordia University, LB-1042 (COHDS) 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd O, Montreal

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 […]