Latest Past Events

Dancing Life Stories/Dancing Biographies/ Forming the WE

Dance Studio, MB 7.265 1600 Blvd De Maisonneuve West, Montreal

* Please note this event has been moved to the Dance Studio at MB 7.265, 1600 Blvd. De Maisonneuve Ouest English Join us for an evening of dance as students from the Department of Contemporary Dance bring embodied (auto-)biographical narratives to the Acts of Listening Lab. Such storytelling in motion – based on life history […]

Crafting the (de)Industrialised Culture of the City of Elefsina, Greece: The Openeleusis Oral History Research Project

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

with Regina Mantanika The Openeleusis research project is an interdisciplinary collaboration between researchers in anthropology, history and visual arts for community-based research in Eleusina, a city where Greek industrial history is heavily imprinted on people's memories and everyday life. Eleusina is situated in Western Attika and has undergone various phases of (de)industrialisation since the late […]

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

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

(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 Virginie Belony and Rachel Douglas English This panel explores how Haitians at home and abroad have remembered and processed major historical traumas, from political oppression […]