Past Events

  • COHDS Annual General Assembly

    In English and French

    Keynote Oral histories of the dead: Studying immigration, settlement, community, and integration through one Jewish Cemetery, with Anna Sheftel.

    In-person and Online

  • Annual General Assembly

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

    Keynote: Dr. Stacey Zembrzycki , “Chasing Cancer in Canada’s Nickel Capital” In 2014, Stacey Zembrzycki began to conduct interviews with Sudburians who have long resided in Canada’s nickel capital. Interested in the connections between mining, environmental harm, and health, she did not realize how much cancer would come to dominate those conversations. Both within and […]

  • Annual General Assembly

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

    Keynote: Désirée Rochat, PhD, FRQSC Postdoctoral fellow, COHDS "Curating stories of Blackness in Montreal: on Black women’s community-anchored knowledge work (1970s-1980s)" Désirée Rochat is a community educator and holds a PhD in Educational studies from McGill University. Guided by an integrative approach, her academic and community work connect historical research, archival preservation and education. She aims to […]

  • “Vivre avec le trouble” – Trouble in Oral History and Storytelling 12th Emerging Scholars Symposium (Friday, March 14)

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

    How might trouble and troublemaking (re)shape our fields? How might oral history and storytelling help us survive the current moment of poly-crisis? How might we mobilize oral history and storytelling to engage in necessary troublemaking? This year’s symposium brings together twenty emerging scholars from Concordia and beyond in an interdisciplinary conversation on “Vivre avec le […]

  • Annual General Assembly – Assemblée générale annuelle

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

    This event will happen in-person and online   Keynote speaker: Dr. Steven High "Reflecting Back on Twenty Years of Oral History at COHDS" Our Annual General Assembly is fast approaching. This year, we are delighted to welcome as our keynote speaker oral historian Steven High, who co-founded COHDS almost twenty years ago. Dr. Steven High is […]