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SUMMARY:Annual General Assembly - Assemblée générale annuelle
DESCRIPTION:This event will happen in-person and online \n  \nKeynote speaker: Dr. Steven High \n“Reflecting Back on Twenty Years of Oral History at COHDS” \nOur 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. \nDr. Steven High is an award-winning interdisciplinary oral and public historian with a strong interest in transnational approaches to working-class studies\, forced migration\, and community-engaged research. He has headed a number of major research projects\, most notably the prize-winning “Life Stories of Montrealers Displaced by War\, Genocide and Other Human Rights Violations. “ Currently\, he is leading the transnational SSHRC-funded partnership project “Deindustrialization & the Politics of Our Time.” He has been awarded a Governor General’s History Award in the Popular Media category and\, more recently so\, the J.B. Tyrrell Medal for his outstanding contributions to Canadian history. As many of you know\, Steven is a constant presence at COHDS\, regularly offering workshops on oral history and the art of deep listening\, taking groups of students and community members on oral history walking tours in Montreal’s South-West\, and generously mentoring generations of oral historians. \n\nSCHEDULE: \n2 – 3 p.m. \nKeynote Speaker – Conférencier invité \n3:00 – 3:45 p.m. \nAfternoon Tea – Rafraîchissements et encas \n3:45 – 5:00 p.m. \nAnnual General Assembly – Assemblée générale annuelle \n\n-Reporting – Rapport\n-Electing – Élections\n-Q&A\n\nSee last year’s AGA meeting minutes (2024) \nREGISTRATION\n \nPlease note that all our events are free and open to all\, but you need to register! \nThis is a hybrid event. \nTo attend in person\, please register here. \nTo attend online\, please register here. \nFor any questions regarding this event please contact cohds.chorn@concordia.ca \nLB 1019 (Sunroom)\, COHDS \n  \nCOHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory\, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal.
URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/event/aga2025/
LOCATION:LB-1019 (Sunroom)\, COHDS\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.\, Montreal\, Québec\, Canada
CATEGORIES:assembly,keynote speech
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SUMMARY:“Vivre avec le trouble” – Trouble in Oral History and Storytelling 12th Emerging Scholars Symposium (Friday\, March 14)
DESCRIPTION: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 trouble” and the transformative potential of oral history in troubled times. \nOver the course of our day-long conversations\, panelists and conference attendees will explore ways of knowing\, interrogate the politics of the archive\, listen to oral histories on the ground\, and examine how oral history and storytelling might be used in creating a more just society. We will delve into intergenerational conversations and contemplate ways of feeling memory. There will be “ghost stories” too. The program will culminate in a series of four brief performances\, followed by a conversation with the researchers-artists. \nOur keynote speaker\, Dr. Lea Kabiljo (Université Laval)\, the 2024 recipient of the Award of Distinction in Oral History\, will reflect on the complex ethical and relational dynamics of sharing authority in works of research-creation. Her keynote – “Oral History x Photography: Negotiating Authority in Participatory Research-Creation” – brings oral history and photography into a single analytical frame to explore the tensions between researcher subjectivity and participant agency. \nThe Emerging Scholars Symposium is one of the highlights of our COHDS year. We’d be delighted if you could join us! \, \nSee the program at a glance. \nSee the full program (including panel description and biographies of panelists) \n  \nThe Program Committee | Le comité organisateur \nSamia Dumais is a PhD student in history at Concordia University. A transdisciplinary researcher\, she is interested in Afro-descendant and Black transnational discourses and their materialization in Quebec and Canadian educational structures. Member of the editorial board of HistoireEngagée.ca\, Samia is the archivist for the afro-feminist community organization Harambec and a Scholar-in-Residence (2024-25) at the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling (COHDS). \nVarda Nisar is a mother\, daughter\, and sister. She is also a PhD Candidate in Concordia’s Department of Art History and a Concordia Public Scholar (2022-23). She is currently a Fellow at the Social Justice Center and a COHDS Scholar-in-Residence (2024-25). Varda is the co-founder of the Art History Decolonial Action Group (AHDAG)\, which actively challenges the silence around Palestine in academia. Her doctoral research draws attention to cultural production under military regimes in Pakistan\, mainly focusing on museums and archives. She currently sits on the executive committee of the South Asian Women’s Cultural Centre as the Vice-President of the Board and on Concordia University’s Graduate Student Association Council as the Director of the Faculty of Fine Arts. \nAnna Vigeland is a PhD student in Concordia’s INDI program and a COHDS Scholar-in-Residence (2024-25). Her research is driven by overlapping interests in oral history\, performance histories\, translation\, memory\, and interdisciplinary forms of creation. Her approach also draws on over 15 years working in circus and on a translation practice that is increasingly interwoven with her research and artistic practices. \nREGISTRATION \nRegister now. \nPlease note that all our events are free and open to all\, but registration is mandatory. For any questions please contact cohds.chorn@concordia.ca \nLOCATION \nIn-person in LB-1019 (Sunroom) and LB-1042 (Moonroom)\, COHDS \nCOHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory\, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal.
URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/event/vivre-avec-le-trouble/
LOCATION:LB-1019 (Sunroom)\, COHDS\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.\, Montreal\, Québec\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Annual General Assembly
DESCRIPTION:Keynote: Désirée Rochat\, PhD\, FRQSC Postdoctoral fellow\, COHDS \n“Curating stories of Blackness in Montreal: on Black women’s community-anchored knowledge work (1970s-1980s)” \nDésirée 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 document\, theorize and transmit (hi)stories of community activism\, through the preservation and promotion of archives of Black community-based organizations. Her latest project “Black lives in/and archives” aims to foster an archival ecosystem dedicated to caring for and activating the archives of Black communities in Montreal.  \n\nSCHEDULE: \n11 a.m – 12 p.m. \nKeynote Speaker \n12 p.m. – 1 p.m. \nLunch \n1 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. \nAnnual General Assembly \n\n– Electing\n– Reporting\n– Envisioning\n\nSee here for last year’s AGA meeting minutes. \nREGISTRATION\n \nRegister to attend in-person. For any questions regarding this event please contact cohds.chorn@concordia.ca \nLB 1019 (Sunroom)\, COHDS \n  \nCOHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory\, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal.
URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/event/annual-general-assembly-2/
LOCATION:LB-1019 (Sunroom)\, COHDS\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.\, Montreal\, Québec\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Annual General Assembly
DESCRIPTION: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 beyond these exchanges\, she found herself immersed in a sort of historical epidemiology\, which sought to isolate patterns and routes of exposure so that she could understand the stories shared with her. \n\nDrawing on one interview she conducted with a long-time resident of Copper Cliff\, Mary Giardini Blair\, this paper demonstrates how life stories can offer a window into some of the larger forces that shape people’s understandings of the interconnections between environmental toxins and health. Building on this narrative\, the paper speaks to the potential oral history holds for not only understanding individual and community health\, but also opening up possibilities for interdisciplinary research about bodies and the diseases that wreak havoc on them.  \n\nChasing cancer is long-haul work that requires deep listening in the interview space\, a deep understanding of place\, and a deep commitment to building and sustaining relationships. Viewing our craft through this lens is the only way that bodies may be given the time and space needed to tell their own stories.\n\n\n\nStacey Zembrzycki is an award-winning oral and public historian of ethnic\, immigrant\, and refugee experience. Her current SSHRC-funded project\, Mining Immigrant Bodies\, uses oral history to explore the connections between mining\, health\, and the environment and their impact on postwar immigrant communities in Sudbury\, Canada. \n\nSCHEDULE:\n\n11h00 – 12h00 \n\nKeynote Speaker\n\n12h00 – 13h00 \n\nLunch \n\n13h00-14h30 \n\nAnnual General Assembly \n\n– Electing \n\n– Reporting \n\n– Envisioning \n\nREGISTRATION:\n\nRegister to attend in-person\nRegister to attend online\n\nFor any questions regarding this event\, please contact us at cohds.chorn@concordia.ca.\n\nIn-person/online (60 people in-person)\, LB 1019 (Sunroom)\, COHDS – English\n\n \n\nCOHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory\, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal.
URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/event/annual-general-assembly/
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SUMMARY:COHDS Annual General Assembly
DESCRIPTION:DETAILS\n\n\n\n\n\nIn English and French \nKeynote Oral histories of the dead: Studying immigration\, settlement\, community\, and integration through one Jewish Cemetery\, with Anna Sheftel. \nIn-person and Online \n\n\n\nREGISTRATION\n\n\n\nTo attend in person\, please send us an email at cohds.chorn@concordia.ca. To attend online\, you can register on Zoom by clicking here. All of our events are free and open to all\, but registration is required. \n\n\n\nLOCATION\n\n\n\nCenter for Oral History and Digital Storytelling Concordia University Library Building\, 10th Floor\, Room LB-1019 (Sunroom)1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.Montreal\, QC\, Canada \n\n\n\nMORE INFORMATION\n\n\n\nIf you have any questions\, contact us at cohds.chorn@concordia.ca. \n\n\n\n\n\nDESCRIPTION\n\n\n\n \n11:00-12:00 Keynote Oral histories of the dead: Studying immigration\, settlement\, community\, and integration through one Jewish Cemetery\, with Anna Sheftel. In English \n12:05-13:05 AGA \n13:05-14:00 Lunch provided at COHDS \n \nCOHDS/ALLAB are grateful to be able to offer our programming on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory\, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal.
URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/event/cohds-annual-general-assembly/
LOCATION:Québec
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SUMMARY:Metaphor as a Possibility of Resilience (ALLab)
DESCRIPTION:We live in a world and in a time traversed by traumatic personal and social experiences. What forms and tools do art and artists can propose today to overcome both personally and collectively these invisible wounds? A reflection on artistic works and aesthetic forms of dialogue with our intimate and social history. Aimed at: artists\, therapists\, educators and the public interested in the contribution that art makes today to the social bond. \nFeaturing: Pablo Gershanik is an actor\, director\, and professor. A graduate of the École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq\, he has been an actor touring internationally for Cirque Éloize (Canada)\, Compagnie Philippe Genty (France)\, Compagnia Finzi Pasca (Switzerland/Canada) and has directed theatre and co-directed one of 7 doigts de la main Fibonacci projects. He has taught physical theatre\, clown and object theatre for more than 20 years in Mexico\, Argentina\, and France. At the National University of San Martín in Buenos Aires\, he created and has been directing the Specialization in Performance and Interpretation with Masks. He is currently an artist affiliated with Centre Quatre Paris and the Cité international des arts de Paris. \nHosting: CISSC keynote (this is primarily a CISSC event as it will be part of a series they are presenting)\, 4th Space \nTranslation: This event will be live translated into Spanish by the Acts of Listening Lab \nAccessibility: Public event/ Free \nRegistration: Register in advance for this event
URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/event/metaphor-as-a-possibility-of-resilience-allab/
LOCATION:Québec
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