*Please note that this event has been cancelled* with Mxolisi R. Mchunu (University of KwaZulu-Natal)   English/Français   In South Africa, the period leading to up to the country’s first democratic elections in April 1990 constituted a watershed moment. An unprecedented civil war – termed ‘black on black’ violence – pitted supporters of the African National […]

with Dr. Johanna Motzkau, Senior Lecturer, School of Psychology and Counseling, Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, The Open University, UK. In this talk, Dr. Johanna Motzkau presents the term “cultures of listening” as an analytical tool to understand, what can make listening practices problematic, and how we can transform such troubled practices. Her talk will focus on practices of child protection in the UK. In […]

with Scott Illingworth. Associate Chair of the Graduate Acting Program at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. What does it take to work with vulnerable populations to create a piece of verbatim theatre? Professor Scott Illingworth will share insights he gained from creating The Clear Blue Skies: Diaries from Ukraine. The play is […]

*Please note that this event has been cancelled* with professors Steven High and Luis Carlos Sotelo Castro in conversation with students of the Oral History Performance class (Department of Theatre). Professors Steven High, Barbara Lorenzkovski and Luis Carlos Sotelo Castro in conversation with students of the Oral History Performance class (Department of Theatre). In this conversation, we […]

with Steven High, Brian Rosa, Paula Fernández Álvarez, Guilherme Pozzer, Myriam Guillemette, Jorge Magaz-Molina, and Laura Littlefair English What does deindustrialization studies have to offer heritage studies—and what can scholars of deindustrialization learn from the world of heritage? Six DePOT student, postdoctoral, and research affiliates share their research on de-industrial heritage. Chair: Steven High Presenters:  Brian […]

with Maxime Aurélien and Ted Rutland You are cordially invited to join authors Maxime Aurélien and Ted Rutland for a discussion on their new book: Out to Defend Ourselves: A History of Montreal's First Haitian Street Gang About the book: This first critical history of a street gang in a Canadian city is a result […]

with Lauren Laframboise and Stefan Christoff  In 2007, Montreal-based garment manufacturer Lamour prepared to shutter its Canadian production activities, gradually laying off nearly 500 of its employees to circumvent labour legislation that would force the company to pay collective layoff benefits. Over 2007 and 2008, Lamour workers and community organizers at the Immigrant Workers Centre […]

with Stéphane Martelly, Maricia Fischer-Souan, and Kelly Norah Drukker English In this panel presentation and discussion, writers and scholars working within the disciplines of oral history, sociology, and creative writing share different approaches to “mapping” stories of movement and migration—from intimate ethnographies to those told within broader communities. What role does place play in the […]

with Po Ki Chan, Sonia Dhaliwal, Eliot Perrin, and Carla Rodeghero English Join us for a conversation regarding lives of learning, experiences with oral history, and community archiving. Increasingly, we seek to break down institutional barriers and include participants in the archival process. What does this process look like? How does community archiving differ from state […]

with Cassandra Marsillo, Hannah Pinilla, and Amanda Whittaker English This panel discussion delves into the rich crossing of food history and oral history by exploring the connections between migration, the concept of home, and food narratives. Each of the panelists’ research focus on the storytelling found within the pages of cookbooks, identity and memory formation […]

with Carl Therrien, Jonathan Lessard, and Dany Guay-Bélanger English Videogames are a fairly young medium. Emerging as a commercial good in the early 1960s, they have slowly made their way into the mainstream. What was once seen as toys for young boys has become so widespread that many of us have them in our living […]

By Kimberley Moore & Janis Thiessen, University of Winnipeg with: Rhonda Hinther, Jo McCutcheon, Ian Mosby Chairs | Présidence : Janis Thiessen and Kimberley Moore In 2018, Janis Thiessen (History, University of Winnipeg) and Kimberley Moore and Kent Davies (Oral History Centre, University of Winnipeg) refashioned a used food truck into a mobile oral history […]

(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 […]

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 […]

* 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 […]

with Dr. Amy Starecheski, Director, Columbia University’s Oral History MA program and Dr. Luis C. Sotelo, Director, Concordia’s Acts of Listening Lab What and how do we learn about the past when we use our bodies as research instruments? Dr. Starecheski will open this conversation by sharing a paired soundwalk she created as a way […]