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SUMMARY:Book Launch: REMNANTS and What Remains: Moments from a Life Among Holocaust Survivors
DESCRIPTION:The event will take place in person at the University of Michigan-Deaborn’s James C. Renick University Center\, Kochoff Hall C\, and online via zoom. \n  \nYou are warmly invited to a special book launch celebrating REMNANTS and What Remains: Moments from a Life Among Holocaust Survivors\, the latest publication by Henry “Hank” Greenspan. The event will take place in person and online on Sunday\, October 5\, 2025\, from 1:00 to 2:30 p.m. and it will be hosted by Dr. Jamie L. Wraight\, Director of the Voice/Vision Archive. \nThis powerful volume traces the personal and creative journey of Henry “Hank” Greenspan\, shaped by five decades of deepening relationships with Holocaust survivors. At its heart is the first-ever print publication of REMNANTS\, Greenspan’s haunting and widely performed play that brings to life poignant\, often heart-wrenching moments of survival and memory. Performed on more than 300 stages around the world\, REMNANTS captures the raw essence of what survivors endured—and how they continue to live with those experiences. \nIn the companion piece\, What Remains\, Greenspan reflects on the origins of the play\, the profound connections he forged with survivors\, and the shared grief over the loss of a world—and of those who once told its stories. Written in a lyrical\, spoken-word style\, this memoir offers a compelling new lens into Greenspan’s pioneering contributions to Holocaust studies\, oral history\, and the transformative power of theater. The book is dedicated to Sid Bolkosky\, founder of The Voice/Vision Holocaust Survivor Oral History Archive at UM-Dearborn \n  \nThe program will feature reflections from three of Greenspan’s distinguished colleagues and collaborators—renowned Holocaust scholars and educators: \n· Professor John K. Roth\, Emeritus Professor\, Claremont McKenna College \n· Professor Malin Thor Tureby\, Professor of History\, Malmö University\, Sweden \n· Dr. Christine Schmidt\, Deputy Director\, The Wiener Library\, London\, and former student of Professor Bolkosky \n  \nHenry Greenspan will present a short performance and recitation from the book. In keeping with the spirit of his and Professor Bolkosky’s relationships with survivors\, there will be ample time for conversation and audience engagement. \n  \nHenry (Hank) Greenspan is a psychologist\, oral historian\, and playwright based at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Since the 1970s\, he has conducted in-depth\, ongoing interviews with Holocaust survivors—an approach that reveals the evolving nature of memory and testimony over time. His work departs from one-time testimonies\, instead drawing on sustained relationships and layered conversations spanning months\, years\, and even decades. \nAn accomplished performer\, Greenspan was a finalist for the 2022 Alvin Epstein Memorial Prize for Solo Performance. He has performed REMNANTS across North America\, as well as in Europe and Israel. He currently leads online seminars and workshops focused on survivor narratives and the complexities of interpreting oral history. \n  \nRegistration: \nFor in-person attendance please RSVP to jwraight@umich.edu \nFor online attendance registration is required through this link
URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/event/book-launch-remnants-and-what-remains-moments-from-a-life-among-holocaust-survivors/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:performances and exhibitions,presentations
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SUMMARY:Book Launch:  Strangely Friends:  A History of Cuban-Canadian Encounters
DESCRIPTION:with Karen Dubinsky \nYou are cordially invited to join author Karen Dubinsky on Thursday October 9\, 4-6 pm for a discussion of her new book: Strangely\, Friends: A History of Cuban-Canadian Encounters. \nStrangely\, Friends delves into the rich\, often overlooked history of personal and cultural connections between Cubans and Canadians. From the early days of the Cuban Revolution to the present\, this book uncovers the stories of Canadians who were drawn to Cuba—teachers\, artists\, development aid workers\, filmmakers\, and activists—who left a mark on the island\, and Cubans\, especially the musicians\, who found a home in Canada. Through intimate portraits and serendipitous encounters\, Karen Dubinsky explores how these relationships transcended political ideologies and state policies\, revealing a shared humanity that defies borders. \nWe’ll also hear comments on the book from David Austin (John Abbott College) and Zaira Zarza (University of Montreal). The launch will take place on Thursday\, October 9\, 4-6 pm in the Sunroom at COHDS (LB-1019). \nKaren Dubinsky is an Emeritus Professor at Queen’s University. For many years she co-ordinated and co-taught in a Queen’s exchange program with University of Havana. \nShe has published and edited books on a wide variety of topics\, including the history of gender and sexuality in Canada\, the global 1960s\, adoption and child migration in Canada\, Cuba and Guatemala\, and the politics of music in Cuba. She is a recipient of two teaching awards: the Queen’s University Award for Excellence in Graduate Supervision and the Queen’s Award for International Educational Innovation. \n  \nREGISTRATION  \nRegister now with this link \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)\, COHDS \nCOHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory\, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal.
URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/event/book-launch-strangely-friends-a-history-of-cuban-canadian-encounters/
LOCATION:LB-1019 (Sunroom)\, COHDS\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.\, Montreal\, Québec\, Canada
CATEGORIES:performances and exhibitions,presentations
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SUMMARY:Historical Walking Tour – Photographing Change: Reform and Photography in Little Burgundy
DESCRIPTION:Walking tour participants will meet at the Union United Church at 3007 Rue Delisle\, Montréal\, QC H4C 1M8 at 2:55 pm \n“Photographing Change: Reform and Photography in 1960s Little Burgundy” is a walking tour which invites guests to learn about and engage in discussion on the expropriation photos of Little Burgundy. Taken throughout the 1960s\, these photos show the expropriated homes which were destroyed in the building of the Ville-Marie Expressway and the development of the neighbourhood. Haunting and in some ways violent\, the photos depict the homes of Little Burgundy residents of the 1960s\, depicting the intrusion of city workers in their private domestic lives. Engaging with the story of the historically black neighbourhood and theories of photography\, participants will be invited to discuss the photos and critically examine the role of photography in the expropriation process. Oral history interviews from the COHDS archives are used to expand the image of the neighbourhood depicted in these photographs. We’ll hear the words of community members as we walk through the Little Burgundy today. \nSerafina Swandel is an undergraduate student in Art History at Concordia University. As a student affiliate with COHDS\, her research interests center around the intersections of oral history and craft and the way in which oral history can illuminate craft practices and relationships forged by craft. She is interested in a study of visual and material cultures that is socially and historically informed. \n  \nPhoto description: Man sitting at kitchen table caught in photo. Expropriation photo on St. Martin Street\, May 5\, 1967. Archives Montreal Dossier D1015: VM94-C1015-101. \n 
URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/event/photographing-change-reform-and-photography-in-1960s-little-burgundy/
LOCATION:Meeting at the Union United Church\,\, 3007 Rue Delisle\, Montréal\, H4C 1M8
CATEGORIES:performances and exhibitions,presentations
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SUMMARY:My Dear Theo
DESCRIPTION:With Alisa Kovalenko and Stéphane Siohan \n  \nThe Chair in European Intellectual History of the Munk School\, Marci Shore\, is pleased to collaborate with the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling of Concordia to invite you to the first screening of My Dear Theo (2025) with Alisa Kovalenko and Stéphane Siohan who will share their unique personal experiences from the frontlines of the war in Ukraine. \n  \nAlisa Kovalenko is a Ukrainian award-winning documentary filmmaker whose films are internationally acclaimed. In the early days of the full-scale invasion in 2022\, she joined the ranks and fought in the Ukrainian Volunteer Army alongside the Ukrainian army. Eight years earlier\, at the beginning of the Russian war in Donbass\, Alisa had been taken captive by a Russian separatist unit. Her personal story\, one of courage and resilience\, provides an opportunity to reflect on contemporary Ukrainian history in a more intimate way. \n  \nStéphane Siohan\, Alisa Kovalenko’s partner\, is a senior French reporter specializing in Central and Eastern Europe\, based in Kyiv since 2013. He is the correspondent in Ukraine for the French newspaper Libération\, one of the most experienced international reporters on Ukraine and the author of the first biographical essay in French on President Volodymyr Zelensky. In 2014\, Alisa Kovalenko\, who was documenting the early days of the war in the Donbas\, was taken captive by Russian-backed separatists and Stéphane Siohan headed to the occupied territories to rescue her. Since then\, Stéphane and Alisa have been living together and working together on documentary film projects that chronicle a decade of history in Donbass and Ukraine at war. What Alisa survived during those days in captivity made her promise herself that if the war were to come to all of Ukraine\, she would pick up a gun herself and fight. Eight years later\, the war did come to all of Ukraine. And Alisa parted from Stephane and their four-year son\, Theo\, and joined a Ukrainian battalion. There on the front lines she filmed a video diary for her son. She wanted to show him the landscape “of beauty and death”—and to leave something for him if she were not to return : My Dear Theo. \n  \nStéphane and Alisa worked for ten years\, together or alternately\, in Donbas and on the front lines of Ukraine at war. This screening\, followed by a panel\, will provide a rare opportunity to engage directly with individuals whose lives have been shaped by the full-scale invasion in deeply personal ways. Their willingness to speak candidly will provide invaluable insight into the lived realities of Ukraine behind the headlines. \n  \nREGISTRATION \nPlease note that all our events are free and open to all\, but you need to register! \nRegister here. \nFor any questions\, please contact cohds.chorn@concordia.ca \n  \nLOCATION \nIn-person in the COHDS Sunroom (LB-1019). \nYou will find us on the tenth floor of Concordia’s Library Building\, 1400 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W.\, Montreal\, Quebec. \nCOHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory\, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal.
URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/event/my-dear-theo/
LOCATION:LB-1019 (Sunroom)\, COHDS\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.\, Montreal\, Québec\, Canada
CATEGORIES:presentations
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251112T150000
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SUMMARY:Oral Histories of Migration and Motion: Rábanos Olas Jacarandas Aleonarse
DESCRIPTION:with Nico Contreras\, Sonia Bustos\, and Priscilla Opazo Castillo \n  \nRábanos Olas Jacarandas Aleonarse (2025\, 10min) is an audiovisual collage born out of oral histories of migration\, community\, and the transformative power of art. Through blending interviews and choreographic exploration with Tiohtiá:ke/Montréal-based artists Sonia Bustos and Priscilla Opazo\, the film shares interlinking reflections on political consciousness\, navigating shifting identities across countries of origin and settlement\, and engagement in processes of change. Glimpses of Chile\, Mexico and Canada coexist in a shared space and time\, in a moment of exchange between creative voices. \nThe film screening will be followed by a discussion with the creators. \n  \nPriscilla Opazo Castillo\, an artist and educator from Chile\, has lived in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal since 2017. A self-taught dancer currently training at the Nyata Nyata Centre\, she weaves her path between popular education and artistic research. Her creative experience\, collective and multidisciplinary\, is rooted in an identity fragmented by colonization\, exile\, and violence\, yet rises in resonance with other marginalized voices. A committed feminist\, she envisions art as a living territory of resistance\, healing\, and memory\, where movement frees bodies\, rekindles their connection to the earth\, and nurtures a shared collective consciousness. \n  \nChoreographer and performer born in Mexico and now based in Tiohtiá:ke (Montréal)\, Sonia Bustos is interested in socio-political engagement and the recognition of performers’ creative work. Her artistic research focuses on feminist perspectives\, the Tercera Raíz in Latin America\, memory\, theatricality\, and the relationship with the audience. Pillars of her artistic process include varied bodily states\, the use of voice/text\, the presence of memory-bearing objects\, and non-danced body approaches. Sonia is the interpreter-creator of stage works Intérieur brut\, Je ne vais pas inonder la mer\, Luz : Dentelle\, Luz : Terre and Luz : Écho (in progress). She holds a Master’s degree in dance (UQÀM) and a Bachelor’s degree in theatre (UNAM). \n  \nNico Contreras is an Ecuadorian Canadian interdisciplinary artist\, social worker\, and current doctoral student in Social and Cultural Analysis at Concordia University. A facilitator of reflection and dialogue through creative practice\, he believes in the power of art to transform our conceptions of self and society. His most recent film SAN HEN\, a love letter to Montréal’s Latinx community\, premieres at the Toronto Latin American Film Festival 2025. \n  \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-1042 (ALLLAB)\, COHDS   \nCOHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory\, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal. 
URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/event/oral-histories-of-migration-and-motion-rabanos-olas-jacarandas-aleonarse/
LOCATION:Concordia University\, LB-1042 (COHDS)\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd O\, Montreal
CATEGORIES:performances and exhibitions,presentations
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251119T190000
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SUMMARY:How to Say ‘Longing’ - Cancelled
DESCRIPTION:with Jad Orphée Chami and Noël Vezina \n\n\nJoin us on Wednesday\, November 19th\, at 7 PM\, at the ALLab\, Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling\, for How to say ‘longing’\, a contemplative performance by movement artist Noël Vézina and composer Jad Orphée Chami. \nThis intimate exploration of dualities—music and movement\, composition and improvisation\, the said and the unsaid—delves into the boundaries of closeness\, vulnerability\, and technology. Using a MIDI controller\, a chain of touch-sensitive sensors\, the performers weave a digital soundscape that shifts with their physical interactions\, crafting a dialogue of embodied listening. \n  \nJad Orphée Chami  is a Lebanese-Canadian artist-researcher\, composer and performer born in Beirut and living in Montreal. He notably composed the original music for the feature film Antigone by Sophie Deraspe\, which represented Canada at the 92nd Academy Awards. He was nominated at the age of 21 for the Iris prize for best original music at the 22nd Gala Québec Cinéma\, notably alongside Jean-Michel Blais and Howard Shore. After having provided the soundtracks for more than fifteen short films and three web series\, he composed his second film score in 2023 in collaboration with director Eli Jean Tahchi for the documentary Dorchester: In the Midst of the Fray\, produced by Jonah Mallak (Nemesis Films). \nIn addition to his music work for the image\, he composes and designs works for the contemporary scene\, notably for the École de Danse Contemporaine de Montréal and for the Acts of Listening Lab in collaboration with the Center for Restorative Justice. He explores through research-creation the dialogue between music and oral history. In 2022\, he is part of a trio of artists commissioned by the MAI for the realization of the work Justement (en)raciner on the theme of Justice\, among others alongside Kimura Byol-Lemoine\, Angelina Guo and Moe Clark. The same year\, he presented with Noël Vézina the performance How to say ‘longing’\, mixing dance-theatre\, music and new technologies\, at the RIPA performance evening. The testimonies of the disappeared from Lebanon are central to his approach. He is affiliated with the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling and is developing his oral history performance Rhapsody for the disappeared. \nHe is also interested in contemporary issues of art and presents conferences on themes such as the question of the author\, the ethics of research-creation and gender and sexuality in music history. \n  \n Noël Vezina is a queer\, interdisciplinary\, dance and movement artist based in Montreal (Tiohtiá:ke / Mooniyang). Largely self-taught\, her process is highly intuitive and organic. Approaching performance as a tool to connect deeply\, to herself and to others\, her work often takes on ephemeral and intimate forms. \nNoël’s latest accomplishments include: presenting Stardust and Parallax with Festival Quartiers Danses (2021)\, sharing a first version of a cloud\, a distance (September 2020)\, creating We live together now – a video performance presented by Sanskar Festival (August 2020) and Festival Bouge D’ici (March 2021)\, performing 05062020live via Zoom for National AccessAbility Week with the DisAbled Women’s Network of Canada (June 2020)\, and her ongoing collaboration with A Safe Space\, initiated by Nicholas Bellefleur in 2019. In February 2020 she hosted the first of many editions of 5×8/6 – a free-from experimental performance evening that takes place in her kitchen – where she premiered Soft Warm Light (an autobiographical solo piece in progress). \nNoël is one sixth of the winning team of the 2021 Dansathon in Liège\, recognized for their imagining of ‘the future of dance’ through a new interactive performance experience The \nLiving Room. They will continue questioning the place of technology in promoting embodiment soon\, with the support of the Maison de la Danse de Lyon\, Sadler’s Wells and the Théâtre de Liège. \nNoël strives to be radically soft\, honest and vulnerable. She values not-knowing and never perfecting. To be kind and loving is essential. \n  \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-1042 (ALLLAB)\, COHDS   \nCOHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory\, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal. 
URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/event/how-to-say-longing-2/
LOCATION:Concordia University\, LB-1042 (COHDS)\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd O\, Montreal
CATEGORIES:performances and exhibitions,presentations
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SUMMARY:CONECTADAS: la doble vía de la escucha y del habla / Connected: The Two-way Path of Listening and Speaking
DESCRIPTION:Held in Spanish with consecutive interpretation by Franklin R. Bonivento. \nIn this event Constanza Ramírez Molano ends her residency at the ALlab by presenting two interviews carried out with the method CONNECTED. This method proposes a journey from the intimate to the collective through narration\, listening\, and dialogue. It begins with mutual recognition between interviewer and interviewee\, giving value to personal stories of care and attachment to life. Listening is understood as an act of hospitality and ethical responsibility\, welcoming the other’s words without imposing prejudice. The testimonies\, recorded in audio or video\, become shared memory when brought into collective reflection\, where the personal acquires common meaning and transformative power. Finally\, the social circulation of these voices opens possibilities for new forms of citizenship and the construction of peace.  \nCreators of the method: Luz Marina Monzón\, Hugo Andrés Rincón\, and Constanza Ramírez.  \n  \nREGISTRATION \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\, please contact cohds.chorn@concordia.ca \n  \nLOCATION \nIn-person in the ALLAB (LB-1042). You will find us on the tenth floor of Concordia’s Library Building\, 1400 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W.\, Montreal\, Quebec. \nCOHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory\, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal. \n 
URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/event/conectadas-la-doble-via-de-la-escucha-y-del-habla-connected-the-two-way-path-of-listening-and-speaking/
LOCATION:Concordia University LB-1042 (COHDS)\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd O\, Montreal
CATEGORIES:presentations
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260122T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260122T120000
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SUMMARY:Deep Listening to Life Stories
DESCRIPTION:With Steven High \nThe workshop will invite you to engage deeply with a videotaped interview of a Rwandan genocide survivor recorded as part of the Montreal Life Stories project. We will explore different ways of interpreting an interview recording and transcription including narrative analysis\, life course visualization\, analysis of emotion\, etc.  We will send the interview link to those registered ten days before the workshop. It is essential that everyone attending listen to the interview and take some notes for reference. \nSteven High is Professor of History and has published extensively in oral history. He co-founded Concordia’s Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling (COHDS) and led the prize-winning Montreal Life Stories project from 2005 until 2012\, where he worked in close partnership with survivor groups\, which recorded the life stories of 500 survivors of mass violence\, as well as the Living Archives of Rwandan Exiles and Survivors. \n  \nREGISTRATION  \nRegister now with this link \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)\, Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling (COHDS)\, Concordia University\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West\, J.W. McConnell Building (Library Building). \nCOHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory\, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal. \n  \nPlease note: All those registered will need to be provided with the following link upon registration for this workshop and no later than Monday\, January 12: \nInterview with Valerie Fernandez \nREFUGEE YOUTH WORKING GROUP  \nhttps://vimeo.com/showcase/11167762 \nPassword: RYWG2024
URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/event/deep-listening-to-life-stories-2/
LOCATION:LB-1019 (Sunroom)\, COHDS\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.\, Montreal\, Québec\, Canada
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260128T180000
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SUMMARY:Screening of Hommes-relais\, Becoming Ruby and Red Girl Rising
DESCRIPTION:With Vladimir Chindea and HotDocs \n  \nWe 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 evoke powerful emotional engagement. \nHommes-relais explores experiences of grief and adaptation within the Quebec immigration process\, following a group of men who meet regularly to share their stories and develop tools to navigate life in a new home. \nBecoming Ruby follows Ruby Chopstix\, Canada’s first drag artist-in-residence\, as they confront the challenges of underrepresentation and create a showcase that opens space for other queer BIPOC performers. \nFinally\, Red Girl Rising highlights the work of Mohawk matriarch\, retired teacher\, activist\, and humanitarian Joyce Jonathan Crone\, whose compassionate efforts in her Huntsville\, Ontario community help bridge divides and strengthen Indigenous education. \nFollowing the screening\, we are honoured to host a roundtable discussion with Vladimir Chindea\, director of Hommes-relais. \n  \nVladimir Chindea is a Romanian-Canadian filmmaker currently completing the MFA in Cinematic Arts at Concordia University. His work explores themes of migration\, memory\, and existential inquiry. He directed/produced the short film Remember (2022) and regularly collaborates on both narrative and non-fiction projects as an assistant director. Vladimir holds a BA (Honours) in Philosophy and International Relations from the University of British Columbia. Trained as an ‘Homme-relais’ himself\, it was the light of the CRIC community and the felt inspiration from Juan Manuel that guided him to direct this documentary debut. \n  \nREGISTRATION  \nRegister now with this link \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-1042 (Acts of Listening Lab)\, Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling (COHDS)\, Concordia University\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West\, J.W. McConnell Building (Library Building). \nCOHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory\, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal.
URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/event/screening-of-hommes-relais-becoming-rubi-and-red-girl-rising/
LOCATION:Concordia University\, LB-1042 (COHDS)\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd O\, Montreal
CATEGORIES:performances and exhibitions,presentations
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SUMMARY:Symposium Channels of Testimony: Artistic Mediations of Listening
DESCRIPTION:How does art channel and reshape the way we listen to lived experience? \nJoin 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 practice. This symposium brings together innovative practitioners working at the intersection of oral history\, performance\, sound\, and socially engaged art. Together\, we’ll delve into the practical and theoretical challenges of transforming real-life stories into artistic forms \n\n\nSpeakers and Projects \nT Braun and Franklin van Grieken \nSentir la Luz/Sense the Light  \nA research-creation project that investigates how digital mediation and virtual reality\, sound\, and light reshapes perception and listening in a group of people with visual impairment. This project is carried out in collaboration with Kim Sawchuk\, Kara Paul\, and Teatro Ciego. \n\nVanessa Terán and María Fernanda del Real  \nSucúa Haven \nMigrant Stories: Embodied Listening Lab \nInspired by Sucúa Haven\, a collection of migration stories created with Ecuadorian in Connecticut (United States)\, a group of Latin diaspora participants in Montreal (Canada)\, as well as Ecuadorians and other Latin American immigrants in Quito (Ecuador)\, will reflect on their own migratory experiences and create performances of embodied testimonies that places Sucúa Haven stories in dialogue with their own. \n  \nPeng Hsu \nCucumbers\, The Melancholy of a Turtle and a Girl’s Otaku’s Romance \nA novel/play creative project that explores BBR. BBR\, short for Broke Broke Recitation\, is my translation of the Mandarin term 碎碎唸 (siu siu nian)\, a phrase commonly used in Taiwan and China to describe how women chatter incessantly about daily and seemingly banal trivialities. Theorized here as a technique of queer narration\, BBR functions as a dramaturgical writing style through which the project examines housing justice\, an endangered turtle\, and the inarticulable experiences of constipation and yearning of romance. \n\nModerator \nLuis C. Sotelo Castro \nDirector\, Acts of Listening Lab (Concordia University) \nDiscussant \nAmy Starecheski \nDirector\, Oral History Master of Arts Program (Columbia University) \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nREGISTRATION \n\nThis is a hybrid event.\nRegister in person with this link\n\nRegister for zoom with this link \n\nLOCATION \nIn-person at the 4TH SPACE\, Concordia University\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West\, J.W. McConnell Building (Library Building). \nCOHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory\, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal.
URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/event/symposium-channels-of-testimony-artistic-mediations-of-listening/
CATEGORIES:performances and exhibitions,presentations,Roundtable/table ronde
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260401T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260401T150000
DTSTAMP:20260325T210813Z
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SUMMARY:Faire parler les sons de la ville. Réflexions sur les ambiances et les paysages sonores en tant que récits géographiques
DESCRIPTION:With Violaine Jolivet \n  \nWhat story (city) sounds tell us? Reflections on ambiances and soundscapes as geographical narratives \nThis research presentation aims to show how the sounds produced and perceived by individuals and groups can be understood as possible narratives about the places we inhabit and study. Based on interviews conducted as part of my research in urban geography\, I consider ambiences or soundscapes as narratives about territories\, allowing for a descriptive and analytical approach to the neighborhoods and cities I study. Whether produced\, designed\, or experienced\, sounds depend on our architectural\, social\, aesthetic\, political\, and technical environments\, but above all on our sensory experience of space. \n  \nViolaine Jolivet has been a professor of geography at the University of Montreal since 2012\, after obtaining a PhD from Paris Panthéon-Sorbonne 1 and completing postdoctoral studies in New York (CUNY). Her expertise lies at the intersection of urban and migration studies\, using comparative methods. Her research focuses on transnational mobility\, gentrification\, and resistance to displacement in Havana and Montreal. \nDocumentaries – video and audio\, sound maps\, narrative cartography\, and hybrid methodologies strongly influence her research.Looking on several of my past and ongoing research projects\, she would like to discuss how sounds have influenced her practice and methods\, particularly field recording and sound maps\, and present some more general reflections on sounds as narratives. \n  \nREGISTRATION  \nRegister now with this link \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)\, Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling (COHDS)\, Concordia University\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West\, J.W. McConnell Building (Library Building). \nCOHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory\, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal.
URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/event/faire-parler-les-sons-de-la-ville-reflexions-sur-les-ambiances-et-les-paysages-sonores-en-tant-que-recits-geographiques/
LOCATION:LB-1019 (Sunroom)\, COHDS\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.\, Montreal\, Québec\, Canada
CATEGORIES:presentations
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260410T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260410T150000
DTSTAMP:20260325T211459Z
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SUMMARY:Montreal Book Launch of Gaza: The Dream and the Nightmare
DESCRIPTION:With Julie Norman \n  \nIn this urgent and compelling book\, Julie M. Norman and Maia Carter Hallward tell the story of Gaza from its early foundations\, across decades of occupation\, to the devastation of the ongoing war. Rather than focusing on elites or abstract politics\, at the book’s heart are ordinary Gazans – students\, aid workers\, journalists\, and teachers – whose first-hand testimonies vividly illuminate the realities behind the headlines. \nRefusing to sensationalize or oversimplify\, the book reckons with the legal\, moral\, and humanitarian debates surrounding Gaza\, from war crimes investigations to the contested meaning of resistance and the politicization of aid. Combining a nuanced narrative with hard-hitting reflections from everyday Gazans\, the book serves as a timely and necessary disruption of media cliches and political binaries\, and from the perspectives of its own people. \n  \nJulie Norman is Associate Professor of Politics and International Relations at University College London and Senior Associate Fellow on the Middle East at the Royal United Services Institute. Previously she taught in the Political Science Department at \nConcordia University and served as Co-Director of the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling. \n  \nREGISTRATION  \nRegister now with this link \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)\, Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling (COHDS)\, Concordia University\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West\, J.W. McConnell Building (Library Building). \nCOHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory\, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal.
URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/event/montreal-book-launch-of-gaza-the-dream-and-the-nightmare/
LOCATION:LB-1019 (Sunroom)\, COHDS\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.\, Montreal\, Québec\, Canada
CATEGORIES:presentations
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260417T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260417T160000
DTSTAMP:20260416T163248Z
CREATED:20251218T215621Z
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SUMMARY:Ethics in Research:  How to Apply for  Ethics Certification
DESCRIPTION:With Barbara Lorenzkowski\, Tesfa Peterson\, Franklin Bonivento Van Grieken and Derek Xavier Garcia \nTo obtain the informed consent of our research participants is both an ethical and institutional obligation for oral historians working at Canadian universities. This workshop seeks to demystify the process of applying for ethics certification. Three emerging scholars will reflect on their experiences in navigating this process and discuss how they have translated the ethos of “sharing authority” into the formal language of their ethics applications. Meanwhile\, Lead Co-Director Barbara Lorenzkowski will provide hands-on guidance on how to prepare an ethics application for your own thesis research at Concordia. Registered participants will be provided with examples of successful ethics applications\, including consent forms. \nBarbara Lorenzkowski is an oral historian of childhood and youth whose work explores the ways in which global processes of migration\, displacement\, and violence have shaped small people’s lives in outsized ways. She recently published the co-edited anthology Small Stories of War: Children\, Youth\, and Conflict in Canada and Beyond (with Kristine Alexander and Andrew Burt\, McGill-Queen’s University Press 2023) and is currently completing a FQRSC-funded book project The Children’s War\, a large-scale oral history project on children’s sensuous and emotional life-worlds in Atlantic Canada during the Second World War. Dr. Lorenzkowski is the Lead Co-Director of COHDS. \nTesfa Aki Peterson is a public humanities researcher and community-based scholar whose work centers Caribbean history\, feminist postcolonial thought\, and participatory storytelling. As a student in the PhD Humanities program at Concordia University\, her current project traces the life and legacy of Helen Louise Langdon Norton Little\, a woman born in LaDigue\, Grenada in the late nineteenth century\, whose life connected Grenada\, Montreal\, and the American Midwest. Helen Little was active in the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) in Montreal and was the mother of eight children\, including civil rights leader Malcolm X. Grounded in community knowledge and Caribbean feminist and postcolonial perspectives\, her work asks how public humanities can preserve and honor lives that have been marginalized by colonial archives\, while creating inclusive\, intergenerational spaces for learning in both Grenada and the diaspora. Since 2020\, she has collaborated with the Institute for People’s Enlightenment in the Grenadian village of LaDigue to organize lectures\, storytelling sessions\, and public conversations that center local voices and oral histories. Additionally\, the project also extends to Montreal through an oral history and ritual storytelling podcast documenting Grenadian women’s community organizing. Across storybooks\, podcasts\, workshops\, and public events\, Tesfa’s work models a decolonial public humanities rooted in care\, collaboration\, and community memory. \nFranklin Bonivento Van Grieken  studied Anthropology (honor degree\, 2019) and has a master’s degree in History (Cum Laude thesis\, 2022) at the National University of Colombia in Bogotá\, Colombia. As a son\, and grandson\, of indigenous Wayuu women\, and as a son of a Jewish man\, his academic life has been focused on comprehending his own roots and finding ways to communicate them\, as well as on Caribbean history\, Wayuu people cosmovision\, oralities\, migrations\, frontiers\, and musicology. In that respect\, he has explored different formats such as essays\, creative narratives\, and since 2015 he has been engaged in radio broadcasting and podcasting. This experience of creation has served as a form to make and show research: exploring the sound-essays\, radio-documentaries\, podcasting\, among others. He has worked\, too\, in museography\, writing books\, fieldwork\, and has always considered interdisciplinary work more of a conviction than an option\, jumping between the boundaries of disciplines to have big conversations and to find methods and techniques to apprehend our reality\, therefore finding new questions\, new responses\, and new audiences. \nDerek Xavier Garcia is a PhD candidate in the Department of History at Concordia University\, Montréal\, and a 2025–2026 Scholar-in-Residence at the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling. He was previously a 2023–2024 Mellon Foundation Resident Scholar in Latino Studies at the School for Advanced Research in Santa Fe\, New Mexico. His research falls at the intersections of the culture\, memory\, and history of Mexican American activist movements\, particularly at the first Mexican American college in the United States\, Colegio Jacinto Treviño (1969-1976). He has published in American Quarterly and Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies. \n  \nREGISTRATION  \nRegister now with this link \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)\, Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling (COHDS)\, Concordia University\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West\, J.W. McConnell Building (Library Building). \nCOHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory\, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal.
URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/event/ethics-in-research-how-to-apply-for-ethics-certification-2/
LOCATION:LB-1019 (Sunroom)\, COHDS\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.\, Montreal\, Québec\, Canada
CATEGORIES:presentations
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260501T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260501T160000
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SUMMARY:Cooking With COHDS:  Palacsintá – Sharing Stories and Pancakes from the Hungarian Montreal Community
DESCRIPTION:With Sonya Di Sclafani \n  \nIn Montreal’s Hungarian community\, food is not only a reflection of stability\, tradition\, and assimilation\, but also carries meanings of family\, nostalgia\, and joy. Palacsintá\, a sweet or savory Hungarian crêpe\, is a well-loved and easy dish that can be filled with jam\, ground walnut purée\, farmer’s cheese\, cabbage\, and meats. In this workshop we will learn to make palacsintá and create both a sweet and a savory filling. To accompany us\, a member of the Hungarian diaspora in Montreal will be invited to share their recollections of palacsintá and other food practices of the community. \nThis workshop on foodways in the Hungarian diaspora forms part of my larger research project on the history of Hungarian-Canadian refugees and their descendants who made Montreal home in the mid-twentieth century. In my oral history fieldwork\, I turn to women’s memories of foodways as a way of tracing the intergenerational\, interethnic\, and gendered dynamics of forced migration and homemaking by Hungarian Canadian women in the second half of the twentieth century. I hope that you can join us! \n  \nSonya Di Sclafani is a MA student (History) at Concordia University\, where she previously completed both a BFA in Photography and Art History and a BA Honours in History\, with a minor in English Literature. She is interested in exploring experiences of migration\, cross-cultural contact\, East European history\, and Jewish history. Her MA thesis examines the history of Montreal’s Hungarian diaspora\, with a particular eye to gendered foodways and food as a means of cultural continuity and disruption. Drawing on newspaper and archival research\, she has begun to map the culinary landscape of Hungarian restaurants and food speciality stores in Montreal that provided spaces for inter-ethnic encounters\, fondly remembered in some of the oral history interviews she conducted to date. \n  \nREGISTRATION  \nRegister now with this link \nAs part of our exploration of Hungarian foodways and oral histories\, we will be preparing and eating a small meal together. Given space constraints\, we need to limit the number of participants to fifteen. We will purchase food items based on the number of registered attendees. Should you be unable to attend\, may we ask that you let us know at least one week in advance? We’d then be able to calibrate our food purchases accordingly and/or offer your spot to a participant on the waiting list. \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 at “The SHIFT Centre for Social Transformation\,” LB-145\, Concordia University\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West\, J.W. McConnell Building (Library Building). \nCOHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory\, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal.
URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/event/cooking-with-cohds-palacsinta-sharing-stories-and-pancakes-from-the-hungarian-montreal-community/
LOCATION:Concordia’s SHIFT Centre for Social Transformation (LB-145)\, 1400 Boulevard de Maisonneuve Ouest\, Montréal
CATEGORIES:presentations,workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261112T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261112T150000
DTSTAMP:20260723T164607Z
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SUMMARY:Récit des cicatrices
DESCRIPTION:Avec Marie-Josée Gicali \n\nTrente ans après le génocide perpétré contre les Tutsi du Rwanda\, les séquelles physiques et psychologiques demeurent profondément inscrites dans les corps\, les esprits et la mémoire des personnes rescapées. \nCet atelier vise à partager avec le public la démarche entreprise pour recueillir les récits de personnes rescapées portant les cicatrices des blessures et des mutilations infligées durant le génocide. À travers la photographie de ces cicatrices et l’enregistrement audiovisuel de leurs témoignages\, ce projet donne à entendre les histoires qui se cachent derrière chaque marque laissée sur le corps. Il cherche ainsi à préserver\, transmettre et partager une mémoire vivante\, en faisant des cicatrices les témoins d’une histoire individuelle et collective. \n\nMarie-Josée Gicali (Ph-D) est rescapée du génocide perpétré contre les Tutsi au Rwanda\, auteure et artiste-chercheure. Ses travaux portent sur la mémoire\, la transmission et les récits du génocide. Chercheure indépendante et affiliée au COHDS\, elle mène un projet de recherche photographique et documentaire sur les cicatrices visibles laissées par le génocide\, soutenu par le Conseil des arts du Canada. Elle est également fondatrice d’EJO ARTS & CULTURE\, un organisme dédié à la création et à la transmission de la mémoire par l’art\, l’éducation et la recherche. \n\nINSCRIPTION \nInscrivez-vous ici.Veuillez noter que tous nos événements sont gratuits et ouverts à toutes et à tous. Cependant\, vous devez réserver votre place. \nPour participer à l’événement en présentiel évrivez à: cohds.chorn@concordia.ca \n  \nLIEU \nLe CHORN/ALLAB sont situés sur le territoire non-cédé de Kanien’kehá:ka à Tiohtiá:ke/Montréal. \nEn personne à LB-1019 (salle Sunroom)\, Centre d’histoire orale et de narration numérique (COHDS)\, Université Concordia\, 1400 boulevard de Maisonneuve Ouest\, pavillon J.-W. McConnell (pavillon de la Bibliothèque).
URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/event/recit-des-cicatrices/
LOCATION:LB-1019 (Sunroom)\, COHDS\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.\, Montreal\, Québec\, Canada
CATEGORIES:presentations
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261119T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261119T150000
DTSTAMP:20260720T190604Z
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SUMMARY:Getting Personal: working with family stories
DESCRIPTION:With Anna Sheftel \n  \nOral historians are increasingly using their recorders closer to home\, to try and understand the lives and legacies of their own families. This is often in the context of violence\, migration\, and diasporic experience. We study our families not just for our own benefit\, but also because we know that the personal is political\, and that the lives of our own parents\, grandparents and ancestors can help us to make sense of broader social\, cultural and political dynamics. What does it mean to do very intimate historical work and then to share that with the world? In this workshop\, we will discuss the opportunities and challenges of documenting family histories\, including questions of silences\, interpretive authority\, intersubjectivity and who has the right to tell what stories. \nAnna Sheftel is Principal of the School of Community and Public Affairs at Concordia University. She has published extensively on oral history methodology\, ethics and pedagogy\, with a focus on collaborative and community-engaged practices and listening to difficult stories. She is internationally recognized for these publications\, most notably for Oral History Off the Record: Toward an Ethnography of Practice (Palgrave Macmillan\, 2013)\, co-edited with Stacey Zembrzycki\, which won the OHA’s 2014 Book Award\, and for her article\, “Talking and Not Talking about Violence: Challenges in Interviewing Survivors of Atrocity as Whole People\,” which won the OHA’s 2019 Article Award. \n  \n\n\nREGISTRATION \nRegister now with this link \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)\, Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling (COHDS)\, Concordia University\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West\, J.W. McConnell Building (Library Building). \nCOHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory\, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal.
URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/event/getting-personal-working-with-family-stories/
LOCATION:LB-1019 (Sunroom)\, COHDS\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.\, Montreal\, Québec\, Canada
CATEGORIES:presentations
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