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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
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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
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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/
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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/
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