BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//COHDS - ECPv6.16.3//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:COHDS X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca X-WR-CALDESC:Events for COHDS REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20230312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20231105T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20240310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20241103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20250309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20251102T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20260308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20261101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20270314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20271107T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260327T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260327T160000 DTSTAMP:20260611T012609 CREATED:20260312T192301Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260318T163051Z UID:25626-1774620000-1774627200@storytelling.concordia.ca 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/07567f04-97a6-4417-9f21-eb316d3c43c3.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260206T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260206T150000 DTSTAMP:20260611T012609 CREATED:20260122T191849Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260326T193707Z UID:25213-1770382800-1770390000@storytelling.concordia.ca SUMMARY:Working with Communities: A Conversation on Navigating Relationships DESCRIPTION:Photo description: Marjorie Villefranche in a collective oral history interview at La Maison d’Haïti \n  \nWith Philippe Blouin\, Michael Ferguson\, Cassandra Marsillo\, Tesfa Peterson\, Léa Denieul Pinsky\, and Désirée Rochat \n  \nThis conversation explores a central topic: How do oral historians navigate the web of relationships that tie them to the community they are working with? \nOver many years\, the six panelists have worked closely with the Mohawk Mothers and Duplessis Orphans (Philippe Blouin & Léa Denieul Pinsky); a Lebanese community in Leamington\, Ontario that has maintained deep connection to its homeland (Michael Ferguson); Molisan Italian-Canadians in Montreal\, who are telling stories about immigration\, identity\, collective memory\, food\, and folklore (Cassandra Marsillo); the Institute for People’s Enlightenment in the Grenadian village of LaDigue that cultivates inclusive and intergenerational spaces for learning (Tesfa Peterson); and Black communities in Quebec whose knowledge activism has generated practices of community archiving and popular pedagogy. \nSome of the panelists are members of the communities they study; others have been welcomed into the community. Yet\, for all panelists\, relationality lies at the core of their commitment to non-extractivist research. Their research affords an extended contemplation of the principle of “Shared Authority\,” so foundational to our work at COHDS. In essence\, they write\, we are reflecting on what we are doing to try and “make oral history a more democratic cultural practice.” (Zembrzycki\, 2009) \nBy attempting to tell complex and layered histories that centre knowledge generated by and with communities\, researchers develop multi-faceted ways to work collaboratively. In this conversation\, we will reflect on experiences of working in community toward a shared goal – to shed light on history. The discussion will centre around five questions: \n  \n𖥔 How do we reaffirm ongoing commitments as projects evolve? \n𖥔 How do we manage different temporalities and rhythms due to the multiplicity of actors involved? \n𖥔 What kind of challenges emerge from sharing authority? \n𖥔 How are positionality and relationality negotiated? \n𖥔 How do we protect vulnerable community members from other forms of extractivism? \n  \nThese questions will act as a springboard into a broader conversation with the audience. This conversation will be moderated by Barbara Lorenzkowski. \n  \nPhilippe Blouin (he/him) is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Criminology at the University of Ottawa. As part of his doctoral research in anthropology at McGill University\, he studied the role of the Two Row Wampum as a diplomatic protocol based on respect for difference in the Mohawk Mothers’ and Duplessis Orphans’ searches for unmarked graves. He coordinated the publication of the oral history book\, The Mohawk Warrior Society: A Handbook on Sovereignty and Survival (2023 PM Press) and published articles in journals such as The South Atlantic Quarterly and PoLAR: Political\, and Legal Anthropology Review. \nMichael Ferguson is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Concordia University. His research focuses on the history of migration and slavery in the Ottoman Empire\, the modern Middle East\, and its diasporas. He has worked with two different communities on oral history projects: Afro-Turks (who trace their history through enslavement) in the Turkish port city of Izmir and a Lebanese community in Leamington\, Ontario. \nCassandra Marsillo is an oral and public historian\, artist\, and writer\, based in Tiohtià:ke (Montreal)\, telling and listening to stories about immigration\, identity\, collective memory\, food\, and folklore\, particularly in relation to the Italian-Canadian experience and traditions from her family’s region\, Molise. In 2019\, she completed her Master’s project–The Yellow Line: Italo-Canadian Oral Histories from Montreal’s Backyards and Schoolyards–in Public History at Carleton University. The project culminated in an exhibit co-curated with the project’s six narrators. She is the author of Dalla valigia alla tavola: A journey through Molisan culinary heritage\, a community project done in collaboration with the Federazione delle associazioni molisane del Quebec. Currently\, she teaches in the Department of History at Dawson College and is pursuing her PhD at Concordia University on the development of Italian-Canadian cuisine and food identity in Montreal. \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. \nLéa Denieul Pinsky is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS). Working collaboratively with artists\, community leaders\, and activists\, she conducts research on place\, memory\, and indigenous-settler alliances. Her current postdoctoral projects\, carried out with the Mohawk Mothers and the Duplessis orphans\, aim to develop community-centred memory work and ethics of care as tools for repairing urban sites marked by state-perpetrated violence. \nDésirée Rochat is a community educator\, transdisciplinary scholar\, and Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Concordia University. She works to document and transmit histories of Black communities’ activism in Quebec in the 20th century\, with a focus on knowledge activism. Her collaborative approach bridges historical research\, community archiving and popular pedagogy to preserve and promote Black community archives. She co-edited Statesman of the Piano: Jazz\, Race\, and History in the Life of Lou Hooper\, with historians Sean Mills et Eric Fillion. Her latest project\, “Black lives in/and archives” fosters an archival ecosystem to cultivate archives of Black lives. \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. \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. \n  \nLOCATION \nThe round-table conversation will take place in our Sunroom (LB-1019) \, Concordia University\, Library Building\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W. \nFor any questions regarding this event please contact cohds.chorn@concordia.ca \nCOHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory\, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal. URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/event/working-with-communities-a-conversation-on-navigating-relationships/ LOCATION:LB-1019 (Sunroom)\, COHDS\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.\, Montreal\, Québec\, Canada CATEGORIES:Roundtable/table ronde ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/IMG_6210-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251120T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251120T140000 DTSTAMP:20260611T012609 CREATED:20250918T192719Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251117T204509Z UID:24033-1763641800-1763647200@storytelling.concordia.ca SUMMARY:Brown Bag Metting: Listening and Perspective-Taking DESCRIPTION:This Brown Bag Meeting will be an informal\, lunchtime conversation between Mireille Paquet (Concordia Research Chair on the Politics of Immigration; Director of IRMS) and Luis C. Sotelo Castro (Director of the Acts of Listening Lab\, Department of Theatre\, Concordia).  \nThe session will explore the intersection of Perspective Taking and Active Listening\, two frameworks that resonate strongly with the work of both IRMS and ALLab. Rather than a formal lecture\, the gathering is designed as an open\, reflective exchange\, encouraging questions and dialogue from participants.  \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. URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/event/brown-bag-metting-listening-and-perspective-taking/ LOCATION:Concordia University\, LB-1042 (COHDS)\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd O\, Montreal CATEGORIES:Roundtable/table ronde ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/4.-Brown-Bag-Metting-Listening-and-Perspective-Taking.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251107T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251107T150000 DTSTAMP:20260611T012609 CREATED:20250918T185840Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251001T173453Z UID:24028-1762520400-1762527600@storytelling.concordia.ca SUMMARY:Queer Oral History DESCRIPTION:With Gabryelle Iaconetti and Liam Devitt \nThe workshop and discussion will offer reflections on methodological and ethical approaches to undertaking queer oral history in research. How does one conduct oral history interviews with queer narrators? What is particular about queer oral history? How has oral testimony been significant in the figuration of queer histories? \nThis panels brings together historians Gabryelle Iaconetti and Liam Devitt\, who use oral histories in their various research milieus related to queer labour and activism. \n  \nGabryelle Iaconetti is a third-year PhD student at Concordia University in Montreal\, Quebec\, working under the supervision of Dr. Rachel Berger. She holds a BA and MA in History from Concordia University and MISt (Master of Information Studies) from McGill University. Her research interests lie at the intersections of bisexual history\, oral history\, queer space\, queer theory and archives. \nLiam Devitt is a labour historian\, writer\, and research worker based in Tiohti:áke/Montréal. Their MA thesis “Gay Steel Mill” (Concordia University\, 2024) examined how deindustrialization affected queer communities in Cape Breton. Currently\, they are the Associate Director of “Deindustrialization and the Politics of Our Time” (deindustrialization.org)\, a SSHRC Partnership grant project examining histories and contemporary lived experiences of deindustrialization. They are also General Coordinator of their union\, CARE (PSAC 12501)\, organizing for job security\, fair wages\, and workplace justice. \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 COHDS Sunroom (LB-1019). You will find us on the tenth floor of \nConcordia’s Library Building\, 1450 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/queer-oral-history-2/ LOCATION:LB-1019 (Sunroom)\, COHDS\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.\, Montreal\, Québec\, Canada CATEGORIES:Roundtable/table ronde,workshops ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Queer-Oral-History-e1758740023311.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251006T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251006T120000 DTSTAMP:20260611T012609 CREATED:20250924T182124Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250924T182124Z UID:24083-1759744800-1759752000@storytelling.concordia.ca SUMMARY:Radio Elsewheres at COHDS DESCRIPTION:Join the Radio Elsewheres collective for a two-hour event introducing our ongoing radio art project and offering a preview of its upcoming third edition. The next iteration\, [re.03]\, will take place from October 16 to November 5\, 2025\, at Art Windsor-Essex\, presented within Elsewhere\, on Record — a solo exhibition by Velibor Božović curated by Emily McKibbon. \nSince its inception in 2023\, Radio Elsewheres has activated temporary transmission hubs in Bihać\, Sarajevo\, and now Windsor\, gathering field recordings\, radio essays\, sonic compositions\, and conversations that engage with memory\, belonging\, displacement\, and resistance. Drawing from an open call and commissioned works from 18 countries\, [re.03] will feature transmissions from borderlands visible and invisible — from river corridors to airport halls\, from refugee routes to garden edges. \nThis event will include audio excerpts\, curatorial reflections\, and an open conversation with the collective\, offering a glimpse into how radio can become a space of shared listening\, imagination\, and solidarity beyond the map. \nCome listen\, come ask\, come tune in. \n  \nSteve Bates is an artist\, musician and curator. In addition to his own work\, he operates The Dim Coast\, a small-scale curatorial\, sound art and music label. His work has been exhibited and performed in Canada\, the United States of America\, Europe\, Chile and Senegal. He works in the field\, on the air\, in museological/gallery and performance contexts. These shifting territories reflect the content of his practice. \nDr. Claudia Zini is an art historian\, curator\, and educator. She is also the founder and CEO of Kuma International\, a center dedicated to researching and promoting understanding of visual arts from post-conflict societies. Originally from Italy\, she moved to Sarajevo\, Bosnia and Herzegovina\, in 2015\, exploring the intersections of art\, memory\, and healing in post-war contexts. She holds a PhD from the Courtauld Institute of Art in London and has extensive experience in curating\, teaching\, and writing on contemporary art. Through Kuma she has led exhibitions\, publications\, and eight editions of its international summer school. \nVelibor Božović\, originally from Sarajevo\, Bosnia-Herzegovina\, earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in Studio Arts at Concordia University where he now teaches. His work explores how images and sound shape memory and how they operate in the space where the historical\, the fictional and the personal interrelate. His projects have been supported by the Canada Council for the Arts and by Conseil des arts et des lettres du Quebec (CALQ). In 2015 he was awarded the Claudine and Stephen Bronfman Fellowship in Contemporary Art. His work has been exhibited in Canada and internationally. \n  \nREGISTRATION \nPlease note that all our events are free and open to all\, but you need to register! \nThis is an online event. \nTo attend\, please register here. \nFor any questions\, please contact cohds.chorn@concordia.ca \n  \nCOHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory\, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal. URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/event/radio-elsewheres-at-cohds/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:Roundtable/table ronde ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Picture1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250429T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250429T160000 DTSTAMP:20260611T012609 CREATED:20250226T200442Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250429T172408Z UID:22419-1745935200-1745942400@storytelling.concordia.ca SUMMARY:Casual COHDS DESCRIPTION:Join us for another session of “Casual COHDS\,” a monthly drop-in event for members of the COHDS community and anyone curious about oral history to gather\, converse\, and connect over coffee\, tea\, and snacks in a relaxed setting. If you would like to meet other members of the COHDS community\, or simply take a moment to pause\, recharge\, and connect with other oral history practitioners and enthusiasts\, “Casual COHDS” is an opportunity to foster these exchanges. Held in the afternoon\, each monthly meeting will be loosely designed around a theme\, to get the conversation started. For our gathering in March\, participants are invited to bring a favourite story around an interview encounter or a photograph that they would like to share — or to simply bring themselves. We look forward to welcoming you on Tuesday\, April 29th\, anytime between 14:00 and 16:30 p.m. in the Sunroom (LB- 1019). \nKelann Currie-Williams (they/she) is a writer\, visual artist\, and oral historian based in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal. Kelann is a PhD student at Concordia University’s Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture\, working at the intersections of Visual Culture\, History\, Black Studies\, and Cultural Studies. Their research focuses on the image-making and photographic preservation histories of the Afro-Caribbean diaspora in Canada from the late 19th to late 20th centuries\, and the scenes of migration\, homemaking\, community-building\, and political mobilization that those photographs depict. Kelann is a long-time student affiliate of the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling\, an affiliate of the Access in the Making lab\, and a member of the Milieux Institute for Arts\, Culture and Technology’s Post Image cluster. Her critical work has appeared in academic journals such as Urban History Review\, the Canadian Journal of History\, TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies\, and Philosophy of Photography. \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)\, COHDS \nCOHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory\, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal. URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/event/casual-cohds-3/ LOCATION:LB-1019 (Sunroom)\, COHDS\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.\, Montreal\, Québec\, Canada CATEGORIES:Roundtable/table ronde ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/DSC06622-e1743014191973.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250325T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250325T160000 DTSTAMP:20260611T012609 CREATED:20250226T192023Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250326T183639Z UID:22397-1742911200-1742918400@storytelling.concordia.ca SUMMARY:Casual COHDS DESCRIPTION:With Lea Kabiljo \nJoin us for our second session of “Casual COHDS\,” a monthly drop-in event for members of the COHDS community and anyone curious about oral history to gather\, converse\, and connect over coffee\, tea\, and snacks in a relaxed setting. If you would like to meet other members of the COHDS community\, or simply take a moment to pause\, recharge\, and connect with other oral history practitioners and enthusiasts\, “Casual COHDS” is an opportunity to foster these exchanges. Held in the afternoon\, each monthly meeting will be loosely designed around a theme\, to get the conversation started. For our gathering in March\, participants are invited to bring a favourite story around an interview encounter or a photograph that they would like to share — or to simply bring themselves. We look forward to welcoming you on Tuesday\, March 25th\, anytime between 14:00 and 16:30 p.m. in the Sunroom (LB- 1019). \nLea Kabiljo\, assistant professor at Université Laval\, is a multidisciplinary researcher whose expertise spans the fields of the arts\, education\, and oral history. She has a particular interest in integrating photography and oral history into her research-creation process. Holding a PhD in Art Education from Concordia University\, Lea’s research highlights her multidisciplinary approach by exploring the educational potential of oral history and photography in art education. Having taught in school\, community\, and university settings\, Lea is actively engaged in teacher training\, with a special focus on the development of socio-emotional skills. She is also recognized for her expertise in oral history and has led numerous research projects in Canada and internationally. \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)\, COHDS \nCOHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory\, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal. URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/event/casual-cohds-2/ LOCATION:LB-1019 (sunroom)\, COHDS CATEGORIES:Roundtable/table ronde ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/DSC06622-e1743014191973.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250218T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250218T163000 DTSTAMP:20260611T012609 CREATED:20250217T204026Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250326T183935Z UID:22291-1739887200-1739896200@storytelling.concordia.ca SUMMARY:Casual COHDS DESCRIPTION:With Kelly Norah Drukker \nJoin us for the inaugural session of “Casual COHDS\,” a monthly drop-in event for members of the COHDS community and anyone curious about oral history to gather\, converse\, and connect over coffee\, tea\, and snacks in a relaxed setting. If you would like to meet other members of the COHDS community\, or simply take a moment to pause\, recharge\, and connect with other oral history practitioners and enthusiasts\, “Casual COHDS” is an opportunity to foster these exchanges. Held in the afternoon\, each monthly meeting will be loosely designed around a theme\, to get the conversation started. For February’s session\, participants are invited to bring a favourite book\, or a question\, quandary\, or story around an interview encounter that they would like to share—or to simply bring themselves. We look forward to welcoming you on Tuesday\, February 18th\, anytime between 14:00 and 16:30 p.m. in the Sunroom (LB- 1019). \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-1040.02 (ALLLAB)\, COHDS   \nCOHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory\, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal.  URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/event/casual-cohds/ LOCATION:LB-1019 (Sunroom)\, COHDS\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.\, Montreal\, Québec\, Canada CATEGORIES:Roundtable/table ronde,workshops ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/DSC06622-e1743014191973.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241203T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241203T170000 DTSTAMP:20260611T012609 CREATED:20240916T145708Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241122T173956Z UID:20794-1733238000-1733245200@storytelling.concordia.ca SUMMARY:Community Choral Music in Reperforming Oral Histories DESCRIPTION:With Sara Lucas and Luis Sotelo \nDr. Luis Sotelo Castro and PhD candidate Sara Lucas from the Acts of Listening Lab and The Listening Choir will discuss how musical interventions\, particularly community choral music\, can catalyze dialogue in communities that have experienced collective trauma. We will explore how this form of participatory art\, whether used in reperformances of oral histories or ancient plays\, can be used as a tool for performing listening in a restorative justice context. Speaking to their experiences producing “Llamado y Respuesta: ¿Quién escucha a César Lasso?\,” Dr. Sotelo Castro will highlight how he used community collaboration to support further audience participation within these dialogic spaces. \n“Llamado y Respuesta: ¿Quién escucha a César Lasso?” uses headphones verbatim (a documentary theatre technique) and choral singing to reconstruct moments of a hearing of the Special Jurisdiction for Peace set up in 2016 in Colombia as a war crimes tribunal to enable victims of war crimes to be heard and ex-rebels and other offenders to admit responsibility and contribute to repairing the damages caused. It focuses on the statements by Cesar Lasso\, a police officer who was held hostage for thirteen years\, five months and one day by the rebel group Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).” \n  \nSara Lucas is a St. Louis raised\, Montreal-based\, vocalist\, guitarist\, composer and educator and a PhD student in the Individualized Program in Fine Arts at Concordia University. With her groups LADAMA and Callers she has co-written and co-produced five albums of original music and toured internationally as an independent artist. She designs culturally-relevant music curriculum that is currently in use in K-5 classrooms in the United States. Her work experiments with time\, language\, and form and is dedicated to accessing humanity regardless of genre. As a collaborator\, she uses music as an intercultural exploration of communication\, to create original works as part of community music making\, and is invested in the activation of participant-led experiences.   \nLuis C. Sotelo Castro is Associate Professor in the Department of Theatre at Concordia University\, Montreal (Quebec\, Canada). In 2018 he founded at Concordia the Acts of Listening Lab\, a hub for research-creation on the transformative power of listening to painful narratives\, with particular reference to testimonies by exiles from sites of conflict. His latest publications explore listening in the context of post-conflict performances of memory. For instance\, see ‘Facilitating voicing and listening in the context of post-conflict performances of memory. The Colombian scenario.’ In: De Nardi\, S.\, Orange\, H.\, et al. Routledge Handbook of Memoryscapes. Routledge: London. (2019)\, and his article ‘Not being able to speak is torture: performing listening to painful narratives’. International Journal of Transitional Justice\, Special Issue Creative Approaches to Transitional Justice: Contributions of Arts and Culture.   \n  \nREGISTRATION  \nPlease note that all our events are free and open to all\, but you need to register! \nThis is a virtual event. Register here to attend. For any questions contact\, cohds.chorn@concordia.ca   \n  \n   \nCOHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory\, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal.  URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/event/community-choral-music/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:Roundtable/table ronde ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Visuals-for-Fall-Event-Pages-9.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241128T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241128T170000 DTSTAMP:20260611T012609 CREATED:20240911T173207Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241030T145737Z UID:20758-1732806000-1732813200@storytelling.concordia.ca SUMMARY:Saathis: A Conversation about Queer Brown History in Tiohtia:ke/Montreal DESCRIPTION:with the Saathi Montreal Archive Project \nEnglish  \nA conversation between some of the members of the 1990s Tiohtia:ke/Montreal-based\, South Asian-focused LGBTQ+ group the Saathis. As many of the Saathis are artists\, performers and activists\, they are also invited to reflect on their creative journeys as racialized queer people in Montreal.     \n  \nThe Saathi Montreal Archive Project documents the experiences and stories of the Saathis\, a queer South Asian collective founded in early 1990s Montreal\, through digital archiving and oral history interviews\, conducted by Sunjay Mathuria\, a PhD Candidate in Department of Geography\, Planning & Environment (Concordia University) and student affiliate of COHDS. \n  \nREGISTRATION  \nPlease note that all our events are free and open to all\, but you need to register! Register here. For any questions contact\, cohds.chorn@concordia.ca   \nIn person\, LB 1019 (Sunroom)  \n   \nCOHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory\, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal.  URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/event/saathis/ LOCATION:LB-1019 (Sunroom)\, COHDS\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.\, Montreal\, Québec\, Canada CATEGORIES:Roundtable/table ronde ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Visuals-for-Fall-Event-Pages-6.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241115T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241115T120000 DTSTAMP:20260611T012609 CREATED:20240918T151358Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241030T145434Z UID:20818-1731664800-1731672000@storytelling.concordia.ca SUMMARY:Beyond Transplant Stories: Weaving Community-Based Knowledge in Solid-Organ Transplantation through Arts Based Methods and Digital Storytelling with Patients DESCRIPTION:with the Frictions of Futurity & Cure in Transplant Medicine project team \nEnglish \nDigital storytelling (DST) is of growing interest within health care settings to better understand patient experience and translate knowledge between health care professionals and patients. DST is a relational tool that can be used for education\, advocacy\, creative expression\, and therapeutic intervention.  \nIn this project\, we engaged with DST to amplify the voices of patients in the transplant community by layering patient-experience through multimodal practices alongside the dominant biomedical transplant narratives. We led a critical discourse analysis (CDA) of transplant-educational materials to identify common themes\, gaps\, and narratives between solid-organ groups. Arts-based methods and digital storytelling workshops were used in addition to ethnographic interviews with patients from heart\, liver\, lung\, and kidney transplantation programs at the Ajmera Transplant Centre at the University Health Network.  \nDigital stories encouraged conversations between patients\, clinicians\, family members and solid-organ groups. The main themes that emerged from the CDA of transplant manuals and eighty-four ethnographic interviews demonstrated the transformative experience of transplantation\, the overwhelming emotions\, and the interpersonal or professional misunderstandings. Eight digital stories were created and screened by transplant patients with the Liver Transplant Program at the Toronto General Hospital\, and the Canadian Donation and Transplantation Research Program (CDTRP). Arts-based methods facilitated patients to engage in redefining their transplant narrative through unspoken emotional experiences such as anger\, grief\, and loss\, which sit alongside the more spoken feelings of gratitude and hopefulness for the future.  \nCommunity-based learning emerged from sharing patient-experience and knowledge. The digital storytelling workshops and ethnographic interviews empowered patients by regaining control over their stories and engaging in multiple transplant narratives.  \n  \nREGISTRATION  \nPlease note that all our events are free and open to all\, but you need to register! Register for: In-person attendance | Online attendance. \nFor any questions contact\, cohds.chorn@concordia.ca   \nHybrid\, LB 1019 (Sunroom)  \n   \nCOHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory\, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal.  URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/event/beyond-transplant-stories/ LOCATION:LB-1019 (Sunroom)\, COHDS\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.\, Montreal\, Québec\, Canada CATEGORIES:Roundtable/table ronde ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Visuals-for-Fall-Event-Pages-11.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241101T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241101T140000 DTSTAMP:20260611T012609 CREATED:20241016T154808Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241028T144156Z UID:21178-1730462400-1730469600@storytelling.concordia.ca SUMMARY:Voices from the field: Working with oral history in Armenian contexts DESCRIPTION:with Hourig Attarian\, Melissa Bilal\, Arpine Ghambaryan\, Houry Pilibbossian\, and Julia Cabral Tordeur \nEnglish  \nThis roundtable brings together an intergenerational group of oral historians working in diverse Armenian contexts: Melissa Bilal\, Houry Pilibbossian\, Julia Cabral Tordeur\, Arpi Ghambaryan\, and Hourig Attarian. The conversation will focus on various facets of research creation in the projects the panelists have been working on\, from photography archives\, to documentary filmmaking\, to creative writing\, to music. Hourig will introduce and moderate the discussion.   \nMelissa will focus on the life narratives and expressive culture of Armenians displaced from Burunkışla\, a village in Yozgat\, central Turkey. There is a growing scholarly literature on Armenian genocide survivors who continued living in Turkey. Yet this literature rarely includes the accounts of those who stayed outside Istanbul in the decades following the establishment of the Republic of Turkey. Drawing on oral history interviews conducted in the village and its diasporic “extensions” in and outside Turkey\, Melissa will talk about the production of an embodied knowledge of the unwritten history of the village through everyday performances of storytelling and singing. Her talk will explore the multiple versions of narratives of escape throughout the twentieth century: From violence\, from the physical space of the village\, from a condition of being\, from negotiating a livelihood side by side with the perpetrators and their descendants.    \nHoury will address issues of maintaining and losing archives in times of war and the role of visual anthropology and ethnography in creating a repository of a collective visual memory of the Armenian community of Aleppo that was forced to migrate a second time after the genocide. The challenges of building a community photography archive\, ethical\, ownership and copyright issues become focal points of reflection. How does the creation of “Haleb Album” (within the larger Hi Haleb archival project) bridge the gap and bring together the community and unearthed parts of Aleppo’s Armenian life that have not been documented\, curated and accessible? And finally\, what is the role of photographic archives in historical knowledge production?  \nJulia’s research focuses on the Armenian Brazilian community and the lack of studies on Armenian women’s experiences in Latin America. Her PhD project collects their oral histories\, aiming to preserve these narratives through both written and audiovisual formats. She is currently developing a documentary at COHDS and will share a brief preview during the panel.  \nArpi will present her ethnographic research project that explores the daily practice of coffee drinking among Armenian women living in eight different communities in Armenia. Her research is rooted in an earlier project she conducted which focused on the coffee drinking ritual of her grandmother and her neighbor. For Arpi\, this project serves as a diary of a feminist researcher intertwining academia and the everyday\, the personal and the public\, the joy and the sorrow. She transformed her observations into short fictionalized stories\, each capturing the emotional and cultural significance of coffee within these communities.   \nAs we engage in a critical inquiry of the storying act itself in this roundtable–storying the narrator\, the (researcher)-self\, the memory\, the process\, the story itself– we ponder how our works speak to one another and construct a larger narrative.   \n  \nHourig Attarian is an Associate Professor in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at the American University of Armenia (AUA). She holds a PhD in Education from McGill University and is a Core Member of the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling at Concordia University. Visual arts-based methodologies are a core facet of Hourig’s research endeavours. Anchored in the blurred genre of life history and autobiographical inquiry\, her work focuses on storying memory and identity through visual and narrative explorations. Her research-creation projects merge creative writing\, photo collages\, installations and performance\, drawing together difficult memories and marginalized histories of violence within a framework of public pedagogy. Hourig teaches education\, oral history\, and gender studies courses at AUA. \nMelissa Bilal is a sociocultural anthropologist and historian specialized in Music and Performance Studies\, Gender and Sexuality Studies\, and Memory Studies. She is an Assistant Professor and the Promise Chair in Armenian Music\, Arts\, and Culture at UCLA’s Herb Alpert School of Music where she also serves as the director of the Armenian Music Program. Her ethnographic research explores the role of music in the transmission of Armenian memory in Turkey\, while her archival research is focused on the musical and intellectual history of Armenians in the late Ottoman Empire and early republican Turkey. Her most recent book is the co-authored volume Feminism in Armenian: An Interpretive Anthology (Forthcoming 2025) which unearths the lives and works of twelve Armenian feminist writer-activists in the Ottoman and post-Ottoman contexts. Bilal is currently working on a biography of pianist and composer Koharik Gazarossian (1907-1967) and on her book project Injuries of Reconciliation: Music\, Memory\, and Everyday Survival of Armenians in Turkey. \nArpine Ghambaryan is pursuing an MA in Gendering Practices at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden. She holds a bachelor’s degree in English and Communications with a minor in Gender Studies from the American University of Armenia. Her research interests focus on exploring the personal narratives of marginalized communities through oral history and visual modes of study. Arpine is one of the founding members of the Oral History Matters initiative at AUA\, which seeks to challenge controversial narratives and bring oral history to the forefront of research. \nHoury Pilibbossian is a sociocultural anthropology PhD student with a minor in Gender and Women’s studies at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She is a photographer and a researcher of Syriac-Armenian origins. Houry received an MA in social anthropology from Goldsmiths University of London and a BA in English and Communications from the American University of Armenia. She is the co-founder of “Hi Haleb-Հայ Հալէպ”– a digital archive about the Aleppo-Armenian community. She’s a founding member of Oral History Matters – oral history based initiative at the American University of Armenia. She is also a research assistant in a collaborative oral history project mapping traces and memories of genocide in Armenia’s urban landscapes. \nJulia Cabral Tordeur is a Ph.D. candidate specializing in History\, Politics\, and Cultural Heritage at the Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV) with a master’s degree in political science from the Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO) and a bachelor’s degree in History from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). She also specialized in Collective Memory\, Human Rights\, and Resistance through the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO). Julia’s research\, titled “The Women who Survived the Desert: An Oral History of Armenians in Diaspora”\, explores the memory of the Armenian genocide as a central aspect of Armenian identity\, or “armenianness”\, within the Armenian diaspora in Brazil. Her work involves collecting life narratives through in-depth interviews with women from these communities\, aiming to capture diverse perspectives across various backgrounds. Currently\, she is a visiting researcher at the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling (COHDS)\, where she is organizing the audiovisual material from her interviews into a documentary format. \n  \nREGISTRATION  \nPlease note that all our events are free and open to all\, but you need to register! This is a virtual event. Register here to attend. For any questions contact\, cohds.chorn@concordia.ca   \n   \nCOHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory\, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal.  URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/event/voices-from-the-field/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:Roundtable/table ronde ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Voices-from-the-field-visual.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240924T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240924T170000 DTSTAMP:20260611T012610 CREATED:20240911T154337Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240911T154417Z UID:20717-1727190000-1727197200@storytelling.concordia.ca SUMMARY:Celebrating Excellence in Research: Meet our 2023-24 Scholars-in-Residence DESCRIPTION:with Dany Guay-Bélanger\, Patricia Branco Cornish\, Kelann Currie-Williams\, Kelly Norah Drukker\, Lauren Laframboise\, Cassandra Marsillo\, and Eleni Polychronakos \nEnglish \nIn Fall 2023\, we launched our Scholars-in-Residence program\, seeking to bring together oral history practitioners\, artists\, and creative storytellers. Our call resonated beyond expectations. We were delighted to welcome to COHDS seven brilliant scholars and oral historians who have contributed\, in manifold ways\, to the intellectually vibrant life of our community this past year. \nJoin us for a roundtable conversation that features the work of our 2023-24 Scholars-in-Residence in an informal and convivial atmosphere. \n  \nDany Guay-Bélanger is a FRQ and SSHRC funded PhD candidate in Game Studies at the Université de Montréal and holds a master’s degree in Public History from Carleton University. He created a podcast that explores the development and application of Deadplay\, a methodology favouring a holistic approach for the preservation and study of videogames as cultural heritage artefacts. His research aims to perfect and concretize the methodology developed during his master’s in order to allow players and researchers\, present and future\, to access videogames from every eras of this medium’s history. Dany has also interned and was the Garth Wilson Fellow at the Canada Science and Technology Museum and is currently the Francophone Representative of the Canadian Game Studies Association. \nPatricia Branco Cornish is a PhD candidate in the Communications Department at Concordia University. She draws on a feminist decolonial perspective to reveal women artists’ contributions to Brazil’s 1960s-1970s avant-garde art movement\, which coincides with Brazil’s military dictatorship (1964-1985). Patricia combines oral stories and visual art as a research method in which artists use their artworks as memory triggers to discuss the past. The art object’s materiality helps to create narratives embedded with personal\, public\, and artistic-political aspects of the artist’s life. Patricia holds an MA in Art History from University of São Paulo (MAC-USP) and is the co-author of an article on art collections placed under the custody of public art museums in cases of money laundering investigations. \nKelann Currie-Williams (they/she) is a writer\, visual artist\, and oral historian based in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal.Kelann is a PhD student at Concordia University’s Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture\, working at the intersections of Visual Culture\, History\, Black Studies\, and Cultural Studies. Their research focuses on the image-making and photographic preservation histories of the Afro-Caribbean diaspora in Canada from the late 19th to late 20th centuries\, and the scenes of migration\, homemaking\, community-building\, and political mobilization that those photographs depict. Kelann is a long-time student affiliate of the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling. Her critical work has appeared in academic journals such as Urban History Review\, the Canadian Journal of History\, TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies\, and Philosophy of Photography. \nKelly Norah Drukker is a writer and doctoral candidate in Concordia University’s Humanities PhD program. As a research-creation scholar working at the intersection of creative writing\, oral history\, family history\, and memory studies\, she has presented her projects at Concordia University\, Rutgers University\, the University of Ulster\, the University of Jyväskylä\, and Sydney Catholic University. Kelly’s first collection of poems\, Small Fires\, was awarded the A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry and the Concordia University First Book Prize\, and was a finalist for the Grand prix du livre de Montréal (2016). Her poetry and creative nonfiction have appeared in journals in Canada\, Ireland\, New Zealand\, and Australia. Petits feux\, the French-language translation of Small Fires by Lori Saint-Martin and Paul Gagné\, was published by Le lézard amoureux in 2018. As a doctoral student\, Kelly has been the recipient of a Faculty of Arts and Science Graduate Fellowship\, a Joseph-Armand Bombardier CGS Doctoral Scholarship\, a United Irish Societies of Montreal Scholarship\, a School of Canadian Irish Studies Bursary\, and a Fr. Thomas Daniel McEntee Graduate Scholarship. She continues to live\, work\, study\, and write in Montreal. \nLauren Laframboise is a Vanier Scholar and PhD student at the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling in the Department of History at Concordia University. Her research explores the impacts of deindustrialization in the apparel industry in Montréal and New York City. In 2021\, Lauren completed her MA in History at Concordia\, and from 2020-2022 she was the Associate Director of Deindustrialization and the Politics of Our Time (DéPOT). She has worked on a variety of public history projects exploring labour and immigration history\, including museum exhibitions\, online oral history platforms\, walking tours\, and documentary films and radio\, including the Voices of the Immigrant Workers’ Centre oral history project. She is also the External Affairs Officer for the Concordia Research and Education Workers’ Union (CREW–CSN) and convenes their Feminist Workplace Committee. \nCassandra Marsillo is a public historian\, artist\, and educator\, based in Tiohtià:ke (Montreal)\, telling and listening to stories about immigration\, identity\, collective memory\, food\, and folklore\, particularly in relation to the Italian-Canadian experience and traditions from her family’s region\, Molise. Her latest project is an oral history cookbook on the stories and recipes of Montreal’s molisani\, Dalla valigia alla tavola: A journey through Molisan culinary heritage\, which she completed in collaboration with the Federazione delle associazioni molisane del Quebec\, photographer and artist Vee Di Gregorio\, chef Joseph D’Alleva\, and pastry chef Erica Marsillo. Currently\, she is working on a zine/exhibit about the history and family stories of the iconic “Italian birthday case” in North America. \nEleni Polychronakos is a PhD candidate at Concordia University’s Department of Interdisciplinary Humanities. She is also a writer and teacher. She holds a Masters in Literature (McGill\, 2000) and one in Journalism (UBC\, 2007). Her short fiction appears in The Puritan\, The New Quarterly\, The Bath Short Story Award Anthology 2019 and other literary publications. One of her stories was long-listed for the 2020 CBC Short Story Competition. From 2011 to 2015\, she was a member of the collective that edits and publishes Room magazine\, a longstanding Canadian journal of feminist literature. Eleni is currently writing her dissertation “Girl’s Name: Seeking Narratives of Feminist Genealogy in Twentieth-Century Greece.” This SSHRC-funded research creation project uses oral history and literary criticism as both theory and methodology to collect\, create\, and analyze stories by and about women who came of age during Greece’s turbulent twentieth century. \n  \nREGISTRATION  \nPlease note that all our events are free and open to all\, but you need to register! Register here. For any questions contact\, cohds.chorn@concordia.ca   \nIn person (max 25 people)\, LB 1019 (Sunroom)  \n   \nCOHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory\, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal.  URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/event/celebrating-excellence-in-research/ LOCATION:LB-1019 (Sunroom)\, COHDS\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.\, Montreal\, Québec\, Canada CATEGORIES:Roundtable/table ronde ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Visuals-for-Fall-Event-Pages-2.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR