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SUMMARY:Deep Listening to Life Stories
DESCRIPTION:* Please note this event has been rescheduled to 10 a.m. – 12 p.m. \nwith 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.  \n  \nSteven High is Professor of History and has published extensively in oral history. He was the principal investigator of the Montreal Life Stories project\, which recorded the life stories of 500 survivors of mass violence\, as well as the Living Archives of Rwandan Exiles and Survivors.   \n  \nREGISTRATION  \nPlease note that registration for this even is now closed. \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/deep-listening-to-life-stories1/
LOCATION:LB-1019 (Sunroom)\, COHDS\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.\, Montreal\, Québec\, Canada
CATEGORIES:workshops
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241129T150000
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SUMMARY:Dancing Life Stories/Dancing Biographies/ Forming the WE
DESCRIPTION:* Please note this event has been moved to the Dance Studio at MB 7.265\, 1600 Blvd. De Maisonneuve Ouest \nEnglish \nJoin us for an evening of dance as students from the Department of Contemporary Dance bring embodied (auto-)biographical narratives to the Acts of Listening Lab. Such storytelling in motion – based on life history interviews that students conducted with one of their peers – constitutes what Christine Thurner once called “emphatically fragile\, deliberately contingent narrative acts.” These gestural narratives break free of the frame of linear\, literary (auto)biography. Seen in relation to one another they form a complex and rich society.  \nThis event is based on students’ coursework in the Department of Contemporary Dance\, who\, under the guidance of Professor Lília Mestre\, are exploring the possibilities of danced life narration\, this time in a collective improvisation setting.  \n   \nWith the DANC 202 Cohort: Angel Buell\, E.V. Cloix\, Valeria Cortes Pardo\, Karlanne Dusablon Girard\, Gabrielle Forget\, Magdalen Fortin\, Marina Gris\, Isabelle Grondin Hernandez\, Lauriane Houle\, Isabella Jenkin\, Kathy Jin\, Meryam Joober\, Sabrina Konstas\, Berdelia Loemba Tchiss\, Thaïna Louis-Jeune\, Ruben Macas\, Maria Marsli\, Arezoo Mohadjeri\, Ro Paloma\, Valentina del Mar Rojas Baquero.  \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 1042.03 (Moonroom)\, ALLab  \n   \nCOHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory\, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal. 
URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/event/dancing-life-stories/
LOCATION:Dance Studio\, MB 7.265\, 1600 Blvd De Maisonneuve West\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H3H 1J5\, Canada
CATEGORIES:presentations
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241122T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241122T163000
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SUMMARY:How to Storyboard: A Hands-On Workshop in Digital Storytelling and Interactive Exhibit Design
DESCRIPTION:with Hannah Pinilla \nEnglish  \nJoin us in the COHDS Computer Lab for an engaging 2 to 2.5-hour workshop designed to enhance your skills in digital storytelling and interactive exhibit creation. Participants will be asked to develop a mini exhibit concept incorporating edited digital content gathered from a brief exercise in conversational interviewing.    \nIn pairs\, participants will conduct open-ended interviews with each other\, to learn how to draw connections between different narratives. Using IMovie to edit the audio and visual components gathered from the interviews\, and Genially software to transform these elements into interactive panels\, participants will focus on transforming raw material into a polished\, thematic digital story.   \nBy the end of the workshop\, you’ll have hands-on experience with digital storytelling tools\, practical skills in editing and exhibit design\, and a finished interactive panel to showcase your creative ideas. This session is ideal for anyone interested in exploring the intersection of technology and storytelling in a dynamic\, collaborative environment.  \n   \nHannah Pinilla is an oral historian and MA student in public history with a specialization in digital humanities at Carleton University. Her SSHRC-funded master’s research project\, “El Sabor del Hogar: The Transformation of Identity and Memory Through the Food Practices of Colombian Migrants in Quebec\,” engages nine Colombian migrants\, living in Montreal and Longueuil in oral history interviews facilitated through cooking sessions\, to explore how the narration\, preparation\, and consumption of ‘home foods’ is a form of embodied and interactive diasporic memory work. Her research question was guided by my own lived experiences as the granddaughter of a first-generation Colombian-Canadian: how does the dialectical relationship between identity and memory manifest through food practice and what impact does it have on the process of home-building?  \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 1042 (Computer Research Lab)  \n   \nCOHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory\, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal. 
URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/event/how-to-craft-a-digital-story/
LOCATION:Concordia University\, LB-1042 (COHDS)\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd O\, Montreal
CATEGORIES:workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241119T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241119T150000
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SUMMARY:Photo-Interviewing: Bridging Oral History and Photography
DESCRIPTION:(photo credit: Kelann Currie-Williams) \nwith Kelann Currie-Williams and Lea Kabiljo  \nThis event brings together Lea Kabiljo and Kelann Currie-Williams\, oral historians and photographers\, who rely on the multi-faceted technique of “photo-interviewing” in their respective work. We will invite attendees to reflect on the relationship that exists between images and storytelling in the context of the oral history interview. What are the benefits and tensions associated with combining oral history and photography as an interviewing methodology? How do photographs and photo albums transform the space of the interview and help interviewees remember differently?  Through workshop and discussion we will share different approaches to integrating photography into oral history interviews – from bringing existing photographs into the interview to capturing portraits of the interviewees.  \n  \nKelann Currie-Williams is a writer and PhD student at Concordia University’s Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture\, working at the intersections of Visual Culture Studies\, History\, Black Studies\, and Cultural Studies. Kelann’s 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. Their work has appeared in Urban History Review\, the Canadian Journal of History\, TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies\, and Philosophy of Photography. Kelann was a 2023-2024 scholar-in-residence at the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling.   \nLea Kabiljo\, assistant professor of art education at Université Laval\, is a multidisciplinary researcher with expertise in the arts\, education\, and oral history. She holds a PhD in Art Education from Concordia University and has a particular interest in integrating photography and oral history into the research-creation process. Her research explores the educational potential of this multidisciplinary approach in art education. With experience teaching 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.  \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/photo-interviewing/
LOCATION:LB-1019 (Sunroom)\, COHDS\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.\, Montreal\, Québec\, Canada
CATEGORIES:workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241115T100000
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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
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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
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SUMMARY:Women and Invisible Labour: Re-Imagining the Archive
DESCRIPTION:with Varda Nisar and Lola Rémy \nEnglish \nThis workshop offers to reflect on archives as sites of contested knowledge\, and to envision avenues and methodologies to open them to more inclusive decolonial and feminist perspectives. Dr. Lola Rémy examines how the archives of experimental filmmakers rest on the invisible labour of their wives and daughters\, whose affective work is rooted in kinship and care. Her presentation reflects on how a mixed methodology of close archival research and oral history can recentre archival margins and rewrite a history of film more inclusive of women’s diverse and central roles. Varda Nisar reflects on the notion of archives itself within the context of Pakistan\, and how social media platforms provide community and grassroot movements a space to counter military regimes. Understood as countervisual sites that challenge the master-narrative of the nation-state\, her presentation brings forth examples of these emerging archives and how they have become spaces of both record-keeping and of critical pedagogy. Together\, these presentations bring attention to the gendered labour that goes into building archives and how oral testimonies and interview can offer an alternative reading of these institutions.   \n  \nVarda Nisar (she/her) is a mother\, daughter\, and sister. She is also a doctoral candidate in Concordia’s Department of Art History and Public Scholar (2022-23). Her work diverges in several directions\, including art education\, community outreach and art education. During her time in Canada\, she has consistently tried to foreground the work of artists from Pakistan and South Asia. In 2021\, she convened a speaker series titled (Art+Micro)History: Contemporary Artistic Voices from the South\, which drew attention to artistic modes of resistance in Pakistan. In 2023\, she co-curated a multi-venue exhibition\, “re*  imagining / créer / building / faire / mapping / connaissance /…” She was a 2015-16 Arthink South Asia Fellow and worked with Spark Arts for Children as part of her secondment. Her current research draws attention to cultural production under military regimes in Pakistan\, particularly focusing on museums and archives.   \nLola Rémy (she/her) is an FRQSC postdoctoral fellow at McGill University\, Montreal. She completed her PhD at Concordia University in the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. Her project is an oral history that recenters women’s affective and gendered labor in experimental film archives. Her work on archives as sites of cultural encounters\, racial and gendered violence\, and reappropriation by communities and artists has appeared or is forthcoming in The Canadian Journal of Film Studies\, Frames Cinema Journal\, NECSUS European Journal of Media Studies\, and Synoptique\, An Online Journal of Film and Moving Image Studies. She is one of the 2024-25 Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling Scholars-in-Residence.  \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/women-and-invisible-labour/
LOCATION:LB-1019 (Sunroom)\, COHDS\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.\, Montreal\, Québec\, Canada
CATEGORIES:workshops
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SUMMARY:What Travels Through Us: Exhibition Vernissage and Roundtable
DESCRIPTION:with Naomi Frost\, Rémy Chhem\, Eva-Loan Ponton-Pham\, and Marie-Ève Samson \nEnglish  \nThis vernissage event and roundtable discussion\, a collaboration between the Super Boat People Collective\, COHDS\, and Concordia University Library\, introduces and celebrates the launch of the “What Travels Through Us: Exhibition\,” on display at Concordia University Library from September 12 until December 12\, 2024.  \nThe Super Boat People Collective is happy to present the exhibition born from the project “What Travels Through Us: Family History Workshops.” From Fall 2023 to Spring 2024\, the project brought together a cohort of fifteen participants of Cambodian\, Laotian and Vietnamese descent\, whose families were affected by war and exile. Organized in the form of sharing and creation circles\, these workshops encouraged participants to delve into the layers of their family histories\, often fragmented and intricate. In each session\, guided by a documentarist or an artist of Asian descent who incorporated these experiences into their practice\, participants explored a variety of mediums and approaches.  \nThis community art exhibition is the imperfect culmination of the cohort’s reflections\, sharing and work. For most of the participants\, this is the first time that they have created such work\, and for a general public. Artworks\, everyday objects\, crafts\, interview extracts\, personal notes\, archives blend together within a setting that echoes domestic spaces\, to evoke the character both familiar and strange of each person’s family past. These are candid\, magnificent and touching works\, slowly thought out and shaped. They speak\, among other things\, of attachment\, filiation\, memory\, silence\, absence\, gift\, gratitude\, departure and discovery. We also aimed to highlight the calming and restorative power of the group\, along with the collaborative essence of the entire process.  \nThe vernissage and round-table event delves deeper into the process of the workshops\, the community and family memory work of participants\, as well as the collaborative process of taking this public through the exhibition. The roundtable discussion will center on the transmission of family histories and memory in the context of exile\, and how oral history\, the arts and family histories intersect in the process of memory work. The participants and co-curators will also introduce the exhibit and the works\, the process of their creation.   \n  \nNaomi Frost is a PhD Candidate in the Department of History at Concordia University. She completed her MA in history at Monash University in Melbourne\, where she served on the committee for Oral History Victoria. Her research centers on the oral histories of 1.5 and second-generation Cambodian Australians\, Canadians and Americans who grew up in the diaspora\, intergenerational memory and family storytelling. She was appointed as Concordia University Library’s Researcher-in-Residence (2023-2024) and is a research assistant for the project Cemetery as Metaphor: An Oral History of Montreal’s Back River Memorial Gardens.  \nRémy Chhem is a social scientist specializing in the governance and management of natural resources in the Mekong region and within indigenous contexts. In his free time\, Rémy acts as a community organizer for Asian diasporas in Montreal. As the co-founder of the Super Boat People Collective\, he is dedicated to developing dynamic projects that build connections\, foster collaboration\, and encourage dialogue and cultural continuity between communities and across generations. His current work seeks to understand and frame the experiences of boat people refugees beyond the good and grateful refugee trope.  \nEva-Loan Ponton-Pham is a multidisciplinary artist with a degree in Art History & Visual Arts from Concordia University. In all her projects\, whether as co-founder of Atelier La Coulée\, as a member of the feminist zine collective Les Bêtes d’hier or as a cultural mediator in various community projects\, it’s important to her to make space for voices that are too often marginalized\, by focusing on personal and collective narratives that challenges dominant discourses. Her personal work deals with confluent identities and the complexities of cultural transmission in diasporic contexts.   \nMarie-Ève Samson is a doctoral candidate in Anthropology at the Université de Montréal. Her research centers on the experiences of ageing\, end-of-life and care for immigrant elderly and their caregivers\, particularly in the context where Quebec’s social protection and healthcare systems are facing significant change. Co-founder of Super Boat People\, she was also involved in the Montreal Life Stories project in the early 2010s. Her thesis is informed by these various engagements and focuses more specifically on intergenerational issues in elder care within families of Cambodian\, Vietnamese and Laotian origin in Montreal.     \nSuper Boat People is a collective dedicated to mobilizing Cambodian\, Laotian\, and Vietnamese individuals in Quebec\, encouraging them to reclaim their histories\, reconnect with their culture and communities\, ensure fair representation\, and defend and promote the interests of immigrants and refugees. To this end\, the collective develops various initiatives\, focused on community and family history\, literature\, social mobilization\, urban agriculture and cooking.   \nPROGRAM \n5:00 – Welcome\n5:15 – Roundtable Discussion\n6:10 – The artists introduce their work\n6:45 – Library exhibition visit and closing remarks \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 45 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/what-travels-through-us/
LOCATION:LB-1019 (Sunroom)\, COHDS\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.\, Montreal\, Québec\, Canada
CATEGORIES:performances and exhibitions
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241022T203000
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SUMMARY:Film Screening of Dorchester: In the Midst of the Fray
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a visioning and sound exploration of Dorchester: au coeur de la mêlée. Please note that this film will be screened in English. \nIn the heart of the city of Montreal and in the midst of Montreal’s business district lies one of Canada’s most beautiful squares: Dorchester Square. \nNeglected for years\, its renovation was entrusted to landscape architect Claude Cormier in the early 2000s. The challenge was immense\, for beneath the square lie the remains of 55\,000 Montrealers\, victims of five cholera epidemics between 1830 and 1850. \nAnd so began an exceptional artistic and historical adventure. The 20-year project brought together a team of Montreal artists\, architects and archaeologists\, and resurrected the secrets of the city’s history. From the Catholic movement of the 1870s to the beheading of the John A. McDonald statue in 2020\, via the two referendums and the Maple Spring in 2012\, the square condenses 150 years of social conflict in modern Quebec in its architecture and public art. \nThe screening of Dorchester: au coeur de la mêlée will be followed by a Q&A with Director Eli Jean Tahchi (Nemesis Films)\, Producer Karim Haroun and Composer and COHDS Scholar-in-Residence Jad Orphée Chami. \nWatch the trailer \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-1042.03 (ALLab)\, 10th floor of 1400 de Maisonneuve West. \nCOHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory\, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal. 
URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/event/dorchester/
LOCATION:LB 1042.03 (Moonroom)\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.\, Montreal\, Québec\, Canada
CATEGORIES:performances and exhibitions
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241017T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241017T150000
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SUMMARY:Crafting the (de)Industrialised Culture of the City of Elefsina\, Greece: The Openeleusis Oral History Research Project
DESCRIPTION:with Regina Mantanika \nThe Openeleusis research project is an interdisciplinary collaboration between researchers in anthropology\, history and visual arts for community-based research in Eleusina\, a city where Greek industrial history is heavily imprinted on people’s memories and everyday life. Eleusina is situated in Western Attika and has undergone various phases of (de)industrialisation since the late 19th century. The Openeleusis team has worked on the industrial culture of Eleusina through participant observation\, workshops\, individual biographical interviews\, focus groups and ethnographic filmmaking. One of the results is an open digital archive\, https://openeleusis.eu/?lang=en. It is a digital space\, a living library and memory bank of the city\, which presents in an inventive way the material resulting from the historical and ethnographic research in order to ‘return it back’ to the community. \nThe OPENELEUSIS archive includes texts\, videos and documents such as photographs\, videos\, maps\, testimonies\, interviews\, etc. To have an intergenerational approach in the field\, our team organised docu-animation workshops for children aged 8-12 in Elefsina. Three different teams (schools) were trained in oral history and stop-motion animation techniques for one week each. Finally\, the team organised oral history seminars for the local community\, leading to the creation of the Oral History Group of Eleusina (OPIEL)\, which will have its own space on openeleusis.eu. \n  \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/openeleusis/
LOCATION:LB-1019 (Sunroom)\, COHDS\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.\, Montreal\, Québec\, Canada
CATEGORIES:presentations
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241010T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241010T163000
DTSTAMP:20260520T143313
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SUMMARY:Rescheduled to winter 2025 - Rethinking our Territorial Acknowledgment
DESCRIPTION:•••Please note this event has been postponed until Winter 2025. We look forward to seeing you then!*** \nwith Catherine Kineweskwêw  Richardson and Mélissa-Anne Ménard \nEnglish  \nThis gathering consists of an invitation to COHDS’ community members to come together and create a statement of commitment and appreciation for the land we live on and the traditional caretakers of the land.  For some time now\, COHDS has wanted to develop its own unique expression of appreciation and acknowledgement\, gratitude for the Kanien’kehá:ka nation\, people and lands upon which we live and work. This gathering will be facilitated by Cathy Kineweskwêw Richardson together with Mélissa-Anne Ménard.  They will lead a process through which we can explore expressions of gratitude and form them into a statement that can be shared on our website and at our gatherings.  \n  \nCatherine Richardson/Kinewesquao is a Métis scholar with Cree\, Gwichin and English and Viking ancestry (Swedish/Orkney).  She is the Director of First Peoples Studies and is the co-founder of the Centre for Response-Based Practice\, an organization dedicated to helping people recover from violence in a spirit of dignity and social justice. Cathy has a background in practice and research in counselling and social work.  Her degrees are in child and youth psychology\, counselling psychology\, French and Political Science.  She has supported Indigenous survivors of genocide and racism to tell their stories in various contexts including in the counselling room\, in community settings and in national inquiries\, such as the TRC.  Currently\, Cathy is on the Yukon Task Force to develop protocols on the issue of MMIWG2S+.  She was the Quebec-lead in the Canadian Domestic Homicide Prevention Initiative.  Her work centres around gathering accounts of resistance and explorations of how people respond to mistreatment and humiliation\, in attempts to preserve dignity and maximize safety.   Cathy has travelled extensively and is enlivened by  story-sharing\, cultural exchange and stories of resistance to oppression. https://www.responsebasedpractice.com  Indigenous Healing Knowledges In this project\, Catherine Richardson\, along with her team\, interview Indigenous healers from across the globe\, including from Greenland\, Aotearoa\, Venezuela and from Turtle Island.  In these interviews she asks the healers to share important information about their worldview\, cosmology\, creation stories and how within that they work to help people achieve well-being\, balance and a sense of belonging.  The healers will talk about their community\, including the various rituals and ceremonies as well as some of the current issues they face\, such as aspects of ongoing colonialism and mistreatment.  Catherine is working with Zeina Allouche and others to create a special edition journal as well as organizing an on-the-land retreat for students with the international healers. \nMélissa-Anne Ménard is an oral historian whose main research interests center on the history of childhood and emotions\, stories of migration\, and the production of archives. She first encountered oral history during an undergraduate seminar in childhood history. Mélissa-Anne holds a master’s degree in history from Concordia university\, partially funded by a Concordia University Merit Scholarship. Her thesis explored the ethical and methodological ramifications of reusing archived oral history interviews conducted by other researchers to develop frameworks and protocols to allow us to engage with countless oral history collections that often lie dormant in archives. She additionally holds a music degree in jazz interpretation for violin from the Collège Lionel-Groulx and most enjoys playing the fiddle. \n    \nCOHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory\, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal. 
URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/event/rethinking-our-territorial-acknowledgment/
LOCATION:LB-1019 (Sunroom)\, COHDS\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.\, Montreal\, Québec\, Canada
CATEGORIES:workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241004T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241004T170000
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SUMMARY:Introduction to Oral History
DESCRIPTION:with Steven High  \nEnglish \nThis workshop will provide you with some of the fundamentals in the interdisciplinary field of oral history. Participants will learn about an oral history approach to interviewing\, ethics in research\, and the many ways that oral histories are shared with the public. This workshop is strongly recommended to all new affiliates\, as it is intended to present the methodology and ethics followed by our Centre.  \n  \nSteven High is Professor of History and has published extensively in oral history. He was the principal investigator of the Montreal Life Stories project\, which recorded the life stories of 500 survivors of mass violence\, as well as the Living Archives of Rwandan Exiles and Survivors.   \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/introduction-to-oral-history-3/
LOCATION:LB-1019 (Sunroom)\, COHDS\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.\, Montreal\, Québec\, Canada
CATEGORIES:workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240924T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240924T170000
DTSTAMP:20260520T143313
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240920T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240920T150000
DTSTAMP:20260520T143313
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SUMMARY:Come Walk With Us: Walkathon Fundraiser for "Award of Distinction in Oral History"
DESCRIPTION:IMPORTANT: Meeting space changed due to construction: we will be meeting inside the “EV building (Engineering and Visual Arts)” at 12:15 p.m. to walk over to Loyola together. A member of our team will be holding up a sign “Team COHDS”. \nThis year\, “Team COHDS” will be joining the Concordia Shuffle – an annual fundraiser for student scholarships and bursaries – to help raise funds for our annual “Award of Distinction in Oral History.” \nWe are warmly inviting all members of our community to come and walk with us from Concordia’s downtown campus to Loyola on Friday\, September 20. We will be meeting at the “EV building (Engineering and Visual Arts)” at 12:15 p.m. to walk over to Loyola together. A member of our team will be holding up a sign “Team COHDS”. \nJoin our team: If you liked to “shuffle” with us\, we invite you to join our team (click on “Join Team”). COHDS-affiliated faculty will be donating $ 10 for each COHDS affiliate who will join us at the shuffle. \nSupport from afar: For those members of our community who are not based in Montreal or have prior obligations on September 20\, if you were interested in making a small donation to our campaign\, you could do so at “Donate Now”. Rest assured that 100 per cent of your donation will go towards our annual student thesis prize. \nWe look forward to walking with you!
URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/event/walkathon-fundraiser-for-award-of-distinction-in-oral-history/
CATEGORIES:fundraiser
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240917T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240917T130000
DTSTAMP:20260520T143313
CREATED:20240909T153024Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240911T154734Z
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SUMMARY:Dictatorship\, Disasters\, and Diaspora: Gathering Collective Memories in Haiti and beyond
DESCRIPTION:(photo source: Centre International de Documentation et d’Information Haïtienne\, Caribéenne et Afro-canadienne (the International Center for Haitian\, Caribbean\, and Afro-Canadian Documentation and Information)\, also known as the CIDIHCA Collections.) \nwith Virginie Belony and Rachel Douglas \nEnglish \nThis panel explores how Haitians at home and abroad have remembered and processed major historical traumas\, from political oppression to natural catastrophes. It features two interconnected presentations examining collective memory and its role in shaping Haitian identity and diaspora experiences. Dr. Rachel Douglas analyzes Myriam Chancy’s creative explorations of disaster response\, focusing on earthquake memory sites and the process of ‘re-membering’ Haiti’s traumas. Her presentation delves into healing practices\, commemoration\, and transformative visions for Haiti’s future. Dr. Virginie Belony’s research investigates how Quebec’s Haitian community has engaged with memories of the Duvalier dictatorship (1957-1986). Through oral histories and community activism records\, her work reveals diverse perspectives on the regime and its ongoing impact from 1964 to 2014. Together\, these presentations provide insights into the emotional and political dimensions of memory in postcolonial contexts\, demonstrating how trauma\, resilience\, and survival are deeply woven into both past and present narratives of Haiti and its diaspora.    \n  \nVirginie Belony is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto\, where she specializes in 20th-century Haitian history. She earned her Ph.D. in History from the Université de Montréal in 2023. Virginie Belony’s research examines Haitian intellectual thought before 1957\, issues of contested memory following periods of state-sponsored violence\, and collective memory in diasporic spaces. In addition to her research\, she serves as an assistant editor for the annual publication Revue d’Histoire Haïtienne. Starting in January 2025\, she will join the Department of History at the Université de Montréal as an assistant professor.  \nRachel Douglas is Reader in French and Comparative Literature at the University of Glasgow. She is the author of two books: Making The Black Jacobins: C. L. R. James and the Drama of History (Duke University Press\, 2019) and Frankétienne and Rewriting: A Work in Progress (Lexington Books\, 2009). She works on Caribbean literature\, history\, film\, visual art\, and archives with a focus on Haiti. She is currently working on two book projects: Reimagining Haiti: Decolonial Visions\, based on her Royal Society of Edinburgh Research Fellowship; and Archiving Creative Aftershocks of Disaster in Haiti\, based on her current Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship.  \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 30 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/dictatorship-disasters-and-diaspora/
LOCATION:LB-1019 (Sunroom)\, COHDS\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.\, Montreal\, Québec\, Canada
CATEGORIES:presentations
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SUMMARY:Annual General Assembly
DESCRIPTION:Keynote: Désirée Rochat\, PhD\, FRQSC Postdoctoral fellow\, COHDS \n“Curating stories of Blackness in Montreal: on Black women’s community-anchored knowledge work (1970s-1980s)” \nDésirée Rochat is a community educator and holds a PhD in Educational studies from McGill University. Guided by an integrative approach\, her academic and community work connect historical research\, archival preservation and education. She aims to document\, theorize and transmit (hi)stories of community activism\, through the preservation and promotion of archives of Black community-based organizations. Her latest project “Black lives in/and archives” aims to foster an archival ecosystem dedicated to caring for and activating the archives of Black communities in Montreal.  \n\nSCHEDULE: \n11 a.m – 12 p.m. \nKeynote Speaker \n12 p.m. – 1 p.m. \nLunch \n1 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. \nAnnual General Assembly \n\n– Electing\n– Reporting\n– Envisioning\n\nSee here for last year’s AGA meeting minutes. \nREGISTRATION\n \nRegister to attend in-person. For any questions regarding this event please contact cohds.chorn@concordia.ca \nLB 1019 (Sunroom)\, COHDS \n  \nCOHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory\, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal.
URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/event/annual-general-assembly-2/
LOCATION:LB-1019 (Sunroom)\, COHDS\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.\, Montreal\, Québec\, Canada
CATEGORIES:assembly,keynote speech
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240618T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240618T150000
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SUMMARY:Book launch of "mmm...Manitoba: The Stories Behind the Food We Eat"
DESCRIPTION:By Kimberley Moore & Janis Thiessen\, University of Winnipeg\n\nwith: Rhonda Hinther\, Jo McCutcheon\, Ian Mosby\nChairs | Présidence : Janis Thiessen and Kimberley Moore\n\nIn 2018\, Janis Thiessen (History\, University of Winnipeg) and Kimberley Moore and Kent Davies (Oral History Centre\, University of Winnipeg) refashioned a used food truck into a mobile oral history lab: the Manitoba Food History Truck. They travelled Manitoba together\, conducting and archiving oral histories about the province’s food with the people who make\, sell\, and eat it. They interviewed restaurant owners\, beer brewers\, grocers\, farmers\, scholars\, and chefs in their kitchens and businesses\, online\, and on board the truck. They conducted nearly seventy interviews and tasted everything from Winnipeg’s “Fat Boys” to Steinbach’s perogies to Churchill’s cloudberry jam.\n\nOne of the many public history outcomes of this oral history research is Mmm…Manitoba: The Stories Behind the Foods We Eat (Thiessen and Moore\, University of Manitoba Press\, 2024). An innovative combination of history\, recipes\, maps\, archival records\, biographies\, and full-colour photographs\, the book has a companion website featuring ArcGIS maps\, Story Maps\, and podcast episodes. Food history becomes a lens to examine the broader history of Manitoba and Canada: food security and regulation\, Indigenous foodways and agriculture\, capitalism’s impact on the agri-food industry\, the networks between food producers and retailers\, as well as gender\, ethnicity\, migration\, and colonialism.\n\nJanis Thiessen and Kimberley Moore will present an interactive roundtable on mmm…Manitoba\, featuring commentary by three major scholars in Canadian food\, labour\, Indigenous\, and public history: Rhonda Hinther\, Jo McCutcheon\, and Ian Mosby.\n\nBooks will be available for purchase at COHDS. We look forward to seeing you there!
URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/event/mmm-manitoba/
LOCATION:LB-1019 (Sunroom)\, COHDS\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.\, Montreal\, Québec\, Canada
CATEGORIES:presentations
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240615
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SUMMARY:Los Sabores de Hogar: The Transformation of Memory and Identity Through the Food Practices of Colombian Migrants in Montreal
DESCRIPTION:with Hannah Pinilla\n\nEnglish\n\nThis exhibit features the collaborative MA oral history research of Hannah Pinilla and her interview partners. Her research explores how the narrations\, consumption\, and preparation of ‘home foods’  facilitates interactive\, diasporic ‘memory work’.\n\nIn fall 2023\, Hannah conducted two collaborative oral history interviews with nine Colombian migrants\, both voluntary and forced\, living in Montreal and Longueuil. In these interviews\, participants were asked to narrate food-centred memories and explore foodwork as a form of diasporic storytelling.\n\nThis research suggests that Colombian migrants bridge the past and the present\, the here and there\, and the then and now of the two social realities that they inhabit through quotidian\, interactive\, and embodied enactments of memory. Moreover\, Hannah defends the value of recipe and food sharing in fostering a reciprocal and productive research relationship with migrant communities. The exhibit is a work of public history creation\, featuring video installations and sensory memory prompts. It is intended to engage participants and visitors in reflections on food-centred practices of life history narration and storytelling.\n\n\n\nHannah Pinilla is an oral historian and MA student in public history with a specialization in digital humanities at Carleton University. Her SSHRC-funded master’s research project\, “El Sabor del Hogar: The Transformation of Identity and Memory Through the Food Practices of Colombian Migrants in Quebec\,” engages nine Colombian migrants\, living in Montreal and Longueuil in oral history interviews facilitated through cooking sessions\, to explore how the narration\, preparation\, and consumption of ‘home foods’ is a form of embodied and interactive diasporic memory work. Her research question was guided by my own lived experiences as the granddaughter of a first-generation Colombian-Canadian: how does the dialectical relationship between identity and memory manifest through food practice and what impact does it have on the process of home-building?
URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/event/el-sabor-del-hogar/
CATEGORIES:performances and exhibitions
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240523T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240523T180000
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SUMMARY:Climate Play - a climate change verbatim theatre workshop
DESCRIPTION:with Joel Bernbaum\, and Yvette Nolan \nEnglish \nConcordia’s Acts of Listening Lab & COHDS\, & IMAGO theatre invite you to a climate change verbatim theatre workshop led by Yvette Nola and Joel Bernbaum.\nLike live documentaries\, these plays are made from interview transcripts\, joint us to fine-tune your tools and skill to make a verbatim theatre play. \n\nJoel Bernbaum is a theatre artist and journalist. He is a graduate of the Canadian College of Performing Arts and Carleton University\, where he completed his Master’s Thesis on Verbatim Theatre’s Relationship to Journalism. Joel’s produced plays include Operation Big Rock\, My Rabbi (with Kayvan Khoshkam)\, Home is a Beautiful Word\, Reasonable Doubt (with Yvette Nolan and Lancelot Knight) and Being Here: The Refugee Project (with Michael Shamata). Joel is currently an interdisciplinary PhD student at the University of Saskatchewan investigating the potential of theatre to strengthen cities. \nYvette Nolan (Algonquin) is a playwright\, director and dramaturg who makes theatre across Turtle Island. Her works include the play The Unplugging\, the dance-opera Bearing\, the libretto Shawnadithit\, and the verbatim play Reasonable Doubt (with Joel Bernbaum and Lancelot Knight). From 2003-2011\, she served as Artistic Director of Native Earth Performing Arts. \n  \nREGISTRATION \nYou can register for the event here. \nIn-person in Concordia University Dance Studio\, 1600 Blvd De Maisonneuve West \n  \nCOHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory\, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal.
URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/event/climate-play/
LOCATION:Concordia Dance Studio\, 1600 Blvd De Maisonneuve West\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H3H 1J5\, Canada
CATEGORIES:workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240517T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240518T210000
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CREATED:20240509T144606Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240509T144528Z
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SUMMARY:Llamado y Respuesta: ¿Quién escucha a César? | Call and Response: who listens to Cesar?
DESCRIPTION:Un evento del Laboratorio de Actos de Escucha y del Coro a la Escucha | A research-creation event by the Acts of Listening Lab and the Listening Choir. \nMay 17\, and 18\, 2024\, 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm (including light refreshments and talk back discussion) \n(In Spanish\, a written translation into English will be provided) \nWe use 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). \nYou are also invited to participate in a talk back to figure out who listens and what it takes to listen to each other in restorative terms. It is a collective exercise in listening for community building in post-conflict settings. If you accept the invitation\, be ready to participate with as little or as much involvement as you feel ready to contribute. We will implement a care protocol using singing and listening techniques. \n\nCoro a la Escucha is a pilot project exploring singing as a means of facilitating an acoustic space in which personal memories by people impacted by violence can be shared. \nThe Acts of Listening Lab (ALLab) is a hub for research-creation on the transformative power of listening in the context of oral history performance. It brings together artists-researchers\, communities\, and activists from across disciplines and cultures interested in exploring alternative and creative ways of making life stories matter in the public sphere. \n  \nREGISTRATION \nPlease confirm your presence by registering here: https://forms.office.com/r/iP5x3Mp5qi \n\n  \nCOHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory\, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal.
URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/event/llamado-y-respuesta/
LOCATION:Studio MB.7.265\, John Molson Building\, 1450 Guy Street\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H3H 0AI\, Canada
CATEGORIES:presentations,workshops
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240516T183000
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SUMMARY:Co-designing technologies to communicate embodied experiences: Vibrotactile technologies research workshop with VibraFusionLab
DESCRIPTION:with Dr. Naila Kuhlmann\, David Bobier\, and Anna Vigeland \nA participatory research and creation workshop led by Dr. Naila Kuhlmann (McGill Biapt Lab\, CRITAC)\, with the collaboration of David Bobier (VibraFusionLab)\, assisted by Anna Vigeland (COHDS member)\, exploring how immersive and interactive technologies can help convey sensory\, bodily and felt experiences that are difficult to see or to put into words. The project co-investigates these questions with: \n\nPeople living with Parkinson’s disease and their caregivers\nProfessional circus artists\nPeople working with immersive technologies\n\nThis workshop is a research activity\, involving a focus group discussion\, and participation is compensated as such ($20/h). \n  \nREGISTRATION \nIf you identify as someone as belonging to one of our study groups and you would like to participate\, we invite you to contact avigeland@enc.qc.ca or naila.kuhlmann2@mail.mcgill.ca \nWe look forward to sharing information about public project events open to all in the future.
URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/event/co-designing-technologies-to-communicate-embodied-experiences/
LOCATION:LB 1042.03 (Moonroom)\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.\, Montreal\, Québec\, Canada
CATEGORIES:workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240417T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240417T150000
DTSTAMP:20260520T143313
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SUMMARY:Gaming & Oral History
DESCRIPTION:with Carl Therrien\, Jonathan Lessard\, and Dany Guay-Bélanger\n\nEnglish\n\nVideogames are a fairly young medium. Emerging as a commercial good in the early 1960s\, they have slowly made their way into the mainstream. What was once seen as toys for young boys has become so widespread that many of us have them in our living rooms or basements\, and even close to us at all times in our very pockets. There has been interest in the history of the medium for quite some time\, as can be seen with the many publications by fans and journalists and the recent resurgence of retrogaming. But academia lagged behind in investigating videogame history and it is only around 2010\, about a decade after the emergence of game studies as a discipline\, that this area of research truly gained momentum. Since then\, scholars from across disciplinary boundaries have endeavoured to analyse the complex and fascinating history of a medium that is at once art form\, culture\, and technology. Still\, oral history remains underutilised in the study of videogaming even though many scholars have argued for its potential. This event will give a brief overview of the history of videogames and of historical research on this topic. It will then bring in conversation two approaches to oral history as it relates to videogames. The first\, presented by Carl Therrien and Jonathan Lessard\, is to interview game developers\, and in this case early practitioners of what would become known as the independent game development scene. The second\, presented by Dany Guay-Bélanger\, is to interview players to preserve their memories and experiences of playing and appropriating games.\n\n\n\nJonathan Lessard is a game designer\, professor\, and researcher at Concordia University. For the past ten years as leader of the LabLabLab\, he has been exploring the playful affordances of various technologies and concepts such as natural language processing and possible worlds theory. His main research interests include emergent narratives\, complex simulations\, and game design history. \n\nCarl Therrien is Full Professor in games and film studies at the Université de Montréal. In The Media Snatcher (Platform studies\, MIT Press\, 2019)\, he proposed  a critical view of videogame historiography through a comparative study of the PC Engine platform\, confronting American and Japanese perspectives of this technology. He has written numerous papers on immersion and on the history of popular genres (such as adventure games and first-person shooters). His research projects seek to integrate more video games into the canon\, hoping to assist archivists and historians in their efforts to engage with the diversity and complexity of this culture.\n\nDany Guay-Bélanger is a FRQ-funded PhD candidate in Film Studies at the Université de Montréal. By combining his training as a public historian and a game scholar\, his research aims to develop a methodology favouring a holistic approach for the preservation and study of videogames as cultural heritage artefacts that allows players and researchers\, present and future\, to access videogames from every era of this medium’s history. Dany is currently the Francophone Representative of the Canadian Game Studies Association and scholar in residence at the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling (COHDS) of Concordia University.\n\nDany Guay-Bélanger est candidat au doctorat en études cinématographiques à l’Université de Montréal et est financé par le Fonds de recherche du Québec. Combinant sa formation d’historien public et de chercheur en étude du jeu\, sa recherche vise à développer une méthodologie favorisant une approche holistique pour la préservation et l’étude des jeux vidéo en tant qu’artéfacts d’héritage culturel. Cette méthodologie a pour but de permettre aux joueu·euse·s et aux chercheur·euse·s\, présent·e·s et futur·e·s\, d’accéder aux jeux vidéo de toutes les époques de l’histoire de ce médium. Dany est actuellement le représentant francophone de l’Association canadienne des études des jeux et chercheur en résidence au Centre d’histoire orale et de récits numériques (CHORN) de l’Université Concordia.\n\n \n\nREGISTRATION\n\nPlease note that all of our events are free and open to all\, but you need to register! To register\, contact us at: cohds.chorn@concordia.ca\n\nIn-person in LB-1019 (Sunroom)\, COHDS\n\n \n\nCOHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory\, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal.
URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/event/gaming-oral-history/
LOCATION:LB-1019 (Sunroom)\, COHDS\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.\, Montreal\, Québec\, Canada
CATEGORIES:presentations
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240412T150000
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SUMMARY:Ethics in Research: How to Apply for Ethics Certification
DESCRIPTION:with Zachary Corbeil\, Eliot Perrin\, Eleni Polychronakos\, and Karl Ponthieux Stern \nEnglish \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. Four 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. The focus of this workshop is on providing 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. \n\nZachary Corbeil (he/him) is a MA graduate student\, aspiring Public and Oral historian\, working on Indigenous History at Concordia University. Based in Tiohtià:ke (Montreal)\, he is currently working on a research project seeking to enlighten the privatization of game and forests resources\, as well as land management and hunting practices in the 19th and 20th century; following the tread of cultural impacts of such processes on Indigenous communities. Collaboration\, shared ownership and decolonial methodologies are at the core of his approach to research\, insisting on the importance of ethics\, activism\, and relationships. \nEliot Perrin is a History PhD candidate at Concordia University. His research focuses on the impact of urban planning and deindustrialization on a historically Francophone neighbourhood in Sudbury\, Ontario. He is also the archives coordinator at the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling. \nEleni Polychronakos is a PhD candidate at Concordia’s Department of Interdisciplinary Humanities. She is also a teacher and a writer. She holds a Master’s in literature and one in journalism. Her short fiction and journalism appear in Canadian and international publications. From 2011 to 2015\, she was an editor with Room Magazine. Her dissertation 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. At the core of this interdisciplinary research-creation project is “Girl’s Name\,” a novella told in linked stories that investigate historical events and political unrest from the viewpoint of individual dreams and desires. \nKarl Ponthieux Stern is a writer\, trans gay activist\, and a master´s student at Concordia University. They hold a licence in History from the University of Paris Nanterre. They started their research activities way before attending university\, by documenting medical violence against women\, trans men\, and non-binary people in France. With a methodology rooted in Oral History\, Karl has centered their thesis on the ExisTransInter\, a yearly demonstration led by trans activists since 1997. Their research explores how trans people have been overlooked as political actors and uncovers the variety of strategies developed by activists for trans rights. \n  \nREGISTRATION \nPlease note that all of our events are free and open to all\, but you need to register! To register\, contact us at: cohds.chorn@concordia.ca \nIn-person in LB-1019 (Sunroom)\, COHDS \n  \nCOHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory\, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal.
URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/event/ethics-in-research/
LOCATION:LB-1019 (Sunroom)\, COHDS\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.\, Montreal\, Québec\, Canada
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240411T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240411T160000
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SUMMARY:Palates & Passages:  Navigating the Intersection of Food and Oral Histories through Migration
DESCRIPTION:with Cassandra Marsillo\, Hannah Pinilla\, and Amanda Whittaker \nEnglish \nThis panel discussion delves into the rich crossing of food history and oral history by exploring the connections between migration\, the concept of home\, and food narratives. Each of the panelists’ research focus on the storytelling found within the pages of cookbooks\, identity and memory formation through food practices\, and the enduring weight of emotion and trauma throughout migrant lives. The event aims to highlight the significance of preserving and sharing stories related to food\, migration\, and family\, and ultimately contribute to the growing research on diverse and interconnected migrant experiences.    \n\nCassandra Marsillo is an educator and public historian\, based in Tiohti:áke (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. She has an MA in Public History from Carleton University\, in Ottawa. Currently\, she is teaching in the department of History and Classics at Dawson College. \nHannah Pinilla is an oral historian and MA student in public history with a specialization in digital humanities at Carleton University. Her SSHRC-funded master’s research project\, “El Sabor del Hogar: The Transformation of Identity and Memory Through the Food Practices of Colombian Migrants in Quebec\,” engages nine Colombian migrants\, living in Montreal and Longueuil in oral history interviews facilitated through cooking sessions\, to explore how the narration\, preparation\, and consumption of ‘home foods’ is a form of embodied and interactive diasporic memory work. Her research question was guided by my own lived experiences as the granddaughter of a first-generation Colombian-Canadian: how does the dialectical relationship between identity and memory manifest through food practice and what impact does it have on the process of home-building? \nAmanda Whittaker is a PhD candidate at the University of Toronto in the Department of History. Her research is driven by her interest in the field of food studies\, gender studies\, and migration history. In her doctoral thesis\, she examines the experience of migration and how it may have altered the development and preservation of migrants’ foodways. Using the oral history testimonies of over 60 first and second-generation migrants\, her project is a study of métissage that explores the cultural negotiations\, preservation\, and exchange that occurs when migrants arrived in Montreal in the post-1960 period. The conceptual framework of her dissertation centers on the notion of “emotional transnationalism” which refers to the rupture as well as the nostalgia of migration\, and considers the embodied forms of remembering and reimagining\, where food and cuisine play a central role. \nCurrently\, she is teaching and in the process of writing her dissertation\, but she gains most of her insights from afternoons with her interview partners where quips\, memories\, and shared emotions are never in short supply. Her professional experience includes course instructing at the John Abbott College\, the University of Toronto\, and guest lecturing at Marianopolis College and UTSG. \n  \nREGISTRATION \nPlease note that all of our events are free and open to all\, but you need to register! To register\, contact us at: cohds.chorn@concordia.ca \nIn-person in LB-1019 (Sunroom)\, COHDS \nRegister on zoom to attend online. \n  \nCOHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory\, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal. \n 
URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/event/palates-passages/
LOCATION:LB-1019 (Sunroom)\, COHDS\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.\, Montreal\, Québec\, Canada
CATEGORIES:presentations
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240404T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240404T160000
DTSTAMP:20260520T143313
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SUMMARY:The Archive of the Future: Oral History and Community Archiving
DESCRIPTION:with Po Ki Chan\, Sonia Dhaliwal\, Eliot Perrin\, and Carla Rodeghero \nEnglish \nJoin us for a conversation regarding lives of learning\, experiences with oral history\, and community archiving. Increasingly\, we seek to break down institutional barriers and include participants in the archival process. What does this process look like? How does community archiving differ from state archive/academic archives? How does the role of shared authority translate within the archiving process? This conversation will speak to these challenges\, but also the opportunities afforded to community-grounded archival practice that seeks to build an inclusionary archive for the future. In doing so\, we seek to speak to the best practices that can help us to achieve this. Our panellists represent diverse academic and professional backgrounds that highlight the various approaches to answering these questions. \n\nPo Ki Chan is a PhD student in INDI at Concordia University. She holds an MSc in Multimedia and Entertainment technology from the Design School of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University\, where she started her journey in exploring possibilities in a virtual representation of the heritage of cultural significance. Her research focuses on heritage conservation by leveraging oral history to provide an effective understanding and cultural presence for the global audience. \nSonia Dhaliwal is an information professional who has worked as an archivist and librarian in academic institutions. She has a keen interest in developing archives and research collections reflective of diasporas through community led digital scholarship and research-creation based initiatives. She graduated from McGill’s School of Information Studies and has an MA in History from Concordia. \nEliot Perrin is the archives coordinator for the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling at Concordia University. He is also a History PhD candidate at Concordia. His research focuses on the impacts of urban renewal and deindustrialization on a historically Francophone neighbourhood in Sudbury\, Ontario. \nCarla Rodeghero is a History Professor at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)\, in Porto Alegre\, Brazil\, where she teaches history of Contemporary Brazil\, and oral history methodology. Between 2012 and 2014\, Carla was editor of the Brazilian Oral History Association Journal (História Oral) and in the following biennium\, she chaired the national organization. Since 2018\, she coordinates the UFRGS’s Oral History Repository\, a website and a collaborative team that aims to gather\, organize and publish interviews carried out by students\, professors and other researchers from the History Department of the university. Carla is currently involved with two projects: 1) she is comparing some oral history institutional experiences in Brazil\, Canada and Italy; 2) she is a co-coordinator of the inter-institutional project Documenting the Covid 19 Experiences in Rio Grande do Sul\, that is been carried out for 14 institutions in her state. \n  \nREGISTRATION \nPlease note that all of our events are free and open to all\, but you need to register! This is an online event\, register on zoom to attend. \n  \nCOHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory\, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal.
URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/event/the-archive-of-the-future-oral-history-and-community-archiving/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:presentations
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SUMMARY:Stories Beyond Borders: Mapping the Imaginative Spaces  of Movement and Migration
DESCRIPTION:with Stéphane Martelly\, Maricia Fischer-Souan\, and Kelly Norah Drukker \nEnglish \nIn this panel presentation and discussion\, writers and scholars working within the disciplines of oral history\, sociology\, and creative writing share different approaches to “mapping” stories of movement and migration—from intimate ethnographies to those told within broader communities. What role does place play in the interview process\, and how does it shape the stories that emerge from oral history interviews? What strategies can we use\, informed by a range of disciplinary practices\, to capture some of the felt dislocations—the distances between “here” and “there”— that emerge from our research? Through conversation and sharing works in progress\, this panel explores how places can be (re)imagined through different modes of writing\, and how various forms of mapping can serve as useful tools to convey the stories that emerge from places\, both present and past.  \n\nChair: Stéphane Martelly\, Université de Sherbrooke (TBC) \nWriter\, painter and scholar\, Stéphane Martelly was born in Port-au-Prince and now lives in Montreal. Through a profoundly transdisciplinary approach\, she confronts theory\, critical reflection and art in her work. She has published poetry [La Boîte noire suivi de Départs 2004)] and children’s tales [Couleur de rue\, 1999 and L’Homme aux cheveux de fougère\, 2002]. Her pictorial works are showcased in the digital art book Folie passée à la chaux vive (Madness spent in quicklime) (Publie.net\, 2010). \nHer scholarly work notably includes working in the Montreal-based Life Stories Of Montrealers Displaced By War\, Genocide And Other Human Rights Violations as a researcher and coordinator. She also wrote a monograph on Haitian poet Magloire-Saint-Aude (Le Sujet opaque\, 2001) and several articles on Caribbean literature. Her latest essay in research-creation is: Les Jeux du dissemblable. Folie\, marge et féminin en littérature haïtienne contemporaine\, Nota Bene\, 2016. Her recent publications are La Maman qui s’absentait (Vents d’Ailleurs\, 2011)\, Inventaires (Triptyque\, 2016) and L’enfant gazelle (Remue-Ménage\, 2018). \nhttps://www.usherbrooke.ca/dall/departement/personnel/personnel-enseignant/stephane-martelly \nMaricia Fischer-Souan is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Research on Social Inequalities at Sciences Po Paris (October 2021-2024) and affiliated with the Centre d’études et de recherches internationales (CÉRIUM)\, Université de Montréal. Her postdoctoral research project\, “IM.MAGINE – Mapping Immigrant Imaginations: Comparing North Africans in Montréal and Marseille”\, examines representations of and relationships with space and place in migrant identity construction. She has a PhD in Social Sciences (2020) from the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Her dissertation “Becoming a Migrant in Europe: Accounts of Motive\, Meaning\, and Identity Formation” studied various processes of mobile subjectivity among both postcolonial migrants and European Union ‘free-movers’ in Berlin\, London\, Paris\, and Madrid. As part of her current IM.MAGINE project\, she is exploring lyrical and imaginative approaches to ‘everyday’ migration narratives\, both methodologically and thematically and is working on a book manuscript that charts the use of figurative language in both individual and public migration narratives. Her most recent research article\, “Belonging to the Nation\, Belonging to Europe? Varieties of Particularism and Universalism in Migrant Identity Negotiation” is published in the Journal of Contemporary European Studies (2024). \nKelly Norah Drukker is a poet\, nonfiction 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\, space and place\, 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. Kelly’s doctoral Project\, “Naming the Traces: (Re)Constructing an Irish-Canadian Family Narrative of Emigration\, Place-Making\, and Return\,” has received the support 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\, write\, and teach creative writing workshops in Montreal. \n  \nREGISTRATION \nPlease note that all of our events are free and open to all\, but you need to register! To register\, contact us at: cohds.chorn@concordia.ca \nIn-person in LB-1019 (Sunroom)\, COHDS \n  \nCOHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory\, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal.
URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/event/stories-beyond-borders/
LOCATION:LB-1019 (Sunroom)\, COHDS\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.\, Montreal\, Québec\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Voices of the Immigrant Workers’ Centre
DESCRIPTION:with Lauren Laframboise and Stefan Christoff  \nIn 2007\, Montreal-based garment manufacturer Lamour prepared to shutter its Canadian production activities\, gradually laying off nearly 500 of its employees to circumvent labour legislation that would force the company to pay collective layoff benefits. Over 2007 and 2008\, Lamour workers and community organizers at the Immigrant Workers Centre (IWC) engaged in a struggle to gain compensation for Lamour employees. In 2023\, Stefan Christoff and Lauren Laframboise recorded short oral history interviews with four IWC organizers who were involved in the Lamour struggle (Mostafa Henaway\, Joey Calugay\, Yumna Siddiqi and Bita Mary Eslami). The interviews reveal the crucial role that the IWC plays in non-unionized industries that primarily employ immigrant workers. The IWC organizers also reflect on their own paths to community organizing\, and the ways that work has continued to transform amidst the rise in the logistics industry and temporary employment agencies.   \nThe interviews were broadcasted on the community radio show Free City Radio in September and October 2023. Based at CKUT 90.3 FM\, Free City Radio is hosted and produced by Stefan Christoff and is syndicated at five radio stations across Canada\, broadcast on Radio AlHara in occupied Palestine\, and is also released as a podcast on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. The interviews were also completed in partnership with the Deindustrialization and the Politics of Our Time project based at COHDS. Listen to the interviews and find out more about the project here. This event will bring together those who were interviewed in a panel-style discussion to look back on the Lamour campaign collectively.   \n\nLauren Laframboise is a PhD student in History at Concordia and a Student Representative on the COHDS Administrative Board. 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 film and radio. She is also a member of the Concordia Research and Education Workers’ Union (CREW–CSN) Organizing Council and Co-convener of their Feminist Workplace Committee. \nStefan Christoff is a musician\, community radio host and student living in Tiohtià:ke / Montréal. \nMostafa Henaway\, a Canadian-born Egyptian\, is a long-time community organizer at the Immigrant Workers Centre in Montreal\, where he has been organizing for justice for immigrant/migrant workers for over two decades. He is also a researcher and PhD candidate at Concordia University. \nYumna Siddiqi is an Associate Professor of English at Middlebury College\, where she specializes in postcolonial literary studies. Her current research is on postcolonial literature\, migrants and the city. She has been a volunteer at the IWC-CTI since 2006\, and seen the Center grow from the little NGO that could to an immigrant labour power house. \nBita Mary Eslami is an Irani exile and a forever Montrealer. For two decades she has supported non-status and migrant families\, victims of police violence\, promoted child care and worked to advance the international BDS movement in solidarity with Palestinians. \n  \n\nREGISTRATION  \nPlease note that all of our events are free and open to all\, but you need to register! To register\, contact us at: cohds.chorn@concordia.ca  \nRegister on zoom to attend online. \nIn-person at LB-1019 (Sunroom) \n   \nCOHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory\, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal. 
URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/event/voices-of-the-immigrant-workers-centre/
LOCATION:LB-1019 (Sunroom)\, COHDS\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.\, Montreal\, Québec\, Canada
CATEGORIES:presentations
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Out to Defend Ourselves: A History of Montreal's First Haitian Street Gang
DESCRIPTION:with Maxime Aurélien and Ted Rutland \nYou are cordially invited to join authors Maxime Aurélien and Ted Rutland for a discussion on their new book: Out to Defend Ourselves: A History of Montreal’s First Haitian Street Gang \nAbout the book: \nThis first critical history of a street gang in a Canadian city is a result of a four-year collaboration between a university professor (Ted Rutland) and the leader of les Bélangers (Maxime Aurélien). Out to Defend Ourselves tells the story of Montreal’s first Haitian street gang\, les Bélangers. It traces how the gang emerged from a group of Haitian friends\, the children of migrants from Haiti in the 1970s. It documents the forms of racial violence they experienced and their battles against them. It also documents the everyday lives of the gang members\, the petty crime some members engaged in to make ends meet\, and how the police actions against the gang changed its nature and function – making it\, finally\, a more criminally oriented and violent formation. It is a story about a gang\, but it is also a story of young Haitians making their lives in 1970s and 80s Montreal and a story about Montreal in a period of great change. \n\nMaxime Aurélien is the former leader of les Bélangers\, Montreal’s first Haitian street gang. He is the owner of Cash Content\, a pawn shop and barbershop in Montreal’s east end. \nTed Rutland is a professor at Concordia University. His research and activism focuses on the racial politics of urban planning and policing in Canadian cities. He is the author of Displacing Blackness: Planning\, Power\, and Race in Twentieth-Century Halifax. \n  \n\nREGISTRATION  \nPlease note that all of our events are free and open to all. For any questions and to register\, contact us at: cohds.chorn@concordia.ca  \nIn-person at LB-1019 (Sunroom) \n   \nCOHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory\, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal. 
URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/event/book-launch-out-to-defend-ourselves/
LOCATION:LB-1019 (Sunroom)\, COHDS\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.\, Montreal\, Québec\, Canada
CATEGORIES:presentations
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