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SUMMARY:Interpreting Oral History: A Masterclass with Alistair Thomson
DESCRIPTION:With Alistair Thomson \n  \nHow do we make sense of the memories that we record as oral historians? How do we begin to transform stories into histories? In this workshop we’ll consider a range of ways of approaching the interpretation of memories. We’ll note the changing ways that researchers have used memory as a historical source. We’ll consider the factors that shape memory stories. We’ll try out narrative analysis with interview extracts (from Al’s interviews with migrants and war veterans) using the rich clues of sound\, gesture\, word and narrative form. We’ll think about how we might work with a set of interviews to find historical patterns and illuminate historical themes. And we’ll consider the ethical issues posed when we interpret people’s lives and stories. You’ll finish up brimming with ideas and enthusiasm for working with your own interviews (or other people’s interviews)\, armed with lists of further reading if you wish to deepen your understanding \nAlistair Thomson has been teaching oral history since he ran an adult education interviewing workshop in regional Australia in 1985\, and in 2018 received an Australian Award for University Teaching Excellence. Al is Emeritus Professor of History at Monash University and a former President of Oral History Australia and the International Oral History Association. His oral history books include: Anzac Memories (1994 and 2013)\, The Oral History Reader (1998\, 2006 and 2015 with Rob Perks\, and 2026\, forthcoming with Alex Freund)\,  Ten Pound Poms: Australia’s Invisible Migrants (2005\, with Jim Hammerton)\, Moving Stories: an intimate history of four women across two countries (2011) Oral History and Photography (2011\, with Alexander Freund) Australian Lives: An Aural History (2017\, with Anisa Puri)\, Fathering: An Australian History (2025\, with John Murphy\, Kate Murphy and Johnny Bell)\, and The Bloomsbury Handbook of Oral History (2026\, with Alexander Freund and Erin Jessee). Website: https://althomsonoralhistory.com.au/ \n  \n\nREGISTRATION \nRegister now with this link \nPlease note that all our events are free and open to all\, but registration is mandatory. For any questions\, please contact cohds.chorn@concordia.ca \nLOCATION \nIn-person in LB-1019 (Sunroom)\, Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling (COHDS)\, Concordia University\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West\, J.W. McConnell Building (Library Building). \nCOHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory\, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal.
URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/event/interpreting-oral-history-a-masterclass-with-alistair-thomson/
LOCATION:LB-1019 (Sunroom)\, COHDS\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.\, Montreal\, Québec\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Complexities in Listening: A Masterclass with Martha Norkunas
DESCRIPTION:With Martha Norkunas \n  \nThis advanced oral history workshop focuses on miscommunications and complexities in listening. Participants will read a chapter from my forthcoming book\, Learning to Listen\, called “Complexities in Listening” and come to the workshop prepared to discuss the issues it raises. Based on years of listening journals written by graduate students in my oral history seminars\, the chapter reflects on why two people in a narrating-listening relationship can leave the interview with radically different experiences. Do we ever know how our narrator’s felt about the interview? Participants will be invited to share complex issues that arose in their own\, or their students’ interviews. We will look at interpreting body language\, voice inflection and pacing\, the delicate\, often nonverbal negotiations that take place about what is appropriate to talk about in an interview and what is too personal\, and\, related to that\, what is culturally appropriate and who decides. \n  \nIt is essential that all participants read Chapter Ten\, Complexities in Listening\, and take notes for reference prior to the workshop. The chapter link will be sent upon registration before the workshop.\n  \nMartha Norkunsa is an oral and public historian in Austin\, Texas. She holds a Ph.D. in Folklore from Indiana University’s Folklore Institute. She is the author of The Politics of Public Memory (SUNY Press\, 1993)\, Monuments and Memory (Smithsonian Institution Press\, 2002) and the forthcoming Learning to Listen: Exercises to Become a More Empathic Interviewer (Palgrave\, 2026) as well as articles in national and international journals. Norkunas’s work examines how historical and cultural memory is represented in narrative and on the landscape\, and how those representations intersect with race\, gender\, class and power. She taught graduate seminars in oral history at the University of Texas at Austin and in the Public History Program at Middle Tennessee State University. She directed a twenty-year project\, the African American Oral History Project (now at the Library of Congress)\, as well as a variety of oral history projects with refugees\, refugee workers\, women in Democratic politics\, National Park Service Superintendents interpreting slavery\, and peace activists. Her own oral history project focused on women textile workers\, the meaning of work for furniture workers\, women and cancer\, women imagining safe cities\, immigrants and refugees\, and political activists in resistance movements. \n  \nREGISTRATION \nRegister now with this link \nPlease note that all our events are free and open to all\, but registration is mandatory. For any questions\, please contact cohds.chorn@concordia.ca \nLOCATION \nIn-person in LB-1019 (Sunroom)\, Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling (COHDS)\, Concordia University\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West\, J.W. McConnell Building (Library Building). \nCOHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory\, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal.
URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/event/complexities-in-listening-a-master-class/
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SUMMARY:The Kitchen Table Collective : Open Plenary and Reception
DESCRIPTION:Opening Plenary and Reception: Listening in the Age of Polycrisis \nSponsored by the Centre de recherche interdisciplinairesur la diversité et la démocratie (CRIDAQ) \nA conversation about listening in an age of polycrisis\, as several crises (economic\, ecological\, geopolitical\, etc.) occur\, amplify\, and interact with each other on a global scale. Rooted in oral history methodologies that focus on solidarity\, decolonization\, and de-centring the human\, Crystal Mun-hye Baik\, Elder John Sawyer\, Katrina Srigley\, and Leyla Neyzi reflect on listening as a political act for community-building and a counterpoint to dynamics of violence\, polarization\, and alienation. \n  \nThe Kitchen Table Collective (KTC) is an online network\, founded by Anna Sheftel and Stacey Zembrzycki\, whose members include leading scholars\, artists\, activists\, and independent practitioners from around the world. Since 2023\, the group has met virtually eight times a year to discuss members’ work\, developments in the field of oral history\, and how we are collectively navigating the politics of our institutions\, communities\, and everyday lives. We are pleased to now open up this generative space to COHDS community members\, by inviting you to attend the collective’s first in-person meeting: “Listening in the Age of Polycrisis.” This symposium asks how oral historians ought to adapt to the shifting realities and crises of our current moment to not just strengthen the field\, but think through what our work may offer our troubled world. \nPlease join us for the symposium’s opening plenary at the Centre des mémoires montréalaises (MEM) on Thursday\, June 11 and a full day of talks and workshops at the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling on Friday\, June 12\, all of which will focus on what it means to listen right now. \n  \nWe ask that you register at the links below if you are interested in attending; you can also find these links in the complete program. Feel free to circulate these events within your networks too! \n  \nREGISTRATION \nRegister now with this link \nPlease note that all our events are free and open to all\, but registration is mandatory. For any questions\, please contact cohds.chorn@concordia.ca \nLOCATION \nIn-person at the MEM – Centre des mémoires montréalaises\, Boulevard Saint-Laurent\, Montreal\, QC\, Canada
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