Events for April 15 - November 1, 2024

  • Celebrating Excellence in Research: Meet our 2023-24 Scholars-in-Residence

    LB-1019 (Sunroom), COHDS 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W., Montreal, Québec, Canada

    with Dany Guay-Bélanger, Patricia Branco Cornish, Kelann Currie-Williams, Kelly Norah Drukker, Lauren Laframboise, Cassandra Marsillo, and Eleni Polychronakos English In Fall 2023, we launched our Scholars-in-Residence program, seeking to bring together […]

  • Introduction to Oral History

    LB-1019 (Sunroom), COHDS 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W., Montreal, Québec, Canada

    with Steven High  English This 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 […]

  • Rescheduled to winter 2025 – Rethinking our Territorial Acknowledgment

    LB-1019 (Sunroom), COHDS 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W., Montreal, Québec, Canada

    •••Please note this event has been postponed until Winter 2025. We look forward to seeing you then!*** with Catherine Kineweskwêw  Richardson and Mélissa-Anne Ménard English  This gathering consists of an […]

  • Film Screening of Dorchester: In the Midst of the Fray

    LB 1042.03 (Moonroom) 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W., Montreal, Québec, Canada

    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. In the heart of the city […]

  • What Travels Through Us: Exhibition Vernissage and Roundtable

    LB-1019 (Sunroom), COHDS 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W., Montreal, Québec, Canada

    with Naomi Frost, Rémy Chhem, Eva-Loan Ponton-Pham, and Marie-Ève Samson English  This vernissage event and roundtable discussion, a collaboration between the Super Boat People Collective, COHDS, and Concordia University Library, introduces and […]

  • Women and Invisible Labour: Re-Imagining the Archive

    LB-1019 (Sunroom), COHDS 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W., Montreal, Québec, Canada

    with Varda Nisar and Lola Rémy English This workshop offers to reflect on archives as sites of contested knowledge, and to envision avenues and methodologies to open them to more […]

  • Voices from the field: Working with oral history in Armenian contexts

    Online

    with Hourig Attarian, Melissa Bilal, Arpine Ghambaryan, Houry Pilibbossian, and Julia Cabral Tordeur English  This roundtable brings together an intergenerational group of oral historians working in diverse Armenian contexts: Melissa […]

  • Photo-Interviewing: Bridging Oral History and Photography

    LB-1019 (Sunroom), COHDS 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W., Montreal, Québec, Canada

    (photo credit: Kelann Currie-Williams) with Kelann Currie-Williams and Lea Kabiljo This event brings together Lea Kabiljo and Kelann Currie-Williams, oral historians and photographers, who rely on the multi-faceted technique of […]

  • Saathis: A Conversation about Queer Brown History in Tiohtia:ke/Montreal

    LB-1019 (Sunroom), COHDS 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W., Montreal, Québec, Canada

    with the Saathi Montreal Archive Project English  A 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 […]

  • Dancing Life Stories/Dancing Biographies/ Forming the WE

    Dance Studio, MB 7.265 1600 Blvd De Maisonneuve West, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

    * Please note this event has been moved to the Dance Studio at MB 7.265, 1600 Blvd. De Maisonneuve Ouest English Join us for an evening of dance as students […]

  • Community Choral Music in Reperforming Oral Histories

    Online

    With Sara Lucas and Luis Sotelo Dr. 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 […]

  • Deep Listening to Life Stories

    LB-1019 (Sunroom), COHDS 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W., Montreal, Québec, Canada

    * Please note this event has been rescheduled to 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. with Steven High  The workshop will invite you to engage deeply with a videotaped interview of a […]

  • Book Launch: The Left in Power

    LB-1019 (Sunroom), COHDS 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W., Montreal, Québec, Canada

    with Steven High  English  You are cordially invited to the launch of Steven High’s The Left in Power: Bob Rae’s NDP and the Working Class. At the end of the […]

  • Sharing Black Stories with Care, Intentionality and Authenticity

    LB-1019 (Sunroom), COHDS 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W., Montreal, Québec, Canada

    with Martha Nduwayo, Methsaïca Philippe, and Lourdenie Jean Bilingual Join us for an immersive experience that highlights the art of storytelling of black communities. Through a captivating multimedia exhibition, a panel with […]

  • Casual COHDS

    LB-1019 (Sunroom), COHDS 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W., Montreal, Québec, Canada

    With Kelly Norah Drukker Join us for the inaugural session of “Casual COHDS,” a monthly drop-in event for members of the COHDS community and anyone curious about oral history to […]

  • Introduction à l’histoire orale

    LB-1019 (Sunroom), COHDS 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W., Montreal, Québec, Canada

    avec Mélissa-Anne Ménard  Français  Cet atelier vous permettra d’explorer certains des éléments fondamentaux dans le domaine interdisciplinaire de l’histoire orale. Les participants découvriront une approche aux entretiens spécifique à l’histoire […]

  • CANCELED: How to Say ‘Longing’

    Concordia University, LB-1042 (COHDS) 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd O, Montreal

    with Jad Orphée Chami and Noël Vezina Join us on Thursday, February 20th, at 7 PM, at the ALLab, Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling, for How to say […]