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  • How to Say ‘Longing’ – Cancelled

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

    with Jad Orphée Chami and Noël Vezina Join us on Wednesday, November 19th, at 7 PM, at the ALLab, Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling, for How to say […]

  • Brown Bag Metting: Listening and Perspective-Taking

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

    This Brown Bag Meeting will be an informal, lunchtime conversation between Mireille Paquet (Concordia Research Chair on the Politics of Immigration; Director of IRMS) and Luis C. Sotelo Castro (Director […]

  • Immersive Oral History Capture: Setup, Recording, and Archiving

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

    With Frankie Ray   In this hands-on workshop, participants will learn the essentials of setting up and recording oral history interviews with both video and audio. We will cover how […]

  • Dancing Life Stories/Dancing Biographies/Forming the WE

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

    With the DANC 202 Cohort: Charlotte Bisson, Nathaniel Cancela Edsell, Florence Cross, Homeyra Esmaeilzadeh, Leonardo Giraldo Rodriguez, Anaïs Girard, Elle Golfinopoulos, Sophie Groleau-Rouleau, Nasiriyah Hamilton, Joselande Josue, Adaline Kuranko, Camille […]

  • Exploring Diaspora Communities: Oral History, Storytelling, and Digital Mapping

    Concordia’s SHIFT Centre for Social Transformation (LB-145) 1400 Boulevard de Maisonneuve Ouest, Montréal

    In June 2025, the University of Debrecen (Hungary) and Concordia University’s Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling (COHDS) signed a Memorandum of Understanding to formalize our collaboration on a […]

  • LISTENING/RECORDING/REGISTERING 

    ALLab J.W. McConnell (LB) Building, 1400 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W. LB-1042-03 (10th floor)

    With Nalini Mohabir   Take part in an active listening session with Nalini Mohabir, inspired by artist Joyce Joumaa’s SIGHTINGS 45 installation. Together we will listen to previously restricted audio excerpts from […]

  • COHDS Choir: Sounds of Home, Sounds of Elsewheres

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

    With Sara Lucas “Sounds of Home, Sounds of Elsewheres” is a community choir project led by Sara Lucas, open to COHDS members who want to sing together beyond their research. […]

  • Deep Listening to Life Stories

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

    With Steven High The 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 […]

  • Screening of Hommes-relais, Becoming Ruby and Red Girl Rising

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

    With Vladimir Chindea and HotDocs   We are pleased to present, in collaboration with HotDocs, three Citizen Minutes documentaries: Hommes-relais, Becoming Ruby, and Red Girl Rising. Each of these films […]

  • Cooking with COHDS: Molisan Winter Remedies

    Concordia’s SHIFT Centre for Social Transformation (LB-145) 1400 Boulevard de Maisonneuve Ouest, Montréal

    With Cassandra Marsillo   This workshop will centre on making two different types of pasta shapes and accompanying recipes typical to Molise, a small region in Southern Italy with a […]

  • Interpreting the Underlying Dynamic in Oral History

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

    With Steven High This workshop will introduce you to ways of interpreting the underlying interviewer-interviewee dynamic that structures the oral history recording. It is an interview after all. Yet we […]

  • Working with Communities: A Conversation on Navigating Relationships

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

    Photo description: Marjorie Villefranche in a collective oral history interview at La Maison d'Haïti   With Philippe Blouin, Michael Ferguson, Cassandra Marsillo, Tesfa Peterson, Léa Denieul Pinsky, and Désirée Rochat […]

  • Capturing Voices: Recording Audio for History

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

    With Frankie Ray   This workshop provides a hands-on introduction to the principles and practices of recording high-quality audio in a range of real-world contexts. Participants will gain practical experience […]