LB-1019 (Sunroom), COHDS
1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W., Montreal, Québec, Canada
How might trouble and troublemaking (re)shape our fields? How might oral history and storytelling help us survive the current moment of poly-crisis? How might we mobilize oral history and storytelling to engage in necessary troublemaking? This year’s symposium brings together twenty emerging scholars from Concordia and beyond in an interdisciplinary conversation on “Vivre avec le […]
With Lea Kabiljo Join us for our second session of “Casual COHDS,” a monthly drop-in event for members of the COHDS community and anyone curious about oral history to gather, converse, and connect over coffee, tea, and snacks in a relaxed setting. If you would like to meet other members of the COHDS community, or […]
LB-1019 (Sunroom), COHDS
1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W., Montreal, Québec, Canada
with Joseph Plaster Joseph Plaster’s prize-winning Kids on the Street: Queer Kinship and Religion in San Francisco’s Tenderloin (Duke University Press, February 2023) explores the informal support networks that enabled abandoned and runaway “kids on the street” to survive in central city tenderloin districts across the United States, and San Francisco's Tenderloin in particular, over […]
LB-1019 (Sunroom), COHDS
1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W., Montreal, Québec, Canada
with Marwan Bassiouni. Hosted by Chedly Belkhodja (Concordia) and Paul May (UQAM) Islam comes in all shapes and colours. It is now Western and a part of the national identity and landscape of many countries. Since January 2018, Marwan Bassiouni has visited mosques in various countries in order to document their presence in the landscape […]
LB-1019 (Sunroom), COHDS
1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W., Montreal, Québec, Canada
with Jamilah Dei-Sharpe, Joan Lee (President), and Ray Resvick MC by CBC's Dionne Codrington. In 1982, the West Island Black Community Association (WIBCA) was founded as one of Montreal’s first Black Anglophone associations. The film is guided by the oral histories of WIBCA’s founding elders, who recount their grassroots efforts to support Black communities in […]
"Our immigrant plant teachers offer a lot of different models for how not to make themselves welcome on a new continent But Plantain is not like that. Its strategy was to be useful, to fit into small places, to coexist with others around the dooryard, to heal wounds White Man's Footstep , generous and healing, grows […]
with Manuela Ochoa, Luana Sampaio, and Patricia Branco Cornish. Conflict and dictatorship are challenging topics to discuss and engage new audiences. However, scholars have tasked themselves with finding creative ways to revisit narratives of these difficult pasts to foster public awareness and prevent socio-political violence from happening in the future. Art has been a long-standing […]
LB-1019 (Sunroom), COHDS
1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W., Montreal, Québec, Canada
With Liam Devitt, Gabryelle Iaconetti, Barbara Lorenzkowski, and Sonya Di Sclafani To 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. Three emerging scholars will reflect on their experiences in […]
LB-1019 (Sunroom), COHDS
1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W., Montreal, Québec, Canada
Join us for another session of “Casual COHDS,” a monthly drop-in event for members of the COHDS community and anyone curious about oral history to gather, converse, and connect over coffee, tea, and snacks in a relaxed setting. If you would like to meet other members of the COHDS community, or simply take a moment […]
I insist is a long-duration performance piece that unfolds over the course of several hours. In it, the artist slowly wraps their body in red sewing thread. With minor, ritualistic, almost inconsequential movements, the piece itself is mostly understood in fragments. The scale of this piece does not encourage you to sit with it in […]
Bodies carry and transmit traces of memories, sites, and stories—both as acts of care and as burdens to bear. Bodies Carrying: Traces & Stories is a twofold conversation taking the form of a group exhibition and a program consisting of workshops, performances, and talks. This is an experiment in transforming the Centre for Oral History […]
Description écrite par Naomie Léonard et Stéphane Guimont Marceau. La cartographie corporelle offre une manière unique et créative d’explorer son identité, ses expériences de vie ou une thématique particulière en centrant le corps et les émotions dans le processus de réflexion. Utilisant l’idée de la carte topographique, la cartographie corporelle propose d'imaginer le corps comme […]
Photo: Milena Rodriguez Description by Esteban Donoso and Shalon T. Webber-Heffernan This workshop offers an immersive, collaborative space for scholars, performers, visual artists, and curators to engage with embodied practices that attune to spectral presences. By experimenting with spectrality as a connective tissue that links us to ancestral pasts, we will explore expanded modes of […]
Photo Credits: Film still from Crossing the Seventh Gate (2017) by Ali Essafi Description by Bouchra Assou and Salma Chouqair Drawing from a post-colonial concern with the preservation of different forms of oral traditions in Morocco, this lecture performance seeks to restage a halqa as both a space and a conduit for ancestral storytelling, performance […]
LB-1019 (Sunroom), COHDS
1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W., Montreal, Québec, Canada
Description by Eve Garnier and Jacynthe Desjardins In a movement-based workshop, we propose an exploration of relational possibilities and their bodily expression, anchored in silence(s). Here, silence is not a rupture but a dynamic space of exchange between individuals sharing the same space-time. The connection between narrator and audience is a key part of any […]
Concordia University, LB-1042 (COHDS)
1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd O, Montreal
Description by Cristina Alejandra Jimenez Gomez. In an intimate space within the exhibition space, a copera will interact with volunteer participants who visit this spot individually. Before the interaction begins, each participant will be given a token amount, which will be used to exchange stories and typical beverages of the Colombian cafés. The tokens have […]
LB-1019 (Sunroom), COHDS
1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W., Montreal, Québec, Canada
Description by speaker Sunjay Mathuria. "Walking Interludes is a reflective reading about walking, place, race, identity, and memory. In this reading, I share short excerpts from my field journal that I kept during my research visits to Belfast and Lahore. In an autoethnographic style, these vignettes focus on movement (walking) through the cities and consider […]
LB-1019 (Sunroom), COHDS
1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W., Montreal, Québec, Canada
Description by Cristina Alejandra Jimenez Gomez, Javi Fuentes Bernal and David Diaz Méndez. This is an event composed of two artist presentations followed by a joint Q&A. It will begin with a performance and talk by Cristina Alejandra Jimenez Gomez (Resonant roots: an intergenerational storytelling), followed by a presentation from Javi Fuentes Bernal and David […]
LB-1019 (Sunroom), COHDS
1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W., Montreal, Québec, Canada
May 12-26, 2025 Open to university students (for credit course) and community members Call for applications COHDS Summer Institute 2025 Storytelling, as both an art and a practice, occupies a central role in many cultures. The evocative power of oral history has made a major impact in the worlds of public history, museum/curatorial practice, and […]
Montreal Holocaust Museum
5151 Chem. de la Côte-Sainte-Catherine, Montréal, Quebec, Canada
COHDS is partnering with the Montreal Holocaust Museum and the Cummings Centre to present the following event, The Generations After: “Olga, Erika, and Me” Podcast at the Montreal Holocaust Museum on Tuesday, September 9, 7 pm. The creator of the podcast, Ilanit-Michele, and her mother, Erika Eriksson, will be in attendance to discuss their experiences as second and third […]
