COHDS

Roundtable: De-Industrial Heritage
2024-02-29 09:30 - 11:00 (America/New_York) | Online
with Steven High, Brian Rosa, Paula Fernández Álvarez, Guilherme Pozzer, Myriam Guillemette, Jorge Magaz-Molina, and Laura Littlefair
English
What does deindustrialization studies have to offer heritage studies—and what can scholars of deindustrialization learn from the world of heritage? Six DePOT student, postdoctoral, and research affiliates share their research on de-industrial heritage.

Chair: Steven High
Presenters:
Brian Rosa, Autonomous University of Barcelona: “The “Disciplining of Memory”? Narrating Traces of the Industrial Past in Barcelona”
Paula Fernández Álvarez, University Complutense of Madrid — “Post-industrial ruins and fossil imaginaries. Worker memory, spaces and visual culture of coal extractivism”
Guilherme Pozzer, University of Sheffield — “Crafting the Past: Empowering Communities through Creative Writing, Visual Narratives, Memory, and Place-Making”
Myriam Guillemette, Université du Québec à Montréal — “Sundown Towns phenomenon in Canadian planned communities; recognition of the industrial contribution of the Indigenous Peoples of Manitoba”
Jorge Magaz-Molina, University of Alcalà — “Climate action, carbon deindustrialization and heritage concerns in Northwestern Spain”
Laura Littlefair, Northumbria University — “From Cradle to Grave: Recontextualising the Deindustrialised Railway Town”

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Introduction à l’histoire orale – partie 2
2024-02-15 14:00 - 16:00 | LB-1019 (Sunroom), COHDS, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W., Montreal, Québec, Canada
avec Lauren Laframboise et 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 orale, l’éthique de la recherche et les nombreuses façons dont les histoires orales sont partagées avec le public. Cet atelier est fortement recommandé à tous nos nouvelles.eaux affilié.e.s, car il a pour but de présenter la méthodologie et l’éthique suivies par notre Centre.
Cet atelier offre des conseils sur la réalisation d’un projet d’histoire orale du début à la fin, y compris la planification du projet, les méthodes d’entretien, la gestion des données et le traitement des dossiers, ainsi que la diffusion de ceux-ci. L’atelier comprend également des moments interactif qui permettront aux participant.e.s de discuter des concepts clés et de mettre en pratique les stratégies d’entretien.

Lauren Laframboise est candidate au doctorat en histoire à l’université Concordia. Ses recherches portent sur les impacts de la désindustrialisation dans l’industrie du vêtement à Montréal et à New York. En 2021, Lauren a terminé sa maîtrise en histoire à Concordia et, de 2020 à 2022, elle a été directrice associée de Désindustrialisation et politique de notre temps (DéPOT). Elle a travaillé sur divers projets d’histoire publique explorant l’histoire du travail et de l’immigration, notamment des expositions muséales, des plateformes d’histoire orale en ligne, des visites guidées, ainsi que des films documentaires et des émissions de radio. Elle est également membre du conseil d’organisation du Syndicat des travailleurs de la recherche et de l’éducation de Concordia (CREW-CSN) et co-présidente de leur comité féministe en milieu de travail.
Mélissa-Anne Ménard est une historienne orale qui s’intéresse principalement à l’histoire de l’enfance, aux récits de migration, à l’histoire des émotions et à la production d’archives. Elle a découvert l’histoire orale lors d’un séminaire de premier cycle en histoire. Elle a obtenu sa maîtrise en histoire en 2023, année au cours de laquelle elle a reçu la bourse de mérite de l’Université Concordia. Sa thèse portait sur les ramifications éthiques et méthodologiques de la réutilisation d’entrevues d’histoire orale archivées menées par d’autres chercheurs afin d’élaborer des cadres et des protocoles nous permettant de réutiliser les innombrables collections d’histoire orale qui sont préservées et qui demeurent souvent dormantes dans les archives.

INSCRIPTION
Veuillez noter que tous nos événements sont gratuits et ouverts à toutes et à tous. Cependant, vous devez réserver votre place. Pour participer à l’événement en présentiel évrivez à: cohds.chorn@concordia.ca
Pour participer en virtuel, inscrivez-vous ici.

Le CHORN/ALLAB sont situés sur le territoire non-cédé de Kanien’kehá:ka à Tiohtiá:ke/Montréal.

CANCELLED: Oral History and Oral History Performance: Similarities and Differences
2024-02-15 10:30 - 12:30 | LB 1042.03 (Moonroom), 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W., Montreal, Québec, Canada
*Please note that this event has been cancelled*
with professors Steven High and Luis Carlos Sotelo Castro in conversation with students of the Oral History Performance class (Department of Theatre).
Professors Steven High, Barbara Lorenzkovski and Luis Carlos Sotelo Castro in conversation with students of the Oral History Performance class (Department of Theatre).
In this conversation, we will discuss similarities and differences between oral history and oral history performance when preparing for an interview, listening, and doing an interview guide. The event’s main goal is to give practitioners in both fields tools to better craft questions and prepare for the interviews they will make for their project.

Luis C. Sotelo Castro is an Associate Professor in the Department of Theatre at Concordia University, Montreal (Quebec, Canada). In 2018 he founded at COHDS the Acts of Listening Lab, a hub for research-creation on the transformative power of listening to painful narratives, with reference to testimonies by exiles from sites of conflict. His latest publications explore listening in the context of post-conflict performances of memory.
Steven High is an interdisciplinary oral and public historian with a strong interest in transnational approaches to working-class studies, forced migration, community-engaged research, as well as oral history methodology and ethics.
He has published extensively on deindustrialization and the postindustrial transformation of North American cities. His most recent monograph, Deindustrializing Montreal: Entangled Histories of Race, Residence and Class (2022) was awarded three major prizes in Quebec History and Politics: le Prix du livre politique de la Présidence de l’Assemblée nationale du Québec, le Prix Lionel-Groulx de l’IHAF, and the Clio-Québec Book Prize from the Canadian Historical Association. He recently co-edited a special issue of Labour/le travail with Lachlan Mackinnon and has several others forthcoming. He is currently leading a seven-year SSHRC Partnership project on “Deindustrialization & the Politics of Our Time” (DePOT – deindustrialization.org).
His second area of expertise involves oral history, particularly as it relates to mass violence. Steven High led the prize-winning Montreal Life Stories from 2005 until 2012, where he worked in close partnership with survivor groups. He authored or co-edited a number of books and articles out of this project. He was recently awarded a Governor General’s History Award for Popular Media for his work in this area

REGISTRATION
Please note that all of our events are free and open to all, but you need to register! To register, contact us at: acts.listeninglab@concordia.ca
In-person in LB-1042.03 (Moonroom), ALLab

COHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal.

Introduction to Audio Recording
2024-02-14 12:30 - 16:30
with Vitalyi Bulychev
English
This workshop aims to introduce oral historians to the basics of audio recording. While familiarizing ourselves with the equipment and what it has to offer, we will explore how to set up the audio equipment for interviews, what to consider when using recorders and other best practices to ensure a seamless recording experience. Participants will practice the material covered.

Vitalyi Bulychev is the COHDS Lab Coordinator. He studied film production at Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema, Concordia University, Montreal. Past projects include short films and video installations. Interests include information architecture, expanded cinema, interdisciplinarity, photography. Currently in pre-production for a documentary film focused on micro-histories/oral histories from a small village in Ukraine.

REGISTRATION
Please 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
In-person, LB 1042.03 (Moonroom), ALLab @ COHDS

COHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal.

Indigenous Healing Knowledges
2024-02-13 16:00 - 18:00 | 4th Space, J.W. McConnell Building 1400 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W. 4TH SPACE, Montreal, Quebec, H3G 1M8, Canada
with Dr. Cathy Richardson, Alicia Ibarra-Lemay, Alexandra Nordstrom and Elise Kephart
Join us for a conversation about Indigenous healing knowledges. This conversation will cover questions such as: what is Indigenous Healing; what cultural processes support healing and restoration after systemic violence; what will the Indigenous Healing Knowledges Chair do for the Concordia community?
This presentation may be of interest to scholars, community members and human service workers who engage with the Indigenous communities of Montreal/Tiohtià: ke!

Dr. Cathy Richardson is Metis with Gwich’in and Cree ancestry. She is the Director of First Peoples Students, the Assistant Co-Director of the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling and the CURC in Indigenous Healing Knowledges.

How can you participate? Join us in person or online by registering for the Zoom Meeting or watching live on YouTube.
Have questions? Send them to info.4@concordia.ca
For more details and to register, see the Concordia event posting.

The Clear Blue Skies: Diaries from Ukraine
2024-02-08 10:45 - 12:00 | Online
with Scott Illingworth. Associate Chair of the Graduate Acting Program at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.
What does it take to work with vulnerable populations to create a piece of verbatim theatre? Professor Scott Illingworth will share insights he gained from creating The Clear Blue Skies: Diaries from Ukraine. The play is constructed of excerpts from 80 + hours of gripping audio punctuated with Ukranian poetry (delivered by a native speaker). Theactors use headphones verbatim to deliver select fragments of audio diaries provided byyoung people with whom he and his colleague Oleksandra (Alex) Oliinyk from Kyiv collaborate. The young people chronicle their experience of the unfolding war in Ukraine in those audio diaries.

Scott Illingworth is Associate Chair of the Graduate Acting Program at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, a freelance director, co-founder of SOCIETY, and author of Exercises for Embodied Actors: Tools for Physical Actioning. He’s taught, lectured, and directed at universities and schools across the United States and internationally. His directing credits include new play collaborations with Lucas Hnath, Mona Mansour, Christina Anderson, Stefanie Zadravec, Padraic Lillis, and Bill Bowers among others. Scott’s work has been seen in New York, across the United States, Europe, South America, and Asia. He is a member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society (SDC), a Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner (GCFT), and a Fulbright grant recipient.

REGISTRATION
This event will be held online, to attend register here.

COHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal.

Cultures of Listening
2024-02-06 11:00 - 12:30 | Online
with Dr. Johanna Motzkau, Senior Lecturer, School of Psychology and Counseling, Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, The Open University, UK.
In this talk, Dr. Johanna Motzkau presents the term “cultures of listening” as an analytical tool to understand, what can make listening practices problematic, and how we can transform such troubled practices. Her talk will focus on practices of child protection in the UK. In conversation with Luis Carlos Sotelo Castro, the Acts of Listening Lab’s director, the conversation will explore how oral history performance (and verbatim theatre) can become a tool for intervening in such troubled practices of listening.

REGISTRATION
This event will be held online. To attend, register here.

COHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal.

Introduction à l'histoire orale – partie 1
2024-02-01 14:00 - 16:00 | LB-1019 (Sunroom), COHDS, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W., Montreal, Québec, Canada
avec Lauren Laframboise et 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 orale, l’éthique de la recherche et les nombreuses façons dont les histoires orales sont partagées avec le public. Cet atelier est fortement recommandé à tous nos nouvelles.eaux affilié.e.s, car il a pour but de présenter la méthodologie et l’éthique suivies par notre Centre.

La partie 1 offre un survol du domaine académique de l’histoire orale incluant les origines de la pratique, ses thèmes principaux ainsi qu’une vue d’ensemble des développements récents dans le domaine. L’atelier comprend également des moments interactif qui permettront aux participant.e.s de discuter des concepts clés et de mettre en pratique les stratégies d’entretien.

Lauren Laframboise est candidate au doctorat en histoire à l’université Concordia. Ses recherches portent sur les impacts de la désindustrialisation dans l’industrie du vêtement à Montréal et à New York. En 2021, Lauren a terminé sa maîtrise en histoire à Concordia et, de 2020 à 2022, elle a été directrice associée de Désindustrialisation et politique de notre temps (DéPOT). Elle a travaillé sur divers projets d’histoire publique explorant l’histoire du travail et de l’immigration, notamment des expositions muséales, des plateformes d’histoire orale en ligne, des visites guidées, ainsi que des films documentaires et des émissions de radio. Elle est également membre du conseil d’organisation du Syndicat des travailleurs de la recherche et de l’éducation de Concordia (CREW-CSN) et co-présidente de leur comité féministe en milieu de travail.

Mélissa-Anne Ménard est une historienne orale qui s’intéresse principalement à l’histoire de l’enfance, aux récits de migration, à l’histoire des émotions et à la production d’archives. Elle a découvert l’histoire orale lors d’un séminaire de premier cycle en histoire. Elle a obtenu sa maîtrise en histoire en 2023, année au cours de laquelle elle a reçu la bourse de mérite de l’Université Concordia. Sa thèse portait sur les ramifications éthiques et méthodologiques de la réutilisation d’entrevues d’histoire orale archivées menées par d’autres chercheurs afin d’élaborer des cadres et des protocoles nous permettant de réutiliser les innombrables collections d’histoire orale qui sont préservées et qui demeurent souvent dormantes dans les archives.

INSCRIPTION

Veuillez noter que tous nos événements sont gratuits et ouverts à toutes et à tous. Cependant, vous devez réserver votre place. Pour participer à l’événement en présentiel évrivez à: cohds.chorn@concordia.ca

Pour participer en virtuel, inscrivez-vous ici

Le CHORN/ALLAB sont situés sur le territoire non-cédé de Kanien’kehá:ka à Tiohtiá:ke/Montréal.

Camera Basics
2024-01-24 13:00 - 15:00 | LB 1042.03 (Moonroom), 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W., Montreal, Québec, Canada
with Vitalyi Bulychev
English
This workshop aims to introduce oral historians to the basics of camera work. While familiarizing ourselves with the equipment and what it has to offer, we will explore how to set up the cameras for interviews and what to consider while breaking down other best practices to ensure quality recordings. participants will practice the material covered.
Vitalyi Bulychev is the COHDS Lab Coordinator. He studied film production at Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema, Concordia University, Montreal. Past projects include short films and video installations. Interests include information architecture, expanded cinema, interdisciplinarity, photography. Currently in pre-production for a documentary film focused on micro-histories/oral histories from a small village in Ukraine.

REGISTRATION
Please 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
In-person, LB 1042.03 (Moonroom)

COHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal.

*New date* Introduction to Audio Recording
2023-12-06 13:00 - 15:00 | LB 1042.03 (Moonroom), 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W., Montreal, Québec, Canada
with Vitalyi Bulychev
English
This workshop aims to introduce oral historians to the basics of audio recording. While familiarizing ourselves with the equipment and what it has to offer, we will explore how to set up the audio equipment for interviews, what to consider when using recorders and other best practices to ensure a seamless recording experience.

Vitalyi Bulychev is the COHDS Lab Coordinator. He studied film production at Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema, Concordia University, Montreal. Past projects include short films and video installations. Interests include information architecture, expanded cinema, interdisciplinarity, photography. Currently in pre-production for a documentary film focused on micro-histories/oral histories from a small village in Ukraine.
REGISTRATION
Please 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
In-person, LB 1042.03 (Moonroom), ALLab @ COHDS

COHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal.

*New Date* How to approach a podcast
2023-12-05 12:00 - 14:00 | LB-1019 (Sunroom), COHDS, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W., Montreal, Québec, Canada
with Sivan Black-Rotchin
This workshop will speak to the decision-making process and critical thinking required in making podcasts. If you are doing oral history interviews and planning to use the material to do podcasts, this workshop can help you think through the basic tech requirements, editing skills, challenges, ethics and joys of developing podcasts.

Bio: Sivan Black-Rotchin is the host and producer of the Talking TESL podcast, which is a component of the TESL Resource Centre at Concordia University. She also holds an MA in Applied Linguistics from Concordia University. Talking TESL is the official podcast of the TESL Resource Centre at Concordia University. The overarching goal of the TESL Resource Centre project is to assist students as they transition from their studies into the teaching workforce by helping shape an active community of students, alumni, and faculty. The Talking TESL podcast contributes by featuring the diverse stories of students, alumni who now teach, and Department of Education faculty members. The podcast includes stories from the classroom, topics of interest in the TESL field, and words of wisdom from teachers at all stages of their careers.

REGISTRATION
Please 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
In-person in LB-1019 (Sunroom), COHDS

Deep Listening to Life Stories
2023-12-01 13:00 - 15:00 | LB-1019 (Sunroom), COHDS, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W., Montreal, Québec, Canada
with Steven High
English
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 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.

Steven 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.

REGISTRATION
Please 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
In-person in LB-1019 (Sunroom), COHDS

COHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal.

*Cancelled* Violence and Solace : The Natal Civil War in Late-Apartheid South Africa
2023-11-28 11:00 - 13:00 | LB-1019 (Sunroom), COHDS, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W., Montreal, Québec, Canada
*Please note that this event has been cancelled*
with Mxolisi R. Mchunu (University of KwaZulu-Natal)
English/Français

In South Africa, the period leading to up to the country’s first democratic elections in April 1990 constituted a watershed moment. An unprecedented civil war – termed ‘black on black’ violence – pitted supporters of the African National Congress (ANC) against Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP). In 1989, these conflicts escalated into open warfare and the arming of military units within ANC and IFP areas, respectively.
While the conflict was ostensibly between the ANC and IFP, state security forces were directly implicated in supplying arms and other support to the IFP. In the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands region, the most violent period of the civil conflict lasted from 1986 to 1996. Most of those tortured and murdered were young men between the ages of thirteen and thirty-six.
This talk will focus on the testimonies of women who survived this heinous war and their creation of self-defence units in the Natal-Midlands. A seven-minute audio-visual interviews conducted by the author and women combatants will be shown. The war took place not only in the battlefields but also in the homesteads, spaces mostly occupied by women and children.

Mxolisi R. Mchunu holds a Ph.D. in History from University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN). He is a post-doctoral student at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. He is the author of the award-winning Violence and Solace: The Natal Civil War in Late-Apartheid South Africa, co-published by UKZN Press and the University of Virginia Press in 2021.

COHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal.

EXPOSITION : Vivre (et écouter) autrement
2023-11-25 - 2023-12-15 | Concordia University LB-1042 (COHDS), 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd O, Montreal
Horaire : en semaine de 10h à 16h
Cette exposition présente la recherche-création de l’artiste Sarah Bengle développé en réponse au projet « Raconte-moi Riopelle » autour de la vie et l’œuvre du peintre Jean Paul Riopelle (1923-2002).
D’une part, l’installation invite à découvrir par le dessin et la cartographie une vingtaine d’entretiens de personnes ayant côtoyé Riopelle, que ce soit personnellement ou par son œuvre. En tant qu’étudiante chercheure affiliée au COHDS, Sarah Bengle explore ainsi différentes façon d’aborder l’histoire orale par la pensée visuelle.
D’autre part, Sarah présente une réflexion en images sur l’expérience du deuil, créant un dialogue personnel avec le corpus d’entretiens. L’écoute attentive des récits a poussé Sarah à réaliser un pèlerinage à vélo de Montréal à l’Isle-aux-Grues pour réfléchir aux traces laissées par la perte de personnes aimées.
Lancement public du projet : 23 novembre 2023 @17:00 au 4th Space

“Covid in the House of Old” Closing Event: Roundtable – “Care in Crisis”
2023-11-24 12:00 - 14:00 | LB-1019 (Sunroom), COHDS, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W., Montreal, Québec, Canada
With Arron Derfel (Montreal Gazette), Lorraine McCrary (Wabash College, US), Sayendri Panchadhyayi (NLSIU, India), Camille Robert (UQAM), Penny Vera Sanso (Birkbeck, London), and Marie-Claude Thifault (University of Ottawa). The conversation is chaired by Magda Fahrni (UQAM).
English/Français

Aaron Derfel
Arron Derfel is the Montreal Gazette’s medical reporter, specializing in investigative and narrative journalism in a more than 30-year career that has taken him across North America. In 2021 he, won a Canadian Association of Journalists Award for his reporting on the COVID-19 pandemic in Quebec.
Mr. Derfel’s 2020 investigation into the horrific living conditions at the Résidence Herron nursing home earned the Grand Prize of the Prix Judith-Jasmin — Quebec’s highest journalism accolade.
Lorraine McCrary, “‘An Oasis in a Desert of Disease’: Care in Crisis at Hull House” Lorraine McCrary is a political theorist based at Wabash College (US) whose research brings together disability studies and the feminist ethic of care.
Sayendri Panchadhyayi, “Unpacking care: poverty and thanatopolitics of the state in the COVID hours”Sayendri Panchadhyayi is a doctorate in Sociology and currently a visiting faculty at the National Law School of India University (NLSIU, India), Bangalore, India teaching a course on ‘Ageing, Lifecourse and Death Studies’ and a research fellow at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Calcutta. She has worked extensively on old age care, caregiving and Covid-19 in India.
Camille Robert, « Gouverner en ignorant les femmes : regards sur le travail au foyer, dans les garderies et dans les établissements de soins durant la pandémie au Québec » Camille Robert est candidate au doctorat en histoire à l’Université du Québec à Montréal. Son projet de thèse porte sur les conflits liés au travail de reproduction sociale dans le contexte du tournant néolibéral de l’État québécois.
Penny Vera Sanso, “Theorising care as social glue and primary economic driver”. Penny Vera Sanso is Senior Lecturer in Development and Social Anthropology at Birkbeck, University of London. She has been researching gender, age and poverty in India for over twenty-five years. With the award-winning director Deepa Dhanra, she produced two documentaries: “The Forgotten Generation” and “We’re Still Working.”
Marie Claude Thifault, « En temps de pandémie… aider, soigner et collecter un matrimoine immatériel» / “During the pandemic… helping, caring, and collecting an intangible heritage”Marie-Claude Thifault est une infirmière psychiatrique de formation, professeure titulaire à l’École des sciences infirmières de l’Université d’Ottawa, directrice de l’Unité de recherche sur l’histoire du nursing et titulaire de la Chaire de recherche sur la francophonie canadienne en santé.. Sa recherche porte sur l’histoire des institutions psychiatriques canadiennes, l’histoire des infirmières, des femmes et des communautés religieuses.
REGISTRATION
Please 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
To attend online, register here.
In-person in LB-1019 (Sunroom), COHDS

COHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal.

Exhibition: COVID In the House Of Old - November 14 - 24
2023-11-24 | Concordia University LB-1042 (COHDS), 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd O, Montreal
Schedule: see below

In January 2022, historian and COHDS-affiliate Megan Davies launched a travelling and online exhibition “Covid in the House of Old.” At the heart of the exhibition sit eight storytelling chairs. As Megan Davies notes, “three of the seven chairs represent residents who died in care homes, one is held by a support worker who was a nurse in Uganda; another by a resident who left the institution; and the sixth belongs to a woman from the Squamish First Nation in BC who endured a long isolation.” The seventh chair represents an entire facility – the Wikwemikong Nursing Home on Manitoulin Island in Northern Ontario – capturing the voices of both staff and residents.
An activist historian interested in issues of social justice, Dr. Davies wanted to collect stories “because I knew they would be an engine for social change.” Objects of memory are mounted to the back of each chair, while paper “Valentines,” lovingly created by family and friends, rest on each seat.The website also features a moving podcast and a petition to transform long-term residential careinCanada to prioritize quality of life.
Centred around 7 “chairs” each representing an individual or community’s story, the exhibition includes rich interviews and a “Story Space” that invites visitors to share their stories about COVID-19 in personal care homes as well as their thoughts about the future of long-term care.
COHDS will be hosting the last leg of the exhibition, which has been touring the country since April 30, with bookings in Winnipeg (Manitoba), Saskatoon (Saskatchewan), and Nanaimo (British Columbia) and upcoming stops in Manitoulin Island and Toronto (Ontario).
For more information on the project, visit https://covidinthehouseofold.ca

Schedule:
November 14-19

Wed., Nov. 15: 2-5 p.m. / 14h-17h
Thur., Nov. 16: 2-5 p.m. / 14h-17h
Fri., Nov. 17: 2-5 p.m. / 14h-17h
Sat., Nov. 18: 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. / 11h-17h
Sun., Nov. 19: 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. / 11h-17h

November 20-24

Mon., Nov. 20: Closed/ fermé
Tues., Nov. 21: 2-5 p.m. / 14h-17h
Wed., Nov. 22: 2-5 p.m. / 14h-17h
Thurs., Nov. 23: 2-5 p.m. / 14h-17h
Fri., Nov. 24: 2-5 p.m. / 14h-17h

Vernissage: “Covid in the House of Old” | Opening Talk: “Storytelling for a Revolution”
2023-11-14 17:00 - 20:00 | LB-1019 (Sunroom), COHDS, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W., Montreal, Québec, Canada
With Megan Davies & Others
In January 2022, historian Megan Davies launched the exhibition “Covid in the House of Old.” At the heart of the exhibition – hosted at COHDS and the Acts of Listening Lab this November 14-24 – sit nine storytelling chairs.
As curator Megan Davies notes, “three of the chairs represent residents who died in care homes, one is held by a support worker who was a nurse in Uganda; another by a resident who left the institution; and the sixth belongs to a woman from the Squamish First Nation in BC who endured a long isolation.” The seventh chair represents an entire facility – the Wikwemikong Nursing Home on Manitoulin Island in Northern Ontario – capturing the voices of both staff and residents. Two new chairs have been created as part of the 2023 tour – Kayley’s Chair is held by a young woman who spent nine years in a care home as a teenager and young adult, while the Rainbow chair tells the often-difficult story of 2slgBTQ seniors in residential facilities.

You are cordially invited to join us for Megan’s opening talk “Covid in the House of Old: Storytelling for a Revolution” (17h00-18h00), followed by a vernissage (18h00-20h00).

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Please 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
To attend online, register here.
In-person in LB-1019 (Sunroom), COHDS

COHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal.

Camera Basics
2023-11-08 13:00 - 15:00 | LB 1042.03 (Moonroom), 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W., Montreal, Québec, Canada
with Vitalyi Bulychev
English
This workshop aims to introduce oral historians to the basics of camera work. While familiarizing ourselves with the equipment and what it has to offer, we will explore how to set up the cameras for interviews and what to consider while breaking down other best practices to ensure quality recordings.

Vitalyi Bulychev is the COHDS Lab Coordinator. He studied film production at Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema, Concordia University, Montreal. Past projects include short films and video installations. Interests include information architecture, expanded cinema, interdisciplinarity, photography. Currently in pre-production for a documentary film focused on micro-histories/oral histories from a small village in Ukraine.

REGISTRATION
Please 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
In-person, LB 1042.03 (Moonroom)

COHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal.

Where Literature and Oral History Meet | Quand la littérature rencontre l'histoire orale
2023-11-01 12:00 - 14:00 | LB-1019 (Sunroom), COHDS, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W., Montreal, Québec, Canada
English/Français
A Discussion With Professor Ceri Morgan & Copanelists
In this roundtable discussion, Ceri Morgan, writer and professor of Place Writing and Geohumanities (Keele University, UK) and co-panelists explore the connections between literature and oral history. Stories, poems, essays, and literary audio walks that sample oral history interviews uncover the layered histories of landscapes and the diverse experiences of marginalized people. They do so while showcasing the poetic potential of everyday speech. Oral history can also leverage the interview to highlight the unseen labour that goes into literary production: proofreading, translation, event organizing, etc. How does oral history diversify and democratize literature, and how does literary practice poeticize oral history?

Une discussion avec la professeure Ceri Morgan & panélistes
Lors de cette table ronde, un groupe de panélistes se joint à la professeure Ceri Morgan de l’Université Keele au Royaume-Uni, spécialisée en géo-humanité et en écriture des lieux. Ensemble, nous allons explorer les liens entre la littérature et l’histoire orale. Les récits, les poèmes, les essais et les balades audio littéraires qui échantillonnent les voix des entretiens nous permettent d’accéder à la complexité de l’histoire d’un paysage et aux voix diverses des personnes marginalisées, tout en mettant en valeur l’aspect poétique de la parole quotidienne. L’histoire orale peut également mettre en lumière le travail invisible qui accompagne la production littéraire : relecture, traduction, organisation d’événements, etc. Comment l’histoire orale diversifie-t-elle et démocratise-t-elle la littérature, et comment la pratique littéraire poétise-t-elle l’histoire orale ?

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Please 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
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In-person in LB-1019 (Sunroom), COHDS

COHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal.

Book Launch: Small Stories of War: Children, Youth and Conflict in Canada and Beyond (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2023)
2023-10-27 15:00 - 17:00 | LB-1019 (Sunroom), COHDS, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W., Montreal, Québec, Canada
With Barbara Lorenzkowski, Kristine Alexander, and Andrew Burtch
English
Many believed the twentieth century would be the century of the child: an era in which modern societies would value and protect children, sheltering them from violence and poverty. Yet this hopeful vision was marred by the harsh realities of migration, displacement, and armed conflict.
Small Stories of War grapples with the meanings and memories of childhood and wartime by asking new questions about lived experience. Spanning the First World War to the early twenty-first century and featuring chapters about Canada, Australia, Germany, the former Yugoslavia, Rwanda, and northern Uganda, this volume asks how young people encountered and responded to armed conflict. How did children, youth, and their families make sense of war in the violent twentieth century? How have they shared their stories and experiences of violence and trauma? Analyzing a broad range of sources including family letters, oral history, and children’s artwork, contributors offer important insights into the production of historical knowledge with and about young people.
You are cordially invited to join the editors and contributors of this collection in the launch of this collection.

Barbara Lorenzkowski is the Lead Co-Director of COHDS and Associate Professor and Associate Chair of History at Concordia University.
Kristine Alexander is Canada Research Chair in Child and Youth Studies and Associate Professor of History at the University of Lethbridge.
Andrew Burtch is the post-1945 historian at the Canadian War Museum and Adjunct Research Professor in Carleton University’s History Department.
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In-person and online; LB-1019 (Sunroom), COHDS

Moving-with Anastasis Corporal, a path to implicated witnessing
2023-10-19 17:30 - 19:00 | Online
Sarah Ashford Hart will present her contribution to the special issue Oral History Performance, Listening and Transitional Justice (RiDe, Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance, Vol. 28, Issue 1, 2023), which was co-edited by Luis Carlos Sotelo Castro (the Acts of Listening Lab’s director) and Toni Shapiro-Phim (Brandeis University). With her presentation, this special issue will be launched. All other contributors are invited to attend, meet, exchange ideas, and celebrate. Sarah’s article thinks through a practice-as-research exploration of facilitating active listening to the testimonies of female victims/survivors in Colombia, bridging a theoretical gap between applied theatre and performance studies by extending the understanding of theatre’s impact in transitional justice contexts beyond visibility to an affective register.

Sarah Ashford Hart  is an applied theatre facilitator/scholar from a Canadian-Venezuelan-American background. Her PhD dissertation analyses affective approaches to facilitating expression/witnessing within Latin American contexts of displacement, enclosure and violence. She is currently an adjunct instructor in the Department of Performing Arts at the Pontifical Javeriana University (Bogotá).

REGISTRATION
Online, to attend register here.
For inquiries regarding this event please contact Acts of Listening Lab

COHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal.

Introduction to Oral History - Part 2
2023-10-19 14:00 - 16:00 | LB-1019 (Sunroom), COHDS, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W., Montreal, Québec, Canada
with Kelann Currie-Williams and Lauren Laframboise
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 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.

Lauren 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.
Kelann Currie-Williams (she/they) is an oral historian, photo-based artist, and writer based in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal. Kelann is currently a PhD student in the Humanities Interdisciplinary Program (HUMA) where their doctoral project focuses on the varied image-making and photographic image preservation practices taken up by Black Canadians during the late 19th to late 20th century, as well as the presence of these photographs within personal, community, and institutional photographic archives. Her critical work has appeared in Urban History Review, the Canadian Journal of History, Topia: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, and in Philosophy of Photography.
REGISTRATION
Please 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
To attend online, register here.
In-person, LB-1019 (Sunroom), COHDS

(Pre)Creation Processes: Milo Rau's Tribunals, Political Actions, and Prefigurative Performance
2023-10-05 16:30 - 17:30 | LB 1042.03 (Moonroom), 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W., Montreal, Québec, Canada
Presented by Lily Climenhaga, PhD
This talk will primarily explore two lines of work within Swiss-German political theatre director Milo Rau’s multifaceted oeuvre: (1) his political action performances exemplified by projects like The Congo Tribunal and The Revolt of Dignity (2019), and (2) site specific adaptations of classic texts exemplified by The Trilogy of Ancient Myths (Orestes in Mosul (2019), The New Gospel (2020), Antigone in the Amazons (2023)).
Over the past fifteen years, Rau and his production company, the International Institute of Political Murder or IIPM, has won international attention for his transnational, politically engaged, documentary-inspired theatre. With his appointment as artistic director of the Belgian city-theatre NTGent in 2018, Rau showed increased interest in what he refers to as “conflict zones”, building on an existing interest in the impact of neoliberal economic policy on the Global South first marked by The Congo Tribunal (2015/17).
This talk will look at Rau’s onsite, ethnographic, research-based approach as it searches for solutions fostered by the creation of what the director calls “practical networks of solidarity” between local and international partners, allying – for better or for worse – the grassroots with the global.

Lily Climenhaga wrote the dissertation (Re)Creation Processes: Milo Rau and the International Institute of Political Murder in a joint degree between the University of Alberta and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität and the co-editor of Theater’s special 2021 edition on Milo Rau. Lily is currently undertaking the FWO-funded postdoctoral project “Institutionalized Resistance: Milo Rau’s NTGent Period” at Universiteit Gent. Lily is a dramaturg, editor, blogger (https://lostdramaturgininternational.wordpress.com), critic, translator, and occasional stage manager.

Introduction to Oral History - Part 1
2023-09-28 14:00 - 16:00 | LB-1019 (Sunroom), COHDS, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W., Montreal, Québec, Canada
with Lauren Laframboise and Kelann Currie-Williams
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 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.

Lauren 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.
Kelann Currie-Williams (she/they) is an oral historian, photo-based artist, and writer based in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal. Kelann is currently a PhD student in the Humanities Interdisciplinary Program (HUMA) where their doctoral project focuses on the varied image-making and photographic image preservation practices taken up by Black Canadians during the late 19th to late 20th century, as well as the presence of these photographs within personal, community, and institutional photographic archives. Her critical work has appeared in Urban History Review, the Canadian Journal of History, Topia: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, and in Philosophy of Photography.

REGISTRATION
Please 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
To attend online, register here.
In-person (Max 25 people) @ LB-1019 (Sunroom), COHDS

COHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal.

Annual General Assembly
2023-09-22 11:00 - 14:30 | LB-1019 (Sunroom), COHDS, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W., Montreal, Québec, Canada
Keynote: Dr. Stacey Zembrzycki , “Chasing Cancer in Canada’s Nickel Capital” In 2014, Stacey Zembrzycki began to conduct interviews with Sudburians who have long resided in Canada’s nickel capital. Interested in the connections between mining, environmental harm, and health, she did not realize how much cancer would come to dominate those conversations. Both within and beyond these exchanges, she found herself immersed in a sort of historical epidemiology, which sought to isolate patterns and routes of exposure so that she could understand the stories shared with her.

Drawing on one interview she conducted with a long-time resident of Copper Cliff, Mary Giardini Blair, this paper demonstrates how life stories can offer a window into some of the larger forces that shape people’s understandings of the interconnections between environmental toxins and health. Building on this narrative, the paper speaks to the potential oral history holds for not only understanding individual and community health, but also opening up possibilities for interdisciplinary research about bodies and the diseases that wreak havoc on them.

Chasing cancer is long-haul work that requires deep listening in the interview space, a deep understanding of place, and a deep commitment to building and sustaining relationships. Viewing our craft through this lens is the only way that bodies may be given the time and space needed to tell their own stories.

Stacey Zembrzycki is an award-winning oral and public historian of ethnic, immigrant, and refugee experience. Her current SSHRC-funded project, Mining Immigrant Bodies, uses oral history to explore the connections between mining, health, and the environment and their impact on postwar immigrant communities in Sudbury, Canada.

SCHEDULE:

11h00 – 12h00

Keynote Speaker

12h00 – 13h00

Lunch

13h00-14h30

Annual General Assembly

– Electing

– Reporting

– Envisioning

REGISTRATION:

Register to attend in-person
Register to attend online

For any questions regarding this event, please contact us at cohds.chorn@concordia.ca.

In-person/online (60 people in-person), LB 1019 (Sunroom), COHDS – English

COHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal.

Introduction to Documentary Cinematography for Interviews
2023-09-20 13:00 - 15:00 | LB-1019 (Sunroom), COHDS, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W., Montreal, Québec, Canada
with Magdalena Hutter
In this workshop we’ll take a look at documentary cinematography and its role in capturing interviews. What are some responsible strategies for filming material that will be edited, both when working with video interviews and with audio only? What are the basics of setting up a shot for an interview, considering composition, lighting, and surroundings? What are sight lines and why do they matter?
We’ll analyze some short examples from my own documentary and research-creation practice, discuss approaches to and questions about filming interviews, and try out composing a shot sequence for an interview by using our phones.

Magdalena Hutter is a documentary filmmaker, cinematographer, and photographer. As a HUMA PhD candidate she uses documentary film and movement for research-creation in her project on Fat ScreenDance.
REGISTRATION
Please 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
To attend online, register here.
In-person/online (Max 12 people in-person), LB-1019 (Sunroom), COHDS
Please note: We kindly request that all workshop participants wear a facemask (Free masks will be provided on site). If you should be feeling unwell, we invite you to join this workshop remotely rather than in person (so that we can keep each other safe).

COHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal.

Mapping Memory - Atlases of Rwandan Life Stories
2023-04-28 - 2023-05-18 | Concordia University LB-1042 (COHDS), 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd O, Montreal
From April 28 to may 18, COHDS and the ALLab will host the exhibition “Mapping Memory – Atlases of Rwandan Life Stories“. This exhibition offers an immersion into the world of memory maps. Through the mapping of 21 life stories of Rwandan individuals who left their country of origin to come to Canada, this exhibition transports us from Kigali to Montreal via Bujumbura, Bukavu, Louvain and Ottawa. More than a geographical journey, these original maps invite us to take a moment to listen to these rich and inspiring stories of childhood, family, friendship, exile, genocide and resistance.
Entry is free.
Schedule:
Monday to Friday: 16:00-19:00
Saturday: 11:00-17:00 (Sunday closed)

Programming:

6 mai (14H00-16H00) : Visite personnelle de l’exposition “Cartographies de la mémoire” – En Français
Marie-Josée Gicali

9 mai 2023 (17H00-19H00) : L’exposition “Cartographies de la mémoire” – Dialogues entre les mondes communautaires et universitaires – En Français
Emmanuelle Kayiganwa, Élise Olmedo et Sébastien Caquard

15 mai 2023 (11H00-12H00 EDT) : Virtual tour of the exhibition “Mapping Memories” (conférence hybride) – In English
Sébastien Caquard and Élise Olmedo. Register here

17 mai 2023 (10H00-11H00 EDT) : “Cartographies de la mémoire”, une exposition itinérante de Montréal à Bordeaux (conférence hybride) – En français
Sandra Gasana, Élise Olmedo et Sébastien Caquard. Register here

Location:
Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling (COHDS) and ALLab Concordia University – Library Building- 10th floor – Room LB-1042
1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W
Métro Guy-Concordia
This exhibition is being held on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory.

10th Emerging Scholars’ Symposium Oral History, Digital Storytelling, and Creative Practice
2023-03-23 - 2023-03-24 | LB-1019 (Sunroom), COHDS, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W., Montreal, Québec, Canada
In English and French
Every year, the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling at Concordia University offers students and emerging scholars an opportunity to present their work at any stage, to exchange ideas, and to connect with other researchers and creators. The title and main theme of this year’s symposium is Storytelling and Intergenerational Memory. The call for papers is now closed. Read this year’s call for proposals here.
See the full program here.
To know more about the keynote presentation “From encounter to collaboration: a conversation with Zeina Allouche and Emanuelle Dufour”, click here.

Zoom links
March 23/ COHDS sunroom
March 23/ ALLab
March 24/ COHDS sunroom
March 24/ ALLab

Schedule
March 23 (9h00 – 17h30)
8h30 – 9h00 Coffee and Registration
9h00 – 9h05 Welcome Note
9h05 – 9h25 Ceremonial Opening
9h25 – 9h30 Announcements
9h30 – 10h45 Concurrent Session:
1. Place, Space, Memory (ALLab)
2. Intergenerational Memory and Diaspora (Sunroom)
10h45 – 11h00 Coffee break
11h00 – 12h15 Concurrent Session:
3. Family Histories (ALLab)
4. Oral History and Contested Legacies (Sunroom)
12h15 – 12h30 Award for Excellence in Oral History
12h30 – 13h30 Lunch
13h30 – 14h30 Keynote Presentation
14h30 – 14h45 Coffee break
14h45 – 16h00 Concurrent Session:
5. Building Community (ALLab)
6. Stories from the Archive (Sunroom)
16h00 – 16h15 Break
16h15 – 17h15 Raconte-moi Riopelle: Propositions for research-creation
17h15 – 17h30 Closing Remarks
March 24 (9h00 – 13h00)
8h55 – 9h00 Announcements
9h00 – 10h15 Concurrent Session:
7. Migration and Memory (Sunroom)
8. Sound, Image, and Story (ALLab)
10h15 – 10h30 Coffee break
10h30 – 12h00 Workshop: A morning of reflection
12h00-12h15 Closing remarks
12h00 Lunch

REGISTRATION
Registration for this year’s symposium is now closed. For online attendance you can follow the links on the schedule above or on the draft of the program.
MORE INFORMATION

For more information about a specific event, please visit our website and Facebook pages closer to the date: storytelling.concordia.ca | www.concordia.ca/allab. We will update these pages as soon as we have the details ourselves!
COHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal.

Archiving Oral History
2023-03-16 12:00 - 14:00 | LB-1019 (Sunroom), COHDS, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W., Montreal, Québec, Canada
with Eliot Perrin
English (Q&A in En/Fr)
An introduction to the principles and best practices of archiving oral history. This workshop will provide an overview of the archiving standards at COHDS as well as provide help with regards to preparing your collection for donations.
Eliot Perrin is a PhD student in History and the COHDS Archives Coordinator. His PhD thesis, “Flour Mill se fane?: Deindustrialization and Urban Renewal in Sudbury’s Francophone Quarter” explores the twin impacts of these processes on Franco-Ontarian identity and the community’s response to socio-economic changes to the region.
REGISTRATION
Please 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
In person (20 people; RSVP at cohds.chorn@concordia.ca), LB 1019 (Sunroom), COHDS
For attending online, register here.

MORE INFORMATION
For more information about a specific event, please visit our website and Facebook pages closer to the date: storytelling.concordia.ca | www.concordia.ca/allab. We will update these pages as soon as we have the details ourselves!
COHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal.

Camera Basics
2023-03-15 13:00 - 15:00 | LB 1042.03 (Moonroom), 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W., Montreal, Québec, Canada
with Vitalyi Bulychev
English
This is a comprehensive workshop aimed at introducing affiliates to the new camera equipment at COHDS and providing the basic know-how to use them.
Vitalyi Bulychev is the COHDS Lab Coordinator. He studied film production at Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema, Concordia University, Montreal. Past projects include short films and video installations. Interests include information architecture, expanded cinema, interdisciplinarity, photography. Currently in pre-production for a documentary film focused on micro-histories/oral histories from a small village in Ukraine.
REGISTRATION
In person, LB 1042.03, ALLab @ COHDS. Please 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
MORE INFORMATION
For more information about a specific event, please visit our website and Facebook pages closer to the date: storytelling.concordia.ca | www.concordia.ca/allab. We will update these pages as soon as we have the details ourselves!
COHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal.
