with Joel Bernbaum, and Yvette Nolan English Concordia's Acts of Listening Lab & COHDS, & IMAGO theatre invite you to a climate change verbatim theatre workshop led by Yvette Nola and Joel Bernbaum. Like live documentaries, these plays are made from interview transcripts, joint us to fine-tune your tools and skill to make a verbatim […]
with Hannah Pinilla English This exhibit features the collaborative MA oral history research of Hannah Pinilla and her interview partners. Her research explores how the narrations, consumption, and preparation of ‘home foods’ facilitates interactive, diasporic ‘memory work’. In fall 2023, Hannah conducted two collaborative oral history interviews with nine Colombian migrants, both voluntary and forced, […]
By Kimberley Moore & Janis Thiessen, University of Winnipeg with: Rhonda Hinther, Jo McCutcheon, Ian Mosby Chairs | Présidence : Janis Thiessen and Kimberley Moore In 2018, Janis Thiessen (History, University of Winnipeg) and Kimberley Moore and Kent Davies (Oral History Centre, University of Winnipeg) refashioned a used food truck into a mobile oral history […]
Keynote: Désirée Rochat, PhD, FRQSC Postdoctoral fellow, COHDS "Curating stories of Blackness in Montreal: on Black women’s community-anchored knowledge work (1970s-1980s)" Désirée Rochat is a community educator and holds a PhD in Educational studies from McGill University. Guided by an integrative approach, her academic and community work connect historical research, archival preservation and education. She aims to […]
(photo source: Centre International de Documentation et d’Information Haïtienne, Caribéenne et Afro-canadienne (the International Center for Haitian, Caribbean, and Afro-Canadian Documentation and Information), also known as the CIDIHCA Collections.) with Virginie Belony and Rachel Douglas English This panel explores how Haitians at home and abroad have remembered and processed major historical traumas, from political oppression […]
IMPORTANT: Meeting space changed due to construction: we will be meeting inside the “EV building (Engineering and Visual Arts)” at 12:15 p.m. to walk over to Loyola together. A member of our team will be holding up a sign “Team COHDS”. This year, “Team COHDS” will be joining the Concordia Shuffle – an annual fundraiser for student […]
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 oral history practitioners, artists, and creative storytellers. Our call resonated beyond expectations. We were delighted to welcome to COHDS seven brilliant scholars and oral historians […]
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 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, […]
•••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 invitation to COHDS’ community members to come together and create a statement of commitment and appreciation for the land we live on and the traditional […]
with Regina Mantanika The Openeleusis research project is an interdisciplinary collaboration between researchers in anthropology, history and visual arts for community-based research in Eleusina, a city where Greek industrial history is heavily imprinted on people's memories and everyday life. Eleusina is situated in Western Attika and has undergone various phases of (de)industrialisation since the late […]
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 of Montreal and in the midst of Montreal's business district lies one of Canada's most beautiful squares: Dorchester Square. Neglected for years, its renovation was […]
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 celebrates the launch of the “What Travels Through Us: Exhibition,” on display at Concordia University Library from September 12 until December 12, 2024. The Super […]
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 inclusive decolonial and feminist perspectives. Dr. Lola Rémy examines how the archives of experimental filmmakers rest on the invisible labour of their wives and daughters, […]
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 Bilal, Houry Pilibbossian, Julia Cabral Tordeur, Arpi Ghambaryan, and Hourig Attarian. The conversation will focus on various facets of research creation in the projects the […]
with the Frictions of Futurity & Cure in Transplant Medicine project team English Digital storytelling (DST) is of growing interest within health care settings to better understand patient experience and translate knowledge between health care professionals and patients. DST is a relational tool that can be used for education, advocacy, creative expression, and therapeutic intervention. […]
(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 "photo-interviewing" in their respective work. We will invite attendees to reflect on the relationship that exists between images and storytelling in the context of the […]
with Hannah Pinilla English Join us in the COHDS Computer Lab for an engaging 2 to 2.5-hour workshop designed to enhance your skills in digital storytelling and interactive exhibit creation. Participants will be asked to develop a mini exhibit concept incorporating edited digital content gathered from a brief exercise in conversational interviewing. In pairs, participants […]
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 artists, performers and activists, they are also invited to reflect on their creative journeys as racialized queer people in Montreal. The Saathi Montreal […]
* 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 from the Department of Contemporary Dance bring embodied (auto-)biographical narratives to the Acts of Listening Lab. Such storytelling in motion – based on life history […]
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 choral music, can catalyze dialogue in communities that have experienced collective trauma. We will explore how this form of participatory art, whether used in reperformances of […]