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SUMMARY:Annual General Assembly
DESCRIPTION:Keynote: Désirée Rochat\, PhD\, FRQSC Postdoctoral fellow\, COHDS \n“Curating stories of Blackness in Montreal: on Black women’s community-anchored knowledge work (1970s-1980s)” \nDésirée 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 document\, theorize and transmit (hi)stories of community activism\, through the preservation and promotion of archives of Black community-based organizations. Her latest project “Black lives in/and archives” aims to foster an archival ecosystem dedicated to caring for and activating the archives of Black communities in Montreal.  \n\nSCHEDULE: \n11 a.m – 12 p.m. \nKeynote Speaker \n12 p.m. – 1 p.m. \nLunch \n1 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. \nAnnual General Assembly \n\n– Electing\n– Reporting\n– Envisioning\n\nSee here for last year’s AGA meeting minutes. \nREGISTRATION\n \nRegister to attend in-person. For any questions regarding this event please contact cohds.chorn@concordia.ca \nLB 1019 (Sunroom)\, COHDS \n  \nCOHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory\, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal.
URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/event/annual-general-assembly-2/
LOCATION:LB-1019 (Sunroom)\, COHDS\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.\, Montreal\, Québec\, Canada
CATEGORIES:assembly,keynote speech
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SUMMARY:Dictatorship\, Disasters\, and Diaspora: Gathering Collective Memories in Haiti and beyond
DESCRIPTION:(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.) \nwith Virginie Belony and Rachel Douglas \nEnglish \nThis panel explores how Haitians at home and abroad have remembered and processed major historical traumas\, from political oppression to natural catastrophes. It features two interconnected presentations examining collective memory and its role in shaping Haitian identity and diaspora experiences. Dr. Rachel Douglas analyzes Myriam Chancy’s creative explorations of disaster response\, focusing on earthquake memory sites and the process of ‘re-membering’ Haiti’s traumas. Her presentation delves into healing practices\, commemoration\, and transformative visions for Haiti’s future. Dr. Virginie Belony’s research investigates how Quebec’s Haitian community has engaged with memories of the Duvalier dictatorship (1957-1986). Through oral histories and community activism records\, her work reveals diverse perspectives on the regime and its ongoing impact from 1964 to 2014. Together\, these presentations provide insights into the emotional and political dimensions of memory in postcolonial contexts\, demonstrating how trauma\, resilience\, and survival are deeply woven into both past and present narratives of Haiti and its diaspora.    \n  \nVirginie Belony is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto\, where she specializes in 20th-century Haitian history. She earned her Ph.D. in History from the Université de Montréal in 2023. Virginie Belony’s research examines Haitian intellectual thought before 1957\, issues of contested memory following periods of state-sponsored violence\, and collective memory in diasporic spaces. In addition to her research\, she serves as an assistant editor for the annual publication Revue d’Histoire Haïtienne. Starting in January 2025\, she will join the Department of History at the Université de Montréal as an assistant professor.  \nRachel Douglas is Reader in French and Comparative Literature at the University of Glasgow. She is the author of two books: Making The Black Jacobins: C. L. R. James and the Drama of History (Duke University Press\, 2019) and Frankétienne and Rewriting: A Work in Progress (Lexington Books\, 2009). She works on Caribbean literature\, history\, film\, visual art\, and archives with a focus on Haiti. She is currently working on two book projects: Reimagining Haiti: Decolonial Visions\, based on her Royal Society of Edinburgh Research Fellowship; and Archiving Creative Aftershocks of Disaster in Haiti\, based on her current Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship.  \n  \nREGISTRATION  \nPlease note that all our events are free and open to all\, but you need to register! Register here. For any questions contact\, cohds.chorn@concordia.ca   \nIn person (max 30 people)\, LB 1019 (Sunroom)  \n   \nCOHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory\, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal. 
URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/event/dictatorship-disasters-and-diaspora/
LOCATION:LB-1019 (Sunroom)\, COHDS\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.\, Montreal\, Québec\, Canada
CATEGORIES:presentations
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240920T120000
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SUMMARY:Come Walk With Us: Walkathon Fundraiser for "Award of Distinction in Oral History"
DESCRIPTION: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”. \nThis year\, “Team COHDS” will be joining the Concordia Shuffle – an annual fundraiser for student scholarships and bursaries – to help raise funds for our annual “Award of Distinction in Oral History.” \nWe are warmly inviting all members of our community to come and walk with us from Concordia’s downtown campus to Loyola on Friday\, September 20. We will be meeting at 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”. \nJoin our team: If you liked to “shuffle” with us\, we invite you to join our team (click on “Join Team”). COHDS-affiliated faculty will be donating $ 10 for each COHDS affiliate who will join us at the shuffle. \nSupport from afar: For those members of our community who are not based in Montreal or have prior obligations on September 20\, if you were interested in making a small donation to our campaign\, you could do so at “Donate Now”. Rest assured that 100 per cent of your donation will go towards our annual student thesis prize. \nWe look forward to walking with you!
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240924T150000
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SUMMARY:Celebrating Excellence in Research: Meet our 2023-24 Scholars-in-Residence
DESCRIPTION:with Dany Guay-Bélanger\, Patricia Branco Cornish\, Kelann Currie-Williams\, Kelly Norah Drukker\, Lauren Laframboise\, Cassandra Marsillo\, and Eleni Polychronakos \nEnglish \nIn 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 who have contributed\, in manifold ways\, to the intellectually vibrant life of our community this past year. \nJoin us for a roundtable conversation that features the work of our 2023-24 Scholars-in-Residence in an informal and convivial atmosphere. \n  \nDany Guay-Bélanger is a FRQ and SSHRC funded PhD candidate in Game Studies at the Université de Montréal and holds a master’s degree in Public History from Carleton University. He created a podcast that explores the development and application of Deadplay\, a methodology favouring a holistic approach for the preservation and study of videogames as cultural heritage artefacts. His research aims to perfect and concretize the methodology developed during his master’s in order to allow players and researchers\, present and future\, to access videogames from every eras of this medium’s history. Dany has also interned and was the Garth Wilson Fellow at the Canada Science and Technology Museum and is currently the Francophone Representative of the Canadian Game Studies Association.  \nPatricia Branco Cornish is a PhD candidate in the Communications Department at Concordia University. She draws on a feminist decolonial perspective to reveal women artists’ contributions to Brazil’s 1960s-1970s avant-garde art movement\, which coincides with Brazil’s military dictatorship (1964-1985). Patricia combines oral stories and visual art as a research method in which artists use their artworks as memory triggers to discuss the past. The art object’s materiality helps to create narratives embedded with personal\, public\, and artistic-political aspects of the artist’s life. Patricia holds an MA in Art History from University of São Paulo (MAC-USP) and is the co-author of an article on art collections placed under the custody of public art museums in cases of money laundering investigations.  \nKelann Currie-Williams (they/she) is a writer\, visual artist\, and oral historian based in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal.Kelann is a PhD student at Concordia University’s Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture\, working at the intersections of Visual Culture\, History\, Black Studies\, and Cultural Studies. Their research focuses on the image-making and photographic preservation histories of the Afro-Caribbean diaspora in Canada from the late 19th to late 20th centuries\, and the scenes of migration\, homemaking\, community-building\, and political mobilization that those photographs depict. Kelann is a long-time student affiliate of the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling. Her critical work has appeared in academic journals such as Urban History Review\, the Canadian Journal of History\, TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies\, and Philosophy of Photography.  \nKelly Norah Drukker is a writer and doctoral candidate in Concordia University’s Humanities PhD program. As a research-creation scholar working at the intersection of creative writing\, oral history\, family history\, and memory studies\, she has presented her projects at Concordia University\, Rutgers University\, the University of Ulster\, the University of Jyväskylä\, and Sydney Catholic University. Kelly’s first collection of poems\, Small Fires\, was awarded the A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry and the Concordia University First Book Prize\, and was a finalist for the Grand prix du livre de Montréal (2016). Her poetry and creative nonfiction have appeared in journals in Canada\, Ireland\, New Zealand\, and Australia. Petits feux\, the French-language translation of Small Fires by Lori Saint-Martin and Paul Gagné\, was published by Le lézard amoureux in 2018. As a doctoral student\, Kelly has been the recipient of a Faculty of Arts and Science Graduate Fellowship\, a Joseph-Armand Bombardier CGS Doctoral Scholarship\, a United Irish Societies of Montreal Scholarship\, a School of Canadian Irish Studies Bursary\, and a Fr. Thomas Daniel McEntee Graduate Scholarship. She continues to live\, work\, study\, and write in Montreal.  \nLauren Laframboise is a Vanier Scholar and PhD student at the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling in the Department of History at Concordia University. 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 films and radio\, including the Voices of the Immigrant Workers’ Centre oral history project. She is also the External Affairs Officer for the Concordia Research and Education Workers’ Union (CREW–CSN) and convenes their Feminist Workplace Committee.  \nCassandra Marsillo is a public historian\, artist\, and educator\, based in Tiohtià:ke (Montreal)\, telling and listening to stories about immigration\, identity\, collective memory\, food\, and folklore\, particularly in relation to the Italian-Canadian experience and traditions from her family’s region\, Molise. Her latest project is an oral history cookbook on the stories and recipes of Montreal’s molisani\, Dalla valigia alla tavola: A journey through Molisan culinary heritage\, which she completed in collaboration with the Federazione delle associazioni molisane del Quebec\, photographer and artist Vee Di Gregorio\, chef Joseph D’Alleva\, and pastry chef Erica Marsillo. Currently\, she is working on a zine/exhibit about the history and family stories of the iconic “Italian birthday case” in North America.  \nEleni Polychronakos is a PhD candidate at Concordia University’s Department of Interdisciplinary Humanities. She is also a writer and teacher. She holds a Masters in Literature (McGill\, 2000) and one in Journalism (UBC\, 2007). Her short fiction appears in The Puritan\, The New Quarterly\, The Bath Short Story Award Anthology 2019 and other literary publications. One of her stories was long-listed for the 2020 CBC Short Story Competition. From 2011 to 2015\, she was a member of the collective that edits and publishes Room magazine\, a longstanding Canadian journal of feminist literature. Eleni is currently writing her dissertation “Girl’s Name: Seeking Narratives of Feminist Genealogy in Twentieth-Century Greece.” This SSHRC-funded research creation project uses oral history and literary criticism as both theory and methodology to collect\, create\, and analyze stories by and about women who came of age during Greece’s turbulent twentieth century.  \n  \nREGISTRATION  \nPlease note that all our events are free and open to all\, but you need to register! Register here. For any questions contact\, cohds.chorn@concordia.ca   \nIn person (max 25 people)\, LB 1019 (Sunroom)  \n   \nCOHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory\, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal. 
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LOCATION:LB-1019 (Sunroom)\, COHDS\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.\, Montreal\, Québec\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Roundtable/table ronde
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