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SUMMARY:Introduction to Oral History
DESCRIPTION:with Steven High  \nEnglish \nThis 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.  \n  \nSteven 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.   \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. 
URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/event/introduction-to-oral-history-3/
LOCATION:LB-1019 (Sunroom)\, COHDS\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.\, Montreal\, Québec\, Canada
CATEGORIES:workshops
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SUMMARY:Rescheduled to winter 2025 - Rethinking our Territorial Acknowledgment
DESCRIPTION:•••Please note this event has been postponed until Winter 2025. We look forward to seeing you then!*** \nwith Catherine Kineweskwêw  Richardson and Mélissa-Anne Ménard \nEnglish  \nThis 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 caretakers of the land.  For some time now\, COHDS has wanted to develop its own unique expression of appreciation and acknowledgement\, gratitude for the Kanien’kehá:ka nation\, people and lands upon which we live and work. This gathering will be facilitated by Cathy Kineweskwêw Richardson together with Mélissa-Anne Ménard.  They will lead a process through which we can explore expressions of gratitude and form them into a statement that can be shared on our website and at our gatherings.  \n  \nCatherine Richardson/Kinewesquao is a Métis scholar with Cree\, Gwichin and English and Viking ancestry (Swedish/Orkney).  She is the Director of First Peoples Studies and is the co-founder of the Centre for Response-Based Practice\, an organization dedicated to helping people recover from violence in a spirit of dignity and social justice. Cathy has a background in practice and research in counselling and social work.  Her degrees are in child and youth psychology\, counselling psychology\, French and Political Science.  She has supported Indigenous survivors of genocide and racism to tell their stories in various contexts including in the counselling room\, in community settings and in national inquiries\, such as the TRC.  Currently\, Cathy is on the Yukon Task Force to develop protocols on the issue of MMIWG2S+.  She was the Quebec-lead in the Canadian Domestic Homicide Prevention Initiative.  Her work centres around gathering accounts of resistance and explorations of how people respond to mistreatment and humiliation\, in attempts to preserve dignity and maximize safety.   Cathy has travelled extensively and is enlivened by  story-sharing\, cultural exchange and stories of resistance to oppression. https://www.responsebasedpractice.com  Indigenous Healing Knowledges In this project\, Catherine Richardson\, along with her team\, interview Indigenous healers from across the globe\, including from Greenland\, Aotearoa\, Venezuela and from Turtle Island.  In these interviews she asks the healers to share important information about their worldview\, cosmology\, creation stories and how within that they work to help people achieve well-being\, balance and a sense of belonging.  The healers will talk about their community\, including the various rituals and ceremonies as well as some of the current issues they face\, such as aspects of ongoing colonialism and mistreatment.  Catherine is working with Zeina Allouche and others to create a special edition journal as well as organizing an on-the-land retreat for students with the international healers. \nMélissa-Anne Ménard is an oral historian whose main research interests center on the history of childhood and emotions\, stories of migration\, and the production of archives. She first encountered oral history during an undergraduate seminar in childhood history. Mélissa-Anne holds a master’s degree in history from Concordia university\, partially funded by a Concordia University Merit Scholarship. Her thesis explored the ethical and methodological ramifications of reusing archived oral history interviews conducted by other researchers to develop frameworks and protocols to allow us to engage with countless oral history collections that often lie dormant in archives. She additionally holds a music degree in jazz interpretation for violin from the Collège Lionel-Groulx and most enjoys playing the fiddle. \n    \nCOHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory\, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal. 
URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/event/rethinking-our-territorial-acknowledgment/
LOCATION:LB-1019 (Sunroom)\, COHDS\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.\, Montreal\, Québec\, Canada
CATEGORIES:workshops
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SUMMARY:Crafting the (de)Industrialised Culture of the City of Elefsina\, Greece: The Openeleusis Oral History Research Project
DESCRIPTION:with Regina Mantanika \nThe 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 19th century. The Openeleusis team has worked on the industrial culture of Eleusina through participant observation\, workshops\, individual biographical interviews\, focus groups and ethnographic filmmaking. One of the results is an open digital archive\, https://openeleusis.eu/?lang=en. It is a digital space\, a living library and memory bank of the city\, which presents in an inventive way the material resulting from the historical and ethnographic research in order to ‘return it back’ to the community. \nThe OPENELEUSIS archive includes texts\, videos and documents such as photographs\, videos\, maps\, testimonies\, interviews\, etc. To have an intergenerational approach in the field\, our team organised docu-animation workshops for children aged 8-12 in Elefsina. Three different teams (schools) were trained in oral history and stop-motion animation techniques for one week each. Finally\, the team organised oral history seminars for the local community\, leading to the creation of the Oral History Group of Eleusina (OPIEL)\, which will have its own space on openeleusis.eu. \n  \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\, LB 1019 (Sunroom)  \n   \nCOHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory\, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal. 
URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/event/openeleusis/
LOCATION:LB-1019 (Sunroom)\, COHDS\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.\, Montreal\, Québec\, Canada
CATEGORIES:presentations
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SUMMARY:Film Screening of Dorchester: In the Midst of the Fray
DESCRIPTION: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. \nIn 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. \nNeglected for years\, its renovation was entrusted to landscape architect Claude Cormier in the early 2000s. The challenge was immense\, for beneath the square lie the remains of 55\,000 Montrealers\, victims of five cholera epidemics between 1830 and 1850. \nAnd so began an exceptional artistic and historical adventure. The 20-year project brought together a team of Montreal artists\, architects and archaeologists\, and resurrected the secrets of the city’s history. From the Catholic movement of the 1870s to the beheading of the John A. McDonald statue in 2020\, via the two referendums and the Maple Spring in 2012\, the square condenses 150 years of social conflict in modern Quebec in its architecture and public art. \nThe screening of Dorchester: au coeur de la mêlée will be followed by a Q&A with Director Eli Jean Tahchi (Nemesis Films)\, Producer Karim Haroun and Composer and COHDS Scholar-in-Residence Jad Orphée Chami. \nWatch the trailer \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\, LB-1042.03 (ALLab)\, 10th floor of 1400 de Maisonneuve West. \nCOHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory\, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal. 
URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/event/dorchester/
LOCATION:LB 1042.03 (Moonroom)\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.\, Montreal\, Québec\, Canada
CATEGORIES:performances and exhibitions
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SUMMARY:What Travels Through Us: Exhibition Vernissage and Roundtable
DESCRIPTION:with Naomi Frost\, Rémy Chhem\, Eva-Loan Ponton-Pham\, and Marie-Ève Samson \nEnglish  \nThis 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.  \nThe Super Boat People Collective is happy to present the exhibition born from the project “What Travels Through Us: Family History Workshops.” From Fall 2023 to Spring 2024\, the project brought together a cohort of fifteen participants of Cambodian\, Laotian and Vietnamese descent\, whose families were affected by war and exile. Organized in the form of sharing and creation circles\, these workshops encouraged participants to delve into the layers of their family histories\, often fragmented and intricate. In each session\, guided by a documentarist or an artist of Asian descent who incorporated these experiences into their practice\, participants explored a variety of mediums and approaches.  \nThis community art exhibition is the imperfect culmination of the cohort’s reflections\, sharing and work. For most of the participants\, this is the first time that they have created such work\, and for a general public. Artworks\, everyday objects\, crafts\, interview extracts\, personal notes\, archives blend together within a setting that echoes domestic spaces\, to evoke the character both familiar and strange of each person’s family past. These are candid\, magnificent and touching works\, slowly thought out and shaped. They speak\, among other things\, of attachment\, filiation\, memory\, silence\, absence\, gift\, gratitude\, departure and discovery. We also aimed to highlight the calming and restorative power of the group\, along with the collaborative essence of the entire process.  \nThe vernissage and round-table event delves deeper into the process of the workshops\, the community and family memory work of participants\, as well as the collaborative process of taking this public through the exhibition. The roundtable discussion will center on the transmission of family histories and memory in the context of exile\, and how oral history\, the arts and family histories intersect in the process of memory work. The participants and co-curators will also introduce the exhibit and the works\, the process of their creation.   \n  \nNaomi Frost is a PhD Candidate in the Department of History at Concordia University. She completed her MA in history at Monash University in Melbourne\, where she served on the committee for Oral History Victoria. Her research centers on the oral histories of 1.5 and second-generation Cambodian Australians\, Canadians and Americans who grew up in the diaspora\, intergenerational memory and family storytelling. She was appointed as Concordia University Library’s Researcher-in-Residence (2023-2024) and is a research assistant for the project Cemetery as Metaphor: An Oral History of Montreal’s Back River Memorial Gardens.  \nRémy Chhem is a social scientist specializing in the governance and management of natural resources in the Mekong region and within indigenous contexts. In his free time\, Rémy acts as a community organizer for Asian diasporas in Montreal. As the co-founder of the Super Boat People Collective\, he is dedicated to developing dynamic projects that build connections\, foster collaboration\, and encourage dialogue and cultural continuity between communities and across generations. His current work seeks to understand and frame the experiences of boat people refugees beyond the good and grateful refugee trope.  \nEva-Loan Ponton-Pham is a multidisciplinary artist with a degree in Art History & Visual Arts from Concordia University. In all her projects\, whether as co-founder of Atelier La Coulée\, as a member of the feminist zine collective Les Bêtes d’hier or as a cultural mediator in various community projects\, it’s important to her to make space for voices that are too often marginalized\, by focusing on personal and collective narratives that challenges dominant discourses. Her personal work deals with confluent identities and the complexities of cultural transmission in diasporic contexts.   \nMarie-Ève Samson is a doctoral candidate in Anthropology at the Université de Montréal. Her research centers on the experiences of ageing\, end-of-life and care for immigrant elderly and their caregivers\, particularly in the context where Quebec’s social protection and healthcare systems are facing significant change. Co-founder of Super Boat People\, she was also involved in the Montreal Life Stories project in the early 2010s. Her thesis is informed by these various engagements and focuses more specifically on intergenerational issues in elder care within families of Cambodian\, Vietnamese and Laotian origin in Montreal.     \nSuper Boat People is a collective dedicated to mobilizing Cambodian\, Laotian\, and Vietnamese individuals in Quebec\, encouraging them to reclaim their histories\, reconnect with their culture and communities\, ensure fair representation\, and defend and promote the interests of immigrants and refugees. To this end\, the collective develops various initiatives\, focused on community and family history\, literature\, social mobilization\, urban agriculture and cooking.   \nPROGRAM \n5:00 – Welcome\n5:15 – Roundtable Discussion\n6:10 – The artists introduce their work\n6:45 – Library exhibition visit and closing remarks \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 45 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/what-travels-through-us/
LOCATION:LB-1019 (Sunroom)\, COHDS\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.\, Montreal\, Québec\, Canada
CATEGORIES:performances and exhibitions
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SUMMARY:Women and Invisible Labour: Re-Imagining the Archive
DESCRIPTION:with Varda Nisar and Lola Rémy \nEnglish \nThis 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\, whose affective work is rooted in kinship and care. Her presentation reflects on how a mixed methodology of close archival research and oral history can recentre archival margins and rewrite a history of film more inclusive of women’s diverse and central roles. Varda Nisar reflects on the notion of archives itself within the context of Pakistan\, and how social media platforms provide community and grassroot movements a space to counter military regimes. Understood as countervisual sites that challenge the master-narrative of the nation-state\, her presentation brings forth examples of these emerging archives and how they have become spaces of both record-keeping and of critical pedagogy. Together\, these presentations bring attention to the gendered labour that goes into building archives and how oral testimonies and interview can offer an alternative reading of these institutions.   \n  \nVarda Nisar (she/her) is a mother\, daughter\, and sister. She is also a doctoral candidate in Concordia’s Department of Art History and Public Scholar (2022-23). Her work diverges in several directions\, including art education\, community outreach and art education. During her time in Canada\, she has consistently tried to foreground the work of artists from Pakistan and South Asia. In 2021\, she convened a speaker series titled (Art+Micro)History: Contemporary Artistic Voices from the South\, which drew attention to artistic modes of resistance in Pakistan. In 2023\, she co-curated a multi-venue exhibition\, “re*  imagining / créer / building / faire / mapping / connaissance /…” She was a 2015-16 Arthink South Asia Fellow and worked with Spark Arts for Children as part of her secondment. Her current research draws attention to cultural production under military regimes in Pakistan\, particularly focusing on museums and archives.   \nLola Rémy (she/her) is an FRQSC postdoctoral fellow at McGill University\, Montreal. She completed her PhD at Concordia University in the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. Her project is an oral history that recenters women’s affective and gendered labor in experimental film archives. Her work on archives as sites of cultural encounters\, racial and gendered violence\, and reappropriation by communities and artists has appeared or is forthcoming in The Canadian Journal of Film Studies\, Frames Cinema Journal\, NECSUS European Journal of Media Studies\, and Synoptique\, An Online Journal of Film and Moving Image Studies. She is one of the 2024-25 Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling Scholars-in-Residence.  \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. 
URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/event/women-and-invisible-labour/
LOCATION:LB-1019 (Sunroom)\, COHDS\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.\, Montreal\, Québec\, Canada
CATEGORIES:workshops
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