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SUMMARY:Cooking With COHDS:  Palacsintá – Sharing Stories and Pancakes from the Hungarian Montreal Community
DESCRIPTION:With Sonya Di Sclafani \n  \nIn Montreal’s Hungarian community\, food is not only a reflection of stability\, tradition\, and assimilation\, but also carries meanings of family\, nostalgia\, and joy. Palacsintá\, a sweet or savory Hungarian crêpe\, is a well-loved and easy dish that can be filled with jam\, ground walnut purée\, farmer’s cheese\, cabbage\, and meats. In this workshop we will learn to make palacsintá and create both a sweet and a savory filling. To accompany us\, a member of the Hungarian diaspora in Montreal will be invited to share their recollections of palacsintá and other food practices of the community. \nThis workshop on foodways in the Hungarian diaspora forms part of my larger research project on the history of Hungarian-Canadian refugees and their descendants who made Montreal home in the mid-twentieth century. In my oral history fieldwork\, I turn to women’s memories of foodways as a way of tracing the intergenerational\, interethnic\, and gendered dynamics of forced migration and homemaking by Hungarian Canadian women in the second half of the twentieth century. I hope that you can join us! \n  \nSonya Di Sclafani is a MA student (History) at Concordia University\, where she previously completed both a BFA in Photography and Art History and a BA Honours in History\, with a minor in English Literature. She is interested in exploring experiences of migration\, cross-cultural contact\, East European history\, and Jewish history. Her MA thesis examines the history of Montreal’s Hungarian diaspora\, with a particular eye to gendered foodways and food as a means of cultural continuity and disruption. Drawing on newspaper and archival research\, she has begun to map the culinary landscape of Hungarian restaurants and food speciality stores in Montreal that provided spaces for inter-ethnic encounters\, fondly remembered in some of the oral history interviews she conducted to date. \n  \nREGISTRATION  \nRegister now with this link \nAs part of our exploration of Hungarian foodways and oral histories\, we will be preparing and eating a small meal together. Given space constraints\, we need to limit the number of participants to fifteen. We will purchase food items based on the number of registered attendees. Should you be unable to attend\, may we ask that you let us know at least one week in advance? We’d then be able to calibrate our food purchases accordingly and/or offer your spot to a participant on the waiting list. \nPlease note that all our events are free and open to all\, but registration is mandatory. For any questions\, please contact cohds.chorn@concordia.ca \nLOCATION \nIn-person at “The SHIFT Centre for Social Transformation\,” LB-145\, Concordia University\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West\, J.W. McConnell Building (Library Building). \nCOHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory\, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal.
URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/fr/event/cooking-with-cohds-palacsinta-sharing-stories-and-pancakes-from-the-hungarian-montreal-community/
LOCATION:Concordia’s SHIFT Centre for Social Transformation (LB-145)\, 1400 Boulevard de Maisonneuve Ouest\, Montréal
CATEGORIES:Ateliers,Présentations
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260430T140000
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SUMMARY:Personal Archives in the Interview Space
DESCRIPTION:With Kelann Currie-Williams and Derek Garcia \n  \nMuch of oral history interview preparation rightly (and evidently) revolves around the audio and visual recording of the event. But what happens when the narrator brings their personal archives into the interview space? \nDrawing from Monica Muñoz Martinez’s “vernacular history making\,” personal archives are the objects—photos\, drawings\, notes\, documents\, digital creations—that individuals collect to preserve historical perspectives which may not be considered by institutional archives. This workshop envisions these moments of sharing as opportunities to learn with the narrator; despite the surprise they may bring. \nHow do you include these objects in the interview? How do you record their presence? How might a researcher design ethics around this possibility? Garcia and Currie-Williams will discuss their experiences interviewing individuals who brought more to the interview than what was expected\, and how they effectively included these materials in their dialogue. \n  \nKelann Currie-Williams is a writer and PhD Candidate at Concordia University’s Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture\, working at the intersections of Visual Culture Studies\, 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. Kelann was a 2023-2024 scholar-in-residence and 2024-2025 Student Representative of the COHDS Administrative Board. \nDerek Xavier Garcia is a PhD candidate in the Department of History at Concordia University. His research falls at the intersections of culture\, memory\, and history of Mexican American and Chicanx activist movements. His dissertation explores educational activism at Colegio Jacinto Treviño (1970-1976)\, the first Mexican American college in the United States. Derek was a 2022-2023 Student Representative on the COHDS Administrative Board and is currently a 2025-2026 Scholar-in-Residence at the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling. \n  \nREGISTRATION  \nRegister now with this link \nPlease note that all our events are free and open to all\, but registration is mandatory. For any questions\, please contact cohds.chorn@concordia.ca \nLOCATION \nIn-person in LB-1019 (Sunroom)\, Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling (COHDS)\, Concordia University\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West\, J.W. McConnell Building (Library Building). \nCOHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory\, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal.
URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/fr/event/personal-archives-in-the-interview-spaces/
LOCATION:LB-1019 (Sunroom)\, COHDS\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.\, Montreal\, Québec\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Ateliers
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260420T150000
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SUMMARY:Introduction à l’histoire orale
DESCRIPTION:Avec Lea Kabiljo \nCet 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. \nCet 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. \n  \nLea Kabiljo\, professeur à l’École d’art\, Université Laval\, est une chercheuse multidisciplinaire\, dont l’expertise s’étend aux domaines des arts\, de la pédagogie et de l’histoire orale. Elle porte un intérêt particulier à l’intégration de la photographie et de l’histoire orale dans sa démarche de recherche-création. \nTitulaire d’un doctorat en éducation artistique de l’Université Concordia\, sa recherche met en évidence une approche multidisciplinaire en examinant le potentiel pédagogique de l’histoire orale et de la photographie dans le domaine de l’enseignement artistique. \nAyant enseigné dans des milieux scolaires\, communautaires et universitaires\, Lea s’intéresse activement à la formation des enseignants\, avec un accent particulier sur le développement des compétences socio-émotionnelles. Également reconnue pour son expertise en histoire orale\, elle a dirigé de nombreux projets de recherche au Québec\, ainsi que des initiatives d’envergure internationale. \nQuadrilingue\, ayant voyagé dans plus de trente pays et vécu sur quatre continents\, Lea a développé une vision du monde ancrée dans les valeurs d’équité\, de diversité et d’inclusion. Elle cherche constamment à appliquer ces principes dans toutes ses démarches\, tant professionnelles que personnelles. \n  \nINSCRIPTION  \nInscrivez-vous ici. \nVeuillez 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 \nLIEU \nLe CHORN/ALLAB sont situés sur le territoire non-cédé de Kanien’kehá:ka à Tiohtiá:ke/Montréal. \nEn personne à LB-1019 (salle Sunroom)\, Centre d’histoire orale et de narration numérique (COHDS)\, Université Concordia\, 1400 boulevard de Maisonneuve Ouest\, pavillon J.-W. McConnell (pavillon de la Bibliothèque).
URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/fr/event/introduction-a-lhistoire-orale-4/
LOCATION:LB-1019 (Sunroom)\, COHDS\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.\, Montreal\, Québec\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Ateliers
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SUMMARY:Ethics in Research:  How to Apply for  Ethics Certification
DESCRIPTION:With Barbara Lorenzkowski\, Tesfa Peterson\, Franklin Bonivento Van Grieken and Derek Xavier Garcia \nTo obtain the informed consent of our research participants is both an ethical and institutional obligation for oral historians working at Canadian universities. This workshop seeks to demystify the process of applying for ethics certification. Three emerging scholars will reflect on their experiences in navigating this process and discuss how they have translated the ethos of “sharing authority” into the formal language of their ethics applications. Meanwhile\, Lead Co-Director Barbara Lorenzkowski will provide hands-on guidance on how to prepare an ethics application for your own thesis research at Concordia. Registered participants will be provided with examples of successful ethics applications\, including consent forms. \nBarbara Lorenzkowski is an oral historian of childhood and youth whose work explores the ways in which global processes of migration\, displacement\, and violence have shaped small people’s lives in outsized ways. She recently published the co-edited anthology Small Stories of War: Children\, Youth\, and Conflict in Canada and Beyond (with Kristine Alexander and Andrew Burt\, McGill-Queen’s University Press 2023) and is currently completing a FQRSC-funded book project The Children’s War\, a large-scale oral history project on children’s sensuous and emotional life-worlds in Atlantic Canada during the Second World War. Dr. Lorenzkowski is the Lead Co-Director of COHDS. \nTesfa Aki Peterson is a public humanities researcher and community-based scholar whose work centers Caribbean history\, feminist postcolonial thought\, and participatory storytelling. As a student in the PhD Humanities program at Concordia University\, her current project traces the life and legacy of Helen Louise Langdon Norton Little\, a woman born in LaDigue\, Grenada in the late nineteenth century\, whose life connected Grenada\, Montreal\, and the American Midwest. Helen Little was active in the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) in Montreal and was the mother of eight children\, including civil rights leader Malcolm X. Grounded in community knowledge and Caribbean feminist and postcolonial perspectives\, her work asks how public humanities can preserve and honor lives that have been marginalized by colonial archives\, while creating inclusive\, intergenerational spaces for learning in both Grenada and the diaspora. Since 2020\, she has collaborated with the Institute for People’s Enlightenment in the Grenadian village of LaDigue to organize lectures\, storytelling sessions\, and public conversations that center local voices and oral histories. Additionally\, the project also extends to Montreal through an oral history and ritual storytelling podcast documenting Grenadian women’s community organizing. Across storybooks\, podcasts\, workshops\, and public events\, Tesfa’s work models a decolonial public humanities rooted in care\, collaboration\, and community memory. \nFranklin Bonivento Van Grieken  studied Anthropology (honor degree\, 2019) and has a master’s degree in History (Cum Laude thesis\, 2022) at the National University of Colombia in Bogotá\, Colombia. As a son\, and grandson\, of indigenous Wayuu women\, and as a son of a Jewish man\, his academic life has been focused on comprehending his own roots and finding ways to communicate them\, as well as on Caribbean history\, Wayuu people cosmovision\, oralities\, migrations\, frontiers\, and musicology. In that respect\, he has explored different formats such as essays\, creative narratives\, and since 2015 he has been engaged in radio broadcasting and podcasting. This experience of creation has served as a form to make and show research: exploring the sound-essays\, radio-documentaries\, podcasting\, among others. He has worked\, too\, in museography\, writing books\, fieldwork\, and has always considered interdisciplinary work more of a conviction than an option\, jumping between the boundaries of disciplines to have big conversations and to find methods and techniques to apprehend our reality\, therefore finding new questions\, new responses\, and new audiences. \nDerek Xavier Garcia is a PhD candidate in the Department of History at Concordia University\, Montréal\, and a 2025–2026 Scholar-in-Residence at the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling. He was previously a 2023–2024 Mellon Foundation Resident Scholar in Latino Studies at the School for Advanced Research in Santa Fe\, New Mexico. His research falls at the intersections of the culture\, memory\, and history of Mexican American activist movements\, particularly at the first Mexican American college in the United States\, Colegio Jacinto Treviño (1969-1976). He has published in American Quarterly and Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies. \n  \nREGISTRATION \nRegister now with this link \nPlease note that all our events are free and open to all\, but registration is mandatory. For any questions\, please contact cohds.chorn@concordia.ca \nLOCATION \nIn-person in LB-1019 (Sunroom)\, Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling (COHDS)\, Concordia University\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West\, J.W. McConnell Building (Library Building). \nCOHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory\, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal.
URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/fr/event/ethics-in-research-how-to-apply-for-ethics-certification-2/
LOCATION:LB-1019 (Sunroom)\, COHDS\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.\, Montreal\, Québec\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Présentations
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SUMMARY:COHDS Postdoctoral Oral History Showcase: A Roundtable
DESCRIPTION:With Martín Giraldo-Hoyos\, Camille Robert\, Florence Darveau Routhier \n\nThis year\, we are proud to highlight three outstanding postdoctoral researchers at COHDS and to showcase their work. Together\, their projects reflect the breadth and vitality of oral history–informed scholarship: from collaborative research with Black farming communities in Colombia using oral history and digital storytelling\, to historical studies of women\, labour\, and feminist movements in Quebec\, and place-based\, creative ethnographic research on poverty and gentrification in Sherbrooke. \n\nMartín Giraldo-Hoyos is an FRQ-SC postdoctoral fellow in Concordia’s Department of Geography\, Planning and Environment. His current project examines the intersections of oral history\, soundscape ecology\, story mapping\, and digital storytelling to support collaborative research with Black farming communities in Colombia’s Cauca River Valley. This work builds on his PhD dissertation at McGill University\, which analyzed the environmental history of emancipation in the region between mid-19th and early-20th centuries through geospatial methods\, political ecology\, and social history. Martín also produces documentary podcasts in collaboration with Afro-Colombian organizations and participates in grassroots archival cataloguing initiatives. \n\nCamille Robert is a historian and postdoctoral researcher at Concordia University. Her research focuses on the history of women\, work\, unionism\, and feminist movements in Quebec. In 2017\, she published Toutes les femmes sont d’abord ménagères. Histoire d’un combat féministe pour la reconnaissance du travail ménager with Éditions Somme toute. She also co-edited\, with Louise Toupin\, the collective work Travail invisible. Portraits d’une lutte féministe inachevée\, published in the fall of 2018 by Éditions du remue-ménage. Committed to contributing to the dissemination of history\, she is a member of the editorial board of Histoire Engagée and collaborates with several media outlets and organizations. \n\nFlorence Darveau Routhier conducts her research in the Alexandre district of downtown Sherbrooke\, a working-class neighborhood where revitalization initiatives are part of the ongoing gentrification process. Her place-based research aims to deconstruct the managerial perspective that approaches poverty and related issues « from the top down. » She therefore addresses the issues of poverty and the historical struggles associated with it as closely as possible\, examining how they are experienced\, using creative ethnographic methods and situated perspective epistemologies. She is a member of the Collectif d’histoire\, d’éducation et d’archivage populaire de Sherbrooke (CHEAP)\, with which she conducts her research. \n\n\nREGISTRATION \nRegister now with this link \nPlease note that all our events are free and open to all\, but registration is mandatory. \n  \nLOCATION \nIn-person in LB-1019 (Sunroom)\, Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling (COHDS)\, Concordia University\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West\, J.W. McConnell Building (Library Building). \nCOHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory\, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal.
URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/fr/event/cohds-postdoctoral-oral-history-showcase-a-roundtable/
LOCATION:LB-1019 (Sunroom)\, COHDS\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.\, Montreal\, Québec\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Montreal Book Launch of Gaza: The Dream and the Nightmare
DESCRIPTION:With Julie Norman \n  \nIn this urgent and compelling book\, Julie M. Norman and Maia Carter Hallward tell the story of Gaza from its early foundations\, across decades of occupation\, to the devastation of the ongoing war. Rather than focusing on elites or abstract politics\, at the book’s heart are ordinary Gazans – students\, aid workers\, journalists\, and teachers – whose first-hand testimonies vividly illuminate the realities behind the headlines. \nRefusing to sensationalize or oversimplify\, the book reckons with the legal\, moral\, and humanitarian debates surrounding Gaza\, from war crimes investigations to the contested meaning of resistance and the politicization of aid. Combining a nuanced narrative with hard-hitting reflections from everyday Gazans\, the book serves as a timely and necessary disruption of media cliches and political binaries\, and from the perspectives of its own people. \n  \nJulie Norman is Associate Professor of Politics and International Relations at University College London and Senior Associate Fellow on the Middle East at the Royal United Services Institute. Previously she taught in the Political Science Department at \nConcordia University and served as Co-Director of the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling. \n  \nREGISTRATION  \nRegister now with this link \nPlease note that all our events are free and open to all\, but registration is mandatory. For any questions\, please contact cohds.chorn@concordia.ca \nLOCATION \nIn-person in LB-1019 (Sunroom)\, Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling (COHDS)\, Concordia University\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West\, J.W. McConnell Building (Library Building). \nCOHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory\, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal.
URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/fr/event/montreal-book-launch-of-gaza-the-dream-and-the-nightmare/
LOCATION:LB-1019 (Sunroom)\, COHDS\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.\, Montreal\, Québec\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Présentations
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SUMMARY:Faire parler les sons de la ville. Réflexions sur les ambiances et les paysages sonores en tant que récits géographiques
DESCRIPTION:With Violaine Jolivet \n  \nCette présentation de recherche vise à montrer comment les sons produits et perçus par des individus et des groupes peuvent être compris comme des récits possibles sur les lieux que nous habitons et étudions. Comme les entretiens menés dans le cadre de mes recherches en géographie urbaine\, les ambiances ou paysages sonores sont considérés comme des récits sur les territoires\, permettant une approche à la fois descriptive et analytique des quartiers et des villes que j’étudie. Qu’ils soient produits\, conçus ou vécus\, les sons dépendent de nos environnements architecturaux\, sociaux\, esthétiques\, politiques et techniques\, mais surtout de notre expérience sensible de l’espace. \nEn revenant sur plusieurs de mes recherches passées et en cours\, j’aimerais discuter de la manière dont les sons ont influencé ma pratique et mes méthodes\, en particulier l’enregistrement de terrain et les cartes sonores\, et présenter quelques réflexions plus générales sur les sons en tant que récits. \n  \nViolaine Jolivet has been a professor of geography at the University of Montreal since 2012\, after obtaining a PhD from Paris Panthéon-Sorbonne 1 and completing postdoctoral studies in New York (CUNY). Her expertise lies at the intersection of urban and migration studies\, using comparative methods. Her research focuses on transnational mobility\, gentrification\, and resistance to displacement in Havana and Montreal. \nDocumentaries – video and audio\, sound maps\, narrative cartography\, and hybrid methodologies strongly influence her research.Looking on several of my past and ongoing research projects\, she would like to discuss how sounds have influenced her practice and methods\, particularly field recording and sound maps\, and present some more general reflections on sounds as narratives. \n  \nREGISTRATION  \nRegister now with this link \nPlease note that all our events are free and open to all\, but registration is mandatory. For any questions\, please contact cohds.chorn@concordia.ca \nLOCATION \nIn-person in LB-1019 (Sunroom)\, Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling (COHDS)\, Concordia University\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West\, J.W. McConnell Building (Library Building). \nCOHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory\, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal.
URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/fr/event/faire-parler-les-sons-de-la-ville-reflexions-sur-les-ambiances-et-les-paysages-sonores-en-tant-que-recits-geographiques/
LOCATION:LB-1019 (Sunroom)\, COHDS\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.\, Montreal\, Québec\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Présentations
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260330T140000
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SUMMARY:Cooking With COHDS:  Cantos y Coco – Preparing Alegría to the songs of Palenqueras
DESCRIPTION:With Hannah Pinilla \n  \nIn this hands-on workshop\, participants will explore the intersections of storytelling\, music\, and cooking through the preparation of alegría\, a traditional coconut and panela sweet closely associated with Afro-Colombian palenqueras in Cartagena. Rooted in the history of San Basilio de Palenque—the first free Black town in the Americas—alegría is more than a confection; it is a symbol of resistance\, memory\, and cultural continuity. The workshop will unfold to the sounds of traditional cantos de venta and bullerengue rhythms\, echoing the melodic street calls through which palenqueras sell their sweets in Cartagena’s plazas. Guided through the key steps of grating coconut\, cooking panela to the perfect caramel point\, and shaping the mixture into compact rounds\, participants will explore the vital role of Palenqueras in shaping the music\, culinary traditions\, and cultural memory of the Colombian Caribbean.  \nOver alegría and limonada de coco\, participants will reflect on the storytelling relationship between cooking and music—how songs\, sounds\, and shared rhythms shape the ways we remember and retell food traditions. \n  \nHannah Pinilla is an oral historian and holds a MA in public history with a specialization in digital humanities at Carleton University. Her SSHRC-funded master’s research project\, “El Sabor del Hogar: The Transformation of Identity and Memory Through the Food Practices of Colombian Migrants in Quebec\,” engaged nine Colombian migrants\, living in Montreal and Longueuil in oral history interviews facilitated through cooking sessions\, to explore how the narration\, preparation\, and consumption of ‘home foods’ is a form of embodied and interactive diasporic memory work. Her research question were guided by her own lived experiences as the granddaughter of a first-generation Colombian-Canadian: how does the dialectical relationship between identity and memory manifest through food practice and what impact does it have on the process of home-building? \n  \nREGISTRATION  \nRegister now with this link \nAs part of our exploration of Columbian foodways and oral histories\, we will be preparing and eating a small meal together. Given space constraints\, we need to limit the number of participants to fifteen. We will purchase food items based on the number of registered attendees. Should you be unable to attend\, may we ask that you let us know at least one week in advance? We’d then be able to calibrate our food purchases accordingly and/or offer your spot to a participant on the waiting list. \nPlease note that all our events are free and open to all\, but registration is mandatory. For any questions\, please contact cohds.chorn@concordia.ca \nLOCATION \nIn-person at “The SHIFT Centre for Social Transformation\,” LB-145\, Concordia University\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West\, J.W. McConnell Building (Library Building). \nCOHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory\, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal.
URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/fr/event/cantos-y-coco-preparing-alegria-to-the-songs-of-palenqueras/
LOCATION:Concordia’s SHIFT Centre for Social Transformation (LB-145)\, 1400 Boulevard de Maisonneuve Ouest\, Montréal
CATEGORIES:Ateliers
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260327T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260327T160000
DTSTAMP:20260502T044113
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LAST-MODIFIED:20260318T163051Z
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SUMMARY:Symposium Channels of Testimony: Artistic Mediations of Listening
DESCRIPTION:How does art channel and reshape the way we listen to lived experience? \nJoin Amy Starecheski\, Director of Columbia University’s Oral History Master of Arts\, and Luis C. Sotelo\, Director of Concordia University’s Acts of Listening Lab (ALLab)\, for a conversation with three artist–scholar teams funded by ALLab to explore bold new pathways for mediating testimony through creative practice. This symposium brings together innovative practitioners working at the intersection of oral history\, performance\, sound\, and socially engaged art. Together\, we’ll delve into the practical and theoretical challenges of transforming real-life stories into artistic forms \n\n\nSpeakers and Projects \nT Braun and Franklin van Grieken \nSentir la Luz/Sense the Light  \nA research-creation project that investigates how digital mediation and virtual reality\, sound\, and light reshapes perception and listening in a group of people with visual impairment. This project is carried out in collaboration with Kim Sawchuk\, Kara Paul\, and Teatro Ciego. \n\nVanessa Terán and María Fernanda del Real  \nSucúa Haven \nMigrant Stories: Embodied Listening Lab \nInspired by Sucúa Haven\, a collection of migration stories created with Ecuadorian in Connecticut (United States)\, a group of Latin diaspora participants in Montreal (Canada)\, as well as Ecuadorians and other Latin American immigrants in Quito (Ecuador)\, will reflect on their own migratory experiences and create performances of embodied testimonies that places Sucúa Haven stories in dialogue with their own. \n  \nPeng Hsu \nCucumbers\, The Melancholy of a Turtle and a Girl’s Otaku’s Romance \nA novel/play creative project that explores BBR. BBR\, short for Broke Broke Recitation\, is my translation of the Mandarin term 碎碎唸 (siu siu nian)\, a phrase commonly used in Taiwan and China to describe how women chatter incessantly about daily and seemingly banal trivialities. Theorized here as a technique of queer narration\, BBR functions as a dramaturgical writing style through which the project examines housing justice\, an endangered turtle\, and the inarticulable experiences of constipation and yearning of romance. \n\nModerator \nLuis C. Sotelo Castro \nDirector\, Acts of Listening Lab (Concordia University) \nDiscussant \nAmy Starecheski \nDirector\, Oral History Master of Arts Program (Columbia University) \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nREGISTRATION \n\nThis is a hybrid event.\nRegister in person with this link\n\nRegister for zoom with this link \n\nLOCATION \nIn-person at the 4TH SPACE\, Concordia University\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West\, J.W. McConnell Building (Library Building). \nCOHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory\, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal.
URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/fr/event/symposium-channels-of-testimony-artistic-mediations-of-listening/
CATEGORIES:performances et expositions,Présentations,Roundtable/table ronde
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260324T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260324T150000
DTSTAMP:20260502T044113
CREATED:20260119T144504Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260311T173643Z
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SUMMARY:POSTPONED : The River That is Not: Teaching Oral History and Photography through Fieldwork
DESCRIPTION:With Lea Kabiljo \nThis event marks the opening of The river that is not\, an exhibition presenting a research project developed in collaboration with students from the visual arts program at the Universidad Laica Eloy Alfaro de Manabí\, Ecuador\, and presented at COHDS from March 9 to April 20. \n\n\nDeveloped as a short-term teaching intervention\, the project introduced students to an oral history and photography methodology through fieldwork conducted in residential areas surrounding the contaminated waters of the Río Burro and Río Manta in Manta\, Ecuador. Students worked with residents who shared personal accounts related to environmental conditions\, urban infrastructure\, and long-term lived experience in the area. \nThe exhibition brings together selected photographic works and interview excerpts from the students’ fieldwork\, alongside documentation reflecting their experience of engaging with oral history and photography as a research methodology in a community context. The opening talk will focus on the pedagogical dimensions of the project\, with particular attention to the challenges and possibilities of leading field-based work with students. \nProject collaborators: Alisson Aguayo\, Solange Arteaga\, Cristina Basurto\, Fernanda Candela\, Dayton Cantos\, Eduarda Caviedes\, Vivian Cedeño\, Rody Chiang\, Josue Chinga\, Joshian Defaz\, Hanna Ferrin\, Erick Loor\, Casimiro Loor\, Luís López\, John Mera\, Kayla Moreira\, Jose Pin\, Jean-Paul Plua\, Emily Quiroz\, Yaritza Rodriguez\, Jose Sanchez\, Brithanny Santana\, Sulady Seme\, Camily Torres\, Pedro Villamil\, Kiara Villegas\, Nikole Zambrano and Damian Sinchi (instructor) \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLea Kabiljo is an assistant professor of art education at Université Laval and a multidisciplinary researcher working at the intersection of arts\, education\, and oral history. Her research focuses on integrating photography and oral history as a research-creation methodology and examining the pedagogical potential of this approach. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nREGISTRATION \nRegister now with this link \nPlease note that all our events are free and open to all\, but registration is mandatory. For any questions\, please contact cohds.chorn@concordia.ca \n  \n\nLOCATION \nIn-person in LB-1019 (Sunroom) and LB-1042 (Media Lab)\, Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling (COHDS)\, Concordia University\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West\, J.W. McConnell Building (Library Building). \nCOHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory\, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal.
URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/fr/event/the-river-that-is-not-teaching-oral-history-and-photography-through-fieldwork/
LOCATION:Concordia University\, LB-1042 (COHDS)\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd O\, Montreal
CATEGORIES:performances et expositions
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260320T083000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260320T170000
DTSTAMP:20260502T044113
CREATED:20260107T211949Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260318T145257Z
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SUMMARY:Where Is the Joy in Oral History? 13th Emerging Scholars Symposium on Oral History\, Digital Storytelling & Creative Practice
DESCRIPTION:COHDS is delighted to invite you to the 13th Emerging Scholars Symposium\, a one-day\, in-person event bringing together emerging scholars\, artists\, and community practitioners working in oral history\, digital storytelling\, and creative research. \nThis year’s symposium asks: Where is the joy in oral history? exploring joy as an emotional\, political\, and creative force in storytelling and oral history. At a moment often shaped by narratives of loss and crisis\, the symposium creates space to listen for joy: in voice\, memory\, performance\, ritual\, and everyday exchange\, without denying complexity or struggle. \nOver the course of a day-long of activities\, this event will feature conversations\, short presentations\, research-creation projects\, and creative works by emerging scholars and artists\, followed by discussion and collective reflection. Presentations will be in English and French. \nAll are welcome: students\, researchers\, artists\, community members\, and anyone interested in oral history and creative practice. \nThe Emerging Scholars Symposium is the highlight of the year\, so we are looking forward to welcoming you! \n  \nREGISTRATION \nRegister now with this link \nPlease note that all our events are free and open to all\, but registration is mandatory. For more information\, contact: cohds.chorn.symposium@gmail.com \n  \nLOCATION \nIn-person in LB-1019 (Sunroom)\, Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling (COHDS)\, Concordia University\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West\, J.W. McConnell Building (Library Building). \nCOHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory\, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal.
URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/fr/event/where-is-the-joy-in-oral-history-13th-emerging-scholars-symposium-on-oral-history-digital-storytelling-creative-practice/
LOCATION:LB-1019 (Sunroom)\, COHDS\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.\, Montreal\, Québec\, Canada
CATEGORIES:symposium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260312T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260312T160000
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CREATED:20251218T205612Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260312T184906Z
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SUMMARY:Rescheduled : Cooking With COHDS:  Exploring the Foodways of the Lebanese Community of Leamington\, Ontario:  Sacred\, Industrial\, and Baladi
DESCRIPTION:With Michael Ferguson \n  \nWhile Lebanese food has been ubiquitous across Canada for decades\, this presentation/cooking activity moves beyond shawarma\, hummus\, and tabouleh to take a closer look at the foodways of one particular community in Leamington\, Ontario. \nHailing largely from the northern Lebanese village of Tourza\, they migrated in mid-twentieth century to smalltown southwestern Ontario. There\, they built a new community while maintaining deep connections to their homeland. By the early 1980s\, the Lebanese community had its own wedding hall\, shrine dedicated to Our Lady of Lebanon\, and church. \nWe will be discussing\, cooking\, and sampling along three main themes – those that relate to their religious practices as Maronite Catholics (Sacred)\, those that connect to their labour in the vegetable picking and processing industry (Industrial)\, and those that are attached to diaspora and re-creating the homeland (Baladi). While we eat\, we will be discovering the largely unknown experiences of rural-rural migration from Lebanon to Canada. \n  \nMichael Ferguson is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Concordia University. His research focuses on the history of migration in the Ottoman Empire\, modern Middle East\, and its diasporas using both micro and global scales. His projects have been funded by grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Council of Canada. \n  \nREGISTRATION  \nRegister now with this link \nAs part of our exploration of Lebanese foodways and oral histories\, we will be preparing and eating a small meal together. Given space constraints\, we need to limit the number of participants to fifteen. We will purchase food items based on the number of registered attendees. Should you be unable to attend\, may we ask that you let us know at least one week in advance? We’d then be able to calibrate our food purchases accordingly and/or offer your spot to a participant on the waiting list. \nPlease note that all our events are free and open to all\, but registration is mandatory. For any questions\, please contact cohds.chorn@concordia.ca \nLOCATION \nIn-person at “The SHIFT Centre for Social Transformation\,” LB-145\, Concordia University\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West\, J.W. McConnell Building (Library Building). \nCOHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory\, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal.
URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/fr/event/cooking-with-cohds-exploring-the-foodways-of-the-lebanese-community-of-leamington-ontario-sacred-industrial-and-baladi/
LOCATION:Concordia’s SHIFT Centre for Social Transformation (LB-145)\, 1400 Boulevard de Maisonneuve Ouest\, Montréal
CATEGORIES:Ateliers
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260213T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260213T160000
DTSTAMP:20260502T044113
CREATED:20251218T204255Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260326T193944Z
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SUMMARY:Capturing Voices: Recording Audio for History
DESCRIPTION:With Frankie Ray \n  \nThis workshop provides a hands-on introduction to the principles and practices of recording high-quality audio in a range of real-world contexts. Participants will gain practical experience setting up and working with multiple microphone types\, including lavaliers\, shotgun microphones\, podcasting microphones\, and built-in camera audio systems. Through guided demonstrations and exercises\, the workshop examines how microphone selection\, placement\, and recording environment shape the clarity\, texture\, and intelligibility of recorded sound. \nParticipants will practice recording in both indoor and outdoor settings\, rotating between the roles of recorder and speaker while capturing short audio samples across varied acoustic conditions. Emphasis is placed on critical listening as a methodological skill. The workshop also introduces basic audio workflows\, including offloading recordings\, performing foundational edits using Audacity\, and organizing audio files for long-term storage and archival preservation. \nFramed around the documentation of oral histories\, this session equips participants with practical and transferable skills for recording clear\, durable\, and ethically sound audio materials. No prior technical experience is required. \n  \nFrankie Ray (they/them) is a Montreal-based videographer and DJ\, with professional experience across music festivals\, music videos\, and film productions\, including Netflix\, HBO\, the NFB and Crave. Trained as a certified 2nd Assistant Camera in ICG669/IATSE\, Frankie brings both technical expertise and creative insight to their work. Outside of their personal work\, Frankie has always put a focus on accessible\, hands-on training. At COHDS\, Frankie combines their professional background with a commitment to supporting researchers\, artists\, and storytellers in capturing and preserving stories with care and technical confidence. \n  \nREGISTRATION  \nRegister now with this link \nPlease note that all our events are free and open to all\, but registration is mandatory. For any questions\, please contact cohds.chorn@concordia.ca \nLOCATION \nIn-person in LB-1019 (Sunroom) and LB-1042 (Media Lab)\, Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling (COHDS)\, Concordia University\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West\, J.W. McConnell Building (Library Building). \nCOHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory\, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal.
URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/fr/event/capturing-voices-recording-audio-for-history/
LOCATION:Concordia University\, LB-1042 (COHDS)\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd O\, Montreal
CATEGORIES:Ateliers
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260206T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260206T150000
DTSTAMP:20260502T044113
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SUMMARY:Working with Communities:  A Conversation on Navigating Relationships
DESCRIPTION:Photo description: Marjorie Villefranche in a collective oral history interview at La Maison d’Haïti \n  \nWith Philippe Blouin\, Michael Ferguson\, Cassandra Marsillo\, Tesfa Peterson\, Léa Denieul Pinsky\, and Désirée Rochat \n  \nThis conversation explores a central topic: How do oral historians navigate the web of relationships that tie them to the community they are working with? \nOver many years\, the six panelists have worked closely with the Mohawk Mothers and Duplessis Orphans (Philippe Blouin & Léa Denieul Pinsky); a Lebanese community in Leamington\, Ontario that has maintained deep connection to its homeland (Michael Ferguson); Molisan Italian-Canadians in Montreal\, who are telling stories about immigration\, identity\, collective memory\, food\, and folklore (Cassandra Marsillo); the Institute for People’s Enlightenment in the Grenadian village of LaDigue that cultivates inclusive and intergenerational spaces for learning (Tesfa Peterson); and Black communities in Quebec whose knowledge activism has generated practices of community archiving and popular pedagogy. \nSome of the panelists are members of the communities they study; others have been welcomed into the community. Yet\, for all panelists\, relationality lies at the core of their commitment to non-extractivist research. Their research affords an extended contemplation of the principle of “Shared Authority\,” so foundational to our work at COHDS. In essence\, they write\, we are reflecting on what we are doing to try and “make oral history a more democratic cultural practice.” (Zembrzycki\, 2009) \nBy attempting to tell complex and layered histories that centre knowledge generated by and with communities\, researchers develop multi-faceted ways to work collaboratively. In this conversation\, we will reflect on experiences of working in community toward a shared goal – to shed light on history. The discussion will centre around five questions: \n  \n𖥔 How do we reaffirm ongoing commitments as projects evolve? \n𖥔 How do we manage different temporalities and rhythms due to the multiplicity of actors involved? \n𖥔 What kind of challenges emerge from sharing authority? \n𖥔 How are positionality and relationality negotiated? \n𖥔 How do we protect vulnerable community members from other forms of extractivism? \n  \nThese questions will act as a springboard into a broader conversation with the audience. This conversation will be moderated by Barbara Lorenzkowski. \n  \nPhilippe Blouin (he/him) is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Criminology at the University of Ottawa. As part of his doctoral research in anthropology at McGill University\, he studied the role of the Two Row Wampum as a diplomatic protocol based on respect for difference in the Mohawk Mothers’ and Duplessis Orphans’ searches for unmarked graves. He coordinated the publication of the oral history book\, The Mohawk Warrior Society: A Handbook on Sovereignty and Survival (2023 PM Press) and published articles in journals such as The South Atlantic Quarterly and PoLAR: Political\, and Legal Anthropology Review. \nMichael Ferguson is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Concordia University. His research focuses on the history of migration and slavery in the Ottoman Empire\, the modern Middle East\, and its diasporas. He has worked with two different communities on oral history projects: Afro-Turks (who trace their history through enslavement) in the Turkish port city of Izmir and a Lebanese community in Leamington\, Ontario. \nCassandra Marsillo is an oral and public historian\, artist\, and writer\, 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. In 2019\, she completed her Master’s project–The Yellow Line: Italo-Canadian Oral Histories from Montreal’s Backyards and Schoolyards–in Public History at Carleton University. The project culminated in an exhibit co-curated with the project’s six narrators. She is the author of Dalla valigia alla tavola: A journey through Molisan culinary heritage\, a community project done in collaboration with the Federazione delle associazioni molisane del Quebec. Currently\, she teaches in the Department of History at Dawson College and is pursuing her PhD at Concordia University on the development of Italian-Canadian cuisine and food identity in Montreal. \nTesfa Aki Peterson is a public humanities researcher and community-based scholar whose work centers Caribbean history\, feminist postcolonial thought\, and participatory storytelling. As a student in the PhD Humanities program at Concordia University\, her current project traces the life and legacy of Helen Louise Langdon Norton Little\, a woman born in LaDigue\, Grenada in the late nineteenth century\, whose life connected Grenada\, Montreal\, and the American Midwest. Helen Little was active in the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) in Montreal and was the mother of eight children\, including civil rights leader Malcolm X. Grounded in community knowledge and Caribbean feminist and postcolonial perspectives\, her work asks how public humanities can preserve and honor lives that have been marginalized by colonial archives\, while creating inclusive\, intergenerational spaces for learning in both Grenada and the diaspora. Since 2020\, she has collaborated with the Institute for People’s Enlightenment in the Grenadian village of LaDigue to organize lectures\, storytelling sessions\, and public conversations that center local voices and oral histories. Additionally\, the project also extends to Montreal through an oral history and ritual storytelling podcast documenting Grenadian women’s community organizing. Across storybooks\, podcasts\, workshops\, and public events\, Tesfa’s work models a decolonial public humanities rooted in care\, collaboration\, and community memory. \nLéa Denieul Pinsky is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS). Working collaboratively with artists\, community leaders\, and activists\, she conducts research on place\, memory\, and indigenous-settler alliances. Her current postdoctoral projects\, carried out with the Mohawk Mothers and the Duplessis orphans\, aim to develop community-centred memory work and ethics of care as tools for repairing urban sites marked by state-perpetrated violence. \nDésirée Rochat is a community educator\, transdisciplinary scholar\, and Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Concordia University. She works to document and transmit histories of Black communities’ activism in Quebec in the 20th century\, with a focus on knowledge activism. Her collaborative approach bridges historical research\, community archiving and popular pedagogy to preserve and promote Black community archives. She co-edited Statesman of the Piano: Jazz\, Race\, and History in the Life of Lou Hooper\, with historians Sean Mills et Eric Fillion. Her latest project\, “Black lives in/and archives” fosters an archival ecosystem to cultivate archives of Black lives. \nBarbara Lorenzkowski is an oral historian of childhood and youth whose work explores the ways in which global processes of migration\, displacement\, and violence have shaped small people’s lives in outsized ways. She recently published the co-edited anthology Small Stories of War: Children\, Youth\, and Conflict in Canada and Beyond (with Kristine Alexander and Andrew Burt\, McGill-Queen’s University Press 2023) and is currently completing a FQRSC-funded book project The Children’s War\, a large-scale oral history project on children’s sensuous and emotional life-worlds in Atlantic Canada during the Second World War. Dr. Lorenzkowski is the Lead Co-Director of COHDS. \n  \nREGISTRATION \nPlease note that all our events are free and open to all\, but you need to register! \nThis is a hybrid event. \nTo attend in person\, please register here. \nTo attend online\, please register here. \n  \nLOCATION \nThe round-table conversation will take place in our Sunroom (LB-1019) \, Concordia University\, Library Building\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W. \nFor any questions regarding this event please contact cohds.chorn@concordia.ca \nCOHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory\, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal.
URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/fr/event/working-with-communities-a-conversation-on-navigating-relationships/
LOCATION:LB-1019 (Sunroom)\, COHDS\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.\, Montreal\, Québec\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Roundtable/table ronde
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260205T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260205T120000
DTSTAMP:20260502T044113
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SUMMARY:Interpreting the Underlying Dynamic in Oral History
DESCRIPTION:With Steven High \nThis workshop will introduce you to ways of interpreting the underlying interviewer-interviewee dynamic that structures the oral history recording. It is an interview after all. Yet we tend to be so focused on the words spoken by our interview partners that we submerge the underlying dialogic that is its structuring force. \nSteven High is an award-winning historian whose research on the structural violence of deindustrialization has put Canada at the centre of important global conversations about what a « just transition » might look like after past failures. His use of oral history ensures that his interpretation is grounded in the lives of working people. He is currently leading a large transnational project investigating the politics of deindustrialization (see the website: deindustrialization.org). He has published many books and articles on this topic\, including Deindustrializing Montreal: Entangled Histories of Race\, Residence and Class (2022) and Industrial Sunset: The Making of North America’s Rust Belt (2003). \nHis second area of expertise involves the methodology\, theory and ethics of oral history\, particularly as it relates to mass violence. Steven High co-founded Concordia’s Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling (COHDS) and led the prize-winning Montreal Life Stories project from 2005 until 2012\, where he worked in close partnership with survivor groups. \n  \nREGISTRATION  \nRegister now with this link \nPlease note that all our events are free and open to all\, but registration is mandatory. For any questions\, please contact cohds.chorn@concordia.ca \nLOCATION \nIn-person in LB-1019 (Sunroom)\, Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling (COHDS)\, Concordia University\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West\, J.W. McConnell Building (Library Building). \nCOHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory\, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal.
URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/fr/event/interpreting-the-underlying-dynamic-in-oral-history/
LOCATION:LB-1019 (Sunroom)\, COHDS\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.\, Montreal\, Québec\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Ateliers
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260130T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260130T160000
DTSTAMP:20260502T044113
CREATED:20251218T202355Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260326T193007Z
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SUMMARY:Cooking with COHDS: Molisan Winter Remedies
DESCRIPTION:With Cassandra Marsillo \n  \nThis workshop will centre on making two different types of pasta shapes and accompanying recipes typical to Molise\, a small region in Southern Italy with a big\, historic presence in Montreal. Cavatelli and taccozze are integral parts of Molisan winter remedies. The recipes used for this workshop were collected through oral history interviews with community members for the cookbook Dalla valigia alla tavola: A journey through Molisan culinary heritage. \nCavatelli are the perfect pasta for hearty sauces to get you through the winter. Their shape allows them to hold a lot of sauce in their ridges and grooves. Taccozze are the typical pasta used to make scattone\, a very particular dish that is said to cure all ailments. Participants will make enough for 2 portions of cavatelli and taccozze each. As we shape the pasta\, participants will listen to the stories of these dishes from the original oral history interviews (in Italian). Additional historical information\, final recipes\, and translation will be provided. \nFinally\, as winter is the perfect time for storytelling over a steaming hot bowl of something delicious\, participants will be invited to share stories of their own winter remedies of all kinds! \n  \nCassandra Marsillo is 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. \nCurrently a doctoral student at Concordia University\, Cassandra graduated twice from Concordia University with a BFA in Studio Arts and an Italian minor\, and a BA in Honours Public History. In 2019\, she completed her Master in Public History at Carleton University\, Her research project\, The Yellow Line: Italo-Canadian Oral Histories from Montreal’s Backyards and Schoolyards\, was an archival photo\, installation\, and oral history pop-up exhibit\, presented at the Casa d’Italia in March 2019. \nHer 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. \n  \nREGISTRATION \nRegister now with this link \nAs part of our exploration of Molisan foodways and oral histories\, we will be preparing and eating a small meal together. Given space constraints\, we need to limit the number of participants to sixteen. We will purchase food items based on the number of registered attendees. Should you be unable to attend\, may we ask that you let us know at least one week in advance? We’d then be able to calibrate our food purchases accordingly and/or offer your spot to a participant on the waiting list. \nPlease note that all our events are free and open to all\, but registration is mandatory. For any questions\, please contact cohds.chorn@concordia.ca \nLOCATION \nIn-person at “The SHIFT Centre for Social Transformation\,” LB-145\, Concordia University\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West\, J.W. McConnell Building (Library Building). \nCOHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory\, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal.
URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/fr/event/cooking-with-cohds-molisan-winter-remedies/
LOCATION:Concordia’s SHIFT Centre for Social Transformation (LB-145)\, 1400 Boulevard de Maisonneuve Ouest\, Montréal
CATEGORIES:Ateliers
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260128T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260128T200000
DTSTAMP:20260502T044113
CREATED:20251218T200637Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260326T192454Z
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SUMMARY:Screening of Hommes-relais\, Becoming Ruby and Red Girl Rising
DESCRIPTION:With Vladimir Chindea and HotDocs \n  \nWe are pleased to present\, in collaboration with HotDocs\, three Citizen Minutes documentaries: Hommes-relais\, Becoming Ruby\, and Red Girl Rising. Each of these films runs approximately ten minutes and speaks directly to COHDS’s core values of inclusion\, resilience\, solidarity\, and hope. Together\, they are sure to captivate viewers and evoke powerful emotional engagement. \nHommes-relais explores experiences of grief and adaptation within the Quebec immigration process\, following a group of men who meet regularly to share their stories and develop tools to navigate life in a new home. \nBecoming Ruby follows Ruby Chopstix\, Canada’s first drag artist-in-residence\, as they confront the challenges of underrepresentation and create a showcase that opens space for other queer BIPOC performers. \nFinally\, Red Girl Rising highlights the work of Mohawk matriarch\, retired teacher\, activist\, and humanitarian Joyce Jonathan Crone\, whose compassionate efforts in her Huntsville\, Ontario community help bridge divides and strengthen Indigenous education. \nFollowing the screening\, we are honoured to host a roundtable discussion with Vladimir Chindea\, director of Hommes-relais. \n  \nVladimir Chindea is a Romanian-Canadian filmmaker currently completing the MFA in Cinematic Arts at Concordia University. His work explores themes of migration\, memory\, and existential inquiry. He directed/produced the short film Remember (2022) and regularly collaborates on both narrative and non-fiction projects as an assistant director. Vladimir holds a BA (Honours) in Philosophy and International Relations from the University of British Columbia. Trained as an ‘Homme-relais’ himself\, it was the light of the CRIC community and the felt inspiration from Juan Manuel that guided him to direct this documentary debut. \n  \nREGISTRATION  \nRegister now with this link \nPlease note that all our events are free and open to all\, but registration is mandatory. For any questions\, please contact cohds.chorn@concordia.ca \nLOCATION \nIn-person in LB-1042 (Acts of Listening Lab)\, Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling (COHDS)\, Concordia University\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West\, J.W. McConnell Building (Library Building). \nCOHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory\, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal.
URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/fr/event/screening-of-hommes-relais-becoming-rubi-and-red-girl-rising/
LOCATION:Concordia University\, LB-1042 (COHDS)\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd O\, Montreal
CATEGORIES:performances et expositions,Présentations
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260122T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260122T120000
DTSTAMP:20260502T044113
CREATED:20251218T201335Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260326T192006Z
UID:24791-1769076000-1769083200@storytelling.concordia.ca
SUMMARY:Deep Listening to Life Stories
DESCRIPTION:With Steven High \nThe 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. \nSteven High is Professor of History and has published extensively in oral history. He co-founded Concordia’s Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling (COHDS) and led the prize-winning Montreal Life Stories project from 2005 until 2012\, where he worked in close partnership with survivor groups\, which recorded the life stories of 500 survivors of mass violence\, as well as the Living Archives of Rwandan Exiles and Survivors. \n  \nREGISTRATION  \nRegister now with this link \nPlease note that all our events are free and open to all\, but registration is mandatory. For any questions\, please contact cohds.chorn@concordia.ca \nLOCATION \nIn-person in LB-1019 (Sunroom)\, Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling (COHDS)\, Concordia University\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West\, J.W. McConnell Building (Library Building). \nCOHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory\, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal. \n  \nPlease note: All those registered will need to be provided with the following link upon registration for this workshop and no later than Monday\, January 12: \nInterview with Valerie Fernandez \nREFUGEE YOUTH WORKING GROUP
URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/fr/event/deep-listening-to-life-stories-2/
LOCATION:LB-1019 (Sunroom)\, COHDS\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.\, Montreal\, Québec\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Ateliers,Présentations
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260115T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260423T200000
DTSTAMP:20260502T044113
CREATED:20251218T195845Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260326T194316Z
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SUMMARY:COHDS Choir: Sounds of Home\, Sounds of Elsewheres
DESCRIPTION:With Sara Lucas \n“Sounds of Home\, Sounds of Elsewheres” is a community choir project led by Sara Lucas\, open to COHDS members who want to sing together beyond their research. The repertoire will explore storytelling through song\, focusing on how personal and community histories are shared and passed down. \nThe project embraces the idea that everyone can express themselves through sound and movement\, using an inclusive approach to developing natural voices. Songs will be learned mainly by ear\, so no singing or music-reading experience is required. Rehearsals will emphasize breathwork\, harmony\, and unison singing\, encouraging diverse forms of expression and joy. The group will work toward a performance for COHDS’ 20th anniversary in October 2026\, with participation encouraged but not mandatory. \nSara Lucas is a composer-performer and vocalist with twenty years of ensemble experience. She has toured internationally with Callers and LADAMA\, produced multiple albums\, and taught community-based music programs worldwide. More at: https://www.saralucas.net/ \nWe will be meeting from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. on the following dates: \nJanuary \nThursday\, January 15 Thursday\, January 29 \n  \nFebruary \nThursday\, February 12 Thursday\, February 26 \n  \nMarch \nThursday\, March 12 Thursday\, March 26 \n  \nApril \nThursday\, April 9 Thursday\, April 23 \nIf you’re interested in participating\, please reach out to Sara Lucas at: sara.lucas@mail.concordia.ca \n  \nREGISTRATION \nRegister now with this link \nPlease note that all our events are free and open to all\, but registration is mandatory. For any questions\, please contact cohds.chorn@concordia.ca \nLOCATION \nIn-person in LB-1019 (Sunroom) and LB-1042 (Acts of Listening Lab)\, Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling (COHDS)\, Concordia University\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West\, J.W. McConnell Building (Library Building). \nCOHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory\, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal.
URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/fr/event/cohds-choir-sounds-of-home-sounds-of-elsewheres/
LOCATION:Concordia University\, LB-1042 (COHDS)\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd O\, Montreal
CATEGORIES:Ateliers
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260114T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260114T190000
DTSTAMP:20260502T044113
CREATED:20260107T185936Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260326T191651Z
UID:25050-1768411800-1768417200@storytelling.concordia.ca
SUMMARY:ÉCOUTER / ENREGISTRER / ARCHIVER
DESCRIPTION:Avec Nalini Mohabir \n  \nParticipez à une séance d’écoute active guidée par Nalini Mohabir\, en réponse à l’installation SIGHTINGS 45 de Joyce Joumaa. Ensemble\, nous écouterons des extraits audio jusqu’alors inaccessibles provenant d’un rassemblement tenu en 1969 dans la mezzanine du Pavillon Hall\, au début de l’Affaire Sir George Williams. Mohabir\, professeure associée au Département de géographie\, urbanisme et environnement de l’Université Concordia et coéditrice de Fire That Time: Transnational Black Radicalism and the Sir George Williams Occupation\, guidera les participant·e·s à travers cet enregistrement\, en portant attention aux voix et aux perspectives des intervenant·e·s\, tout en situant ce matériel dans un moment politique plus large et dans son contexte local. Nous réfléchirons également à l’acte d’écoute attentive des archives institutionnelles et aux implications de la transcription du passé dans le présent. \nLa séance\, présentée dans l’environnement immersif du Acts of Listening Lab\, explorera nos façons d’écouter et de travailler avec l’archive\, le son et différents modes d’attention. Merci de vous inscrire à l’adresse courriel ci-dessus. \nCet événement est présenté dans le cadre du projet de Joyce Joumaa\, SIGHTINGS 45: POWER. FORWARD. REVERSE. REWIND.\, présenté au rez-de-chaussée du Pavillon Hall jusqu’au 1er février 2026. \n  \nINSCRIPTION \nInscription par courriel: juliaeilers.smith@concordia.ca \n  \nLIEU \n\nEn personne au LB-1042 (ALLab)\, CHORN \nCOHDS/ALLab est situé sur Kanien’kehá:ka\, un territoire non cédé\, à Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal.
URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/fr/event/listening-recording-registering/
LOCATION:ALLab\, J.W. McConnell (LB) Building\, 1400 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W. LB-1042-03 (10th floor)
CATEGORIES:Ateliers
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251205T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251205T150000
DTSTAMP:20260502T044113
CREATED:20250918T202449Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251117T204741Z
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SUMMARY:Stories Matter 2.0: Working with COHDS’ (very own) Innovative Oral History Software
DESCRIPTION:With Kelann Currie-Williams \nThis workshop will provide a hands-on introduction to using Stories Matter— a free\, open-source oral history database software that allows for the archiving of digital video and audio materials\, and enables oral historians to annotate\, analyze\, and evaluate audio and video recordings of interviews. First developed in 2010 at COHDS\, this second iteration of the software known as Stories Matter 2.0. provides previous and new users the ability to recover old databases and create new workspaces for various oral history projects. Participants will be supported via guided walkthroughs and live demos on how to build their projects using a software that emphasizes orality and individual interviewees as central to the narration of stories. \n  \nKelann Currie-Williams is a writer and PhD Candidate at Concordia University’s Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture\, working at the intersections of Visual Culture Studies\, 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. Kelann was a 2023-2024 scholar-in-residence and 2024-2025 Student Representative at the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling. \n  \nREGISTRATION  \nRegister now. \nPlease note that all our events are free and open to all\, but registration is mandatory. \nThis technical workshop has a maximum number of sixteen participants. To have your name added to our waiting list once this maximum number is reached\, please contact: cohds.chorn@concordia.ca \n  \nLOCATION \nIn-person at the COHDS Media Lab (LB-1042). \nYou will find us on the tenth floor of Concordia’s Library Building\, 1400 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W.\, Montreal\, Quebec. \n  \nCOHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory\, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal.
URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/fr/event/stories-matter-2-0-working-with-cohds-very-own-innovative-oral-history-software/
LOCATION:Concordia University\, LB-1042 (COHDS)\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd O\, Montreal
CATEGORIES:Ateliers
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251201T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251201T140000
DTSTAMP:20260502T044113
CREATED:20251113T211825Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251113T211826Z
UID:24474-1764586800-1764597600@storytelling.concordia.ca
SUMMARY:Exploring Diaspora Communities: Oral History\, Storytelling\, and  Digital Mapping
DESCRIPTION:In June 2025\, the University of Debrecen (Hungary) and Concordia University’s Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling (COHDS) signed a Memorandum of Understanding to formalize our collaboration on a large-scale research oral history project that explores the memories and lived experiences of Hungarian Canadians in Montreal and beyond. \n  \nWe are delighted to host a research showcase and storytelling panel to share early findings of the project\, including an interactive map that brings to life the one-hundred-year-old history of Hungarians in Montreal. Featured speakers will include Dr. Balázs Venkovits (University of Debrecen) and Sonya Di Sclafani (Concordia University). We are honoured to welcome a panel of Hungarian-Canadian elders\, who have graciously agreed to speak to their life histories and reflect on their memories of making Montreal home. \n  \nThe event is organized in collaboration with the Hungarian Consulate in Montreal. It will take place at Concordia’s SHIFT Centre for Social Transformation (LB-145) on Monday\, December 1st (11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.)\, followed by a reception (12:30 p.m. – 14:00 p.m.). The Hungarian ambassador\, His Excellency\, Mr. Miklós Lengyel\, will be in attendance. \n  \nREGISTRATION \nPlease note that all our events are free and open to all\, but you need to register. \nThis is a hybrid event. To attend in person\, please contact: invitation.mtr@mfa.gov.hu (As space is limited\, in-person attendance is by invitation only.) \nTo attend online\, please register here. \nFor any questions\, please contact cohds.chorn@concordia.ca \nLOCATION \nThe event takes place at Concordia’s SHIFT Centre for Social Transformation\, J.W. McConnell Building\, 1400 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W. (LB-145). \nCOHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory\, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal.
URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/fr/event/exploring-diaspora-communities-oral-history-storytelling-and-digital-mapping/
LOCATION:Concordia’s SHIFT Centre for Social Transformation (LB-145)\, 1400 Boulevard de Maisonneuve Ouest\, Montréal
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251128T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251128T170000
DTSTAMP:20260502T044113
CREATED:20250918T201502Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250918T201502Z
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SUMMARY:Dancing Life Stories/Dancing Biographies/Forming the WE
DESCRIPTION:With the DANC 202 Cohort: Charlotte Bisson\, Nathaniel Cancela Edsell\, Florence Cross\, Homeyra Esmaeilzadeh\, Leonardo Giraldo Rodriguez\, Anaïs Girard\, Elle Golfinopoulos\, Sophie Groleau-Rouleau\, Nasiriyah Hamilton\, Joselande Josue\, Adaline Kuranko\, Camille Moon\, Fredlyne Pierre\, Pooya Ratnam\, Amy Staples\, Kaiya Thomas-Bynoe\, and Cameron Weaver. \n  \nJoin us for an afternoon 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 interviews that students conducted with one of their peers – constitutes what Christine Thurner once called “emphatically fragile\, deliberately contingent narrative acts.” These gestural narratives break free of the frame of linear\, literary (auto)biography. Seen in relation to one another they form a complex and rich society. \n  \nThis event is based on students’ coursework in the Department of Contemporary Dance\, who\, under the guidance of Professor Lília Mestre\, are exploring the possibilities of danced life narration\, this time in a collective improvisation setting. \n  \nPlease note that the event will take place in the Dance Studio (MB-7.265) of the Department of Contemporary Dance\, 1600 Blvd. De Maisonneuve Ouest. \n  \nREGISTRATION \nPlease note that all our events are free and open to all\, but you need to register! \nRegister here. \nFor any questions\, please contact cohds.chorn@concordia.ca \n  \nLOCATION \nIn-person in the Dance Studio (MB-7.265) of the Department of Contemporary Dance\, 1600 Blvd. De Maisonneuve Ouest. \nCOHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory\, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal.
URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/fr/event/dancing-life-stories-dancing-biographies-forming-the-we/
LOCATION:Dance Studio\, MB 7.265\, 1600 Blvd De Maisonneuve West\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H3H 1J5\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Ateliers,performances et expositions
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251126T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251126T170000
DTSTAMP:20260502T044113
CREATED:20250918T195959Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250918T195959Z
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SUMMARY:Immersive Oral History Capture: Setup\, Recording\, and Archiving
DESCRIPTION:With Frankie Ray \n  \nIn this hands-on workshop\, participants will learn the essentials of setting up and recording oral history interviews with both video and audio. We will cover how to prepare a recording environment\, assemble and test a recording rig\, and troubleshoot common technical challenges. Beyond capturing the interview itself\, participants will gain practical skills in file transfer\, organization\, and archival best practices\, ensuring that valuable stories are safely preserved for long-term use. Participants will practice setting up tripods\, microphones\, and recorders\, then conduct short mock interviews to apply these skills in real time. Cameras available to participants will be Sony FX6\, Canon XA40\, Blackmagic and JVC 3CCD. The session will conclude with a focus on safe file management: offloading to a computer\, creating backups\, and preparing files for the archive. No prior technical experience is required; this workshop is designed for anyone interested in documenting\, preserving\, and safeguarding oral history materials. \n  \nWhat we’ll do: \n§ Why technical setup matters for oral history \n§ Demonstrate a short 10-minute oral history video/audio project from our archives \n§ Equipment set up: build camera & mics \n§ File offload and management for editing \n§ Best Practices in Archiving Audio- and Videofiles \n§ Tear down gear and put it back safely \n  \nPerks: \n§ Everyone gets to touch gear \n§ Make a check list for oral history kit for everyone to take home \n  \nFrankie Ray is a Montreal-based videographer and DJ\, with professional experience across music festivals\, music videos\, and film productions\, including Netflix\, HBO\, the NFB and Crave. Trained as a certified 2nd Assistant Camera in ICG669/IATSE\, Frankiebrings both technical expertise and creative insight to their work. Outside of their personal work\, Frankiehas always put a focus on accessible\, hands-on training. At COHDS\, Frankie combines their professional background with a commitment to supporting researchers\, artists\, and storytellers in capturing and preserving stories with care and technical confidence. \n  \nREGISTRATION \nPlease note that all our events are free and open to all\, but you need to register! \nRegister here. \nThis technical workshop has a maximum number of sixteen participants. To have your name added to our waiting list once this maximum number is reached\, please contact: cohds.chorn@concordia.ca \n  \nLOCATION \nIn-person in the COHDS Media Lab (LB-1042). \nYou will find us on the tenth floor of Concordia’s Library Building\, 1450 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W.\, Montreal\, Quebec. \nCOHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory\, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal.
URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/fr/event/immersive-oral-history-capture-setup-recording-and-archiving/
LOCATION:Concordia University\, LB-1042 (COHDS)\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd O\, Montreal
CATEGORIES:Ateliers
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251121T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251121T123000
DTSTAMP:20260502T044113
CREATED:20250918T193817Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250918T193900Z
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SUMMARY:CONECTADAS: la doble vía de la escucha y del habla / Connected: The Two-way Path of Listening and Speaking
DESCRIPTION:Held in Spanish with consecutive interpretation by Franklin R. Bonivento. \nIn this event Constanza Ramírez Molano ends her residency at the ALlab by presenting two interviews carried out with the method CONNECTED. This method proposes a journey from the intimate to the collective through narration\, listening\, and dialogue. It begins with mutual recognition between interviewer and interviewee\, giving value to personal stories of care and attachment to life. Listening is understood as an act of hospitality and ethical responsibility\, welcoming the other’s words without imposing prejudice. The testimonies\, recorded in audio or video\, become shared memory when brought into collective reflection\, where the personal acquires common meaning and transformative power. Finally\, the social circulation of these voices opens possibilities for new forms of citizenship and the construction of peace.  \nCreators of the method: Luz Marina Monzón\, Hugo Andrés Rincón\, and Constanza Ramírez.  \n  \nREGISTRATION \nPlease note that all our events are free and open to all\, but you need to register! \nThis is a hybrid event. \nTo attend in person\, please register here. \nTo attend online\, please register here. \nFor any questions\, please contact cohds.chorn@concordia.ca \n  \nLOCATION \nIn-person in the ALLAB (LB-1042). You will find us on the tenth floor of Concordia’s Library Building\, 1450 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W.\, Montreal\, Quebec. \nCOHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory\, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal. \n 
URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/fr/event/conectadas-la-doble-via-de-la-escucha-y-del-habla-connected-the-two-way-path-of-listening-and-speaking/
LOCATION:Concordia University LB-1042 (COHDS)\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd O\, Montreal
CATEGORIES:Présentations
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251120T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251120T140000
DTSTAMP:20260502T044113
CREATED:20250918T192719Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250918T192938Z
UID:24045-1763641800-1763647200@storytelling.concordia.ca
SUMMARY:Brown Bag Metting: Listening and Perspective-Taking
DESCRIPTION:This Brown Bag Meeting will be an informal\, lunchtime conversation between Mireille Paquet (Concordia Research Chair on the Politics of Immigration; Director of IRMS) and Luis C. Sotelo Castro (Director of the Acts of Listening Lab\, Department of Theatre\, Concordia).  \nThe session will explore the intersection of Perspective Taking and Active Listening\, two frameworks that resonate strongly with the work of both IRMS and ALLab. Rather than a formal lecture\, the gathering is designed as an open\, reflective exchange\, encouraging questions and dialogue from participants.  \n  \nREGISTRATION \nPlease note that all our events are free and open to all\, but you need to register! \nThis is a hybrid event. \nTo attend in person\, please register here. \nTo attend online\, please register here. \nFor any questions\, please contact cohds.chorn@concordia.ca \n  \nLOCATION \nIn-person in the ALLAB (LB-1042). You will find us on the tenth floor of Concordia’s Library Building\, 1450 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W.\, Montreal\, Quebec. \nCOHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory\, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal.
URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/fr/event/brown-bag-metting-listening-and-perspective-taking/
LOCATION:Concordia University\, LB-1042 (COHDS)\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd O\, Montreal
CATEGORIES:Roundtable/table ronde
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251119T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251119T210000
DTSTAMP:20260502T044113
CREATED:20250924T192941Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251113T211949Z
UID:24102-1763578800-1763586000@storytelling.concordia.ca
SUMMARY:How to Say ‘Longing’ - Cancelled
DESCRIPTION:with Jad Orphée Chami and Noël Vezina \n\n\nJoin us on Wednesday\, November 19th\, at 7 PM\, at the ALLab\, Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling\, for How to say ‘longing’\, a contemplative performance by movement artist Noël Vézina and composer Jad Orphée Chami. \nThis intimate exploration of dualities—music and movement\, composition and improvisation\, the said and the unsaid—delves into the boundaries of closeness\, vulnerability\, and technology. Using a MIDI controller\, a chain of touch-sensitive sensors\, the performers weave a digital soundscape that shifts with their physical interactions\, crafting a dialogue of embodied listening. \n  \nJad Orphée Chami  is a Lebanese-Canadian artist-researcher\, composer and performer born in Beirut and living in Montreal. He notably composed the original music for the feature film Antigone by Sophie Deraspe\, which represented Canada at the 92nd Academy Awards. He was nominated at the age of 21 for the Iris prize for best original music at the 22nd Gala Québec Cinéma\, notably alongside Jean-Michel Blais and Howard Shore. After having provided the soundtracks for more than fifteen short films and three web series\, he composed his second film score in 2023 in collaboration with director Eli Jean Tahchi for the documentary Dorchester: In the Midst of the Fray\, produced by Jonah Mallak (Nemesis Films). \nIn addition to his music work for the image\, he composes and designs works for the contemporary scene\, notably for the École de Danse Contemporaine de Montréal and for the Acts of Listening Lab in collaboration with the Center for Restorative Justice. He explores through research-creation the dialogue between music and oral history. In 2022\, he is part of a trio of artists commissioned by the MAI for the realization of the work Justement (en)raciner on the theme of Justice\, among others alongside Kimura Byol-Lemoine\, Angelina Guo and Moe Clark. The same year\, he presented with Noël Vézina the performance How to say ‘longing’\, mixing dance-theatre\, music and new technologies\, at the RIPA performance evening. The testimonies of the disappeared from Lebanon are central to his approach. He is affiliated with the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling and is developing his oral history performance Rhapsody for the disappeared. \nHe is also interested in contemporary issues of art and presents conferences on themes such as the question of the author\, the ethics of research-creation and gender and sexuality in music history. \n  \n Noël Vezina is a queer\, interdisciplinary\, dance and movement artist based in Montreal (Tiohtiá:ke / Mooniyang). Largely self-taught\, her process is highly intuitive and organic. Approaching performance as a tool to connect deeply\, to herself and to others\, her work often takes on ephemeral and intimate forms. \nNoël’s latest accomplishments include: presenting Stardust and Parallax with Festival Quartiers Danses (2021)\, sharing a first version of a cloud\, a distance (September 2020)\, creating We live together now – a video performance presented by Sanskar Festival (August 2020) and Festival Bouge D’ici (March 2021)\, performing 05062020live via Zoom for National AccessAbility Week with the DisAbled Women’s Network of Canada (June 2020)\, and her ongoing collaboration with A Safe Space\, initiated by Nicholas Bellefleur in 2019. In February 2020 she hosted the first of many editions of 5×8/6 – a free-from experimental performance evening that takes place in her kitchen – where she premiered Soft Warm Light (an autobiographical solo piece in progress). \nNoël is one sixth of the winning team of the 2021 Dansathon in Liège\, recognized for their imagining of ‘the future of dance’ through a new interactive performance experience The \nLiving Room. They will continue questioning the place of technology in promoting embodiment soon\, with the support of the Maison de la Danse de Lyon\, Sadler’s Wells and the Théâtre de Liège. \nNoël strives to be radically soft\, honest and vulnerable. She values not-knowing and never perfecting. To be kind and loving is essential. \n  \nREGISTRATION   \nRegister now  \nPlease note that all our events are free and open to all\, but registration is mandatory. For any questions please contact cohds.chorn@concordia.ca    \nLOCATION  \nIn-person in LB-1042 (ALLLAB)\, COHDS   \nCOHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory\, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal. 
URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/fr/event/how-to-say-longing-2/
LOCATION:Concordia University\, LB-1042 (COHDS)\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd O\, Montreal
CATEGORIES:performances et expositions,Présentations
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251114T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251114T160000
DTSTAMP:20260502T044113
CREATED:20251001T215849Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251003T164845Z
UID:24166-1763128800-1763136000@storytelling.concordia.ca
SUMMARY:Intimate Maquettes: Artistic Interventions in Post-Violence Contexts
DESCRIPTION:With Pablo Gershanik \n  \n“At the very moment your life changes forever\, what other stories are taking place—on your street\, in your neighborhood\, in your city\, in your country\, across the map of the world?… \n– Intimate Maquettes Lab” \n  \nThe Intimate Maquettes Lab is a participatory artistic practice that explores how personal and collective memories of violence can be re-imagined and re-signified through small-scale narrative and audiovisual reconstruction. Developed over the past decade\, the Lab engages individuals\, families\, and communities who have been protagonists of challenging experiences in a process of symbolic reconstruction\, where symbolic cartographies of memory become a shared stage for testimony\, reflection\, and dialogue. Each participant creates a maquette in the interest of exploring the link between personal and collective history\, giving form to images\, memories\, absent elements\, mythologies\, and desires. These maquettes act simultaneously as archive\, witness\, and metaphor\, opening new pathways for public conversation about trauma\, justice\, and reparation. In this talk\, I will share the conceptual framework of the Intimate Maquettes Lab\, situating it within applied theatre\, object-based performance\, and trauma-informed artistic placemaking. I will also share aspects of my research motivated by key moments that have emerged throughout labs developed across Europe\, North America\, and Latin America\, reflecting on the methodological and ethical challenges of working at the intersection of memory\, art\, and social repair. \n  \nPablo Gershanik is an actor\, clown\, director\, and academic whose work bridges visual theatre\, memory\, and justice. He trained at the École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq (Paris)\, holds a Master’s degree in Dramatherapy from the University of Paris\, and is currently pursuing a Doctorate in Arts at Concordia University (Montreal). He is a 2025 Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Scholar. Pablo is the creator of the Intimate Maquettes Lab\, an artistic and trauma-informed intervention presented in museums\, universities\, and cultural institutions in North and Latin America\, Europe and China. \n  \nREGISTRATION \nPlease note that all our events are free and open to all\, but you need to register! \nThis is a hybrid event. \nTo attend in person\, please register here. \nTo attend online\, please register here. \nPlease note that all our events are free and open to all\, but registration is mandatory. For any questions please contact cohds.chorn@concordia.ca \nLOCATION \nIn-person in LB-1042 (ALLab)\, COHDS \nCOHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory\, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal.
URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/fr/event/intimate-maquettes-artistic-interventions-in-post-violence-contexts/
LOCATION:Concordia University\, LB-1042 (COHDS)\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd O\, Montreal
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251112T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251112T170000
DTSTAMP:20260502T044113
CREATED:20250924T195000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250924T195624Z
UID:24111-1762959600-1762966800@storytelling.concordia.ca
SUMMARY:Histoires orales de migration et de mouvement : Rábanos Olas Jacarandas Aleonarse
DESCRIPTION:avec Nico Contreras\, Sonia Bustos\, et Priscilla Opazo Castillo \n  \nRábanos Olas Jacarandas Aleonarse (2025\, 10 min) est un collage audiovisuel né d’histoires orales sur la migration\, la communauté et le pouvoir transformateur de l’art. En mêlant des entretiens et des explorations chorégraphiques avec les artistes Sonia Bustos et Priscilla Opazo\, basées à Tiohtiá:ke/Montréal\, le film partage des réflexions entremêlées sur la conscience politique\, la navigation entre les identités changeantes à travers les pays d’origine et d’installation\, et l’engagement dans les processus de changement. Des aperçus du Chili\, du Mexique et du Canada coexistent dans un espace et un temps partagés\, dans un moment d’échange entre des voix créatives. \nLa projection du film sera suivie d’une discussion avec les créateurs. \n  \nPriscilla Opazo Castillo\, artiste et enseignante originaire du Chili\, vit à Tiohtià:ke/Montréal depuis 2017. Danseuse autodidacte en formation au Centre Nyata Nyata\, elle tisse son parcours entre l’éducation populaire et la recherche artistique. Son expérience créative\, collective et multidisciplinaire\, s’enracine dans une identité fragmentée par la colonisation\, l’exil et les violences\, mais s’élève en résonance avec d’autres voix marginalisées. Féministe engagée\, elle conçoit l’art comme un territoire vivant de résistance\, de guérison et de mémoire\, où le mouvement libère les corps\, ravive le lien à la terre et nourrit une conscience collective. \n  \nChorégraphe et interprète mexicaine basée à Tiohtiá:ke\, Sonia Bustos axe sa recherche artistique sur des perspectives féministes\, la troisième racine en Amérique Latine\, la mémoire\, la théâtralité et le rapport avec le public. Les éléments constants de son travail sont: composition à partir des états de corps\, utilisation de la voix/du texte\, présence des objets porteurs de mémoire et approches corporelles non-dansés. Sonia est interprète-créatrice de Intérieur brut\, Je ne vais pas inonder la mer\, Luz : Dentelle\, Luz : Terre et Luz : Echo (en cours de création). Elle détient une Maîtrise en danse (UQÀM) et une Licence en théâtre (UNAM). \n  \nNico Contreras est un artiste interdisciplinaire équatorien-canadien\, travailleur social et étudiant en doctorat en analyse sociale et culturelle à l’Université Concordia. Facilitateur de réflexion et de dialogue par la pratique créative\, il croit au pouvoir de l’art pour transformer nos conceptions de soi et de la société. Son dernier film\, SAN HEN\, une lettre d’amour à la communauté Latinx de Montréal\, sera présenté en première au Festival du film latino-américain de Toronto 2025. \n  \nINSCRIPTION \nInscrivez-vous maintenant  \nPlease note that all our events are free and open to all\, but registration is mandatory. For any questions please contact cohds.chorn@concordia.ca    \nLIEU  \nEn présence\, au local LB-1042 (ALLLAB)\, COHDS   \n Le CHORN/ALLAB sont situés sur le territoire non-cédé de Kanien’kehá:ka à Tiohtiá:ke/Montréal. 
URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/fr/event/oral-histories-of-migration-and-motion-rabanos-olas-jacarandas-aleonarse/
LOCATION:Concordia University\, LB-1042 (COHDS)\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd O\, Montreal
CATEGORIES:performances et expositions,Présentations
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251107T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251107T150000
DTSTAMP:20260502T044113
CREATED:20250918T185840Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251001T173454Z
UID:24030-1762520400-1762527600@storytelling.concordia.ca
SUMMARY:Queer Oral History
DESCRIPTION:With Gabryelle Iaconetti and Liam Devitt \nThe workshop and discussion will offer reflections on methodological and ethical approaches to undertaking queer oral history in research. How does one conduct oral history interviews with queer narrators? What is particular about queer oral history? How has oral testimony been significant in the figuration of queer histories? \nThis panels brings together historians Gabryelle Iaconetti and Liam Devitt\, who use oral histories in their various research milieus related to queer labour and activism. \n  \nGabryelle Iaconetti is a third-year PhD student at Concordia University in Montreal\, Quebec\, working under the supervision of Dr. Rachel Berger. She holds a BA and MA in History from Concordia University and MISt (Master of Information Studies) from McGill University. Her research interests lie at the intersections of bisexual history\, oral history\, queer space\, queer theory and archives. \nLiam Devitt is a labour historian\, writer\, and research worker based in Tiohti:áke/Montréal. Their MA thesis “Gay Steel Mill” (Concordia University\, 2024) examined how deindustrialization affected queer communities in Cape Breton. Currently\, they are the Associate Director of “Deindustrialization and the Politics of Our Time” (deindustrialization.org)\, a SSHRC Partnership grant project examining histories and contemporary lived experiences of deindustrialization. They are also General Coordinator of their union\, CARE (PSAC 12501)\, organizing for job security\, fair wages\, and workplace justice. \n  \nREGISTRATION \nPlease note that all our events are free and open to all\, but you need to register! \nThis is a hybrid event. \nTo attend in person\, please register here. \nTo attend online\, please register here. \nFor any questions\, please contact cohds.chorn@concordia.ca \n  \nLOCATION \nIn-person in the COHDS Sunroom (LB-1019). You will find us on the tenth floor of \nConcordia’s Library Building\, 1450 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W.\, Montreal\, Quebec. \nCOHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory\, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal.
URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/fr/event/queer-oral-history-2/
LOCATION:LB-1019 (Sunroom)\, COHDS\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.\, Montreal\, Québec\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Ateliers,Roundtable/table ronde
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