With Gabryelle Iaconetti and Liam Devitt
The 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?
This panels brings together historians Gabryelle Iaconetti and Liam Devitt, who use oral histories in their various research milieus related to queer labour and activism.
Gabryelle 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.
Liam 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.
REGISTRATION
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This is a hybrid event.
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LOCATION
In-person in the COHDS Sunroom (LB-1019). You will find us on the tenth floor of
Concordia’s Library Building, 1450 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W., Montreal, Quebec.
COHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal.
