With Sara Lucas “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. The project embraces the idea that […]
With Michael Ferguson While 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. Hailing largely from the northern Lebanese village of Tourza, they migrated in mid-twentieth century to smalltown southwestern […]
With Lea Kabiljo This 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. Developed as a short-term teaching intervention, the […]
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. This year’s symposium asks: Where is the joy in oral history? exploring joy as an emotional, political, and creative force in storytelling […]
With Hannah Pinilla In 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 […]
With Violaine Jolivet Cette 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 […]
With Julie Norman In 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 […]
With Martín Giraldo-Hoyos, Camille Robert, Florence Darveau Routhier This 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 […]
With Barbara Lorenzkowski and Tesfa Peterson To 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 […]
Avec Lea Kabiljo Cet 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 […]
With Kelann Currie-Williams and Derek Garcia Much 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? Drawing from Monica Muñoz Martinez’s “vernacular history making,” personal archives are the objects—photos, drawings, notes, […]