Public Day of Workshops and Talks, including the Oral History Book Launch (Limited spaces) Co-sponsored by the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling and Concordia University’s Department of History 9h00 - 16h00   Workshop: Push Play, A Participatory Workshop on Oral History and Play (Limited spaces) 16h00 - 17h30 Push Play is an experiential workshop […]

With Martha Norkunas   This advanced oral history workshop focuses on miscommunications and complexities in listening. Participants will read a chapter from my forthcoming book, Learning to Listen, called “Complexities in Listening” and come to the workshop prepared to discuss the issues it raises. Based on years of listening journals written by graduate students in […]

With Alistair Thomson   How do we make sense of the memories that we record as oral historians? How do we begin to transform stories into histories? In this workshop we’ll consider a range of ways of approaching the interpretation of memories. We’ll note the changing ways that researchers have used memory as a historical […]