Program: 12th Emerging Scholars Symposium

The full program for our 12th Emerging Scholars Symposium — « Vivre avec le trouble »: Trouble in Oral History and Storytelling (Friday, March 14, 8:45-17:00) — is now available. You can access the program here. To register – and take a look at our “Program at a Glance” – please visit: https://storytelling.concordia.ca/event/vivre-avec-le-trouble/.

This year’s symposium brings together twenty emerging scholars from Concordia and beyond in an interdisciplinary conversation on the transformative potential of oral history in troubled times. How might trouble and troublemaking (re)shape our fields? How might oral history and storytelling help us survive the current moment of poly-crisis? How might we mobilize oral history and storytelling to engage in necessary troublemaking?

Panelists and conference attendees will explore ways of knowing, interrogate the politics of the archive, listen to oral histories on the ground, and examine how oral history and storytelling might be used towards creating a more just society. We will delve into intergenerational conversations and ways of feeling memory. There will be ghost stories too. The program will culminate in a series of four brief performances, followed by a conversation with the researchers-artists.

Hope to see you there!