{"id":23715,"date":"2025-08-08T14:58:32","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T18:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/event\/aga2025\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T13:56:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T17:56:06","slug":"aga2025","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/fr\/event\/aga2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Annual General Assembly – Assembl\u00e9e g\u00e9n\u00e9rale annuelle"},"content":{"rendered":"

This event will happen in-person and online<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Keynote speaker: Dr. Steven High<\/b><\/p>\n

\u00ab\u00a0Reflecting Back on Twenty Years of Oral History at COHDS\u00a0\u00bb<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Our Annual General Assembly is fast approaching. This year, we are delighted to welcome as our keynote speaker oral historian Steven High, who co-founded COHDS almost twenty years ago.<\/p>\n

Dr. Steven High<\/strong>\u00a0is an award-winning interdisciplinary oral and public historian with a strong interest in transnational approaches to working-class studies, forced migration, and community-engaged research. He has headed a number of major research projects, most notably the prize-winning \u201cLife Stories of Montrealers Displaced by War, Genocide and Other Human Rights Violations. \u201c Currently, he is leading the transnational SSHRC-funded partnership project \u201cDeindustrialization & the Politics of Our Time.\u201d He has been awarded a Governor General\u2019s History Award in the Popular Media category and, more recently so, the J.B. Tyrrell Medal for his outstanding contributions to Canadian history. As many of you know, Steven is a constant presence at COHDS, regularly offering workshops on oral history and the art of deep listening, taking groups of students and community members on oral history walking tours in Montreal\u2019s South-West, and generously mentoring generations of oral historians.<\/p>\n

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SCHEDULE:<\/strong><\/p>\n

2 – 3 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Keynote Speaker – Conf\u00e9rencier invit\u00e9<\/p>\n

3:00 – 3:45 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Afternoon Tea – Rafra\u00eechissements et encas<\/p>\n

3:45 – 5:00 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Annual General Assembly – Assembl\u00e9e g\u00e9n\u00e9rale annuelle<\/p>\n