Identity, Care Labor, and Matrilineal Stories– Bodies Carrying Exhibit Programming
Montreal, Québec Canada
Description by Cristina Alejandra Jimenez Gomez, Javi Fuentes Bernal and David Diaz Méndez. This is an event composed of two artist presentations followed by a joint Q&A. It will begin […]
Walking Interludes- Bodies Carrying Exhibit Programming
Montreal, Québec Canada
Description by speaker Sunjay Mathuria. "Walking Interludes is a reflective reading about walking, place, race, identity, and memory. In this reading, I share short excerpts from my field journal that […]
Intimate Listening – Bodies Carrying Exhibit Programming
Montreal,
Description by Cristina Alejandra Jimenez Gomez. In an intimate space within the exhibition space, a copera will interact with volunteer participants who visit this spot individually. Before the interaction begins, […]
The Metabolism of Silence- Bodies Carrying Exhibit Programming
Montreal, Québec Canada
Description by Eve Garnier and Jacynthe Desjardins In a movement-based workshop, we propose an exploration of relational possibilities and their bodily expression, anchored in silence(s). Here, silence is not a […]
كان حتى ما كان (Once Upon a Place): What Remains of the Halqa? Performing Memory and Absence – Bodies Carrying Exhibit Programming
Photo Credits: Film still from Crossing the Seventh Gate (2017) by Ali Essafi Description by Bouchra Assou and Salma Chouqair Drawing from a post-colonial concern with the preservation of different […]
Attuning to Spectralities: Senses, Whispers, and Other Connective Membranes – Bodies Carrying Exhibit Programming
Photo: Milena Rodriguez Description by Esteban Donoso and Shalon T. Webber-Heffernan This workshop offers an immersive, collaborative space for scholars, performers, visual artists, and curators to engage with embodied practices […]
Corps, émotions et recherches: une exploration par cartographie corporelle – Bodies Carrying Exhibition Programming
Description écrite par Naomie Léonard et Stéphane Guimont Marceau. La cartographie corporelle offre une manière unique et créative d’explorer son identité, ses expériences de vie ou une thématique particulière en […]
Vernissage and Durational performance, “I Insist” – Bodies Carrying Exhibit Programming
I insist is a long-duration performance piece that unfolds over the course of several hours. In it, the artist slowly wraps their body in red sewing thread. With minor, ritualistic, […]
Casual COHDS
Montreal, Québec Canada
Join us for another session of “Casual COHDS,” a monthly drop-in event for members of the COHDS community and anyone curious about oral history to gather, converse, and connect over […]
Ethics in Research: How to Apply for Ethics Certification
Montreal, Québec Canada
With Liam Devitt, Gabryelle Iaconetti, Barbara Lorenzkowski, and Sonya Di Sclafani To obtain the informed consent of our research participants is both an ethical and institutional obligation for oral historians […]
Memory, Art, and Violence: Listening to Difficult Stories
with Manuela Ochoa, Luana Sampaio, and Patricia Branco Cornish. Conflict and dictatorship are challenging topics to discuss and engage new audiences. However, scholars have tasked themselves with finding creative ways […]
Cancelled – A Reflection Moment: Writing a Land Recognition for COHDS
"Our immigrant plant teachers offer a lot of different models for how not to make themselves welcome on a new continent But Plantain is not like that. Its strategy was to […]
WIBCA’s Legacy: Carrying the Torch from Elders to Youth in Montreal’s Black Community
Montreal, Québec Canada
with Jamilah Dei-Sharpe, Joan Lee (President), and Ray Resvick MC by CBC's Dionne Codrington. In 1982, the West Island Black Community Association (WIBCA) was founded as one of Montreal’s first […]
Looking at the World from Inside Mosques: Questioning Prejudice Through Art Photography
Montreal, Québec Canada
with Marwan Bassiouni. Hosted by Chedly Belkhodja (Concordia) and Paul May (UQAM) Islam comes in all shapes and colours. It is now Western and a part of the national identity […]
Kids on the Street: Queer Oral History, Performative Storytelling
Montreal, Québec Canada
with Joseph Plaster Joseph Plaster’s prize-winning Kids on the Street: Queer Kinship and Religion in San Francisco’s Tenderloin (Duke University Press, February 2023) explores the informal support networks that enabled […]
Casual COHDS
With Lea Kabiljo Join us for our second session of “Casual COHDS,” a monthly drop-in event for members of the COHDS community and anyone curious about oral history to gather, […]
“Vivre avec le trouble” – Trouble in Oral History and Storytelling 12th Emerging Scholars Symposium (Friday, March 14)
Montreal, Québec Canada
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 […]
Best Recording Practices for Oral Historians and Digital Storytellers – Part Two
Montreal, Québec Canada
with Andrés Torres This two-part, hands-on workshop offers Oral Historians and Digital Storytellers a practical introduction to audiovisual recording and editing. Participants will learn to use recording devices like cameras […]
Walking as a Way of Knowing: Amy Starecheski in Conversation with Luis C. Sotelo
Montreal, Québec Canada
with Dr. Amy Starecheski, Director, Columbia University’s Oral History MA program and Dr. Luis C. Sotelo, Director, Concordia’s Acts of Listening Lab What and how do we learn about the […]
Best Recording Practices for Oral Historians and Digital Storytellers – Part One (Registration Closed)
Montreal, Québec Canada
with Andrés Torres Please note registration is full, email cohds.chorn@concordia.ca for more information if needed. This two-part, hands-on workshop offers Oral Historians and Digital Storytellers a practical introduction to audiovisual […]
CANCELED: How to Say ‘Longing’
Montreal,
with Jad Orphée Chami and Noël Vezina Join us on Thursday, February 20th, at 7 PM, at the ALLab, Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling, for How to say […]
Introduction à l’histoire orale
Montreal, Québec Canada
avec Mélissa-Anne Ménard Français 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 […]
Casual COHDS
Montreal, Québec Canada
With Kelly Norah Drukker Join us for the inaugural session of “Casual COHDS,” a monthly drop-in event for members of the COHDS community and anyone curious about oral history to […]
Sharing Black Stories with Care, Intentionality and Authenticity
Montreal, Québec Canada
with Martha Nduwayo, Methsaïca Philippe, and Lourdenie Jean Bilingual Join us for an immersive experience that highlights the art of storytelling of black communities. Through a captivating multimedia exhibition, a panel with […]
Book Launch: The Left in Power
Montreal, Québec Canada
with Steven High English You are cordially invited to the launch of Steven High’s The Left in Power: Bob Rae’s NDP and the Working Class. At the end of the […]
Deep Listening to Life Stories
Montreal, Québec Canada
* Please note this event has been rescheduled to 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. with Steven High The workshop will invite you to engage deeply with a videotaped interview of a […]
Community Choral Music in Reperforming Oral Histories
With Sara Lucas and Luis Sotelo Dr. Luis Sotelo Castro and PhD candidate Sara Lucas from the Acts of Listening Lab and The Listening Choir will discuss how musical interventions, particularly community […]
Dancing Life Stories/Dancing Biographies/ Forming the WE
Montreal, Quebec H3H 1J5 Canada
* Please note this event has been moved to the Dance Studio at MB 7.265, 1600 Blvd. De Maisonneuve Ouest English Join us for an evening of dance as students […]
Saathis: A Conversation about Queer Brown History in Tiohtia:ke/Montreal
Montreal, Québec Canada
with the Saathi Montreal Archive Project English A conversation between some of the members of the 1990s Tiohtia:ke/Montreal-based, South Asian-focused LGBTQ+ group the Saathis. As many of the Saathis are […]
How to Storyboard: A Hands-On Workshop in Digital Storytelling and Interactive Exhibit Design
Montreal,
with Hannah Pinilla English Join us in the COHDS Computer Lab for an engaging 2 to 2.5-hour workshop designed to enhance your skills in digital storytelling and interactive exhibit creation. […]
Photo-Interviewing: Bridging Oral History and Photography
Montreal, Québec Canada
(photo credit: Kelann Currie-Williams) with Kelann Currie-Williams and Lea Kabiljo This event brings together Lea Kabiljo and Kelann Currie-Williams, oral historians and photographers, who rely on the multi-faceted technique of […]
Beyond Transplant Stories: Weaving Community-Based Knowledge in Solid-Organ Transplantation through Arts Based Methods and Digital Storytelling with Patients
Montreal, Québec Canada
with the Frictions of Futurity & Cure in Transplant Medicine project team English Digital storytelling (DST) is of growing interest within health care settings to better understand patient experience and […]
Voices from the field: Working with oral history in Armenian contexts
with Hourig Attarian, Melissa Bilal, Arpine Ghambaryan, Houry Pilibbossian, and Julia Cabral Tordeur English This roundtable brings together an intergenerational group of oral historians working in diverse Armenian contexts: Melissa […]
Women and Invisible Labour: Re-Imagining the Archive
Montreal, Québec Canada
with Varda Nisar and Lola Rémy English This workshop offers to reflect on archives as sites of contested knowledge, and to envision avenues and methodologies to open them to more […]
What Travels Through Us: Exhibition Vernissage and Roundtable
Montreal, Québec Canada
with Naomi Frost, Rémy Chhem, Eva-Loan Ponton-Pham, and Marie-Ève Samson English This vernissage event and roundtable discussion, a collaboration between the Super Boat People Collective, COHDS, and Concordia University Library, introduces and […]
Film Screening of Dorchester: In the Midst of the Fray
Montreal, Québec Canada
Join us for a visioning and sound exploration of Dorchester: au coeur de la mêlée. Please note that this film will be screened in English. In the heart of the city […]
Crafting the (de)Industrialised Culture of the City of Elefsina, Greece: The Openeleusis Oral History Research Project
Montreal, Québec Canada
with Regina Mantanika The Openeleusis research project is an interdisciplinary collaboration between researchers in anthropology, history and visual arts for community-based research in Eleusina, a city where Greek industrial history […]
Rescheduled to winter 2025 – Rethinking our Territorial Acknowledgment
Montreal, Québec Canada
•••Please note this event has been postponed until Winter 2025. We look forward to seeing you then!*** with Catherine Kineweskwêw Richardson and Mélissa-Anne Ménard English This gathering consists of an […]
Introduction to Oral History
Montreal, Québec Canada
with Steven High English This workshop will provide you with some of the fundamentals in the interdisciplinary field of oral history. Participants will learn about an oral history approach to […]
Celebrating Excellence in Research: Meet our 2023-24 Scholars-in-Residence
Montreal, Québec Canada
with Dany Guay-Bélanger, Patricia Branco Cornish, Kelann Currie-Williams, Kelly Norah Drukker, Lauren Laframboise, Cassandra Marsillo, and Eleni Polychronakos English In Fall 2023, we launched our Scholars-in-Residence program, seeking to bring together […]