Past events

* 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 […]

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 […]

* 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 […]

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 […]

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 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

•••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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

IMPORTANT: Meeting space changed due to construction: we will be meeting inside the “EV building (Engineering and Visual Arts)” at 12:15 p.m. to walk over to Loyola together. A member of our […]

(photo source: Centre International de Documentation et d’Information Haïtienne, Caribéenne et Afro-canadienne (the International Center for Haitian, Caribbean, and Afro-Canadian Documentation and Information), also known as the CIDIHCA Collections.) with […]

Keynote: Désirée Rochat, PhD, FRQSC Postdoctoral fellow, COHDS "Curating stories of Blackness in Montreal: on Black women’s community-anchored knowledge work (1970s-1980s)" Désirée Rochat is a community educator and holds a […]

By Kimberley Moore & Janis Thiessen, University of Winnipeg with: Rhonda Hinther, Jo McCutcheon, Ian Mosby Chairs | Présidence : Janis Thiessen and Kimberley Moore In 2018, Janis Thiessen (History, […]

with Hannah Pinilla English This exhibit features the collaborative MA oral history research of Hannah Pinilla and her interview partners. Her research explores how the narrations, consumption, and preparation of […]

with Joel Bernbaum, and Yvette Nolan English Concordia's Acts of Listening Lab & COHDS, & IMAGO theatre invite you to a climate change verbatim theatre workshop led by Yvette Nola […]

Un evento del Laboratorio de Actos de Escucha y del Coro a la Escucha | A research-creation event by the Acts of Listening Lab and the Listening Choir. May 17, […]

with Dr. Naila Kuhlmann, David Bobier, and Anna Vigeland A participatory research and creation workshop led by Dr. Naila Kuhlmann (McGill Biapt Lab, CRITAC), with the collaboration of David Bobier (VibraFusionLab), assisted […]

with Carl Therrien, Jonathan Lessard, and Dany Guay-Bélanger English Videogames are a fairly young medium. Emerging as a commercial good in the early 1960s, they have slowly made their way […]

with Zachary Corbeil, Eliot Perrin, Eleni Polychronakos, and Karl Ponthieux Stern English To obtain the informed consent of our research participants is both an ethical and institutional obligation for oral […]

with Cassandra Marsillo, Hannah Pinilla, and Amanda Whittaker English This panel discussion delves into the rich crossing of food history and oral history by exploring the connections between migration, the […]

with Po Ki Chan, Sonia Dhaliwal, Eliot Perrin, and Carla Rodeghero English Join us for a conversation regarding lives of learning, experiences with oral history, and community archiving. Increasingly, we […]

with Stéphane Martelly, Maricia Fischer-Souan, and Kelly Norah Drukker English In this panel presentation and discussion, writers and scholars working within the disciplines of oral history, sociology, and creative writing […]

with Lauren Laframboise and Stefan Christoff  In 2007, Montreal-based garment manufacturer Lamour prepared to shutter its Canadian production activities, gradually laying off nearly 500 of its employees to circumvent labour […]

with Maxime Aurélien and Ted Rutland You are cordially invited to join authors Maxime Aurélien and Ted Rutland for a discussion on their new book: Out to Defend Ourselves: A […]

Every year, the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling at Concordia University offers students and emerging scholars an opportunity to present their work at any stage, to exchange ideas, […]

Every year, the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling at Concordia University offers students and emerging scholars an opportunity to present their work at any stage, to exchange ideas, […]

with Gabryelle Iaconetti and Liam Devitt   English   The workshop and discussion will offer reflections on methodological and ethical approaches to undertaking queer oral history in research. How does one […]

with Steven High, Brian Rosa, Paula Fernández Álvarez, Guilherme Pozzer, Myriam Guillemette, Jorge Magaz-Molina, and Laura Littlefair English What does deindustrialization studies have to offer heritage studies—and what can scholars […]

avec Lauren Laframboise et 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 […]

*Please note that this event has been cancelled* with professors Steven High and Luis Carlos Sotelo Castro in conversation with students of the Oral History Performance class (Department of Theatre). […]

with Vitalyi Bulychev   English   This workshop aims to introduce oral historians to the basics of audio recording. While familiarizing ourselves with the equipment and what it has to offer, we […]

with Dr. Cathy Richardson, Alicia Ibarra-Lemay, Alexandra Nordstrom and Elise Kephart Join us for a conversation about Indigenous healing knowledges. This conversation will cover questions such as: what is Indigenous Healing; what cultural processes support […]

with Scott Illingworth. Associate Chair of the Graduate Acting Program at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. What does it take to work with vulnerable populations to create […]

with Dr. Johanna Motzkau, Senior Lecturer, School of Psychology and Counseling, Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, The Open University, UK. In this talk, Dr. Johanna Motzkau presents the term “cultures of listening” as an analytical tool to […]