04 October 2024

Introduction to Oral History

3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
LB-1019 (sunroom), COHDS, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.
Montreal, Québec Canada
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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 […]

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24 September 2024

Celebrating Excellence in Research: Meet our 2023-24 Scholars-in-Residence

3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
LB-1019 (sunroom), COHDS, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.
Montreal, Québec Canada
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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 […]

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20 September 2024

Come Walk With Us: Walkathon Fundraiser for “Award of Distinction in Oral History”

12:00 pm - 3:00 pm

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 […]

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17 September 2024

Dictatorship, Disasters, and Diaspora: Gathering Collective Memories in Haiti and beyond

11:00 am - 1:00 pm
LB-1019 (sunroom), COHDS, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.
Montreal, Québec Canada
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(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 […]

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13 September 2024

Annual General Assembly

11:00 am - 2:30 pm
LB-1019 (sunroom), COHDS, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.
Montreal, Québec Canada
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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 […]

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18 June 2024

Book launch of “mmm…Manitoba: The Stories Behind the Food We Eat”

1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
LB-1019 (sunroom), COHDS, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.
Montreal, Québec Canada
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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, […]

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15 June 2024

Los Sabores de Hogar: The Transformation of Memory and Identity Through the Food Practices of Colombian Migrants in Montreal

June 15 - June 16

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 […]

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23 May 2024

Climate Play – a climate change verbatim theatre workshop

10:00 am - 6:00 pm
Concordia Dance Studio, 1600 Blvd De Maisonneuve West
Montreal, Quebec H3H 1J5 Canada
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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 […]

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17 May 2024

Llamado y Respuesta: ¿Quién escucha a César? | Call and Response: who listens to Cesar?

May 17 - May 18
Studio MB.7.265, John Molson Building, 1450 Guy Street
Montreal, Quebec H3H 0AI Canada
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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, […]

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16 May 2024

Co-designing technologies to communicate embodied experiences: Vibrotactile technologies research workshop with VibraFusionLab

2:30 pm - 6:30 pm
LB 1042.03 (Moonroom), 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.
Montreal, Québec Canada
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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 […]

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17 April 2024

Gaming & Oral History

1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
LB-1019 (sunroom), COHDS, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.
Montreal, Québec Canada
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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 […]

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12 April 2024

Ethics in Research: How to Apply for Ethics Certification

1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
LB-1019 (sunroom), COHDS, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.
Montreal, Québec Canada
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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 […]

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11 April 2024

Palates & Passages: Navigating the Intersection of Food and Oral Histories through Migration

2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
LB-1019 (sunroom), COHDS, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.
Montreal, Québec Canada
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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 […]

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04 April 2024

The Archive of the Future: Oral History and Community Archiving

2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Online,

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 […]

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02 April 2024

Stories Beyond Borders: Mapping the Imaginative Spaces of Movement and Migration

11:00 am - 1:00 pm
LB-1019 (sunroom), COHDS, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.
Montreal, Québec Canada
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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 […]

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28 March 2024

Voices of the Immigrant Workers’ Centre

6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
LB-1019 (sunroom), COHDS, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.
Montreal, Québec Canada
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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 […]

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27 March 2024

Book Launch: Out to Defend Ourselves: A History of Montreal’s First Haitian Street Gang

4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
LB-1019 (sunroom), COHDS, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.
Montreal, Québec Canada
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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 […]

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22 March 2024

Day 2 – 11th Emerging Scholars’ Symposium

9:00 am - 12:15 pm

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, […]

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21 March 2024

Day 1 – 11th Emerging Scholars’ Symposium

9:00 am - 5:30 pm

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, […]

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15 March 2024

Queer Oral History

12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
LB-1019 (sunroom), COHDS, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.
Montreal, Québec Canada
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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 […]

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29 February 2024

Roundtable: De-Industrial Heritage

9:30 am - 11:00 am
Online,

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 […]

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15 February 2024

Introduction à l’histoire orale – partie 2

2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
LB-1019 (sunroom), COHDS, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.
Montreal, Québec Canada
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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 […]

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15 February 2024

CANCELLED: Oral History and Oral History Performance: Similarities and Differences

10:30 am - 12:30 pm
LB 1042.03 (Moonroom), 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.
Montreal, Québec Canada
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*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). […]

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14 February 2024

Introduction to Audio Recording

12:30 pm - 4:30 pm

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 […]

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13 February 2024

Indigenous Healing Knowledges

4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
4th Space, J.W. McConnell Building 1400 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W. 4TH SPACE
Montreal, Quebec H3G 1M8 Canada
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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 […]

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08 February 2024

The Clear Blue Skies: Diaries from Ukraine

10:45 am - 12:00 pm
Online,

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 […]

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06 February 2024

Cultures of Listening

11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Online,

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 […]

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01 February 2024

Introduction à l’histoire orale – partie 1

2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
LB-1019 (sunroom), COHDS, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.
Montreal, Québec Canada
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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 […]

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24 January 2024

Camera Basics

1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
LB 1042.03 (Moonroom), 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.
Montreal, Québec Canada
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with Vitalyi Bulychev   English  This workshop aims to introduce oral historians to the basics of camera work. While familiarizing ourselves with the equipment and what it has to offer, we […]

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06 December 2023

*New date* Introduction to Audio Recording

1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
LB 1042.03 (Moonroom), 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.
Montreal, Québec Canada
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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 […]

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05 December 2023

*New Date* How to approach a podcast

12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
LB-1019 (sunroom), COHDS, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.
Montreal, Québec Canada
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with Sivan Black-Rotchin  This workshop will speak to the decision-making process and critical thinking required in making podcasts. If you are doing oral history interviews and planning to use the […]

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01 December 2023

Deep Listening to Life Stories

1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
LB-1019 (sunroom), COHDS, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.
Montreal, Québec Canada
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with Steven High  English The workshop will invite you to engage deeply with a videotaped interview  of a Rwandan genocide survivor recorded as part of the Montreal Life Stories project. […]

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28 November 2023

*Cancelled* Violence and Solace : The Natal Civil War in Late-Apartheid South Africa

11:00 am - 1:00 pm
LB-1019 (sunroom), COHDS, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.
Montreal, Québec Canada
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*Please note that this event has been cancelled* with Mxolisi R. Mchunu (University of KwaZulu-Natal)   English/Français   In South Africa, the period leading to up to the country’s first democratic […]

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25 November 2023

EXPOSITION : Vivre (et écouter) autrement

November 25, 2023 - December 15, 2023
Concordia University LB-1042 (COHDS), 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd O
Montreal,
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Horaire : en semaine de 10h à 16h Cette exposition présente la recherche-création de l’artiste Sarah Bengle développé en réponse au projet « Raconte-moi Riopelle » autour de la vie et l’œuvre du […]

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24 November 2023

“Covid in the House of Old” Closing Event: Roundtable – “Care in Crisis”

12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
LB-1019 (sunroom), COHDS, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.
Montreal, Québec Canada
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With Arron Derfel (Montreal Gazette), Lorraine McCrary (Wabash College, US), Sayendri Panchadhyayi (NLSIU, India), Camille Robert (UQAM), Penny Vera Sanso (Birkbeck, London), and Marie-Claude Thifault (University of Ottawa). The conversation […]

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24 November 2023

Exhibition: COVID In the House Of Old – November 14 – 24

All day
Concordia University LB-1042 (COHDS), 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd O
Montreal,
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Schedule: see below In January 2022, historian and COHDS-affiliate Megan Davies launched a travelling and online exhibition “Covid in the House of Old.” At the heart of the exhibition sit eight storytelling chairs. As Megan Davies notes, “three of the seven chairs represent residents […]

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14 November 2023

Vernissage: “Covid in the House of Old” | Opening Talk: “Storytelling for a Revolution”

5:00 pm - 8:00 pm
LB-1019 (sunroom), COHDS, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.
Montreal, Québec Canada
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With Megan Davies & Others  In January 2022, historian Megan Davies launched the exhibition “Covid in the House of Old.” At the heart of the exhibition – hosted at COHDS […]

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08 November 2023

Camera Basics

1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
LB 1042.03 (Moonroom), 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.
Montreal, Québec Canada
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with Vitalyi Bulychev  English This workshop aims to introduce oral historians to the basics of camera work. While familiarizing ourselves with the equipment and what it has to offer, we […]

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01 November 2023

Where Literature and Oral History Meet | Quand la littérature rencontre l’histoire orale

12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
LB-1019 (sunroom), COHDS, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.
Montreal, Québec Canada
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English/Français A Discussion With Professor Ceri Morgan & Copanelists In this roundtable discussion, Ceri Morgan, writer and professor of Place Writing and Geohumanities (Keele University, UK) and co-panelists explore the […]

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27 October 2023

Book Launch: Small Stories of War: Children, Youth and Conflict in Canada and Beyond (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2023)

3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
LB-1019 (sunroom), COHDS, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.
Montreal, Québec Canada
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With Barbara Lorenzkowski, Kristine Alexander, and Andrew Burtch   English Many believed the twentieth century would be the century of the child: an era in which modern societies would value and […]

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