08 May 2025

Identity, Care Labor, and Matrilineal Stories– Bodies Carrying Exhibit Programming

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

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08 May 2025

Walking Interludes- Bodies Carrying Exhibit Programming

2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
LB-1019 (sunroom), COHDS, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.
Montreal, Québec Canada
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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 […]

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07 May 2025

Intimate Listening – Bodies Carrying Exhibit Programming

4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Concordia University, LB-1042 (COHDS), 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd O
Montreal,
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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, […]

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07 May 2025

The Metabolism of Silence- Bodies Carrying Exhibit Programming

10:00 am - 1:00 pm
LB-1019 (sunroom), COHDS, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.
Montreal, Québec Canada
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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 […]

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06 May 2025

كان حتى ما كان (Once Upon a Place): What Remains of the Halqa? Performing Memory and Absence – Bodies Carrying Exhibit Programming

3:00 pm - 4:30 pm

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 […]

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06 May 2025

Attuning to Spectralities: Senses, Whispers, and Other Connective Membranes – Bodies Carrying Exhibit Programming

12:00 pm - 2:00 pm

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 […]

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05 May 2025

Corps, émotions et recherches: une exploration par cartographie corporelle – Bodies Carrying Exhibition Programming

10:00 am - 1:00 pm

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 […]

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30 April 2025

Vernissage and Durational performance, “I Insist” – Bodies Carrying Exhibit Programming

5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

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, […]

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29 April 2025

Casual COHDS

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

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24 April 2025

Ethics in Research: How to Apply for Ethics Certification

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

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22 April 2025

Memory, Art, and Violence: Listening to Difficult Stories

10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Online,

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 […]

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11 April 2025

Cancelled – A Reflection Moment: Writing a Land Recognition for COHDS

1:00 pm - 4:00 pm

"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 […]

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10 April 2025

WIBCA’s Legacy: Carrying the Torch from Elders to Youth in Montreal’s Black Community

5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
LB-1019 (sunroom), COHDS, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.
Montreal, Québec Canada
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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 […]

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03 April 2025

Looking at the World from Inside Mosques: Questioning Prejudice Through Art Photography

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

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26 March 2025

Kids on the Street: Queer Oral History, Performative Storytelling

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

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25 March 2025

Casual COHDS

2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
LB-1019 (sunroom), 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, […]

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14 March 2025

“Vivre avec le trouble” – Trouble in Oral History and Storytelling 12th Emerging Scholars Symposium (Friday, March 14)

8:45 am - 5:00 pm
LB-1019 (sunroom), COHDS, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.
Montreal, Québec Canada
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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 […]

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07 March 2025

Best Recording Practices for Oral Historians and Digital Storytellers – Part Two

2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
LB 1042.03 (Moonroom), 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.
Montreal, Québec Canada
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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 […]

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06 March 2025

Walking as a Way of Knowing: Amy Starecheski in Conversation with Luis C. Sotelo

3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
LB-1019 (sunroom), COHDS, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.
Montreal, Québec Canada
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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 […]

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21 February 2025

Best Recording Practices for Oral Historians and Digital Storytellers – Part One (Registration Closed)

2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
LB-1019 (sunroom), COHDS, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.
Montreal, Québec Canada
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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 […]

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20 February 2025

CANCELED: How to Say ‘Longing’

7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Concordia University, LB-1042 (COHDS), 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd O
Montreal,
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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 […]

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20 February 2025

Introduction à l’histoire orale

1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
LB-1019 (sunroom), COHDS, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.
Montreal, Québec Canada
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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 […]

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18 February 2025

Casual COHDS

2:00 pm - 4:30 pm
LB-1019 (sunroom), COHDS, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.
Montreal, Québec Canada
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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 […]

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12 February 2025

Sharing Black Stories with Care, Intentionality and Authenticity

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

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07 February 2025

Book Launch: The Left in Power

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  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 […]

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05 December 2024

Deep Listening to Life Stories

10:00 am - 12:00 pm
LB-1019 (sunroom), COHDS, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.
Montreal, Québec Canada
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* 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 […]

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03 December 2024

Community Choral Music in Reperforming Oral Histories

3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Online,

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 […]

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29 November 2024

Dancing Life Stories/Dancing Biographies/ Forming the WE

3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Dance Studio, MB 7.265, 1600 Blvd De Maisonneuve West
Montreal, Quebec H3H 1J5 Canada
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* 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 […]

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28 November 2024

Saathis: A Conversation about Queer Brown History in Tiohtia:ke/Montreal

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

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22 November 2024

How to Storyboard: A Hands-On Workshop in Digital Storytelling and Interactive Exhibit Design

2:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Concordia University, LB-1042 (COHDS), 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd O
Montreal,
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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. […]

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19 November 2024

Photo-Interviewing: Bridging Oral History and Photography

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

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15 November 2024

Beyond Transplant Stories: Weaving Community-Based Knowledge in Solid-Organ Transplantation through Arts Based Methods and Digital Storytelling with Patients

10:00 am - 12:00 pm
LB-1019 (sunroom), COHDS, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.
Montreal, Québec Canada
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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 […]

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01 November 2024

Voices from the field: Working with oral history in Armenian contexts

12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Online,

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 […]

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29 October 2024

Women and Invisible Labour: Re-Imagining the Archive

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

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24 October 2024

What Travels Through Us: Exhibition Vernissage and Roundtable

5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
LB-1019 (sunroom), COHDS, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.
Montreal, Québec Canada
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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 […]

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22 October 2024

Film Screening of Dorchester: In the Midst of the Fray

7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
LB 1042.03 (Moonroom), 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.
Montreal, Québec Canada
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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 […]

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17 October 2024

Crafting the (de)Industrialised Culture of the City of Elefsina, Greece: The Openeleusis Oral History Research Project

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

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10 October 2024

Rescheduled to winter 2025 – Rethinking our Territorial Acknowledgment

2:00 pm - 4:30 pm
LB-1019 (sunroom), COHDS, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.
Montreal, Québec Canada
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•••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 […]

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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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