News

Tune into CKUT 90.3 FM on Saturday August 21 from 2 to 4 PM to listen to a special broadcast of Funky Revolutions. Participants from the Radioworks! and Refugee Youth radio workshop will host a 2-hour special about music, story and memory.

You will hear an eclectic mix of music of special significance, personal stories and political commentary from Stephanie, Ayanda, Marie Francoise, Bylow and Rania. A broadcast not to be missed!

Object: International colloquium, Cambodia, from then to now: Memory and plural identities in the aftermath of genocide

Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
5th, 6th and 7th of May, 2011

Montreal Life Stories would like to congratulate team member Hourig Attarian who was awarded an FQRSC Post-Doctoral Fellowship to work on a research project related to the memory of the Armenian genocide. Congratulations Hourig!

Tune in this coming Monday morning (July 13) starting at 8:30 a.m. on CKUT 90.3 FM Radio to hear an interview with Catherine Montgomery, produced by Audrey O'Breham.

Tune in this coming Monday morning (June 14) at 8:30 a.m. on CKUT 90.3 FM Radio to hear an interview with Zhimei Zhang, done by Audrey O'Breham.

Zhimei Zhang is the author of Fox Spirit: A Woman in Mao's China. She was also a guest speaker at a recent Life Stories Montreal screening of Paul Tom's documentary "I Was There," telling the stories of four women from Columbia, Rwanda, Cambodia and Haiti, who have lived in conflict zones.

Don't miss the broadcast, as exceptionally, this one will not be available to listen to online later.

The report on the guided visit by refugees and children of refugess will be broadcast today ...
to listen starting at 5 p.m. this Thursday go to

www.rcinet.ca, Tam Tam Canada program

or

Chroniques Diane Santerre
http://www.rcinet.ca/francais/chronique/tam-tam--reportage-de-diane-sant...

The Artist in Residence (AIR) program will provide artist stipends of up to $8,000 per year through annual competition in 2009-2010, 2010-2011, and 2011-12. Funds may be allocated to one or more projects in each year at the discretion of our Adjudication Committee. The AIR program is an initiative of the Oral History and Performance (OHP) working group—one of seven research clusters comprising the Life Stories of Montrealers Displaced by War, Genocide, and Other Human Rights Violations.” For more information on the Life Stories project visit: www.lifestoriesmontreal.ca/

HIST 670A/870A/2 - Seminar A
Selected Topics in History (3 credits)
Seminar Subject: ORAL HISTORY AND PERFORMANCE I

INSTRUCTORS: S. High & T. Little (Theatre)
T 10:00 - 13:00

A message from Steven High

Michael Frisch has recently written that the "deep dark secret" of oral history is that we don't really know what to do with the orality of the source. In transcribing our interviews, we lose the orality almost immediately thus shoring the narratives of much of their meaning. A new media application now offers oral historians an alternative to transcription (available at http://storytelling.concordia.ca/storiesmatter/).

Since a few weeks now, students in their last year of high school at École internationale de Montréal are participating in a project that joins pedagogy, life story interviews and the conception of an exhibit.