Montreal Life Stories News

Fulbright Chair Henry Greenspan comes to Concordia

Eve-Lyne — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 11:32:08 -0500

University of Michigan psychologist Henry (Hank) Greenspan is the incoming Fulbright Research Chair in North American Studies at Concordia University's Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling. Dr. Greenspan will be working closely with the Montreal Life Stories project, a major collaborative project examining the life stories of Montrealers displaced by war, genocide and other human rights violations.

Ayanda Keith Dubé is CBC's "Montrealer of the Week"!

Eve-Lyne — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 15:24:27 -0500

Ayanda Keith Dubé, a young Montrealer from Zimbabwe who came to Canada as a refugee, participated in the "Mapping Memories" project led by Liz Miller and Michele Luchs from the Experiences of refugee youth working group. You can view the digital story he created here.

Ayanda and the Mapping Memories team are currently visiting schools to present their work and the methodological manual they have developed.

Radio Works! The Roma: From Then to Now

curaweb — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 13:51:23 -0400

Tune into CKUT 90.3 FM tomorrow morning, this Friday November 4 at 7:29 AM to hear about "The Roma: From Then to Now," in an interview with Gerhard Baumgartner.

Gerhard Baumgartner is an Austrian historian specializing in minority questions and particularly, the Roma genocide of World War II.
He presented a talk on this subject, this past Monday, cosponsored by the Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre, Montreal Life Stories,
the Center for Oral History and Digital Storytelling, and the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies.

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Chantria Tram and Paul Tom lauch a project for Khmer Montrealer Youths

Eve-Lyne — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 12:49:10 -0400

CAMBODIA: FROM DARKNESS TO SPOTLIGHT
“Voices of the 1.5 Generation”
Reconciliation through oral history performance

Khmer-Canadian artists Chantria Tram and Paul Tom are leading 16-20 Khmer (Cambodian) youths into uncharted territory in an unprecedented artist in residency project sponsored by the Montreal Life Stories Project.

Life Stories featured in Canada's History Magazine

curaweb — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 15:39:41 -0400

Montreal Life Stories is featured in an article, entitled Guided by Voices, in Canada's History Magazine, written by Mark Abley. See the pdf of the article here

Special Internship Opportunity: Database building

Eve-Lyne — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 17:12:59 -0400

Montreal Life Stories is looking for two or three people to assist the team currently processing interviews in the Stories Matter database.

Description of the internship:
- Assist those in charge in creating the database.
- Listen carefully to the interviews in order to prepare biographies for the interviewees.
- Enter the video files into the database, divide the interviews into clips, enter clip and session summaries and key words in the appropriate places.
- Digitize documents and place them in the database.

"Mapping Memories" Book Launch featured in the Montreal Gazette!

Eve-Lyne — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 12:53:28 -0400

On October 12, Liz Miller, Michele Luchs, and Gracia Jalea from the "Experiences of Refugee Youth" working group invited community partners, teachers, and researchers to join them for the launch of their "Mapping Memories" book.

Paul Tom's "May I Live in Peace" is selected by the International Short Film Festival of Berlin

Eve-Lyne — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 16:42:27 -0400

In summer of 2010, we were glad to announce that Paul Tom, post-production coordinator and student member of the Cambodian working group, had brought home the prize for best animation film for his short "May I Live in Peace" at the student film and video festival portion of the World Film Festival.

It has now been selected by the International Short Film Festival of Berlin!

Congratulations!

Yolande Cohen is awarded with the Légion d'Honneur!

Eve-Lyne — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 16:36:10 -0400

Montreal Life Stories warmly congratulates co-researcher Yolande Cohen who was recently awarded with the French Légion d'Honneur!

Deeply involved in the Holocaust and Other Persecutions Against Jews working group, Yolande Cohen leads its "Sephardim" team.

Read this article in The Canadian Jewish News to learn more.

Congratulations!

"Re-curating Testimony: Toward a New Pedagogy for Learning from the Past"

Eve-Lyne — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 12:29:15 -0400

CEREV director and Montreal Life Stories co-researcher Erica Lehrer, and postdoctoral fellow Monica Patterson co-authored a short essay discussing experimental strategies for critical pedagogy using curatorial practice, titled “Re-curating Testimony: Toward a New Pedagogy for Learning from the Past,” in Anthropology News, the major US Anthropology disciplinary news source.