Montreal Life Stories News

Memory of the Armenian genocide

Eve-Lyne — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 11:09:47 -0400

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!

Radio Works! Interview with Catherine Montgomery

curaweb — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 21:45:34 -0400

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.

Zhimei Zhang on the radio

curaweb — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 11:32:34 -0400

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.

News report

curaweb — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 10:41:28 -0400

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

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

CALL FOR PROJECTS - Artist in Residence Program

Eve-Lyne — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 12:32:09 -0400

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/

New Seminar: ORAL HISTORY AND PERFORMANCE

Eve-Lyne — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 11:14:54 -0400

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

Announcing the Launch of the Stories Matter (On/Online) Database Tool

Eve-Lyne — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 10:05:13 -0400

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/).

Regard sur le Chili: A New Blog on an Inspiring Project!

Eve-Lyne — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 09:31:29 -0400

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.

CongoDrama and Montreal Life Stories in Quartier Libre

Eve-Lyne — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:53:58 -0500

Université de Montréal's Quartier Libre newspaper has published an article about Ally Ntumba and his play, CongoDrama.

A new life for unique stories

Eve-Lyne — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:29:23 -0500

Life Stories Montreal and the Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre (MHMC) are pleased to announce that close to 500 Holocaust survivor interviews have recently been digitized.

Since the 1990s, the MHMC has recorded, mostly via VHS support, the life stories of hundreds of Holocaust survivors, as many in English as in French, as in Hebrew and Yiddish. Thanks to collaboration with the Life Stories Montreal project, these interviews have been transferred to a digital format, ensuring their long term conservation as well as a greater accessibility and new possibilities for dissemination.