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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.

Montreal Life Stories General Training Workshops

Eve-Lyne — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 16:27:47 -0500

The next general training workshop (bilingual) for interviewers of the « Montreal Life Stories » project will take place at the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling (Concordia U, 1400 blvd De Maisonneuve W., Library Building, 10th floor, room LB-1042) on January 23 and 24, from 5:30 t0 8:30 on both dates.

The training dates are as follows:

- Monday January 23: Introduction to Oral history and to the Montreal Life Stories project
- Tuesday January 24: Ethics, and Listening to Survivors

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.

INTERSECTIONS² - Oral History and Community Dialogue

Eve-Lyne — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 16:50:44 -0500

"How can oral history act as a catalyst for community dialogue?"

Come and listen to Monique Mukabalisa and Sandra Gasana (Rwandan working group), Nolsina Yim (Cambodian working group), Lise Gantheret and Neal Santamaria (Haitian working group), as well as Linda Guerry and Martin Messika (Holocaust / Sepharadic working group).

Tuesday November 29, 6-8pm
Concordia University, room LB-1042

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.

Montreal Life Stories interviews presented by CEREV at "Ethnographic Terminalia"

Eve-Lyne — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 12:24:32 -0400

Professor Erica Lehrer and post-doctoral fellow Monica Eileen Patterson invite you to visit the "Ethnographic Terminalia" exhibition and discover audio and video installations made by their students using Montreal Life Stories Project interviews.

INTERSECTIONS: 2nd edition of the round table series

Eve-Lyne — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 11:13:43 -0400

Do not miss the 2nd edition of this round table series!
This year, the series will showcase Montreal Life Stories team members projects.
From October 25, 2011 to March 13, 2012.

#1 « Life stories in the classroom»
Tuesday October 25, 6-8pm
Room LB-1042, Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling, Concordia University
Panelists: Liz Miller, Michele Luchs, and Ayanda Dubé, Emmanuelle Sonntag, Annie Girard, Erica Lehrer, and Maryse Potvin.

#2 « Oral history and community dialogue»
Tuesday November 29, 6-8pm