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COHDScastCOHDScast Season #2 Episode #10 - Katrina Srigley and Franca IacovettaKatrina Srigley is associate professor in the Department of History at Nipissing University in North Bay, Canada. Author of the award-winning monograph Breadwinning Daughters: Young Working-Women in a Depression Era City (University of Toronto, 2010), Srigley’s scholarship forefronts women’s collective and individual experiences and explores the dynamics of memory making and storytelling. Her Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)-funded research developed in partnership with Nipissing First Nation picks up the themes of storytelling and engaged practice.
Franca Iacovetta is a Canadian feminist historian of women and gender, the immigrant working classes, and the Cold War in C...2019-08-2217 min
COHDScastCOHDScast Season #2 Episode #9 - Nally Weetaluktuk and Sara BreitkreutzNally Weetaluktuk is a Montreal based Inuk from Inukjuak, Nunavik. He is the Project Manager and Producer for Nipivut. He has been working within the Montreal Inuit community since getting M.Sc. in Physics.
Sara Breitkreutz is a doctoral student in Social and Cultural Analysis whose research interests include theories of place and belonging in the city, anticolonial approaches to Indigenous community-based research, and the role of new digital media in shaping contemporary practices of storytelling, community-building, and self-representation.
Nipivut means “our voice”, and is a radio program by and for Inuit of Montreal. It is broadcast partly in Inuktitut, and...2019-07-2616 min
COHDScastCOHDScast Season #2 Episode #8 - Shahrzad ArshadiShahrzad Arshadi, a Montreal-based multidisciplinary artist and human rights activist, came to Canada as a political refugee on December 24, 1983. In the past two decades, Shahrzad has ventured into different fields, such as photography, film, sound and performance, enabling her to focus on issues of memory, culture and human rights.
Learn more about Shahrzad's work here: http://shahrzadarshadi.com
Life Stories Quilt podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/life-stories-quilt/id14536107432019-05-2316 min
COHDScastCOHDScast Season #2 Episode #7 - naakita feldman-kissnaakita feldman-kiss is a queer artist of mixed roots currently working between Montreal, Ottawa, and Toronto. Her practice examines intergenerational memory, liminal identities and the importance of oral tradition. feldman-kiss’s aesthetic explorations manifest in transmedia with a focus on text-based, performative, technological and social artworks. Her practice is founded in ethical frameworks of equitable exchange within a collaborative process. The artist’s works have unfolded locally and within Internet communities such as Craigslist, Reddit and Facebook. In 2016, she completed her B.F.A. at Concordia University in Intermedia.
Learn more about the artist's work: https://naakitafeldmankiss.com/2019-05-0915 min
COHDScastCOHDScast Season #2 Episode #6 - Leyla NeyziLeyla Neyzi is a Turkish academician (Anthropologist, Sociologist, and Historian), who is currently a professor at Sabancı University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Istanbul, Turkey. After graduating from Robert College of Istanbul, she studied anthropology at Stanford University, and earned her M.A. in Cultural Anthropology from City University of New York in 1986, and her Ph.D. in Development Sociology from Cornell University in 1991. She worked as assistant professor at Bosphorus University and as the Oral History Project Director, at Economic and Social History Foundation. She currently teaches Anthropology at Sabanchi University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Her i...2019-04-2517 min
COHDScastCOHDScast Season #2 Episode #5 - Kathleen VaughanDr. Kathleen Vaughan is Co-Director and Core Member of the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling and Associate Professor in the Department of Art Education at Concordia University. She is also Concordia University Research Chair in Socially Engaged Art and Public Pedagogies.
Kathleen Vaughan is a visual artist, writer, scholar, and educator whose work reflects a trans-disciplinary orientation to questions of place and belonging and the theme of ‘home’. She aims to balance her love for post-industrial sites, urban forests and green spaces with critical engagement, and often uses walking and mapping as method and form. Kathleen uses textile prac...2019-04-1115 min
COHDScastCOHDScast Season #2 Episode #4 - Marie LavorelDr Marie Lavorel est titulaire d'un doctorat en muséologie, médiation, patrimoine de l'Université du Québec à Montréal et en Sciences de l'information et de la communication de l'Université d'Avignon et des pays de Vaucluse. Ses recherches portent sur la patrimonialisation des mémoires sensibles et traumatiques, l'écriture de l'histoire contemporaine, l’histoire orale, l'art contemporain, la danse contemporaine et son exposition, l’art public et l’architecture contemporaine. Dr Lavorel est commissaire d’exposition indépendante et chargée de cours à la Maîtrise en muséologie de l’UQÀM. Elle est également chercheure postdoctorale au Centre d'histoire orale...2019-03-2814 min
COHDScastCOHDScast Season #2 Episode #3 - Ursula Neuerburg-DenzerUrsula Neuerburg-Denzer, Ph.D., born in Cologne, Germany, is an Associate Professor of Theatre at Concordia University (Canada), where she teaches acting, directing, history, and dramaturgy. With a strong background in performing and directing, her research centers on the performance of extreme emotion. After a decade of independent theatre work in Berlin, she co-founded Richard Schechner's East Coast Artist in NY. She is a certified rasabox instructor, and volunteers regularly at the Bread & Puppet Theatre. In recent years she has investigated Indigenous performance and the role of the settler ally.
Learn more about her work here: http://www.neuerburg-denzer.net/
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COHDScastCOHDScast Season #2 Episode #2 - Carolina CambreBorn in Cordoba, Argentina, Carolina is an artist/writer/educator at Concordia University, Montreal in Quebec, Canada. Her current project, “Nomadic Pedagogies: Collective visuality in a school run by and for the homeless”, explores the case of School #70 Isauro Arancibia, the only known Argentine self-managed school for homeless students to complete primary education. As an unprecedented social experiment in Buenos Aires, the school has become a hive of innovation. Students, teachers and others at the school have had to organize their everyday practices by inventing a completely new way to “do school.”
For more information about Carolina's work, please visit: https...2019-02-2116 min
COHDScastCOHDScast Season #2 Episode #1 - Marlene EdoyanMarlene Edoyan is a Montreal-based documentary filmmaker and producer. Marlene is of Armenian descent and grew up in Lebanon. With a background in Media studies, Marlene started her career as a production director and an artistic director for internationally co-produced animated films and TV series for children. With a keen interest in exploring concepts related to the ‘human geography’ and the relationship between societies and spaces, Marlene has spent the last seven years creating social interest documentary films. She is currently completing a documentary film that she shot in Beirut.
More information about Marlene's work: https://multi-monde.ca/en/multi-monde-production/our...2019-02-0717 min
COHDScastSpecial Episode: Oral History AssociationThe Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling co-hosted the Oral History Association Annual Meeting (http://www.oralhistory.org/) from October 10 to 14, 2018. With 140 sessions, 800 delegates, and 25 parallel research-creation projects, this was an unprecedented showcase for oral history research, and research-creation, in Montreal.
For this special episode, COHDScast attended the "Beyond Women’s Words" book launch (https://bit.ly/2ybNt6Q) on October 12 and interviewed three women scholars and researchers; Professor Lynn Abrams (https://bit.ly/2MnqGbX), queer feminist activist Ponni Arasu (https://bit.ly/2FQ0uWa), and PhD candidate Kiera Anderson (http://kieraanderson.com/).
You can also hear audio excerpts fr...2019-01-2215 min