MONTREAL/October 25, 2007—
Steven High
Concordia is proud to announce that the Community-University Research Alliance (CURA) program of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council has awarded the university $1 million for an oral history study of displaced persons. The five-year project, led by Dr. Steven High and called the Life Stories of Montrealers Displaced by War, Genocide and Other Human Rights Violations, will be housed at Concordia’s Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling.
Over the next five years, six hundred displaced persons living in Montreal will be interviewed and video recorded several times. Through this individual witness and community testimony, the project will address three distinct questions: How is large scale violence experienced and remembered by its victims and perpetrators? How do displaced persons (re)compose and narrate their stories in Montreal, Quebec and Canada? How can their stories of violence and displacement most effectively be represented and communicated to a wider public?
The project team is composed of 22 university-based researchers as well as 18 community partner organizations including Page-Rwanda, the Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre, the Cambodian Genocide Group, the Canadian Council for Refugees and several others. Members of this project will officially launch the Life Stories of Montrealers Displaced by War, Genocide and Other Human Rights Violations on Sunday, October 28, 2007 at 2:00 p.m. at the Centre des loisirs de Ville-Saint-Laurent (1375 Grenet St, Saint-Laurent). For more information on that event, please call (514)855-6110. For more information on the project, please contact (514)848-2424 ext. 2413 or shigh@alcor.concordia.ca
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Tanya Churchmuch
Senior Media Relations Advisor
Concordia University
