Antoine Bilodeau and Mireille Paquet are pleased to invite you to IRI's Seminar, highlighting the research of its three visiting doctoral fellows for 2024. This is an opportunity to discover research topics related to IRI's mission while contributing to the development of these three doctoral students' projects through your comments, feedback and encouragement.

Led by prof. Mireille Paquet, this reading group is open to all interested students and faculty. Participants are only required to read and discuss the text assigned for each meeting. This is a welcoming, stress-free environment for Concordians interested in immigration studies, regardless of their level of knowledge or discipline. We look forward to meeting you!

This workshop offers to reflect on archives as sites of contested knowledge, and to envision avenues and methodologies to open them to more inclusive decolonial and feminist perspectives.

This interactive workshop will introduce participants to a variety of visual methods suitable for inter-and cross-disciplinary study.

This workshop is for undergraduate students who want to learn how to take efficient notes. Different strategies and techniques will be explored.

Participants are invited to join Yabome Gilpin-Jackson to explore the what, so what, now what, of building anti-oppression and pro-belonging human systems.

Digital storytelling (DST) is of growing interest within health care settings to better understand patient experience and translate knowledge between health care professionals and patients. DST is a relational tool that can be used for education, advocacy, creative expression, and therapeutic intervention.

This event brings together Lea Kabiljo and Kelann Currie-Williams, oral historians and photographers, who rely on the multi-faceted technique of "photo-interviewing" in their respective work. We will invite attendees to reflect on the relationship that exists between images and storytelling in the context of the oral history interview.

Join us in the COHDS Computer Lab for an engaging 2 to 2.5-hour workshop designed to enhance your skills in digital storytelling and interactive exhibit creation. Participants will be asked to develop a mini exhibit concept incorporating edited digital content gathered from a brief exercise in conversational interviewing.

Led by prof. Mireille Paquet, this reading group is open to all interested students and faculty. Participants are only required to read and discuss the text assigned for each meeting. This is a welcoming, stress-free environment for Concordians interested in immigration studies, regardless of their level of knowledge or discipline. We look forward to meeting you!

A conversation between some of the members of the 1990s Tiohtia:ke/Montreal-based, South Asian-focused LGBTQ+ group the Saathis. As many of the Saathis are artists, performers and activists, they are also invited to reflect on their creative journeys as racialized queer people in Montreal.

Join us for an evening of dance as students from the Department of Contemporary Dance bring embodied (auto-)biographical narratives to the Acts of Listening Lab.

Dr. Luis Sotelo Castro and PhD candidate Sara Lucas from the Acts of Listening Lab and The Listening Choir will discuss how musical interventions, particularly community choral music, can catalyze dialogue in communities that have experienced collective trauma.

The workshop will invite you to engage deeply with a videotaped interview of a Rwandan genocide survivor recorded as part of the Montreal Life Stories project.