Pop-Up Exhibit: A Global History of Childhood

You are warmly invited to visit our pop-up exhibit “A Global History of Childhood,” hosted at Concordia’s "Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling" this coming Thursday, April 23, 2:00-5:00 p.m.

In twenty lovingly curated exhibition panels, twenty undergraduate history students have traced oral histories of childhood and youth in rural New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Quebec, Mozambique, Georgia, Indonesia, Brazil, Belgium, France, Romania, Haïti, Congo, United States, and Côte d'Ivoire. Each interview partner was invited to bring to the conversation an object of memory. Those material objects were as rich and diverse as the memories recounted.

What was it like to move to the city on your own – at the tender age of twelve – so that you could attend school? How did networks of informal foster care help families survive in times of economic and personal distress? How did young people in the twenty-first century navigate grave illness? As one member of our class observed, such "small stories" matter.

The pop-up exhibition is hosted at Concordia’s “Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling,” Library Building, 10th Floor, Room LB-1042 and LB-1019 (1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West). Brief opening remarks will be delivered at 2:30 p.m. by the exhibit’s creators and curators. Student researchers will be on site to reflect on their work, share interview recordings, and answer your questions. 

For a sneak preview, please see below. Hope to see you there!