Casual COHDS

Join us for another session of “Casual COHDS,” a monthly drop-in event for members of the COHDS community and anyone curious about oral history to gather, converse, and connect over coffee, tea, and snacks in a relaxed setting.

If you would like to meet other members of the COHDS community, or simply take a moment to pause, recharge, and connect with other oral history practitioners and enthusiasts, “Casual COHDS” is an opportunity to foster these exchanges. Held in the afternoon, each monthly meeting will be loosely designed around a theme, to get the conversation started.

For our gathering in March, participants are invited to bring a favourite story around an interview encounter or a photograph that they would like to share — or to simply bring themselves. We look forward to welcoming you on Tuesday, April 29, anytime between 2 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. in the Sunroom (LB- 1019).

About the speaker

Kelann Currie-Williams (they/she) is a writer, visual artist, and oral historian based in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal. Kelann is a PhD student at Concordia University’s Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture, working at the intersections of Visual Culture, History, Black Studies, and Cultural Studies.

Their research focuses on the image-making and photographic preservation histories of the Afro-Caribbean diaspora in Canada from the late 19th to late 20th centuries, and the scenes of migration, homemaking, community-building, and political mobilization that those photographs depict.

Kelann is a long-time student affiliate of the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling, an affiliate of the Access in the Making lab, and a member of the Milieux Institute for Arts, Culture and Technology’s Post Image cluster. Her critical work has appeared in academic journals such as Urban History Review, the Canadian Journal of History, TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, and Philosophy of Photography.