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Katrina 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 Canada and a transnational scholar of Italian women workers and radical antifascist exiles around the globe. Her accomplishments include her award-winning scholarship, her mentoring of students, and her outreach to women, working-class, and multicultural communities. An activist historian, she is a co-founder of the Canadian Workers Arts and Heritage Centre and has been involved in various film projects, including, most recently, a documentary on wartime internment. She is president of the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians and host of the upcoming Berkshire Conference in Women’s History at UofT in 2014. Beyond Women's Words: Feminisms and the Practices of Oral History in the Twenty-First Century Edited by Katrina Srigley, Stacey Zembrzycki, and Franca Iacovetta Beyond Women’s Words unites feminist scholars, artists, and community activists working with the stories of women and other historically marginalized subjects to address the contributions and challenges of doing feminist oral history. Feminists who work with oral history methods want to tell stories that matter. They know, too, that the telling of those stories—the processes by which they are generated and recorded, and the different contexts in which they are shared and interpreted—also matters—a lot. Using Sherna Berger Gluckand Daphne Patai’s classic text, Women’s Words, as a platform to reflect on how feminisms, broadly defined, have influenced, and continue to influence, the wider field of oral history, this remarkable collection brings together an international, multi-generational, and multidisciplinary line-up of authors whose work highlights the great variety in understandings of, and approaches to, feminist oral histories. Through five thematic sections, the volume considers Indigenous modes of storytelling, feminism in diverse locales around the globe, different theoretical approaches, oral history as performance, digital oral history, and oral history as community-engagement. Beyond Women’s Words is ideal for students of oral history, anthropology, public history, women’s and gender history, and Women’s and Gender Studies, as well as activists, artists, and community-engaged practitioners. More about the book: https://bit.ly/2ybNt6Q

Nally 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 partly in English. The radio program promotes the Inuktitut language in Montreal and provides a forum for Inuit to publicly discuss community life and issues in the city. This initiative also raises the profile of Inuit among the non-Inuit community in Montreal; creating a positive outlet for cultural awareness in the city. Listen to Nipivut every second Tuesday 6 - 7pm In addition to Sara and Nally, you heard a live performance by Charlie Tumic of his song “I miss you dearly.” Charlie has since passed away and is remembered as a former member of the Charlie Adams band and well-respected local Inuk musician. You can also hear Nipivut host, Annie Pisuktie introducing him.The language lesson is by Asinnajaq and Saumik Weetaluktuk. It features the song Immamit by Kelly Fraser. Uqallagvik a similar show to Nipivut, based in Ottawa has launched and airs on CKCU 93.1 FM every other Wednesday from 11am-12pm. For more information on Nipivut, visit their website, Soundcloud or Facebook Pages. https://ckut.ca/en/content/nipivut-0 nipivut@gmail.com https://www.facebook.com/nipivut/ https://soundcloud.com/nipivut

Shahrzad 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/id1453610743

naakita 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/

Leyla 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 interests are Oral history, memory studies, European and Middle Eastern ethnography, nationalism and minorities, youth and social movements. The Turkish audio clip included in this episode is from an interview with Şilan. Click here to listen to her complete interview (with English subtitles): http://www.gencleranlatiyor.org/static/english/transcripts/silan/v3.html Learn more about Leyla's work: http://myweb.sabanciuniv.edu/neyzi/ http://www.gencleranlatiyor.org/static/english/main/v1.html https://oralhistory.sabanciuniv.edu/

Dr. 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 practices, painting, drawing, photography, installation, audio and video. Her work comprises multiple approaches, studio-based, collaborative/participatory and community-based. Active within her Montreal neighbourhood of Pointe-St-Charles, Kathleen has worked with seniors and children in social housing, schools and community agencies. She has also developed creative projects with children, adults and seniors in Toronto, Iceland, Latvia and the Netherlands, oriented to cultivating knowledge and awareness of ‘place’ and building community. At Concordia and with colleagues Steven High and Cynthia Hammond, Kathleen is part of the Right to the City teaching initiative, which encourages students to discover how learning with the city, and across disciplines, can enrich education while giving back to the community at large. Learn more about Kathleen's work: http://www.akaredhanded.com/ http://explore.concordia.ca/kathleen-vaughan

Dr 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 et de récits numérisés dans le cadre du projet Archives vivantes. Le projet Archives vivantes est une archive digitale d’histoires de vie qui permettra aux chercheur.e.s et aux membres de la communauté de suivre le fil des discussions, d’établir des connexions, de suivre les changements, de cartographier et d’écouter de manière nouvelle les survivant.e.s du génocide rwandais. https://pagerwanda.ca/ https://www.facebook.com/events/316907732361502/ https://www.facebook.com/events/2166088580141682/

Ursula 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/ Photo credit: David Ward

Born 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://concordia.academia.edu/mariacarolinacambre

Marlene 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-team/marlene-edoyan/ Marlene's first feature-length documentary, "Figure of Armen," was shown at the COHDS Film Festival in 2016, as well as many other renowned film festivals: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVk1I_TCQQ0

The 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 from the performance "Come Wash with Us: Seeking Home in Story" presented by the Tasht Collective (http://www.tashtcollective.com/) during the book launch.