Sharing stories and the creative challenge of keeping them alive: interview with Steven High, founder of the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling at Concordia University, in Montreal

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https://doi.org/10.51880/ho.v25i2.1301

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Steven High, COHDS, shared authority, digital storytelling, Montreal Life Stories, research-creation

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Interview with Steven High, a Canadian oral historian and acclaimed author of over a dozen books, founder of the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling (COHDS) at Concordia University. Since its launch in 2006, COHDS became a reference at diverse levels, from the models of partnership beyond the academy gates, involving researchers, artists and community leaders, amongst other connections, to its use of digital technologies and the promotion of intersections between oral history and creative productions such as theatre, museum exhibitions, sound-walks and films. In this interview, Steven High gives us an in-depth look at his approach to oral history, the research-creation process and digital tools developed by COHDS over the last 15 years, and discusses how oral history can be transformed from a disciplinary methodology into an interdisciplinary creative practice.

Referências

DUONG, Thi Ry; HIGH, Steven; LITTLE, Edward (Ed.). Remembering Mass Violence: Oral History, New Media and Performance. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014.

FRISCH, Michael. Three Dimensions and More: Oral History Beyond the Paradoxes of Method. In: HESSE-BIBER, Sharlene Nagy; LEAVY, Patricia Leavy (Org.). Handbook of Emergent Methods. New York: Guildford, 2008. p. 221-238.

HIGH, Steven (Org.). Beyond testimony and trauma: Oral history in the aftermath of mass violence. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2015.

HIGH, Steven. Industrial Sunset: The Making of North America’s Rust Belt, 1969-1984. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003.

HIGH, Steven. Oral History as Creative Practice at Concordia University’s Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling. Bulletin de l’AFAS, n. 47, p. 108-121, 2021.

HIGH, Steven. Oral History at the Crossroads: Sharing Life Stories of Survival and Displacement. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2015.

HIGH, Steven; LITTLE, Edward; MILLER, Elizabeth. Going public: The art of participatory practice. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2017.

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2022-12-15

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Coelho Jucá dos Santos, M. (2022). Sharing stories and the creative challenge of keeping them alive: interview with Steven High, founder of the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling at Concordia University, in Montreal. História Oral, 25(2), 239–253. https://doi.org/10.51880/ho.v25i2.1301