Listen "18 | Désirée Rochat, COHDS"
Episode Synopsis
Summary:
In this episode, I welcome Désirée Rochat, a memory worker and postdoctoral fellow with the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling (COHDS) and the Department of History at Concordia University. Désirée joins us to speak about her initiatives to preserve and promote Black community archives in Quebec.
Episode Resources:
Désirée Rochat. (2022). Cultivating Black diasporic memories and communities through community archiving. In Cindy Maguire and Ann Holt (eds.), Arts and Culture in Global Development Practice. Routledge. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003148203-8/cultivating-black-diasporic-memories-communities-community-archiving-d%C3%A9sir%C3%A9e-rochat
Jeannette Allis Bastian. (2003). Owning Memory: How a Caribbean Community Lost Its Archives and Found Its History. Libraries Unlimited.https://www.amazon.ca/Owning-Memory-Caribbean-Community-Archives/dp/031332008X
Kimberly Christen & Jane Anderson. (2019). Toward slow archives. Archival Science, 19(2). https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10502-019-09307-x
Zakiya Collier and Tonia Sutherland. (2021). Black Archival Practice. The Black Scholar. https://www.theblackscholar.org/call-for-papers/black-archival-practice/
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