LISTENING/RECORDING/REGISTERING
Wednesday, January 14, 2026, 5:30 – 7:00 PM
In English
Free, at the Acts of Listening Lab (ALLab), Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling (COHDS)
J.W. McConnell (LB) Building, 1400 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W. LB-1042-03 (10th floor)
Sign up via email: juliaeilers.smith@concordia.ca
Take part in an active listening session with Nalini Mohabir, inspired by artist Joyce Joumaa’s SIGHTINGS 45 installation. Together we will listen to previously restricted audio excerpts from a 1969 rally in the Hall Building’s mezzanine at the outset of the Sir George Williams Affair. Mohabir, associate professor in Concordia’s Department of Geography, Planning, and Environment and co-editor of Fire That Time: Transnational Black Radicalism and the Sir George Williams Occupation, will guide participants through the recording, attending to the voices and perspectives of its speakers while situating the material within a broader political moment and localized space. We will also reflect on the act of acute listening to institutional archives, and the implications for transcribing the past into the present.
Hosted in the immersive Acts of Listening Lab, the session will consider how we listen to and work with archive, sound, and modes of register. Please sign up in advance at the email address above.
SIGHTINGS 45
This public program is part of SIGHTINGS 45, presented from October 20, 2025, to February 1, 2026 on the ground floor of the Hall Building of Concordia University: 1455, blvd. De Maisonneuve West, accessible weekdays and weekends from 7 am to 11 pm.