All posts filed under: Collaboratory News

Trans Oral History Post-Doc! (6 months)

January 26, 2019
by Elspeth Brown
Collaboratory News / Oral History / Trans History

Post-doctoral Fellowship in Trans Oral History The LGBTQ Oral History Digital Collaboratory (University of Toronto, ON), in collaboration with The Transgender Archives at the University of Victoria (Victoria, BC) will award one six-month Postdoctoral Fellowship. The fellowship is to be taken up, and concluded, between 1 June 2019 and 30 March 2020 (exact starting and ending dates to be negotiated within this time frame). The Fellow will be expected to coordinate and conduct oral histories […]

Touring SAVAC and Vtape

June 8, 2017
by Elspeth Brown
Collaboratory News / Desh Pardesh Project

And update from Amal Khurram, who is participating in the undergraduate Scholars in Residence Digital Collections lab in partnership with the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives. Scholars in Residence group pose in the SAVAC / Vtape archives. (L to R) Mac Stewart, Amal Khurram, Caleigh Inman, Saj Soomal (SAVAC), Alisha Krishna, Zohar Freeman, Cait McKinney. On May 17 our group went to visit the 401 Richmond building for a tour of the South Asian Visual Arts […]

Oral History Podcasting Workshops

May 9, 2017
by mckinneycait
Collaboratory News

We are big fans of Morgan M. Page’s One From the Vaults trans history podcast, which brings out “all the dirt, gossip, and glamour from trans history.” Her work is a great example of how the podcast form can enliven public history, a project we are trying to emulate here at the Collaboratory. As part of our Scholars in Residence Digital Collections lab, we’re learning how to make radio documentaries using the oral history tapes we have been […]

New Lab Projects Update

May 5, 2017
by mckinneycait
Collaboratory News

We’ve just updated our projects pages with details about the digital collections we are building right now as part of our intensive, four-week Digital Collections Lab for undergraduate students. The projects are: 1) The Mirha-Soleil Ross Archives 2) “Not a Place on the Map.” Digital Collection for Desh Pardesh Festival oral history project, partnership with the South Asian Visual Arts Centre 3) Foolscap Oral History Project We’ll be posting lots of updates on the lab […]

Month-Long Intensive Undergrad Digital Collections Lab

April 24, 2017
by mckinneycait
Collaboratory News

We have been eagerly prepping to welcome five new undergraduate researchers to the Collaboratory team for the Month of May. Thanks to generous support from the Jackman Humanities Institute’s Scholars in Residence program, we will be running an intensive, Digital Collections Lab out of the CLGA for four weeks. Students will build three new digital collections documenting art and activist work by queer, trans, and people of colour in Toronto. We’ll be introducing the students and […]

Mirha-Soleil Ross in the Archives: Transsexual Artist, Sex Worker, and Activist

October 3, 2016
by Elspeth Brown
Collaboratory News / Trans History

The Collaboratory is beginning its work in organizing the archives of this amazing transsexual artist and activist, housed at the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives in Toronto. Eight years ago, while CLGA was moving into its current location at 34 Isabella Street, a large collection of Mirha-Soleil Ross’ personal papers, videos, notebooks and other material arrived at the archives. This week, Cait McKinney (Collaboratory postdoctoral fellow) and Aaron Cain (CLGA volunteer and iSchool grad student) […]