17:30 Registration

18:30 “Main Lounge” Room – Welcome to the Conference

19:00 “Main Lounge” Room – Poetry Reading and Presentation – Public session
Lorne Shirinian, “Such a Long Way from Home.”

19:40 “Main Lounge” Room - Keynote – Public session
Chair: Anna Sheftel, History, Oxford University.
Henry Greenspan, “Re-inventing Testimony.”

21:00 End

FRIDAY, 6 NOVEMBER 2009

8:00 - 11:00 – Registration

8:45 Montefiore Room – Workshop
Chair: Rachel Berger, History, Concordia University.
Lorna Roth and Warren Linds, “Another Voice, Another Bridge: Dialogical Media and its Transformative Potential”

“Main Lounge” Room – Workshop
Chair: Stacey Zembrzycki, Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling.
Stacey Zembrzycki and Erin Jessee, “After the Interview: Introducing Stories Matter.”

9:45-10:00 Nutrition Break in Montefiore Lounge

10:00 Montefiore Room – Displaced Communities in North America
Chair: Deepali Lindblom, Dung Dkar, The Tibetan Artist Collective of Montreal.
Norma Joseph, “Silent Diasporas: The Iraqi Jews of Montreal.”
Christine McGuire, “Living With the Memory: The Historical Representation and
Public Memory of the 1973 Coup d’état among Chilean Communities in Ottawa and Toronto.”
Jarvis Brownlie and Roewan Crowe, “Stories of Resistance in Winnipeg’s North
End: An Oral History Pilot Project in Ndinawe.”

“Main Lounge” Room – After the Interview
Chair: David Ward, Documentary Photographer.
Egoitz Gago Anton, “Crossing the Digital Gap: Effects of New Technologies of Communication in Social Action.”
Tim Schwab, “Mohammad Bakri and the Case of ‘Jenin, Jenin’.”
Elena Razlogova, “How to Question Liberalism in Postsocialist Contexts: From an Interview to the Web, From Guantanamo to the Urals.”

11:30 Break

11:45 Montefiore Room – Testimony as Process
Chair: Rahul Varma, Teesri Duniya Theatre.
Hourig Attarian and Rachael Van Fossen
Stories Scorched From the Desert Sun

“Main Lounge” Room – Workshop
Chair: Milena Buziak, Apsara Theatre Company.
Penny Coleman, Elana Michelson, and Patricia Lee Stotter
Flashback

12:45 Lunch provided in Salon ABC

13:45 Montefiore Room – Mapping a Process
Chair: Sandra Gasana, Histoire de vie Montréal.
Michele Luchs, Liz Miller, Colleen French and Sylvain Thibault
Challenges in Leading New Media Workshops with Residents at Refugee Shelters in Montreal

“Main Lounge” Room– Remembering Through Oral History, Film and Visual Art
Chair: Alice Herscovitch, Director, Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre.
Sima Aprahamian, “Araz Artinian's ‘The Genocide in Me & her Twenty Voices’”
Dorota Glowacka, “Aestheticization of Absence or Witness to the Future? The Dilemmas of Contemporary Polish Art of the Holocaust.”
Karin Doerr, “Personal Expressions of Holocaust Memory in Art.”

15:30 Nutritional Break in Montefiore Lounge

15:45 Montefiore Room – Fragmented Stories
Chair: Rita Yu, Associate Director, Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling
William Suk, “A Zimbabwe Survivor of Political Violence Meets Fifty North American College Freshman: ‘Virtual’ Anthropological Fieldwork in the Undergraduate Classroom.”

“Main Lounge” Room – Panel Disscussion
Chair: Ernst Jouthe, Université de Québec à Montréal.
Erin Parish and Conrado Uribe, “Colombian Tales of Exile and Reparation.”

16:45 Break

17:00 Montefiore Room – Commentaries on Friday’s Themes and Questions.
Chair: Steven High, Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling
Elizabeth Miller, Communications, Concordia University.
Ted Little, Department of Theatre, Concordia.
Bronwen Lowe, Department of Education, McGill University.
Henry Greenspan, Psychology, University of Michigan.

17:30 Meal Time at nearby restaurants.

19:30 Montefiore Room – Table Reading - Public session
Chair: Rahul Varma, Teesri Duniya Theatre.
Shahrzad Arshadi, “Untold History: Red Names and Je Me Souviens.”

20:45 Hexagram Black Box – Concordia University - Performance - Public session
Location – EV Building, 1515 St. Catherine Street West (corner MacKay) 3rd basement

Chair: Ted Little, Department of Theatre, Concordia.
Sandeep Bhagwati, “Gesturing Within a Realm of Shadows.”

21:30 End

Available All Day in Montefiore Lounge - Art Installation
Emily Willard, “Juana’s Womb.”

8:00 - 11:00 – Registration

8:30 Montefiore Room – Autobiography and Oral History, Part I
Chair: Jaswant Guzder, Psychiatry, McGill University.
Chantal Ringuet, « Les sang des ruines: Transmettre l’experience de la Shoah du lieu de l’autre »
Danielle Taana Smith, “Survivors: Liberian Refugee Women, Memory and Meaning.”
Mxolisi Mchunu, “The Psychological Effects of 1980s-1990s Political Violence on Children in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: An Auto-biographical Narrative.”

“Main Lounge” Room – The Politics of Remembering
Chair: Anna Sheftel, History, Oxford University.
Lindsay Dubois, “The Romance of Reminiscence: Methodological and Theoretical Problems Posed in Life Histories with Activist Pensioners in Argentina.”
Alissa Trotz, “The Politics of Memory and Place: Gender and the 1964 Racial Disturbances in Colonial Guyana.”

10:00-10:30 Nutrition Break in Montefiore Lounge

10:30 Montefiore Room – Oral histories from the Arab-Jewish Divide: Staying in and leaving Meknès (Morocco)
Chair: Gérard Rabinovitch, CNRS
Yolande Cohen, “Récits de vie de pratiques des immigrants juifs morocains à Montréal”
Emanuela Trevisan Semi, “How Muslims remember the departures of the Jews in contemporary Morocco (the case of Meknes).”

“Main Lounge” Room – Autobiography and Gesture
Chair: Na Li, Urban and Regional Planning, University of Massachusetts.
Anastasia Kamanos, “Recovering Identities: Ethnicity, Gender and Narrative.”
Sandeep Bhagwati, “Reflection on “Gesturing Within a Realm of Shadow””

11:30 Break

11:45 Montefiore Room - Soldiers’ Tales Untold: the aesthetics, theory, and administration of repatriation for returning veterans
Chair: Michael Kilbourne, Endicott Center for Oral History
Shaw Pong Lui , “Soldiers’ Tales Untold”.
Michael Kilbourne, “Trauma and narrative: oral history, art therapy, and frame analysis”
Scott Rothermel, “Repressed of the return: managing PTSD among returning veterans, a macro view”

“Main Lounge” Room – Youth Visions - Perspectives from Montreal's Refugee Youth
Chair/ Président de séance:  Gracia Jalea – Coordinator of “Mapping Memories”.
Antoine-Samuel Mauffette Alavo
Nantali Indongo
Jean Cenozier
Ayanda Keith Dube

12:45 Lunch provided in Salon ABC

13:45 Montefiore Room – Approaching Difficult Narratives
Chair: Eve-Lyne Cayouette Ashby, Histoire de vie Montréal.
Erin Jessee, “The Ethics of Oral History Among Conflicted Communities: Lessons Learned From Rwanda and Bosnia-Hercegovina.”
Marylin Bernard, « Réflexions sur les trajectoires déviées »
Stacey Zembrzycki and Anna Sheftel, “Working With ‘Difficult’ Stories: The Personal and Political Challenges of Interviewing Survivors of Mass Violence.”
Reisa Levine, “CitizenShift: Media for Social Change”

“Main Lounge” Room – Oral History En Masse
Chair: Steven High, Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling
Paul Conway, “Stories of Courageous Rescuers During Rwanda’s Genocide: Can They Help in the Reconciliation Process?”
D’Ann Penner, “Public Engagement in the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.”
Emeka Ndukwe, “Genocide in Slow Motion: The Igbo of Nigeria.”

15:30 – 16:00 Nutrition Break in Montefiore Lounge

16:00 Montefiore Room – Voices of Rwanda
Chair: Erin Jessee, Humanities, Concordia.
Taylor Krauss, “Methods in Oral History Interviewing.”

“Main Lounge” Room – Workshop
Chair: Frank Chalk, Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies.
Megan Webster and Noelia Gravotta , “Life in the Open Prison.”

17:00 Break

17:15 Montefiore Room – Commentaries on Saturday’s Themes and Questions
Chair: Steven High, Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling
Emanuelle Sonntag, Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre
Josias Semujanga, Université de Montréal.
Frank Chalk, Montreal Institute for Genocide Studies.
Emmanuel Habimana, Université de Québec à Trois Rivière

17:45 Supper at nearby restaurants

19:30 Montefiore Room–Performance - Public session
Chair: Susan Bell, Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling
Kahente Horn-Miller
Skywoman’s Great Granddaughters: Indigenous Women’s Tradition as Foundation Principles of Mother Culture

20:15 Montefiore Room - Keynote - Public session
Chair, Nolsina Yim, Communauté Angkorienne du Canada.
Callixte Kabayiza, Page-Rwanda.
"Souviens-toi: la mémoire des génocides et autres crimes contre l'humanité et la personne humaine, une passerelle obligée vers leur prévention"

21:30 End

8:30 Montefiore Room - Bearing Witness
Chair: Guylaine Racine, Professeure Agrégée Ecole de service Social, Université de Montréal
Josias Semujanga, "J'ai serré la main du diable - une critique"
Hourig Attarian, “Family Album as Story: Framing Narratives of Memory and Identity.”
Alice Botardo, "The Memories and Voices of World War II Lipa Survivors".

“Main Lounge” Room – Sites of Remembering
Chair: Natalie Pendergast, Université de Montréal
Amanda Grzyb, “Communicating Holocaust History: Experiential Education at Sites of Holocaust Memory.”
Tomoe Otsuki, “A Comparative Study of the Nagasaki and Hiroshima Memorial Museums.”
Laura Pomerantz, “Shimon Attie: Projecting Past Into Present.”

10:00-10:15 NUTRITION BREAK in Montefiore Lounge

10:15 Montefiore Room – Our Stories...: Using Oral Testimony to Examine and Redefine Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal Relationships.
Chair: Susan Bell, Centre for Oral History Digital Storytelling

Sara Fryer, Project Manager, Legacy of Hope Foundation and Senior Research Officer, Aboriginal Healing Foundation

“Main Lounge” Room – Workshop
Chair: Lisa Ndejuru, Isangano.
Tim Schwab, “The Archive, Art and Human Rights.”

11:15 BREAK

11:30 Montefiore Room – The Living Histories Theatre Ensemble
Chair: Nisha Sajnani, Creative Alternatives.
Nisha Sajnani, Alan Wong and Warren Linds
Enabling Collective Storytelling and Dialogue Through Performance in the Montreal Life Stories Project

“Main Lounge” Room – Workshop
Chair: Caroline Kunzle, Montreal Life Stories Project.
Herbert Roth, Deborah Roth-Howe and Leah Roth-Howe
Intergenerational Perspectives on the Holocaust

12:30 LUNCH provided in Salon ABC

13:30 Montefiore Room – Dialogue and Reconcilation I
Chair : Marylin Bernard, Histoire, Concordia.
Emmanuelle Sonntag, “Tu m’écoutes?”
Sharon Helfer, “Into the Heart of Dialogue.”
Regine King, “Stories for Healing and Reconciling.”

“Main Lounge” Room – After the Interview
Chair: Monique Mukabalisa, Page-Rwanda.
Valerie Love, “Learning From the Story: Creating Educational Partnerships Through Oral Histor y.”
Jessica Anderson, “ A Memory Book of the Ugandan Civil War.”
Solvej Berlau, “A Gap in Danish Memory Culture? Testimonies from the Danish Jews in Theresienstadt.”

15:00 Montefiore Room - Closing Remarks and Commentaries
Chair: Steven High, Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling
Commentators: Emanuelle Sonntag, Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre
Catherine Montgomery, Directrice scientifique, Equipe METISS (Migration, Ethnicité et Interventions en services sociaux et de santé

15:30 End
Have a safe journey home!