Please note: individual names are not listed alphabetically in the case of collaborative work, use the left menu to locate whichever name you seek.

Arshadi, Shahrzad
Montreal Life Stories
“It Must Not Happen Again!”
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Ashby, Eve-Lyne Cayouette
Community-University Research Alliance
"Nous sommes ici: le projet Histoires de vie Montréal mis en exposition."
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Baker, Catherine
University of Southampton/University College London
“‘We interpreters were the first ones to cross the lines’: dealing with oral histories of language, conflict and work in 1990s Bosnia-Herzegovina.”
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Beer, Max
Montreal Life Stories
“Postwar: Holocaust Survivors and the Montreal Jewish Community.”
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Bookstein, Denah S. and Rita G. Clancy
Community Activist, Jewish Family and Children's Services, East Bay, Berkeley CA
"Finding Their Voices: Empowered by Sharing."
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Castaneda, Sue
Wyoming State Archives
“Cokeville, Wyoming Elementary School Bombing.”
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Chhem, Rémy et Marie-Ève Samson
Centre Khémara/Histoires de vie Montréal
"À l'orée de la jungle : l'agency à travers des histoires de vie de Cambodgiens de Montréal déplacés par la guerre"
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Chaitin, Julia
Sapir College
“This is my story, this is our story: Using biographical methods for research and peace-building.”
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Cohen, Rose Lerer
University of Hull
“Interviewing and Introspection Emotions and Intellect: Shaping Research.”
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Cole, Tim
University of Bristol
“(Re)placing the past: Placing self and others in traumatic memory.”
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Costa, Lucy and Jijian Voronka
The Empowerment Council / OISE
“Beyond ‘Patient Porn’: Tragedy, Testimony and the Exploitation of Stories in the Lives of the ‘Mentally Ill.’”
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Ekmekcioglu, Lerna
MIT
“To Collect is to Recollect: Sexualized Violence in the First Survivor Testimonies after the 1915 Armenian Genocide .”
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Ellis, Carolyn and Jerry Rawicki
University of South Florida
“Collaborative Witnessing: Narrating Tales of Jewish Luck and Agency during the Holocaust.”
Abstract Paper (Ellis Carolyn)

Foisy, Catherine
Concordia University
“The Risky Business of Mission Storytelling from Rwanda to Canada.”
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Foster, Gavin
Concordia University
“Civil War, Exile, and Post-Memory among the Irish Diaspora: Recording an Oral History of Silence”
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Freund, Alexander and Mario Jimenez
University of Winnipeg
“Working Toward Trust and Structural Healing: Oral History as Participatory Action Research.”
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Gandsman, Ari
University of Ottawa
“Testimonies of Trauma, Human Rights, and the Reproduction of Conventional Knowledge.”
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Gelfand, Rachel
Brooklyn, NY
“Framing the Past: Traumatic Memory and Transgenerational Transmission in the Case of A Collection of Holocaust Drawings.”
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Greenspan, Henry
University of Michigan
“Knowing With Survivors: The Sustaining Promise of Collaborative Work.”
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Gubbay-Helfer, Sharon
Concordia University
“Report on a Palestinian Canadian Life Stories Pilot Project.”
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Habimana, Emmanuel
Université de Québec à Trois Rivières
“Le pardon sans demande de pardon.”
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Hébert, Valerie 
Lakehead University in Orillia
“The Trauma of Testimony: Current Challenges in Post-Atrocity Justice.”
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Herd, Alexander W.G.
Historica-Dominion Institute
“‘We Will Remember Them’: The Oral History of Canada’s Korean War.”
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High, Steven
Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling
“Interviewing Survivors: From Testimony to Life Story.”
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Jessee, Erin
Carleton University
“Incensing the Spirits, Betraying the People: Survivor Perspectives on International Forensic Investigations in the Aftermath of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide.”
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Kabayiza, Callixte; Sandra Gasana and Sandra Isimbi
Page-Rwanda
“La transmission intergénérationnelle de la mémoire du genocide des Tutsi du Rwanda.”
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Kayitesi, Berthe
Université d’Ottawa
“Apprendre le génocide : travailler AVEC et PAS SUR les rescapés.”
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Kilburn, Michael
Endicott University
“Soldiers’ Tales (Un)told: Oral history, trauma, and reconciliation.”
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King, Régine Uwibereyeho
CAMH, Social Aetiology of Mental Illness Post-Doctoral Fellow
“Individual and Community Healing through the Sharing of Stories between the Tutsi and the Hutu in Post-Genocide Rwanda.”
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Kozinski, Emily
McGill University
“When Archival Records Documenting Mass Violence are Destroyed: How Oral Testimony Can be Used to Document the Past”
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Kunzle, Caroline and Lorna Roth
“LIFE STORY, ORAL HISTORY AND RADIO or “Can you tell us your story in 15 minutes or less?””
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Lehrer, Erica and Monica Eileen Patterson
University of Concordia, Centre for Ethnographic Research and Exhibition in the Aftermath of Violence (CEREV)
“Towards a Multi-layered Ethics: Teaching Testimony through Curating.”
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Little, Edward
Concordia University
“Working Title: What the Hell are We Doing Here?”
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Liu, Sarah
University of California – Berkeley
“Resentment and the Question of Community.”
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Low, Bronwen E. and Emmanuelle Sonntag
McGill University and UQAM
“From Listening to Broadcasting our Listening: Toward a Pedagogy of Listening.”
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Marchetti, Florencia; Matthew Foster; Rachel Rotrand and Alejandro Yoshizawa
Concordia University
“A Storyteller’s Story.”
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Marlin-Curiel, Stephanie
Independent Scholar
“Mediatized Memory: Reimagining subjectivity in Global Performance about the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission.”
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Martelly, Stéphane
Histoires de vie Montréal
“Écrire dans / devant l’histoire : Savoirs de la violence et savoirs de la creation.”
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McKirdy, Carol
Sydney Australia
“Sudanese Refugees in the Sutherland Shire – a Moving Community.”
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Moisan, Sabrina; Eszter Andor et Cornélia Strickler
Centre commémoratif de l’Holocauste à Montréal,
“Témoins de l’histoire: l’Holocauste comme mémoire.”
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Morrison, Heidi
University of Wisconsin, La Crosse
“Remembering Strength, Forgetting Fear: Interviews with Palestinians who Grew up during the Second Intifada.”
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Muller, Adam and Struan Sinclair
University of Manitoba
“Trauma, Testimony, and Technology: Augmentive Reality in the Modern Museum.”
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Musikawong, Sudarat
Siena College
“Violent Forgetting: Thailand’s October Massacres, 1976-2011.”
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Mutagombwa, Gilbert
University of Kabale
“Trauma healing projects in Rwanda: Transforming Wounds into Potential Healing for Widows of the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda.”
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Neyra, Renato
Université de Montréal
“Flor de retama: Le chant de la mémoire en temps de violence politique (Pérou 1980-2000).”
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Neyzi, Leyla
Sabanci University 
“Postmemories of violence: Kurdish youth as interlocutors and participants in an oral history project .”
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Parish, Erin
Duke University
“Remaking Home: The Politics and Practice of Return in Columbia.”
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Patti, Chris J.
University of South Florida
“Digging through Our Stories Together: A Holocaust Survivor and Ethnographer’s Ongoing Conversation.”
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Pelletier, Marie
Concordia University
“Understanding the World through Religion? Stories of Karma, Miracles and Premonition in Life Narratives of Cambodian Refugees.”
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Petrović, Tanja
Documenta, Center for Dealing with the Past
“Unveiling personal memories on war and detention.”
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Pohlman, Annie
University of Queensland
“The Risks of Telling Stories about Torture in Indonesia.”
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Roth, Lorna and Caroline Kunzle
“About Face:  A Reflection on the Technologies of Capture and the Place of the Face in the Oral History Research Process.”
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Roy, Lucie
Université Laval
“De l’identité narrative au principe de l’authenticité du récit de témoignages.”
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Sajnani, Nisha, Lisa Ndejuru, Warren Linds and Alan Wong
“Permeable Possibilities: Storying the Spaces Between Oral History, Trauma,and Performance.”
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Scaglioli, Stef
Erasmus University Rotterdam
“Idolize or understand? Some critical remarks on Oral History in the Aftermath of Mass Violence.”
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Sheftel, Anna and Stacey Zembrzycki
University Saint Paul / Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytellling
“‘Questions are More Important than Answers’: Creating Collaborative Workshop Spaces with Holocaust Survivor-Educators in Montreal.”
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Smith, Amy
Yale University
“Changing Narrative Constructions of Traumatic Memory by Survivors: A Case Study of Leon Weliczker Wells.”
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Stockwell, Jill
Institute of Social Research at Swinburne University
“Emotions, Deep Memory and Haunting – their role in sustaining entrenched ideological and political divisions in Argentina”
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Storey, Robert
McMaster University
“‘Pessimism of the Intellect, Optimism of the Will’: Engaging with the ‘Testimonies’ of Injured Workers.”
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Strauss, Jill.
John Jay College, CUNY
“Compatible or Competing: Oral History and Conflict Transformation in an Intergenerational Visual Art Project in Northern Ireland”
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Takenaka, Akiko
University of Kentucky
“Victim Narratives, Perpetrator Narratives: Reconciling divergent voices from the past for a productive future.”
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Taylor, Lisa (Bishop’s University), Sollange Umwali (Central Neighbourhood House), Marie-Jolie Rwigema (University of Toronto), Natasha Nsabimana (Columbia University), Shelley Kyte, Tracy Tham (TDSB) and Jan Haskings-Winner (OISE)
“Critical Reflexivity and the Politics of Knowledge Production in Genocide Education: The Ethics of Learning from Rwandan Survivor Communities: Critical Reflexivity and the Politics of Knowledge Production in Genocide Education.”
Abstract Paper (Taylor, Rwigema,Umwali)

Tindemans, Klaas and Hans-Werner Kroesinger
Brussels
“The (im)possibility of theatrical representation: Reflections about exemplary dramatizations of the Rwandan genocide.”
Abstract Paper (Klaas Tindemans)

Trofanenko, Brenda M
Acadia University.
“‘Do you always talk about the same sadness?’ The Limits of Testimony and Memory.”
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Utakis, Sharon
Bronx Community College, CUNY
“Selective Nostalgia and Life after Trujillo.”
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Varma, Rahul
Teesri Duniya Theatre
“Personalizing Stories: State of Denial.”
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Vacher, Carole et Monique Mukabalisa
Histoires de vie Montréal/Page Rwanda
“Entre le silence et la parole: exemple des survivants du génocide des Tutsi du Rwanda.”
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Vice, Sue
University of Sheffield
“Claude Lanzmann's Shoah and the Question of Testimony.”
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Waltzer, Kenneth
Michigan State University
“Utilizing Survivor Testimony to Tell the Story of Rescue Inside a Concentration Camp.”
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Wilson, Rob; Nicola Fairbrother, Kathryn Harvey, Moyra Lang, Leilani Muir and Anne Pasek
“Survivorship for the Subhuman: Testimony, Narrative, and Memory in the Context of Canadian Eugenics.”
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