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DAY TWO - Wednesday, March 2, 2011 

7:30 am ROUNDTABLE BREAKFAST DISCUSSIONS - Participants can exchange ideas on specified themes over breakfast
8:30 am OPENING PRAYER
8:45 am –
9:30 am
Keynote Speaker:

Georges Erasmus
, Chair, Aboriginal Healing Foundation and Co-Chair, Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples
 9:30 am –
11:00 am
Documenting and Memorializing Human Rights Abuses in Latin America

Otilia Lux de Coti, Parliamentarian, Former member of Historical Clarification Commission; Former Vice-President of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, Guatemala

Maria Luisa Sepulveda, Executive Director
Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos, Chile

Cristian Correa, Senior Associate, Reparations Unit of the International Center for Transitional Justice, USA

11:00 am BREAK
11:15 am –
12:00 pm

Examples of Centres in BC 

Robert Banno, Founding President
National Nikkei Museum & Heritage Centre; President, Nikkei Place Foundation

Frieda Miller, Executive Director
Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre

12:00 pm –
1:15 pm
LUNCH

Keynote Speaker:

Phil Fontaine, President Ishkonigan Consulting and Mediation and former National Chief, Assembly of First Nations

1:15 pm –
2:30 pm
Indigenous Collections from North America

George Nicholas, Director, Intellectual Property Issues in Cultural Heritage, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC, Canada

David George-Shongo, Tribal Archives Director, Seneca Nation; Society of American Archivists - Native American Archives Roundtable; Protocols for Native American Archival Materials, Seneca Nation, USA

Richard West, Founding Director, National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI); Indian Boarding and Residential Schools, Sites of Conscience Project, USA

Jennifer O'Neal, Head Archivist, National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution; Society of American Archivists - Native American Archives Roundtable;  Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, USA

2:30 pm BREAK
2:45 pm –
4:00 pm

Australia, East Timor, Bangladesh and New Zealand

Joanna Sassoon, Project Manager: Forgotten Australians and Former Child Migrants Oral History Project at the National Library, Australia

Modiful Hoque, Trustee and Secretary, Liberation War Museum, Bangladesh

Patrick Walsh, Senior Advisor, Post-TRC Secretariat, East Timor

Judge Stephanie Milroy, Deputy Chair, Waitangi Tribunal, New Zealand

4:00 pm RAPPORTEUR
4:15 pm CLOSING PRAYER