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Program

DAY ONE - Tuesday, March 1, 2011

7:00 am	REGISTRATION AND CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST
8:30 am	OPENING PRAYER
8:45 am – 10:00 am	WELCOME AND OVERVIEW Justice Murray Sinclair, Chair Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada Brad Morse, Dean of Law, University of Waikato Te Piringa, New Zealand Trudy Huskamp Peterson, Certified Archivist and author of Final Acts: A Guide to Preserving the Records of Truth Commissions, USA
10:00 am	BREAK
10:15 am – 12:00 pm	Documenting and Memorializing Human Rights Abuses in Africa Doudou Diène, Chair of the Board International Coalition of Sites and Programs of Conscience; formerly UN Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance, Senegal Freddy Mutanguha, Executive Director Kigali Memorial Centre, Rwanda Catherine Kennedy, Executive Director South Africa History Archives, South Africa Tom Adami, Chief, Archives and Records Management United Nations Mission in Sudan, Sudan
12:00 pm – 1:15 pm	LUNCH Keynote Speaker: Stephen Smith, Executive Director, Shoah Foundation
1:15 pm – 2:45 pm	Documenting and Memorializing the Holocaust Joanne Rudof, Archivist Fortunoff Foundation, Yale University, USA Susanne Urban, Head of Research International Tracing Service, Germany Kim Simon, Managing Director USC Shoah Foundation Institute, USA
2:45 pm	BREAK
3:00 pm – 5:00 pm	Archiving for Advocacy Kate Doyle, Senior Analyst, National Security Archive, George Washington University, USA Grace Lile, Director of Operations and Archives WITNESS, New York, USA Marijana Toma, Coalition for RECOM; former Serbia Programme Coordinator; Impunity Watch, Humanitarian Law Centre, Serbia Ramon Albrech, Director, School of Archivists and Document Administration at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, former President, Archivists without Borders, Spain
5:00 pm	RAPPORTEUR - Karen Busby, founding Director, University of Manitoba Centre for Human Rights Research.
5:15 pm	CLOSING PRAYER
6:30 pm – 8:30 pm	NETWORKING RECEPTION

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

DAY THREE - Thursday, March 3, 2011

8:30 am	OPENING PRAYER
8:45 am - 10:00 am	Perspectives from Canada Ann Stevenson, Information Manager UBC Museum of Anthropology, Vancouver Stuart Murray, President and Chief Executive Officer Canadian Museum for Human Rights, Winnipeg, Manitoba Daniel Caron, Librarian and Archivist of Canada, Ottawa Ernie Ingles, President of the Canadian Association of Research Libraries, Vice Provost and Director, School of Library and Information Studies, University of Alberta, Edmonton
10:00 am	BREAK
10:15 am - 12:00 pm	Perspectives from Canada (continued) Madeleine Redfern, Mayor of Iqaluit, former Executive Director Qikiqtani Truth Commission Stephen Augustine, Curator of Ethnology, Eastern Maritimes, Canadian Museum of Civilization, Ottawa Nika Collison, Associate Curator, Haidai Gwaii Museum at Kay Llnagaay Paul Quassa, Mayor of Igloolik, Vice-Chair, Nunavut Planning Commission; President, Nunavut Film Development Corporation; former chief negociator of Tungavik Federation of Nunavut.
12:00 pm – 1:15 pm	LUNCH ON YOUR OWN
1:15 pm – 2:30 pm	Observations and Reflections from the Parties to the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement
2:30 pm	BREAK
2:45 pm – 4:00 pm	Observations and Reflections from the members of the TRC Survivors Committee
4:00 pm	RAPPORTEUR
4:15 pm	Closing comments from the TRC Commissioners
4:45 pm	CLOSING PRAYER