Thursday, May 5th (at Cinémathèque québécoise)
335 Boulevard de Maisonneuve Est, Montreal, QC H2X 1K1, (514) 842-9763

Free entry (But tickets for the movies have to be purchased at the Cinémathèque québécoise. General Public: $7 Students: $6, student card required)

4:30 pm          Registration
5 pm Reception Classical dance by the Angkorian Community of Canada (10 min) Opening allocutions: Eve-Lyne Cayouette-Ashby, Thi Ry Duong and Ravann Runnath, CURA; Rithy Panh and Alex Hinton, keynotes; (30mn)
6:30 pm Session 1.1 - Documentary Screening  Paul Tom: Short-animated film “Que je vive en paix” (May I live in peace) (4 min) Rithy Panh: “Le papier ne peut pas envelopper la braise” (Paper Cannot Wraps Ember) (2007, 1:30) Chair: Chantal Mallen (Writer “L’arbre et la pagode”, former community worker in Cambodia) 8:30 pm Reception 9:00 pm Session 1.2 - Documentary Screening  Rithy Panh: “Les gens de la rizière” (Rice people) (1994, 2:05)

Friday, May 6th (Concordia University, H 767 et H 762, Cinéma De Sève)
1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd W, Montreal, QC, Canada - H3G 1M8

8:30 am Registration 9:00 am (Room H 767) Session 2 - Round Table: Before “Year Zero” Sereikhuoch Eng: “The Role of Possessions in Identity Construction of the 1970s-1980s Cambodian Generation” Ven Runnath (Genocide survivor) Savary Chhem-Kieth (Genocide exile) Chair: Micheline Lévesque (Droits et Démocratie)

10:30 am
Break

10:45 am (Room H 767)
Session 3 - Cambodian narrative: Peace, War, Revolution and Terror

Elizabeth Becker: “Journalistic account from Cambodia in the 1970s”

Frank Chalk: “A Cambodian Tragedy: The Khmer Rouge Power”,

Chair: Manuel Litalien (UQAC)

12:15 pm
Lunch

1:30 pm (Room H 767)
Session 4 - Life Stories: Khmer collective memory and its challenges

Steven High: “Narratives of Loss and Remembrance: Interviewing Survivors of the Cambodian Genocide in Montreal”

Rémy Chhem, Cambodian Group/CURA

Carol Fujimura: “Multiple Memories, Multiple Selves: The Nature of Change & Narrative”
                         
Niborom Young: “Unspoken words: Ten Cambodian Refugee Women in New Zealand”

Chair: Eve-Lyne Cayouette-Ashby (CURA)

3:00 pm
Break

3:15 pm (Room H 762)
Session 5.1 - Art in Memory

Séra (Phoussera Ing) : “Les ateliers de la mémoire - Surlendemain de cendres” (The memory workshops)

Marie Lavorel : “Le cinéma documentaire de Rithy Panh comme cadre d’une expérience cathartique et espace symbolique de la circulation de la parole” (The Documentary Cinema of Rithy Panh as The Framework of a Carthatic Experience and a Symbolic Space for Speech Circulation)

Michael Mascuch: "The Art of Atrocity: Memorializing the Cambodian Genocide in Photography." 

Chair: Ariane Mathieu (CURA)

3:15 pm (Room H 767)
Session 5.2 - Transmission and Memory Making: Showing, Telling

Judy Ledgerwood: “Witnessing the Cambodian Killing Fields – Using Live Histories to Create a Museum Exhibit on Khmer Rouge Atrocities”

Carla Shapiro: “The Pasts and Present of the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum: Legacies, Naming, Justice”

Toni Shapiro-Phim: “Silences, and the Staging of History”

Chair: Paul Tom (CURA)

4:45 pm (Room H 767)
Session 6 - Round table: “Life” and “survival” under the Pol Pot regime

Muy Len Pong (Genocide survivor)

Asiroh Cham and Julie Thi Underhill: “Memories and Legacies of Cham Genocide in Cambodia: Testimony and Witness through Diasporic Documentary”

Chair: Sabrina Moisan (Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre)

6:15 pm
Break

6:30 pm (Room H 767) Free Entry
Session 7 - Discussion : “The Paradox of Perpetration: Perpetrators, Prisons, and the Genocidal process”

Keynote
Alex Hinton

Chair: Manuel Litalien (UQAC)

7:30 pm
Dinner

8:30 pm (Cinéma De Sève)
Session 8 - Documentary screening: “Enemies of the People” (2009, 93 min)

Discussion panel with the co-director Rob Lemkin (via skype)

Chair: TBD

Saturday, May 7th (Concordia University, H 767 et H 762, Cinéma De Sève)
1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd W, Montreal, QC, Canada - H3G 1M8

8:30 am
Registration

9:00 am (Room H 767)
Session 9 - Engaging Students with History: the Hong Kong International School project and the Award-Winning Student Documentaries “Life in the Open Prison” and “Regard sur le Chili” (Looks upon Chile), Forces Avenir 2010.

Michael J. Kersten: “Asian History in Action: Cambodia”

Noelia Gravotta et Megan Webster: “Life in the Open Prison”

Vanaka Chhem-Kieth, Léa Sowa-Quéniart and Nicolay Boyadjiev: “Regard sur le Chili”

Chair: Emmanuelle Sonntag (CURA)

10:30 am
Break

10:45 am (Room H 767)
Session 10 - Justice: impunity, amnesty, reconciliation?

Robert Petit: “Discussion on justice and on the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) by the ex Co-Prosecutor in the ECCC”

Peter Leuprecht: “Cambodge: l'interminable attente de justice” (Cambodia: endlessly waiting for justice)

Jean-Bosco Iyakaremye : “Les tribunaux Gacaca au Rwanda” (The Gacaca tribunals in Rwanda)

Chair: Louis-Jacques Dorais (Laval University)

12:15 pm
Lunch

1:30 pm (Room H 767)
Session 11.1 - Living together again?

Astrid Norén-Nilsson: “The (Im)Possibility of Cambodian Nationalism - Views from Former Khmer Rouge Fommunities”

Yenly Thach: “The Repatriation Process of Cambodian Refugees”

Trina McKinlay: “Shifting Identity, Traumatic Memory and Community Integration: Lessons from the Past?”

Chair: Remy Chhem (CURA)

1:30 pm (Room H 762)
Session 11.2 - Round table: "Generation 1.5 and the next generation in the diaspora”

Paul Tom (Director): “Documentary on the young Khmer generation in the diaspora” (2011, 20 mn)

Séreyrath Srin: Director of the “Integration Corporation in Saguenay”

Chantria Tram: Play “Someone Between” (10 min) and reflections

Chair: Judith Dorvil (Radio-Canada)

3:00 pm (Room H 767)
Session 12.1 - Present narrative and the enduring past

Elizabeth Becker: “When the War was Over”

Leakhena Nou: “Psychological Legacies of Genocide: The ongoing Crisis of Cambodian Trauma and Social Health”

Chair: Davy Eng (CURA)

3:00 pm (Room H 762)
Session 12.2 - Workshop

Groupe Living Histories Theatre Ensemble: “Playback Theatre”

Chair: Neal Santamaria (CURA)

4:15 pm
Break

4:30 pm (Room H 767)
Session 13 - How to Reinvent Ourselves?

Sophal Ear: "Reinventing Ourselves After Genocide: Justice for Past and Accountability for the Future"

Chivy Sok:“From Surviving to Thriving: One Cambodian American Woman’s Transformative Journey in International Human Rights Work”

Chair: Vanaka Chhem-Kieth (CURA)

5:45 pm (Room H 767) Free Entry
Session 14 - The Bophana Centre and Khmer Memory

Keynote
Rithy Panh

Chair: Lakhsmi Nguon (Radio-Canada)

Closing allocutions (CURA panel): Vinita Ok, Ysa Cao, Nolsina Yim. (5 min /each pers.)

6:30 pm (Cinéma De Sève)
Reception

7:45 pm (Cinéma De Sève)
Session 15 - Documentary projection :

Survive, In the Heart of the Khmer Rouge Madness (2009, 1:37)

Director: Roshane Saidnattar