Some papers are not available due to authors' requests.   Saturday's and Sunday's roundtable discussions were not based on conference papers.

Panel: Institutionalizing Truth: Comparative Perspectives

Naomi Angel, New York University: “Exploring the Limits of Testimony: Contextualizing Truth and Reconciliation in Canada.”

Kim Stanton, University of Toronto: "Public Inquiries and Truth Commissions: Exploring Canada's Response to the Indian Residential Schools Legacy."

Matt James, University of Victoria: “Uncomfortable Comparisons: The Canadian TRC in the International Context.”

 

Panel: Communities and Reconciliation

Dale Turner, Dartmouth College, “On the Idea of Reconciliation in Contemporary Aboriginal Politics.”

Ravi da Costa and Kat Lapointe, York University: “Placing Reconciliation: Community-based possibilities for commemoration and education.”

 

Panel: Institutionalizing Truth: Comparative Perspectives II

Franklin Oduro, Carleton University: “The Limits of Truth Commissions: Informing the Canadian experience with comparative lessons from Nigeria and Ghana.”

Joanna R. Quinn, University of Western Ontario: “What Can the Indian Residential Schools Truth and Reconciliation Commission be Expected to Do?”

Jennifer Llewellyn, Dalhousie University, “The Relationship Between Truth and Reconciliation: Bridging the Gap" In From Truth to Reconciliation: Transforming the Legacy of Residential Schools, edited by Marlene Brant Castellano, Linda Archibald and Mike DeGagné, 183-203. Ottawa: Aboriginal Healing Foundation, 2008 at http://www.ahf.ca/publications/research-series.

 

Panel: The Politics of Truth and Reconciliation

Nadine Changfoot, Trent University: “Indian Residential Schools Truth and Reconciliation Commission: Whose Truth? Whose Reconciliation?

Kevin Fitzmaurice, University of Sudbury: “Identity, Recognition, and Reconciliation: Confronting Denial Towards an Aboriginal Canada.”

Robyn Green, Carleton University: “Healthy Citizenship: The Possibilities and Limitations of Healing through Truth and Reconciliation Commission Testimonies”

 

Panel: Looking Back, Reaching Forward: Policy Implication

Jim Frideres, University of Calgary: “Reconciliation for Whom? Aboriginal People and the Government of Canada.”

Jula Hughes, University of New Brunswick: “Processes of Truth and Reconciliation from the Royal Commission to the TRC.”

J.R. (Jim) Miller, University of Saskatchewan: “The Long and Winding Road to a Truth and Reconciliation Commission.”