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Day One, Monday 17^th November 2014

10.30– 11.00am	Registration and Tea/coffee on arrival
SESSION ONE: SETTING THE SCENE
11.00 – 11.30am	Welcome and Introductions
11.30 – 11.45am	Setting the Scene: Grainne Kelly, INCORE The Context of Storytelling and Archiving in and about the conflict in Northern Ireland
11.45am – 12.30pm	Plenary Session: Doug Boyd, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky.Curating Voices: Oral History Archives in the Digital Age. Q&A and Discussion
12.30pm – 2.00pm	Buffet Lunch and opportunity to hear from the curator of the Textile Accounts of Conflicts exhibition, Roberta Bacic, and to view information on local story gathering projects.
SESSION TWO: ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS
2.00pm  – 2.45pm	Plenary Session: Patricia Valdez, founding director of Memoria  Abierta, Argentina.Building memories: witnesses and oral archives. Q&A and Discussion
2.45pm – 4.45pm	Parallel Sessions: In-depth discussions on aspects of ethical considerations in collecting and archiving personal accounts and materials on sensitive topics. 2.1 Navigating the legal and ethical parameters of archiving 2.2 Creating  space for conflicting stories 2.3 The global dissemination of personal stories online – challenges and ethics 2.4  Archives, exclusion and forgotten voices
4.45pm – 5.45pm	Launch of the Accounts of the Conflict Archive Professor Richard Barnett, Vice-Chancellor, Ulster University Pat Colgan, Chief Executive, Special EU Programmes Body Dr James Nesbitt, Chancellor, Ulster University Professor Gillian Robinson, INCORE
5.45pm – 6.45pm	Buffet Dinner and opportunity to view Textile Accounts of Conflicts exhibition
6.45pm – 7.45pm	Telling Stories on Film: Screenings and DiscussionThree local projects will showcase extracts from films and documentaries which represent the diversity of stories related to the conflict in or about Northern Ireland which have been recorded in recent times. Prisons Memory Archive Peace Process: Layers of Meaning Glortha Aduaidh / Northern Voices  Q&A and discussion to follow

Day Two, Tuesday 18^th November 2014

9.00am – 9.30am	Registration and Tea/coffee on arrival
SESSION THREE: THE PRACTICAL DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A COMPLEX ARCHIVE
9.30am – 10.15am	Plenary Session: Professor Norman Duncan, Apartheid Archive, University of Pretoria.Considering the Ethics and Practices of the Apartheid Archive. Q&A and Discussion
10.15am – 12.15pm	Parallel Sessions: In-depth discussions on a range of practical issues related to the development of effective archives on complex topics. 3.1 Mind your Language:  The politics and practicalities of tagging and searching archives 3.2 Considerations in building a public digital archive: Reflecting on the experience of the Accounts of the Conflict project 3.3 Who is this for?  Creating a digital archive for a variety of audiences 3.4 Context and resources as factors in building an archive
SESSION FOUR: DISSEMINATION AND OUTREACH OF PERSONAL ACCOUNTS FOR PEACEBUILDING AND SOCIAL CHANGE
12.15pm – 1.00pm	Plenary Session:  Vesna Terselic, DOCUMENTA, Croatia.The role of personal memories in peace building – Reaching out to people who are still not listening – experience from Croatia. Q&A and Discussion
1.00pm – 2.00pm	Lunch
2.00pm – 4.00pm	Parallel Sessions: In-depth discussions on the opportunities and challenges of outreach/dissemination of personal accounts for social change and building peace. 4.1 What are the most effective ways to disseminate stories 4.2 Thinking of the next generation: engaging young people through the use of personal narratives of the conflict 4.3 Peace, Justice and Reconciliation: The role of archives in rebuilding societies and promoting social change
4.00pm – 4.15pm	Tea/Coffee
4.15pm – 4.30pm	Closing Plenary: Sumona Das Gupta,  Chair of the INCORE International Advisory Group Reflecting on conference themes, ways forward, future role of archives in peacebuilding