Wednesday May 5

5:00- 7:00  Registration

7:00-7:45  Opening Session

The Memory Project: Stories of the Second World War, Andrew Theobald. The Historica-Dominion Institute, The Memory Project: Stories of the Second World War.

7:45 – 8:45  Reception

(Sponsored by The Historica-Dominion Institute, The Memory Project: Stories of the Second World War).

Thursday May 6

8:30-9:00 Registration

9:00-10:30  - Session 1 - Oral History Before the Tape Recorder.

1. “Yet all shall be forgot…”, Luke Reynolds,  Hunter College, CUNY.

2. Memory and Oral Tradition on the Great Plains: The Plains Indian Wars of the Nineteenth Century, Robert Lang, University of Wyoming.

3. The Origins of Asdic: The Transcripts of the Hearings of Royal Commissions on Awards to Inventors as a Source of Oral History, David Zimmerman, University of Victoria.

10:30-11:00 -- Break

11:00 – 12:00 – Session 2 -- The British Commonwealth Air Training Program.

1.  “God’s Gift to the Empire”: Canadian Veterans and the Memory of the British Commonwealth Air Training Program, Tyson Rosburg, University of Victoria.

2. The BCATP Revisited: The Wartime Evolution of Flight Training in Canada, Matthew Chapman, University of Victoria.

12:00 – 1:00 --  Lunch

1:00 – 2:00 - Session 3  – Military Oral History Program.

1.  The Added Value of Oral History Sources in a Military Context: Experiences from the Dutch Veterans Oral History Project, Stef Scagliola, Dutch Veterans Interview Project, Netherlands Institute for Veterans.

2.  The Making of The Veterans: A Documentary.  The Impact of War on the Evolution and History of Canada, Canadian Society, and the Canadian Forces as Told Through the Words of Veterans.  Daniel R Rodrique and Colonel (Ret'd) Andrew Nellestyn.

 2:00 – 3:30 – Session 4 – Women, Youth, and Racism in the Second World War.

1.  Skulls of Our Grandfathers: The Social Life of Pacific War Trophies, Lucas Erickson, Independent Scholar.

2.  America’s Youngest Soldiers: Fighting Underage in the Second World War, Joshua Pollarine, Historical Research Associates, Inc. of Missoula, Montana.

3.  The Soviet Female Experience as Soldiers in World War II, Roger Reese, Texas A&M University.

3:30 – 4:00 –  Break

4:00 – 5:30 --  Session 5– Oral History and Soldiers in the Second World War.

1.  Can Wartime Reporting be a Source of Second World War Oral History?, Timothy Balzer, University of Victoria.

2.  "Get what you can in a week and come back": S.L.A. Marshall and the European Theatre Historical Interrogations of 1945, James Wood, University of Victoria.

7:00 – 8:30  –  Banquet – The Forum Restaurant, 612 Fisgard St

Friday May 7

8:30 – 10:00 - Session 6 – Ethnicity and Military Service in the Two World Wars. 

1.  Chinese Canadians in the First and Second World Wars, Judy Maxwell, Chinese Canadian Military Museum.

2.  Choctaw Code-Talkers of WWI: Knowledge and Perceptions, Jessica Rae Mozelle Houser, University of California, Berkeley.

 0:00 – 10:30 -- Break

10:30 – 11:30 .- Session 7 – Veterans Recollections in the Second Half of the 20th Century.

1.  “The best two years…”: Narratives of Royal Roads Military College (RRMC)Ex-cadets (1940-1995), Karen Inkster, Royal Roads University.

2.  Sydney F. Wise and the Writing of Men in Arms, Roger Sarty, Wilfrid Laurier University.

3.  Soldiers Like Rules: An Examination and the Necessity and  Desirability of ROE to Soldiers in the Field, Liz Williams, University of Victoria and CAF.

11:30 – 12:30 – Lunch

12:30 – 2:00 – Session 8 - Contemporary Use of Oral History.

1.  Researching Military Families in the Canadian Forces: The Intersection of Social Science and History, Stefan Wolejszo, Department of National Defence.

2.  Building Partner Capacity in War: The Experience of US Army  Special Forces Soldiers in Iraq, 2003-2009, Michael Richardson, University of California at Los Angeles.

3.  Researching Vulnerable Groups in the Canadian Forces through Personal Interview: Methodological and Ethical Considerations, Craig Leslie Mantle, Canadian Forces Leadership Institute & Centre for Military and Strategic Studies, University of Calgary, and Justin C. Wright, Canadian Forces Leadership Institute.