INTRODUCTION. Edward Little (Concordia University, Theatre) and Steven High (Concordia University, History)
I Turning Private History into Public Knowledge
Chapter 1. Voices, Places and Spaces. Henry Greenspan (University of Michigan, Social Psychology and Social Ethics)
Chapter 2. So Far from Home. Lorne Shirinian (Royal Military College of Canada, Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature)
II Performing Human Rights
Chapter 3. Soldiers’ Tales Untold: Trauma, Narrative and Remembering through Performance. Michael Kilburn (Endicott College, Political Science)
Chapter 4. Lamentations: A Gestural Theatre in the Realm of Shadows. Sandeep Bhagwati (Concordia University, Theatre and Music)
Chapter 5. Turning Together: Playback Theatre, Oral History, and Arts-Based Research in the Montreal Life Stories Project. Nisha Sajnani (New York University, Drama Therapy), Alan Wong (Concordia University, Special Individualized Program), Warren Linds (Concordia University, Applied Human Sciences), Lisa Ndejuru (Concordia University, Special Individualized Program)
Chapter 6. Stories Scorched From the Desert Sun: Performing Testimony, Narrating Process. Hourig Attarian (Concordia University, Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling) and Rachael Van Fossen (Concordia University, Theatre)
III Oral History and Digital Media
Chapter 7. Oral History in the Age of Social Media Networks: Life Stories on CitizenShift and Parole Citoyenne. Reisa Levine (The Banff Centre, Arts)
Chapter 8. Co-Creating Our Story: Making a Documentary Film. Noelia Gravotta (Life in the Open Prison) and Megan Webster (Life in the Open Prison)
Chapter 9. Connecting the Dots: Memory, Multimedia and Community Information Integration in Northern Uganda. Jessica Anderson (George Washington University, Political Science) and Rachel Bergenfield (Yale University, International Relations)
Chapter 10. Arrival Stories: Using Media to Create Connections in a Refugee Residence. Michele Luchs (Ministry of Education) and Liz Miller (Concordia University, Communications)
IV Life Stories
Chapter 11. “So you want to hear our ghetto stories?”: Oral History at Ndinawe Youth Resource Centre. Robin Jarvis Brownlie (University of Manitoba, History) and Roewan Crowe (University of Winnipeg, Women’s and Gender Studies)
Chapter 12. Dishonour, Dispersion, and Dispossession: Race and Rights in 21st-Century North America—A View from the Lower Ninth Ward. D’Ann Penner (University of California at Berkeley, History)
Chapter 13. The Romance of Reminiscence: Problems Posed in Life Histories with Activist Pensioners in Argentina. Lindsay DuBois (Dalhousie University, Sociology and Social Anthropology)
Chapter 14. Mémoires des Migrations de juifs marocains à Montréal. Yolande Cohen (Université du Québec à Montréal, History)
V Rwanda in the Aftermath of Genocide
Chapter 15. Viols des femmes Tutsi pendant le génocide: témoignage de Mme Athanasie. Athanasie Mukarwego (Village of Hope)
Chapter 16. Les viols pendant le génocide des Tutsi: un crime d’envie. Emmanuel Habimana (The Children Who Lived), Carole Vacher (Montreal Life Stories), Berthe Kayitesi (University of Ottawa) and Callixte Kabayiza (Rwanda Working Group)
Chapter 17. Hearing the Untold Story: Documenting LGBTI Lives in Rwanda. Valerie Love (Human Rights Collections at University of Connecticut Thomas J. Dodd Research Center)
AFTERWORD. Thi Ry Duong (Montreal Life Stories)
