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SUMMARY:Online Book Launch: Colonial Paradigms of Violence: Comparative Analysis of the Holocaust\, Genocide\, and Mass Killing
DESCRIPTION:The Wiener Holocaust Library and the Holocaust Research Institute at Royal Holloway\, University of London\, are delighted to host this event as part of our of Holocaust and Genocide Partnership activities. \nPart of the Racism\, Antisemitism\, Colonialism and Genocide event series  \nThis volume of European Holocaust Studies edited by Michelle Gordon and Rachel O’Sullivan brings together a collection of peer-reviewed research articles by scholars of the Holocaust\, genocide\, and colonialism. The book explores the key concepts and themes of the historiographical challenges that scholars are grappling with in recent work connected to Hannah Arendt’s ‘boomerang thesis’ and Raphael Lemkin’s definition of genocide and the importance of its colonial dimensions. This volume provides examples of how fruitful academic research can be in bridging the gap between studies of empire and the Holocaust\, but it also offers assessments of the potential analytical weaknesses and pitfalls of such an approach. Topics include colonial disease control and human experimentation in Nazi Germany; cultural genocide\, post-colonialism and Nazi genocide; US colonial violence in the Nazi imagination; cartography and post-colonialism in Holocaust Studies. \nIn conversation with Thomas Kühne\, the volume’s editors and several of its contributors\, this event will focus on the entanglements of the Holocaust and colonial histories and reflect upon more recent highly charged discussions on the Holocaust\, its legacies and debates on education and remembrance. \nThese include the ‘nationalisation’ of Holocaust history\, which informs political and public narratives and then feeds back into memory wars both within the European metropoles and the ‘peripheries’ that were once violently occupied. Such topics highlight that it is not only Germany that is engaged in debates on the Holocaust\, memorialisation\, ‘decolonisation’ and attempts to come to terms with the past (‘Vergangenheitsbewältigung’). \nAbout the speakers: \nThomas Kühne the Strassler Colin Flug Chair in the Study of Holocaust History and the Director of the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University. His research explores the relation of war\, genocide\, and society\, long-term traditions of political culture and political emotions in Europe\, and the problem of locating the Holocaust and Nazi Germany in the continuities and discontinuities of the 20th century. His recent publications include the monographs The Rise and Fall of Comradeship: Hitler’s Soldiers\, Male Bonding and Mass Violence in the 20th Century (Cambridge University Press\, 2017)\, and Belonging and Genocide. Hitler’s Community\, 1918-1945 (Yale University Press\, 2010). \nRachel O’Sullivan is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Center for Holocaust Studies\, Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History in Munich. She has published in the Journal of Genocide Research\, the Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History\, and Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte (with Frank Bajohr). She is currently working on her first monograph on similarities and dissimilarities between colonialism and Nazi Germany’s inclusionary and exclusionary population policies in annexed Poland. \nMichelle Gordon is a researcher at the Hugo Valentin Center at Uppsala University\, Sweden\, and currently heads the project ‘The “Civilized” Nature of Nineteenth-Century Warfare? British and German Practices of Violence in Colonial and Intra-European Wars.’ Gordon is the author of Extreme Violence and the ‘British Way’: Colonial Warfare in Perak\, Sierra Leone and Sudan\, published as part of Bloomsbury’s ‘Empire’s Other Histories’ series in 2020. \nAleksandra Szczepan is a literary scholar\, co-founder and member of the Research Centre for Memory Cultures at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków and a collaborator of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in oral history projects in Poland and Spain. She authored the book “Realista Robbe-Grillet” (2015) on 20th century redefinitions of realism. She has been recipient of scholarships from the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies\, the USHMM\, the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure and the Polish National Science Centre. She is currently working on a book project dedicated to the role of maps in Holocaust testimony. \nDorota Glowacka is Professor of Humanities at the University of King’s College in Kjipuktuk/Halifax\, Canada. Glowacka is the author of Po tamtej stronie: świadectwo\, afekt\, wyobraźnia (From the Other Side: Testimony\, Affect\, Imagination\, 2017) and Disappearing Traces: Holocaust Testimonials\, Ethics\, and Aesthetics (2012). She coedited Imaginary Neighbors: Mediating Polish-Jewish Relations after the Holocaust (2007) and Between Ethics and Aesthetics: Crossing the Boundaries (2002)\, and edited a special issue of Culture Machine entitled “Community” (2006). Glowacka has published numerous book chapters\, journal articles\, reviews\, and encyclopedia entries in the area of Holocaust and genocide studies\, critical theory\, and theories of gender. She is a member of the Academic Committee at the Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Research at the USHMM. Her current research focuses on gender and genocide\, and on the intersections of the Holocaust and settler colonial genocides in North America. \nEvent guidelines for those joining online:\n\n The Library will send you a Zoom link and joining instructions via email prior to the event. Please check your junk email folders.\nPlease try and join 5 minutes before the event start time and we will let you into the room (do try and bear with us if this takes a few minutes).\nIf you would like to ask a question during the event\, please type your question into the chat function\, and we will endeavour to answer as many questions as possible during the Q&A. Your webcam will not be seen during this event.\nThe event will be recorded for the Library’s YouTube channel and will be shared at a later date.\n\n 
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/online-book-launch-colonial-paradigms-of-violence-comparative-analysis-of-the-holocaust-genocide-and-mass-killing/
CATEGORIES:Genocide,HGRP,Racism,Racism and Antisemitism
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SUMMARY:Public Lecture: Shocking Photos: Holocaust Memorialisation\, Research and Teaching
DESCRIPTION:Public Lecture in partnership with Queen Mary\, University of London. This event is open to all and will take place in the David Sizer Lecture Theatre\, Bancroft Building\, Queen Mary University of London. \nAbout the Speaker:\nWendy Lower is an American historian and a widely published author on the Holocaust and World War II. Since 2012\, she holds the John K. Roth Chair at Claremont McKenna College in Claremont\, California\, and in 2014 was named the director of the Mgrublian Center for Human Rights at Claremont.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/public-lecture-shocking-photos-holocaust-memorialisation-research-and-teaching/
LOCATION:Queen Mary University of London\, Bancroft Building\, Queen Mary University of London\, Mile End Road\, London\, E1 4NS
CATEGORIES:Genocide
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SUMMARY:Virtual Panel and Film Talkback: Complicit and The Legacy of the St Louis
DESCRIPTION:The Wiener Holocaust Library and the Holocaust Research Institute at Royal Holloway\, University of London\, are delighted to host The Legacy of the St Louis Virtual Panel as part of its of Holocaust and Genocide Partnership activities.  This free online event will follow a screening of the documentary film\, Complicit\, and will include the creator and producer of the documentary\, Robert Krakow\, Esq.\, as well as former child refugee passengers on the MS St Louis. \nViewers will have access to view the award-winning documentary beginning on 17 July. During the event\, they will have the opportunity to hear from Mr Krakow and to ask questions and hear reflections from former passengers of the MS St Louis. \nComplicit is a fascinating blend of drama\, survivor interviews\, and actual footage retelling the story of the MS St. Louis\, a German luxury ocean liner\, that set sail from Hamburg\, Germany to Havana\, Cuba in the spring of 1939. The 937 mostly Jewish passengers were attempting to escape Nazi persecution. Turned away by the Cuban government and then thwarted by American and Canadian authorities\, the captain was forced to return the ship and its passengers to Europe where more than 250 passengers perished in death camps. The Hollywood Reporter\, in reviewing the film\, observed that “A shameful piece of WWII history is recounted firsthand” and a critical history lesson—not found in students’ textbooks today—is laid bare by the filmmaker. \nEvent guidelines for those joining online:\n\n  The Library will send you a Zoom link and joining instructions via email prior to the event. Please check your junk email folders.\nPlease try and join 5 minutes before the event start time and we will let you into the room (do try and bear with us if this takes a few minutes).\nIf you would like to ask a question during the event\, please type your question into the chat function\, and we will endeavour to answer as many questions as possible during the Q&A. Your webcam will not be seen during this event.\nThe event will be recorded for the Library’s YouTube channel and will be shared at a later date.\n\nAbout the speakers:\nJudith Steel evaded Nazi persecution in Germany as a child when a French Catholic family took her into their home—an experience that informed her view that love does not always fit within the neat confines of religion. She was the cantor at the New Synagogue in Manhattan.  She attended the 2009 70th Anniversary St. Louis passengers reunion in Miami Beach and signed Senate Resolution 111 which was accepted into the Treasures Vault of the National Archives.  Senate Resolution 111 was passed unanimously in May 2009 and acknowledged the importance of learning the lessons of the saga of the St. Louis.  Judith appears in the documentary film COMPLICIT\, which has been touring the US and internationally since 2014.  Judith together with Sonja Geismar and Eva Wiener participated in Canada’s apology ceremony in November 2018 where Prime Minister Justin Trudeau addressed the passengers in the House of Commons and offered his heartfelt apology for Canada’s refusal to grant safe haven to the passengers aboard the SS St. Louis. \nSonja Geismar In May 1939\, Sonja’s parents\, paternal grandparents\, two great aunts\, and another great aunt with her husband were passengers on the St. Louis. In Havana harbor\, she remembers waving to cousins who came to see their grandparents who unfortunately went to Belgium and met their fate in a gas chamber.  Sonja and her parents went to  England  and when  their quota numbers were reached\, they sailed into New York harbor on February 11th 1940.  Sonja became a high school social studies teacher. Years later she changed the direction of her career by returning to graduate school for her second Master’s degree. She became a high school librarian in an inner city school and after ten years became head librarian.  Sonja together with Eva Wiener\, participated in the mission to Jerusalem where they told their stories at the Knesset\, Yad Vashem and Hebrew University. \nEva Wiener was born in Berlin during the rise of Hitler.  To escape the Nazis\, her parents were able to book passage on the St. Louis for its ill-fated voyage to Havana\, Cuba.  When the ship was forced to return its passengers to Europe\, Eva and her parents were among the fortunate ones to be accepted into the quota for England.  They immigrated to the United States in May of 1946. Eva was employed as a Budget Analyst at Fort Monmouth\, an installation of the U. S. Department of Defense. While at the Fort she was instrumental in establishing a yearly program commemorating the Holocaust.  This program grew to become the most successful program of its kind for a military installation.  She has been Past President of the Monmouth County Chapter of B’nai Brith Women and the Gibor Zimel Resnick Chapter of American Friends of Magen David Adom.  In November of 2006 Eva was honored by being the recipient of the Eishet Chayil (Woman of Valor) awarded by the Central New Jersey Women’s Branch for Conservative Judaism.  In 2012 Eva was selected by her synagogue as the Woman of the Year.  In May of 2012 Eva also received a “Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition” for “invaluable service to the community” presented to her by Congressman Frank Pallone\, Jr. \nJohn Shilling spent the first five years of his life moving as far away as possible from the storm better known as WWII and the Holocaust.  John was born in Prague\, spent his preschool years in Holland and Ecuador\, and first and second grade in Orlando\, Florida before moving to New York.  He graduated from Forest Hills High School\, Queens College\, and Columbia University College of Dental Medicine and practiced general dentistry on Long Island in Copiague and lived in Melville NY.  He was in the Medical Corp as a dentist in the Air Force from 1962 to 1964. Since his retirement he has had the opportunity to share his family’s story of emigration with High School students and with organisations interested in stories and experiences such as his. \n 
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-panel-and-film-talkback-complicit-and-the-legacy-of-the-st-louis/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Genocide,HGRP,Refugees
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220126T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220126T193000
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SUMMARY:Holocaust Memorial Day 2022: Remembering the Day of Deportation
DESCRIPTION:Jewish deportees from the ‘Polenaktion’ in a makeshift camp in Polish-German border town Zbąszyń (Bentschen)\, November 1938. Wiener Holocaust Library Collections. \nJoin The Wiener Holocaust Library to mark Holocaust Memorial Day 2022 with the Mayor of Camden Sabrina Francis and Dr Christoph Kreutzmüller. \nThis year’s event will focus on the experiences of victims of Nazi genocide on the day that they were deported to ghettos and camps and will include readings from the Library’s collection of eyewitness accounts of the Holocaust on this theme. The event will also feature a talk by Dr Christoph Kreutzmüller exploring the significance of the contemporary photographs taken of deportations of Jews during the Holocaust. \nWith remarks by Dr Toby Simpson\, Director of The Wiener Holocaust Library and readings by a Camden Youth MP. \nWe ask that audience members take a lateral flow test in the 24 hours before attending. \nIf you would like to join us virtually please register for a live stream ticket here. \nAbout the speakers: \nDr Christoph Kreuzmüller is a Berlin-based curator\, educator and historian. In the new research project last seen\, he is currently designing an educational tool for a close reading of deportation photos. His acclaimed study Final Sale in Berlin. The destruction of Jewish commercial activity 1930-1945 was published in 2015 by Berghahn Books and presented at The Wiener Library. His latest study Die fotografische Inszenierung des Verbrechens. Ein Album aus Auschwitz (together with Tal Bruttmann und Stefan Hördler) has been published by the Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft in 2019. \nSabrina Francis is a Labour councillor for Bloomsbury\, currently serving her second term. She has lived in Camden for her whole life and attended Brecknock Primary School and Camden School for Girls. First elected in 2014\, Sabrina is Camden Labour’s first black woman councillor. In 2020 she launched and chaired a Youth Engagement Group\, giving young people from Camden the opportunity to co-design policy that tackles racial inequality in the criminal justice and education systems. Alongside being a councillor\, Mayor Francis currently works in digital engagement and has previously held digital roles at an agency and on a political campaign. In 2017 she was recognised on the New Year’s Honours List for services to the University of London. \n  \nWe regret to inform visitors that our exterior lift is currently out of service. This is due to ongoing repair works and we apologise for the inconvenience. If you have any comments\, questions\, or concerns regarding accessibility at the Library\, please email us at info@wienerholocaustlibrary.org or call us on +44 (0) 20 7636 7247.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/holocaust-memorial-day-2022-the-day-of-deportation/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Collections,Genocide,Holocaust Memorial Day
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SUMMARY:RESCHEDULED: Virtual Panel: The Problems of Genocide
DESCRIPTION:This event was originally scheduled for 25 October but has been rescheduled to 1 December due to illness. \nGenocide is not only a problem of mass death but also of how\, as a relatively new idea and law\, it organizes and distorts thinking about civilian destruction. Taking the normative perspective of civilian immunity from military attack\, A. Dirk Moses argues that the implicit hierarchy of international criminal law\, atop which sits genocide as the ‘crime of crimes’\, blinds us to other types of humanly caused civilian death\, like bombing cities\, and the ‘collateral damage’ of missile and drone strikes. Talk of genocide\, then\, can function ideologically to detract from systematic violence against civilians perpetrated by governments of all types. The Problems of Genocide contends that this violence is the consequence of ‘permanent security’ imperatives: the striving of states\, and armed groups seeking to found states\, to make themselves invulnerable to threats. \nAbout the speakers: \nDirk Moses is the Frank Porter Graham Distinguished Professor of Global Human Rights History at the University of North Carolina. He is a historian genocide\, memory\, and intellectual history. His first book\, German Intellectuals and the Nazi Past (2007)\, investigated the West German debates about renewing democracy in the wake of the failure of the Weimar Republic and the Holocaust. He has edited many anthologies on genocide\, including\, most recently\, Postcolonial Conflict and the Question of Genocide: The Nigeria-Biafra War\, 1967–1970 (2018)\, The Holocaust in Greece (2018)\, and Decolonization\, Self-Determination\, and the Rise of Global Human Rights Politics  (2020). His investigation of the origins and function of the genocide concept appears in his second monograph\, The Problems of Genocide (2021). Dirk is working on two book projects. One on what he calls the Diplomacy of Genocide and another called Genocide and the Terror of History. In his spare time\, he edits the Journal of Genocide Research. \nChristine Achinger is Associate Professor of German Studies at the University of Warwick. Her current research investigates the interrelation of constructions of Jewishness\, race and gender as responses to the development of capitalist modernity during the long 19th century. Among her publications are Gespaltene Moderne. Gustav Freytags Soll und Haben – Nation\, Geschlecht und Judenbild (2007) and Antisemitism\, Racism and Islamophobia: Distorted Faces of Modernity (ed. w. Robert Fine\, 2015). \nChaired by: \nPhilippe Sands is Professor of public understanding of law at University College London\, and Samuel and Judith Pisar Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. He is President of English PEN and on the board of the Hay Festival of Arts and Literature. Author of many books\, including East West Street (2016) and The Ratline (2020)\, Philippe is an occasional contributor to many publications\, including The Guardian\, Financial Times and New York Times\, and appears regularly on the BBC and CNN. His next book\, The Last Colony\, will be published in September 2022. \nEvent guidelines: \n1. The Library will send you a Zoom link and joining instructions via email prior to the event. Please check your junk email folders. \n2. Please try and join 5 minutes before the event start time and we will let you into the room (do try and bear with us if this takes a few minutes). \n3. If you would like to ask a question during the event\, please type your question into the chat function\, and we will endeavour to answer as many questions as possible during the Q&A. Your webcam will not be seen during this event. \n4. The event will be recorded for the Library’s YouTube channel and will be shared at a later date.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-panel-the-problems-of-genocide/
CATEGORIES:Academic Book Talks,Genocide,New and Noteworthy Books
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Denial and Distortion of the Holocaust and the Genocide Against the Tutsi: what is happening and how can we prevent it?
DESCRIPTION:Photographs of victims of the Genocide Against the Tutsi\, and the Hall of Names\, Yad Vashem. \nIn this event\, hosted in association with the Ishami Foundation to mark the anniversary of the ‘100 days’ of the Genocide Against the Tutsi\, our panel of speakers will consider issues around denial and distortion of the Holocaust and of the genocide against Tutsi. Our speakers will each give their perspectives on the nature of these kinds of falsification and misrepresentation of history\, current manifestations of these attitudes and beliefs\, and the mechanisms by which such beliefs are spread and propagated. There will follow a discussion between panel members exploring the commonalities and differences between these two instances of genocide denial and distortion. \nAbout the speakers: \nLonzen Rugira holds a Phd from Howard University\, Washington DC. He studied public policy from the African Studies Research Program for both his masters and doctorate degrees. His undergraduate degrees were in political science and public finance. At Howard University\, Lonzen taught the political economy of African states and was a research assistant at the Moorland Spingarn Research Centre. He was a Roitchi Sasakawa Fellow. At the University of Rwanda\, he taught in the duo masters programme at the Centre for Conflict Management. He taught genocide studies and prevention and genocide early warning signs. \nLinda Melvern is a British investigative journalist\, a former member of the Sunday Times Insight Team. She has written seven books of non-fiction. For the past 27 years\, she has researched and written exclusively about the circumstances of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi. Her three books on the subject are: A People Betrayed. The Role of the West in Rwanda’s Genocide\, (Zed 2000 Revised paperback 2009) Conspiracy to Murder. The Rwandan Genocide (Verso 2004. Revised paperback 2006) Intent to Deceive. Denying the Genocide of the Tutsi (Verso 2021) \nPhilip Spencer is Emeritus Professor in Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Kingston University\, where he taught for many years. He is a Visiting Professor in Politics at Birkbeck College\, where he is also a Research Associate of the Pears Institute for the Study of Antisemitism. He is the author of a number of works\, including Genocide since 1945; Nationalism – A Critical Introduction and Nations and Nationalism (both with Howard Wollman); and most recently of Antisemitism and the Left – on the Return of the Jewish Question (with Robert Fine). He is currently writing a longer history of genocide. \nJoe Mulhall is Head of Researcher at HOPE not hate\, a group founded in 2004 to use research\, education\, advocacy and public engagement to challenge racism and fascism. Mulhall was formally a visiting lecturer at Royal Holloway\, University of London where he also completed his PhD on the post-war far right. His books include Drums in the Distance: Journeys in the Global Far Right (Icon Books 2021)\, British Fascism After the Holocaust (Routledge 2020) and co-author of The International Alternative Right (Routledge 2020). He appears regularly in print and broadcast media. \nEvent guidelines: \n1. The Library will send you a Zoom link and joining instructions via email prior to the event. Please check your junk email folders. \n2. Please try and join 5 minutes before the event start time and we will let you into the room (do try and bear with us if this takes a few minutes). \n3. If you would like to ask a question during the event\, please type your question into the chat function\, and we will endeavour to answer as many questions as possible during the Q&A. Your webcam will not be seen during this event. \n4. The event will be recorded for the Library’s YouTube channel and will be shared at a later date.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-event-denial-and-distortion-of-the-holocaust-the-genocide-against-the-tutsi-what-is-happening-and-how-can-we-prevent-it/
CATEGORIES:Genocide
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210415T190000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Kwibuka 27 – Genocide and the Politics of Memory in Rwanda
DESCRIPTION:A virtual panel discussion hosted by The Wiener Holocaust Library in collaboration with the Ishami Foundation remembering the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. \nFlame of remembrance lit to mark the beginning of the 100-day commemoration period for the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. \nApril 7 2021 marks the 27th anniversary of the start of the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. This year\, Rwanda has repeatedly made the headlines with coverage of the arrest and subsequent trial of Paul Rusesabagina. This former rescuer faces multiple charges\, including financing terrorism and forming terrorist groups. But much media coverage until recently has focussed on his role in the Hollywood film Hotel Rwanda\, a role survivors have critiqued as simplified and inaccurate. \nThis commemoration period\, this Kwibuka 27\, questions about how genocide is remembered are at the forefront of conversations. Our panel members offered their own personal and professional reflections on: the importance of survivor voices and personal testimony (Omar Ndizeye); the challenges of navigating media simplifications and the nuances of intergenerational memory (Alice Musabende); and the role of post-genocide justice in shaping identity and memory (Phil Clark). \nThe panel was chaired by Zoe Norridge and there was time for questions and discussion at the end. \nAbout the speakers:\nOmar Ndizeye is one of only a few survivors of the two-day long massacre in Nyamata Catholic Church\, during the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. He is currently co-writing a comprehensive book about genocide memorials in Rwanda and has contributed to multiple initiatives enabling survivor healing including the AERG counselling helpline. In 2020 he published his first book\, Life and Death in Nyamata: Memoir of a Young Boy in Rwanda’s Darkest Church. \nAlice Musabende is a Gates Scholar pursuing a PhD in Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge. Her research focuses on the role of global governance in rebuilding countries emerging from conflicts and mass atrocities. A former journalist\, Alice is a survivor of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi and has written and spoken extensively on the role of the international media in the genocide and its aftermath. Alice lives in Cambridge with her two boys. \nPhil Clark is Professor of International Politics at SOAS. Australian by nationality but born in Sudan\, he specialises in conflict and post-conflict\, with a particular focus on genocide\, peace\, justice and reconciliation in the African Great Lakes. His books include The Gacaca Courts and Post-Genocide Justice and Reconciliation in Rwanda (2010) and Distant Justice: The Impact of the International Criminal Court on African Politics (2018). He is currently in Rwanda with his family. \nZoe Norridge is Chair of the Ishami Foundation\, Pro-Vice Dean for Impact and Innovation and Senior Lecturer in African and Comparative Literature at King’s College London. She researches cultural responses to the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda\, with a particular focus on literature\, photography and place. Books include the translation of Yolande Mukagasana’s Not My Time to Die (2019) and Perceiving Pain in African Literature (2013). \nWatch back now:
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-event-kwibuka-27-genocide-and-the-politics-of-memory-in-rwanda/
CATEGORIES:Colonialism and Genocide,Genocide
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