Symposium Schedule
Genocide Awareness Symposium
Schedule of Events
April 1st - April 12th, 2024
Week I
| Monday 04.01.2024 | 2 pm | Inaugural Speech: Women and Children during the Rwandan Genocide Against the Tutsis in Rwanda, 1994 | Providence Umugawaneza |
| 04.01.2024 | 3 pm | Panel discussion with genocide survivors: Providence Umugwaneza (Rwanda), Lucy Katz (Holocaust) | Texas Holocaust, Genocide, and Antisemitism Advisory Commission |
| Tuesday 04.02.2024 | 12:30 pm | Genocide & Survival: Native America and the Legacy of the Past | Alex Alvarez - Northern Arizona University |
| 04.02.2024 | 2:30 pm | Art Exhibition: The 74th Yazidi Genocide | Falah Alrasam and Sarwa Azeez |
| Wednesday 04.03.2024 San Marcos Public Library | 3:30 pm | Screening of film, Repairing the World | |
| 04.03.2024 | 4:15 pm | It (genocide) Can Happen Here (in the US) | Alexander Laban Hinton - Rutgers University |
| Thursday 04.04.2024 | 11 am | The Problems of Genocide: Definitional Constraints | A. Dirk Moses - City University of New York |
| 04.04.2024 | 12:30 pm | Colonization and Genocide | Elizabeth Bishop – North African/Modern Arab Studies, History, Texas State University |
| 04.04.2024 | 2 pm | The Epistemic Conditions of Genocide in Africa: The Example of the Igbo Genocide in Nigeria, 1966-1970 | Arthur Chigbo Anyaduba - Winnipeg University |
| Friday 04.05.2024 | 12:30 pm | Accelerants and Triggers of Genocide | James Waller - University of Connecticut |
| 04.05.2024 | 1:30 pm | Law, Neuroscience, and Genocide Studies: The ICC case of Dominic Ongwen | Sabah Carrim - Austin Community College, Binghamton University |
| 04.05.2024 | 2:30 pm | Atrocity Images: Perpetrator Photographs from the Holocaust and Beyond | Lukas Meissel -Hebrew University Jerusalem |
Week II
| Monday 04.08.2024 | 11 am | Imaginary and Fabricated Genocides | Henry Theriault - Worcester State University |
| 04.08.2024 | 2 pm | Panel discussion: The Making of Aurora’s Sunrise with Henry Theriault and Inna Sahakyan | Inna Sahakyan, Film Director |
| Tuesday 04.09.2024 | 12:30 pm | Geographies of the Holocaust | Alberto Giordano - Texas State University |
| 04.09.2024 | 2 pm | Teaching the Holocaust in Texas | Amy Frake - Holocaust Museum of Houston |
| 04.09.2024 | 2:45 pm | Art Exhibition of Samuel Bak’s Holocaust paintings | Laurie Garcia - Holocaust Museum of Houston |
| Wednesday 04.10.2024 San Marcos Public Library | 3:30 pm | Criminal Justice Tools for Preventing Mass Atrocities: A Project of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum | Katherine Southwick |
| Thursday 04.11.2024 | 12:30 pm | Panel discussion: The Role of Literature on Genocide - Perpetration or Prevention? | Robert Tally and Suparno Banerjee - Texas State University |
| 04.11.2024 | 2 pm | Drunk on Genocide: Alcohol, Masculinity, and Mass Murder in Nazi Germany | Edward B. Westermann - Texas A & M, San Antonio |
| Friday 04.12.2024 | 2:30 pm | The Rohingya Crisis and Changing Perceptions of Universality in Southeast Asia | Micaela Cayton Garrido - DePaul University |
| 04.12.2024 | 3:30 pm | Panel Discussion: The ICJ and the Future of Gaza | Arie Dubnov, Faisal Devji, Dirk Moses, Omar Yousef Shehabi, Diana Greenwald |