The Department of Philosophy and the Philosophy Dialogue Series present the inaugural
Genocide Awareness Symposium
April 1st through 12th, 2024
In view of the commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the genocide against the Tutsi, the Department of Philosophy is organizing a Genocide Awareness Symposium. This event will see some of the most distinguished professors in Genocide Studies and Prevention from across the US and Canada addressing a range of pertinent issues.
We have garnered the support of local organizations such as the Texas Holocaust, Genocide, and Antisemitism Advisory Board and the Houston Holocaust Museum, among others. We welcome all members of our community to this historic event.
This event will be held in the Comal Building at Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas between April 1-12, 2024.
Schedule of Events
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 |