Genocide Studies Program: Yale Symposium on the 20th Anniversary of the Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda

Event time: 
Monday, March 31, 2014 - 1:30pm
Location: 
Luce Hall, Auditorium See map
34 Hillhouse Avenue
New Haven, CT 06520
Event description: 

The Genocide Studies Program, the Orville Schell Center for International Human Rights, and the Council on African Studies, Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale present:

Yale Symposium on the 20th Anniversary of the Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda

1:30 Panel #1

The International Legacies of the Genocide” (featuring Edward Luck ,former Special Advisor to the Secretary General of the United Nations for the Responsibility to Protect; James Traub, New York Times Magazine contributing writer; and Zachary Kaufman, Schell Center and Genocide Studies Program fellow).

3:30

Prayer in Remembrance (Jan Holton, Associate Professor, Yale Divinity School)

3:40 Panel #2

The Genocide’s Legacies in Rwanda” (featuring Yvette Rugasaguhunga , Second Counselor at the Embassy of the Republic of Rwanda to the United States; Taylor Krauss, founder of Voices of Rwanda; Consolee Nishimwe author of Tested to the Limit—A Genocide Survivor’s Story of Pain, Resilience, and Hope; Joseph A. Olzacki, University of Hartford).

Admission: 
Free
Open to: 
General Public