[The Institute for Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and the Avraham Harman Research Institute of Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem present their “Encounters” annual series: Aftermaths]
Join us on Wednesday, March 15, 2023, 1:00PM (EDT) | 19:00 (Jerusalem) for a conversation with Nicole Fox on her book After Genocide: Memory and Reconciliation in Rwanda (University of Wisconsin Press, 2021). Joining Fox in conversation will be Amos Goldberg. Register for this event in advance here. Contact us at ihgms@umass.edu if you have questions, or visit our website at https://www.umass.edu/ihgms/ for more information.
In After Genocide: Memory and Reconciliation in Rwanda (University of Wisconsin Press, 2021), Nicole Fox explores the ways memorials can shape the experiences of survivors of the Rwanda genocide decades after mass violence has ended. She investigates how memorialization can both heal and hurt, especially when they fail to represent all genders, ethnicities, and classes of those afflicted. Drawing on extensive interviews with Rwandans, Fox uncovers the voices silenced by dominant narratives—and how this erasure is an act of violence itself.
Nicole Fox, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice at California State University, Sacramento. Her research centers on how racial and ethnic contention impacts communities, with a focus on how remembrances of adversity shape social change and collective memory.
Amos Goldberg is the The Jonah M. Machover Chair in Holocaust Studies at the Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry, and the Head of the Avraham Harman Research Institute of Contemporary Jewry, at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.