PAST EVENTS



December 15, 2019

Event: Skype conference with students and members of the community

Location: Tucson, Arizona, USA


November 19-21, 2019

Event: Being, Belonging and Becoming in Africa. The 62nd Annual Meeting, African Studies Association Conference

Location: Boston Marriott Copley Place, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Session Three: III-T-4 African Perspectives on Religious Philosophies

Dr. Tharcisse Seminega : My Religious Journey in Connection with My Survival Experience as a Tutsi in 1994.

For more information about the host of this event, please visit their official page at https://africanstudies.org


November 10, 2019

Event: Skype conference with students and community members

Location: Syracuse, Indiana, USA


Ocrtober 15, 2019

Event: A CHRONICLE OF HOPE Revisiting the Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda

Location: University of Connecticut, Thomas J. Dodd Research Center,  Konover Auditorium Dodd Center

To mark the 25th anniversary of the Rwandan Genocide, the Dodd Center welcomed four survivors to share their stories of survival and their message of hope for the world. Discussion with Charles and Angelique Rutaganira and Tharcisse and Chantal Seminega.

Sponsored by the Laura and Lorenz Reibling Family Foundation

Event Page: https://thedoddcenter.uconn.edu/2019/08/20/oct-15-2019-commemorating-the-genocide-against-the-tutsi-in-rwanda/#


September 15, 2019

Event: Skype conference with students, educators, and community members

Location: Davenport, Iowa, USA


April 13-14, 2019

Conference: Religion in Harm and Healing. Eastern International Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, 2019

Location: McGill University, Montreal, Québec, Canada

For more information about this event, please visit the official page at www.eiraar.net


April 4, 2019

Event: A Chronicle of Hope-Revisiting the Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda

Location: National Center for Civil and Human Rights, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Description:

25 Years Later - Revisiting the Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda

Survivors Speak at the National Center for Civil and Human Rights in Atlanta, Georgia. 

Twenty-five years ago, during 100 days starting in April 1994, the hills of the tiny African country of Rwanda ran red with blood. The well-organized genocide of the Tutsi by Hutu extremists left more than 1 million Tutsi dead. Fear and propaganda incited ordinary people to murder their neighbors, workmates, and fellow churchgoers. Most victims were butchered or maimed by machetes, clubs and other weapons of war, including savage rape.

The killers carried lists of those marked for death. Tharcisse Seminega, a Tutsi professor at the University of Rwanda in Butare, and his family narrowly escaped the machetes. Charles Rutaganira, who lived in the capital Kigali, did not. Attackers slashed him in the neck and left him for dead in a heap of corpses. He survived.


November 1-13, 2018

Event: Paper presentation at the 5th International Conference on Genocide

Location: Sacramento State, Sacramento, California, USA


April 2007

Event: Genocide International Conference

Location: Berkeley University, California, USA


May 9, 2005

Event: Holocaust Lecture Series

Location: Sonoma State University, California, USA

Event program: https://holocaust.sonoma.edu/sites/holocaust/files/2005_poster.pdf