GHRAD Annual Conferences
2023: FROM ROOTS TO REPARATIONS TO TRUST BUILDING
Keynote speaker: Alice Wairimu Nderitu
2022: Agency, Ethics, and EveryDay Heroes: Strategies of Prevention of Genocide and Human Rights Abuses in Africa and the Diaspora
Keynote speaker: Dr. Mahmood Mamdani
2021: Remembering Heroes/Heroines: Unique and Collective Strategies of Resistance and Prevention of Genocide in Africa and the Diaspora
Keynote speaker: Mark Mathabane
2019: Genocide Prevention and Repair
Keynote speaker: Dr. Jermaine McCalpin
2018: Genocide and Agency in Africa and the Diaspora
Keynote speaker: Thomas P. Longman
2016: Revisiting and Rethinking Genocide and Resistance in Africa and the Diaspora
Keynote speaker: Dr. Kurt Mills
2015: Revisiting and Rethinking Genocide and Resistance in Africa and the Diaspora
Keynote speaker: Dr. Christen Smith
2014: Gender, Sexuality, and Genocide in Africa and Beyond
Keynote speaker: Dr. Patricia Daley
2013: Genocide and Silence in Africa and the African Diaspora
Keynote speaker: Dr. René Lemarchand
Others
2017: the 60th annual African Studies Association Conference, Chicago
A conference was not held at Northeastern in 2017 so the team could attend and present at the 60th Annual African Studies Association Conference. Presenters and presentations from Northeastern are listed below.
Genocide and Ethical Agency in Africa (Panel at the African Studies Association)
Chair: Jeanine Ntihirageza, Northeastern Illinois University
Anti-Imperialist Rhetoric and Patterns of Genocide Denial in Zimbabwe
Presented by Chielozona Eze, Northeastern Illinois University
Analysis of moral agency during and after 1972 Burundi Genocide: What would Michel Kayoya say?
Presented by Jeanine Ntihirageza, Northeastern Illinois University
Biafran Genocide: 50 Years After: History, Memory and Legacy of the Nigeria-Biafra War
Presented by Chima J. Korieh, Marquette University
What to Teach the Children? The Reintroduction of a History Curriculum 22 Years After Genocide in Rwanda
Presented by Cris Toffolo, Northeastern Illinois University
Discussant: Sarah Travis, National Democratic Institute
