BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Telerik Inc.//Sitefinity CMS 15.1//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Eastern Standard Time BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:Eastern Standard Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250301T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:Eastern Daylight Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Memorialization of the past has become an essential means to un derstanding Africa’s trajectories across a spectrum of its political and s ocio-cultural \;landscapes\, and especially the legacy of its past on current and even future official and public consciousness and action over issues of national and \;local importance. For some ordinary Africans\ , memory and imagination has provided them with tools to assert a view aga inst that of a repressive \;regime keen on erasures of the past and ce nsorship of the present. On the other hand\, harnessing memory has been an effective strategy at \;implementing transitional justice in the afte rmath of mass atrocity as has been the case in post-Apartheid South Africa and post-genocide Rwanda. \;In the later cases\, transitional justice has paved way for restorative justice as victims of violence have desired reparations amid society’s demands \;for punishment\, as memory regar ding historical trauma opens avenues for acknowledging harm as a pathway f orward for the respective nations.Join us for more on these insights with an accomplished panel of two scholars with extensive research on memory in Africa. Dr. Sakiru Adebayo\, a \;literary scholar\, brings insights f rom memory studies and African literature in order to examine how the past is constructed\, contested and \;confronted in Africa\, while Dr. Nic ole Fox\, a professor of criminal justice\, seeks to demonstrate how memor y\, through the built environment and \;other physical memorials\, can be dedicated to acknowledge a difficult past and be at the heart of provi ding healing and reconciliation in Rwanda \;as that nation continues t o rebuild after genocide.PANELISTS“THE WORKINGS OF MEMORY IN POSTCONFLICT /POSTCOLONIAL AFRICA”Dr. Sakiru AdebayoAssistant Professor of African Lite rature\, Department of English\, University of British Columbia\, Okanagan Research Associate\, Department of African Literature\, University of the Witwatersrand\, Johannesburg“MEMORY AND TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE IN POST-GENOC IDE RWANDA: LESSONS FOR AFRICA”Dr. Nicole Fox\, Ph.D.Associate Professor o f Criminal Justice\, \;California State University SacramentoMODERATOR Martin Shidende ShanguhyiaAssociate Professor of History\, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs\, \;Syracuse University DTEND:20250321T173000Z DTSTAMP:20260517T040039Z DTSTART:20250321T160000Z LOCATION: SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Memory\, Justice\, and (Re)Construction of Society in Post-Colonial Africa UID:RFCALITEM639145728391816044 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Memorialization of the past has become an essential means to understanding Africa’s trajectories across a spectr um of its political and socio-cultural \;landscapes\, and especially the legacy of its past on current and even future official and public consciousness and action over issues of national and \;local importance.

For some ordinary Africans\, memory and imagination h as provided them with tools to assert a view against that of a repressive& nbsp\;regime keen on erasures of the past and censorship of the present. On the other hand\ , harnessing memory has been an effective strategy at \;implementing transitional justi ce in the aftermath of mass atrocity as has been the case in post-Aparthei d South Africa and post-genocide Rwanda. \;

In the later cases\, transitional justice has paved wa y for restorative justice as victims of violence have desired reparations amid society’s demands \;for punishment\, as memory regarding historical trauma opens a venues for acknowledging harm as a pathway forward for the respective nati ons.

Join us for more on the se insights with an accomplished panel of two scholars with extensive rese arch on memory in Africa. Dr. Sakiru Adebayo\, a \;literary scholar\, brings insights f rom memory studies and African literature in order to examine how the past is constructed\, contested and \;confronted in Africa\, while Dr. Nicole Fox\, a profe ssor of criminal justice\, seeks to demonstrate how memory\, through the b uilt environment and \;other physical memorials\, can be dedicated to acknowledge a dif ficult past and be at the heart of providing healing and reconciliation in Rwanda \;as that nation continues to rebuild after genocide.

PANEL ISTS

“THE WORKINGS OF MEMORY IN POSTCONFLICT/POSTCOLONIAL AFRICA”< /p>

Dr. Sakiru Adebayo

Assistant Professor of Afr ican Literature\, Department of English\, University of British Columbia\, Okanagan
Research Associate\, Department of African Literature\, Unive rsity of the Witwatersrand\, Johannesburg

“MEMORY AND TRANSITION AL JUSTICE IN POST-GENOCIDE RWANDA: LESSONS FOR AFRICA”

Dr. Nicole Fox\, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Criminal Justice\ , \;California State University Sacramento

MODERATOR

Martin Shidende Shanguhyia

Associate Professor of History\, Maxwell School of Citizensh ip and Public Affairs\, \;Syracuse University

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