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Gumpert Teachers’ Workshop–The Exploitation of Women in Genocide: How to Bring a Delicate Subject into the Classroom

Trustees Pavilion (PAV 3) Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ

In the light of the many accounts of sexual vulnerability, abuse and rape that occurred during the genocides in Darfur, Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia, we have come to accept that sexual violence is an intrinsic feature of genocide. No longer is the issue a taboo. Survivors, witnesses, and scholars have become less reticent to discuss […]

GENOCIDE SURVIVOR TO PROVIDE UPDATE ON EVENTS IN RWANDA AND BURUNDI

Alumni Lounges (SC156-157) Ramapo College, Mahwah

On November 4, 2016 in the Robert A. Scott Student Center, Alumni Lounges ( SC156-157), Eugenie Mukeshimana, Rwandan genocide survivor and founder of the Genocide Survivors Support Network, will provide an update on developments in her native country and neighboring Burundi. More than a quarter of a million people in Burundi have fled in terror […]

Film about Rwanda’s First Female Drumming Group and Ice Cream Store to be Screened

Remotely via WebEx Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ

Co-director/Producer Rob Fruchter will screen and lead a discussion of the film he made with his sister Lisa, Sweet Dreams, at Ramapo College of New Jersey on Monday, March 9, from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. in the H-wing Auditorium (H129). The College’s Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies and Communication Arts’ Cinematheque Series are co-sponsors. […]