Donderdag 13 April 2017

Lecture by Aili Mari Tripp (Professor of Political Science and Evjue Bascom Professor in Gender and Women’s Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison). The talk is based on Tripp’s award winning Women and Power in Postconflict Africa, which looks at a gender-related consequences of the decline of major conflict in 17 countries in Africa over the past 20 years. The lecture explains why post-conflict countries in Africa have significantly higher rates of women’s political representation compared with countries that have not undergone major conflict. The lecture is free and open to the public. Registration is not required. Room E0.22 @ Roeterseilandcampus - gebouw E

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The 1994 genocide in Rwanda has been the central subject of many works of fiction including films, plays, and novels, to mention a few. This seminar focuses on novels and is built on the assumption that writing a novel about events as tragic as the genocide and the war implies that the novelists have to constantly make selections amongst events from the past and fill the blanks using their imagination. In so doing, they consciously or unconsciously engage in promoting one perspective on the past rather than the other. Speaker: Olivier Nyirubugara, The Hague University of Applied Science. Please register

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