Séminaire: Trauma, Memory and Healing in Post-Apartheid South Africa and Post-Genocide Rwanda
*Séminaire: Trauma, Memory and Healing in Post-Apartheid South Africa and Post-Genocide Rwanda: a Comparison*
*Philippe Denis (University of KwaZulu-Natal in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa)*
*Mardi 30 septembre 2025 de 17 à 19h*
*Salle de séminaire 2 du Bâtiment Weber, Université Paris Nanterre, et en visioconférence:* meet.google.com/kch-fqmv-iui
*South Africa and Rwanda experienced mass violence about thirty years ago and today face the problem of transgenerational transmission of trauma and violence. They do so, however, in very different ways. In South Africa, the legacy of violence takes the form of a high degree of crime, one of the highest in the world. Post-genocide Rwanda has become a relatively peaceful country, though not without tensions, but high levels of violence and human rights abuse, which mirror those of the genocide against the Tutsi and are not unrelated to it, are observed in neighbouring DRC. This raises the question: how does individual and collective memory work in a country affected by mass violence? Which forms of memory and commemoration have the potential of bringing about peace?*
Philippe Denis holds a PhD in History from the University of Liège, Belgium. He is Professor in History of Christianity at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, and an Associate Member of the Royal Academy of Belgium. His current areas of research include the history of Christianity under colonialism and apartheid in South Africa and of the Christian response to the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. He is a co-founder of the Legacies of Violence Programme at the University of KwaZulu-Natal.
Séance organisée par Tim Gibbs & Laurence Dubois Discutant : Bernard Cros (Université Paris 8)
*Philippe Denis (University of KwaZulu-Natal in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa)*
*Mardi 30 septembre 2025 de 17 à 19h*
*Salle de séminaire 2 du Bâtiment Weber, Université Paris Nanterre, et en visioconférence:* meet.google.com/kch-fqmv-iui
*South Africa and Rwanda experienced mass violence about thirty years ago and today face the problem of transgenerational transmission of trauma and violence. They do so, however, in very different ways. In South Africa, the legacy of violence takes the form of a high degree of crime, one of the highest in the world. Post-genocide Rwanda has become a relatively peaceful country, though not without tensions, but high levels of violence and human rights abuse, which mirror those of the genocide against the Tutsi and are not unrelated to it, are observed in neighbouring DRC. This raises the question: how does individual and collective memory work in a country affected by mass violence? Which forms of memory and commemoration have the potential of bringing about peace?*
Philippe Denis holds a PhD in History from the University of Liège, Belgium. He is Professor in History of Christianity at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, and an Associate Member of the Royal Academy of Belgium. His current areas of research include the history of Christianity under colonialism and apartheid in South Africa and of the Christian response to the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. He is a co-founder of the Legacies of Violence Programme at the University of KwaZulu-Natal.
Séance organisée par Tim Gibbs & Laurence Dubois Discutant : Bernard Cros (Université Paris 8)