The genocide of the Herero and Nama

SYMPOSIUM

At the beginning of the 2000s and even more for the commemoration of the centenary of the genocide of the Herero and Nama, Germany regains the memory of this hitherto largely unknown event. In Namibia, the descendants of Herero and Nama victims are demanding recognition of the genocide and reparations.

Sunday, February 26, 2017

Location: Shoah Memorial, Paris

→ 9:30 a.m.

Open

Jacques Fredj, director, Shoah Memorial

Thomas Maissen, director, German Historical Institute

Ida Hoffmann, president of the Nama genocide committee

Ester Muinjangue, president of the Ovaherero and Ovambanderu Genocide Foundation

→ 10 a.m.

Keynote

Jan-Bart Gewald, University of Leiden

→ 10:30

The pre-genocidal situation: the policy of colonial expansion of the Second Reich

Chair: Mareike König, IHA, Berlin

The beginning of the German colonial project
Andreas Eckert, Humboldt University, Berlin

Races, stereotypes and colonial visual culture
Joachim Zeller, Berlin

The evolution of power in Central Namibia
Dag Henrichsen, University of Basel, Basler Afrika Bibliographer

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→ 2 p.m.

The genocide: extermination of the Herero and Nama populations

Chair: Joël Kotek, Université libre de Bruxelles

Military genocide vs administrative genocide. The war against the Herero and the Nama and the German colonial settlement project.
Ingolf Diener, Paris 8 University.

 

Military and civilian authorities in the premeditation of mass murders at the Shark Island camp
Casper W. Erichsen, Windhoek, Namibia

An instrument of genocide? The concentration camps in German Southwest Africa
Jonas Camping, University of Rostock

→ 4:30 p.m.

Scientific racism and legislation in the colonies

Presidency: Christine de Gemeaux, F. Rabelais University, Tours

Human remains of victims: anthropological specimens or war trophies
Leonor Faber-Jonker, University of Leiden

The prohibition of mixed marriages
Kathrin Roller, Brandenburg Medical School, Neuruppin

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Monday, February 27, 2017 (FULL)

Location: German Historical Institute

→ 9:30 AM

History and memory of the genocide in Namibia and Germany today

Presidency: Jacques Frémeaux, Paris 4 University

Memory and forgetting of the genocide of the Herero and the Nama
Jeremy Silvester, Association of Museums of Namibia, University of Namibia

Controversial objects. The repatriation of human remains from Berlin to Namibia
Holger Stoecker, Humboldt University, Berlin

The negationist current in Namibia and Germany
Reinhart Kössler, Arnold Bergstraesser Institute, Freiburg im Breisgau

State of academic research in Namibia on the genocide
Martha Akawa, University of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Namibia

→ 11:30 AM

Request for recognition, official apologies and reparations from the German state

Chairmanship: Valérie Nivelon, RFI journalist, Ida Hoffmann and Ester Muinjangue

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→ 2 p.m.

The consequences of the genocide on the Herero and Nama societies today, and the recognition of the genocide by Germany

Chair: Andreas Eckert

In the presence of Jeremy Silvester, Leonor Faber-Jonker, Ida Hoffmann and Ester Muinjangue

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