The genocide of the Herero and Nama
Sunday, February 26, 2017 at 9:30 AM Monday, February 27, 2017
CONFERENCE
At the beginning of the 2000s and even more for the commemoration of the centenary of the genocide of the Herero and the Nama, Germany finds the memory of this event until then largely unknown. In Namibia, the descendants of the herero and nama victims are making their request for recognition of the genocide and obtaining reparations.
Sunday 26 February 2017
Location: Shoah Memorial, Paris
9:30
Opening
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 h
Keynote
Jan-Bart Gewald, University of Leiden
10:30
The pre-genocidal situation: the policy of colonial expansion of the Second Reich
Presidency: 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 powers in central Namibia
Dag Henrichsen, University of Basel, Basler Afrika Bibliographist
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14h
The genocide: extermination of the herero and nama populations
Presidency: 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, university Paris 8.
Military and civil 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 Kreienbaum, University of Rostock
16:30
Scientific racism and legislation in the colonies
Presidency: Christine de Gemeaux, Université F. Rabelais, Tours
The human remains of the victims: anthropological specimens or war trophies
Leonor Faber-Jonker, University of Leiden
The ban on mixed marriages
Kathrin Roller, Brandenburg Medical School, Neuruppin
Monday 27 February 2017 (SOLD OUT)
Location: German Historical Institute
9:30
History and memory of the genocide in Namibia and Germany today
Presidency: Jacques Frémeaux, University of Paris 4
Memory and forgetting of the genocide of the Herero and the Nama
Jeremy Silvester, Museum Association of Namibia, University of Namibia
Controversial objects. The repatriation of human remains from Berlin to Namibia
Holger Stoecker, Humboldt University, Berlin
The negationist trend in Namibia and Germany
Reinhart Kössler, Arnold Bergstraesser Institute, Freiburg
State of academic research in Namibia on genocide
Martha Akawa, University of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Namibia
11:30
Request for recognition, official apology and reparation to the German state
Presidency: Valérie Nivelon, journalist at RFI, Ida Hoffmann and Ester Muinjangue
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14h
The consequences of genocide on herero and nama societies today, and the recognition of genocide by Germany
Presidency: Andreas Eckert
In the presence of Jeremy Silvester, Leonor Faber-Jonker, Ida Hoffmann and Ester Muinjangue
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