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McCaffrey Seminar Series - Shaun Hislop
From Winnetou to Windhoek? Discourses about Settler/Colonialism, Genocide, and Reconciliation in Germany, Namibia, and the Northeastern Woodlands of North America
In 2015, the German government recognized the mass killings of the Herero and Nama peoples between 1904 and 1908 in German South West Africa (present-day Namibia) as a genocide. Despite an ostensible commitment to reconciliation and repair, successive German governments have repeatedly faltered in negotiations with their Namibian counterparts about how to address the legacy of German colonial crimes. In this talk, Shaun Hislop will discuss German settler/colonial history and memory culture in the context of ongoing conversation(s) about (cultural) genocide and reconciliation on three continents, holding space for an international and interdisciplinary restorative justice framework at the intersection of genocide studies, postcolonial studies, and settler colonial studies.
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