The meeting starts at 8pm, so members and visitors can arrive from 7.30pm.
Julia Viebach is a researcher in the Centre for Criminology at the Faculty of Law at the University of Oxford.
For the last three years she has been funded by a Leverhulme Trust fellowship and her work has focused on Rwanda, looking at how the country has dealt with the genocide of 1994. Her project “Atrocity’s Archives: The Remnants of Transitional Justice in Rwanda” investigates and compares the legal archival documents of the local Rwandan Gacaca Courts with those of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR).
She has recently hosted a workshop at which archivists from many countries met to share best practice and to discuss the role of archives in the ongoing transitional justice process. This was an opportunity to bring together Rwandan archivists with others from Germany, Kosovo, South America and elsewhere, to discuss how different types of archives such as court archives, truth and reconciliation commission archives, survivor testimony archives, (secret) police or state archives impact on the different stages in a transitional justice process or on proclaimed goals such as reconciliation, forgiveness or healing.
Julia will also be talking about her new exhibition of photos and text at the Pitt Rivers Museum, open from 21st April to 28th September.
The launch and commemoration of the Rwandan genocide on the afternoon of Saturday 21st April will be attended by members of the Rwandan community in Oxford and members of the Rwandan High Commission in London. The event is open to the public and is free but registration is required through Eventbrite https://bit.ly/2HYXQv9
Kwibuka Rwanda event Flyer
Read more about Julia’s research Atrocity’s Archives: The Remnants of Transitional Justice in Rwanda
Link to Julia’s profile page