by Carolyn Classen, blogger

Memorialization as a Tool for Advocacy: Integrating Local Communities into Transitional Justice Avenues of Redress

As part of Genocide Awareness Week

When

4 – 6 p.m., April 2, 2025

Where

Kiva Room (2nd Floor) – Student Union Memorial Center

A Lakin Human Rights Lecture in courtesy of The Sally & Ralph Duchin Memorial Campus Lecture Series

Memorialization as a Tool for Advocacy: Integrating Local Communities into Transitional Justice Avenues of Redress

Hosted by Prof. Leonard Hammer, Edwin & Alma Lakin Chair on Holocaust, Human Rights, and Comparative Genocide Studies

Part of Genocide Awareness Week

Guest Speaker: Ram Kumar Bhandari, Ph.D., Research Fellow at Kathmandu University- Nepal Center for Contemporary Studies

“Dr. Bhandari is a Nepali activist and academic practitioner with over 20 years of experience in the study of enforced disappearance, in advocacy for the needs of missing persons, victims, and survivors, and in the application of transitional justice in the service of human rights. He is one of the foremost Nepali advocates for a system of transitional justice that addresses the needs of the relatives of victims of violence and repression. In his talk, he will be discussing how the memorialization of trauma can serve as a basis of real-world advocacy and policy-making in Nepal and elsewhere.

This lecture will be of interest to students of memory, of The Holocaust and of Human Rights.

Wednesday, April 2nd

Kiva Room – Student Union Memorial Center, 2nd Floor
4:00 PM: Light Reception
4:30 PM: Event Begins
In-person | Free event

First 25 Registrants Get Free Parking

Co-Sponsors: School of Anthropology, Human Rights Practice, The Tucson Jewish Museum and Holocaust Center, The Arizona Center for Judaic Studies

Register Here: https://events.trellis.arizona.edu/en/f44lNu67/ram-kumar-bhandari-phd-r…“