THREE DAYS OF EVENTS THAT WILL IMPACT GENERATIONS FOR DECADES TO COME
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
FRIDAY, AUGUST 2ND, 2024
6:00 pm
Location: Hilton UH, Shamrock Ballroom B
Check-In and Meet & Greet
Please arrive at the Hilton UH Shamrock Ballroom B to check-in to the conference and collect your nametag
7:00 pm
Location: Hilton UH, Shamrock Ballroom B
reception dinner
8:00 pm
Location: Hilton UH, Shamrock Ballroom B
Traditional rwandan dance and music
Cultural performance of traditional Rwandan dance
saturday, AUGUST 3rd, 2024
9:30 AM
Location: UH Student Center South, Houston Room
Check-In and LATE REGISTRATION
Please arrive on the 2nd floor of the UH Student Center South to check-in to the conference and collect your nametag if you did not do so on Friday
9:45 AM
Location: UH Student Center South, 2nd Floor
check-in for children’s programing
Children ages 9 and up may be dropped off for children’s programming in the Houston Room on the 2nd floor of the UH Student Center South
10:00 AM
Location: UH Student Center South, Theater
welcome address and opening remarks
Fremond Mbanguza - Master of Ceremony
Henriette Mutegwaraba - Executive Director, Million Lives Genocide Relief Fund
10:30 AM
Location: UH Student Center South, Theater
Denying denial
Dr. Gregory Stanton - Founder, Genocide Watch
11:00 AM
a survivor’s testimony: caring for the needs of survivors
Location: UH Student Center South, Theater
Jacqueline Murekatete - Attorney and Founder, Genocide Survivors Foundation
11:45 AM
Location: UH Student Center South, Theater
upstanderism during genocide
Professor Zachary D. Kaufman - Author and Professor, J.D., PhD.
12:25 pM
Location: UH Student Center South, Theater
a call for change: centering survivors and partnering with them in solidarity
Professor Noam Schimmel - Professor
12:45 pM
Location: UH Student Center South, Houston Room
the hour is late; our time is now
Elizabeth Hankins - Executive Director, One Tribe
1:05 pm
Location: UH Student Center South, Theater
lunch
Lunch will be provided in the Houston Room
2:00 pm
Location: UH Student Center South, Theater
repairing multigenerational legacies of trauma and tragedy while keeping hope alive
Dr. Yael Danieli - Clinical Psychologist; Founder, International Centers for Multigenerational Legacies of Trauma; Founder, Group Project for Holocaust Survivors and Their Children
2:30 pM
Location: UH Student Center South, Theater
panel discussion: trauma healing best practices with mental health experts
Moderator: Dr. Celine A. Jacquemin - Professor of International Relations and Special Assistant to the Provost, St. Mary’s University
Elizabeth Rosner - Psychologist and Author, “Survivor Cafe: The Legacy of Trauma and the Labyrinth of Memory”
Dr. Jean Pierre Ndagijimana - Senior Clinician, Solid Minds Counseling Clinic
Placide Nkubito - Social Worker, Victoria University in Kampala, Uganda
Dr. Carolyn Tubbs - Professor of Marriage and Family Therapy and Vice-Provost, St. Mary’s University
3:30 pM
Location: UH Student Center South, Theater
panel discussion: intergenerational conversations with survivors and their children about genocide
Lisa Cyuzozo - Child of a Survivor
Alise - Survivor and Parent
Gasana Emmanuel - Survivor and Parent
Yvonne Umugwaneza - Survivor, Parent, and Mental Health Expert
Orchidee Kamanzi - Child of a Survivor
Moderator: Jean Yves Rwibutso - Survivor of the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda; Social Worker; President, Memory Keepers Association
4:30 pM
Location: UH Student Center South, Theater
poem reading
Susan Minor - Poet
4:50 pm
Location: UH Student Center South, Houston Room
snack break
Light refreshments will be provided in the Houston Room
5:00 pM
breakout sessions
Please attend one of the following breakout sessions:
- MEN’S BREAKOUT SESSION
Location: UH Student Center South, Austin Room
Dr. Jean Pierre Ndagijimana - Senior Clinician, Solid Minds Counseling Clinic
- WOMEN’S BREAKOUT SESSION
Location: UH Student Center South, San Antonio Room
Dr. Yael Danieli - Clinical Psychologist; Founder, International Centers for Multigenerational Legacies of Trauma; Founder, Group Project for Holocaust Survivors and Their Children
- GOD HEALS TRAUMA (all are welcome)
Location: UH Student Center South, Theater
Dr. Mike Hutchings - Pastor
6:00 pM
Location: UH Student Center South, Theater
the role god can play in healing trauma and ptsd
Dr. Mike Hutchings - Pastor
6:30 pm
award recognition
Location: UH Student Center South, Theater
sunday, AUGUST 4th, 2024
10:00 am
Location: UH Student Center South, Theater
opening prayer
John David “Dave” Harris - Board Member, Million Lives Genocide Relief Fund and Former Holt Cat President
10:20 am
Location: UH Student Center South, Theater
survivor testimony
Emmanuel Gasana - Survivor and single parent of 10 children; Former Guide, Kigali Genocide Memorial Centers; Safari driver guide with Wilderness Rwanda
11:00 am
Location: UH Student Center South, Theater
genocide prevention education in rwanda
Serge Rwigamba - Senior Guide at the Kigali Genocide Memorial Centers and International Speaker
11:40 am
Location: UH Student Center South, Theater
the legacies of trauma and resilience
Elizabeth Rosner - Author, “Survivor Café: The Legacy of Trauma and the Labyrinth of Memory”
12:20 Pm
Location: UH Student Center South, Theater
healing justice
Esperance (Espy) Nasezerano - Survivor of the Gatumba Massacre
1:00 Pm
Location: UH Student Center South, Theater
First Aid techniques for stress and trauma
Placide Nkubito - Peaceful Heart Network
1:30 pm
Location: UH Student Center South, Theater
message from the embassy of rwanda
Francis Mulindwa - First Secretary at the Embassy of Rwanda
2:00 pm
Location: UH Student Center South, Theater
candle lighting ceremony
Yves Rwibutso
2:20 Pm
Location: UH Student Center South, Theater
closing remarks
Fremond Mbanguza - Master of Ceremony
2:30 pm
Location: UH Student Center South, Houston Room
Lunch
Lunch will be provided in the Houston Room