11 November Lecture 2024

Date
10/11/2024
20:45 - 22:45

Ypres City of Peace, the Flemish Peace Institute and the In Flanders Fields Museum have the pleasure to invite you to the November Lecture on Sunday 10 November 2024 in commemoration of the end of the First World War.

Registration is only possible via the entry form at the bottom of this page.

PROGRAM

Dr. Olivia Umurerwa Rutazibwa is a Belgian-Rwandan political scientist (PhD, Ugent) and former journalist at MO* Magazine. She is an Assistant Professor of Human Rights and Politics at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). In her research and teaching she focuses on decolonizing knowledge, solidarity and international relations.

“We already know enough,” the Swedish essayist Sven Lindqvist once wrote. “What we lack is the courage to draw conclusions from what we know.” Lindqvist made his statements when reflecting on colonial abuse. And about how we like to assume that people did not know about it or that different norms and values prevailed at the time. While previously it was a matter, then and now, of looking away in an organized manner. In her lecture, Olivia U. Rutazibwa reflects on the urgency of this insight – that the knowledge is available, but we lack the courage – for our society today. In 11 fragments she reflects with examples from current events, literature and personal anecdotes about what knowing and remembering with courage could look like.

His captivating narrative will be supported musically by Sara Salvérius and the Sun Sun Sun string ensemble.

PRACTICAL

20h15 – Start reception

20h45 – Welcome by Stephen Lodewyck, director of the In Flanders Fields Museum in Ypres

20h50 – Speech by the mayor of Ypres

20h55 – 11 November reading by Olivia Umurerwa Rutazibwa (Lecture in Dutch, English text available) – Music: Sara Salvérius

21h55 – Final word by Nils Duquet, Director of the Flemish Peace Institute

22h00 – Reception

Registration is free but mandatory via the entry form below.