Exhibition about Franco-German trip to Rwanda
"Rwanda and us - Looking back on a trip to Rwanda thirty years after the genocide"
In the Gräfin-Dänhoff building of the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt/Oder, Europaplatz 1
In July 2023, 18 students from the University of Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne and the European University Viadrina flew to Rwanda to follow in the footsteps of genocide. The trip marked the conclusion of the seminar The Shoah and the genocide of the Tutsi in Rwanda in comparison“, which Dr Fabien Théofilakis had given as a visiting professor in Paris at the Viadrina.The opening took place on 12 February 2024 from 6 to 9 pm at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne in the Halle Saint-Jacques (133, Rue Saint-Jacques, 75005 Paris). Here is more information and here is the travel blog of the study trip.
We would like to thank the institutional and financial supporters, the people and organisations who made the trip possible and contributed to the realisation of this exhibition: Many thanks to the European University Viadrina, the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, the Deutsch-Französische Hochschule, the Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah, the Deutsch-Französisches Jugendwerk, the Centre Marc Bloch and the Embassy of the Republic of France.