Documentary Film Screening and Panel Discussion at St Antony's College: Afterwards/Après coup

A film by Susan Solomon and Amélie Mutarabayire-Schafer
Documentary screening followed by panel discussion
Tuesday 28 April 2026, 5.00 pm – 6.45 pm, Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Antony’s College
All welcome

Panel:
Zoë Norridge, Reader in African and Comparative Literature and Visual Cultures, Kings College London
Zoe Waxman, Professor of Holocaust Studies, Oxford
Susan Solomon (co-director, producer), Professor Emerita, University of Toronto
Convenor: Dan Healey, Professor Emeritus St Antony’s College

AFTERWARDS explores the persistence of trauma among adults who have been child victims of genocide. It focuses on the experiences of orphans of two genocides, separated from one another by fifty years: the Holocaust in France and the genocide of the Tutsi in Rwanda. What might the orphans of these genocides have to say to each other today?
In November 2019, Susan Solomon and Amélie Mutarabayire-Schafer brought together three orphans of the 1942 deportation of Jews from France and three orphans of the 1994 genocide of the Tutsi in Rwanda to talk. The conversation was about what happened “afterwards”: how they grew up without parents, and how they struggle even today with a deep loneliness triggered by traumatic events. Meeting around a table in the Mémorial de la Shoah in Paris, the participants explore the personal aftermath of genocide. Without warning, the past pierces the present.

Further information: dan.healey@sant.ox.ac.uk