Veronica Kaluta ’26, a student double majoring in Political Science and Critical Identity Studies with a minor in Law and Justice, and George Dalbo, Assistant Professor of Education & Youth Studies, presented at a Herero and Nama Genocide commemoration event at the Waterberg Junior and Secondary School in Okakarara, Namibia.

Kaluta presented on her research about the dispossession and genocide of the Anishinaabeg in the Great Lakes region of the United States and Canada. The participants, many of whom were secondary students of Herero and Nama descent, found powerful connections between the past and present experiences of the Anishinaabeg and their own. Dalbo, whose research explores genocide education in curricula and classrooms, spoke about efforts to codify the genocide in the Namibian curriculum.

October 2nd marked the 121st anniversary of the start of the genocide, which took place in German Southwest Africa (present-day Namibia).