Product Description
Wednesday 14th June
1.00pm
FREE
In 1975, the Indonesian military rolled into Timor-Leste (East Timor), starting a 25-year occupation that resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths and grave human rights abuses. The occupation, its victims and the resistance against it are memorialised in various ways: in museums, films and local ritual. Through an examination of Timorese history and memory, we will reflect on our own role as custodians of the memory of the Holocaust. How is genocide remembered and why must we remember it?
This lecture will be given by Sarah Haid who is a scholar-practitioner working across museums and human rights. She trained as a lawyer and holds a Master of International Law from ANU. Prior to joining the Sydney Jewish Museum, she worked at the Attorney-General’s Department, the Australian Human Rights Commission, in Aboriginal legal aid and disability rights in Timor-Leste. Today she runs a not-for-profit organisation she co-founded in Timor.
Booking not required.
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