It is with great pride that we announce that the JHGC’s founder and director, Tali Nates has been chosen to receive one of two International Network of Genocide Scholars (INoGS) 2024 Impact Awards.
In her email regarding the award, Elisabeth Hope Murray, President of INoGS said:
“Tali’s outstanding work as both as an historian and a museum director has made a revolutionary impact, both within the academic sphere and civil society. Through her creative, inventive, and thoughtful vision, she has created a Holocaust Centre which is internationally recognised and renowned. The Centre brings Holocaust memory into an African context as it brings it into dialogue with the genocide in Rwanda, apartheid and the 2008 xenophobic attacks. The rich and engaging ways in which the Centre creates these dialogues makes it an inspirational space, both for the school students who visit it on a daily basis and for established academic scholars. She has always been extremely generous in providing academic scholars with a space to explore and present their work in ways that can make a difference, both within the academic community and society as a whole. She has also facilitated and partaken in a range of ambitious, exciting, and important projects which have led to the evolution of groundbreaking work.
We also recognise her as an outstanding researcher who has facilitated a significant shift in the way we think about approaches to teaching and researching the Holocaust and other histories of oppression. Not only has she contributed journal articles and book chapters to a range of prestigious publications, but you also served as an editor on numerous occasions. The journal and book publications she has been involved with have been greatly enriched through your contributions.”
We heartily congratulate Tali on this exceptional achievement, one awarded by her peers in the field of genocide studies.