Keynote Speakers
INoGS is excited to announce the Keynote Speaker for the upcoming 10th International Conference on Genocide:
Alex Hinton
Alex Hinton is INoGS' esteemed 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award winner, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, Director of the Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights, and UNESCO Chair on Genocide Prevention at Rutgers University. He is the author or editor of seventeen books including the award-winning Why did they Kill? Cambodia in the Shadow of Genocide (California, 2005). His most recent books are It Can Happen Here: White Power and the Rising Threat of Genocide in the US (NYU, 2021), Anthropological Witness: Lessons from the Khmer Rouge Tribunal (Cornell, 2022), and Perpetrators: Encountering Humanity's Dark Side (Stanford, 2023).
Joziléia Kaingang
Joziléia Kaingang is an Indigenous leader of the Kaingang people, an educator, and a researcher, with a strong record in the political organization of Indigenous women in Brazil and in international human rights advocacy. She is one of the leading figures of the National Articulation of Indigenous Women Warriors of Ancestrality (ANMIGA), where she is involved in political coordination and in shaping agendas related to the rights of Indigenous women, the fight against violence, the defense of territories, and the affirmation of traditional knowledge. She is also a member of the Articulation of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil (APIB), participating in national political advocacy processes. She acts as an Indigenous representative in United Nations bodies and forums dedicated to the rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Edson Teles
Edson Teles is a researcher and professor and a member of the Center for Forensic Anthropology and Archaeology (CAAF) at the Universidade Federal de São Paulo, where he is directly involved in the coordination and technical-scientific oversight of investigations into enforced disappearances and deaths resulting from state violence. Within the CAAF, he is responsible for the work related to the Perus Clandestine Mass Grave in São Paulo, including documentary research, institutional coordination, engagement with victims’ families, and the monitoring of exhumation, analysis, and identification of human remains. He is also responsible for investigations conducted by the CAAF in Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro, concerning deaths and disappearances associated with the 2022 floods, with a focus on the analysis of state protocols for body management, victim identification, and the production of technical inputs for public authorities and oversight bodies.
