If you would like copies of the papers and/or speaking notes that go along with some of these presentations please email me susanm.thomson@gmail.com

“Peasant Politics and Power Dynamics: Blind Spots in the Transitional Justice Paradigm”. Research Presentation. European Conference on African Studies. Leipzig, Germany. 7 June 2009.

“Preserving Power: Elite Claims of Historical Unity in Post-Genocide Rwanda”. Research Presentation. Reconstructing Rwanda: Power, History and Human Rights, a Conference in Honor of Alison Des Forges, Madison, WI. 19 May 2009

“One Rwanda for All Rwandans? The Reconfiguration of Social and Political Power in Post-Genocide Rwanda”. Research Presentation. African Studies Association. Chicago. 13 November 2008.

“Situating Ordinary Rwandans in Post-Genocide Rwanda: A Methodological Approach to Fieldwork.” Research presentation. American Political Science Association. Chicago. 1 September 2007.

"Partnership or Power? Deconstructing Mrs. Kagame's Partnership for HIV/AIDS". Research presentation. Gender, HIV/AIDS and Human Security Conference. Dalhousie University. 10 August 2007.

"Profiling the Impacts of North-South Research Collaboration for Development". Panellist. AUCC-IDRC Panel, Canadian Association for the Study of International Development (CASID) Meeting, University of Saskatchewan, 1 June 2007.

"The Unity-Generating Machine: State Power and Gacaca Trials in Post-genocide Rwanda". Research Presentation. Canadian Political Science Association (CPSA) Meeting, University of Saskatchewan, 31 May 2007.

“The Politics of Trauma in Post-Genocide Rwanda: Treatment for Some at the Expense of the Many”. Research Presentation. Peacebuilding and Trauma Recovery: Integrated Strategies in Post-War Reconstruction, University of Denver, 25 February 2007.

“A State-Led Response to Genocide: The Discourse of National Unity in Rwanda”. Research Presentation. Canadian Consortium for Human Security Roundtable. Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto. 2 February 2007.

“Voices from the South: Ordinary Rwandans Speak. Preliminary Reflections”. Invited Talk. UK Department for International Development, Rwanda Field Office. Kigali, Rwanda. 25 August 2006.

“The Politics of Fieldwork: Permission, Power and Ethics”. Public lecture. Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London, 5 November 2005.

“The Use of Narrative Analysis in Understanding Acts of Resistance: The Case of Rwandan Survivors of the 1994 Genocide”. Research Presentation. Icelandic Feminist Association Meeting, Department of Anthropology, University of Iceland. 2-4 November 2005.

“Critical Discourse Analysis as Method of Inquiry in Political Science”. Research presentation. Critical Discourse and Political Analysis Workshop, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, 26-28 October 2005.

“The International Promotion of Democracy and Post-Conflict Societies: What Odds?”. Invited lecture. Department of Political Studies, University of Cape Town, 17 February 2005.

“Crimes against Women during the Rwandan Genocide: Prospects of Justice for Women Survivors”. Guest speaker. 2004 John Humphrey Freedom Award Laureate, Canadian Tour Public Event, Dalhousie University, 27 November 2004.