Justice and Hope
January 21 – June 28
Samuel Bak Museum: The Learning Center is a space where art is the gateway to a conversation on human rights, Holocaust education, and genocide. The Spring 2026 exhibition Justice and Hope explores how artists Samuel Bak, Dinh Q. Lê, Mladen Miljanović, Serge Nitegeka, and Maja Ruznic use intertwining personal narrative and historical facts to commemorate conflicts and denounce humanity’s inability to forgo violence. The exhibition poses questions on reconciliation and how we might learn from history to build better futures.
Samuel Bak Museum: The Learning Center thanks the following sponsors for their generous support of Justice and Hope and accompanying educational programs and events.
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Bibliography Justice and Hope
Overview
Fullerton, Maryellen. “The International and National Protection of Refugees.” In Guide to International Human Rights Practice, edited by Hurst Hannum. 4th ed. Ardsley, N.Y.: Transnational, 2004.
Jones, Adam. 2006. Genocide: A Comprehensive Introduction. London: Routledge.
Mann, Michael. 2005. The Dark Side of Democracy: Explaining Ethnic Cleansing. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Naimark, Norman M. 2001. Fires of Hatred: Ethnic Cleansing in Twentieth-Century Europe. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Power, Samantha. 2003. A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide. London: Flamingo.
Shaw, Martin. 2007. What Is Genocide? Cambridge: Polity.
Shelton, Dinah L., ed. Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity. 3 vols. Detroit, Mich.: Macmillan Reference, 2005.
Weitz, Eric D. 2003. A Century of Genocide: Utopias of Race and Nation. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
University of Minnesota Resource guide: https://cla.umn.edu/chgs/holocaust-genocide-education/resources
Holocaust
Desbois, Patrick. 2024. The Holocaust by Bullets: A Priest’s Journey to Uncover the Truth Behind the Murder of 1.5 Million Jews. St. Martin’s Press.
Global Approaches to the Holocaust: Memory, History, and Representation. Nebraska, 2025.
Goldhagen, Daniel. 1996. Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust. New York: Knopf.
Haugen, David M., and Susan Musser, eds. 2011. The Holocaust. First edition. Detroit, Mich: Greenhaven Press.
Levin, Irene. 2024. Everyday Silence and the Holocaust. Oxford: Taylor & Francis.
Morsink, Johannes. 2019 The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Holocaust: An Endangered Connection. 1st ed. Washington: Georgetown University Press.
Schallié, Charlotte, Helga Thorson, and Andrea Van Noord, eds. 2020.After the Holocaust : Human Rights and Genocide Education in the Approaching Post-Witness Era. Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada: University of Regina Press.
Stier, Oren Baruch. 2015, Holocaust Icons : Symbolizing the Shoah in History and Memory. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
Cambodia
Pran, Dith.199.9 Children of Cambodia's Killing Fields: Memoirs by Survivors, New Haven: Yale University Press.
Short, Philip. Pol Pot: the History of a Nightmare, London: John Murray Publishers, 2004.
Cook, Susan. “Prosecuting Genocide in Cambodia: the Winding Path Towards Justice.” Magazine: the Tribunals, May 2001, 5 Aug. 2005. Link: http://www.crimesofwar.org/tribun-mag/mag_cambodia.html
Kiernan, Ben. “Coming to Terms with the Past: Cambodia,” History Today 54.9 (2004): 16.
Rwanda
Anderson, Tim. 2009. Rwandan Genocide. Place of publication not identified: Great Neck Publishing.
Herr, Alexis, ed. 2018. Rwandan Genocide : The Essential Reference Guide. Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO, An Imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC.
Lowery, Zoe, and Frank Spalding. 2017. The Rwandan Genocide. New York: Rosen Publishing.
Nowrojee, Binaifer. 1996. Shattered Lives : Sexual Violence during the Rwandan Genocide and Its Aftermath. New York: Human Rights Watch.
UN Commission on Human Rights, “Report on the situation of human rights in Rwanda submitted by Mr. René Degni-Ségui, Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights, under paragraph 20 of resolution S-3/1 of 25 May 1994” January 29, 1994 file:///C:/Users/88380322/Downloads/E_CN-4_1996_68-EN.pdf
Recent reports on Rwanda
Amnesty International, April 2025 Rwanda Report : file:///C:/Users/88380322/Downloads/WEBPOL1085152025ENGLISH.pdf
Global Policy Forum database: https://archive.globalpolicy.org/security/issues/rwanindx.htm
Human Rights Watch World Report 2024: https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2024/country-chapters/rwanda
Prunier, Gérard. 1995 The Rwanda Crisis: History of a Genocide. New York: Columbia University Press.
UNESCO, International Day of Reflection resource: www.unesco.org/en/days/tutsi-genocide
Bosnia
Allen, Beverly. 1996. Rape Warfare: The Hidden Genocide in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.
Almond, Mark. 1994. Europe's Backyard War: The War in the Balkans. London: Heinemann.
Anzulovic, Branimir. 1999. Heavenly Serbia: From Myth to Genocide. London: Hurst.
Cigar, Norman and Paul Williams. 2002. Indictment at the Hague: The Milošević Regime and Crimes of the Balkan Wars. New York: New York University Press.
Gibbs, David N. 2009. First Do No Harm: Humanitarian Intervention and the Destruction of Yugoslavia. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press.
Human Rights Watch. “BOSNIA-HERCEGOVINA. The Fall of Srebrenica and the Failure of U.N. Peacekeeping,” Vol. 7, No. 13, October 1995. Link: https://www.hrw.org/legacy/summaries/s.bosnia9510.html
Honig, Jan Willem and Norbert Both. 1997. Srebrenica: Record of a War Crime. London: Penguin.
Hukanović, Rezak. 1997. The Tenth Circle of Hell: A Memoir of Life in the Death Camps of Bosnia. London: Little Brown. Alexandra Stiglmayer, ed. 1994. Mass Rape: The War Against Women in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
Recent Report on Bosnia and Herzegovina
UN security council reports: https://www.securitycouncilreport.org/un-documents/bosnia-herzegovina/
Office of High Representatibe (OHR) reports: https://www.ohr.int/cat/hrs-reports/
Artists
Samuel Bak
Bak, Samuel. 2001. Painted in Words : A Memoir. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
Bak, Samuel, Destiny M Barletta, Henry F Knight, and host institution Pucker Gallery. 2015. Beholding After : Samuel Bak’s Art of H·O·P·E. Boston: Pucker Gallery.
Ben Yosef, Ute. 2023. Art and Life : The Story of Samuel Bak. Boston, MA: Pucker Art Publications.
Langer, Lawrence L. 2022. An Unimaginable Partnership : The Art of Samuel Bak and the Writings of Lawrence L. Langer. 1st ed. Boston, Massachusetts: Pucker Art Publications.
Philips, Gary A, and Samuel Bak. 2018. Just Is in the Art of Samuel Bak. Boston, Massachusetts: Pucker Art Publications.
Select Dinh Q. Lê Publications:
P.P.O.W website: https://www.ppowgallery.com/artists/dinh-q-le#tab:thumbnails
Berthon, Magali An. “Dinh Q Lê, Photographing the Thread of Memory: Dinh Q Lê, Photographing the Thread of Memory, Musee Du Quai Branly - Jacques Chirac, 37 Quai Jacques Chirac, 75007 Paris, France, February 8-November 20, 2022.” Textile : the journal of cloth and culture 22, no. 1 (2024): 174–179.
Lê, Dinh Q., Christopher Miles, Moira Roth. 2003. Dinh Q. Lê : from Vietnam to Hollywood. Seattle, New York: Marquand Books.
Lê, Dinh Q. (Artist); Monroe, Michael W. (Director); Catalani, Stefano (Curator); Asmus, Sigrid (Editor); Nguyen, Viet Thanh & Roth, Moira (Contributors). 2007. A Tapestry of Memories: The Art of Dinh Q. Lê. Bellevue, WA: Bellevue Arts Museum.
Lê, Dinh Q. 2018. Dinh Q. Lê : monuments and memorials. Singapore: STPI: Creative Workshop & Gallery.
Metzger, Sean, and Dinh Q Lê. “‘Drifting in This Dark Space’: A Conversation with Artist Dinh Q. Lê.” Theatre journal (Washington, D.C.) 75, no. 3 (2023): E-23-E-31.
Tello, Veronica. 2016. Counter-Memorial Aesthetics : Refugees, Contemporary Art, and the Politics of Memory. London, [England: Bloomsbury Academic.
Vuth, Lyno. 2015. Atrocity and the texture of memory : Dinh Q. Lê and the Tuol Sleng prison photographs. Thesis, Dissertation, State University of New York at Binghamton Department of Art History
Select Dinh Q. Lê Interviews:
Dinh Q. Lê – Cambodia Reamker: https://youtu.be/U7qfE5GmU6Q?si=FyOW5ElhpOahsuf4
Dinh Q. Le Interview - Post Vidai Collection: https://youtu.be/CJg93hxzRiE?si=V0qn6CupPOeW4jpP
Dinh Q. Lê: Monuments and Memorials: https://youtu.be/Eo9suane1xg?si=99EJMXEp2dlXbABR
Artist Dinh Q. Lê & Curator Rory Padeken, In Conversation: https://youtu.be/UtKVVnhk87c?si=vhi-f08zxZKjJib7
FLOW Series #4 DINH Q. LE in conversation with JAMES LINGWOOD: https://youtu.be/sQJuyd13_8M?si=QnVxG2k1J3IHRybU
Select Serge Alain Nitegeka Publications
Veronica Esposito, “Configurations in Black: a stateless Rwandan refugee makes art out of his experience,” The Guardian, February 5, 2025. https://marianneboeskygallery.com/usr/documents/press/download_url/502/san_2025.05.02_the-guardian.pdf
Siddharta Mitter, “ An Artist's New Migration Song,” The New York Times, April 26, 2020 https://marianneboeskygallery.com/usr/documents/press/download_url/65/san_2020.4.26_ny-times.pdf
Select Serge Alain Nitegeka Interviews:
Serge Alain Nitegeka at Marianne Boesky Gallery: https://youtu.be/ZNL8W_XyrtY?si=Y05SlBk_Sk8euTWf
Wits Vuvuzela Exhibition Black Subjects: https://youtu.be/yM_6WX_uxzo?si=pfUxhG8D98xWl1M5
South Africa Studios Interview : https://youtu.be/HyPyFvEfxJU?si=lim9OykqnAhPgPyB
Hood Museum, VIRTUAL DISCUSSION | "All the World’s Futures: Global Art and Art History in the Wake of COVID-19" https://youtu.be/_b93-daaMTE?si=QXuY_WhtfBZhZiCj
Select Mladen MIljanović Publications:
Čmajčanin, Lana, Adela Jušić (eds). 2018. Reconciliations, London: King's College.
Čvoro, Uroš. 2017. Halfway Tradition«: Transition, Nation, Sex, and Death in the Work of Marina Abramović and Mladen Miljanović. Družboslovne Razprave.
Čvoro, Uroš, Kit Messham-Muir. 2021. Images of war in contemporary art : terror and conflict in the mass media. London: Bloomsbury Visual Arts.
Riding, James. 2017. “Representing a divided place: the artistic-military practice of Mladen Miljanović.” Cultural geographies, 24, 201701, 171.
Select Mladen MIljanović Interviews:
A conversation with Mladen Miljanović by Michela Alesandrini:
Part 1/2: https://youtu.be/lqvtmvKbNc4?si=JuFp1FmMe07bqpLL
Part 2/2: https://youtu.be/O5cjmDhrFcQ?si=m5yv2A5EAWbOgK0h
Art & Reconciliation. Portrait of an Artist: https://youtu.be/zv3HR71Dd_w?si=mDTkWGKVEez2Ekmt
B#side War: https://youtu.be/jS5pOEg3QDQ?si=EL5CrriOBkOcLMBt
Sanatçı ile Söyleşi: Mladen Miljanović Artist in Conversation: https://youtu.be/shCcy15h76w?si=33O3hUwEb_27vknP
Join UN75 – Mladen Miljanović : https://youtu.be/oJsv-CX5CXU?si=RKsTI6UtZmd5rlMQ
Select Maja Ruznic Publications:
Dorris, Jesse. 2024.“Maja Ruznic.” Frieze : contemporary art and culture. London: Frieze.
Ruznic, Maya, Rebecca Ora. 2014. Maja Ruznic: Refuge. Berlin : Galerie Born Darss.
Ruznic, Maya, Nicole Dial-Kay, Hariz Halilovich, Annie Godfrey Larmon. 2021. In the Sliver of the Sun. Taos, NM: Harwood Museum of Art.
Ruznic, Maya, Quianfan Gu. 2022. Maja Ruznic : consulting with shadows. New York, NY: Karma.
Ruznic, Maya, Dana Žaja. 2024. Maja Ruznic : Mutter. Snoeck, Berlin, Köln: Contemporary Fine Arts.
Watlington, Emily. “The 2024 Whitney Biennial.” Art in America (1939). New York: Brant Publications, Incorporated, 2024.
Select Maja Ruznic Interviews:
A Conversation between artist Maja Ruznic and Cecilia Alemani: https://youtu.be/7IExuYQsYL0?si=FAFgKxIRLlU_N_in
Once Within a Time ARTIST TALK with Maja Ruznic | 12th SITE SANTA FE International: https://youtu.be/NpDu448yd0c?si=Zpck0elK35U-5ZxD
Juxtapoz Presents: Maja Ruznic and Joshua Hagler in Roswell, New Mexico: https://youtu.be/x7YnB9ZsAiw?si=48UYRix7IwM0ftrX
A Conversation: Maja Ruznic and Simone Krug: https://youtu.be/Dgt88nZTytY?si=eI343ULXowHxWv39
Exhibition Walkthrough - In the Sliver Of The Sun: Maja Ruznic: https://youtu.be/NUpBaGqACU0?si=DSw2r__daMepQzYn
Minisode: Maja Ruznic on her 2024 Whitney Biennial Artworks: https://whitney.org/media/58829