Malleus Maleficarum: Witchcraft Persecution in the 21st Century
Date: 29 October 2025
Time: 12:00-1:00 PM ET / 9:30 PM IST
Venue: Online
Register (FREE): https://www.americanbar.org/events-cle/mtg/web/453870591/
Expert panel presentation
The International Criminal Law Committee of the American Bar Association’s International Law Section is hosting this event to present thoughts and study findings on witch hunts.
Join this timely program as an expert panel explores recent events to exonerate women who were convicted of witchcraft and the new dimensions of persecution against people around the world for alleged acts of witchcraft. How are communities responding to these acts? And what lessons can be gleaned from history so that innocent people are not persecuted?
The answers to these questions and more will be addressed in this presentation. You are warmly invited to attend and participate in the discussion.
Participants (L-R in above image):
Erasmus Ablernarh, International Law Student Association, University of Massachusetts School of Law; ABA International Criminal Law Committee.
Govind Kelkar, Feminist scholar; Executive Director, GenDev Centre for Research and Innovation, Gurgaon, India; Co-author of Witch Hunts: Culture, Patriarchy and Structural Transformation and the compendium, Gender, Culture, and Capital: Witch Hunts and Ritual Attacks Across Northeast India.
Jan Machielsen, Historian, Cardiff University (UK); expert in Early Modern Witchcraft and Demonology; Monograph author, The Basque Witch-Hunt: A Secret History.
Jacqueline Mbogo, O.G.W, International Development Specialist working at the intersection of leadership, strategy and action; Member, G7 Advisory Council to Kenya’s women governors; Board member, Global Justice Centre, NGO working to combat human rights violations, gender-based violence and human trafficking.
Dev Nathan, Professor, Institute for Human Development, India; Co-author of Witch Hunts: Culture, Patriarchy and Structural Transformation.
Grace Nguyen, President, International Law Student Association, University of Massachusetts School of Law; ABA International Criminal Law Committee.
