Quantifying the Holocaust. Classifying, Counting, Modeling: What Contribution to Holocaust History? When: May 14 – 16, 2024 Where: Centre Malher-Paris 1 University and Mémorial de la Shoah, Paris, France. Keynote: Annette Wieviorka PROGRAMME: DAY 1 TUESDAY, MAY 14, 2024 CENTRE MALHER – From 8.45am: Welcome – 9.30-10.30am: Keynote Annette Wieviorka   Making numbers: the measurement of events by contemporaries and their…

Congratulations to Antonius Robben and Alexander L. Hinton, who have received the prestigious 2023 Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Title from the American Library Association for their book Perpetrators: Encountering Humanity’s Dark Side (2023, Stanford University Press). Based on in-depth interviews with Argentine and Cambodian perpetrators of disappearances and genocide, the book offers scholars crucial…

Date: 4-5 October 2024 Location: Monasterium Poortackerey, Gent, Belgium Deadline to submit a paper proposal: 6 May 2024 The global impact of World War II has been profound and enduring. Narrated across the globe in a myriad of ways — as a just struggle by democracies against oppressive forces, as a testament to the resilience and heroism…

Terribly and Terrifyingly normal? A podcast series on the perpetrators of mass atrocities by Nicola Quaedvlieg and Alette Smeulers. The attacks on 9/11, the invasion in Ukraine, the rise of the Islamic State, the genocides in Srebrenica, Rwanda, Cambodia and Nazi Germany are all incredible acts of human cruelty. They make us wonder: who are…

The latest issue of JPR features Ellen Pilsworth’s discussion of the ethics of the bystander perspective with Sebastian Haffner’s memoir Defying Hitler (2002) as case study, and a pioneering interdisciplinary contribution based on a collaboration between literary scholar Juliane Prade-Weiss, historian Vladimir Petrovic, and Bible scholar Dominik Markl that critically explores the ways in which the trope of tragedy…

On March 23, 2023, we discussed Hikmet Karčić’s monograph Torture, Humiliate, Kill: Inside the Bosnian Serb Camp System (University of Michigan Press, 2022). Torture, Humiliate, Kill is a thorough and definitive resource for understanding the function and operation of camps during the Bosnian genocide. The discussants were Jessie Barton Hronešová (University of North Carolina, Chapel…

On 9 February we launched The Oxford Handbook on Atrocity Crimes (Oxford UP, 2022), edited by Barbora Holá, Hollie Nyseth Nzitatira, and Maartje Weerdesteijn. The handbook brings together research from across the social sciences and humanities to chart and further develop the evolving field of atrocity crimes studies. The launch included presentations by the editors…

Watch the excellent discussion of Alexander L. Hinton’s book Anthropological Witness: Lessons from the Khmer Rouge Tribunal (Cornell UP, 2022)! Anthropological Witness tells the story of Hinton’s encounter with an accused architect of genocide and, more broadly, Hinton’s attempt to navigate the promises and perils of expert testimony. The respondents were Richard Wilson and Sabah…

Watch the illuminating discussion of Iva Vukušić’s Serbian Paramilitaries and the Breakup of Yugoslavia! On 15 December 2022 we launched Iva Vukušić’s Serbian Paramilitaries and the Breakup of Yugoslavia: State Connections and Patterns of Violence (Routledge, 2022). The book offers the first comprehensive analysis of the nature and functions of the Serbian paramilitary units during…

New Series at CEU Press! This new series aims to publish work contributing to the burgeoning field of Perpetrator Studies, but with a focus specifically on the East, Central and Southeast Europe region. Series Editors: Dr Iva Vukušić, Assistant Professor in International History at Utrecht University, the Netherlands Dr Weronika Grzebalska, Assistant Professor in Sociology, Institute of…