2022/23 New Books in Perpetrator Studies Series

We are delighted to announce the continuation of the New Books in Perpetrator Studies Series also in 2022/23!

All events will take place online, on Zoom.

The series will kick off on 15 November 2022 at 14.00 CET with the launch Jonathan Leader Maynard’s Ideology and Mass Killing: The Radicalized Security Politics of Genocides and Deadly Atrocities (Oxford University Press, 2022). The respondents will be Hollie Nyseth Nzitatira and Alexander Bellamy, and Tim Williams will moderate the event.

Please register via this link:

https://unibw.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5cvdu6opzMqHdP7fopUc6aj3QKg0EHn_xfz

The series continues on 15 December 2022 at 16.00 CET with a discussion of Iva Vukušić’s Serbian Paramilitaries and the Breakup of Yugoslavia: State Connections and Patterns of Violence (Routledge, 2022). Hikmet Karčić and Lea Davidwill act as respondents, and the discussion will be moderated by Uğur Ümit Üngör.

Please register via this link:

https://unibw.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5EqcuiqrzkrH9YppivXw6M481p98weTfYuW

In the spring, the series will continue with several exciting events, please save the dates:

January 19, 2023 at 16.00 CET: the launch of Alexander L. Hinton’s Anthropological Witness: Lessons from the Khmer Rouge Tribunal (Cornell UP, 2022).

February 9, 2023, 16.00 CET: the launch of The Oxford Handbook on Atrocity Crimes (Oxford UP, 2022) with editors Barbora Holá, Hollie Nyseth Nzitatira, and Maartje Weerdesteijn.

March 2, 2023, 16.00 CET: the launch of James Waller’s A Troubled Sleep: Risk and Resilience in Contemporary Northern Ireland (Oxford UP, 2021).

March 23, 2023, 16.00 CET: the launch of Hikmet Karčić’s Torture, Humiliate, Kill

Inside the Bosnian Serb Camp System (University of Michigan Press, 2022).

The New Books in Perpetrator Studies series introduces recent publications in the field and brings authors into conversation with researchers from other disciplines. The aim is to foster dialogue, across disciplines, on key issues currently discussed in perpetrator studies (concerning methodology, theory, ethics, representation, etc.), and to explore the conditions that enable acts of collective (and) political violence, as well as to engage critically with the very concepts of “perpetrator” or “perpetration”.

This series is organised by Susanne Knittel and Timothy Williams.