Late Trials of Perpetrators in the Soviet Union: Between Propaganda, Rule of Law, And Memory. Department of History and Cultures (DiSCI), University of Bologna, Italy. October 24 – 26, 2024. Organizers: Vanessa Voisin and David Alan Rich.   PROGRAM [proceedings in English except where noted] Day 1, Thursday 24 Oct., Aula Gambi, Piazza San Giovanni…

Date: 4-5 October 2024 Location: Monasterium Poortackerey, Gent, Belgium Keynote speakers: Mihaela Mihai (The University of Edinburgh) Ivan Stacey (Beijing Normal University) 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…

Where: Villa ten Hompel, Münster, Germany Dates: 21.03.2024 – 22.03.2024 Deadline for registration: 31.01.2024.   This two-day conference in collegial exchange at the Villa ten Hompel historical site deals with gender perspectives on National Socialism and the Holocaust. The individual focal points of the conference deal with spaces of action, temporalizations and gender: from constructions…

FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PERPETRATORS OF MASS VIOLENCE 19-21 October 2022 Centre Cultural La Nau de la Universitat de València In the study of mass crimes and political violence, and primarily in recent decades, a greater interest has developed in the methodological questions concerning the condition of the perpetrator and the act of perpetration in…

Pictures from Sobibor: Souvenirs of a Death Camp Perpetrator Dr. Andreas Kahrs May 6, 2021; 19.00-20.30 BST In January 2020, a new photo collection on National Socialist crimes was presented to the public. Consisting of more than 350 pictures from the possession of SS man Johann Niemann, the collection offers new insights into the crimes…

To mark the 20th anniversary of the establishment of the domain of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the NIOD and the University of Amsterdam this symposium takes stock of the accomplishments of the past, and draws up a vision for the future. One of the important aims of this symposium is to bring together the…

The International Network of Genocide Scholars (INoGS) emerged from a conference in Berlin in January 2005 with the goal to provide Genocide Studies with a non-partisan forum through which to present research and analysis on any aspect of genocide and other forms of collective violence. Recent symposia on genocide and mass violence, as manifested in…

Conference coordinated by Anacleto Ferrer, Brigitte Jirku and Vicente Sánchez-Biosca (UV) November 12-15, 2019   “Where there is sorrow there is holy ground” (Oscar Wilde, De Profundis)   the crime scene “is… a product of the emergence in the nineteenth century of forensic science… established (and continually reestablished) through complex practices of marking, looking, calculating,…

From World War I onwards, the figure of the victim has almost become a synonym of memory, particularly of traumatic memory. Soldiers first; then, the civil population; last, survivors of national, religious, ethnic or ideological communities – all these came to be targets of systematic violence inasmuch as the practice of total war and irregular conflicts…

In this inaugural conference, the George and Irina Schaeffer Center for the Study of Genocide, Human Rights and Conflict Prevention invites you to examine the evolving relationship between the law and extreme forms of mass violence, particularly genocide, since the convening of the International Military Tribunals at Nuremberg and Tokyo. How have the international courts…