The legacy of genocide, gross human rights violations, mass political violence, and historical injustice has been arguably laid bare through a whole range of mechanisms: official apologies, vetting, international criminal tribunals, national, or local legal proceedings, truth commissions, official commemorations, restitution, revising school history curricula, establishing monuments and museums, and hybrid trials.  Each of these…

Conference: Representing Perpetrators of Mass Violence Utrecht University, 31 August–3 September, 2016 NB: Room change: Drift 21, Room 032 (Sept 1 and 3) and Drift 13, Room 004 (Sept 2) Organizers: Susanne C. Knittel and Uğur Ümit Üngör Keynote speakers: Prof. Scott Straus, University of Wisconsin – Madison (https://faculty.polisci.wisc.edu/sstraus) Milo Rau, International Institute of Political Murder…

The presence of the Holocaust in society, politics and culture, c.1970 – 2015 From Tuesday 19th – Thursday 21st July 2016 the UCL Centre for Holocaust Education is hosting the annual British Association of Holocaust Studies (BAHS) conference.  The conference will focus on the ‘Presence of the Holocaust’ in society, politics and culture since 1970…

At the conference, Museum educators and scholars share rationales, strategies, and approaches for teaching about the Holocaust. Participants have the opportunity to tour the Museum’s Permanent Exhibition, as well as the special exhibitions Remember the Children: Daniel’s Story and Some Were Neighbors: Collaboration & Complicity in the Holocaust, and to explore the Museum’s full range…

In recent years and since the micro turn within conflict studies, research on individuals within violent conflict has been increasing. Here perpetrators, bystanders and victims, rescuers, witnesses, mediators, peacekeepers and so forth have been the analytical categories applied to the plethora of actors who can be found in societies experiencing violent conflict. These concepts are…

International Conference Probing the Limits of Categorization: The “Bystander” in Holocaust History Among the three categories used to analyze the role of individuals in the Holocaust, the ‘bystander’ is the broadest and vaguest. According to, Raul Hilberg, who coined the term, it refers to all those who were ‘once a part of this history.’ Generations…

1-3 September 2015, University of Winchester The 20th & 21st centuries have borne witness to mass killings, political violence & genocide. As we move into the new millennium the people who have orchestrated & participated in such acts remain figures of fascination & of revulsion in Western society. Yet despite this enduring fascination, and the importance of…