A conversation with artist duo Eline Jongsma and Kel O’Neill. Moderated by Susanne C. Knittel. When: 13:15 – 15:00 Where: Drift 21, Room 005, Utrecht University, Utrecht, NL On 15 January 2024 we are delighted to welcome Dutch-American documentary filmmakers and creative producers Eline Jongsma and Kel O’Neill for a conversation about their recent work,…

2ª EDICIÓN DEL SEMINARIO PERMANTE DE INVESTIGACIÓN Noviembre 2020 – Julio 2021 Coordinado por Violeta Ros y Lurdes Valls (UV) El seminario Contrafiguras. Iconología de la figura del perpetrador de los crímenes del franquismo (modelos y aproximaciones) surge como un espacio de discusión académica sobre las representaciones culturales de la violencia política desde esta perspectiva. A lo largo…

The ‘Compromised Identities?‘ project is working together with HOPE not Hate to organise the upcoming webinar ‘Mobilisation for Hate? Visions of society and small steps toward violence’. It will be a chance to hear from experts on contemporary and historic racialiced violence exploring changes and continuities in extremism. In recent years, the far-right internationally has…

Survivors’ narratives and eyewitness testimonies have long played a key role in histories of the Holocaust, as well as in education and commemoration. These first-hand accounts have not only enriched people’s understanding of the Nazi-led persecution of the Jews, but have also ensured that tales of resistance, support, and survival have been conveyed to younger…

The International Nuremberg Principles Academy, in cooperation with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, cordially invites you to attend the seminar. The Nuremberg trials, including its subsequent trials ended in 1949 and the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) was only established in 1993. The seminar will look at the establishment…

A Lecture by Robert Skloot Abstract The last quarter-century of Raphael Lemkin’s life was dedicated to one cause only: to finding a way through international law to define, prohibit and prevent the crime of genocide, a word he coined in 1944. Robert Skloot’s play If the Whole Body Dies (to be performed in Utrecht on…

If the Whole Body Dies. Raphael Lemkin and the Treaty Against Genocide, by Robert SKLOOT If the Whole Body Dies focuses on Raphael Lemkin, a Polish-born Jew and lawyer, who escaped the Holocaust by emigrating to the U.S. in 1941, and who coined the term genocide in 1944. He campaigned throughout his life to establish…

Organised by: UCL institute of advanced studies Start: Sep 30, 2016 01:00 PM End: Sep 30, 2016 03:00 PM Location: IAS Seminar Room 20, First Floor, South Wing, Wilkins Building In this Conflict, Confrontation and Justice research seminar, organised in collaboration with the UCL Centre for Collective Violence, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Dr Kieran Mitton…

The work of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) is coming to an end. The Tribunal is completing its mandate and finalizing the last proceedings. Due to cases at the ICTY involving Slobodan Milošević, Radovan Karadžić and Ratko Mladić, these names have passed by multiple times during the past decade. But was…

A Seminar with Kjell Anderson, Ugur Ümit Üngör, and Susanne C. Knittel. The figure of the perpetrator occupies a paradoxical position in contemporary society, characterized by a constant oscillation between fascination, repugnance, demonization and, in some cases, sympathy. There has been a growing interest among scholars in diverse fields in the figure of the perpetrator…