Perpetrator Studies Network

Workshops

Professional Ethics, Medical Personnel, and Genocide – Online Workshop

Professional Ethics, Medical Personnel, and Genocide – Online Workshop September 29-30, 2021 Deadline for submission of paper proposals: June 4, 2021 Organized by the Holodomor Research and Education Consortium, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta _______________________________________________ This online workshop will examine genocide in the context of public health, focusing on bioethics and the role of medical…

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Decolonisation War in Indonesia 1945-1950: Incompatible Memories?

The Arq Psychotrauma Expert Group, the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies, the Dutch Institute of Military History, NIOD Institute for War-, Holocaust-, and Genocidestudies, and the Veteraneninstituut are organising a debate on 4 November entitled: Decolonisation War in Indonesia 1945-1950: Incompatible Memories? Since the publication of Rémy Limpach’s dissertation entitled De…

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Workshop: Teaching about Perpetrators: Ethics, Aesthetics, Politics

The “Teaching about Perpetrators” workshop series aims to examine how our contradictory attitudes toward perpetrators in society and culture can in themselves be made the object of enquiry, and explores the opportunities and challenges for teaching and learning about past atrocities through the figure of the perpetrator across disciplines. This is the third workshop in…

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Workshop: Teaching about Perpetrators

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. This moral uncertainty is difficult to reconcile with contemporary memory culture and commemorative practice, particularly with respect to the commemoration of state crimes, which depends on a clear distinction…

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