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SUMMARY:RESCHEDULED: Virtual Panel: The Problems of Genocide
DESCRIPTION:This event was originally scheduled for 25 October but has been rescheduled to 1 December due to illness. \nGenocide is not only a problem of mass death but also of how\, as a relatively new idea and law\, it organizes and distorts thinking about civilian destruction. Taking the normative perspective of civilian immunity from military attack\, A. Dirk Moses argues that the implicit hierarchy of international criminal law\, atop which sits genocide as the ‘crime of crimes’\, blinds us to other types of humanly caused civilian death\, like bombing cities\, and the ‘collateral damage’ of missile and drone strikes. Talk of genocide\, then\, can function ideologically to detract from systematic violence against civilians perpetrated by governments of all types. The Problems of Genocide contends that this violence is the consequence of ‘permanent security’ imperatives: the striving of states\, and armed groups seeking to found states\, to make themselves invulnerable to threats. \nAbout the speakers: \nDirk Moses is the Frank Porter Graham Distinguished Professor of Global Human Rights History at the University of North Carolina. He is a historian genocide\, memory\, and intellectual history. His first book\, German Intellectuals and the Nazi Past (2007)\, investigated the West German debates about renewing democracy in the wake of the failure of the Weimar Republic and the Holocaust. He has edited many anthologies on genocide\, including\, most recently\, Postcolonial Conflict and the Question of Genocide: The Nigeria-Biafra War\, 1967–1970 (2018)\, The Holocaust in Greece (2018)\, and Decolonization\, Self-Determination\, and the Rise of Global Human Rights Politics  (2020). His investigation of the origins and function of the genocide concept appears in his second monograph\, The Problems of Genocide (2021). Dirk is working on two book projects. One on what he calls the Diplomacy of Genocide and another called Genocide and the Terror of History. In his spare time\, he edits the Journal of Genocide Research. \nChristine Achinger is Associate Professor of German Studies at the University of Warwick. Her current research investigates the interrelation of constructions of Jewishness\, race and gender as responses to the development of capitalist modernity during the long 19th century. Among her publications are Gespaltene Moderne. Gustav Freytags Soll und Haben – Nation\, Geschlecht und Judenbild (2007) and Antisemitism\, Racism and Islamophobia: Distorted Faces of Modernity (ed. w. Robert Fine\, 2015). \nChaired by: \nPhilippe Sands is Professor of public understanding of law at University College London\, and Samuel and Judith Pisar Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. He is President of English PEN and on the board of the Hay Festival of Arts and Literature. Author of many books\, including East West Street (2016) and The Ratline (2020)\, Philippe is an occasional contributor to many publications\, including The Guardian\, Financial Times and New York Times\, and appears regularly on the BBC and CNN. His next book\, The Last Colony\, will be published in September 2022. \nEvent guidelines: \n1. The Library will send you a Zoom link and joining instructions via email prior to the event. Please check your junk email folders. \n2. Please try and join 5 minutes before the event start time and we will let you into the room (do try and bear with us if this takes a few minutes). \n3. If you would like to ask a question during the event\, please type your question into the chat function\, and we will endeavour to answer as many questions as possible during the Q&A. Your webcam will not be seen during this event. \n4. The event will be recorded for the Library’s YouTube channel and will be shared at a later date.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-panel-the-problems-of-genocide/
LOCATION:Isle of Man
CATEGORIES:Academic Book Talks,Genocide,New and Noteworthy Books
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SUMMARY:Virtual PhD and a Cup of Tea: Jean Améry and Suicide: At Existentialism’s Limits
DESCRIPTION:Part of The Wiener Holocaust Library’s PhD and a Cup of Tea doctoral seminar series. \nThe essayist\, novelist\, philosopher\, and Auschwitz survivor Jean Améry’s greatest intellectual influence in the post-war years was Jean-Paul Sartre. Sartre’s theory of radical\, ontological freedom provided a lifeline for Améry in the aftermath of his experience of exile\, torture\, and imprisonment in the concentration camps. Existentialism gifted Améry with the conceptual tools necessary to create himself anew. However\, Améry’s appropriation of this philosophy came up against limits in the experience of aging\, which\, in Améry’s account\, saw a past marked by suffering\, failure and regret solidify\, just as the future’s horizon began to recede. Rather than freedom\, it is a limitation that would come to define the human experience for Améry. But this gradual erosion of freedom’s potential would be interrupted by what Améry presents as the highest form of autonomy: the act of suicide. This presentation will chart the initial promise and ultimate limitations of Améry’s encounter with Sartre’s existentialism. \nAbout the speaker: \nJohn Spiers is a PhD candidate in Literature\, Theology and the Arts in the Theology & Religious Studies department at the University of Glasgow. He holds a master’s degree from the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy at Kingston University. His research focuses on existential thought and he has written on Schopenhauer\, Nietzsche\, Dostoevsky\, Shestov\, Fondane\, Beauvoir\, Sartre\, and Camus. His doctoral thesis engages with existential themes in Jean Améry’s essayistic writings. \nEvent guidelines: \n1. The Library will send you a Zoom link and joining instructions via email prior to the event. Please check your junk email folders. \n2. Please try and join 5 minutes before the event start time and we will let you into the room (do try and bear with us if this takes a few minutes). \n 
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-phd-and-a-cup-of-tea-jean-amery-and-suicide-at-existentialisms-limitspart-of-the-wiener-holocaust-librarys-phd-and-a-cup-of-tea-doctoral-seminar-series/
LOCATION:Isle of Man
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SUMMARY:Virtual Exhibition Talk: The Radicalising Impact of the Fascist Past: Emotive Memories of Nazism and Fascism in Contemporary Extreme Right Politics
DESCRIPTION:As part of The Wiener Holocaust Library’s This Fascist Life exhibition series\, Professor Paul Jackson will explore how the extreme right today\, in Britain and internationally\, often takes a deep interest in the fascist past. \nFront page of the fascist newspaper Action\, the newspaper of Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists\, 9 July 1936. Wiener Holocaust Library Collections. \nWhile the more moderate populist radical right has tried to disconnect itself from the legacies of fascism\, many smaller\, more overtly extremist groups in Britain\, Europe and elsewhere have sought to reconnect their activism with memories of the fascist past. This talk will interrogate fascination with aspects of the fascist past and consider how they help such groups today develop a culture that appeals to younger men especially through themes of hypermasculinity and underpin ongoing support through a politics of emotions. \nAbout the speaker: \nProfessor Paul Jackson is a specialist in the contemporary history of British fascism. His books include Pride in Prejudice: Understanding Britain’s Extreme Right (MUP\, 2022). He is also the academic curator of the Searchlight Archive at the University of Northampton\, a major collection of material linked to the recent history of the extreme right. \n 
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/exhibition-talk-the-radicalising-impact-of-the-fascist-past-emotive-memories-of-nazism-and-fascism-in-contemporary-extreme-right-politics/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Virtual Panel Discussion: Antisemitism\, Race and Violence in the Russian Empire
DESCRIPTION:Part of The Wiener Holocaust Library’s Racism\, Antisemitism\, Colonialism and Genocide event series. \nFuneral held for desecrated Torah scrolls following the Kishinev pogrom of 1903\, in which 49 Jews were murdered and hundreds of women raped (public domain). Kishinev was then in the Russian Empire. \nDiscussions about the mass violence and racism perpetrated by European empires during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries do not always consider the situation in the Russian Empire\, where genocide was committed against Muslim Circassians from the 1830s-1860s\, and where the Jewish population suffered repeated waves of state-orchestrated discrimination\, persecution and violence. This event will consider these events and the significance of racism and antisemitism in Imperial Russia. It will examine the legacies of these acts of ethnic mass violence during the Russian Civil War and in Nazi Germany. \nAbout the speakers: \nDr Polly Zavadivker is Assistant Professor of History and Jewish Studies and the Director of the Jewish Studies programme at the University of Delaware. She is the author of A Nation of Refugees: World War I and Russia’s Jews (Oxford University Press\, forthcoming) and 1915 Diary of S. An-sky: A Russian Jewish Writer at the Eastern Front (2016). \nDr Brendan McGeever is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Birkbeck\, University of London where he is also a Research Associate at the Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism. He is the author of the prize-winning Antisemitism and the Russian Revolution (Cambridge University Press 2019). \nDr Andrew Sloin is Associate Professor of History and Co-Director of the Sandra K. Wasserman Jewish Studies Center at Baruch College\, City University of New York. He has expertise in Russian\, East European\, Soviet\, and Jewish history. He is the author of The Jewish Revolution in Belorussia: Economy\, Race\, and Bolshevik Power (2017). \nEvent guidelines: \n1. The Library will send you a Zoom link and joining instructions via email prior to the event. Please check your junk email folders. \n2. Please try and join 5 minutes before the event start time and we will let you into the room (do try and bear with us if this takes a few minutes). \n3. If you would like to ask a question during the event\, please type your question into the chat function\, and we will endeavour to answer as many questions as possible during the Q&A. Your webcam will not be seen during this event. \n4. The event will be recorded for the Library’s YouTube channel and will be shared at a later date.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-panel-discussion-antisemitism-race-and-violence-in-the-russian-empire/
LOCATION:Isle of Man
CATEGORIES:Antisemitism,Colonialism and Genocide,Racism and Antisemitism
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