21 November 2025 (Friday), 11:00 – 12:00 AM (JST)
Microsoft Teams (online)
About the Lecture
Genocide was originally conceived to criminalize wars of extermination, but was clinically distinguished from warfare in the United Nations Genocide Convention. The US use of atomic bombs on two Japanese cities was integral to this development, which structures our thinking about war and genocide today. This paper reconstructs this development and the debates on the subject within the field of Genocide Studies in its founding in the 1980s and 1990s. This is essential background, it argues, for understanding the debate about genocides underway in our world today.
About the Speaker
Prof. A. Dirk Moses is the Anne and Bernard Spitzer Professor of International Relations at the City College of New York, CUNY. He is a scholar of genocide and international affairs, memory studies, and modern Germany. His latest book, The Problems of Genocide: Permanent Security and the Language of Transgression, appeared in 2021. Recent anthologies include The Holocaust Museum and Human Rights: Transnational Perspectives on Contemporary Memorials (2025), The Russian Invasion of Ukraine Victims Perpetrators Justice and the Question of Genocide (2024), Patriotic History and the (Re)Nationalization of Memory (2023), and Genocide: Key Themes (2022).
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