Comparing and Bridging Across Genocides

Scholarly, Cultural and Political Promises, Challenges, and Taboos
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Despite the legal definition of genocide provided by the 1948 UN Genocide Convention, the concept of genocide is at times expanded by scholars and activists to encompass a broad spectrum of manifestations of extreme violence. Linked to the 2021 Ohanessian lecture delivered by Claire Mouradian on the commemoration of the genocide against the Armenian people in memorials to the Shoah, the panel will focus on debates around comparison and singularity between genocides, as they have unfolded with regard to the status of the Holocaust. We strive to foster a discussion centered on comparisons to the Holocaust and between genocides, as the concept has been adopted both as an analytical category and a political idiom. Cases will include the Armenian genocide, the crimes of colonialism, and the US Dakota War in Minnesota.

A panel discussion with Fatma Müge Göçek (University of Michigan), Natan Sznaider (Academic College of Tel-Aviv-Yaffo), and Alejandro Baer (UMN) with commentary by Claire Mouradian (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris). Moderated by Joachim Savelsberg (UMN).

Presented by the Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies and the Arsham and Charlotte Ohanessian Chair

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