Donnerstag, 03. Oktober 2013, 10:30 - 13:30 iCal
Genocide in Global Historical Perspective
Genocide in Global Historical (and Comparative) Perspective
Hörsaal 46, Universitätshauptgebäude, Stiege 8, 2. Stock
Universitätsring 1, 1010 Wien
Vortrag
The encounter between the new fields of global history and genocide studies has only just begun. From its inception as a university field in the 1980s, genocide studies was conceived comparatively. Global history, by contrast, set itself apart from comparative history's static units of comparison by investigating the flow and circulation of good, services, people and ideas. Rarely was violence the central concern. Some genocide scholars take a world history approach, positing a model or pattern of genocide that they see recurring in all times and places: “from Sparta to Darfur,” as Ben Kiernan puts it. Others think that analytical significance should be given to distinct phases in world history: Hannah Arendt for instance. No consensus exits on the question. This paper poses the problematic of a “global history of genocide,” asking whether such an undertaking makes sense and is viable, and if so, how.
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Martina Kaller-Dietrich
Andrea Komlosy, Martina Kaller-Dietrich
Institut für Geschichte und Institut für Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte
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martina.kaller-dietrich@univie.ac.at
Erstellt am Mittwoch, 18. September 2013, 11:32
Letzte Änderung am Freitag, 27. September 2013, 12:36