Mittwoch, 21. Mai 2014, 18:15 - 20:00 iCal

Human Rights and Genocide

6. Gerald Stourzh-Vorlesung zur Geschichte der Menschenrechte und der Demokratie

A. Dirk Moses spricht über

"Human Rights and Genocide: A Global Historical Perspective"

HS 41, Hauptgebäude, Stiege VIII, 1. Stock
Universitätsring 1, 1010 Wien

Lecture


Abstract: Defending human rights and preventing genocide are understandably regarded as paramount imperatives of national and international politics. The political and moral achievement of painful learning processes, they are the product of a post-Holocaust and post-totalitarian memory regime of relatively recent origin, although often traced to the Enlightenment, if not Antiquity. The nation-state stands at the centre of attention as the violator of individual and group rights; activists and NGOs seek to contain Leviathan’s excesses. In this lecture, Dirk Moses contextualises the emergence of this “negative politics” (Michael Walzer) in the global system as it has developed since the eighteenth century. The nation-state and its correlate, self-determination, have played a more complex role in generating human rights abuses and mass violence than commonly supposed. Does the nation-state as such require taming or the unequal global system that throws up challenges like environmental disaster and economic exploitation which the language of human rights defence and genocide prevention are ill equipped to discuss?

A. Dirk Moses ist Professor für Global- und Kolonialgeschichte (19.-20. Jahrhundert) am European University Institute in Florenz. Zu seinen Forschungsschwerpunkten gehören neben der Global- und Kolonialgeschichte, transnationale und internationale Geschichte, die Geschichte der Genozide und ethnischer Säuberungen, Erinnerungsgeschichte, Ideengeschichte sowie Zeitgeschichte Deutschlands.

Seine wichtigsten Bücher: German Intellectuals and the Nazi Past (Cambridge University Press, 2007); Hg. mit Bart Luttikhuis, Colonial Counterinsurgency and Mass Violence: The Dutch Empire in Indonesia (Routledge, 2014) Hg. Empire, Colony, Genocide: Conquest, Occupation, and Subaltern Resistance in World History (Berghahn Books 2008); Hg. Genocide and Settler Society: Frontier Violence and Stolen Indigenous Children in Australian History (Berghahn, 2004).

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Veranstalter

Historisch-Kulturwissenschaftliche Fakultät der Universität Wien: Forschungsschwerpunkt Diktaturen – Gewalt – Genozide und Institut für Geschichte


Kontakt

Birgitta Bader-Zaar
Institut für Geschichte, Universität Wien
4277-40810
birgitta.bader-zaar@univie.ac.at