Final Solutions? Genocide in Comparative Perspective
Thursday, December 1, 2022 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm CET/GMT+1Einstein Forum
Book Presentation and Discussion
This event, moderated by Ewa Atanassow, will introduce and stimulate a conversation with Konstanty Gebert about his new book, Final Solutions: Genocide Perpetrators and their Work, that was published in Polish earlier this year. Framed by a discussion of 'genocide' as a legal concept, the book offers a global history of mass murder in the past 120 years featuring a broad range of cases in Europe (Bosnia, Holocaust, Ukrainian famine), Asia (Armenians, Cambodia, Uygurs), and Africa (Namibia, Rwanda).
This is a hybrid event. Participants can join at the Einstein Forum in Potsdam or online. Link for online registration.
This event is co-hosted by the Einstein Forum, HI 109 Global History Lab and PT 358 Critical Human Rights. BCB community can join without registration. All other participants will be invited personally.
Konstanty Gebert is an eminent Polish writer and publicist. The author of 12 books and thousands of articles, he has taught at Hebrew University, the University of California (Berkeley), Grinnell College, and Warsaw University's Collegium Civitas. As a journalist he has been associated with the daily Gazeta Wyborcza from its foundation, and has served as a war correspondent covering conflicts in Turkey, India and Kashmir, Myanmar, Israel-Palestine, Rwanda, and Bosnia where he worked on the ground with the special UN envoy Tadeusz Mazowiecki. Gebert has also advocated reviving Jewish life in Poland and founded several organizations including the independent Jewish University and the monthly Midrash.
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