THE HOLOCAUST AND MODERN GENOCIDE

Conference Programme

9.15 - 9.45 Coffee and registration

9.45 - 10.00 Introduction: Ben Barkow , Director of the Wiener Library

10.00 - 11.15 Professor Omer Bartov (John P. Birkelund Distinguished Professor of European History and Professor of History and of German Studies, Brown University) »Genocide and the Holocaust: What Are We Arguing About?»

11.15 - 11.30 Coffee

11.30 - 12.30 Professor Jacques Sémelin (Senior Researcher in Political Science CERI-CNRS and Editor in Chief of Massviolence.org, Center for International Studies and Research) «Genocide, Holocaust, Mass Violence: How to tackle the complexity of human destruction processes in our Modernity»

12.30 - 1.30 Lunch

1.30 - 2.30 Professor Martin Shaw (Research Professor of International Relations, Sussex University) «The Scope of Genocide - From the Second World War to the 21st Century»

2.30 - 3.30 Professor Marcello Flores (Professor of Contemporary and Comparative History, Universita di Siena) «How far did events in the 1990s change the way we need to think about the Holocaust and genocide?»

3.30 - 3.45 Coffee

3.45 – 4.45 Professor Philip Spencer (Director of the Helen Bamber Centre for the Study of Rights, Conflict and Mass Violence, Kingston University) «Imperialism, Anti-imperialism and the Holocaust»

4.45 – 5.00 Closing remarks