Tuesday, January 27, 2009

New Speaker Series: Holocaust, Genocide, and Race Relations in World History

On February, 12th at 4 pm, the University of Southern California will welcome Dirk Moses to speak on the topic of "Rethinking the Relationship between Imperialism and the Holocaust." Since the 1930’s, the relationship between Nazism, the Holocaust and Imperialism has been controversial. His lecture will address the question of whether “genocide studies” and the “new imperial history” offer tools to rethink the relationship between anti-Semitism and the Holocaust.

The talk is sponsored through the Shapell-Guerin Chair in Jewish Studies at the Department of History at USC, and will be located at USC’s main campus in the Intellectual Commons of the Doheny Library. Dirk Moses is an exceptional scholar, and the author of, German Intellectuals and the Nazi Past (Cambridge, 2007). He additionally is the editor of Empire, Colony, Genocide: Conquest, Occupation and Subaltern Resistance in World History (Berghahn, 2008), Genocide and Settler Society: Frontier Violence and Stolen Indigenous Children in Australian History (Berghahn, 2004). Finally, he is the coeditor of Colonialism and Genocide (Routledge, 2007), and The Oxford Handbook on Genocide Studies (forthcoming).

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