Hutton Honors College

Genocide in Context:
Discussion Supper with Modern Historian
Donald Bloxham

Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2009 * 6-7:30 p.m. * Harlos House (1331 E. Tenth St.) * SIGN-UP REQUIRED

Why has genocide happened? Why does it continue to happen? Can it be prevented? For a discussion of these and other questions, join Donald Bloxham, a professor of modern history at the University of Edinburgh whose research interests include genocide, war crime trials, and the history of humanitarian law. His books include Genocide on Trial: War Crimes Trials and the Formation of Holocaust History and Memory; The Great Game of Genocide: Imperialism, Nationalism, and the Destruction of the Ottoman Armenians; and The Holocaust: Critical Historical Approaches. In his forthcoming book The Final Solution: A Genocide and its Contexts, Bloxham challenges the study of the Holocaust in isolation, arguing that one cannot truly understand it without placing it in the broader context of European history.

The former research director of the Holocaust Educational Trust in London and former editor of the Journal of Holocaust Education, Bloxham is on the editorial boards of The Journal of Genocide Research, Holocaust Studies, and Patterns of Prejudice and is also the editor of the soon-to-be-published 10-volume Oxford University Press series Zones of Violence. He spent the 2007-08 academic year as the J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Senior Scholar-in-Residence at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.

Bloxham will be on campus as a Branigin Lecturer for the Institute for Advanced Study and will deliver a public lecture, "The Final Solution in European Perspective," at 8 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 23, in Wylie Hall 005. This supper is co-sponsored by the Wells Scholars Program.

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