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IPC Seminar
Speaker: A. Dirk Moses, Professor of International Relations (City University of New York)
Moderator: Dahlia Simangan (Hiroshima University)
Date and Time: Friday, 31 October 2025 / 16:00–17:00 (JST)
Mode: via Microsoft Teams
Language:English
This event is held with the cooperation of the Network for Education and Research on Peace and Sustainability (NERPS) and the Center for Peaceful and Sustainable Futures (CEPEAS).
About the Lecture
Genocide was originally conceived to criminalize wars of extermination but was clinically distinguished from warfare in the United Nations Genocide Convention. The US use of atomic bombs on two Japanese cities was integral to this development, which structures our thinking about war and genocide today. This lecture reconstructs this development and the debates on the subject within the field of Genocide Studies in its founding in the 1980s and 1990s. This is essential background, it argues, for understanding the debate about genocides underway in our world today.
About the Speaker
Dirk Moses is the Anne and Bernard Spitzer Professor of International Relations at the City College of New York, CUNY. He is a scholar of genocide and international affairs, memory studies, and modern German history. His latest book, The Problems of Genocide: Permanent Security and the Language of Transgression, appeared in 2021. Recent anthologies include The Holocaust Museum and Human Rights: International Perspectives on Contemporary Memorials (2023), The Russian Invasion of Ukraine: Imperialism, Colonialism, and Genocide? (2023), Post-Cold War Genocides (2024), Patriotic History and the (Re)Nationalization of Memory (2023), and Genocide: Key Themes (2022).
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