These and other questions will be central to the series this spring. The first book launch on February 11 presented The Complexity of Evil. Perpetration and Genocide by Timothy Williams (Rutgers UP, 2021), which focuses on perpetrators’ motivations for participation in genocide and includes original data from fieldwork with Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. The event was moderated by Carse Ramos and the discussants were Scott Straus and Alette Smeulers.
The second launch will take place on March 11 at 16.00 (CET; 10.00 EST). We will welcome Erin Jessee and Kjell Anderson to discuss their edited volume Researching Perpetrators of Genocide (Wisconsin UP, 2020), which deals with methodological and ethical issues surrounding perpetrator research. The event also features three of the contributors to the volume, Eva van Roekel, Ivana Macek, and Andrea Pető. The discussion will be moderated by Damien van Puyvelde. The discussant will be James Waller.
The series continues on April 8 at 15.30 (CET) with the joint launch of Nikkie Wiegink’s Former Guerrillas in Mozambique (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020) and Eva van Roekel’s Phenomenal Justice. Violence and Morality in Argentina (Rutgers UP, 2020). Former Guerrillas in Mozambique describes the trajectories of former RENAMO combatants, focusing on the ways in which they find their ways as civilians in the unstable and sometimes dangerous social and political environments after the war. Phenomenal Justice examines the reopened trials for crimes against humanity committed during the military dictatorship in Argentina and explores how victims and perpetrators of political violence experience justice on their own terms. The discussants are Erella Grassiani and Susanne Knittel.
On May 13 at 16.00 (CET) we will welcome Raya Morag who will present her book Perpetrator Cinema: Confronting Genocide in Cambodian Documentary(Columbia UP, 2020).
On June 10 at 17.00 (CET) Erin McGlothlin will be our guest with her new book on The Mind of the Holocaust Perpetrator in Fiction and Nonfiction (Wayne State UP, 2021). Discussants are Gary Weissman and Katharina von Kellenbach. The event will be moderated by Susanne Knittel.
Registration link for the launch of Researching Perpetrators of Genocide, edited by Kjell Anderson and Erin Jessee (11 March 2021):
https://unibw.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_N2A57gHBTSCNi9k8_Z5H4g
Registration link for the launch of Former Guerrillas in Mozambique by Nikkie Wiegink and Phenomenal Justice. Violence and Morality in Argentina by Eva van Roekel (8 April 15:30 – 17:00):
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdStj8nnmfOf7RGJE27z1_xLEqP9Z8gMMYv93pqDXncaayb2Q/viewform
Registration link for the launch of The Mind of the Holocaust Perpetrator (10 June 17:00):
https://unibw.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_mhS_suXnQ6eQwCyiIDn9EQ
This series is organized by Timothy Williams and Susanne Knittel.