Professor Peter Holquist's presentation will examine three stages of the emergence of this concept: first, the nineteenth-century precedents of the concept of "crimes against humanity"; second, the negotiations and drafting of the 1915 note and debates around the use of the term "crimes against humanity"; and, finally, the fate of the concept in the interwar years, leading up to the Nuremberg Trials in 1945-1946. In particular, the presentation will trace the remarkable and overlooked prominence of imperial Russia in the development and usage of this concept. Learn more at http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/1889?eventId=32239602&calMin=201501&cal=20150121&skinId=6850.
Sponsored by the Russian, East European and Eurasian Center and the European Union Center. Contact Sebnem Ozkan at asozkan@illinois.edu for more information.
Thanks to the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities for this information item.
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