Extended CV - European University Institute

“Raphael Lemkin, ‘Threatened People’ and the Concept of Genocide,” 47 Deutscher
Historikertag, Dresden, 1 October 2008.
“The Disappearance of Genocide as a Concept in International Law and Politics after 1948,”
Human Rights in the Twentieth Century: Concepts and Conflicts, Berlin, 19-21 June 2008.
“Redemptive Antisemitism in Colonial Modality: Recontextualising a Classic Concept,” Centre for
German-Jewish Studies, “The Holocaust and Saul Friedländer’s Nazi Germany and the Jews,”
University of Sussex, 14-15 June 2008.
“The Apology to the Stolen Generation in Australia,” Identities in Transition: Challenges for
Transitional Justice in Divided Societies, International Center for Transitional Justice, New
York, 13–14 March 2008.
“Traumatic Memories in Australia: An Irritating Past for Settler Colonialism,” Memories in the
Age of Globalization, Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften, Vienna, 6-8
March 2008.
“Racism in Australia (and Modernity) in the Age of the ‘War on Terror’,” Global Dimensions of
Racism in the Modern World: Comparative and Transnational Perspectives,” Heidelberg
University, 12-14 July 2007.
“Genocide, Crimes against Humanity and Humanitarian Intervention: The Limits of the Liberal
Political Theology,” Power, Rule and Governmentality in Zones of Emergency: The Israeli
Occupation in a Global Perspective, The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, 3-5 June 2007.
“Der nichtdeutsche Deutsche und der deutsche Deutsche: Stigma und Opfer-Erlösung in der
Berliner Republik,” Demokratie im Schatten der Gewalt Geschichten des Privaten im
deutschen Nachkrieg 1945-2005. Konferenz am Deutschen Literaturarchiv in Marbach, 19-21
October 2006. “World History and Twentieth Century Genocide: Some Observations: Political
Violence,” Twentieth-Century Europe, Workshop II: Genocide in the Twentieth Century,
University of Edinburgh, 1-2 September 2006.
“The Deep Structure of Postwar German Identity and the Nazi Past,” Deutsch-Israelische
Stiftung für Wissenschaftliche Forschung und Entwicklung (GIF), “‘What We Remember
and What We Would Rather Forget...’: Collective Reminiscence and Collective Oblivion as
Factors in Conflict Resolution and Reconciliation,” Berlin, 14-16 December 2005.
“Genocide and Global History: Europe and the World System,” Australasian Association of
European History, Melbourne, 12-15 July 2005.
“The Historiography of Comparison,” inaugural conference, European Network of Genocide
Scholars, “Genocides: Forms, Causes and Consequences: The Herero-War (1904-08) in
Historical Perspective,” Berlin, 13-15 January 2005.
“Genocide and Colonialism in Australia,” Lesson and Legacies VIII International Conference on the
Holocaust, Brown University, Providence, 4-7 November 2004.
“The Languages of Republicanism and the Foundation of West Germany,” German Studies
Association, New Orleans, 19-21 September 2003.
“Holocaust and Genocide,” Australasian Association for European History, University of
Queensland, Brisbane, 7 July 2003.
“German Conservatism and the Forty-Fiver Generation of Intellectuals,” German Studies
Association, San Diego, 3-6 October 2002.
“The Question of Uniqueness in Holocaust and Genocide Studies,” European History Group
conference, University of New South Wales, Sydney, 28 July 2002.
“Germany and its Past: a Model for Poland and Australia?” Extremism and Exclusion: The
European Experience and Australian Resonances, Contemporary Europe Research Centre,
Melbourne University, 14-15 November 2001.
“Modernity and the Two Genocidal Moments in Australian History,” The Lesser Evil, New York
University, 1-3 April 2001.
“Coming to Terms with the Past in West Germany and Australia: A Comparative Perspective'.
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