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13-01-2010On the occasion of the official annual Auschwitz Day,Danish Institute for International Studies(DIIS)has the pleasure of inviting you to a public seminar on:
From Africa to Auschwitz and AfterFriday, 29 January 2010, 14.00-16.00Danish Institute for International StudiesMain AuditoriumStrandgade 71, ground floor, 1401 Copenhagen KBackgroundIn 1951, Hannah Arendt postulated that European imperialism played a crucial role in thedevelopment of totalitarian and genocidal policies in Europe. This seminar sheds light on recentresearch into how German colonialization in German South West Africa, now Namibia, andgenocide committed against the local Herero and Nama people provided practices, ideas andrhetoric that later influenced Nazi leaders, who carried out genocide in Europe. The seminar willalso focus on how concepts of memory after Auschwitz also should be expanded to include issues ofremembrance in relation to the genocide in South West Africa.Benjamin Madleygot his PhD in history from Yale University (2009) and his Master’s degreefrom Oxford University (1995). He has authored several articles on colonialism, genocide, and theHolocaust including “Patterns of Frontier Genocide, 1803-1910”, “From Africa to Auschwitz” and“From Terror to Genocide: Britain’s Tasmanian Penal Colony and Australia’s History Wars”. Hewas also involved in the making of a BBC documentary entitled “Namibia: Genocide in the SecondReich”. He is now turning his dissertation “American Genocide: The California Indian Catastrophe,1846-1873” into a book manuscript.Henning Melberis Executive Director of the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation, Uppsala. He isVice-President of the International Network of Genocide Scholars, and managing co-editor ofAfrica Spectrum. He is a German born scholar-activist who spent much of his life in Namibia,Southern Africa. He has his PhD in Political Science and his Habilitation in Development Studies,both from the University of Bremen. Prior to his appointment at the Foundation, he was ResearchDirector at the Nordic Africa Institute in Uppsala. He has published widely in the area of AfricanStudies, on racism and on solidarity as well as liberation movements.ProgrammeMore details about the seminar are available on ourwebsite.Practical InformationThe seminar will be held inEnglish.Participation isfree of charge,butregistration is required.Please use our online registration formno later thanThursday, 28 January 2010 at 12.00 noon.Please await confirmation by e-mail from DIIS for participation.Sincerely,Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)The Conference SectionStrandgade 56DK-1401 Copenhagen KDenmarkPh. (+45) 32 69 87 51Fax (+45) 32 69 87 00E-mail:[email protected]Web:www.diis.dk
