Interdisciplinary Seminar Series WAR CRIMES Trials & Investigations Location: The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH) Radcliffe Humanities Building, Woodstock Road Seminar Room Hillary Term 2015 Wednesdays, 5pm Week 1 (Wed 21 January) Leila Ulrich (U of Oxford) Challenging the Global-‐Local Divide: Local Intermediaries, Victims and the Justice Politics of the International Criminal Court (ICC) Week 2 (Wed 28 January) Jan Lemnitzer (U of Oxford) From ‘Atrocity’ to ‘War Crimes’: The 19th Century Origins of Modern War Crime Tribunals Week 3 (Wed 4 February) Kirsten von Lingen (Heidelberg U, Germany) Legal Flows and Travelling Lawyers: Debating a Global War Crimes Trials Policy in Europe and Asia during the Second World War Week 4 (Wed 11 February) Brian Orend (U of Waterloo, Canada) The Next Geneva Convention: Morality, Law, and The Limits of Post-‐War Rehabilitation Week 5 (Wed 18 February) Annette Weinke (Friedrich Schiller U, Jena, Germany) Theoretical and Ideological Underpinnings of War Crimes Investigations in Postwar Germany. Week 6 (Wed 25 February) Andreas Hilger (Independent Commission on the History of the German Intelligence Service) Crime and Punishment? German crimes and Stalin's justice during and after World War II Week 7 (Wed 4 March) Nikita Petrov (Memorial, Russia) A Matter of Justice or a Political Show? Soviet Show Trials Against German POWs in 1943 Week 8 (Wed 11 March) Tim Thompson (Teesside U) Do Anthropologists Give the Dead a Voice, Or Are They Just Ventriloquists...? Conveners: Jonathan Waterlow, Jacques Schuhmacher This seminar series is supported by TORCH and the John Fell Fund. For further information: http://www.torch.ox.ac.uk/warcrimes