The talk will address the formation of the concept of genocide, how Germany's imperial genocide troubles the Holocaust as the nucleus of the genocide concept, and how the Civil Rights Congress's challenge of the Genocide Convention anticipates critiques of genocide's normative codification as a transgression.
Zoé Samudzi is the Charles E. Scheidt Visiting Assistant Professor of Genocide Studies and Genocide Prevention at the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University. She holds a PhD in Medical Sociology from the University of California, San Francisco in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences. She is also a Global Blackness Research Fellow at the Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of Johannesburg and a fellow with African Museums and Heritage Restitution. She was previously a Curatorial Research Fellowship with the Cross-Collections Research Department at the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden. She is an associate editor with Parapraxis Magazine and co-author of As Black as Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation (AK Press).
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