About the Lecture
"Ukraine, Russia, and the Question of Genocide" with Dr. Alex Hinton
Date & Time: Thursday, November 9, 2023, from 7:30-9 p.m.
Has Russia committed genocide in Ukraine? While Hinton provides his answer to this question through the conflict in Ukraine and other genocides, his presentation also explores the question of genocide itself in terms of the history of the concept and its political uses through time - including denial. The talk concludes with a discussion of prevention, including the possibilities of truth-seeking and justice.
Organized by the Center for Judaic, Holocaust and Peace Studies, the program was co-sponsored by Appalachian State's College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Anthropology, Department of History and Department of Sociology.
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About Dr. Alex Hinton
Dr. Alex Hinton is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, Director of the Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights at Rutgers University, UNESCO Chair on Genocide Prevention, and author or editor of seventeen books, including It Can Happen Here: White Power and the Rising Threat of Genocide in the US (NYU, 2021), The Justice Facade: Trials of Transition in Cambodia (Oxford, 2018), and, most recently, Anthropological Witness: Lessons from the Khmer Rouge Tribunal (Cornell, 2022) and Perpetrators: Encountering Humanity’s Dark Side (Stanford, 2023). In 2022, he received the American Anthropological Association’s Anthropology in the Media Award. Hinton has published several essays on Russia's atrocity crimes in Ukraine and is considered a leading expert on the evaluation of Russia’s crimes as genocide.
Recent Publications on Russia’s Atrocity Crimes in Ukraine:
Opinion: The International Criminal Court wants to prosecute Russia for war crimes. The U.S. should help. Los Angeles Times, March 14, 2023.
A year on, we have clear evidence of genocide in Ukraine. The Hill, February 19, 2023.
Russia’s mass kidnappings of Ukrainians are a page out of a wartime playbook – and evidence of genocide. The Conversation, July 20, 2022.
War crimes or genocide? Either way, we can’t let Russian atrocities go unanswered. Los Angeles Times, April 5, 2022.
Is Russia committing genocide in Ukraine? A human rights expert looks at the warning signs. The Conversation, April 1, 2022. [Reprinted in multiple media outlets.]
Russia’s political misuse of the term 'genocide' as pretext for invading Ukraine. Co-author. Research Brief, International Association of Genocide Scholars, March 2022.
Putin’s claims that Ukraine is committing genocide are baseless, but not unprecedented. The Conversation, February 25, 2022. [Reprinted in multiple media outlets, including Yahoo News.]
