Genocide | Istoria 2026
Date and time:
Tuesday 15 September, 2026
18:30 - 20:00
Location:
ONLINE
Political violence and memory.
The seminar examines the violence against civilians carried out by Russian authorities and troops in the occupied areas of Ukraine and the applicability of legal terms such as genocide and crimes against humanity.
Lecturer: Professor Eugene Finkel, Johns Hopkins University.
Lecturer
Eugene Finkel
Eugene Finkel is the Kenneth H. Keller Professor of International Affairs at Johns Hopkins University. His research focuses on how institutions and individuals respond to extreme situations: mass violence, state collapse, and rapid change.
Finkel's most recent book is Intent to Destroy: Russia’s Two-Hundred-Year Quest to Dominate Ukraine (Basic Books, 2024). He is also the author of Ordinary Jews: Choice and Survival during the Holocaust (Princeton University Press, 2017), Reform and Rebellion in Weak States (Cambridge University Press, 2020, co-authored with Scott Gehlbach) and Bread and Autocracy: Food, Politics and Security in Putin’s Russia (Oxford University Press, 2023, co-authored with Janetta Azarieva and Yitzhak M. Brudny).