Lecture | Global Questions Seminar
Holocaust and Genocide Studies in Polarized Times: A Conversation with Omer Bartov
- Date
- Thursday 28 May 2026
- Time
- Serie
- Global Questions Seminar 2025-2026
- Address
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Herta Mohr
Witte Singel 27A
2311 BG Leiden - Room
- 0.02
Omer Bartov is an Israeli-American scholar and Dean’s Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Brown University. He has published works on war crimes, interethnic relations, and genocide, including, most recently, Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz, winner of the National Jewish Book Award, the Zócalo Public Square Book Prize and the Yad Vashem Book Prize, Tales from the Borderlands: Making and Unmaking the Galician Past, and Genocide, the Holocaust, and Israel-Palestine: First Person History in Times of Crisis. He has contributed influential public commentary on the Hamas-led October 7 attacks as well as Israel's genocidal violence in Gaza in media outlets like the New York Times, The New Yorker, The Washington Post and The Guardian.
In this conversation, he will talk about his role as a historian engaged in public debates, his approach to testimony and local history, the politicization of the field of Holocaust and Genocide Studies, and his forthcoming book Israel: What Went Wrong (2026).
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Global Questions Seminar
The motto of the Institute for History’s research programme is ‘Global Questions, Local Sources’. Across all areas and time periods, researchers of the Institute focus on important processes such as migration, colonialism, urbanization, and identity formation.
The ‘Global Questions Seminar’, for which we invite distinguished international colleagues to discuss the interplay between global and local issues from the past, brings all staff members of the Institute for History together.