Destroyed diversity. Genocide and Culture from a Historical Perspective

Destroyed diversity. Genocide and Culture from a Historical Perspective

October 25-26, 2024, Lepsiushaus Potsdam

At present, the term genocide is used almost inflationary, with states suing states before the International Court of Justice. Associated with this is a growing ambiguity of the legal, historical and cultural dimensions of genocide. Genocidal violence thus becomes a fighting term for geopolitical identity politics. The symposium is dedicated to the phenomenon of “cultural genocide,” “ethnocide,” the destruction of a group's cultural identity through forced assimilation and thus presents a global, historical understanding of patterns and practices of cultural destruction.

A joint event by Lepsiushaus Potsdam and the International Institute for Nationality Law and Regionalism, Munich.

Friday, October 25th

18:15-18:30

welcome

Meinolf Arens (Munich)

18:30-19:30

Introductory speech

Roy Knocke (Potsdam): Destroyed diversity. Genocide and Culture from a Historical Perspective

Saturday, October 26th

10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.

Christine Liew (Ludwigshafen): Korea under Japanese rule 1910-1945 (inquired)

Ioannis Zelepos (Ioannina): Appropriate and Destroy: Turkey/ Northern Cyprus's Dealing with Non-Turkish Cultural Heritage in Cyprus and Eastern Thrace

12:00-13:30

Lunch and coffee break

13:30-15:00

Gunef Saline Özbek (Bremen): Falsification of the cultural heritage of the long-established peoples in the North Caucasus as part of their suppression by Russia

Franz Sz. Horvath (Rüsselsheim): Injured statues, banished poets? Romania's cultural policy towards the Hungarian minority 1920-2020

15:00-15:30

coffee break

15:30-17:30

Katharina Haberkorn: Cultural heritage in Ukraine as a goal of Russian annihilation policy since 2022

Arpine Maniero (Munich): Azerbaijan's treatment of Armenian cultural heritage - causes - course - effects

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