{"id":5317,"date":"2020-09-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-22T12:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/voelkerrechtsblog.org\/?post_type=articles&#038;p=5317"},"modified":"2020-12-11T12:20:28","modified_gmt":"2020-12-11T11:20:28","slug":"symposium-introduction-crimes-against-humanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voelkerrechtsblog.org\/de\/symposium-introduction-crimes-against-humanity\/","title":{"rendered":"Symposium introduction: crimes against humanity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post is the opening of a symposium on Kerstin von Lingen\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hsfk.de\/wissenstransfer\/news\/news\/czempiel-preis-fuer-kerstin-von-lingen\/\">award-winning<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.schoeningh.de\/view\/title\/53201\">book<\/a> <em>Crimes Against Humanity. Eine Ideengeschichte der Zivilisierung von Kriegsgewalt 1864\u20131945<\/em>. The book looks at the intellectual history of \u201ccrimes against humanity\u201d as a legal concept. Von Lingen integrates this history in the persistent efforts of international lawyers to combat mass violence against civilians in warfare over almost a century. She argues that the transnational debates among lawyers since the end of the 19<sup>th<\/sup> century have been crucial for the new developments in international law following the Second World War.<\/p>\n<p>The symposium will discuss the implications of von Lingen\u2019s work, criticize potential blind spots and explore themes for further research on this topic. It will start with a post by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucl.ac.uk\/laws\/people\/prof-philippe-sands-qc\">Philippe Sands<\/a> (University College London), who examines the differences between the legal concepts of genocide and crimes against humanity. In the next posts, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hist.unibe.ch\/ueber_uns\/personen\/segesser_daniel_marc\/index_ger.html\">Daniel Marc Segesser<\/a> (University of Bern) focuses on international legal discussions of the 19<sup>th<\/sup> century and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gw.uni-jena.de\/fakult\u00e4t\/historisches+institut\/bereiche\/neuere+und+neueste+geschichte\/pd+dr_+annette+weinke\">Anette Weinke<\/a> (University of Jena) analyses (dis)continuities and the perspectives of different actors in von Lingen\u2019s story. <a href=\"https:\/\/history.berkeley.edu\/elena-kempf\">Elena Kempf<\/a> (University of California, Berkeley) reflects on the consequences of von Lingen\u2019s narrative for the concept of the legal in the historiography of international law. Eventually, <a href=\"https:\/\/zeitgeschichte.univie.ac.at\/en\/ueber-uns\/wissenschaftliche-mitarbeiterinnen\/kerstin-von-lingen\/\">Kerstin von Lingen<\/a> (University of Vienna) will respond to the comments and critique raised in the previous contributions.<\/p>\n<p>V\u00f6lkerrechtsblog wishes you an interesting and stimulating reading!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post is the opening of a symposium on Kerstin von Lingen\u2019s award-winning book Crimes Against Humanity. Eine Ideengeschichte der Zivilisierung von Kriegsgewalt 1864\u20131945. The book looks at the intellectual history of \u201ccrimes against humanity\u201d as a legal concept. 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