The Iraqi Baʿth state’s Anfāl operations (1987-1991) – a systematic effort to annihilate the Kurdish population — is one of the twentieth century’s ultimate acts of destruction of the possibility of being human. It remains the first and only Middle East state crime to be tried under the 1948 UN Genocide Convention, the 1950 Nuremberg Principles, and the 1969 Iraqi Penal Code and to be recognized as genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes. A work of sweeping scope, Being Human: Political Modernity and Hospitality in Kurdistan-Iraq offers an unprecedented pathway to the study of political violence and its afterlife. Prof Fazil Moradi (University of Johannesburg) will plumb the multiple perspectives his work opens in a wide-ranging conversation with Lehmann Professor of Excellence, Victoria Sanford. Chair: Center Director, Debórah Dwork
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