Chair: Michal Pullmann (Konstanz/Prague)

Claims that the Russian Federation is conducting a colonial (or imperial) war of genocidal conquest against Ukraine feature in the debate about the invasion of February 2022. This session will consider these notions in light of the historical and legal literature.

A. Dirk Moses is the Anne and Bernard Spitzer Professor of International Relations at the City College of New York, CUNY. His latest publications include Nach dem Genozid. Grundlage für eine neue Erinnerungskultur (Berlin: Matthes & Seitz Berlin, 2023) and Genocide: Key Themes (Oxford, 2022), edited with Donald Bloxham. He is senior editor of the Journal of Genocide Research.