Date: 10 Feb 2023
HTO: Syrian Gulag: Inside Assad’s Prison System, 1970-2020
The fourth Heidelberg Talks Online (HTO) session of 2023 takes place on Friday, February 10, 7-8.30 pm CET (GMT/UTC +1). The speaker will be Prof. Dr. Uğur Ümit Üngör, Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the University of Amsterdam/The Netherlands and the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust, and Genocide Studies in Amsterdam. His main area of interest is the history and sociology of mass violence, with a particular focus on the modern and contemporary Middle East. He has won several academic awards and held visiting positions in Dublin, Vancouver, Budapest, Toronto, Los Angeles and Edinburgh. He has published various books and articles, is an editor of the Journal of Perpetrator Research and coordinated the Tadamon Massacre project.