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The Interdisciplinary Monthly Meetings at ICWC
Monthly, the ICWC hosts a colloquium featuring guest lectures and discussions with both visiting scholars and researchers from Marburg. The events cover the full range of disciplines and topics represented within the ICWC and simultaneously demonstrate the vibrant exchange between different fields that the center facilitates. All interested parties are warmly invited to attend the lectures. Typically, a discussion of the presented theses follows the talk.
In the winter semester 2025/2026, additional monthly colloquia will take place. The dates will be announced soon. We warmly invite you to attend the lectures and discussions!
Here you can find a list of past monthly colloquia.
| Date | Referent | Topic Of Presentation |
|---|---|---|
| 16.07.2025 |
Lucie Kahlert (Philipps-Universität Marburg) |
Gendered Argumentation in International Criminal Law: The Nuremberg Trials 1945–1949 |
| 11.06.2025 |
Dr. Jannina Schäffer (FernUniversität in Hagen) |
Harry Potter und the Laws of Power |
| 21.05.2025 | Philippa Kalesse (Philipps-Universität Marburg) | Transitional Politics and Democratization in Chile (2006–2023) |
In the winter semester 2024/25, the interdisciplinary lecture series “Boundaries and Transgressions of Military Violence” took place instead of the monthly colloquium.
| 19.06.2024 | Franziska Gruber (Philipps-Universität Marburg) | International Criminal Law Trials in Germany – Between Monologue and Dialogue |
| 22.05.2024 | Janina Schwarz (Institut für Europäische Ethnologie und Kulturwissenschaft, Philipps-Universität Marburg) | Technology-Critical Discourses on Interactive Testimonies in the Context of Digital Cultures of Remembrance of the Shoah – Workshop Report from a Cultural Studies Doctoral Project |
| 24.04.2024 | Prof. Dr. Tatjana Tönsmeyer (Bergische Universität Wuppertal) | Occupied Societies during the Years of the Second World War – Research Findings and New Questions for the Present |
| 17.01.2024 | Dr. Luka Breneselović (Universität Augsburg) | The Population’s Desire for Retribution and Modern Criminal Theory |
| 29.11.2023 | Dr. Henning de Vries (Philipps-Universität Marburg) | Transgressions of Military Force: On the Genesis of International Criminal Law in the Liberal World Order |
| 25.10.2023 | Dr. Andreas Gutmann (Universität Kassel) | Universal Particularism – Lessons from the Intercultural and Plurinational State |
| 28.06.2023 | Amandine Lauro (FNRS/Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgien) | Archives of Military Courts in Colonial Congo: New Sources for the History of Violence and Agency in Central Africa |
| 24.05.2023 | Prof. Dr. Gerald Steinacher (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA) | The Pope versus Nuremberg: Reactions of the Catholic Church Leadership to War Crimes Trials and Denazification |
| 11.01.2023 | Sarah Wilder-Fehl (Philipps-Universität Marburg) | (Inter)National Sovereignty and Security in the United Nations, 1945–1998 |
| 07.12.2022 | Prof. Dr. Stefanie Bock (Philipps-Universität Marburg) | 20 Years of the German Code of Crimes against International Law – A Critical Assessment of German International Criminal Law Practice |
| 29.06.2022 | Jana Trapp | » I don't see gender « - the gendered conceptualization of international crimes with reference to the cases of female ISIS perpetrators before German Higher Regional Courts |
| 18.05.2022 | Dr. Elisabeth Wingerter | Law, Order and Purge in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg |
| 27.04.2022 | Dr. Gustavo Emilio Cote Barco und Dr. Lorena Cecilia Vega Dueñas (Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá) | The notion of destruction in genocide and the protection of the cultural identity of ethnic groups in armed conflicts: the case of the Nasa people in the north of the Department of Cauca (Colombia) |
| 19.01.2022 | Dr. Andrea Rudorff (Fritz Bauer Institut, Frankfurt/M.) | Polish Criminal Proceedings Against Members of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Camp Personnel |
| 10.11.2021 | Alexander Benz (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am ICWC, Philipps-Universität Marburg) | Need for Reform of the Code of Criminal Procedure (StPO) with Regard to International Criminal Law Cases |
| 30.06.2021 | Daniel Bonnard, M.A. (Winterthur, Schweiz) | “The Nuremberg of the French Zone” – Trials for Crimes Against Humanity before the Tribunal Général in Rastatt (1946–1948) |
| 26.05.2021 | Dr. Tanja Altunjan (Berlin) | “Forced Pregnancies and Sterilizations – Reproductive Violence in International Criminal Law” |
| 28.04.2021 | Dr. Sabina Ferhadbegović (Universität Jena) | “Before the People’s Court: Yugoslav War Crimes Trials after World War II” |
| 20.01.2021 | Dr. Dominika Uczkiewicz (Willy-Brandt-Zentrum Wrocław) | “The War Crimes Trials Policy of the Polish Government-in-Exile and Its Participation in the United Nations War Crimes Commission (UNWCC), 1943–1945” |
| 05.02.2020 | Sun Kim (Paññāsāstra University of Cambodia, Phnom Penh) | The Tibet-question. Sino-Tibet Dispute over Sovereignty |
| 29.01.2020 | Nicolai Bülte (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter an der Professur von Frau Prof. Dr. Bock, Philipps-Universität Marburg) | “Cultural Relativism in the Offenses of the Rome Statute” |
| 20.11.2019 | Dr. Gurgen Petrossian, LL.M. (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg) | “Accountability for Genocide: The Case of Armenia” |
| 30.10.2019 | Kristine Avram, M.A. (Zentrum für Konfliktforschung, Philipps-Universität Marburg) | Narrating Past Violence and Repression in National Courts. Insights from the Romanian Context |
| 03.07.2019 | Dr. Ornella Rovetta (Université libre de Bruxelles) | Genocide in Court. Rwanda and International Justice (1994 - 2019) |
| 12.06.2019 | Dr. Timothy Williams (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Zentrum für Konfliktforschung der Philipps-Universität Marburg) und Dr. Julie Bernath (Universität Basel) | Justice and Reconciliation for the Victims of the Khmer Rouge? Victim Participation in Cambodia's Transitional Justice Process |
| 14.05.2019 | Bärbel Schmidt (ehemalige Staatsanwältin am IStGH, Fachhochschule für öffentliche Verwaltung NRW, Köln) | “The Acquittal of Jean-Pierre Bemba – Evidence of the ‘Fair Trial’ Principle or a Setback for International Criminal Justice?” |
| 21.11.2018 | Tobias Römer (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter an der Professur von Frau Prof. Dr. Bock, Philipps-Universität Marburg) | “The International Criminal Court: Investigations Without End? Exploring Grounds for the Termination of Investigations” |
| 24.10.2018 | Taxiarchis Fiskatoris (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am ICWC, Philipps-Universität Marburg) | The Concept of International Crimes: A Multidisciplinary Approach |
| 11.07.2018 | Dr. Leonie Steinl LL.M. Columbia (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) | “Child Soldiers and Accountability for International Crimes” |
| 22.05.2018 | Narrelle Morris (Curtis Law School Perth, Australien) | The Australian War Crimes Trials: Law, War Crimes and Fair Trials |
| 25.04.2018 | Ulrika Mientus (Philipps-Universität Marburg) | “Victims (Associations) and Dynamics of Recognition in East and West Germany (1945–1975)” |
| 16.01.2018 | Dr. Delphine Lauwers (Belgisches Staatsarchiv), Dr. Ornella Rovetta (Freie Universität Brüssel), Hendrik Vandekerckhove (Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies) | A century of pioneering case-law |
| 10.01.2018 | Dr. Andreas Werkmeister (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) | “Purposes of Punishment in International Criminal Law” |
| 13.11.2017 | Prof. Dr. Florian Knauer (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena) | “International Criminal Enforcement in Germany” |
| 11.07.2017 | Takuma Melber, M.A. (Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg) | The Pearl Harbor Attack from the Japanese Perspective |
| 16.05.2017 | Johannes Ibel, M.A. (Gedenkstätte Flossenbürg) | Memorial Archives – Networked Research on Nazi Victims |
| 03.05.2017 | Prof. Dr. Stefanie Bock (Philipps-Universität Marburg) | Victim Participation before the International Criminal Court – Success or Failure? |
| 14.12.2016 | Dr. Gerd Hankel (Hamburger Institut für Sozialforschung) | Rwanda: Life and Reconstruction after the Genocide – How History is Made and Becomes Official Truth |
| 23.11.2016 | Dr. Till Zimmermann (Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München) | Criminals as Role Models? What Criminal Law Can Contribute to the Historian Debate on the “Right” Culture of Remembrance |
| 29.06.2016 | Dr. Christina Ullrich (Philipps-Universität Marburg) | Unequal Victims: Processes of Recognition after Genocidal Mass Violence – A Comparison of Germany, Rwanda, and Cambodia |
| 04.05.2016 | Dirk Stolper, M.A. (Philipps-Universität Marburg) | Robert Servatius: Defender of Adolf Eichmann and Participant in Numerous War Crimes Trials |
In the winter semester 2015/16, instead of the monthly colloquium, the ICWC held an interdisciplinary lecture series on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the Nuremberg Main War Crimes Trial.
| Datum | Referent/innen | Thema des Vortrags |
|---|---|---|
| 15.07.2015 | Margaretha F. Bauer (Universität Augsburg) | “Justice for the Enemy”? The Criminal Defense in German War Crimes Trials in British Military Courts from 1945–1949 |
| 24.06.2015 | Dr. Sigall Horovitz (Jerusalem / Haifa) | How International Courts Shape Domestic Justice |
| 06.05.2015 | Nicolai Bülte / Johanna Grzywotz / Tobias Römer Monitoring-Projekt, Philipps-Universität Marburg) | Four-Year Review: The Monitoring Project at ICWC |
| 28.01.2015 | Florian Danecke (Philipps-Universität Marburg) / Konstantin Rometsch (Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen) | Security Against Genocide: The Emergence and Enforcement of the International Condemnation of Genocide |
| 26.11.2014 | Dr. Suzannah Linton (Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg / Bangor Law School) | International Criminal Law and Sexual Violence |
| 22.10.2014 | Professor Dr. Sandra Wilson (Murdoch University Perth) / Professor Dr. Robert Cribb (Australian National University Canberra) | War Crimes and Asia: “Clemency for Japanese War Criminals” / “Superior Orders” |
| Dr. Kerstin von Lingen / Lisette Schouten / Valentyna Polunina (Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg) | “Legal Flows” between Europe and Asia: “Reflections on a Global Policy of War Crimes Trials after 1945” / “‘Justice in Transition’: War Crime Trials in the Dutch East Indies, 1946-1949” / “‘Righting the Wrong from Tokyo’: Soviet War Crimes Policy in the Far East and the Khabarovsk Biological Weapons Tribunal (1949)” | |
| 18.06.2014 | Martin Luber (Phiipps-Universität Marburg / Universität zu Köln) | Justice in the Dock: The Nuremberg Judges’ Trial Illustrated by the Cases of Franz Schlegelberger and Oswald Rothaug |
| 14.05.2014 | Dr. Irina Schulmeister-André (Philipps-Universität Marburg) | “Invisible Actors”: The Soviet Prosecution Team at Nuremberg |
| 12.02.2014 | Dr. Wolfgang Form (Philipps-Universität Marburg) | Research project on the history and impact of the United Nations War Crimes Commission (UNWCC) |
| 11.12.2013 | Oberstaatsanwalt a.D. Gerhard Wiese (Frankfurt am Main) | The Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial from the Perspective of the Public Prosecutor’s Office – An Eyewitness Account |
| 06.11.2013 | Axel Fischer, M.A. (Philipps-Universität Marburg) | The U.S. Film Campaign on the Nuremberg Major War Crimes Trials |
| 10.07.2013 | PD Dr. Annette Weinke (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena) | Violence, History, Justice: Transnational Debates on German State Violence in the 20th Century |
| 22.05.2013 | Professor Dr. Elisa Hoven (Universität zu Köln) / Mareike Feiler (FU Berlin) | What’s Behind the Label? A Multi-Perspective Investigation of the Value of Civil Party Participation at the ECCC |
| 24.04.2013 | Jens Brüggemann (Hamburg) | Men of Honor? Myth-Making and Historical Politics of the Wehrmacht Elite in the Postwar Period in the Context of the Nuremberg Major War Crimes Trial |
| 23.01.2013 | Professor Dr. André Klip (Maastricht University) | The Practice of War Crimes Trials in the Netherlands |