Dr Dirk Moses

German Intellectuals and the Nazi Past (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007).
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The Modernist Imagination: News Essays in Intellectual History and Critical Theory (New York: Berghahn Books, 2008). Contributing co-editor.

Empire, Colony, Genocide: Conquest, Occupation and Subaltern Resistance in World History (New York: Berghahn Books, 2008). Contributing Editor.

Colonialism and Genocide (London: Routledge, 2007). Contributing Co-editor (with Dan Stone).

Genocide and Settler Society: Frontier Violence and Stolen Indigenous Children in Australian History (New York: Berghahn Books, 2004). Contributing Editor.

‘Time, Agency, Race, and Peoplehood: The African Postcolony and the Postcolony in Australia’, in Manfred Berg, ed., Global Dimensions of Racism in the Modern World (New York: Berghahn Books, 2009). In Press.

‘The Holocaust and Colonialism’, in Peter Hayes and John Roth, eds, The Oxford Handbook of Holocaust Studies (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009). In Press.

‘West German Generations and the Gewaltfrage: The Conflict of the Sixty-Eighters and the Forty-Fivers’, in Warren Breckman, Peter Gordon, A. Dirk Moses, Samuel A. Moyn, and Elliot Y. Neaman, eds, The Modernist Imagination: News Essays in Intellectual History and Critical Theory (New York: Berghahn Books, 2008). With Elliot Neaman. In Press.

‘The Fate of Blacks and Jews: A Response to Jeffrey Herf’, Journal of Genocide Research 10, no. 2 (2008): 269-287.

‘Toward a Critical Theory of Genocide’, Online Encyclopedia of Mass Violence, April 2008.

‘Moving the Genocide Debate Beyond the History Wars’, Australian Journal of Politics and History 54, no. 2 (2008): 248-270.

'Der nichtdeutsche Deutsche und der deutsche Deutsche: Stigma und Opfer-Erlösung in der Berliner Republic', in Daniel Fulda, Stefan-Ludwig Hoffman, and Till van Rahden, eds, Demokratie im Schatten der Gewalt. Geschichten des Privaten im deutschen Nachkrieg 1945-2005 (Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2008).

'Empire, Colony, Genocide: Keywords and Intellectual History', in A. Dirk Moses, ed., Empire Colony Genocide: Conquest, Occupation, and Subaltern Resistance in World History (New York: Berghahn Books, 2008), 3-54.

'"The Muslims are our Misfortune!"', in Greg Noble, ed., Lines in the Sand: The Cronulla Riots and the Limits of Australian Multiculturalism (Sydney: Institute of Criminology, 2008). With Geoffrey Brahm Levey.

'Genocide and Modernity', in Dan Stone, ed., The Historiography of Genocide (Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), 156-193.

'The Structure of German Identity after the Holocaust', Zmanim [Hebrew], no. 1 (2008), 183-188.

'Genocide in Australia?', in Deborah Gare and David Ritter, eds, A Land Without Limits: Australian History and Society Since 1788 (Melbourne: Thomson Learning, 2007).

'Sacrifice and Stigma in the Federal Republic of Germany', History and Memory, 19, no. 2 (2007):139-180.

'The Non-German German and the German German: Dilemmas of Identity after the Holocaust', New German Critique, no. 101 (2007): 45-94.

Why the Discipline of “Genocide Studies” Has Trouble Explaining How Genocides End?’, 22 December 2006, Social Sciences Research Council

'Raphael Lemkin as Historian of Genocide in the Americas', Journal of Genocide Research 7, no. 4 (2005): 501–529. With Michael A. McDonnell.

'The Public Relevance of Historical Studies: A Rejoinder to Hayden White', History and Theory 44, no. 3 (2005): 339-347.

'Hayden White, Traumatic Nationalism, and the Public Role of History', History and Theory 44, no. 3 (2005): 311-332. Reprinted and translated into Spanish in Historia: Antropologia y Fuetes Orales 38, no. 2 (2007): 81-106.

'The Holocaust and Genocide’, in The Historiography of the Holocaust, ed. Dan Stone (New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2004), 533-555. Reprinted in Zeithistorische Forschungen: Studies in Contemporary History, no. 3 (2008): http://www.zeithistorische-forschungen.de/

'Revisionism and Denial’, in Whitewash: On Keith Windschuttle's Fabrication of Aboriginal History, ed. Robert Manne (Melbourne: Black Inc., 2003), 337-370.

'Genocide and Holocaust Consciousness in Australia’, History Compass 1 (2003): AU 28, 1-11.

'The Weimar Syndrome in the Federal Republic of Germany: Carl Schmitt and the Forty-Fiver Generation of Intellectuals’, in Leben, Tod und Entscheidung: Studien zur Geistesgeschichte der Weimarer Republik, ed. Stephan Loos and Holger Zaborowski (Berlin: Duncker und Humblot, 2003), 187-207.

'Conceptual Blockages and Definitional Dilemmas in the Racial Century: Genocide of Indigenous Peoples and the Holocaust’, Patterns of Prejudice 36, no. 4 (2002): 7-36.

'Coming to Terms with the Past in Comparative Perspective: Germany and Australia’, Aboriginal History 25 (2001): 91-115.

'An Antipodean Genocide? The Origins of the Genocidal Moment in the Colonization of Australia’, Journal of Genocide Research 2, no. 1 (2000): 89-107.

'The Forty-Fivers: A Generation Between Fascism and Democracy’, German Politics and Society 17, no. 1 (1999): 105-127

'Structure and Agency in the Holocaust: Daniel J. Goldhagen and his Critics’, History and Theory 37, no. 2 (1998): 194-219.

'The State and the Student Movement in West Germany, 1967-1977’, in Student Protest: The Sixties and After, ed. Gerard J. De Groot (London: Longman, 1998), 139-149.

'The Meaning of Genocide’, Online Opinion, 18 March 2008.

'German Memory and the Palestinians', ALArab Online , 15 March 2007 With Khaled K. Mahameed.

Forum, 'The Changing Legacy of 1945 in Germany: A Round-Table Discussion between Doris Bergen, Volker Berghahn, Robert Moeller, Dirk Moses, and Dorothee Wierling'. German History 23, no. 4 (2005): 519-546.

‘Pogrom Talk’, Online Opinion, 11 January 2006

‘Windschuttle, history warriors and real historians’, Online Opinion, 11 April 2005

‘Debate on Past Signals Healthy Future’, The Australian (14 July 2004).

‘Triumph der Geschichtskrieger’, Frankfurter Rundschau (10 February 2004).

‘Whose Fabrication of Aboriginal History?’, Australian Jewish News (15 August 2003).

‘Rendering the Past Less Unpalatable’, The Australian (13 January 2003).

‘Der Pathos der Nüchternheit’, Frankfurter Rundschau (22 July 2002).

‘Interview with Duncan Waterson, 13 July 2001’, in From the Frontier: Essays in Honour of Duncan Waterson (special joint issue: Journal of Australian Studies and Australian Cultural History), ed. Paul Ashton and Bridget Griffen-Foley (2001): 122-129.

‘Debate Should Focus on the Apple, not the Core: Cultural Criteria in Determining Suitable Immigrants are Historically Bankrupt’, The Australian (31 December 2001) (with Geoffrey Brahm Levey).

‘Sympathy for the Murderers of the Holocaust? A Reply to David Potts’, Australian Historical Association Bulletin 91 (December 2000): 27-32.

‘Reviving the Culture of Discourse’, The Australian (8 November 2000).

‘Right’s Historical Wrongs: Revisionism is Shifting Germany's Attitudes Towards the Holocaust’, The Australian (19 July 2000).

• HSTY 1045 Late Modern European History
• HSTY 2052 Genocide in Historical Perspective
• HSTY 2607 Aspects of the Arab-Israel Conflict
• HSTY 3073 Nineteenth Century German History
• HSTY 3074 Aspects of German History
• HSTY 4011 Revisionism
• HSTY 6990 Genocide in Global Perspective
• HSTY 6989 National Socialist Extermination Policies, 1933-1945
• HSTY 6079 Nineteenth Century German History
• HSTY 6081 Twentieth Century German History
• HSTY 6991 Terror in Historical Perspective
• HSTY 6995 Histories of the Arab-Israeli Conflict

‘The Disappearance of Genocide as a Concept in International Law and Politics after 1948’, Human Rights in the Twentieth Century: Concepts and Conflicts, Berlin, 19-21 June 2008.

‘Redemptive Antisemitism in Colonial Modality: Recontextualising a Classic Concept’, Centre for German-Jewish Studies, ‘The Holocaust and Saul Friedländer’s Nazi Germany and the Jews’, University of Sussex, 14-15 June 2008.

'The Apology to the Stolen Generation in Australia', Identities in Transition: Challenges for Transitional Justice in Divided Societies, International Center for Transitional Justice, New York, March 13–14, 2008.

'Traumatic Memories in Australia: An Irritating Past for Settler Colonialism', Memories in the Age of Globalization, Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften, Vienna, 6-8 March 2008.

'Racism in Australia (and Modernity) in the Age of the "War on Terror"', Global Dimensions of Racism in the Modern World: Comparative and Transnational Perspectives, Heidelberg University, 12-14 July 2007.

'Genocide, Crimes against Humanity and Humanitarian Intervention: The Limits of the Liberal Political Theology', Power, Rule and Governmentality in Zones of Emergency, The Israeli Occupation in a Global Perspective, The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, 3-5 June 2007.

‘Der nichtdeutsche Deutsche und der deutsche Deutsche: Stigma und Opfer-Erlösung in der Berliner Republik’, Demokratie im Schatten der Gewalt Geschichten des Privaten im deutschen Nachkrieg 1945-2005. Konferenz am Deutschen Literaturarchiv in Marbach, 19-21 October 2006.

‘World History and Twentieth Century Genocide: Some Observations: Political Violence’, Twentieth-Century Europe, Workshop II: Genocide in the Twentieth Century, University of Edinburgh 1-2 September 2006.

‘The Deep Structure of Postwar German Identity and the Nazi Past’ Deutsch-Israelische Stiftung für Wissenschaftliche Forschung und Entwicklung (GIF), “What We Remember and What We Would Rather Forget...”: Collective Reminiscence and Collective Oblivion as Factors in Conflict Resolution and Reconciliation’, Berlin, 14-16 December 2005.

'Genocide and Global History', Australasian Association for European History, Melbourne, 12 July 2005.

‘The Historiography of Comparison’, inaugural conference, European Network of Genocide Scholars, ‘Genocides: Forms, Causes and Consequences: The Herero-War (1904-08) in Historical Perspective’, Berlin, 13-15 January 2005.

‘Genocide and Colonialism in Australia’, Lesson and Legacies VIII International Conference on the Holocaust, Brown University, Providence, 4-7 November 2004.

‘The Languages of Republicanism and the Foundation of West Germany’, German Studies Association, New Orleans, 19-21 September 2003.

‘Holocaust and Genocide’, Australasian Association for European History, University of Queensland, Brisbane, 7 July 2003.

‘German Conservatism and the Forty-Fiver Generation of Intellectuals’, German Studies Association, San Diego, 3-6 October 2002.

‘The Problem of Uniqueness in Holocaust and Genocide Studies’, European History Group conference, University of New South Wales, Sydney, 28 July 2002.

‘Germany and its Past: a Model for Poland and Australia?’ Extremism and Exclusion: The European Experience and Australian Resonances, Contemporary Europe Research Centre, Melbourne University, 14-15 November 2001.

‘Modernity and the Two Genocidal Moments in Australian History’, The Lesser Evil, New York University, 1-3 April 2001.

‘Coming to Terms with the Past in West Germany and Australia: A Comparative Perspective'. ILAS Conference 2000: Violence, Memory and National Reconciliation: Latin America, Spain, South Africa, Timor and Australia, La Trobe University, 13-14 October 2000.

‘Die “Fünfundvierziger”: Generationelle und intellektuelle Auseinandersetzungen um die Begründung der Republik’, 43. Deutscher Historikertag, Aachen, Germany, 26-29 September 2000.

‘The Languages of Republicanism and the Foundation of West Germany’, Ends and Beginnings Conference, European Studies, University of New South Wales, 14-15 July 2000.

‘The Forty-Fivers: A Generation of Intellectual Liberalizers?’ Germany 2000. Taking Stock, Bristol University, 7-10 April 2000.

‘An Antipodean Genocide? The Origins of the Genocidal Moment in the Colonization of Australia’, biannual conference of the Association of Genocide Scholars, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 13-15 June 1999

‘Coming to Terms with Genocidal Past: Germany and Australia’, Gesellschaft für Australien-Studien, Klagenfurt, Austria, 23-26 September 1997.

‘Revolution and History: Neo-Conservative Intellectuals’ Response to Vergangenheitsbewältigung, 1968-1982’, German Studies Association, Chicago, September 1995.

‘The Historian’s Debate Revisited: Germans and their History Since Re-Unification’, German Studies Association, Dallas, October 1994.

‘History’s Burden: Memory, Identity, and Citizenship in Germany, 1982-1993’, Council for European Studies, Chicago, May 1994.

Invited Presentations

‘Empire, Colony, Genocide: A New Context for the Holocaust’, University of Sussex, 21 February 2008; Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung, Potsdam, 17 April 2008; University of Cologne, 17 May 2008; University of Bielefeld, 3 June 2008; University of Trier, 4 June 2008.

‘The United Nations, Bangladesh and the Question of Genocide’, University of Freiburg, 28 May 2008.

‘Imperial Transfers: Race and Empire in the Völkisch Imagination’, Public Lecture Series,
‘Wissen-Transfer-Differenz: Transnationale Verflechtungen von Rassismen ab 1700’, Humboldt University, Berlin, 6 May 2008.

‘The Nazi Past and Political Emotions: German Intellectuals and Generational Change’, Workshop on ‘Coming to Terms with the Nazi Past’, Royal Holloway, University of London, and the Imperial War Museum, 22 February 2008.

‘Empire and Genocide: Thoughts from Australia’, Centre for Genocide and Mass Violence, University of Sheffield, 21 February 2008.

'Empire, Colony, Genocide: Keywords and the Philosophy of History', Van Leer Institute, Jerusalem, The Holocaust and Globalization Research Group, 24 June 2007.

'Colonialism, the Holocaust, and the Concept of Genocide', Lebanese American University, Beirut, 4 April 2007; Tel Aviv University (‘The S. Daniel Abraham Lecture in International History’), 12 April 2007; Department of Germanic Studies, University of Sydney 16 September 2007; Department of History, Macquarie University, 31 October 2007.

'Toward a Critical Theory of Genocide', Customs in Common: Law, Culture and Memory Seminar, Division of Law, Macquarie University, 13 October 2005.

‘The Deep Structure of Postwar German Memory’, Departments of Sociology and Jewish Studies, University of Virginia, 1 February 2005.

‘Towards a Critical Theory of Genocide’, Department of History, University of Michigan, 27 January 2005; Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial and Museum, 26 January 2005; Genocide Studies Program, Yale University 2 February 2005.

‘Genocide in Australia? Conceptual Challenges and Memory Politics’, The Australian Centre, University of Melbourne, 16 August 2004.

‘Responding to Revisionism and Denial’, University of Queensland, Genocide Studies Group, 24 November 2003.

‘Holocaust and Genocide: Entanglement of Master Concepts’, University of Melbourne, 25 August 2003; University of California, Berkeley, 9 September 2003; University of Notre Dame, 12 September 2003; University of Illinois, Champagne/Urbana, 15 September 2003; Boston University, 25 September 2003; Trinity College, Hartford, 29 September 2003; Columbia University, 30 September 2003; Georgetown University, 8 October 2003; Institute for Social Research, Hamburg, Germany, 15 October 2003; Simon Dubnow Institute, Leipzig, 16 October 2003; American University Beirut, 2 November 2003; National University of Singapore, 12 November 2003.

‘History, Memory and Reconciliation in Germany’, Centre for Cross Cultural Research, Australian National University, Canberra, Visiting Scholars Workshop
‘Memory, History and Cross Cultural Research’, 22 October 2002.

‘The Uniqueness Concept in Holocaust and Genocide Studies’, Freilich Foundation Teacher Seminar, Australian National University, 6 September 2002.

‘Coming to Terms with the Genocidal Pasts in Comparative Perspective: Germany and Australia’, Macquarie University Law School, 2 May 2002.

‘The Genocide Convention and Colonial Australia’, UNSW Law School, 19 March 2002.

‘The Forty-Fivers and the Languages of Republicanism in West Germany’, Institute of Historical Research, University of London, 31 January 2002.

‘Die Fünfundvierziger und die Liberalisierung Deutschlands’, Bibliothek für Zeitgeschichte, Stuttgart, Germany, 22 January 2002.

‘The Languages of Republicanism and the Foundation of West Germany’, paper delivered at the German Historical Institute 10 April 2001, Institute for European Studies, UC Berkeley, 12 April 2001.

‘Colonial Genocide: the Case of Australia’, Department of History, University of Colorado, Boulder, 17 April 2001.

‘Legitimacy Dilemmas and Genocidal Pasts in West German and Australia’, Responsibility, Community and History Workshop, Macquarie University, Sydney, 16 June 2000.

‘Ideengeschichtliche Überlegungen zur Rezeption Carl Schmitts in der frühen Bundesrepublik’, in the Max Müller Symposium:“‘Katastrophenjahre?’ Leben, Tod und Entscheidung in der Weimarer Republik,” Freiburg, Germany, 7-10 October 1999.

‘Die Fünfundvierziger: Die Sprache der Demokratie und die Liberalisierung der Bundesrepublik, 1945 –1977’, Freiburg-Tübingen Annual Workshop on German History, Feldberg, May 1999.

‘Land Rights und die Genozidfrage: Menschenrechte und Aborigines in Australien, 1778-1998’, Colloquium Politicum, Freiburg University, Germany, 3 December 1998.

‘1968 und die deutsche politische Kultur’, Center for European Integration Studies, University of Bonn, Germany, January 16, 1998.

• Associate Editor, Journal of Genocide Research
• Editorial Board, Patterns of Prejudice
• Editorial Board, H-German
• International Academic Advisory Board, Online Encylcopedia of Mass Violence