A Talk by Historian Aidan Forth
In Person public event
Based on his recent book, Aidan Forth examines the history of concentration camps and related venues of mass confinement from a global and comparative perspective. From workhouses, penal colonies, and slave plantations in the 19th century to POW and civilian internment camps in WWI and WWII, and from the infamous Soviet Gulag and Nazi konzentrationslager to the displacements and encampments of today, camps are as diverse as they are ubiquitous. Covering two centuries and every inhabited continent, the talk offers a broad, global synthesis.
About the Speaker: Aidan Forth is an Associate Professor of global and imperial history at MacEwan University, Canada. He is the author of Barbed-Wire Imperialism: Britain's Empire of Camps, 1876-1903 (winner of the Stansky Book Prize and Wallace K. Ferguson Prize) and Camps: A Global History of Mass Confinement. His review essay "Settler Colonialism Meets the War on Terror" in the LA Review of Books won the Kukula Award for Excellence in Nonfiction Book Reviewing from Washington Monthly Magazine.
ponsored by the Forum for the Academy and the Public and the History Department