Alexa Stiller (Zurich)

Historicum Room K302, Schellingstr. 12, Munich
Colloquium “Europe's History of the Present: Universalism and Particularism”

The KFG colloquium continues with its next session on Wednesday, May 21st, 2025, with a lecture by Junior Fellow Alexa Stiller on "The Paradox of Universalism: Historicizing the Practice of International Criminal Law in the 1990s".

Alexa Stiller is Senior Research Fellow and Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary History at the Department of History at the University of Zurich. She has been a visiting scholar at Columbia University in New York City, the University of Oxford, St. Antony's College, ETH Zurich, and the University of Konstanz. She has received fellowships from the USHMM, the Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah, and the German Historical Institutes in Washington D.C. and Warsaw. Alexa Stiller's most recent award-winning book deals with the Nazi policy of Germanization and mass violence in the occupied countries of Poland, France, and Slovenia (Göttingen 2022). She has researched and published on the Nuremberg Trials (New York 2012, Hamburg 2018). Her current research project (working title: Visions of Accountability. The Emergence of the International Criminal Law Regime, 1989-2002) examines the establishment of the international criminal tribunals in response to the Bosnian War and the genocide in Rwanda in the 1990s.

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