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Ohio Wesleyan's annual Kragalott Lecture honors the career, contributions, and memory of Robert Kragalott, Ph.D., a professor in the OWU Department of History from 1964 to 1991.
Kragalott's scholarly interests included Russian and Yugoslavian history, and he researched and published on the Treaty of Versailles.
The lecture series was endowed with a gift from 1969 OWU graduate Carroll P. "Pete" Kakel III, Ph.D., a research historian and lecturer. Dr. Kakel's gift honors the career, contributions and memory of Dr. Robert Kragalott with the hope that the Kragalott lectures will encourage audiences to engage in the past.
The most recent lecture took place on Thursday, April 11, 2024 at 7 p.m. in the Benes Rooms of the Hamilton Williams Campus Center:
"How and Why Did Genocide Become the 'Crime of Crimes'?"
A. Dirk Moses is the Anne and Bernard Spitzer Professor of International Relations at the City College of New York CUNY. He is the author and editor of publications on genocide and memory, including The Problems of Genocide: Permanent Security and the Language of Transgression (2021). He is senior editor of the Journal of Genocide Research.