Donald Bloxham is a Reader in the School of History & Classics at University of Edinburgh, UK. In his research Dr Bloxham focuses on perpetration, punishment and representation of genocide, war crimes and other mass atrocities. He is the author or co-author of three books, the editor of the forthcoming ten-volume Oxford University Press series Zones of Violence, and the former editor of the Journal of Holocaust Education.

The full title of Bloxhams lecture is: From the ‘Armenian Question’ to the Armenian Genocide: The end of the Ottoman Empire, minority issues and the great powers

In his presentation Dr. Bloxham will address the genesis and development of the Armenian genocide. Bloxham places the genocide in the context of minority questions in the declining decades of the Ottoman empire, examining the shifting policies of successive Ottoman elites as they sought, firstly, to accommodate non-Muslim populations within the empire and, later, became increasingly ethnocentric and suspicious of those populations. The role of nationalism among Armenians and other Christian groups is important in the analysis, as is the part played by the great powers in exacerbating Muslim-Christian relations by their periodic, self-interested interventions in Ottoman internal affairs.

See Prof. Bloxham's CV at the University of Edinburgh