Name: Criminological Perspectives on Palestine
Start: 2026-04-09T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-04-10T15:00:00+02:00
Location: Poljanski nasip 2, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia

📢 Exciting News! We are happy to announce a Call for Abstracts for our conference titled "Criminological Perspectives on Palestine: Legal Responses and Academic Complicity in Times of Genocide"
🗓️ Submission Deadline: 31 January 2026
💻 For more details and submission guidelines, visit: https://www.inst-krim.si/criminological-perspectives-on-palestine-legal-responses-and-academic-complicity-in-times-of-genocide/
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𝐖𝐞 𝐰𝐞𝐥𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐬𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐬 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬, 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐚 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐫 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐞𝐥𝐝𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲, 𝐥𝐚𝐰, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲. 𝐖𝐞 𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐲-𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐫 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐲𝐞𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐨𝐩𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐮𝐛𝐦𝐢𝐭 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐚𝐥𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐫 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡.
This conference seeks to explore the ways in which criminologists can—and should—address state criminality; to consider how criminological scholarship may contribute critical analyses of violations committed by Israel in Palestine, including genocide; and to examine how the discipline might engage with ongoing debates concerning academic complicity and calls to boycott institutions implicated in such violations. Recent developments, such as the European Society of Criminology’s (ESC) silence on these matters and its decision to prevent a democratic vote on measures aimed at addressing institutional complicity in atrocity crimes, highlight the need for an academic forum in which these issues can be critically and openly examined. We therefore invite participants to join this space, dedicated both to analysing Israel’s crimes in Palestine and to reflecting more broadly on the responsibilities and potential of criminology in confronting atrocity crimes and other serious human rights violations.