Genocide / Feminicide, Memory, and Technologies of Violence

Fazil Moradi is a postdoctoral researcher, member of the Law, Organization, Science and Technology (LOST) Research Network and an Associate at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. He received his PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Halle-Wittenberg and the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology with a dissertation on the translations of al-Anfāl genocide in Kurdistan-Iraq. His ethnographic inquiries are located in the Middle East, Africa and Europe, covering modernity’s infrastructures of violence – genocide-feminicide, effects of chemical weapons, ecological harm, global drones –, technoscience of evidence & testimony, aesthetics of violence, translation and hospitality. He teaches at the University of Halle-Wittenberg and is completing a monograph entitled, Hosting Genocide-Feminicide: On the Living On of the Un Translatable in Kurdistan, Iraq.