Dan Stone

Oxford University Press is proud to return to the FT Weekend Oxford Literary Festival with another series of soap box talks from the very short introductions series.  These free, 15-minute talks feature expert authors from the series and take place twice a day in the Blackwell’s Marquee, next to the Sheldonian Theatre. No ticket is required.

Concentration camps are a relatively new invention, a recurring feature of 20th-century warfare and one that is important to the modern global consciousness and identity. Professor of modern history and director of the Holocaust Centre Dan Stone gives a global history of concentration camps and shows that it is not only “mad dictators” that have set up camps, but also all manner of states including liberal democracies. Drawing on contemporary accounts, as well as the philosophical literature surrounding concentration camps, Stone considers the story they tell us about the nature of the modern world and about specific regimes.