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Journalism March 20, 2023

Borderland

Decolonizing the Words of War

Chrisanthi Giotis

Hosted by Miranda Melcher
Every two seconds a person is displaced, caught in one of the more than 40 active conflicts around the world that show no sign of ending. Since 1994, there has …

African Studies

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Interviews with scholars of Africa about their new books.

Genocide Studies March 15, 2023

Survivors Uncensored

100+ Testimonies from Survivors of the Rwandan Genocide

Ribara Uwariraye et al.

Hosted by Christopher Davey
Authentic, harrowing, and inspirational, Survivors Uncensored contains more than 100 recollections of events narrated by those who lived through the tragic events when Rwanda turned to darkness. The diversity of …
Global Media & Communication March 15, 2023

The Ethics of Engagement

Media, Conflict and Democracy in Africa

Herman Wasserman

Hosted by Aswin Punathambekar and Jing Wang
Hello, world! This is the Global Media & Communication podcast series. In this episode, our host Yuval Katz discusses the book The Ethics of Engagement: Media, Conflict and Democracy in …
Jewish Studies March 8, 2023

From Sinai to Ethiopia

The Halakhic and Conceptual World of the Ethiopian Jews

Sharon Shalom

Hosted by Drora Arussy
Some two thousand years ago, a group of Jews settled in Ethiopia and was for millennia cut off from the rest of world Jewry, preserving its heritage with great self-sacrifice …
Political Science March 6, 2023

Difficult Life in a Refugee Camp

Gender, Violence, and Coping in Uganda

Ulrike Krause

Hosted by Lamis Abdelaaty
Although refugee camps are established to accommodate, protect, and assist those fleeing from violent conflict and persecution, life often remains difficult there. Building on empirical research with refugees in a …
International Horizons March 6, 2023

Birth Rates and the Future of Social Movements

A Discussion with Jack Goldstone

Jack Goldstone

Hosted by International Horizons
"The world's future will depend on Africa having a good future." This week on International Horizons, Jack Goldstone, Virginia E. and John T. Hazel, Jr. Chair Professor of Public Policy …
World Christianity March 5, 2023

A Spirit of Revitalization

Urban Pentecostalism in Kenya

Kyama M. Mugambi

Hosted by Byung Ho Choi
Perhaps more than anywhere else in the world, Africa has generated unique expressions of Christianity that have, in their rapid development, overtaken older forms of Christianity represented by historic missionary …
Environmental Studies March 5, 2023

Flooded Pasts

UNESCO, Nubia, and the Recolonization of Archaeology

William Carruthers

Hosted by Mohamed Gamal-Eldin
Flooded Pasts: UNESCO, Nubia, and the Recolonization of Archaeology (Cornell UP, 2022) examines a world famous yet critically underexamined event—UNESCO's International Campaign to Save the Monuments of Nubia (1960–80)—to show …
Genocide Studies March 4, 2023

To Save Heaven and Earth

Rescue in the Rwandan Genocide

Jennie E. Burnet

Hosted by Kelly McFall
In To Save Heaven and Earth: Rescue in the Rwandan Genocide (Cornell UP, 2023), Jennie E. Burnet considers people who risked their lives in the 1994 Rwandan genocide of Tutsi …
Economic and Business History March 3, 2023

The Slave Ship

A Human History

Marcus Rediker

Hosted by Morteza Hajizadeh
In this widely praised history of an infamous institution, award-winning scholar Marcus Rediker shines a light into the darkest corners of the British and American slave ships of the eighteenth …
Religion February 28, 2023

Beyond Belief

How Pentecostal Christianity Is Taking Over the World

Elle Hardy

Hosted by Tiatemsu Longkumer
How has a Christian movement, founded at the turn of the twentieth century by the son of freed slaves, become the fastest-growing religion on Earth? This is the religion of …
Political Science February 27, 2023

Beyond Piety and Politics

Religion, Social Relations, and Public Preferences in the Middle East and North Africa

Sabri Ciftci, F. Michael Wuthrich, and Ammar Shamaileh

Hosted by Lamis Abdelaaty
How do ordinary men and women in Muslim-majority societies create religion-informed views of political topics such as democracy and economics? Beyond Piety and Politics: Religion, Social Relations, and Public Preferences …
Genocide Studies February 22, 2023

In the Shadow of Genocide

Justice and Memory Within Rwanda

Stephanie Wolfe, Matthew Kane and Tawia Ansah

Hosted by Kelly McFall
Stephanie Wolfe, Matthew Kane and Tawia Ansah's In the Shadow of Genocide: Justice and Memory Within Rwanda (Routledge, 2023) brings together scholars and practitioners for a unique inter-disciplinary exploration of …
German Studies February 17, 2023

African Students in East Germany, 1949-1975

Sara Pugach

Hosted by Nicole Coleman
Sara Pugach's African Students in East Germany, 1949-1975 (U Michigan Press, 2022) explores the largely unexamined history of Africans who lived, studied, and worked in the German Democratic Republic. African students …
Indian Ocean World February 7, 2023

On the Frontiers of the Indian Ocean World

A History of Lake Tanganyika, c.1830-1890

Philip Gooding

Hosted by Gargi Binju
On the Frontiers of the Indian Ocean World: A History of Lake Tanganyika, c.1830-1890 (Cambridge UP, 2022) is the first interdisciplinary history of Lake Tanganyika and of eastern Africa's relationship …
Peoples & Things February 6, 2023

Gendered Labor, Food Security, and Technology in 20th-Century Mali

A Discussion with Laura Ann Twagira

Laura Ann Twagira

Hosted by Lee Vinsel
Laura Ann Twagira, an associate professor of history, head of African Studies, and an affiliate with science in society program and feminist gender sexuality studies program at Wesleyan University, talks …
General History February 5, 2023

Inventing the Third World

In Search of Freedom for the Postwar Global South

Gyan Prakash and Jeremy Adelman

Hosted by Elisa Prosperetti
What is the Third World? The term has essentially been scrubbed from our collective consciousness. What once used to be something concrete seems to have vanished into thin air. Today …
General History February 4, 2023

Empire and Catastrophe

Decolonization and Environmental Disaster in North Africa and Mediterranean France since 1954

Spencer D. Segalla

Hosted by Michael Vann
Spencer Segalla’s Empire and Catastrophe: Decolonization and Environmental Disaster in North Africa and Mediterranean France since 1954 (U Nebraska Press, 2021) explores natural and anthropogenic disasters during the years of decolonization …
Caribbean Studies February 2, 2023

Dougla in the Twenty-First Century

Adding to the Mix

Sue Ann Barratt and Aleah N. Ranjitsingh

Hosted by Aleem Mahabir
Identity is often fraught for multiracial Douglas, people of both South Asian and African descent in the Caribbean. In this groundbreaking volume titled Dougla in the Twenty-First Century: Adding to …
Policing, Incarceration, and Reform January 18, 2023

The Healing Stage

Black Women, Incarceration, and the Art of Transformation

Lisa Biggs

Hosted by Deidre Tyler
Over the last five decades, Black women have been one of the fastest-growing segments of the global prison population, thanks to changes in policies that mandate incarceration for nonviolent offenses …