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Genocide Studies
January 25, 2021
The International People’s Tribunal for 1965 and the Indonesian Genocide
Annie Pohlman, Jess Melvin, Saskia E. Wieringa
Hosted by Kelly McFall
How do you hold a government accountable for crimes it refuses to acknowledge? Today's book, The International People's Tribunal for 1965 and the Indonesian Genocide (Routledge, 2019) emerges out of the International …
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Environmental Studies
January 25, 2021
Scorched Earth
Environmental Warfare as a Crime Against Humanity and Nature
Emmanuel Kreike
Hosted by Ahmed Almaazmi
In Scorched Earth: Environmental Warfare as a Crime Against Humanity and Nature (Princeton UP, 2021), Emmanuel Kreike offers a global history of environmental warfare and makes the case for why it should …
Genocide Studies
January 22, 2021
Spain, the Second World War, and the Holocaust
History and Representation
Sara J. Brenneis and Gina Herrmann
Hosted by Kelly McFall
Spain has for too long been considered peripheral to the human catastrophes of World War II and the Holocaust. This volume is the first broadly interdisciplinary, scholarly collection to situate …
Genocide Studies
January 22, 2021
Acts of Repair
Justice, Truth, and the Politics of Memory in Argentina
Natasha Zaretsky
Hosted by Jeff Bachman
Acts of Repair: Justice, Truth, and the Politics of Memory in Argentina (Rutgers UP, 2020) explores how ordinary people grapple with political violence in Argentina, a nation home to survivors of …
Genocide Studies
January 18, 2021
Understanding and Teaching the Holocaust
Laura Hilton and Avinoam Patt
Hosted by Kelly McFall
I wish I had seen Laura Hilton and Avinoam Patt's Understanding and Teaching the Holocaust (University of Wisconsin Press, 2020) six months ago. I taught a course in the fall titled …
Genocide Studies
January 14, 2021
Advancing Holocaust Studies
Carol Rittner and John K. Roth
Hosted by Kelly McFall
I think this is the fifth time I've interviewed John K. Roth for the podcast (and the second for Carol Rittner). He has always been relentlessly realistic about the challenges, intellectual …
Eastern European Studies
December 31, 2020
Borders on the Move
Territorial Change and Forced Migration in the Hungarian-Slovak Borderlands, 1938-1948
Leslie Waters
Hosted by Steven Seegel
The movement of borders and people was a remarkably common experience for mid-twentieth-century Central and Eastern Europeans. Such was the case along the border between Czechoslovakia and Hungary, where territory …
Genocide Studies
December 31, 2020
Genocide in Libya
Shar, a Hidden Colonial History
Ali Abdullatif Ahmida
Hosted by Jeff Bachman
This original research on the forgotten Libyan genocide specifically recovers the hidden history of the fascist Italian concentration camps (1929-1934) through the oral testimonies of Libyan survivors. Ali Abdullatif Ahmida's …
Genocide Studies
December 15, 2020
Unstable Ground
Climate Change, Conflict, and Genocide
Alex Alvarez
Hosted by Jeff Bachman
Unstable Ground: Climate Change, Conflict, and Genocide (Rowman and Littlefield, 2017) looks at the human impact of climate change and its potential to provoke some of the most troubling crimes …
Philosophy
December 1, 2020
Unconscionable Crimes
How Norms Explain and Constrain Mass Atrocities
Paul C. Morrow
Hosted by Robert Talisse
The moral horrors of genocide and mass atrocity lead us to wonder how such things are even possible. A common and understandable reaction is to see events of this kind …
Genocide Studies
November 19, 2020
The Failures of Ethics
Confronting the Holocaust, Genocide, and Other Mass Atrocities
John K. Roth
Hosted by Jeff Bachman
In the Failures of Ethics: Confronting the Holocaust, Genocide and Other Mass Atrocities (Oxford University Press, 2018), John K. Roth concentrates on the multiple shortfalls and shortcomings of thought, decision …
Genocide Studies
November 11, 2020
The Struggle for Understanding
Elie Wiesel's Literary Works
Victoria Nesfield and Philip Smith
Hosted by Yakir Englander
An in-depth look at Elie Wiesel’s writings, from his earliest works to his final novels. Elie Wiesel (1928–2016) was one of the most important literary voices to emerge from the …
German Studies
November 2, 2020
Testimonies of Resistance
Representations of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Sonderkommando
Nicholas Chare and Dominic Williams
Hosted by Yakir Englander
The Sonderkommando--the "special squad" of enslaved Jewish laborers who were forced to work in the gas chambers and crematoria of Auschwitz-Birkenau--comprise one of the most fascinating and troubling topics within …
East Asian Studies
October 22, 2020
Japanese War Crimes during World War II
Atrocity and the Psychology of Collective Violence
Frank Jacob
Hosted by Kelly McFall
When you mention Japanese War crimes in World War Two, you’ll often get different responses from different generations. The oldest among us will talk about the Bataan Death March. Younger …
European Studies
October 16, 2020
All the Horrors of War
A Jewish Girl, a British Doctor, and the Liberation of Bergen-Belsen
Bernice Lerner
Hosted by Mark Klobas
One was a teenage Jewish girl, forcibly transported from her home in Hungary to a Nazi concentration camp. The other was a British doctor, whose experiences serving in two world …
European Studies
October 8, 2020
The Holocaust
History and Memory
Jeremy Black
Hosted by Charles Coutinho
The event that is commonly labeled as the ‘Holocaust’, was one of the most horrific of the Twentieth Century. It is also one of the most popularly discussed events of …
African American Studies
September 25, 2020
We Charge Genocide
The Crime of Government Against the Negro People
William L. Patterson
Hosted by Jeff Bachman
In 2017, We Charge Genocide: The Crime of Government Against the Negro People, the historic petition authored by William L. Patterson, was published in its third edition. It has been …
Anthropology
September 18, 2020
On Inhumanity
Dehumanization and How to Resist It
David Livingstone Smith
Hosted by Yakir Englander
The Rwandan genocide, the Holocaust, the lynching of African Americans, the colonial slave trade: these are horrific episodes of mass violence spawned from racism and hatred. We like to think …
German Studies
September 8, 2020
Resisting Persecution
Jews and Their Petitions during the Holocaust
T. P. Kaplan and W. Gruner (eds.)
Hosted by Kelly McFall
In 20 years of studying the Holocaust, it didn’t occur to me that German officials might, when petitioned by German Jews or by Germans advocating for German Jews, change their …
Eastern European Studies
September 7, 2020
The Moral Witness
Trials and Testimony after Genocide
Carolyn J. Dean
Hosted by Natasha Margulis
The Moral Witness: Trials and Testimony after Genocide (Cornell University Press, 2019) is the first cultural history of the "witness to genocide" in the West. Carolyn J. Dean shows how …
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