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Genocide Studies August 9, 2022

Ideology and Mass Killing

Radical Security Politics and the Infrastructure of Deadly Atrocities

Jonathan Leader Maynard

Hosted by Miranda Melcher
In research on 'mass killings' such as genocides and campaigns of state terror, the role of ideology is hotly debated. For some scholars, ideologies are crucial in providing the extremist …

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Genocide Studies August 2, 2022

British Responses to Genocide

The British Foreign Office and Humanitarianism in the Ottoman Empire, 1918-1923

Amy E. Grubb and Elisabeth Hope Murray

Hosted by Kelly McFall
When I was an undergrad, the chronology of World War One was simple. The war began in August of 1914 and ended in November of 1918. Now, of course, we know it's …
Middle Eastern Studies August 2, 2022

The Horrors of Adana

Revolution and Violence in the Early Twentieth Century

Bedross Der Matossian

Hosted by Roberto Mazza
In April 1909, two waves of massacres shook the province of Adana, located in the southern Anatolia region of modern-day Turkey, killing more than 20,000 Armenians and 2,000 Muslims. The …
Scholarly Communication July 29, 2022

International Association of Genocide Scholars

A Discussion with Melanie O'Brien

Melanie O'Brien

Hosted by Caleb Zakarin
The International Association of Genocide Scholars is a global, interdisciplinary, non-partisan organization that seeks to further research and teaching about the nature, causes, and consequences of genocide, and advance policy …
Catholic Studies July 19, 2022

The Genocide Against the Tutsi, and the Rwandan Churches

Between Grief and Denial

Philippe Denis

Hosted by Allison Isidore
Why did some sectors of the Rwandan churches adopt an ambiguous attitude towards the genocide against the Tutsi which claimed the lives of around 800,000 people in three months between …
Military History July 18, 2022

Why Humans Fight

The Social Dynamics of Close-Range Violence

Siniša Malešević

Hosted by Christian Nielsen
In his book Why Humans Fight: The Social Dynamics of Close-Range Violence (2022, Cambridge University Press), Siniša Malešević emphasises the centrality of the social and historical contexts that make fighting …
Women's History July 15, 2022

Birth, Sex and Abuse

Women's Voices Under Nazi Rule

Beverley Chalmers

Hosted by Jeannette Cockroft
Birth, Sex and Abuse: Women's Voices Under Nazi Rule (Grosvenor House, 2015) is a fascinating and gripping examination of birth, sex and abuse during the Nazi era. Dr Chalmers’ unique …
Jewish Studies July 12, 2022

Refuge Must Be Given

Eleanor Roosevelt, the Jewish Plight, and the Founding of Israel

John F. Sears

Hosted by Ari Barbalat
Refuge Must Be Given: Eleanor Roosevelt, the Jewish Plight, and the Founding of Israel (Purdue UP, 2021) details the evolution of Eleanor Roosevelt from someone who harbored negative impressions of …
The Vault July 8, 2022

On Hannah Arendt's "Eichmann in Jerusalem"

A Discussion

Anthony Grafton, Rony Brauman, Margarethe von Trotta, and Pamela Katz

Hosted by New York Institute for the Humanities
In this episode from the Institute’s Vault, we have an excerpt from a two day symposium--“Hannah Arendt Right Now”--which explored the philosopher’s impact on the 21st Century. The 2006 event …
Genocide Studies June 29, 2022

Torture, Humiliate, Kill

Inside the Bosnian Serb Camp System

Hikmet Karčić

Hosted by Christopher Davey
Half a century after the Holocaust, on European soil, Bosnian Serbs orchestrated a system of concentration camps where they subjected their Bosniak Muslim and Bosnian Croat neighbors to torture, abuse …
Jewish Studies June 22, 2022

Jewish Internationalism and Human Rights after the Holocaust

Nathan A. Kurz

Hosted by Amber Nickell
In Jewish Internationalism and Human Rights after the Holocaust (Cambridge UP, 2020), Nathan A. Kurz charts the fraught relationship between Jewish internationalism and international rights protection in the second half of …
German Studies June 13, 2022

Nazi Billionaires

The Dark History of Germany's Wealthiest Dynasties

David de Jong

Hosted by Miranda Melcher
In Nazi Billionnaires: The Dark History of Germany's Wealthiest Dynasties (HarperCollins, 2022), journalist David de Jong presents a groundbreaking investigation of how the Nazis helped German tycoons make billions off …
Jewish Studies June 13, 2022

If This Is a Woman

Studies on Women and Gender in the Holocaust

Denisa Nesťáková, Katja Grosse-Sommer, Borbála Klacsmann, and Jakub Drábik

Hosted by Amber Nickell
If This Is a Woman: Studies on Women and Gender in the Holocaust (Academic Studies Press, 2021) contains thirteen articles based on work presented at the “XX. Century Conference: If …
Genocide Studies June 1, 2022

The Memory of Goodness

Eva Fleischner and Her Contributions to Holocaust Studies

John K. Roth and Carol Rittner

Hosted by Kelly McFall
Today I talked to Carol Rittner and John K. Roth about their edited volume The Memory of Goodness:  Eva Fleischner and her contributions to Holocaust Studies (National Catholic Center for Holocaust Education …
Jewish Studies May 26, 2022

Unsettled Heritage

Living Next to Poland's Material Jewish Traces After the Holocaust

Yechiel Weizman

Hosted by Amber Nickell
In Unsettled Heritage: Living Next to Poland's Material Jewish Traces After the Holocaust (Cornell UP, 2022), Yechiel Weizman explores what happened to the thousands of abandoned Jewish cemeteries and places …
Jewish Studies May 26, 2022

So They Remember

A Jewish Family's Story of Surviving the Holocaust in Soviet Ukraine

Maksim Goldenshteyn

Hosted by Amber Nickell
When we think of Nazi camps, names such as Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, and Dachau come instantly to mind. Yet the history of the Holocaust extends beyond those notorious sites. In the …
Genocide Studies May 23, 2022

Global Burning

Rising Antidemocracy and the Climate Crisis

Eve Darian-Smith

Hosted by Jeff Bachman
Recent years have seen out-of-control wildfires rage across remote Brazilian rainforests, densely populated California coastlines, and major cities in Australia. What connects these separate events is more than immediate devastation …
General History May 13, 2022

The Opening Statement of the Prosecution in International Criminal Trials

A Solemn Tale of Horror

Sofia Stolk

Hosted by Miranda Melcher
Dr. Sofia Stolk’s The Opening Statement of the Prosecution in International Criminal Trials: A Solemn Tale of Horror (Routledge, 2021) addresses the discursive importance of the prosecution’s opening statement before …
Ukrainian Studies May 13, 2022

The Ukrainian Intelligentsia and Genocide

The Struggle for History, Language, and Culture in the 1920s and 1930s

Victoria A. Malko

Hosted by Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed
Victoria A. Malko's book The Ukrainian Intelligentsia and Genocide: The Struggle for History, Language, and Culture in the 1920s and 1930s (Lexington Books, 2021) focuses on the first group targeted in …
African Studies May 5, 2022

Responding to Mass Atrocities in Africa

Protection First and Justice Later

Raymond Kwun-Sun Lau

Hosted by Christopher Davey
Around the world, audiences in the mid-1990s watched the mass atrocities unfolding in Rwanda and Srebrenica in horror and disbelief. Emerging from these disasters came an international commitment to safeguard …