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Genocide Studies
Law December 7, 2022

Human Rights at Risk

Global Governance, American Power, and the Future of Dignity

Salvador Santino F. Regilme and Irene Hadiprayitno

Hosted by Jane Richards
Human Rights at Risk: Global Governance, American Power, and the Future of Dignity (Rutgers University Press, 2022) is a fascinating book that brings together social scientists, legal scholars, and humanities scholars from …

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Jewish Studies December 6, 2022

Wartime North Africa

A Documentary History, 1934-1950

Aomar Boum and Sarah Abrevaya Stein

Hosted by Ari Barbalat
Aomar Boum and Sarah Abrevaya Stein's book Wartime North Africa: A Documentary History, 1934-1950 (Stanford UP, 2022), the first-ever collection of primary documents on North African history and the Holocaust, gives …
Genocide Studies December 5, 2022

Primo Levi and Ka-Tzetnik

The Map and the Territory

Yochai Ataria

Hosted by Yakir Englander
Primo Levi and Ka-Tzetnik: The Map and the Territory (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022) is about Primo Levi and Ka-Tzetnik, both Auschwitz survivors and central figures in the shaping of Holocaust memory …
Iberian Studies November 28, 2022

Nazi Juggernaut in the Basque Country and Catalonia

Xabier Irujo and Queralt Solé

Hosted by Ari Barbalat
Today I talked to Xabier Irujo about his book (co-authored with Queralt Solé) Nazi Juggernaut in the Basque Country and Catalonia (Center for Basque Studies, 2019). Hitler and Mussolini's decision to help General …
Genocide Studies November 25, 2022

Anthropological Witness

Lessons from the Khmer Rouge Tribunal

Alexander Laban Hinton

Hosted by Jeff Bachman
Anthropological Witness: Lessons from the Khmer Rouge Tribunal (Cornell UP, 2022) tells the story of Alexander Laban Hinton's encounter with an accused architect of genocide and, more broadly, Hinton's attempt …
Jewish Studies November 23, 2022

A Ukrainian Chapter

A Jewish Aid Worker’s Memoir Of Sorrow

Eli Gumener (trans. Michael Eli Nutkiewicz)

Hosted by Ari Barbalat
Today I talked to Michael Eli Nutkiewicz about his translation A Ukrainian Chapter: A Jewish Aid Worker’s Memoir Of Sorrow (Slavica, 2022).  Eli Gumener’s 1921 Yiddish memoir, A Ukrainian Chapter, is …
Academic Life November 22, 2022

Books, Antisemitism, and a Viral Tweet

A Conversation with Library Director Susan Kusel

Susan Kusel

Hosted by Christina Gessler
Need help curating a list of Holocaust books for your students or library patrons? What’s on your shelf? What should be there? This podcast episode explores: The most commonly assigned …
Genocide Studies November 22, 2022

Genocide

Key Themes

Donald Bloxham and A. Dirk Moses

Hosted by Kelly McFall
Donald Bloxham and Dirk Moses have offered us a unique opportunity--a chance to see authors and editors in conversation with each other and themselves about the state and nature of …
Jewish Studies November 17, 2022

One Hundred Saturdays

Stella Levi and the Search for a Lost World

Michael Frank

Hosted by Drora Arussy
With nearly a century of life behind her, Stella Levi had never before spoken in detail about her past. Then she met Michael Frank. He came to her Greenwich Village …
Nordic Asia Podcast November 11, 2022

U.S. Determinization of Genocide in Myanmar: Part Two, What’s Next?

A Conversation with Kyaw Zeyar Win

Kyaw Zeyar Win

Hosted by Terese Gagnon
In March 2022 the U.S. government announced its determination that genocide was committed by the Myanmar military against Rohingya communities in Myanmar’s Rakhine State in 2017. What will this mean …
Genocide Studies November 11, 2022

Genocide

The Power and Problems of a Concept

Andrea Graziosi and Frank E. Sysyn

Hosted by Jeff Bachman
Since the 1980s the study of genocide has exploded, both historically and geographically, to encompass earlier epochs, other continents, and new cases. The concept of genocide has proved its worth …
Genocide Studies November 4, 2022

From Bureaucracy to Bullets

Extreme Domicide and the Right to Home

Bree Akesson and Andrew R. Basso

Hosted by Miranda Melcher
There are currently a record-setting number of forcibly displaced persons in the world. This number continues to rise as solutions to alleviate humanitarian catastrophes of large-scale violence and displacement continue …
German Studies October 24, 2022

After Nuremberg

American Clemency for Nazi War Criminals

Robert Hutchinson

Hosted by Nicholas Misukanis
Robert Hutchinson's After Nuremberg: American Clemency for Nazi War Criminals (Yale UP, 2022) is about the fleeting nature of American punishment for German war criminals convicted at the twelve Nuremberg …
Nordic Asia Podcast October 7, 2022

U.S. Determinization of Genocide in Myanmar: Part One, Roots

A Discussion with with Kyaw Zeyar Win

Kyaw Zeyar Win

Hosted by Terese Gagnon
In March of 2022 the U.S. government announced its determination that genocide was committed by the Myanmar military against Rohingya communities in Myanmar’s Rakhine State in 2017. What will this …
Genocide Studies October 3, 2022

The Routledge Handbook of Religion, Mass Atrocity, and Genocide

Sara Elise Brown and Stephen David Smith

Hosted by Kelly McFall
Sara Brown and Stephen Smith have edited a much needed and fascinating compilation of essays on the intersection of religion and mass atrocity.  Their intent is not to theorize the …
Jewish Studies October 3, 2022

The Romanian Orthodox Church and the Holocaust

Ion Popa

Hosted by Ari Barbalat
In 1930, about 750,000 Jews called Romania home. At the end of World War II, approximately half of them survived. Only recently, after the fall of Communism, are details of …
German Studies September 21, 2022

Environing Empire

Nature, Infrastructure and the Making of German Southwest Africa

Martin Kalb

Hosted by Eric Grube
German ambitions to transform Southwest Africa in the early part of the twentieth century were futile and resulted in the widespread death and suffering of indigenous populations. For years colonists …
General History September 16, 2022

Destroying to Replace

Settler Genocides of Indigenous Peoples

Mohamed Adhikari

Hosted by Miranda Melcher
Today I talked to Dr. Mohamed Adhikari about his book Destroying to Replace: Settler Genocides of Indigenous Peoples (Hackett, 2022). "This book explores settler colonial genocides in a global perspective and over …
World Affairs September 9, 2022

From the Ashes of History

Collective Trauma and the Making of International Politics

Adam B. Lerner

Hosted by Miranda Melcher
In recent years, calls for reparations and restorative justice, alongside the rise of populist grievance politics, have demonstrated the stubborn resilience of traumatic memory. From the transnational Black Lives Matter …
General History September 7, 2022

The Addis Ababa Massacre

Italy's National Shame

Ian Campbell

Hosted by Ari Barbalat
In February 1937, following an abortive attack by a handful of insurgents on Mussolini's High Command in Italian-occupied Ethiopia, 'repression squads' of armed Blackshirts and Fascist civilians were unleashed on …