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April 12, 2021
Human Dignity in Context
Dieter Grimm, Alexandra Kemmerer, and Christoph Möllers
Hosted by Yakir Englander
Human dignity is the key term that the Universal Declaration on Human Rights placed at the center of legal discourse on a global level. In 1949, Germany incorporated the concept …
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History
April 6, 2021
Vengeance and Retribution Are Mine
Community, the Holocaust, and Abba Kovner's Avengers
Dina Porat
Hosted by Yakir Englander
Vengeance and Retribution Are Mine: Community, the Holocaust, and Abba Kovner's Avengers (Pardes, 2019) is a book by Israeli historian Dina Porat on Nakam, a small group of Holocaust survivors …
Genocide Studies
March 22, 2021
The Politics of Mass Violence in the Middle East
Laura Robson
Hosted by Kelly McFall
My students are generally 19 or 20 or 21. They have never known the Middle East without American boots on the ground. They have never turned on the news and …
Eastern European Studies
March 22, 2021
Hungarian Religion, Romanian Blood
A Minority's Struggle for National Belonging, 1920–1945
R. Chris Davis
Hosted by Steven Seegel
Amid the rising nationalism and racial politics that culminated in World War II, European countries wishing to purify their nations often forced unwanted populations to migrate. The targeted minorities had …
Jewish Studies
March 18, 2021
Holocaust Memory in the Digital Age
Survivors' Stories and New Media Practices
Jeffrey Shandler
Hosted by Robin Buller
How do technological advances and changing archival practices alter historical memory? In what ways have developments in the preservation and dissemination of historical material already impacted how scholars and the …
African Studies
March 16, 2021
Do Not Disturb
The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad
Michela Wrong
Hosted by Susan Thomson
Michela Wrong’s Do Not Disturb: The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad (PublicAffairs, 2021) is a glorious piece of journalism. It tells the story of Rwanda’s former …
Genocide Studies
February 17, 2021
Researching Perpetrators of Genocide
Kjell Follingstad Anderson and Erin Jessee
Hosted by Jeff Bachman
Researchers often face significant and unique ethical and methodological challenges when conducting qualitative field work among people who have been identified as perpetrators of genocide. This can include overcoming biases …
Genocide Studies
February 9, 2021
The Resistance Network
The Armenian Genocide and Humanitarianism in Ottoman Syria, 1915-1918
Khatchig Mouradian
Hosted by Steven Seegel
The Resistance Network: The Armenian Genocide and Humanitarianism in Ottoman Syria, 1915-1918 (Michigan State University Press, 2020) is the history of an underground network of humanitarians, missionaries, and diplomats …
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 …
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, 2021) 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 …
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 …
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 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 …
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