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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 …

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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 …
Southeast Asian Studies September 1, 2022

Crimes in Archival Form

Human Rights, Fact Production, and Myanmar

Ken MacLean

Hosted by Nick Cheesman
Though human rights monitors talk of fact-finding missions and reports, human rights facts are, like all social phenomena, not in fact found but made — through processes by which we …
Darts & Letters August 18, 2022

The Pavilion

When Canadians First Had to Confront the Country’s Genocidal Story

Hosted by Gordon Katic
Expo 1967 was the centrepiece of Canada’s 100th birthday. Amid the crowds and the pageantry, one building stood out: The Indians of Canada Pavilion. This was more than a tall …
Genocide Studies August 11, 2022

Sites of Genocide

Adam Jones

Hosted by Kelly McFall
Adam Jones will be familiar to anyone interested in the field of genocide studies.  He's published one of the leading textbooks in the field. He's been influential in drawing attention …
Genocide Studies August 9, 2022

Ideology and Mass Killing

The Radicalized Security Politics of Genocides and 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 …
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 …