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Genocide Studies
Genocide Studies
August 11, 2022
Sites of Genocide
Adam Jones
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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 …
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Genocide Studies
August 9, 2022
Ideology and Mass Killing
The Radicalized Security Politics of Genocides and Deadly Atrocities
Jonathan Leader Maynard
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 …
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