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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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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 …
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 …
Jewish Studies May 2, 2022

Fighter, Worker, and Family Man

German-Jewish Men and Their Gendered Experiences in Nazi Germany, 1933-1941

Sebastian Huebel

Hosted by Amber Nickell
When the Nazis came to power, they used various strategies to expel German Jews from social, cultural, and economic life. Fighter, Worker, and Family Man (U Toronto Press, 2022) focuses …
Genocide Studies April 28, 2022

Interactive Peacemaking

A People-Centered Approach

Susan H. Allen

Hosted by Christopher Davey
Susan H. Allen's Interactive Peacemaking: A People-Centered Approach (Routledge, 2022) examines the theory and practice of interactive peacemaking, centering the role of people in making peace. This book presents the …
Nordic Asia Podcast April 22, 2022

What Remains: Textiles from Tuol Sleng

Magali-An Berthon in Conversation with Terese Gagnon

Magali-An Berthon

Hosted by Terese Gagnon
What can textiles tell us about histories of genocide and the lived experiences of prisoners? In this episode, Dr. Magali-An Berthon discusses the treatment of prisoners at S-21 and how …
Scholarly Communication April 18, 2022

The University Network for Human Rights

Scholarly Societies Series

Jim Cavallaro

Hosted by Caleb Zakarin
The University Network for Human Rights facilitates supervised undergraduate engagement in the practice of human rights at colleges and universities in the United States and across the globe. The University …
Jewish Studies March 22, 2022

When I Grow Up

The Lost Autobiographies of Six Yiddish Teenagers

Ken Krimstein

Hosted by David Gottlieb
When I Grow Up: The Lost Autobiographies of Six Yiddish Teenagers (Bloomsbury, 2021), the latest graphic nonfiction narrative from New Yorker cartoonist Ken Krimstein, is based on six of hundreds …
Eastern European Studies March 4, 2022

Survivors

Warsaw under Nazi Occupation

Jadwiga Biskupska

Hosted by Piotr Kosicki
Survivors tells the harrowing story of life in Warsaw under Nazi occupation. As the epicenter of Polish resistance, Warsaw was subjected to violent persecution, the ghettoization of the city's Jewish …
General History March 1, 2022

Preparing for War: The Making of the 1949 Geneva Conventions

The Making of the 1949 Geneva Conventions

Boyd van Dijk

Hosted by Miranda Melcher
The 1949 Geneva Conventions are the most important rules for armed conflict ever formulated. To this day they continue to shape contemporary debates about regulating warfare, but their history is …
German Studies February 28, 2022

Democracy, Nazi Trials and Transitional Justice in Germany, 1945–1950

Devin O. Pendas

Hosted by Eric Grube
In his new book, Democracy, Nazi Trials, and Transitional Justice in Germany, 1945-1950 (Cambridge University Press, 2020), Dr. Devin O. Pendas examines how German courts conducted Nazi trials in the …
Genocide Studies February 28, 2022

The Jews of Denmark in the Holocaust

Life and Death in Theresienstadt Ghetto

Silvia Goldbaum Tarabini Fracapane

Hosted by Christian Nielsen
In her new book, The Jews of Denmark in the Holocaust: Life and Death in Theresienstadt Ghetto (Routledge, 2020), Silvia Goldbaum Tarabini Fracapane uses previously unexplored personal accounts and archival …
Jewish Studies February 25, 2022

Jewish Childhood in Kraków

A Microhistory of the Holocaust

Joanna Sliwa

Hosted by Ari Barbalat
Jewish Childhood in Kraków: A Microhistory of the Holocaust (Rutgers UP, 2021) is the first book to tell the history of Kraków in the second World War through the lens …
General History February 22, 2022

Repetition and International Law

Wouter Werner

Hosted by Miranda Melcher
Acts of repetition abound in international law. Security Council Resolutions typically start by recalling, recollecting, recognising or reaffirming previous resolutions. Expert committees present restatements of international law. Students and staff …
Genocide Studies February 15, 2022

Teaching about Genocide

Advice and Suggestions from Professors, High School Teachers, and Staff Developers

Samuel Totten

Hosted by Kelly McFall
Samuel Totten's Teaching about Genocide (Rowman and Littlefield, 2020) presents the insights, advice and suggestions of secondary level teachers and professors in relation to teaching about various facets of genocide. The contributions are …
General History February 10, 2022

Revival and Reconciliation

The Anglican Church and the Politics of Rwanda

Phillip A. Cantrell

Hosted by Miranda Melcher
In recent years, the media has depicted Rwanda as a model of unity, development, and recovery. Dr. Cantrell II argues that not all is as it seems in Revival and …
Literature February 8, 2022

In the Shadow of Dora

A Novel of the Holocaust and the Apollo Program

Patrick Hicks

Hosted by G. P. Gottlieb
In the Shadow of Dora by Patrick Hicks (Stephen F. Austin University Press 2020) explores the space program’s path from the Dora Mittelbau concentration camp in 1940’s Nazi Germany, to …
Medicine February 8, 2022

Medical Jurisprudence and Rules of the Medical Profession

Translated and Introduced by Melvin Wayne Cooper

Rudolf Ramm

Hosted by Claire Clark
This is the first translation in English of Rudolf Ramm’s textbook Ärztliche Rechts- und Standeskunde: Der Arzt als Gesundheitserzieher, translated and introduced by Melvin Wayne Cooper. Medical Jurisprudence and Rules …
Genocide Studies February 8, 2022

Narratives of Victimhood and Perpetration

The Struggle of Bosnian and Rwandan Diaspora Communities in the United States

Claudine Kuradusenge-McLeod

Hosted by Christopher Davey
The labels of victim and perpetrator in the aftermath of genocide have shaped the stories of pain and reconstructions for many of the Bosnian and Rwandan Americans. The trauma created …
Jewish Studies February 3, 2022

Years of Glory

Nelly Benatar and the Pursuit of Justice in Wartime North Africa

Susan Gilson Miller

Hosted by Avery Weinman
When France fell to Hitler's armies in June 1940, a flood of refugees fleeing Nazi terror quickly overwhelmed Europe's borders and spilled across the Mediterranean to North Africa, touching off …