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Human Rights
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November 2, 2026
Guantanamo Bay and the Enduring Struggle for Human Rights
In this episode of International Horizons, John Torpey speaks with Joshua Colangelo-Bryan, special counsel at Human Rights First and author of Through…
October 26, 2026
Carceral Utopia
What underpins the legitimacy of the prison system in the twenty-first century? Despite numerous challenges and setbacks, there is still a widespread …
October 23, 2026
Human Rights in Psychiatry
In Human Rights in Psychiatry: Prospects and Dilemmas of Abolishing Coercion in Mental Health Care (Springer, 2025), Professor Dirk Richter describes …
October 22, 2026
No! The Art and Activism of Complaining
To be heard as complaining is not to be heard, writes Sara Ahmed. In No! The Art and Activism of Complaining, her sweeping exploration of complaint as…
October 18, 2026
Punishment
Why was the Japanese Army so brutal before and during World War Two? This haunting question anchors a sweeping investigation into the moral universe o…
October 16, 2026
Tyrell Haberkorn In Conversation with Duncan McCargo
In this episode of Talking Thai Politics, Professor Tyrell Haberkorn discusses her new book, Dictatorship on Trial: Coups and the Future of Justice in…
October 15, 2026
Living Resistance
Feeling worn out by the work of resistance? How do you persevere?Today’s book is: Living Resistance: An Indigenous Vision for Seeking Wholeness Every …
October 11, 2026
Refugees and Citizens in Twentieth-Century East Central Europe
In this episode of the CEU Press Podcast host Andrea Talabér talked to Michal Frankl, Doina Anca Cretu and Lidia Zessin-Jurek about the new edited vol…
October 6, 2026
Sojourners, Sultans, and Slaves
In the nineteenth century, global systems of capitalism and empire knit the North Atlantic and Indian Ocean worlds into international networks in cont…
September 13, 2026
Implementing the Right to Decide Under the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Implementing the Right to Decide Under the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Supporting the Legal Capacity of All Persons with Di…
September 13, 2026
Be Water
During the eventful summer of 2019 in Hong Kong, the Be Water Revolution formed to resist the proposed extradition of fugitives to mainland China’s co…
September 8, 2026
Voices from North Korea
In this podcast, North Korean refugees who visited the University of Bradford share their harrowing experiences of life in North Korea, escape, and th…
August 29, 2026
Unwelcome Shores
Unwelcome Shores: Black Refugees in America (Rutgers University Press, 2025) is an ethnographic study of the Liberian refugee community in Staten …
August 18, 2026
Genocide Prevention
There has never been a more promising time for genocide prevention. More resources and research are being focused on prevention than ever before. Yet …
July 17, 2026
The Devil's Castle
The Devil’s Castle: Nazi Eugenics, Euthanasia, and How Psychiatry's Troubled History Reverberates Today (Catapult, 2025) delves into the forgotten his…
June 30, 2026
Above the Law
The United States has traditionally been a great promoter of international justice – forging the Nuremberg and Tokyo tribunals after World War II and …
June 14, 2026
A Polish Girl in Siberia
A memoir of a child’s forced relocation to Siberia under Stalin’s Gulag system reveals the potential for true human kindness in the face of extraordin…
June 5, 2026
Rwanda's Genocide Heritage
Delia Duong Ba Wendel, Rwanda's Genocide Heritage: Between Justice and Sovereignty, Duke University Press, 2025. In Rwanda's Genocide Heritage, Del…
June 3, 2026
The Criminal State
The Criminal State: War, Atrocity, and the Dream of International Justice (Princeton University Press, 2026) offers a gripping account of how law has …
May 22, 2026
Destination Elsewhere
In this unique “history from below," Destination Elsewhere: Displaced Persons and Their Quest to Leave Postwar Europe (Cornell University Press, 2021)…