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International Horizons May 30, 2023

Negotiating Decolonization

The Limits of a Fairy Tale

Valerie Rosoux

Hosted by International Horizons
In this episode of International Horizons, Valerie Rosoux, Research Director at the Belgian Fund for Scientific Research (FNRS) discusses the disagreements in the historiography of Belgium's human rights violations during …

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International Horizons May 23, 2023

The Whys and Wherefores of Migration

A Discussion with James F. Hollifield

James F. Hollifield

Hosted by International Horizons
This week on International Horizons, James Hollifield, Professor of Political Science and Director of the Tower Center for Political Studies, Southern Methodist University (SMU), discusses the epistemology of migration studies …
Genocide Studies May 17, 2023

Never Again

Germans and Genocide After the Holocaust

Andrew I. Port

Hosted by Kelly McFall
As reports of mass killings in Bosnia spread in the middle of 1995, Germans faced a dilemma. Should the Federal Republic deploy its military to the Balkans to prevent a …
Diplomatic History May 15, 2023

Practicing Peace

Conflict Management in Southeast Asia and South America

Aarie Glas

Hosted by Miranda Melcher
Southeast Asia and South America are regions made up of largely illiberal states lacking stabilizing great powers or collective identities. But despite persistent territorial disputes, regime instability, and interstate rivalries …
Genocide Studies May 14, 2023

The Entanglements of Ethnographic Fieldwork in a Violent World

Nerina Weiss. Erella Grassiani, and Linda Green

Hosted by Christopher Davey
Nerina Weiss. Erella Grassiani, and Linda Green's book The Entanglements of Ethnographic Fieldwork in a Violent World (Routledge, 2022) focuses on the emotional hazards of conducting fieldwork about or within contexts …
Anthropology May 13, 2023

When Forests Run Amok

War and Its Afterlives in Indigenous and Afro-Colombian Territories

Daniel Ruiz-Serna

Hosted by Reighan Gillam
In When Forests Run Amok: War and Its Afterlives in Indigenous and Afro-Colombian Territories (Duke University Press, 2023) Daniel Ruiz-Serna follows the afterlives of war, showing how they affect the variety …
SSEAC Stories May 13, 2023

Locating Human Dignity in Cambodia

Prospects for Human Rights Education

Rachel Killean

Hosted by Natali Pearson
The concept of human dignity is a foundational one within human rights discourses, and is commonly used in the context of human rights and sustainable development policies and programs. But …
Human Rights May 12, 2023

Power on the Move

Adivasi and Roma Accessing Social Justice

Cristina-Ioana Dragomir

Hosted by Aleem Mahabir
Throughout centuries of persecution and marginalization, the Roma and Adivasi have been viewed as both victims and fighters, as royals and paupers, beasts and gods, and lately have been challenging …
Genocide Studies May 12, 2023

Denial of Genocides in the Twenty-First Century

Bedross Der Matossian

Hosted by Roberto Mazza
Throughout the twenty-first century, genocide denial has evolved and adapted with new strategies to augment and complement established modes of denial. In addition to outright negation, denial of genocide encompasses …
Law May 8, 2023

State Responses to Crimes of Genocide

What Went Wrong and How to Change It

Ewelina U. Ochab and David Alton

Hosted by Jane Richards
In State Responses to Crimes of Genocide: What Went Wrong and How to Change It (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022) Dr Ewelina U. Ochab and Lord Alton of Liverpool bring together ongoing situations of genocide around the …
The Future of . . . with Owen Bennett-Jones May 8, 2023

The Future of Guantanamo

A Discussion with James Connell

James Connell

Hosted by Owen Bennett-Jones
Will Guantanamo ever be closed down? Some people are still there – all these years after 9/11. So why are they still held and when will it end? James Connell is …
MIT Press Podcast May 4, 2023

Material Witness

Media, Forensics, Evidence

Susan Schuppli

Hosted by MIT Press
Susan Schuppli is Director of the Centre for Research Architecture in the Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London. In her book, Material Witnesss, her research is an …
Human Rights May 3, 2023

Testimony

Found Poems from the Special Court for Sierra Leone

Shanee Stepakoff

Hosted by Rine Vieth
Content note: This episode contains discussions of violence, including rape and mutilation Derived from public testimonies at a UN-backed war crimes tribunal in Freetown, Testimony: Found Poems from the Special …
Asian Review of Books April 27, 2023

I Feel No Peace

Rohingya Fleeing Over Seas and Rivers

Kaamil Ahmed

Hosted by Nicholas Gordon
The Rohingya population, from Myanmar’s Rakhine State, are a community almost living entirely in exile, whether in refugee camps in Bangladesh, or working on boats throughout the Indian Ocean. The …
Political Science April 27, 2023

Humanitarianism and Security

Trouble and Hope at the Heart of Africa

Yvan Yenda Ilunga

Hosted by Lamis Abdelaaty
Humanitarianism and Security: Trouble and Hope at the Heart of Africa (Palgrave MacMillan, 2020) contends that the search for stability and peace remains central to the political environment within the Democratic Republic …
Political Science April 24, 2023

Three Generations, No Imbeciles

Eugenics, the Supreme Court, and Buck v. Bell

Paul A. Lombardo

Hosted by Susan Liebell
“Three generations of imbeciles are enough” were the infamous words U.S. Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. wrote in 1927. In Buck v. Bell, an almost unanimous Court upheld …
Latin American Studies April 24, 2023

Demobilisation and Reintegration in Colombia

Building State and Citizenship

Francy Carranza-Franco

Hosted by Sally Sharif
Francy Carranza-Franco's Demobilisation and Reintegration in Colombia: Building State and Citizenship (Routledge, 2020) investigates disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration (DDR) in Colombia during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The six large …
Art April 19, 2023

From Lapland to Sápmi

Collecting and Returning Sámi Craft and Culture

Barbara Sjoholm

Hosted by Miranda Melcher
Material objects—things made, used, and treasured—tell the story of a people and place. So it is for the Indigenous Sámi living in Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia, whose story unfolds …
Policing, Incarceration, and Reform April 18, 2023

Insecure Guardians

Enforcement, Encounters and Everyday Policing in Postcolonial Karachi

Zoha Waseem

Hosted by Deniz Yonucu
The police force is one of the most distrusted institutions in Pakistan, notorious for its corruption and brutality. In both colonial and postcolonial contexts, directives to confront security threats have …
Latin American Studies April 15, 2023

Ex-Combatants and Peace Agreement with the FARC-EP in Colombia

Early Stage Balance

Erin McFee and Angelika Rettberg Beil

Hosted by Connor Christensen
This book carries out a multidisciplinary analysis of different aspects of the peace process between the Colombian Government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia - People's Army (FARC-EP), as …