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Latin American Studies October 22, 2021

Disruptive Archives

Feminist Memories of Resistance in Latin America's Dirty Wars

Viviana Beatriz MacManus

Hosted by Minni Sawhney
Today I talked to Viviana MacManus, author of Disruptive Archives: Feminist Memories of Resistance in Latin America’s Dirty Wars published by the University of Illinois Press in 2020. It has …

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Van Leer Institute Series on Ideas with Renee Garfinkel October 21, 2021

Why Learn History (When It's Already on Your Phone)

Sam Wineburg

Hosted by Renee Garfinkel
We are surrounded by more readily available information than ever before. And a huge percentage of it is inaccurate. Some of the bad info is well-meaning but ignorant. Some of …
General History October 20, 2021

Piracy in the Eastern Mediterranean

Maritime Marauders in the Greek and Ottoman Aegean

Leonidas Mylonakis

Hosted by Vladislav Lilic
Dr. Leonidas Mylonakis (PhD in History from the University of California, San Diego) is the author of Piracy in the Eastern Mediterranean: Maritime Marauders in the Greek and Ottoman Aegean (Bloomsbury …
Science October 19, 2021

Unmanning

How Humans, Machines and Media Perform Drone Warfare

Katherine Chandler

Hosted by Galina Limorenko
Katherine Chandler's Unmanning: How Humans, Machines and Media Perform Drone Warfare (Rutgers UP, 2020) studies the conditions that create unmanned platforms in the United States through a genealogy of experimental, pilotless …
Military History October 19, 2021

On Contested Shores

The Evolving Role of Amphibious Operations in the History of Warfare

Timothy Heck and B. A. Friedman

Hosted by Boris Karpa
Perhaps no prediction has been as consistently made—and as consistently wrong—as the imminent death of amphibious operations. Whatever the changes in warfare and technology, the necessity of amphibious force projection …
Military History October 18, 2021

How the Few Became the Proud

Crafting the Marine Corps Mystique 1874-1918

Heather P. Venable

Hosted by Alex Beckstrand
For more than half of its existence, members of the Marine Corps largely self-identified as soldiers. It did not yet mean something distinct to be a Marine, either to themselves …
Eastern European Studies October 15, 2021

International Courts and Mass Atrocity

Narratives of War and Justice in Croatia

Ivor Sokolić

Hosted by Christian Nielsen
In his new book International Courts and Mass Atrocity: Narratives of War and Justice in Croatia (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019) Ivor Sokolić explores the effects of international and national transitional justice …
General History October 13, 2021

The Last Muslim Conquest

The Ottoman Empire and Its Wars in Europe

Gábor Ágoston

Hosted by Charles Coutinho
The image of the Ottoman Turks and their interaction with the Christian West, has undergone many changes in the past: from William Gladstone's famous comment that: “[The Turks] one and …
Middle Eastern Studies October 12, 2021

Dangerous Gifts

Imperialism, Security, and Civil Wars in the Levant, 1798-1864

Ozan Ozavci

Hosted by Kirk Meighoo
From Napoleon Bonaparte's invasion of Egypt in 1798 to the foreign interventions in the ongoing civil wars in Syria, Yemen, and Libya today, global empires or the so-called Great Powers …
Drugs, Addiction and Recovery October 8, 2021

Mexican Drug Violence

Hybrid Warfare, Predatory Capitalism and the Logic of Cruelty

Teun Voeten

Hosted by Geert Slabbekoorn
With an estimated 250,000 people killed in 15 years, the Mexican drug war is the most violent conflict in the Western world. It shows no sign of abating. In Mexican …
Eastern European Studies October 6, 2021

A Loss

The Story of a Dead Soldier Told by His Sister

Olesya Khromeychuk

Hosted by Steven Seegel
This book is the story of one death among many in the war in eastern Ukraine. Its author is a historian of war whose brother was killed at the frontline …
General History October 6, 2021

The End of Ambition

The United States and the Third World in the Vietnam Era

Mark Atwood Lawrence

Hosted by Zeb Larson
Histories of the Vietnam War are not in short supply. In U.S. history, it ranks alongside the Civil War and World War Two in terms of author coverage. The aftermath of the war …
Southeast Asian Studies October 4, 2021

Rebel Politics

A Political Sociology of Armed Struggle in Myanmar's Borderlands

David Brenner

Hosted by Duncan McCargo
How can we best understand ethnic armed organizations on the borderlands of Myanmar? Why did the Karen embrace the military-initiated peace process in 2012, shortly after the Kachin had rejected …
Economic and Business History October 1, 2021

Recharging China in War and Revolution, 1882-1955

Ying Jia Tan

Hosted by Ghassan Moazzin
In Recharging China in War and Revolution, 1882–1955 (Cornell University Press, 2021), Ying Jia Tan explores the fascinating politics of Chinese power consumption as electrical industries developed during seven decades of …
General History September 30, 2021

Plotting for Peace

American Peacemakers, British Codebreakers, and Britain at War, 1914–1917

Daniel Larsen

Hosted by Charles Coutinho
With Britain by late 1916 facing the prospect of an economic crisis and increasingly dependent on the US, rival factions in Asquith's government battled over whether or not to seek …
Arguing History September 30, 2021

Why did the US Fail in Afghanistan?

A Discussion with Jeremy Black

Jeremy Black

Hosted by Charles Coutinho
With its ultimate debacle in August 2021, a discussion of the twenty-year military involvement of America and the West in Afghanistan is most timely. Accordingly, there is no one more …
European Studies September 30, 2021

Ruin and Renewal

Civilising Europe After the Second World War

Paul Betts

Hosted by Tim Jones
"One of the most enduring myths of history writing about Europe in the 20th century is that the century can be neatly divided into a tale of two halves, with …
Israel Studies September 29, 2021

Dear Palestine

A Social History of the 1948 War

Shay Hazkani

Hosted by Avery Weinman
In 1948, a war broke out that would result in Israeli independence and the erasure of Arab Palestine. Over twenty months, thousands of Jews and Arabs came from all over …
Genocide Studies September 22, 2021

Comrades Betrayed

Jewish World War I Veterans under Hitler

Michael Geheran

Hosted by Kelly McFall
What claims could Jewish veterans make on the Nazi state by virtue of their having fought for Germany?  How often did Germans treat Jewish veterans differently from Jewish men without …
Diplomatic History September 14, 2021

Rethinking American Grand Strategy

Elizabeth Borgwardt, Christopher McKnight Nichols and Andrew Preston

Hosted by Grant Golub
What is grand strategy? What does it aim to achieve? And what differentiates it from normal strategic thought--what, in other words, makes it "grand"? In answering these questions, most scholars …