Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchDonald Bloxham and A. Dirk Moses, "Genocide: Key Themes" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Episode 170
Donald Bloxham and Dirk Moses have offered us a unique opportunity--a chance to see authors and editors in conversation with each other and themselve…
3 years, 11 months ago
Michael Frank, "One Hundred Saturdays: Stella Levi and the Search for a Lost World" (Simon and Schuster, 2022)
Episode 327
With nearly a century of life behind her, Stella Levi had never before spoken in detail about her past. Then she met Michael Frank. He came to her Gr…
3 years, 11 months ago
U.S. Determinization of Genocide in Myanmar: Part Two, What’s Next?
Episode 155
In March 2022 the U.S. government announced its determination that genocide was committed by the Myanmar military against Rohingya communities in Mya…
3 years, 11 months ago
Andrea Graziosi and Frank E. Sysyn, "Genocide: The Power and Problems of a Concept" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2022)
Episode 169
Since the 1980s the study of genocide has exploded, both historically and geographically, to encompass earlier epochs, other continents, and new case…
3 years, 11 months ago
Bree Akesson and Andrew R. Basso, "From Bureaucracy to Bullets: Extreme Domicide and the Right to Home" (Rutgers UP, 2022)
Episode 168
There are currently a record-setting number of forcibly displaced persons in the world. This number continues to rise as solutions to alleviate human…
3 years, 11 months ago
U.S. Determinization of Genocide in Myanmar: Part One, Roots
Episode 151
In March of 2022 the U.S. government announced its determination that genocide was committed by the Myanmar military against Rohingya communities in …
4 years ago
Sara E. Brown and Stephen D. Smith, "The Routledge Handbook of Religion, Mass Atrocity, and Genocide" (Routledge, 2021)
Episode 167
Sara Brown and Stephen Smith have edited a much needed and fascinating compilation of essays on the intersection of religion and mass atrocity. Their…
4 years ago
Ion Popa, "The Romanian Orthodox Church and the Holocaust" (Indiana UP, 2017)
Episode 320
In 1930, about 750,000 Jews called Romania home. At the end of World War II, approximately half of them survived. Only recently, after the fall of Co…
4 years ago
Timothy Williams, "The Complexity of Evil: Perpetration and Genocide" (Rutgers UP, 2020)
Episode 140
Why do people participate in genocide? In The Complexity of Evil: Perpetration and Genocide (Rutgers UP, 2020), Timothy Williams presents an interdis…
4 years, 1 month ago
Martin Kalb, "Environing Empire: Nature, Infrastructure and the Making of German Southwest Africa" (Berghahn, 2022)
Episode 139
German ambitions to transform Southwest Africa in the early part of the twentieth century were futile and resulted in the widespread death and suffer…
4 years, 1 month ago