Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchAdam A. Blackler, "An Imperial Homeland: Forging German Identity in Southwest Africa" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2022)
Episode 137
At the turn of the twentieth century, depictions of the colonized world were prevalent throughout the German metropole. Tobacco advertisements catere…
4 years, 1 month ago
Mohamed Adhikari, "Destroying to Replace: Settler Genocides of Indigenous Peoples" (Hackett, 2022)
Episode 1264
Today I talked to Dr. Mohamed Adhikari about his book Destroying to Replace: Settler Genocides of Indigenous Peoples (Hackett, 2022).
"This book explo…
4 years, 1 month ago
Adam B. Lerner, "From the Ashes of History: Collective Trauma and the Making of International Politics" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Episode 60
In recent years, calls for reparations and restorative justice, alongside the rise of populist grievance politics, have demonstrated the stubborn res…
4 years, 1 month ago
Ian Campbell, "The Addis Ababa Massacre: Italy's National Shame" (Hurst, 2017)
Episode 1281
In February 1937, following an abortive attack by a handful of insurgents on Mussolini's High Command in Italian-occupied Ethiopia, 'repression squad…
4 years, 1 month ago
Ken MacLean, "Crimes in Archival Form: Human Rights, Fact Production, and Myanmar" (U California Press, 2022)
Episode 111
Though human rights monitors talk of fact-finding missions and reports, human rights facts are, like all social phenomena, not in fact found but made…
4 years, 2 months ago
The Pavilion: When Canadians First Had to Confront the Country’s Genocidal Story
Episode 24
Expo 1967 was the centrepiece of Canada’s 100th birthday. Amid the crowds and the pageantry, one building stood out: The Indians of Canada Pavilion.
T…
4 years, 2 months ago
Jonathan Leader Maynard, "Ideology and Mass Killing: The Radicalized Security Politics of Genocides and Deadly Atrocities" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Episode 165
In research on 'mass killings' such as genocides and campaigns of state terror, the role of ideology is hotly debated. For some scholars, ideologies …
4 years, 2 months ago
Bedross Der Matossian, "The Horrors of Adana: Revolution and Violence in the Early Twentieth Century" (Stanford UP, 2022)
Episode 185
In April 1909, two waves of massacres shook the province of Adana, located in the southern Anatolia region of modern-day Turkey, killing more than 20…
4 years, 3 months ago
Amy E. Grubb and Elisabeth Hope Murray, "British Responses to Genocide: The British Foreign Office and Humanitarianism in the Ottoman Empire, 1918-1923" (Routledge, 2022)
Episode 164
When I was an undergrad, the chronology of World War One was simple. The war began in August of 1914 and ended in November of 1918. Now, of course, w…
4 years, 3 months ago
International Association of Genocide Scholars
Episode 74
The International Association of Genocide Scholars is a global, interdisciplinary, non-partisan organization that seeks to further research and teach…
4 years, 3 months ago