Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchDavid Leupold, "Embattled Dreamlands: The Politics of Contesting Armenian, Kurdish and Turkish Memory" (Routledge, 2020)
Episode 160
Embattled Dreamlands: The Politics of Contesting Armenian, Kurdish and Turkish Memory (Routledge, 2020) explores the complex relationship between com…
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Rich Brownstein, "Holocaust Cinema Complete: A History and Analysis of 400 Films, with a Teaching Guide" (McFarland, 2021)
Episode 102
Holocaust movies have become an important segment of world cinema and the de-facto Holocaust education for many. One quarter of all American-produced…
4 years, 10 months ago
Putin's Attempt to Hide the Crimes of Stalinism
Episode 181
For the past 30 years, a group of Russian scholars have dedicated themselves to uncovering the crimes of Stalinism. Their organization, Memorial, has…
4 years, 10 months ago
Nicole Fox, "After Genocide: Memory and Reconciliation in Rwanda" (U Wisconsin Press, 2021)
Episode 156
In the wake of unthinkable atrocities, it is reasonable to ask how any population can move on from the experience of genocide. Simply remembering the…
4 years, 10 months ago
Noah Weisbord, "The Crime of Aggression: The Quest for Justice in an Age of Drones, Cyberattacks, Insurgents, and Autocrats" (Princeton UP, 2019)
Episode 155
On July 17, 2018, starting an unjust war became a prosecutable international crime alongside genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes. Inste…
4 years, 10 months ago
Mark S. Berlin, "Criminalizing Atrocity: The Global Spread of Criminal Laws Against International Crimes" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Episode 84
Political Scientist Mark Berlin’s new book, Criminalizing Atrocity: The Global Spread of Criminal Laws Against International Crimes (Oxford UP, 2020)…
4 years, 10 months ago
Roger Mac Ginty, "Everyday Peace: How So-Called Ordinary People Can Disrupt Violent Conflict" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Episode 154
Roger Mac Ginty's book Everyday Peace: How So-Called Ordinary People Can Disrupt Violent Conflict (Oxford UP, 2021) focuses on how individuals and co…
4 years, 10 months ago
Henry Redwood, "The Archival Politics of International Courts" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Episode 52
The archives produced by international courts have received little empirical, theoretical or methodological attention within international criminal j…
4 years, 10 months ago
Luke Glanville, "Sharing Responsibility: The History and Future of Protection from Atrocities" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Episode 153
The idea that states share a responsibility to shield people everywhere from atrocities is presently under threat. Despite some early twenty-first ce…
4 years, 10 months ago
Alex Panasenko, "The Long Vacation: A Memoir" (Iris Press, 2020)
Episode 1120
NB: This interview contains material about wartime experiences that may be upsetting to some listeners.
When Alex Panasenko was born in 1933, his nat…
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