Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchMark Mazower, "On Antisemitism: A Word in History" (Penguin Press, 2025)
Episode 2044
What do we mean when we talk about antisemitism? A thoughtful, vital new intervention from the award-winning historian. For most of history, antisemi…
11 months, 4 weeks ago
Hamid Dabashi, "After Savagery: Gaza, Genocide, and the Illusion of Western Civilization" (Haymarket, 2025)
Episode 2043
In this episode, we speak with Hamid Dabashi about his new book, After Savagery: Gaza, Genocide, and the Illusion of Western Civilization (Haymarket,…
1 year ago
Genocide Studies International Vol 16.1, Special Issue on The Future of Genocide Education
Episode 2042
Why should we ask students to learn about genocides? What outcomes do we aim for from this learning? How successful are we being and how can we do be…
1 year ago
Timothy Williams, "Memory Politics After Mass Violence: Attributing Roles in the Memoryscape" (Bristol UP, 2025)
Episode 2041
Memory Politics After Mass Violence: Attributing Roles in the Memoryscape (Bristol UP, 2025) explores how political actors draw on memories of viole…
1 year ago
Shakirah E. Hudani, "Master Plans and Minor Acts: Repairing the City in Post-Genocide Rwanda" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Episode 2040
Master Plans and Minor Acts: Repairing the City in Post-Genocide Rwanda (U of Chicago Press, 2024) by Dr. Shakirah Hudani examines a “material politi…
1 year, 1 month ago
Dominic Davies and Candida Rifkind, "Graphic Refuge: Visuality and Mobility in Refugee Comics" (Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2025)
Episode 2039
Graphic Refuge: Visuality and Mobility in Refugee Comics (Wilfred Laurier University Press, 2025) by Dr. Dominic Davies & Dr. Candida Rifkind is the …
1 year, 1 month ago
Aidan Forth, "Camps: A Global History of Mass Confinement" (U Toronto Press, 2024)
Episode 2038
The concentration of terrorists, political suspects, ethnic minorities, prisoners of war, enemy aliens, and other potentially “dangerous” populations…
1 year, 1 month ago
Ofer Ashkenazi and Thomas Pegelow Kaplan, "Rethinking Jewish History and Memory Through Photography" (SUNY Press, 2025)
Episode 2037
Ofer Ashkenazi is a Professor of History and the director of the Richard Koebner-Minerva Center for German History at the Hebrew University of Jerusa…
1 year, 1 month ago
Stanislav Kulchytsky, "The Famine of 1932-1933 in Ukraine: An Anatomy of the Holodomor" (CIUS Press, 2018) - A Conversation with Bohdan Klid
Episode 2036
The Famine of 1932–1933 in Ukraine: An Anatomy of the Holodomor (CIUS Press, 2018) is a distillation of thirty years of study of the topic by one of …
1 year, 1 month ago
Brendan Simms, "Hitler: A Global Biography" (Basic Books, 2019)
Episode 107
Every generation returns to the titanic heroes and villains of the 20th century. And every generation produces a new set of biographies--often immens…
1 year, 2 months ago