Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchEyal Mayroz, "Reluctant Interveners: America's Failed Responses to Genocide from Bosnia to Darfur" (Rutgers UP, 2019)
Episode 105
Why don’t governments do more to prevent genocide? What role does the public have in compelling their governments to take an active stand in the face…
6 years, 11 months ago
Daniel Reynolds, "Postcards from Auschwitz: Holocaust Tourism and the Meaning of Remembrance" (NYU Press, 2018)
Episode 131
Millions of tourists visit Holocaust museums and memorials every year. Holocaust tourism is a thriving industry and plays a crucial role in Holocaust…
6 years, 11 months ago
Susan Neiman, “Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil” (FSG, 2019)
Episode 78
When Tennessee’s Governor recently ordered a holiday to celebrate the memory of confederate general Nathan Bedford Forest, a convicted war criminal w…
6 years, 11 months ago
Alexander L. Hinton, "Man or Monster?: The Trial of a Khmer Rouge Torturer" (Duke UP, 2016)
Episode 102
Can justice heal? Must there be justice in order to heal? Is there such a thing as justice, something to be striven for regardless of context?
Alexand…
7 years ago
Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing
Episode 45
As you may know, university presses publish a lot of good books. In fact, they publish thousands of them every year. They are different from most tra…
7 years ago
J. Neuhaus, "Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intellectuals, Introverts, and Nerds Who Want to Be Effective Teachers" (West Virginia UP, 2019)
Episode 81
The things that make people academics -- as deep fascination with some arcane subject, often bordering on obsession, and a comfort with the solitude …
7 years ago
Vladimir Dzuro, "The Investigator: Demons of the Balkan War" (U Nebraska Press, 2019)
Episode 103
In his new book, The Investigator: Demons of the Balkan War (University of Nebraska Press, 2019), Vladimir Dzuro, a retired Czech police commissioner…
7 years ago
Christopher E. Mauriello, "Forced Confrontations: The Politics of Dead Bodies in Germany at the End of World War II" (Lexington Books, 2017)
Episode 101
Christopher Mauriello’s groundbreaking book Forced Confrontations: The Politics of Dead Bodies in Germany at the End of World War II(Lexington Books,…
7 years, 1 month ago
Mark Roseman, "Lives Reclaimed: A Story of Rescue and Resistance in Nazi Germany" (Metropolitan Books, 2019)
Episode 100
What makes some people aid the persecuted while others just stand by?
Questions about rescue and resistance have been fundamental to the field of geno…
7 years, 1 month ago
Alex J. Kay, "The Making of an SS Killer: the Life of Colonel Alfred Filbert, 1905-1990" (Cambridge UP, 2016)
Episode 99
Alex Kay’s The Making of an SS Killer: the Life of Colonel Alfred Filbert, 1905-1990 (Cambridge University Press, 2016) is a must read for those inte…
7 years, 1 month ago