Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchSusan Thomson, "Rwanda: From Genocide to Precarious Peace" (Yale UP, 2018)
Episode 87
How do you put Humpty-Dumpty back together again?
Susan Thomson's new book Rwanda: From Genocide to Precarious Peace (Yale University Press, 2018) exa…
7 years, 8 months ago
Daniel Unowsky, “The Plunder: The 1898 Anti-Jewish Riots in Habsburg Galicia” (Stanford UP, 2018)
Episode 88
Daniel Unowsky's book isn't about a genocide or other incident of mass violence. Instead, The Plunder examines a series of riots against Jews in Hab…
7 years, 8 months ago
Special Discussion: Approaches to Textbooks on Genocide
Episode 86
How do you write a textbook about genocide?
Consider what such a textbook must do. It needs to integrate insights from a variety of disciplines. It m…
7 years, 10 months ago
Daniel Stahl, "Hunt for Nazis: South America's Dictatorships and the Prosecution of Nazi Crimes" (Amsterdam UP, 2018)
Episode 58
How did the search for Nazi fugitives become a vehicle to oppose South American dictatorships? Daniel Stahl’s award-winning new book traces the story…
7 years, 10 months ago
McKenzie Wark, "General Intellects: Twenty-One Thinkers for the Twenty-First Century" (Verso, 2017)
Episode 14
McKenzie Wark’s new book offers 21 focused studies of thinkers working in a wide range of fields who are worth your attention. The chapters of Genera…
7 years, 10 months ago
Daniel Siemens, "Stormtroopers: A New History of Hitler’s Brownshirts" (Yale UP, 2017)
Episode 413
In his new book, Stormtroopers: A New History of Hitler’s Brownshirts (Yale University Press, 2017, Daniel Siemens, professor of European history at …
7 years, 11 months ago
Michael Brenner, “A History of Jews in Germany Since 1945: Politics, Culture, and Society” (Indiana UP, 2018)
Episode 412
In A History of Jews in Germany Since 1945: Politics, Culture, and Society (Indiana University Press, 2018), edited by Michael Brenner, Professor of …
7 years, 11 months ago
Shannon Fogg, “Stealing Home: Looting, Restitution, and Reconstructing Jewish Lives in France, 1942-1947” (Oxford UP, 2017)
Episode 411
While the history of the Second World War and Jewish persecution in France has been widely studied, the return of survivors in the aftermath of depor…
8 years ago
David E. Fishman, “The Book Smugglers: Partisans, Poets, and the Race to Save Jewish Treasures from the Nazis” (ForeEdge, 2017)
Episode 409
In The Book Smugglers: Partisans, Poets, and the Race to Save Jewish Treasures from the Nazis (ForeEdge, 2017), David E. Fishman, Professor of Jewish…
8 years ago
Vennessa Hearman, “Unmarked Graves: Death and Survival in the Anti-Communist Violence in East Java, Indonesia” (NUS Press, 2018)
Episode 406
This interview is the fourth and and final interview in a short series of podcasts about the mass violence in Indonesia. Earlier this year I talked …
8 years ago