New Books in Genocide Studies

Interviews with Scholars of Genocide about their New Books

Science
Social Sciences
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A. Pohlman et al., "The International People’s ...
An interview with Annie Pohlman, Jess Melvin, and Saskia E. Wieringa
67 min
352
Emmanuel Kreike, "Scorched Earth: Environmental...
An interview with Emmanuel Kreike
79 min
353
Natasha Zaretsky, "Acts of Repair: Justice, Tru...
An interview with Natasha Zaretsky
70 min
354
Sara J. Brenneis and Gina Herrmann, "Spain, the...
An interview with Sara J. Brenneis and Gina Herrmann
61 min
355
L. Hilton and A. Patt, "Understanding and Teach...
An interview with Laura Hilton and Avinoam Patt
68 min
356
Carol Rittner and John K. Roth, "Advancing Holo...
An interview with Carol Rittner and John K. Roth
68 min
357
Leslie Waters, "Borders on the Move: Territoria...
An interview with Leslie Waters
54 min
358
Anna Hájková, "The Last Ghetto: An Everyday His...
An interview with Anna Hájková
53 min
359
Alex Alvarez, "Unstable Ground: Climate Change,...
Alvarez looks at the human impact of climate change and its potential to provoke some of the most troubling crimes against humanity...
52 min
360
Paul Morrow, "Unconscionable Crimes: How Norms ...
The moral horrors of genocide and mass atrocity lead us to wonder how such things are even possible....
68 min
361
John K. Roth, "The Failures of Ethics: Confront...
Absent the overriding of moral sensibilities, if not the collapse or collaboration of ethical traditions, the Holocaust, genocide, and other mass atrocities could not have happened,,,
65 min
362
V. Nesfield and P. Smith, "The Struggle for Und...
An in-depth look at Elie Wiesel’s writings, from his earliest works to his final novels. Elie Wiesel (1928–2016) was one of the most important literary voices to emerge from the Holocaust...
47 min
363
N. Chare and D. Williams, "Testimonies of Resis...
Chare and Williams assemble careful investigations into how the Sonderkommando have been represented-by themselves and by others-both during and after the Holocaust.,.,
50 min
364
Frank Jacob, "Japanese War Crimes during World ...
When you mention Japanese War crimes in World War Two, you’ll often get different responses from different generations...
62 min
365
Bernice Lerner, "All the Horrors of War: A Jewi...
Lerner describes their lives – one of them her mother, the other one of the people who helped save her – and how they intersected when British forces liberated Bergen-Belsen in April 1945...
42 min
366
Alexis Wick, "The Red Sea In Search of Lost Spa...
44 min
367
Eric Weiner, "The Geography of Genius: Lessons ...
Living, as we do, in a time in which a U.S. president anoints himself “a very stable genius”, we are particularly appreciative of Eric Weiner, a former foreign correspondent for NPR who writes with humility and humor, as he brings us along with him on his travels to times and places that produced genius...
37 min
368
William L. Patterson, "We Charge Genocide: The ...
It has been nearly 70 years since William Patterson and Paul Roberson when before the UN and charged the US government with genocide...
37 min
369
Learning from Rwanda: How 100 Days of Mass Kill...
An interview with Philip Drew
20 min
370
David Livingstone Smith, "On Inhumanity: Dehuma...
Smith takes an unflinching look at the mechanisms of the mind that encourage us to see someone as less than human...
63 min
371
Learning from Rwanda: How 100 Days of Mass Kill...
An interview with Philip Drew
16 min
372
T. P. Kaplan and W. Gruner, "Resisting Persecut...
In 20 years of studying the Holocaust, it didn’t occurr to me that German officials might, when petitioned by German Jews or by Germans advocating for German Jews, change their minds....
62 min
373
Carolyn J. Dean, "The Moral Witness: Trials and...
Dean offers the first cultural history of the "witness to genocide" in the West...
34 min
374
Rafael Medoff, "The Jews Should Keep Quiet: Fra...
Roosevelt could have bombed the camps and saved Jews. Why didn't he? It's a hard question....
58 min
375
Robert G. Boatright and Valerie Sperling, "Trum...
How did the Trump and Hillary Clinton campaigns affect other elections in 2016? How did the use of gender stereotypes and insulting references to women in the presidential campaign influence the way House and Senate candidates campaigned?
61 min