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In the Aftermath of the Rohingya Genocide: Our ...
An interview with Simon Adams
9 min
427
K. Linder et al., "Going Alt-Ac: A Guide to Alt...
If you’re a grad student facing the ugly reality of finding a tenure-track job, you could easily be forgiven for thinking about a career change...
36 min
428
Wulf Gruner, "The Holocaust in Bohemia and Mora...
The Holocaust in Bohemia and Moravia bore some similarities to that in other places, but also differed in ways that lead to new questions and approaches...
60 min
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Jennifer Cazenave, "An Archive of the Catastrop...
Cazenave offers a fascinating analysis of the 220 hours of outtakes edited out of the final nine and a half-hour 1985 film with which listeners and readers might be familiar...
59 min
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Lori Gemeiner-Bihler, "Cities of Refuge: German...
Gemeiner-Bihler compares the experiences of Jewish refugees who immigrated to London and New York City by analyzing letters, diaries, newspapers, organizational documents, and oral histories...
63 min
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Judi Rever, "In Praise of Blood: The Crimes of ...
Rever and her sources tell a story far different from the one most people who are familiar with the Rwandan Genocide would recognize...
58 min
432
Thomas Kühne, "The Rise and Fall of Comradeship...
Kühne writes an innovative account of how the concept of comradeship shaped the actions, emotions and ideas of ordinary German soldiers across the two world wars and during the Holocaust...
65 min
433
Jelena Subotić, "Yellow Star, Red Star: Holocau...
Subotić asks why Holocaust memory continues to be so deeply troubled―ignored, appropriated, and obfuscated―throughout Eastern Europe...
46 min
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Alberto Cairo, "How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter...
We’ve all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if we don’t understand what we’re looking at?
54 min
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Claudia Moscovici, "Holocaust Memories: A Surve...
As Holocaust survivors pass away, their legacy of suffering, tenacity and courage could be forgotten. It is up to each generation to commemorate the victims...
28 min
436
Mila Dragojević, "Amoral Communities: Collectiv...
How does violence against civilians become permissible in wartime?
41 min
437
C. Browning, P. Hayes, R. Hilberg, "German Rail...
Raul Hilberg was a giant in the field of Genocide and Holocaust Studies...
49 min
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Eyal Mayroz, "Reluctant Interveners: America's ...
Why don’t governments do more to prevent genocide?
58 min
439
Daniel Reynolds, "Postcards from Auschwitz: Hol...
Millions of tourists visit Holocaust museums and memorials every year.,,
54 min
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Susan Neiman, “Learning from the Germans: Race ...
How did Germany deal with the Nazi past?
82 min
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Alexander L. Hinton, "Man or Monster?: The Tria...
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?
74 min
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Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing
What do university presses do, and how do they do it?
37 min
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J. Neuhaus, "Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intell...
The things that make people academics do not necessarily make them good teachers...
29 min
444
Vladimir Dzuro, "The Investigator: Demons of th...
Dzuro provides a first-hand look at the establishment of the International Crime Tribunal for Yugoslavia to prosecute Balkan war criminals...
53 min
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Christopher E. Mauriello, "Forced Confrontation...
Mauriello attempts to recreate the emotional and traumatic reactions these men had when confronted with the worst of Nazi Germany...
38 min
446
Mark Roseman, "Lives Reclaimed: A Story of Resc...
What makes some people aid the persecuted while others just stand by?
62 min
447
Alex J. Kay, "The Making of an SS Killer: the L...
Focusing on the actions and consequences of a “front-line Holocaust perpetrator”, Kay’s biographies diverges drastically with the traditional bios of other more well-known Nazis...
44 min
448
Jeffrey Ostler, "Surviving Genocide: Native Nat...
Ostler’s book documents the resilience of Native people, showing how they survived genocide in the face of serious and diverse threats to their existence...
51 min
449
Alma Jeftić, "Social Aspects of Memory: Stories...
Jeftić presents the compelling results of an empirical psychological study on how ordinary people remember war...
54 min
450
Evgeny Finkel, "Ordinary Jews: Choice and Survi...
Can there be a political science of the Holocaust?
57 min