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A memoir of a child’s forced relocation to Siberia under Stalin’s

Gulag system reveals the potential for true human kindness in the face

of extraordinary hardship.

In April of 1940, six-year-old Ida woke to the sound of pounding on

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In Rwanda's Genocide Heritage: Between Justice and Sovereignty (Duke UP, 2025), Delia Duong Ba Wendel contends with the forms of justice and sovereignty enacted through sites of violent memory. Drawing from oral histories and a visual archive of mem... more

The Criminal State: War, Atrocity, and the Dream of International Justice (Princeton University Press, 2026) offers a gripping account of how law has confronted the most radical forms of state violence. Beautifully written, broad in scope, and bracin... more

In this unique “history from below,” Destination Elsewhere: Displaced Persons and Their Quest to Leave Postwar Europe (Cornell University Press, 2021) chronicles encounters between displaced persons in Europe and the Allied agencies who were tasked w... more

Rehumanizing People of the Past: Bioarchaeology, Medical Museums and Archives, and the Human Remains Trade (SUNY Press, 2026) argues that much of the technical

communication used to reference human remains--including reports in

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Prince George’s County, Maryland, is a suburban jurisdiction in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area and is home to the highest concentration of Black middle-class residents in the United States. As such, it is well positioned to overcome white do... more

Max Morris's Not Sex Work: Queer Intimacy, Post-identity, and Incidental Encounters in the Digital Era (Routledge, 2025) brings together feminist theory, media studies, and queer research methodologies to offer new, compelling insight the relationshi... more

2026 marks the 20th year of publishing Genocide Studies International. The journal's first issue was a special issue on genocide in Darfur. Twenty years later, newspapers and podcasts are talking again about mass violence in Sudan.

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Amherst College
Episode: Lawrence Douglas, "The Criminal State: War, Atrocity, and the Dream of International Justice" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Ruth Balint
Professor of History at University of New South Wales (Australia)
University of New South Wales
Episode: Ruth Balint, "Destination Elsewhere: Displaced Persons and Their Quest to Leave Postwar Europe" (Cornell UP, 2021)
Kristin LaFollette
Associate Professor of English, Director of Composition and Affiliated Faculty of Gender and Sexuality Studies at University of Southern Indiana
University of Southern Indiana
Episode: Kristin LaFollette, "Rehumanizing People of the Past: Bioarchaeology, Medical Museums and Archives, and the Human Remains Trade" (SUNY Press, 2026)
Angela Simms
Author of Fighting for a Foothold, How Government and Markets Undermine Black Middle Class Suburbia
Author, Scholar in Sociology/Urban Studies
Episode: Fighting for a Foothold: How Government and Markets Undermine Black Middle-Class Suburbia
Alba Kapoor
Racial justice lead at Amnesty International UK
Amnesty International UK
Episode: Radio ReOrient 14:5: Racial Justice, Human Rights and Surveillance, with Alba Kapoor, hosted by Claudia Radiven and Amina Easat-Daas
Maureen Hiebert
Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Calgary; Associate Director of the Center for Military Security and Strategic Studies
University of Calgary
Episode: Roundtable on Genocide Studies on the occasion of the 20th Anniversary of Genocide Studies International
Cheng Xu
(Noted as editor and participant in the discussion; background inferred from dialogue)
Episode: Roundtable on Genocide Studies on the occasion of the 20th Anniversary of Genocide Studies International
Amy Sidaro
Professor of Sociology with a focus on memory studies and memorialization
City University of New York / College of Staten Island (inferred from dialogue)
Episode: Roundtable on Genocide Studies on the occasion of the 20th Anniversary of Genocide Studies International
Lisa Siraganian
Author, Professor, J. R. Herbert Boone Chair in Humanities
Johns Hopkins University
Episode: Lisa Siraganian, "The Problem of Personhood: Giving Rights to Trees, Corporations, and Robots" (Verso, 2026)

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Dr. Miranda Melcher
One of the hosts of The New Books Network
Shreya Urvashi
Host of New Books in Human Rights
Dr. Jessie Cohen
Host of New Books Network
Hannah Pool
Host and Senior Researcher
Julie Yu-Wen Chen
Professor of Chinese Studies at the University of Helsinki

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Dominic Davies and Candida Rifkind, "Graphic Refuge: Visuality and Mobility in Refugee Comics" (Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2025)
Q: What inspired your dialogic writing process, and how did you manage six chapters with two authors co-authoring portions?
We designed a collaborative workflow where each author took three chapters, switching between sections and then exchanging drafts for mutual revision. This allowed distinct voices while preserving a shared arc, with both authors contributing to the introduction and conclusion and ensuring a coherent overall argument that reflects interdisciplinary training and shared interests in refugee studies and comics.
Dominic Davies and Candida Rifkind, "Graphic Refuge: Visuality and Mobility in Refugee Comics" (Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2025)
Q: Could you please tell us a bit more about how you defined what makes a refugee comic and how you chose which ones to include?
We defined refugee comics broadly as works by or about refugees and migrants that engage with the longer histories of refuge and displacement, emphasizing not just faces but landscapes, institutions, and the infrastructures that shape mobility. The selection balanced different genres—documentary comics, memoirs, and some fiction—to illustrate how the form can humanize, critique, and complicate refugees' representations while tracing post-2015 migrant crises.
Hamid Dabashi, "After Savagery: Gaza, Genocide, and the Illusion of Western Civilization" (Haymarket, 2025)
Q: What are the practical implications of incorporating Palestinian concepts like Nakba, Catastrophe, and Intifada into our understanding of current events?
Incorporating those concepts reframes how we describe and respond to violence, urging a move away from Eurocentric universalism toward a more contextualized, historically aware framework that foregrounds rooted experiences and traumatic histories of Palestinian communities as essential to global moral discourse.
Hamid Dabashi, "After Savagery: Gaza, Genocide, and the Illusion of Western Civilization" (Haymarket, 2025)
Q: Could you unpack the title and explain what you were trying to communicate with it?
The title signals a critique of the moral imagination around violence, calling out savagery in Gaza as a center from which to question broader conceptions of civilization and humanity, and to insist that ethical horizons must be grounded in the realities of people suffering in Gaza and worldwide.
Lawrence Douglas, "The Criminal State: War, Atrocity, and the Dream of International Justice" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Q: Why does Nuremberg's framework matter today in debates about aggression and atrocity?
Nuremberg established the link between aggression and international crime but its specific linkage of atrocities to aggression later became contested; the book argues this historic framework shaped debates for decades and can inform current cases like Ukraine by highlighting where the connection between war conduct and liability is either strengthened or inverted.

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A consistent thread across episodes is scholarly exploration of human rights topics through the lens of recent scholarly books and research. Conversations frequently center on migration, asylum policy, border control, privacy and technology, conflict and displacement, and civil rights history, often with a global or comparative frame. Guests are typically academics, researchers, or practitioners who bring firsthand expertise on crises, governance, and rights-based interventions, and they often foreground nuanced narratives that challenge simplistic binaries about victims, perpetrators, and policy effects. The show tends to emphasize interdisciplinary methods, fieldwork, and policy implications, making it useful for listeners who want rigoro... more

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