Will Russia Ever (Again) Be a Democracy?Oct 3, 2024A conversation with political scientist and commentator Ekaterina Shulmann and journalist Maksim Kurnikov...View more
Violence in the suburbs of France: a tragic cycle of déjà vusJun 5, 2024Visiting Professor of the Dutch Studies Program, Luuk Slooter, discusses structural violence of a sociall...View more
Crimes, Not Just Tragedies: Reporting War Against UkraineMay 29, 2024Nataliya Gumenyuk, Ukrainian journalist, on how to reunite truth with justice amidst war against Ukraine.
The Return of the Native: Can Liberalism Safeguard Us Against Nativism?Apr 16, 2024A book talk by Jan Willem Duyvendak on how and why there has been a resurgence of nativist logic.
The Long Shadow of Assad's Gulag: Syrian Former Detainees in EuropeNov 30, 2022 - 01:27:24Recording of a lecture by Uğur Ümit Üngör, Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the University...View more
Drunk on Genocide: Alcohol and Mass Murder in Nazi GermanyJun 2, 2021 - 1:00:16A book talk with author Edward B. Westermann (Texas Aandamp;M University San Antonio, History).
The Fishing Net and the Spider Web: Mediterranean Imaginaries and the Making of ItaliansMay 25, 2021 - 1:06:41A book talk with author Claudio Fogu (UCSB, French and Italian).
Whites and Reds: A History of Wine in the Lands of Tsar and CommissarMay 7, 2021 - 1:04:00A book talk with author Stephen Bittner (Sonoma State University, History).