Episode 49: Forgetting the Victims: The 2003 Heat Wave in Paris
In the age of climate change and global pandemics how do we remember the victims? University of Madison, Wisconsin historian Richard C. Keller examines this question through his study...
Episode 48: The Anne Frank Phenomenon
How can we understand the extraordinary scope and magnitude of global fame and notoriety achieved by Anne Frank? The Anne Frank diary has been translated into scores of languages...
Episode 47: Memory, Forgetting and the Planet in Peril
Alan Weisman is a journalist and non fiction writer whose focus over the past twenty five years has been on the crises that now imperil the planet. In The...
Episode 46: Remembering Intimate Partner Violence
It was on a train to Siberia that Joy Neumeyer decided to write her story. Despite the distance between Russia and her history graduate program at Berkeley, she was...
Episode 45: Joel Waldman on Family Memory & True Crime
Is it possible to understand the suppression of memory as an act of love? In Surviving the Survivor: A Brutally Honest Conversation about Life (& Death) with My Mom:...
Episode 44: The Power of Objects from Sites of Mass Atrocities
Objects recovered from sites of mass atrocities have a special significance today. This is because we live in what University College Dublin Professor Lea David labels as a human...
Episode 43: Argentina Betrayed: Memory, Mourning & Accountability
Sociocultural trauma experienced by nations isn’t just the result of unimaginable crimes and horrors. It is the repeated betrayals that make it impossible to mourn, to find meaning in...
Episode 42: The Perils of Memory
The duty to remember has become a moral imperative in today’s memory culture. But reporter and political analyst David Rieff argues that this belief is often misinformed and misplaced. ...
Episode 41: Remembering the Lost Counties of Ulster
Partition cast a shadow over the island of Ireland that stretched across the 20th century. Less well known, however, is the fallout caused by the division of the Protestant...
Episode 40: The Great Patriotic War and Family Memory in Putin’s Russia
The Great Patriotic War, shorthand for the war against Nazi Germany, has become the focal point of Russian nationalism under Vladimir Putin. Memories of the war bolster the legitimacy...
Episode 39: Remembering Europe’s Dictators
From Spain to the Baltic States Europe is littered with sites connected to the personal lives of former dictators. Birthplaces, childhood homes, summer and winter residences, mausoleums and tombs...
Episode 38: Memory, Storytelling and the National Rifle Association
The National Rifle Association, known simply as the NRA, is commonly regarded as one of the most powerful lobbies in the United States. If much needed gun reform never...
