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Episode 11: Remembering the Asaba Massacre in Nigeria

In October 1967 Nigerian federal troops slaughtered hundreds of innocent civilians in the town of Asaba.  Elizabeth Bird, anthropologist...

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Episode 10: Remembering the Genocide in Rwanda

In Memory and Justice in Post-Genocide Rwanda, Tim Longman argues that the memory of the genocide has been instrumentalized...

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Episode 09: Forensic Science and the Memory of the Civil War and Franco Era in Spain

The bones of the tens of thousands of victims of the Franco regime buried in mass graves throughout Spain...

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Episode 08: Memories of Civil War in El Salvador

Over a decade of civil war tore apart the tiny Central American nation of El Salvador.  Throughout the 1980s...

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Episode 07: Remembering Stalin’s Victims Part 2

Soviet leaders struggled to confront the memory of the repressions on two occasions.  First, in the period immediately following...

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Episode 06: Remembering Stalin’s Victims Part 1

Soviet leaders struggled to confront the memory of the repressions on two occasions.  First, in the period immediately following...

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Episode 05: Rehabilitating the Memory of Stalin in Putin’s Russia

The militarism we see in Russia today has much to do with the rehabilitation of the memory of Stalin. ...

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Episode 04: The Great Exodus from China: Memory and Identity in Taiwan

With the Communist victory in China in 1949 nearly one million civil war refugees flooded into Taiwan—the largest out...

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