Episode 16: Turkish and Kurdish Memories of the Armenian Genocide
The beginnings of many nations are marred by traumatic histories. This is certainly true for Turkey. The modern Republic...
Episode 15: War Memorialization in the Philippines
After fleecing billions of dollars from the Philippines, torturing and murdering thousands during the period of martial law, Ferdinand...
Episode 14: Memory Activism in Israel-Palestine
Just as Israeli-Palestinian relations reached a new low in the early 2000s, memory activists in Israel embraced a strategy...
Episode 13: Victims of Commemoration in Turkey
A few months after his Justice and Development Party or AKP won Turkey’s general elections in 2011, then Prime...
Episode 12: Memory and Violence in Syria
Through her research on Syria, SOAS, University of London Professor Salwa Ismail argues that violence needs to be understood...
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...
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...
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...
