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Welcome to the 2025 series of podcasts recorded by students in the international course on ‘Cultures of Hate and Oppression: Connecting the Conversations between Antisemitism, the Holocaust, Colonialism and Gender’. Coordinated by Dr Adam Levin and Professor Merle Williams for the 2024/25 academic session. ‘Cultures of Hate and Oppression’ is a collaborative course which brings together colleagues...

Welcome to the 2025 series of podcasts recorded by students in the international course on ‘Cultures of Hate and Oppression: Connecting the Conversations between Antisemitism, the Holocaust, Colonialism and Gender’. Coordinated by Dr Adam Levin and Professor Merle Williams for the 2024/25 academic session. ‘Cultures of Hate and Oppression’ is a collaborative course which brings together colleagues...

Welcome to the 2025 series of podcasts recorded by students in the international course on ‘Cultures of Hate and Oppression: Connecting the Conversations between Antisemitism, the Holocaust, Colonialism and Gender’. Coordinated by Dr Adam Levin and Professor Merle Williams for the 2024/25 academic session. ‘Cultures of Hate and Oppression’ is a collaborative course which brings together colleagues...

Thank you for tuning in to this week’s podcast. In this episode, Mdu talks to Dr Hikmet Karcic, who is the senior researcher at the University of Sarajevo in Bosnia & Herzegovina. The conversation centers on the genocide in Srebrenica, Bosnia, and briefly mentions the temporary exhibition hosted by the JHGC that looks at the 1990s as a decade of change - looking at South Africa’s end of apartheid...

What are International Crimes? Who commits them? And who punishes those perpetrators? Mdu unpacks these questions in today’s episode on International Criminal Law, with special guest, the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre’s education & Research specialist, Dr Mispa Roux, who specializes in International Criminal Law. Date of recording: 2 December 2024 Interviewer: Mdu Ntuli - mduduzi@jhbhol...

Listen to part 2 of this conversation between Mdu Ntuli and Dr. Mispa Roux as they unpack International Criminal Law. Date of recording: 2 December 2024 Interviewer: Mdu Ntuli - mduduzi@jhbholocaust.co.za www.jhbholocaust.co.za Guest: Dr Mispa Roux - www.jhbholocaust.co.za

Hello everyone and welcome back to this part three of my conversation with Prof Alexander Hinton about the Cambodian genocide. Just to remind you, (between 1975 and 1979), the Cambodian Genocide saw between 1.5 and 3 million people killed at the hands of the Khmer Rouge, a communist political group. The Khmer Rouge had taken power in the country following the Cambodian Civil War. During their brut...

Hello everyone and welcome back to this part two of my conversation with Prof Alexander Hinton about the Cambodian genocide. Just to remind you, (between 1975 and 1979), the Cambodian Genocide saw between 1.5 and 3 million people killed at the hands of the Khmer Rouge, a communist political group. The Khmer Rouge had taken power in the country following the Cambodian Civil War. During their brutal...

We hope that you will find this episode uplifting and encouraging! Dr Tracey Farber, a Clinical Psychologist, talks to us about the quality of Resilience. Many of us are experiencing high levels of fear, stress, anxiety and trauma brought about by various challenging situations, globally and in our personal lives. Tracey also talks about the book she co-authored "Catastrophic Grief, Trauma and Res...

Hello everyone and welcome to this latest episode of Standing Up to the Assault on Democracy, moderated by our 4 experts. Just to remind you, this is a special series part of the Johannesburg Holocaust and genocide Centre's podcast series. In this episode of Standing Up to the Assault on Democracy our 4 experts talk to JoJo Mehta, the formidable Eco activist and cofounder of “Stop Ecocide Internat...

In this podcast the JHGC's Mdu Ntuli speaks to Professor Alexander Hinton an anthropologist, distinguished professor at Rutgers University and was an expert witness at the Khmer Rouge Tribunal in 2016. He has authored many books including, most recently, "It Can Happen Here: White Power and the Rising Threat of Genocide in the US" and "Anthropological Witness: Lessons from the Khmer Rouge Tribunal...

Welcome to another episode of our special series titled Standing Up to the Assault on Democracy hosted by 4 international experts - Tali Nates, Andrea Pető, Bjorn Krondoffer and Steven Carr. This special series is part of the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre’s Podcast Series. In this episode, our 4 experts have the incredible honor of speaking to Oleksandra Matviichuk, she is a human right...

In this 8th episode of our special series "Standing Up To The Assault on Democracy, our four international experts in conversation with the incomparable Professor William Gumede. I hope that you too will be inspired as we are by this conversation with Professor William Gumede Date of recording: April 9 2024 Moderated by: Tali Nates; Andrea Petö; Bjorn Krondorfer; Steven Carr Guest: Professor Willi...

In this episode of our podcast, listen to Mdu speaking to Visual Storyteller and amazing photographer, Imani Nsamila from Tanzania, who was one of the participants at the 2023 "Forum on Remembering Colonial Pasts" with a specific focus on Spaces of Memory, hosted by the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre. Date of recording: 20 March 2024 Interviewer: Mdu Ntuli - mduduzi@jhbholocaust.co.za Gu...

In this seventh episode of our series Standing Up To The Assault On Democracy moderated by 4 international scholars and experts, Tali Nates founder and Executive Director of the Johannesburg Holocaust and Genocide Centre, Adrea Pető from the Central European university, Bjorn Krondofer Director of the Martin Springer Institute and endowed professor of religious studies at Northern Arizona universi...

In this episode, listen to my conversation with 4 experts from Africa on Genocide, Spaces of Memory and Africa's colonial past, Professors Elisio Macamo, Kerry Whigham, Matthias Henkel, Wazi Apoh, moderated by Mduduzi Ntuli. These 4 experts were part of the "Forum on Remembering Colonial Pasts" with a specific focus on Spaces of Memory. This forum featured 27 international scholars and was hosted...

In this episode, listen to Founder & Executive Director of the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre in conversation 4 experts from Africa on Genocide, Spaces of Memory and Africa's colonial past: Professors Albert Gouaffo, Sarala Krishnamurthy, Vilho Amukwaya Shigwedha, and Dotsé Yigbe. These experts were part of the "Forum on Remembering Colonial Pasts" with a specific focus on Spaces of Memo...

In this episode of our podcast series, we are honoured to listen to Director Tali Nates, Founder and Executive Director of the Johannesburg Holocaust and Genocide Centre, in conversation with Professor Edward Kissi. Between the 26th - 29th of November 2023 the Johannesburg Holocaust and Genocide Centre, in a partnership with the Heinrich Böll Foundation hosted a Forum on "Remembering Colonial Past...

This is the sixth episode of our "Standing Up to the Assault on Democracy" series. In this episode, our experts are joined by father Patrick Desbois. Father Patrick Desbois is a French Catholic priest, former head of the commission for relations with Judaism of the French Bishops’s Conference and is the Founder and President of the Yahad In Unum, an organisation dedicated to collecting testimonies...

In this episode we have Kasumi Moritani from Japan and Jamila-Aisha Sanguila, from the Philipines two fellows of The Nippon Foundation Scholarship Association from Asia who are passionate about promoting peace and resilience through education. They have teamed up with two fellows of The Nippon Foundation Scholarship Association from the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre in South Africa to a...

In this episode we engage in a conversation with Dr Yaron Nir Freisager. Dr Nir Freisager is an author, educator at Branco Weiss high school in Kiryat Shmona in Israel, as well as a lecturer at the Tel-Hai Academic College; he is also a history researcher specialized in Jewish ghettos’ writings in Poland during World War II, and a Research associate in the Institute for Contemporary Jewry, Hebrew...

In this episode we chat to Mr Millisao Nuvunga, founder and director of Center for Peace, Conflict and Wellbeing Studies based in Maputo Mozambique, and a long-time partner of the JHGC. Mr Nuvunga and colleagues and staff from the Center for Peace, Conflict and Wellbeing Studies attended a sepecial training by the JHGC in Nelspruit Mpumalanga on how to use art based methodologies in their work as...

In this episode, we talk to JHGC's newest intern Marielle Prechtl. Marielle will be spending the next six months in Johannesburg, as an intern or Gedenkdienerin and hosted by the JHGC as part of her Austrian Service Abroad. Austrian Service Abroad is a non-profit organisation founded in 1998 and works on the reparations of Austria’s part in the Holocaust. The Austrian Service Abroad sends young Au...

In this podcast, we are joined by Dr Nicole Fox. Dr Fox is an Associate Professor of Criminal Justice at California State University Sacramento. Her research centres on how racial and ethnic contention impacts communities, with a focus on how remembrances of adversity shape social change and collective memory. Her most recent book, published in 2021, is titled “After Genocide: Memory and Reconcili...

In this episode we are joined by artists and multimedia storytellers Gabriela Bulisova and Mark Isaac. Gabriela and Mark collaborate on intimate projects designed to bridge the gap between fine art and documentary practices. Their work includes still photography, video, writing and music focused on the climate crisis, mass incarceration, diversity, memory, trauma and reconciliation. Standing Up to...