Our Podcast

Professors Hiebert, Goldstein and Cameron, from the University of Calgary's Political Science Department, share the reasons that brought them together and led them to this project, and what their goal is.

Professor James Tyner, from Kent State University (United States) addresses common misunderstandings in the history of the Khmer Rouge, its economic reality, and its politicized campaign of mass neglect.

Professor Marta Bashovski, from the University of Regina (Canada), reflects on the fraught debate on what constitutes novelty and commonplace in political conversations meant to address violence.

Professor Lafontaine from Université Laval (Canada), probes the argument that Canada committed genocide against Indigenous peoples and challenges some common understandings of the crime as defined in international law”.

Professor Rachel Bruzzone, from Bilkent University (Turkey), speaks from Greece about Thucydides' own life in the midst of internecine war, and its advice to future generations.

Professor of Political Theory Barry Cooper, from the University of Calgary, focuses on the life and work of German-American scholar Eric Voegelin, and his various insights into the mind of political extremism.

Professor Johannes Dillinger, from Brookes University (England), recovers the memory of a world before the rise of the Modern State, and explains how the fear of organized arson, and of vagabonds, changed it all.

Professor Tristan Taylor, from the University  of New England (Australia), draws a line connecting two events, centuries apart: Rome's genocidal violence against Carthage, and its age of persecution of Christians.

Professor Or Arthur Honig, from Tokyo International University (Japan), reflects on the lives of Jewish assassins during the rise of Nazi Germany, and on the misconstrued relation between intervention and terrorism.

Professor Ware explains the rise of incel Internet culture and its evolution into a larger form of "grassroots" terrorism.