Where people are killed and abused in warfare and violent conflict, artifacts of cultural heritage are often destroyed and mistreated as well. Indeed, in the World War II-era efforts to promote the then-novel idea of genocide, the Polish lawyer and activist Raphael Lemkin sought to codify the notion that genocide was both personal and cultural. What has come ... Show More
Nov 23
Tom White, "Bad Dust: A History of the Asbestos Disaster" (Repeater, 2025)
Once used extensively in schools, hospitals, and housing, asbestos has taken the lives of millions. Bad Dust: A History of the Asbestos Disaster (Repeater, 2025) by Tom White traces the international history of the asbestos disaster — from mining operations in apartheid South Afr ... Show More
39m 40s
Nov 17
John Goodall, "The Castle: A History" (Yale UP, 2022)
In The Castle: A History (Yale University Press, 2022) Dr. John Goodall presents a vibrant history of the castle in Britain, from the early Middle Ages to the present day.
The castle has long had a pivotal place in British life, associated with lordship, landholding, and military ... Show More
56m 49s
Oct 31
Claudia Gastrow, "The Aesthetics of Belonging: Indigenous Urbanism and City Building in Oil-Boom Luanda" (UNC Press Books, 2024)
After centuries of colonial rule, the end of Angola’s three-decade civil war in 2002 provided an irresistible opportunity for the government to reimagine the Luanda cityscape. Awash with petrodollars cultivated through strategic foreign relationships, President José Eduardo dos S ... Show More
58m 19s
Oct 2023
L'exception culturelle française
En 1993, à l’occasion des négociations sur le GATTE, l’accord général sur les tarifs douaniers et le commerce mondial, s’est posée la question d’inclure les produits culturels dans le champ du libre-échange des biens et services.
Naturellement, cela a soulevé une opposition de l’ ... Show More
31m 50s
Nov 2016
Benjamin Martin, “The Nazi-Fascist New Order for European Culture” (Harvard UP, 2016)
Benjamin Martin’s The Nazi-Fascist New Order for European Culture (Harvard University Press, 2016) examines the attempt by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy to forge a European cultural empire out of their military conquests during World War II. Martin shows that the idea of Europe ... Show More
1 h
Aug 2018
Simone Wesner, “Artists’ Voices in Cultural Policy: Careers, Myths and the Creative Profession after German Unification” (Palgrave MacMillan, 2018)
Why is the artist’s voice missing from cultural policy? In Artists’ Voices in Cultural Policy: Careers, Myths and the Creative Profession after German Unification (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), Dr. Simone Wesner, a lecturer in arts management at Birkbeck, University of London, explo ... Show More
45m 10s
Jan 2024
152. [뉴스 한국어] 경복궁만 훼손된 게 아니다…문화재 여기저기 낙서·생채기 Gyeongbokgung Palace is not the only one that has been damaged…
<p><strong>경복궁만 훼손된 게 아니다…문화재 여기저기 낙서·생채기</strong></p>
<p>Gyeongbokgung Palace is not the only one that has been damaged… Cultural properties are scribbled and scratched here and there</p>
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<p>[주요 어휘와 표현]</p>
<p>몸살을 앓다</p>
<p>역부족</p>
<p>문화재 관련 어휘: 문화재를 보존하다, 문화재를 훼손하다, ... Show More
7m 48s
May 2022
Война. День 91. Россия сознательно уничтожает культурные объекты Украины?
В подкасте "Что это было" о девяносто первом дне войны мы говорим, как Россия разрушает объекты культурного наследия в Украине и как украинцы спасают предметы искусства.00:00 Приветствие, ведущий - Олег Антоненко.00:35 В Украине, по данным властей страны, более 300 объектов культ ... Show More
20m 46s