Langdon and Eden happily return to Vajra Chandrasekera's Rakesfall but first must unhappily return to the ongoing and intensifying genocide in Palestine. They discuss ideas that appear in both the book and our lived experiences of culpability, memory, storytelling, and future imaginaries as well as delay on the subject of hype and attention.
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Aug 6
The Multitude of Existence and North Continent Ribbon
This time around, Langdon and Eden peer into the world, which is actually many things and not just one (and that's good!) Then, they take a look at Ursula K. Le Guin award nominee, Ursula Whitcher's North Continent Ribbon! Weird spaceships, radical politics, interesting AI, and a ... Show More
1h 21m
Mar 2023
Jennie E. Burnet, "To Save Heaven and Earth: Rescue in the Rwandan Genocide" (Cornell UP, 2023)
In To Save Heaven and Earth: Rescue in the Rwandan Genocide (Cornell UP, 2023), Jennie E. Burnet considers people who risked their lives in the 1994 Rwandan genocide of Tutsi to try and save those targeted for killing. Many genocide perpetrators were not motivated by political id ... Show More
1h 13m
Dec 2021
RIFQA & Memories That Could Have Been
This week Lara and Michael discuss RIFQA, Mohammed El-Kurd's newly released book of poetry, pondering some of the book's messages like "anger is a luxury we cannot afford." Indeed, Palestinians are expected to be calm and composed while being ethnically cleansed. Lara and Michael ... Show More
44m 46s
Apr 2024
Mondes africains, une histoire en mouvement 4/4 : Rwanda, nouvelles études sur le phénomène génocidaire
durée : 00:59:23 - Le Cours de l'histoire - par : Xavier Mauduit - Trente ans après les faits, que savons-nous du génocide des Tutsis au Rwanda ? Études de genre ou post-coloniales, qu’apportent les récents développements de la recherche historique sur le sujet ? Comment utiliser ... Show More
59m 23s