Podcast

This episode features Dr. Nimmi Gowrinathan, Founder and Director of the Politics of Sexual Violence Initiative, Visiting Research Professor at CCNY's Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership, and Visiting Professor at Columbia University. Dr. Gowrinathan is also the creator of Guernica magazine's The Female Fighter Series and publisher of Adi magazine. The discussion centers on her new book Radicalizing Her: Why Women Choose Violence. It encompasses the themes of violence against women, gender and armed conflict, contemporary Sri Lankan politics, the limits of the UN, and how international aid initiatives may reproduce gender hierarchies in post-conflict contexts by re-feminizing ex-combatants.   

This episode features Savita Pawnday, Deputy Executive Director of the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect (GCR2P), an international advocacy and research NGO housed at the CUNY Graduate Center. The conversation engages the themes of mass atrocity crimes, the responsibility of states and the international community to protect populations from gross human rights violations, atrocity prevention, and global cooperation. It also includes discussion of COVID-19, the rise of nationalism, social media and hate speech, and climate change.  

This episode features Dr. Martin Woessner, Associate Professor of History and Society at CCNY's Division of Interdisciplinary Studies, along with students from his "History of Human Rights" Fall 2020 course. Student voices include: Andrew Riffell, Danielle Gautier, Pablo Salinas, Charles Dargan, Elvia Sarabia, Rachel Caron, Molly Caperna, Jean-Phillip Philogène, and Lalita Jairam. The discussion centers around contemporary rights challenges, including mass incarceration in the United States, climate change and migration; the limits of rights discourse and practice; and the impact of COVID-19 on their higher education endeavors.

This episode features Bann-Seng Tan, Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Relations at Ashoka University, India. It focuses on Professor Tan's new book International Aid and Democracy Promotion: Liberalization at the Margins. 

This episode features Justin Williams, CCNY Associate Professor of History at the Division of Interdisciplinary Studies. The conversation focuses on Contemporary Pan-Africanism, Ghana and politics in Africa more broadly, racism and US politics, and the Black Lives Matter Movement. The conversation also engages the challenges of homophobia, sexism, economic inequality, and climate change.