Center Advisory Board Member Victoria Sanford interviewed about Maya land rights and violence against Indigenous environmental activists in a landmark Inter-American human rights case.
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What prompted Viennese Jews to return to their home city after the devastation of the Holocaust? What were their hopes, and what did they find? In this conversation with historian Prof Albert Lichtblau, Dr Elizabeth Anthony draws upon her new book, The Compromise of Return, to plumb survivors’ experiences of […]
Center Advisory Board member Professor Victoria Sanford interviewed about a key Guatemalan land rights fight. Read on in Mongabay.
Prof. Victoria Sanford has a new piece in Revista, Harvard Review of Latin America. The piece, “Friends Who Disappear: Reflecting in the Time of Covid-19,” is out today. You can read it on their site.
Center Advisory Board member Prof Victoria Sanford plumbs the texture of terror in her newly published piece, “We’ve Come for the Garbage.” Drawing on her extensive field research on the Guatemalan criminal justice system and its role in the maintenance of inequality, patriarchy, power, and impunity, Prof Sanford explores what it means […]
How did the U.S. treat refugees and immigrants in the Trump era, from bureaucratic hurdles to cages? Prof. David Hernández analyzes the US detention system, particularly as it intersects with Latinx immigration. And Prof. Marlene Ramos lays bare the political economy of immigration imprisonment in New Jersey county jails, with […]
A new biographical encyclopedia of Adolf Hitler by Center Advisory Board member Professor Steven Remy, Adolf Hitler: A Reference Guide to His Life and Works, published by Rowman & Littlefield. Adolf Hitler was hardly the modern world’s only murderous tyrant and imperialist. Yet he and the regime he ruled over for […]
Israel’s treatment of the Negev Bedouin has been a story of displacement and dispossession. A wide-ranging conversation between Drs. Eli Karetny, Thabet Abu Rass, Yeela Raana, and Netta Amar-Schiff will explore the unique nature of Bedouin resistance, the history of coerced urbanization, and the situation in the unrecognized Bedouin villages.
September was turbulent: More than 200 Australians arrested during citywide protests and a temporary no-fly zone declared over Melbourne. Rubber bullets and tear gas unleashed by the Thai riot police into an angry crowd. Health care workers assaulted in Canada. Rallies of up to 150,000 people across the Netherlands. The pandemic has coincided with an upsurge in protests […]
Focusing on the complex histories of Indigenous-colonial relations, Profs. Margaret Jacobs, Claudio Saunt, and Justin de Leon offer fresh perspectives on violent and non-violent forms of extinguishing Indigenous land and culture in North America, and on returning stolen lands to their rightful Indigenous guardians. Chair: Dr Mikal Eckstrom.