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Episode 5: Anarchist Ideology and the Ethics of Terroristic Violence
2023-07-28
Episode 5: Anarchist Ideology and the Ethics of Terroristic Violence

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.
Thucydides on the Peloponnesian War

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.

Music by Kai Engel, from the Free Music Archive.
Episode 6: A Fight for the Status of Violent
2023-07-28
Episode 6: A Fight for the Status of Violent "Novelty"

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.
Thucydides on the Peloponnesian War

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.

Music by Kai Engel, from the Free Music Archive.
Episode 8: Black Pilled
2023-07-28
Episode 8: Black Pilled

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

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.

Music by Kai Engel, from the Free Music Archive.
Episode 2: The Genocide of the Carthaginian
2023-07-28
Episode 2: The Genocide of the Carthaginian

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.

Music by Kai Engel, from the Free Music Archive, "Neon Flesh".
Thucydides on the Peloponnesian War

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.

Music by Kai Engel, from the Free Music Archive.
Episode 3: Let Die in Democratic Kampuchea
2023-07-28
Episode 3: Let Die in Democratic Kampuchea

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

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.

Music by Kai Engel, from the Free Music Archive.

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About Oddities of Violence

In each episode, your Oddities of Violence hosts interview an expert studying terrorism, genocide, or the philosophy of violence, exploring overlooked or under-appreciated examples that challenge how we think about the boundaries of violence. We cover topics ranging from the Peloponnesian War, the anxieties of the Roman Empire, and panic over organized arson in early-modern European, to Jewish anti-Fascist violence, starvation and revolution in Khmer Rouge Cambodia, and the role of “magical thinking” in modern violence, up to new legal interpretations of Indigenous genocide in North America, on-line violent extremism, and the meaning and uses of the idea of the New to make sense of contemporary protest and violence. Your Hosts are Gavin Cameron, Joshua D. Goldstein, and Maureen Hiebert, all from the Dept. of Political Science at UCalgary. The producer and lead Research Assistant is Alejandra Vivas Suarez. Artwork by Leanna Santucci. Music by Kai Engel from the Free Music Archive. For more on the Oddities of Violence project see: https://odditiesofviolence.wixsite.com/oddities-of-violence

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