Apr 24, 2022 | Arts & Culture, Featured, Politics & Society
By Bedross Der Matossian In April 1909, two waves of massacres shook the province of Adana, located in the southern Anatolia region of modern-day Turkey, killing more than 20,000 Armenians and 2,000 Muslims. The central Ottoman government failed to prosecute the main...
Mar 17, 2022 | Arts & Culture, Featured, Politics & Society
By Maartje Abbenhuis & Sara Buttsworth While it is all too easy and comfortable to indulge in our Nazi fascination to demonise our enemies, maybe we should still the media chaos just for a moment and reflect. Who are you calling a Nazi? And why? From the very...
Nov 30, 2021 | Arts & Culture
By Jessica Lake In the 19th century, a man was busted for pasting photos of women’s heads on naked bodies … sound familiar? A new app can turn anyone into a porn star against their will. All you need is a photo and deep fake artificial intelligence technology will...
Oct 20, 2021 | Arts & Culture
By Maartje Abbenhuis It is only by unmasking the myriad local and global transformations occasioned between 1914 and 1918 that we can truly understand this conflict as a total global war and a total global tragedy. What happens when you take an event as unparalleled...
Sep 27, 2021 | Arts & Culture, Politics & Society
By Maria Armoudian Absent-mindedly paying tribute to murderous Turkish dictator Mustafa Kemal Atatürk is a stain on this country’s integrity. It’s time we did something about it, writes Maria Armoudian. Last week, in what once seemed to many an...
Sep 2, 2021 | Arts & Culture, Science & Technology
By Richard Easther It’s the 150th anniversary of the birth of New Zealand’s most celebrated scientist, Ernest Rutherford. Richard Easther acknowledges the man who brought us the insight that our world is made of atoms. If there is an afterlife for physicists it will...
Aug 10, 2021 | Arts & Culture
In this public lecture, Professor Maartje Abbenhuis argues for the necessity of integrating the experiences and perspectives of neutral, non-belligerent and subject communities in the history of the First World War, which is still so often cast as ‘Europe’s War’....
May 3, 2021 | Arts & Culture, Politics & Society
Last week, to commemorate the start of the Ottoman genocide against Armenians, US President Joe Biden officially acknowledged the genocide. He was the first US President to do so. Why do nations deny committing genocides? What form does denial take? What are the...
Apr 26, 2021 | Arts & Culture, Politics & Society
After a genocide event, there are voices of remembrance by generations of past survivors. The victims live with the trauma of the experience, which is passed on to the following generations of survivors. How does this affect individuals, groups, and nation-states?...
Jun 15, 2020 | Arts & Culture
In the days after the killing of George Floyd, protesters have made several demands to counter police violence and racism in the United States. Some of the demands directly relate to the history of race and violence in America and, in particular, an emphasis on...