Special Episode - An Update
In this episode, Nathan gives a quick update about the current situation and future of History42
Ms. Susan Justice is a Licensed Attorney in Canada, and co-founder of the NGO, South Asians Against Child Abuse, an organization dedicated to preventing childhood sexual abuse. Additionally, she has provided critical assistance to victims of violence through her work with the National Centre for Domestic Violence and the Vancouver Rape Relief.
More recently, Susan published her book, the "Children Who Dance in the Rain,” which fosters deep empathy in global youth and introduces children to social justice. It was also named the Human Relations Award, 2023 Children’s Book of the Year.
Link to the book: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1738677834/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&psc=1
Link to South Asians Against Child Abuse: https://www.childhood.network/
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Episode 26 - Susan Justice
(Theme: Child Abuse, Domestic Violence
Episode 25 - Professor Tomás Summers Sandoval
(Theme: Diversity, Inclusion)
Professor Summers Sandoval is an associate professor of History and Chicana/Latina Studies at Pomona College, where he has twice received the Distinguished Professor Award for teaching. There, he teaches classes on Latinx history, social movements, oral history, and racial inequality in the United States, specifically in California. He currently serves as the First Vice President of the Oral History Association. In this episode, he addresses the criticality of identity, diversity, and inclusion in the history and development of communities.
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Episode 25 - Professor Tomás Summers Sandoval
(Theme: Diversity, Inclusion)
Episode 24 - Professor Samuel Richardson
(Theme: Game Theory, Polarization)
Professor Samuel Richardson is an expert in Economics and Game Theory. He is an award-winning professor who has taught at Boston College and the University of Texas at Austin and is currently teaching game theory at Harvard Kennedy School. Professor Richardson completed his undergraduate degree at Stanford University before earning a Ph.D. from Harvard University. In this episode, we talk about today’s information polarization, health economics, and the Russo-Ukrainian War through the lenses of game theory, social welfare, and economic drivers.
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Episode 23 (in Chinese) - Mr. Ma Chi Un
(Theme: Financial Inclusion)
Mr. Ma Chi Un is a standing committee member of the Shanghai CPPCC, a director at Macau’s Luso International Bank, a director of Lightpoint logistics group in Shanghai, and a director of Concord Industrial and Commercial Development Enterprise in Macau. In this podcast, we talked with Mr. Ma, Professor Charles Chang, and other committee members about how to proactively market and deploy the digital Rmb to individuals and SMEs, its role in financial inclusion, and also the potential usage of digital Rmb in facilitating cross-border trade.
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Episode 22 - Professor Richard Wang
(Theme: Innovation For Good)
Professor Richard Wang is currently the Associate Director of Fudan University’s Fintech Research Center and a Visiting Scholar at the Fanhai International School of Finance. Prior to this, he was an Associate Professor of Practice and Director of LIVE Learning Center at the Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance (SAIF), Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Professor Wang is also a founding partner of NewRiver Capital Partners and has over 20 years of experience working in the financial and investment industry. In this episode, Professor Wang talks about financial inclusion and social entrepreneurship in the fintech industry.
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Episode 21 - Professor Andrew Field
(Theme: Human Rights, War)
Dr. Andrew Field is a scholar of Chinese history and culture who is currently the Associate Professor of Chinese History at Duke Kunshan University. He has taught Chinese history at the University of Puget Sound, the University of New South Wales, and New York University.
Additionally, Dr. Field is the author of multiple books, the host of multiple walks, and has even produced his own documentary. In today’s episode, Professor Fields talks about the history of Shanghai, China, rising Sino-American tensions, Shanghai’s recent lockdowns, and how performing arts can help promote global harmony.
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Episode 20 - Tara Nair & Elijah Tay
(Theme: Human Rights, Captial Punishment)
Tara Nair and Elijah Tay are youth human rights advocates working on abolishing capital punishment in Singapore. Their latest work, an open letter to President Halimah, has garnered signatories from over 20 countries. In this episode, they talk about the death penalty, justice systems, as well as youth activism.
Tara is an Institution for International Law and Justice Joyce Lowinson Scholar at New York University. Elijah is a civil society advocate for diverse communities and the founder of initiatives, including My Queer Story, a program aimed at raising awareness of LGBTQ+ discrimination.
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Episode 19 (Intro in Portuguese)
Tewon Turner (Theme: Language Justice)
Mr. Tewon Turner serves as a military police officer and an interpreter with the United States Army. He speaks 12 languages and is a devout polyglot.
In this episode, Mr. Turner explores the idea of language justice, an "evolving framework based on the notion of respecting every individual's fundamental language rights—to be able to communicate, understand, and be understood in the language in which they prefer and feel most articulate and powerful."* He also talks about his real-life experience of how languages play crucial roles in military conflicts. Mr. Turner is an advocate of minority languages and mandatory teachings of multiple languages in schools for children to expand their global perspectives and empathy.
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* Source: AmericanBar.org
Episode 18 - Professor Georgiy Kasianov
(Theme: War)
Special thanks to Professor Georgiy Kasianov for answering the cold call I made after reading his recently published article “The War over Ukraine Identity” on Foreign Affairs.
Professor Kaisianov is the Head of the Laboratory of International Memory Studies at Marie Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin, Poland. An active scholar, he has authored, co-authored, and co-edited more than twenty books on the history of Ukraine. Some of his recent work examines the current Russian - Ukraine conflict by looking at how historical memory has been distorted for political motives. In this episode, Professor Kasianov discusses the roots of the different historical views behind the current conflict and how he believes the war will play out.
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Episode 17 - Professor Michael Wishnie
(Theme: Gun Violence, Civil Rights)
Professor Michael J. Wishnie is the William O. Douglas Clinical Professor of Law and Counselor to the Dean at Yale Law School. His teaching, scholarship, and law practice focus on immigration, labor, employment, habeas corpus, civil rights, government transparency, veterans law, and voting rights. For years, Professor Wishnie and his students have represented low-wage workers, immigrants, veterans, and voters in federal, state, and administrative litigation. In this episode, Professor Wishnie zeroes in on the recent discussions around gun violence sparked by the Uvalde shooting and shares his views on civil rights in the United States.
Episode 16 - Stanton Abramson
(Theme: War, Refugees)
Stanton Abramson is the grandson of a Holocaust survivor. Gizella Abramson, his paternal grandmother, survived multiple ghettos, a stint in the underground resistance, and the Maidaanik concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Poland between 1941 and 1945. He was very close to her before she passed away in 2011. From 1970 to 2010, she spoke to thousands of students in North Carolina public schools about the Holocaust and her message of hope and survival.
Her story has a lot of similarities to the refugees who are fleeing Ukraine today or those around the world helping them flee. I hope this chapter from history continues to shed light on the need for us to keep our attention on Ukraine and how actions are required for the sake of humanity.
Episode 15 (in Cantonese) - Principal KC Leung
(Theme: War, Misinformation)
Principal Leung Kee Cheong is a renowned retired principal in Hong Kong. He has been an influential educator for Hong Kong youth for the last four decades including through his work as the head of Fresh Fish Traders' School, a primary school well known for its success in turning around the lives of underprivileged children. He is also an expert in The Art of War by Sun Tzu. In this episode, he shares his insights on how the philosophies taught by The Art of War can be applied to a teenager’s daily life and the pursuits of passion.
Episode 14 - Susan Hammond
(Theme: Ecocide)
Ms. Susan Hammond, the daughter of a U.S. Vietnam veteran, became interested in post-war Southeast Asia after traveling to Vietnam and Cambodia in 1991. In 1996, after earning her MA in International Education from NYU, Ms. Hammond became involved in fostering mutual understanding between the people of the U.S., Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia and addressing the long-term impacts of war while working as the Deputy Director of the Fund for Reconciliation and Development from 1996 to 2007. After that, Ms. Hammond returned to her home state of Vermont and founded War Legacies Project. Two years later, she received the Vietnam Order of Friendship medal for her two decades of work in Vietnam. In this episode, she talks with Law Association for Crimes Across History (LACAH) participants about Agent Orange and Ecocide.
Episode 13 - Emmaline Bennett
(Theme: War)
Emmaline Bennett is a Columbia University graduate and a World History teacher. She has done extensive research on war and refugees for her thesis, "Cities of Defeat: Spanish Civil War Refugees and the French Concentration Camps of 1939", which won the Columbia History Department's Charles A. Beard Prize as well as the George Watt Prize. In this episode, Emmaline talks about the politics and ideologies behind governments’ positions during the Spanish Civil War and World War II. She also encourages our listeners to appreciate the value of oral history and historical fiction in providing a fuller picture of each period.
Episode 12 - Professor Erin Hutchinson
(Theme: War)
Special thanks to Dr. Emily Channell-Justice and Ms. Kristina Conroy of Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences who answered to the cold email I sent after listening to FAS's
Ukraine Under Attack: Rapid Response Panel and referred me to Professor Erin Hutchinson.
Professor Erin Hutchinson has an M.A. and a Ph.D. from Harvard University and currently teaches political and cultural history of the Soviet Union at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her book project, The Cultural Politics of the Nation after Stalin, 1953-1991, explores how intellectuals sought to transform cultural understandings of the nation in the Soviet Union after the death of Stalin. Her dissertation received the 2021 Harold K. Gross Prize and was a finalist for the 2021 Cohen-Tucker Dissertation Prize. She received a Research Fellowship from ASEEES to conduct research for the project in Russia, Ukraine, Armenia, and Moldova. In this episode, she gives an insider and expert view on the Ukraine crisis and its background and what everyday citizens can do to help.
Episode 11 - Ahmedina Becevac
(Theme: Refugees)
The world is witnessing another wave of refugees because of the Ukraine crisis. Understanding the mindset and history of refugees is important for students of social justice. Ahmedina Becevac is a Bosnian refugee who grew up in the United States. She learned English when she arrived in the United States and went to a number of different public schools growing up. Ahmedina is now a teacher who focuses on immigrants and refugees needing to learn English for their daily needs. In this episode, Ahmedina talks about what it was like growing up as a refugee, and explores the mindset of a refugee in America. Ahmedina also highlights the importance of oral history in helping future generations appreciate "the the shade from the trees that the older generations planted."
Episode 10 - Tatiana Vedenska
(Theme: War)
Tatiana Vedenska is a well-known Russian writer and novelist. Her first novel, "The Peculiarities of the Women’s Charm" (Особенности женского шарма), was published in 2005. One year later, she began working with the famous Russian literary agent Nathan Zablotski and she is now the author of more than twenty-five novels. Her total book sales have reached over five million copies. At the time of this interview (just a few days into the Ukraine crisis), Tatiana is in the United States but her family, including her children, are in Russia. In this episode, Tatiana shares her personal views and emotions about Russia's current state and its conflict with Ukraine.
Episode 9 - Stanislav Ignatovic
(Theme: War)
Stanislav Ignatovic (Stan) is an AP American History and Sociology teacher. He was born in Ukraine but left the then newly independent Ukraine for the United States in the 1990s due to Ukraine’s instability. He is passionate about history and has remained intimately involved with the latest developments around Ukraine and Russia. He still has a lot of family and friends in Ukraine and hopes that the atrocity will end quickly. In this episode, he discusses the background of the tension between the two countries to contextualize the conflict for our listeners.
Episode 8 - Laura Berger
(Theme: Immigration, Human Trafficking)
Laura Berger is a senior staff attorney in the Immigration Unit of the Brooklyn Defender Services. She works with the Youth and Communities Project, representing low-income immigrants in affirmative applications for immigration status and defending them in Immigration Court. Formerly, Laura spent three years as the staff attorney for the Immigrant Justice Project at the City Bar Justice Center in New York City. There, she represented survivors of human trafficking, domestic violence, abuse, and neglect in immigration matters and advocated for them as victim-witnesses with law enforcement. In this episode, Laura talks about potential solutions for current immigration and human trafficking problems in the United States.
Episode 7 - Professor Dan Williams
(Theme: Capital Punishment)
Dr. Dan Williams is a published author, a former professor at the Northeastern University School of Law, and a former visiting professor at Harvard Law School, where he taught a course on Capital Punishment in America. He was awarded the Thurgood Marshall Award for his anti-death penalty work. He also received the Morton Stavis Award for his work on behalf of the unjustly accused.
In this episode, Dr. Dan Williams talks about how capital punishment trials are conducted, diving into the details of the 1990s Mumia Trial which successfully overturned the death penalty sentence, and shares his views on capital punishment trends in America.
Episode 6 - Victoria Erdel
(Theme: Sustainable Development)
Ms. Victoria Erdel was one of 50 people chosen worldwide as the UN Youth Innovators in 2018. As an innovator, she was included in their annual report and invited to present her podcasting work alongside UN employees at the Nobel Peace Prize Forum later that year. She also received mentorship from the UN's Sustainable Development Solutions Network to expand her podcasts' reach. In this episode, Victoria gives youth advice about how to get more involved with Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) projects and shares her insights about looking for solutions within indigenous cultures.
Episode 5 - Samarth Desai
(Theme: Misinformation)
Samarth Desai is a 2020 graduate of Harvard College, having concentrated in Social Studies with focuses on constitutional law, American foreign policy, and political economy. He is passionate about history and is a recognized expert in exploring the similarities in great speeches and how leaders and great orators use oratory skills to move their audiences. At Harvard, he served as President and Captain of the Harvard Mock Trial Association, co-founded the Alexander Hamilton Society, and worked as a Research Assistant to Harvard Law School professor Noah Feldman. In this episode, Samarth talks about how great orators imitate each other and use rhetorical tools in their speeches.
Episode 4 (Spanish) - Maria Jiminez Moya
(Theme: Economic Justice)
Maria Jimenez Moya is a Mexican journalist based in Houston who writes about minority communities across Texas. Her work has appeared in Cambridge Chronicle, DigBoston, POLITICO, Texas Monthly, Daily Free Press, and the New York Times. Maria has a B.A. in International Relations, focusing on environmental sustainability and development and Latin America. In this episode, Maria talks about how to negotiate with dictators by bridging cultures and leveraging the media.
Episode 3 - Randall Littlefield
(Theme: War, Genocide)
Mr. Randall Littlefield is a renowned history teacher with a wide-ranging background in independent and public charter schools. His accolades include fellowships through the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Civil War Institute, the Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad program in Russia, and last but certainly not least, studying the Holocaust in Poland and Yad Vashem. In this episode, Mr. Littlefield talks about choiceless choices and the need to remove our own blinders.
Episode 2 - Meghan Riley
(Theme: Refugees, War)
Meghan Riley is a Fulbright scholar and doctoral candidate in European history. She is fluent and has conducted original research in four languages. In this episode, Meghan talks about humanitarian groups from the Holocaust, the importance of historical fiction and oral history, and the advantage of being multilingual as a historian.
Episode 1 - Professor Jan Christopher Horak
(Theme: Misinformation, Genocide)
Listen in to my fireside chat with Professor Jan Christopher Horak (Chapman University, UCLA, University of Miami Faculty member). Professor Horak is a renowned German American film historian and film restorer. We discussed an array of fascinating topics, including disinformation, the Holocaust, Fascism, and how South America became a haven for Nazi war criminals after WWII.