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Study of Violence research in the media

Professor Philip Dwyer talks about why we need to understand our history of violence on 2NURFM

• Interview with Fulbright Scholar Professor Philip Dwyer by Kansas State University Radio
• An Archive of Atrocities, Professor Hans-Lukas Kieser in The New York Review of Books, 4 Apr 2019.
• Talaat Pasha, Professor Hans-Lukas Kieser giving a lecture at The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute Jerusalem on YouTube, 7 Nov 2018.
• Agitation in Berlin, Krieg in Anatolien, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 12 Oct 2018
• Talat Pasha is the co-founder of modern Turkey, Interview with Professor Hans-Lukas Kieser in Ahval News, 16 Sep 2018.
• Israel is still dealing with this issue, interview/article with Professor Hans-Lukas Kieser in the Times of Israel, 7 Sep 2018.
• Why do people commit acts of violence? Professor Philip Dwyer, Drive ABC Radio
• The Catholic Church is headed for another sex abuse scandal as #NunsToo speak up, Dr Kathleen McPhillips, The Conversation
• Map of indigenous massacres grows, Professor Lyndall Ryan, ABC News
• Newcastle professor Lyndall Ryan's massacre map plots more of Australia’s untold history Daily Advertiser
• Self made emperor Professor Philip Dwyer, Time Literary Supplement
• Talaat Pasha: Father of Modern Turkey, Architect of Genocide Associate Professor Hans Lukas Kieser, Princeton University Press Blog
• The Mapping of Massacres Professor Lyndall Ryan in the New Yorker ( 6 December 2017)
• A Global History of Trauma Professor Mark Micale with Phillip Adams, Radio National (16 May 2017)
• The Armenian Question is at the core of political culture in modern Turkey Professor Hans-Lukas Kieser on SBS (27 September 2016)
• A History of Violence: Philip Dwyer at the Sydney Festival (20 May 2016)
• Dr Matthew Thompson in Conversation with Richard Fidler, Radio National (17 August 2016)
• Cardboard Justice in the Philippines by Dr Matthew Thompson, Late Night Live on Radio National (3 August 2016)
• Don't go to Jolo - Part Three by Dr Matthew Thompson, Sydney Review of Books (6 October 2015)
• The Last Conquistador by Matthew Thompson, Earshot on Radio National (7 September 2015)
• The Australian media's failure to cover the Philippines by Matthew Thompson, Earshot on Radio National (7 September 2015)
• Don't go to Jolo - Part Two by Dr Matthew Thompson, Sydney Review of Books (17 July 2015)
• Napoleon Bonaparte interview Professor Philip Dwyer with Margaret Throsby on ABC Classic FM (15 June 2015)
• Don't go to Jolo - Part One by Dr Matthew Thompson, Sydney Review of Books (5 June 2015)
• Anzacs behaving badly: Scott McIntyre and contested history by Professor Philip Dwyer, The Conversation (29 April 2015)
• Why we don't hear about the 10,000 French deaths at Gallipoli by Professor John Horne, The Conversation (24 April 2015)
• Join the dots between Gallipoli and the Armenian genocide by Associate Professor Hans-Lukas Kieser, The Conversation (24 April 2015)
• From shell shock to PTSD: proof of war's traumatic history by Dr Elizabeth Roberts-Pedersen, The Conversation (14 April 2015)
• Burn after reading: a short history of arson by Dr Gemma Clark, The Conversation (5 December 2014)
• Foreign fighters test the state's monopoly on violence by Dr Elizabeth Roberts-Pedersen, The Conversation (24 November 2014)
• Whips hurt horses – if my leg's anything to go by by Professor Paul McGreevy, The Conversation (29 October 2014)
• A breastplate reveals the story of an Australian frontier massacre by Associate Professor Penny Edmonds, The Conversation (28 October 2014)
• Betrayal on the Border? Frank Aiken and the joint IRA offensive by Dr Matthew Lewis, The Irish Times (22 October 2014).
• Honour and violence in Europe, through the ages by Professor Pieter Spierenburg, The Conversation (6 October 2014)
• The petrol bomb's incendiary – and uncertain – history by Dr Matthew Lewis, The Conversation (26 September 2014)
• Violence is here to stay – we need to understand it by Professor Philip Dwyer, The Conversation (10 September 2014)
• Opinion: Russia not responsible for upheaval in Ukraine by Professor Roger Markwick, The Newcastle Herald (22 July 2014)