UNSAJDER | Responsibility for the Future | Ep02 | David J. Simon

Following the International Scientific Conference “Srebrenica 30 Years After the Genocide: Memory, Responsibility and the Challenges of Denial”, the University of Sarajevo produced a podcast dedicated to commemorating the 30th anniversary of the genocide in and around Srebrenica. Across six episodes, we speak with distinguished scholars and researchers who took part in the Conference.

In the second episode, Tina Kalinić, Senior Assistant at the Academy of Performing Arts, University of Sarajevo, hosts David J. Simon.

David J. Simon is a Senior Lecturer and the Assistant Dean for Graduate Education at the Jackson School of Global Affairs at Yale University. He also serves as the Director of the Genocide Studies Program and the Mass Atrocities in the Digital Era initiative at Yale. His research focuses on atrocity prevention and the politics of recovery from mass atrocities. He is the co-editor of Mass Violence and Memory in the Digital Age: Memorialization Unmoored (Palgrave-MacMillan, 2020, with Eve M. Zucker), and The Handbook of Genocide Studies (Edward Elgar, 2023, with Leora Kahn). With Dr. Kahn, he created an exhibition titled Speaking Up: Confronting Hate Speech, which has shown at multiple museums since 2022. David serves on multiple boards, including those of the Reckoning Project, the Bosnia-based Post-Conflict Research Center, and Connecticut Voices of Hope. A graduate of Princeton University, he holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Los Angeles.