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Eastern European Studies
Van Leer Institute Series on Ideas with Renee Garfinkel
January 19, 2021
The Last Million
Europe's Displaced Persons from World War to Cold War
David Nasaw
Hosted by Renee Garfinkel
In May 1945, German forces surrendered to the Allied powers, putting an end to World War II in Europe. But the aftershocks of global military conflict did not cease with …
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Eastern European Studies
January 18, 2021
Roma Rights and Civil Rights
A Transatlantic Comparison
Felix B. Chang and Sunnie T. Rucker-Chang
Hosted by Steven Seegel
F. B. Chang and S. T. Rucker-Chang's Roma Rights and Civil Rights: A Transatlantic Comparison (Cambridge UP, 2020) tackles the movements for - and expressions of - equality for Roma in …
European Studies
January 14, 2021
The Retreat of Liberal Democracy
Authoritarian Capitalism and the Accumulative State in Hungary
Gábor Scheiring
Hosted by Tim Jones
As Donald Trump's presidency draws to a close, his opponents give thanks that he never developed a strategy or learned to use his powers and agencies efficiently. If he had …
Genocide Studies
January 14, 2021
Advancing Holocaust Studies
Carol Rittner and John K. Roth
Hosted by Kelly McFall
I think this is the fifth time I've interviewed John K. Roth for the podcast (and the second for Carol Rittner). He has always been relentlessly realistic about the challenges, intellectual …
Eastern European Studies
January 12, 2021
Ukraine
What Everyone Needs to Know
Serhy Yekelchyk
Hosted by Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed
In 2020, Oxford University Press published a second edition of Serhy Yekelchyk’s Ukraine: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford UP, 2020). This series is based on the reference format that …
Eastern European Studies
January 8, 2021
Making Ukraine Soviet
Literature and Cultural Politics under Lenin and Stalin
Olena Palko
Hosted by Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed
Olena Palko’s Making Ukraine Soviet: Literature and Cultural Politics under Lenin and Stalin (Bloomsbury Academic Press 2020) offers an intriguing investigation that zeroes in on the intersection of history and …
Eastern European Studies
December 31, 2020
Borders on the Move
Territorial Change and Forced Migration in the Hungarian-Slovak Borderlands, 1938-1948
Leslie Waters
Hosted by Steven Seegel
The movement of borders and people was a remarkably common experience for mid-twentieth-century Central and Eastern Europeans. Such was the case along the border between Czechoslovakia and Hungary, where territory …
Literary Studies
December 30, 2020
Avant-Garde Art in Ukraine, 1910-1930
Contested Memory
Myroslav Shkandrij
Hosted by Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed
Myroslav Shkandrij’s Avant-Garde Art in Ukraine, 1910-1930: Contested Memory (Academic Studies Press, 2019) offers an insight into the development of the Ukrainian avant-garde, a topic which still remains unjustifiably understudied …
Eastern European Studies
December 28, 2020
The Political Economy of Hungary
From State Capitalism to Authoritarian Neoliberalism
Adam Fabry
Hosted by Steven Seegel
Adam Fabry's book The Political Economy of Hungary: From State Capitalism to Authoritarian Neoliberalism (Palgrave, 2019) explores the political economy of Hungary from the mid-1970s to the present. Widely considered a …
Eastern European Studies
December 18, 2020
Remaking Muslim Lives
Everyday Islam in Postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina
David Henig
Hosted by Steven Seegel
The violent disintegration of Yugoslavia and the cultural and economic dispossession caused by the collapse of socialism continue to force Muslims in Bosnia and Herzegovina to reconfigure their religious lives …
History
December 17, 2020
Sarajevo 1914
Sparking the First World War
Mark Cornwall
Hosted by Charles Coutinho
In June 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo. This key event in 20th-century history continues to fascinate the public imagination, yet few historians have …
European Studies
December 15, 2020
Project Europe
A History
Kiran Klaus Patel
Hosted by Tim Jones
Project Europe made waves when it was published in German in 2018 (CH Beck) and was soon translated into English as Project Europe: A History (Cambridge UP, 2020). A clue to …
Princeton UP Ideas Podcast
December 15, 2020
Sexuality, Gender, and Race in the Middle Ages
A Discussion with Roland Betancourt
Roland Betancourt
Hosted by Allison Leigh
In Byzantine Intersectionality: Sexuality, Gender, and Race in the Middle Ages (Princeton University Press, 2020), Roland Betancourt reveals the fascinating, little-examined conversations in medieval thought and visual culture around matters …
Eastern European Studies
December 14, 2020
Transnational Patriotism in the Mediterranean, 1800-1850
Stammering the Nation
Konstantina Zanou
Hosted by Vladislav Lilic
Konstantina Zanou is an Assistant Professor of Italian and Mediterranean Studies at Columbia University. Her captivating book Transnational Patriotism in the Mediterranean, 1800-1850: Stammering the Nation (Oxford University Press, 2018) …
Eastern European Studies
December 9, 2020
Men Under Fire
Motivation, Morale, and Masculinity among Czech Soldiers in the Great War, 1914–1918
Jiří Hutečka
Hosted by Steven Seegel
In historical writing on World War I, Czech-speaking soldiers serving in the Austro-Hungarian military are typically studied as Czechs, rarely as soldiers, and never as men. As a result, the …
Eastern European Studies
December 3, 2020
Cossacks in Jamaica, Ukraine at the Antipodes
Essays in Honor of Marko Pavlyshyn
Alessandro Achilli, Serhy Yekelchyk and Dmytro Yesypenko
Hosted by Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed
Cossacks in Jamaica, Ukraine at the Antipodes: Essays in honor of Marko Pavlyshyn (Academic Studies Press, 2020) is an impressive volume of essays on a variety of topics and issues …
Eastern European Studies
December 2, 2020
The Fiume Crisis
Life in the Wake of the Habsburg Empire
Dominique Kirchner Reill
Hosted by Steven Seegel
The Fiume Crisis: Life in the Wake of the Habsburg Empire (Harvard UP, 2020) recasts what we know about the birth of fascism, the rise of nationalism, and the fall …
Eastern European Studies
November 27, 2020
The Women of the Arrow Cross Party
Invisible Hungarian Perpetrators in the Second World War
Andrea Pető
Hosted by Steven Seegel
Andrea Pető's book The Women of the Arrow Cross Party: Invisible Hungarian Perpetrators in the Second World War (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020) analyses the actions, background, connections and the eventual trials of …
Eastern European Studies
November 23, 2020
Intellectuals and Fascism in Interwar Romania
The Criterion Association
Cristina A. Bejan
Hosted by Steven Seegel
In 1930s Bucharest, some of the country's most brilliant young intellectuals converged to form the Criterion Association. Bound by friendship and the dream of a new, modern Romania, their members …
European Studies
November 20, 2020
European Integration
A Political History
Mark Gilbert
Hosted by Tim Jones
“Awareness of the EU's undeniable past and present importance can - and has - led to complacency and hubris. There is nothing inevitable about European integration". So writes Mark Gilbert …
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