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November 23, 2024
Einstein in Kafkaland
Between 1911 and 1912, Prague was home to Albert Einstein and Franz Kafka, two of the twentieth-century’s most influential minds. During this brief b…
November 20, 2024
To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause
In this episode of Madison’s Notes, host Laura Laurent sits down with historian Benjamin Nathans to explore his groundbreaking new book, To the Succes…
November 18, 2024
Balkan Cyberia
Balkan Cyberia: Cold War Computing, Bulgarian Modernisation, and the Information Age Behind the Iron Curtain (MIT Press, 2023) examines the history of…
November 16, 2024
Protecting Democracy in Europe
The European Union has a big problem—a potentially fatal one. How should it deal with a member state or states that reject democracy and the rule of l…
November 16, 2024
Reflections on Stalinism
In this episode, Alisa talks with Lewis H. Siegelbaum, who, along with J. Arch Getty, edited Reflections on Stalinism (Northern Illinois University Pr…
November 15, 2024
Occupied Words
The Holocaust radically altered the way many East European Jews spoke Yiddish. Finding prewar language incapable of describing the imprisonment, death…
November 15, 2024
Raised to Obey
How the expansion of primary education in the West emerged not from democratic ideals but from the state's desire to control its citizens. Nearly e…
November 14, 2024
The Habsburg Garrison Complex in Trebinje
In this episode, host Andrea Talabér (CEU Press) sits down with Cathie Carmichael (University of East Anglia) to talk about her new book with CEU Pres…
November 13, 2024
So They Remember
When we think of Nazi camps, names such as Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, and Dachau come instantly to mind. Yet the history of the Holocaust extends beyon…
November 13, 2024
Our Enemies Will Vanish
Join us as we discuss Yaroslav Trofimov’s recent publication, Our Enemies Will Vanish: The Russian Invasion and Ukraine's War of Independence (Penguin…
November 11, 2024
Empire of Rags and Bones
Paper, bottles, metal scrap, kitchen garbage, rubber, hair, fat, rags, and bones--the Nazi empire demanded its population obsessively collect anything…
November 7, 2024
Central and Eastern European Histories and Heritages in Video Games
Focusing on games that examine a range of national histories and heritages from across Central and Eastern Europe, Central and Eastern European Histor…
November 2, 2024
Thinking Machines: The First AI Takeover Story
It’s the UConn Popcast, and in the second of our series on Thinking Machines we consider Karel Čapek’s “Rossum’s Universal Robots” (1920). Čapek’s pla…
October 26, 2024
In Search of the Romanovs
In Search of the Romanovs: A Family's Quest to Solve One of History's Most Brutal Crimes (University of Nebraska Press, 2024) is a thrilling, true-lif…
October 26, 2024
Beekeeping in the End Times
Every hundred years, as the story goes, two angels wonder out loud whether the bees are still swarming. For as long as the bees are swarming, the ange…
October 25, 2024
Win or Else
In Win or Else: Soviet Football in Moscow and Beyond, 1921-1985 (Indiana University Press, 2024), Larry E. Holmes shows us how Soviet football culture…
October 24, 2024
Dear Unknown Friend
In the tense years of the early Cold War, American and Soviet women conducted a remarkable pen-pal correspondence that enabled them to see each other …
October 22, 2024
Fighting Terror after Napoleon
After twenty-six years of unprecedented revolutionary upheavals and endless fighting, the victorious powers craved stability after Napoleon's defeat i…
October 19, 2024
Soviet Nightingales
In Soviet Nightingales: Care under Communism (Cornell UP, 2022), Susan Grant examines the history of nursing care in the Soviet Union from its ninetee…
October 16, 2024
Nazi Germany, Annexed Poland and Colonial Rule
Nazi Germany, Annexed Poland and Colonial Rule: Resettlement, Germanization and Population Policies in Comparative Perspective (Bloomsbury, 2023) exam…