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Holocaust Distortion in Poland: A Comparative European Perspective

November 4, 2026

Holocaust Distortion in Poland

Jan Grabowski
Hosted by YIVO Institute

Holocaust distortion in Poland involves reshaping or minimizing facts about the Holocaust, often emphasizing Polish victimhood while obscuring instanc…

Partners in Need, Partners Indeed?

October 30, 2026

Partners in Need, Partners Indeed?

Mart Tšernjuk
Hosted by Linas Didvalis

What are Taiwan’s ties with the Baltic States? This episode puts Estonia in the spotlight and familiarizes listeners with key developments in Estonia-…

Fascists of the World, Unite?: A History of Fascist Internationalism in the 1930s with Martin Kristoffer Hamre (de Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2025)

October 22, 2026

Fascists of the World, Unite?

Martin Kristoffer Hamre
Hosted by Roland Clark

Fascists of the World, Unite?: A History of Fascist Internationalism in the 1930s (de Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2025) analyzes the ideas and forms of intern…

Romania, the Little Entente and the Struggle for Europe with Owen Grey (Bloomsbury, 2026)

October 20, 2026

Romania, the Little Entente and the Struggle for Europe

Owen Grey
Hosted by Roland Clark

Romania, the Little Entente and the Struggle for Europe (Bloomsbury, 2026) is the first in-depth, English-language study of Romania's role in the Litt…

Governing Islam in Austria and Germany, with Farid Hafez

October 16, 2026

S15 E1: Governing Islam in Austria and Germany, with Farid Hafez, hosted by Amina Easat-Daas and Claudia Radiven

Hosted by Radio Reorient

In this episode, hosts Claudia Radiven and Amina Easat-Daas were joined by Farid Hafez to discuss his most recently published book Governing Islam in …

Racism and Antiracism in Divided Germany with Michelle Lynn Kahn and Lauren Stokes (Cornell UP, 2026)

October 15, 2026

Racism and Antiracism in Divided Germany

Michelle Lynn Kahn and Lauren Stokes
Hosted by Jenna Pittman

Racism and Antiracism in Divided Germany (Cornell UP, 2026) addresses how racism expresses itself and what it means to be antiracist by tracing the hi…

Poles and Jews: A Call for Myth Reconstruction with Jennifer Stark-Blumenthal (Academic Studies Press, 2024)

October 14, 2026

Poles and Jews

Jennifer Stark-Blumenthal
Hosted by Amber Nickell

Nationalism’s global resurgence has upended societies. With the rise of the Polish nationalist Law and Justice (PiS) party, and American Jewry’s swift…

Refugees and Citizens in Twentieth-Century East Central Europe: An Unlikely Refuge? with Michal Frankl, Doina Anca Cretu and Lidia Zessin-Jurek (CEU Press, 2026)

October 11, 2026

Refugees and Citizens in Twentieth-Century East Central Europe

Michal Frankl ed
Hosted by CEU Press

In this episode of the CEU Press Podcast host Andrea Talabér talked to Michal Frankl, Doina Anca Cretu and Lidia Zessin-Jurek about the new edited vol…

The Institutional Foundations of Ukrainian Democracy with Nataliya Kibita (Oxford UP, 2024)

October 6, 2026

The Institutional Foundations of Ukrainian Democracy

Nataliya Kibita
Hosted by Megan Buskey

Ukraine and Russia are today at opposite points of the political spectrum: Despite 300 years of contact with Russian authoritarian politics, Ukraine's…

The Afterlife of a Fascist Murder: Giacomo Matteotti in Myth and Memory, 1924-2024 with Amy King (Cambridge UP, 2026)

October 5, 2026

The Afterlife of a Fascist Murder

Amy King

In this episode, I speak with Dr Amy King of Bristol University about her book, The Afterlife of a Fascist Murder: Giacomo Matteotti in Myth and Memor…

Aristotle Kallis, "Iconic Fascism: The Excess of Destruction and Creation in Interwar Radical Right-wing Politics" (Bloomsbury, 2026)

September 24, 2026

Iconic Fascism

Aristotle Kallis
Hosted by Joe Williams

In Iconic Fascism: The Excess of Destruction and Creation in Interwar Radical Right-wing Politics (Bloomsbury, 2026) Aristotle Kallis uncovers the par…

Why Voters Support Politicians Who Undermine Democracy

September 14, 2026

Why Voters Support Politicians Who Undermine Democracy

Filip Milačić
Hosted by Nic Cheeseman

Why do so many citizens continue to support politicians who undermine democracy? And why have nationalist appeals become such a powerful tool for demo…

Debarati Sanyal, "Arts of the Border: Fugitive Bodies at Europe’s Edges" (Fordham, 2025)

September 12, 2026

Arts of the Border

Debarati Sanyal
Hosted by Gina Stamm

Arts of the Border: Fugitive Bodies at Europe’s Edges (Fordham, 2025) investigates the consequences of unfolding catastrophes across the world and the…

Robert Shum, "Democracy or Carbon Oligarchy?: Climate and Energy Politics between Crisis and Decarbonization" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2026)

September 5, 2026

Democracy or Carbon Oligarchy?

Robert Shum
Hosted by Stephen Pimpare

Democracy or Carbon Oligarchy?: Climate and Energy Politics between Crisis and Decarbonization (Palgrave Macmillan, 2026) tackles a critical question.…

Ukrainian Men Fleeing Conscription: A Discussion with Writer Dan Storyev

August 27, 2026

Ukrainian Men Fleeing Conscription

Hosted by Paul Starobin

Our conversation focuses on a groundbreaking article by Dan Storyev recently published in The Nation: “Millions of Ukrainian Men Are Fleeing a Cruel C…

Denialism: Polish Style

August 22, 2026

Denialism

Elżbieta Janicka
Hosted by YIVO Institute

Holocaust distortion in Poland involves reshaping or minimizing facts about the Holocaust, often emphasizing Polish victimhood while obscuring instanc…

Yulia Gradskova et al., "Good Mothers, Nations and Nationalisms: Cases from Lithuania, Russia and Sweden" (CEU Press, 2026)

August 13, 2026

Good Mothers , Nations and Nationalisms

Yulia Gradskova, Ieva Bisigirskaite, and Soheyla Yazdanpanah
Hosted by CEU Press

In this episode, host Andrea Talabér (CEU Press, 2026) talks with Yulia Gradskova and Ieva Bisigirskaitė, two of the three authors behind Good Mothers…

Bridget Hourican on Frank Callanan's "James Joyce: A Political Life" (Princeton UP, 2026)

August 12, 2026

James Joyce

Frank Callanan - A Conversation with Bridget Hourican

The young James Joyce (1882–1941) was forged in the smithy of Irish political controversies, and he took into his European exile a depth of political …

Giulio Boccaletti, "The Environmental Republic: Why Citizens Will Save the World" (Princeton UP, 2026)

August 7, 2026

The Environmental Republic

Giulio Boccaletti

Republicanism is arguably the most powerful political idea in history, an extraordinary feat of human imagination that balances individual liberty wit…

176 Laura Jockusch on Jewish Revenge after the Holocaust (JP)

August 6, 2026

176 Laura Jockusch on Jewish Revenge after the Holocaust (JP)

After a great human-wrought tragedy, how are victims and their kin made right? What does it mean to take revenge, to exact vengeance, to seek redress,…