Transformative Podcast
Welcome to the Transformative Podcast, which takes the year 1989 as a starting point to think about social, economic, and cultural transformations in the wake of deep historical caesuras on a European and global scale.
- Website
- https://transformativepodcast.podbean.com
- Description
- Welcome to the Transformative Podcast, which takes the year 1989 as a starting point to think about social, economic, and cultural transformations on a European and global scale. This podcast is produced by the Research Center for the History of Transformations (RECET) and its managing director Irena Remestwenski. Our patron is Philipp Ther, and we could not do it without Jannis Panagiotidis, Anastassiya Schacht, Rosamund Johnston, Sheng Peng, and Elias Neuburger.
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2025-03-14 08:24
- last episode published
- 2025-02-26 13:38
- publication frequency
- 23.7 days
- Contributors
- recet
- Author Owner
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- Number of Episodes
- 61
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- Categories
- Social Sciences Science & Medicine
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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| 2025-02-26 |
Welfare States and Social Justice in 20th Century Central Europe (Radka Šustrová) Studying social justice reveals the promises a regime - liberal or otherwise - makes to its citizens. It also reveals how citizens interpret these promises. But to what extent should we use the term “social justice” to understand societies excluding en... |
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| 2025-02-05 | Who were the communist women who designed and implemented the socialist project of women’s emancipation not only in Poland, but around the world? How did they conceptualize emancipation? How to write about them today, when any association with communis... |
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| 2025-01-15 |
South Slavic Languages and Vienna's Linguistic Landscape (Katharina Tyran) Vienna’s walls are full of signs, stickers and graffitis in South Slavic languages. How does this come about? – In this episode, Leonid Motz (RECET) talks to Prof. Katharina Tyran (University of Helsinki) about Vienna’s linguistic landscape and how it ... |
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| 2024-12-04 | In this episode, Małgorzata Mazurek (Columbia University) engages in a discussion with Thục Linh Nguyễn Vũ (RECET) on how Michał Kalecki and Ludwik Landau, Polish economists in the interwar period, responded to local and global challenges such as pover... |
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| 2024-11-14 | How is land central to socialist and postsocialist transformations in Southeast Europe? In this episode, Katarina Kušić (University of Vienna) tells Jelena Đureinović (RECET) about land as more than an object of policy, the perspectives on studying it ... |
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| 2024-10-23 |
Dreaming of Utopia: The Life and Times of Christian Rakovsky (Maria Todorova) This podcast episode is partly a summary of the main points Prof. Todorova developed in her book "Imagining Utopia: The Lost World of Socialists at Europe's Margins", partly a chronological extension into the decades that were not covered by the book. ... |
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| 2024-10-02 | In this episode, Kateryna Ruban talks with Zsófia Lorand about how the history of abortion in Ukraine and Soviet Union can help us understand contemporary reproductive struggles and modern Ukrainian history. Kateryna’s future book tells a story of a fe... |
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| 2024-07-31 | Once a “hub of anti-colonialism,” the Czech capital Prague might be viewed today a “hub of anti-Communism” instead. How did this shift take place? In this episode of the Transformative Podcast, Mikuláš Pešta (Czech Academy of Science + Charles Universi... |
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| 2024-07-10 | Freedom movement just means removing migration barriers and letting people move around freely - or does it? In this episode, Madeleine Dungy of NTNU Trondheim discusses the complicated making of European free movement in the 1960s and 1970s with RECET ... |
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| 2024-06-19 | In this special edition of the RECET transformative podcast, we revisit the recent RECET festival, where speakers from around the globe discussed ‘Green Transformations.’ In this excerpt, three panelists charted the history of nuclear energy—from its ‘... |
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