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.
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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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2024-05-29 |
Racism Against Easter Europeans in Germany (Jannis Panagiotidis, Hans-Christian Petersen) Is there such a thing as racism against people from Eastern Europe - people who in their majority would be considered"white" in terms of skin color? Drawing on historical and contemporary insights, in this episode RECET scientific director Jannis Panag... |
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2024-05-08 | Who are the people who left Russia after the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022? Is this an exodus of politically active liberals in opposition to the regime? What role does the military mobilization of young men play? ... |
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2024-04-17 | What does radio tell us about state socialism and the post-1945 history of Czechoslovakia? In this episode, Rosamund Johnston (RECET) tells Jelena Đureinović (also RECET) about radio and politics in socialist Czechoslovakia, highlighting the role of ra... |
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