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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

  Abortion and Emancipation in Ukraine (Kateryna Ruban)

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

  Prague as Hub of Anti-Colonialism (Mikuláš Pešta)

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

  Making European Freedom of Movement (Madeleine Dungy)

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

  Nuclear Energy: From Dark Past to Green Future? (Anna Weichselbraun, Elisabeth Röhrlich, Stephen G. Gross)

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

  The Liberal Exodus? (Félix Krawatzek)

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

  Radio and Politics in Czechoslovakia (Rosamund Johnston)

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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2024-03-27

  Intra-Yugoslav Albanian Migration during Socialism (Rory Archer)

The always growing knowledge production about socialist Yugoslavia has not sufficiently or adequately addressed the histories of Albanians in Yugoslavia. During the socialist period, many Albanians migrated in search of work from Kosovo and Macedonia t...
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2024-03-06

  SPECIAL ISSUE: Knowlegeable Youth (Carine Chen, Irena Remestwenski)

Over the past year and a half, RECET has carried out its very first youth project titled "Knowledgeable Youth: Science Communication in Times of War". Together with our partners Eurozine and Radio Orange, we reached out to Ukrainian refugee youngsters ...
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