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In this interview, Karen Stark discusses her on-going research into the cult of the Virgin Mary in late medieval Hungary. Originally an archaeologist, Karen retains a great interest in material culture and place-making, and she uses this lens to analyse the Marian cult.Following King Stephen I dedicating the Hungarian kingdom to the Virgin, Karen notes how later kings venerated, and promoted the veneration of the Virgin Mary. This public veneration, echoing and linking to King Stephen I, was particularly strong during times of dynastic transition when kingship and the right to rule was liable to be challenged. Karen also notes how the nobility also promoted the cult of the Virgin Mary, potentially in order to gain favour with the king.Karen also discusses the malleability of the image of the Virgin, enabling many different communities to venerate her, for example, royalty, nuns, mothers, newly converted pagans. Finally, Karen considers why understanding the cult of the Virgin is relevant today, citing both on-going veneration to political propaganda.This podcast is part of a series of interviews covering central Europe in the medieval period for MECERN and CEU Medieval Studies.The image of the Virgin for this podcast is from Manfred Koller, “Das Schatzkammerbild in Mariazell. Untersuchung und Konservierung,” in Ungarn in Mariazell, Mariazell in Ungarn: Geschichte und Erinnerung, ed. Péter Farbaky and Szabolcs Serfőző (Budapest: Historisches Museum der Stadt Budapest, 2004), 301.
A "Média és valóság viszonya a 21. században" című kurzusunk utolsó alkalmának felvétele 2025 május 21-én.Kurzusvezető: Balázs Zsuzsanna - újságíróA kerekasztal résztvevői: Bánszegi Rebeka, a 24.hu közéleti-politikai újságírójaKálmán Attila, az Investigate Europe oknyomozó újságírójaTőke János, a Szabad Magyar Szó szerkesztőjeTeczár Szilárd, a Lakmusz főszerkesztőjeAz újságírói kerekasztal eredetileg a Média és valóság a 21. században kurzus záró, értékelő beszélgetése lett volna. Időközben azonban a magyarországi sajtóval nagyot fordult a világ, így az újságírók beszélgetését újraterveztük, és önálló eseményként is meghirdetjük. A közéleti átláthatóságról szóló törvénytervezet árnyékában a meghívott újságírókkal csak érintőlegesen fogunk beszélni a sajtó globális válságáról. Ehelyett tágabb perspektívában, a magyar határokon túl is kiterjedt tapasztalatokkal bíró újságírókkal fogjuk vizsgálni az aktuális magyar és régiós nyomást, ami az újságírásra nehezedik. Beszélünk arról, hogyan jutottunk el az elsősorban a 2010-es sajtótörvénnyel kezdődő, majd a gazdasági kivéreztetéssel folytatódó magyarországi sajtóviszonyoktól a május 14-én napvilágra került ügynöktörvényig. A Magyarországon és Romániában is dolgozó Parászka Boróka és a Vajdaságban a Szabad Szó című közéleti lapot szerkesztő Tőke János segítségével kitekintünk arra, hogy vannak-e a magyarországihoz hasonló törekvések a demokratikus viszonyok határait ugyancsak feszegető szomszédos országokban, Romániában és Szerbiában. Ennek különös jelentőséget adhat, hogy május 18-án lezajlik a romániai választások második fordulója. Határon túli magyar újságíró résztvevőink pedig segíthetnek megérteni, milyen közönsége van az anyaországi sajtónak a határon túli magyarság körében. A 24.hu közéleti-politikai újságírója, Bánszegi Rebeka első kézből tud majd beszélni arról, milyen tapasztalatokat gyűjtött magyarországi újságíróként a romániai választásokon. Egyúttal érzékeltetni tudja, milyen hatással van a kiszámíthatatlanság egy klasszikus „napilapos” működésű szerkesztőség életére. Kerekasztalunk másik két résztvevője, Kálmán Attila, az Investigate Europe uniós oknyomozó műhely újságírója, valamint az adatújságírás egyik hazai zászlóvivője, a Lakmusz főszerkesztője, Teczár Szilárd segítenek értékelni, hogy a Halász János egyéni indítványára benyújtott ügynöktörvény hogyan befolyásolhatja Magyarország uniós tagságát, és megvizsgáljuk azt is, teremthetnek-e az uniós szervek jogkört arra, hogy – amint azt Karácsony Gergely főpolgármester indítványozta – hatékonyan és gyorsan beavatkozzanak a magyarországi sajtószabadság védelmében. Megvizsgáljuk, hogyan erősödtek meg az újságírói együttműködések az Európai Unióban, miért támogatják az uniós hivatalok pályázatok kiírásával a tagállamokban működő szabad sajtót. Van-e ennek a finanszírozási formának hatása a tagországok médiájának működésére, és van-e – legalább részben – igazság a kormány azon vádjaiban, hogy ez beavatkozást jelent a sajtó és azon keresztül a közélet működésébe. Hogyan értelmezhető egyáltalán a globális gyakorlatban az a kitétel, hogy nem befolyásolhatja egy sajtótermék a közéleti diskurzust, amikor annak végső soron, akárcsak Orwell 1984, vagy Huxley Szép új világ című regényének, alapvető lényege, hogy azt befolyásolja?https://biboszabadegyetem.org/kurzus/media-es-valosag-viszonya-a-21-szazadban/
The Collaborative Seminar Cultures of Hate and Oppression was coordinated to address the complexities of these topics that are of urgent global importance in our era of continuing discrimination, forced migration, socially sanctioned violence, and war.
The Collaborative Seminar Cultures of Hate and Oppression was coordinated to address the complexities of these topics that are of urgent global importance in our era of continuing discrimination, forced migration, socially sanctioned violence, and war. This podcast gives insights into the work of the students.
In this interview, Jakob Zsambok of The Complexity Science Hub in Vienna, talks about the Seshat and Cliopatria databases, what they contain, their data sources and confirmation, and how they are accessed, used and enhanced by historical researchers.Seshat: Global History Databank, founded in 2011, aims to bring together the most current and comprehensive body of knowledge about human history in one place by systematically collecting what is known about the social and political organization of human societies and the evolution of civilizations over time.Cliopatria is a geospatial database of world-wide political entities from 3400BCE to 2024CE (then continuing with the existing description) it builds on work originally done by Andrew Tollefson for a YouTube video. Seshat and Cliopatria are now linked, so that data related to a polity can be taken in relation to its physical location, its geo-spatial context, and over time. Jakob uses the Holy Roman Empire and Sigismund of Luxemburg as examples of the management of inter-locking relationshipsSeshat and Cliopatria both actively welcome enhancements, additional data and suggestions from their users. The web addresses areSeshat: https://seshat-db.com/ and https://seshatdatabank.info/ (Note : in order to see all the data and suggest edits, an account is needed which has to be manually approved)And Seshat database on github: https://github.com/Seshat-Global-History-Databank Cliopatria on github: https://github.com/Seshat-Global-History-Databank/cliopatria And on Zenodo: https://zenodo.org/records/13363121This podcast is part of a series of interviews covering central Europe in the medieval period for MECERN and CEU Medieval Studies.
What happens when universities shift from being spaces of critical thinking and public knowledge to institutions shaped by market logic? In this episode, we explore the transformation of higher education under neoliberalism—how academia has moved away from its traditional role and into a system driven by efficiency metrics, privatization, and corporate partnerships.Andrea Pető, Dina Gusejnova, Elena Trifan, and Tania Arcimovich discuss the tension between liberal, neoliberal, and illiberal universities, the precarious conditions of academic labor, and how these forces impact both students and faculty. They also examine the inequalities within academic mobility and the broader implications for knowledge production in a time of polycrisis.Join us as we critically assess the current state of academia and discuss alternatives for a more inclusive and egalitarian university system.
In this interview, Grzegorz Pac, Professor at the Faculty of History of the University of Warsaw, discusses his on-going research into the cult of saints and canonisation in Medieval Poland. Through a case study of the canonisation of St Stanislaus of Krakow, Grzegorz focusses on how a saint, particularly a popular and highly venerated saint, could confer symbolic capital onto a specific church, diocese and individual bishops or archbishops. And in turn, how this symbolic capital offers the beneficiaries greater status and power within the ecclesiastical hierarchy. In addition, Grzegorz considers how the medieval process of canonisation, while becoming more formalised, was more difficult and less effective in the newly Christianised regions peripheral to the centre of Christianity in Rome.This podcast is part of a series of interviews covering central Europe in the medieval period for MECERN and CEU Medieval Studies.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/2dB0O0F14zW7Vyxrfcml2N?si=Q5lHLPM3Sr-861hbLZyASgA mintegy 700 ezer Szovjetunióba vitt hadifogoly és civil internált sorsa abszolút tabu volt a szocializmus évtizedei alatt. A rendszerváltás után azonban berobbant a memoár irodalom, és megalakultak a fogságba esett magyarok és elhurcoltak emlékét őrző szervezetek is. A szovjet fogság története mára a második világháborúval kapcsolatos kutatások legdinamikusabban fejlődő ágazatává vált. Az előadás a fogolykérdés historiográfiáját mutatja be és rámutat arra is, hogy, hogyan használja fel, miként kezeli a témát az emlékezetpolitika.
In this episode, we explore the often-overlooked struggles of at-risk scholars, focusing on the absence of Belarus in discussions on academic freedom, the gendered dimensions of displacement, and the systemic exclusions within global academia. Tania Artemovich discusses how Belarusian scholars have been marginalized in protection programs, despite facing decades of repression, while also addressing the challenges female migrant scholars face in securing recognition and support. Dina Gusejnova, Andrea Pető, Bernard Kleeberg, and Elena Trifan further examine the structural barriers, knowledge production gaps, and the geopolitical hierarchies that shape academic mobility.This episode challenges us to rethink the narratives of academic displacement and calls for a more inclusive, equitable approach to knowledge production and integration.
In this episode of Protecting Academia at Risk, we explore the urgent challenges facing universities today, from the rise of right-wing movements in Europe to the ongoing struggles of displaced and at-risk scholars. Together with Andrea Pető, Dina Gusejnova, Bernhard Kleeberg, Tania Arcimovich, Nadiya Kiss, and Elena Trifan, we discuss how universities can reclaim their role as spaces of free thought and critical inquiry.We reflect on the structural barriers that prevent meaningful academic integration, the failures of transnational organizations in protecting scholars at risk, and the broader implications of the neoliberalization of higher education. From the crisis of academic mobility post-Brexit to the contradictions within the EU’s approach to academic freedom, this conversation unpacks the layered complexities shaping the future of knowledge production.
A pesti gettót hozták létre utoljára a II. világháború alatt. Ebben az előadásban a gettó rövid történetéről, illetve a gettólakók által átélt érzelmekről van szó: milyen fontosabb eseményekhez, helyszínekhez kapcsolódóan számoltak be érzéseikről a túlélők? Hogyan írták le azokat? Milyen szerepük volt az érzelmeknek a gettólakók életében?
In this interview, Merike Kurisoo, Director, Niguliste Museum, Tallinn, discusses her work on the Rode Altarpiece and how it enables ‘time travel’ to the 1480s.The Niguliste Museum (branch of the Art Museum of Estonia) is based in the medieval St Nicholas ( Niguliste ) Church in central Tallinn. One of the most important items in its collection is the massive and stunning beautiful altarpiece by Herman Rode of Lübeck. Based on documents in the Tallinn City Archives, Merike describes how the unique altarpiece was commissioned for St Nicholas Church by the major guilds of the city; how funds for the work were collected from the wider congregation, and finally how the altarpiece was delivered in August 1481 and erected in place by workmen from Lübeck. Merike extends the story of the Rode Altarpiece to the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, as the work and City Archives were evacuated and returned to Tallinn due to wars and peace. Today Tallinn clearly loves and is proud of its medieval history and art.Workshop of the Lübeck master Hermen Rode. Retable of the High Altar of St Nicholas’ Church in Tallinn. 1478–1481https://nigulistemuuseum.ekm.ee/en/the-retable-of-the-high-altar-of-st-nicholas-church/Books:https://pood.ekm.ee/en/et/rode-altar-tallinn-niguliste-church-main-altar-retable/ https://pood.ekm.ee/en/et/rode-altar-side-view/This podcast is part of a series of interviews covering central Europe in the medieval period for MECERN and CEU Medieval Studies.
In this episode of Protecting Academia at Risk, we explore the evolving landscape of risk in academia. Instead of framing risk only as a threat to individual academics facing persecution, this conversation expands the lens to examine systemic risks to academic institutions, knowledge production, and academic freedom. How do shifting political landscapes, neoliberal policies, and illiberal interventions shape the academic space? How can we rethink academic freedom beyond free speech debates? And what does it mean to foster a thriving academic community in these turbulent times?
In this episode, Elena Trifan, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Erfurt, delves into her research on at-risk academics within the Romanian higher education system. With a background in anthropology and sociology, Elena offers a unique lens shaped by her academic journey and personal connection as a first-generation scholar.Her research explores Romania’s position as a peripheral EU country, traditionally known for exporting skilled labor, and examines its evolving higher education landscape. From navigating neoliberal reforms and addressing systemic inequalities to grappling with far-right nationalism and racism, Elena highlights the challenges and transformations shaping the experiences of displaced scholars in Romania.Focusing on Ukrainian academics and intersecting vulnerabilities faced by women and queer scholars, she investigates identity, professional success, and strategies for career resilience amidst a backdrop of systemic delays in academia’s response to social and political shifts. With a gender-sensitive perspective and qualitative methodology, Elena sheds light on the complexities of forging a scholarly identity within a receiving academic environment unaccustomed to its new role.
In this interview, Jessica Knowles discusses her current research into the apocalyptic stained-glass window in St Martha’s pilgrim hospice church in Nuremberg, comparing it to apocalyptic windows in All Saints, North Street in York, northern England.Jessica is considering St Martha’s window in its fullest context of the late-fourteenth century. Therefore, this includes not only the images and the surviving text surrounding the images, but also the story these images and texts told, and how this story fitted with the stories told by adjacent windows in St Martha’s. In addition, she considers the people who saw the window and the ways in which they would have seen and experienced it, also the people who paid for the window and how they benefited from this donation and memorial. Jessica concludes that, although today we see the apocalyptic images and windows as perhaps negative as the physical world burns and is destroyed, late medieval people would probably have seen them as positive, hopeful and an image of the salvation of their souls.This podcast is part of a series of interviews covering central Europe in the medieval period for MECERN and CEU Medieval Studies.
In this episode, we are joined by our colleague, Dr. Nadiya Kiss, a social linguist from Ukraine and co-founder of the Vision Ukraine – Education, Language, Migration research network. Drawing from her extensive work on language policy and activism, Nadiya explores the pivotal role of language in migration and identity formation, especially in the context of forced displacement.She discusses the linguistic behaviors of Ukrainian migrants in Germany, their rejection of Russian as a colonial language, and how these shifts symbolize resistance, identity transformation, and community building. Nadiya also reflects on how language influences narratives in research settings and its significance as a bridge for integration and resilience in times of social challenges.
In this interview, Maria Theisen talks about her work on the Making of the Wenceslas Bible. This great bible was written in German in the late fourteenth century, and although it was never completed, it still contains 2,000 folios and over 650 illuminations. Maria sets the creation of the bible into the context of the times, particularly the reforms within the church and the power struggles between the Catholic church and King Wenceslas IV. Maria also explains the complex iconography of the period and the symbolism of the images in the great first letter of Genesis. As the bible was not finished, there remain notes in the margins for the illuminators which give clues to the process of making the bible and the lives of the scribes and illuminators.This podcast is part of a series of interviews covering central Europe in the medieval period for MECERN and CEU Medieval Studies.
In this episode, we get to know our colleague Tania Arcimovich, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Erfurt and a key member of the Protecting Academia at Risk project. Originally from Minsk, Tania reflects on her journey to Germany, her evolving identity as a scholar, and the impact of displacement on academic life.Tania shares her unique perspective as a Belarusian researcher, focusing on the experiences of female migrant academics and the structural challenges they face. Her work explores how gender, risk, and forced migration influence both scholarly routines and the knowledge produced within academia.Tune in to learn how Tania’s personal journey and academic expertise contribute to rethinking academic freedom and resilience in times of uncertainty.
In this interview, Olga Kalashnikova, recent PhD graduate and researcher at the CEU Democracy Institute ‘History of Democracy’ section, discusses her research into Good Friday Sermons – the Mass Media of 14th Century Bohemia.Olga’s research focussed on Milíč of Kroměříž, a popular and radical preacher in Bohemia who wrote many lengthy sermons which were widely copied and disbursed in central and northern Europe. Using Milíč’s sermons for Good Friday as a window into the preaching of the period, Olga explains why the Good Friday sermons were so important, how the sermons were used as a form of mass communication, and what the sermons were expected to achieve in connection to the church congregation. Olga also shows why and how these sermons are still valuable and relevant for today’s academics and wider population.This podcast is part of a series of interviews covering central Europe in the medieval period for MECERN and CEU Department of Historical Studies.
In this episode, we hear from our colleague, Prof. Dr. Bernhard Kleeberg from the History of Science (Historical Department) at the University of Erfurt. Prof. Kleeberg discusses his work on political epistemologies and the cultures of knowledge, focusing on how scientific habits and political frameworks intertwine. As a historian of science, he shares insights into the Political Epistemologies of Central and Eastern Europe research network, which he co-founded in 2015, and explores themes like academic authority, dissidence, and gender epistemologies.Prof. Kleeberg delves into the micro-politics of scientific research, examining how political agendas and scholarly identities shape day-to-day academic practices. He also reflects on how systems of knowledge are disrupted by events such as the arrival of refugee scholars, prompting new questions and challenging established norms.Tune in to explore how the intersections of politics and science reshape academic spaces in Central and Eastern Europe.
The UrbanCommunity podcast elevates voices from community led initiaitves for sustainable and just cities.In this final episode (for now), our community of practice expert and network weaver, Duncan, explains what these terms mean. He shows us how local initiatives, like our previous UrbanCommunity experiments, can be connected over great distances, leading to a more united effort to make this planet a better place.
This episode examines, through the lens of Aristotelian virtue ethics, how roguelike video games, such as Cogmind, can foster personal development and self-understanding through training our ethical and intellectual virtues. Roguelikes provide more than entertainment; they offer a space to practice virtue, teaching resilience, adaptability, and growth through the careful deployment and interaction of game mechanics. Drawing on Aristotle’s teachings on virtue, this analysis suggests that engaging with roguelikes helps cultivate a virtuous character and imparts valuable life lessons, revealing how gaming can serve as a pathway to self-improvement and deeper self-awareness.Watch the video version on YouTube here.CreditsWritten and presented by James CartlidgeProduced by Greta RauleacOriginal music by James CartlidgeBreaking the Game is a YouTube channel and podcast series about philosophy and video game studies. It aims to facilitate discussions about games, the games industry and philosophy with wider audiences. It mainly (though not exclusively) focusses on the indie games sphere, and current and future philosophical topics include phenomenology, existentialism, political philosophy, ethics, philosophy of mind/consciousness, cognitive science, psychoanalysis and psychology. It is based on the postdoctoral research of James Cartlidge.Check out and subscribe to Breaking the Game here.
This episode examines the classic psychological horror game Silent Hill 2 through the framework of psychoanalysis, investigating how the game represents the unconscious, dream symbolism, horror, and the processing of trauma. Silent Hill 2 is celebrated for its sophisticated portrayal of human psychology, particularly its engagement with a Freudian psychoanalytic theory. In this video, I argue that the game functions as a dramatization of Freud’s theory of dreams as wish-fulfilment, and the notion of the "punishment dream" in particular. Through the game’s intricate portrayal of the psychological torment of protagonist James Sunderland, it explores Freudian ideas about repressed memories. The symbolic environment of Silent Hill reflects deeper, unresolved conflicts in the form of dream images. This analysis reveals Silent Hill 2 as a profound exploration of psychological horror and the complexities of the human mind.Watch the video version on YouTube here.CreditsWritten and presented by James CartlidgeProduced by Greta RauleacOriginal music by James CartlidgeBreaking the Game is a YouTube channel and podcast series about philosophy and video game studies. It aims to facilitate discussions about games, the games industry and philosophy with wider audiences. It mainly (though not exclusively) focusses on the indie games sphere, and current and future philosophical topics include phenomenology, existentialism, political philosophy, ethics, philosophy of mind/consciousness, cognitive science, psychoanalysis and psychology. It is based on the postdoctoral research of James Cartlidge.Check out and subscribe to Breaking the Game here.
This episode continues our exploration of Wittgenstein’s philosophy, moving on to his famous remarks on games in his Philosophical Investigations, which have become one of the most famous pieces of philosophical writing in video game studies. Watch the video version on YouTube here.CreditsWritten and presented by James CartlidgeProduced by Greta RauleacOriginal Music by James CartlidgeBreaking the Game is a YouTube channel and podcast series about philosophy and video game studies. It aims to facilitate discussions about games, the games industry and philosophy with wider audiences. It mainly (though not exclusively) focusses on the indie games sphere, and current and future philosophical topics include phenomenology, existentialism, political philosophy, ethics, philosophy of mind/consciousness, cognitive science, psychoanalysis and psychology. It is based on the postdoctoral research of James Cartlidge.Check out and subscribe to Breaking the Game here.
Wittgenstein famously wrote about games in a book called Philosophical Investigations, one of the most important philosophical works of the 20th century. To contextualize his thoughts, Part 1 of this series provides an introduction to Wittgenstein’s life and philosophy. Part two will discuss the most famous passages from the Philosophical Investigations where he discusses games. These passages form part of a much wider critique of the philosophy of language and meaning. A future third episode will examine subsequent philosophical criticism of Wittgenstein’s remarks on games from the point of view of games and sport.Watch the video version on YouTube here.CreditsWritten and presented by James CartlidgeProduced by Greta RauleacOriginal Music by James CartlidgeBreaking the Game is a YouTube channel and podcast series about philosophy and video game studies. It aims to facilitate discussions about games, the games industry and philosophy with wider audiences. It mainly (though not exclusively) focusses on the indie games sphere, and current and future philosophical topics include phenomenology, existentialism, political philosophy, ethics, philosophy of mind/consciousness, cognitive science, psychoanalysis and psychology. It is based on the postdoctoral research of James Cartlidge.Check out and subscribe to Breaking the Game here.
Named for their similarity to the 1980 video game Rogue, ‘roguelikes’ have one of gaming’s richest, most interesting histories, represent one of gaming’s most enduringly popular genres, and one of its most enduringly influential in terms of game design. The roguelike’s history stretches back to the earliest days of video gaming but also continues to affect a tangible influence on modern gaming in the form of ‘roguelite’ games, which are directly inspired by roguelikes.This episode investigates the history of the roguelike genre and how this history is told, concentrating on three particularly illuminative aspects of the discourse surrounding it which I will discuss under the headings of complexity, controversy, and creativity. The history of the roguelike genre is the history of a type of game designed around a particular set of gaming preferences which favour high complexity, high difficulty, deep strategy, and a punishing learning curve, and prioritize gameplay at the expense of aesthetics. But so complicated are roguelikes that their history cannot be told without mentioning the markedly intense, detailed, fractious, 40-year long debate which has raged in the fan community over the meaning of its own genre label. Out of this debate, a set of design principles and game mechanics emerged as definitive of older, traditional roguelikes such that the history of roguelikes is one of a prolific, diverse hotbed of creativity deliberately constrained by a certain design philosophy.The most recent chapter in this history are ‘roguelites’, which take direct inspiration from roguelikes but take a freer, less constrained and more modernized approach to their creativity with roguelike mechanics. Roguelites creatively remix the mechanics associated with traditional roguelikes, blending them with other genres, and implementing modernized graphics and design techniques.This episode is based on a talk presented at a game studies conference at the University of Innsbruck in 2024, presented with the same title. KONF: Spielgeschichte(n) - Games und Game Studies in medienkulturgeschichtlicher Perspektive, Innsbruck (11.04.-13.04.2024)Watch the video version on YouTube here.CreditsWritten and presented by James CartlidgeProduced by Greta RauleacOriginal music by James CartlidgeBreaking the Game is a YouTube channel and podcast series about philosophy and video game studies. It aims to facilitate discussions about games, the games industry and philosophy with wider audiences. It mainly (though not exclusively) focusses on the indie games sphere, and current and future philosophical topics include phenomenology, existentialism, political philosophy, ethics, philosophy of mind/consciousness, cognitive science, psychoanalysis and psychology. It is based on the postdoctoral research of James Cartlidge.Check out and subscribe to Breaking the Game here.
This episode explores the philosophical relevance of video games, examining why games matter and what they reveal about the human condition. At the core of this inquiry is the question of what it means to be human and how we cope with life’s existential tensions. Playing games, engaging in sport, and immersing ourselves in stories are all ways in which we seek meaning and enjoyment in life. Video games, in particular, combine play and narrative, providing a uniquely engaging aesthetic space to explore identity, existence, and purpose.Watch the video version on YouTube here.CreditsWritten and presented by James CartlidgeProduced by Greta RauleacOriginal Music by James CartlidgeBreaking the Game is a YouTube channel and podcast series about philosophy and video game studies. It aims to facilitate discussions about games, the games industry and philosophy with wider audiences. It mainly (though not exclusively) focusses on the indie games sphere, and current and future philosophical topics include phenomenology, existentialism, political philosophy, ethics, philosophy of mind/consciousness, cognitive science, psychoanalysis and psychology. It is based on the postdoctoral research of James Cartlidge.Check out and subscribe to Breaking the Game here.
In this episode, Alina Dragolea, Associate Professor at the National University of Political Science and Public Administration in Bucharest, discusses the complex dynamics of "academia at risk" in both high- and low-ranked universities. She challenges Western-centric views on academic migration and explores how diverse institutional and national contexts shape the experiences and support strategies for at-risk scholars. Alina calls for a more nuanced approach that considers the unique challenges of European peripheries and moves beyond one-size-fits-all policies.
In this episode, Dina Gusejnova (PhD in History, University of Cambridge), Associate Professor in International History at LSE, shares her insights on the complexities of supporting scholars at risk in Europe. With research interests in modern European political, intellectual, and cultural history—particularly during transitional periods such as the revolutions of 1918-20 and the two World Wars—Dina is currently working on the cultural and intellectual history of forced displacement and internment during the Second World War. Drawing from her expertise and personal background as a descendant of academic migrants, she explores the challenges of integrating displaced academics, the unintended consequences of current mobility frameworks, and reflects on the research that led to the co-authored article Rewarding Mobility: Towards a Realistic European Policy Agenda for Academics at Risk, written with Andrea Pető, Alina Dragolea, Andrei-Vlăduț Terteleac, Artemis Photiadou & Rebeka Bakos, which inspired the current project. Tune in to learn more about the shifting dynamics of academic risk and how policy can better address the needs of scholars in vulnerable situations.
In this interview, Natalia (Talia) Zajac, an Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Niagara University, New York State, discusses her on-going research into ‘Noble Ladies: Between East and West’. This is the interesting phenomenon of noble ladies from Rus marrying into Central European noble families, and nobles ladies from Central Europe marrying into the Rus nobility, thus creating marriages of mixed Orthodox and Latin Christianity. Natalia also offers explanations of why this religious openness and acceptance of difference gradually came to an end in the thirteenth century.In addition, Natalia talks about her research into one specific noble lady, the Duchess Gremislava (in Polish, Grzymisława), a Rus princess married into the Polish nobility. Through the detailed examination of a seal of Duchess Gremislava, Natalia reviews the power struggles and internal family competition of the nobility, as well as how these travelling brides built wider support and friendship networks throughout their married lives.This podcast is part of a series of interviews covering central Europe in the medieval period for MECERN and CEU Medieval Studies.
In this interview, Natalia (Talia) Zajac, an Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Niagara University, New York State, discusses her on-going research into ‘Noble Ladies: Between East and West’. This is the interesting phenomenon of noble ladies from Rus marrying into Central European noble families, and nobles ladies from Central Europe marrying into the Rus nobility, thus creating marriages of mixed Orthodox and Latin Christianity. Natalia also offers explanations of why this religious openness and acceptance of difference gradually came to an end in the thirteenth century.In addition, Natalia talks about her research into one specific noble lady, the Duchess Gremislava (in Polish, Grzymisława), a Rus princess married into the Polish nobility. Through the detailed examination of a seal of Duchess Gremislava, Natalia reviews the power struggles and internal family competition of the nobility, as well as how these travelling brides built wider support and friendship networks throughout their married lives.This podcast is part of a series of interviews covering central Europe in the medieval period for MECERN and CEU Medieval Studies.
In our first episode of the Protecting Academia at Risk podcast, we introduce the project's origins and the personal journeys that brought our interdisciplinary team together. Lead researcher Andrea Pető shares her story of growing up during the anti-communist resistance and her academic career at CEU, highlighting the attack on gender studies and the broader threats to academic freedom. We discuss the global phenomenon of illiberalism, the importance of organizing against these challenges, and how displaced scholars are transforming academic institutions. This episode sets the stage for our exploration of academic resilience and the fight for intellectual freedom in the face of adversity.
In this interview, Karel Pacovský discusses his on-going research into the daily lives of the Benedictine nuns of St George’s Monastery in Prague Castle. The monastery, founded around 970 exclusively for women, was the earliest monastic institution in Bohemia. It held an important position within the Bohemian state due to its physical location and the status and learning of its abbesses. Karel’s research is based on a range of sources, including a book written for the nuns by their confessor, a monk from a near-by Benedictine Abbey of Ostrov, in the early 15th century. This book contains the rule of St Benedict, and the confessor's advice on various aspects of their life – how to manage their library, educate the young novice nuns, and how to conduct their daily life in accordance with their monastic vows. The book also contains reprimands which offer delightful insights into where and how the nuns were taking short-cuts in their religious life. This podcast is part of a series of interviews covering central Europe in the medieval period for MECERN and CEU Medieval Studies.
In this interview, Jack Wilson, historian of the Mongol Empire and PhD candidate at Central European University discusses his current research into the Mongol invasions of Hungary in the thirteenth century.Focussing on the lesser known Mongol invasion of Hungary in the 1280s, and viewing this from the perspective of the Mongols, Jack’s research considers the likely reasons for the invasion. His analysis shows that the Mongol motivations were closely linked to internal power struggles and dynastic conflicts within the Golden Horde, and changing climatic conditions in their home steppe-land. Jack’s analysis also implies that the invasion was not for conquest, but for loot and slaves, and to enhance the reputation a leading contender within their internal power struggles. Jack also demonstrates how the Mongolian elite viewed the world and the place of themselves and their vast empire within it.This podcast is part of a series of interviews covering central Europe in the medieval period for MECERN and CEU Medieval Studies.
In this interview, Martin Bauch, the leader of a group researching medieval climate history and climate change at the Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe (GWZO) in Leipzig, discusses his research into the eruption of the Samalas volcano in 1257 in Indonesia. Based on a wide range of information sources, including chronicles from Europe, the Middle East and the Far East, dendrochronology and ice-core dating, Martin explains how this massive eruption had an impact on world-wide climate patterns over several years. Martin’s focus is on central and southern Europe, and here he demonstrates how the shifting climate influenced economics, trading patterns, public health and potentially even the design of cultural artefacts. The effect of the Samalas eruption was noted throughout the world, often, but not always, with a negative impact. As many of the changes wrought by the eruption and subsequent change of weather patterns were long term or permanent, Martin describes this as a truly global moment in the Middles Ages.This podcast is part of a series of interviews covering central Europe in the medieval period for MECERN and CEU Medieval Studies.
This podcast episode explores the role of art criticism, especially the question whether critics can establish a standard for determining what constitutes beauty in art. For this episode, I took inspiration from my thesis where I assessed three thinkers who offer contrasting perspectives on this matter: David Hume, Pierre Bourdieu, and Alexander Nehamas.Hume, in his work Of The Standard of Taste, suggests that although aesthetic judgments are subjective, they can be assessed by competent critics. This is not to say that there is an objective standard for beauty, but that judgements made by those possessing certain qualities that make for a good critic hold more weight. Pierre Bourdieu, in his work Distinction, contends that taste is shaped by social factors, such as cultural upbringing and class distinctions, thereby challenging the notion of such a standard and arguing instead that taste is a marker of social class that perpetuates already existing hierarchies. In order to show that elitism and social power is not all there is to art criticism, I introduced Alexander Nehamas' ideas from his book, Only a Promise of Happiness, presenting a view of critics who, instead of imposing a standard, are encouraging us to engage with artworks on a personal level, inducing a diversity of interpretations and evaluations.In this podcast episode, I will take these thinkers as my inspiration for interviewing Katrin Heinrich, an art historian and critic based in Vienna. She studied art history and comparative literature at the University of Vienna, and currently she works in research support at the University of Music and Performing Arts. Kathrin is also a doctoral candidate at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, where she was on a scientific staff from 2020 to 2022, has taught courses and co-organized a research project called Addressing Amnesia, Performing Trauma. Her writing has been published in newspapers and magazines like Der Standard, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Frieze, Texte zur Kunst, Springerin, Eikon and PW Magazine. In 2018, she was awarded the AICA Austria Prize for Young Art Criticism. (music for intro and autro is by Lili Kátai, playing an improvised version of Debussy's Arabesque L. 66 No. 1 in E Major on piano)Special thanks to Thomas Aichinger and Cathy Mason.
In this interview, Maria Vargha, Assistant Professor for Spatial Approaches to Medieval Studies at University of Vienna, discusses her recent and current research into early Christianisation on the edges of what came to be known as the Holy Roman Empire.Using a vast amount of archaeological and historical data, and spatial and network analysis, Maria shows how different regions of Central Europe were Christianised and the power dynamics that were involved. Her innovative approach focusses on the lowest rungs of society, the rural peasants, and the networks of churches that served them. This research will result in an open-access data base of archaeological and historical data covering Central Europe in the 11th and 12th centuries. The data base will include all known settlement and burial sites, and all known data of secular and sacred power of the period.This podcast is part of a series of interviews covering central Europe in the medieval period for MECERN and CEU Medieval Studies.
The UrbanCommunity podcast elevates voices from community led initiaitves for sustainable and just cities.In this episode, originally recorded in 2023, Giulia from The Space_coolhaven in Rotterdam talks about why commons in cities are places of connection, creativity, and civic engagement. She shares her own experience creating them, the fun and unexpected things that arise, and how to help others create more urban commons spaces. Learn about The Space here: https://www.instagram.com/thespace_coolhaven/
The OSUN Network Collaborative Seminar Cultures of Hate and Oppression was coordinated address the complexities of these topics that are of urgent global importance in our era of continuing discrimination, forced migration, socially sanctioned violence – and war. This 3rd podcast gives insights into the work of the students. View Andrea Peto’s talk about the importance of this course on YouTube:https://youtu.be/eQ0D07Eo0vY?si=4xl47a5yGLCufPPlPodcast with responses by students:About the academic year 2022-23:https://podcasts.ceu.edu/content/experiences-osun-collaborative-seminar-antisemitism-holocaust-colonialism-gender-connectingAbout the academic year 2023-24:https://podcasts.ceu.edu/content/experiences-osun-collaborative-seminar-cultures-hate-and-oppression-connecting-conversations
Pető Andrea a legtöbbet idézett és legtöbb nemzetközi díjjal kitüntetett magyar történész. Munkássága előtt tisztelgő kiadvány jelent meg Aki kimondja, amit ki kell mondani címmel, visszautalva egy korábbi kötetének címére (Elmondani az elmondhatatlant) a Balassi Kiadó gondozásában és Virányi Péter és Klacsmann Borbála szerkesztésében. Ezt a kötetet mutatja be a podcast.
Az energiatakarékos épületfelújítás a következő évek európai klímapolitikai törekvéseinek egyik legfontosabb eleme, ennek megfelelően központi szerepet tölt be az EU célkitűzésekben és finanszírozási konstrukcióiban is. Ugyanakkor Magyarországon a jelenlegi politika ezt a kihívást nem a valós problémáknak és az EU-s elvárásoknak megfelelően kezeli. A jelenlegi kormány nem is ebben látja elsősorban a megoldást, hanem az energiatermelés fokozásában, az energiahordozók behozatalának biztosításában.EU-s szinten ennek ellenére nagy elvárások fogalmazódnak meg az energiatakarékos épületfelújítással kapcsolatban: minden tagországnak kötelezően meg kell emelnie az épület-mélyfelújítások arányát, hogy a kívánt energiamegtakarítási és kibocsátás-csökkentési célokat el lehessen érni. A bevezetés módja ugyanakkor igencsak kényes, hiszen szociális és környezetvédelmi szempontok feszülnek egymásnak, melyek nem oldhatóak fel könnyen. Hogyan oldható fel az energiaszegénység? Mennyiben függ az információhiánytól az állampolgári vagy közösségi elköteleződés a korszerűsítéssel kapcsolatban? Mi a lakosság felelőssége az energiatakarékosságban? Milyen szerepet játszhatnak az okos technológiák a probléma feloldásában?
Adolf Hitler a Reichstagban 1939. január 30-n köntörfalazás nélkül kijelentette: „Ha a nemzetközi zsidó pénzembereknek még egyszer sikerül egy világháborúban belerángatni a népeket, akkor ez nem a zsidók győzelmét, hanem a zsidó faj megsemmisülését fogja eredményezni Európában.” 1941 szeptemberében az NSDAP propagandaosztálya plakátot készíttetett erről a szövegről és azt az egész Birodalomban terjesztették. Reinhard Heydrich, a Birodalmi Biztonsági Főhivatal vezetője november 29-én fogott a németek uralma/hegemóniája alá hajtott európai területeken élő mintegy nyolcmillió zsidó legyilkolását kidolgozó konferencia megszervezésébe. Némi halasztás után az összejövetelre 1942. január 20-án 14 fő részvételével került sor. Magától értetődik, hogy ezt az eszelős tervet minden részleteiben ilyen rövid idő alatt – ráadásul szivarfüstben, konyakozás közben – nem lehetett kidolgozni. Ám vitathatatlan szimbolikus jelentőségén túl a konferenciának megvolt a maga konkrét súlya is. 1942 végére az SS saját kimutatásai szerint már 4 millió zsidót pusztítottak el. (Jan Kershaw: Hitler. 1936-1945. Nemezis. Szukits, Szeged, 2004, 424.) Ebben a keretben helyezendő el a Kállay-kormány zsidópolitikája.
Az előadás az egyes plébániák fennmaradt Historia Domusai-ban rögzített leírások alapján tesz kísérletet a „kisemberek” frontátvonulással kapcsolatos tapasztalatának bemutatására és értelmezésére. A plébánosok korabeli feljegyzései a múltbéli közösségi tapasztalatok és a jövőre vonatkozó közös várakozások hálóján átszűrt személyes megfigyelések, egyúttal az esetek végtelen sokféleségéről tudósító korlenyomatok. Milyen helyzetértékelések, szerepfelfogások bontakoznak ki e krízishelyzet idején keletkezett írásokból? Milyen „kulcsok” szükségesek megértésükhöz? Végül mi az eseményeknek az a történelmi tapasztalata, melyet csak a történeti reflexió fedhet fel?
A bevezető a kulturális-intellektuális gyűlölködések és az erőszakos politikai cselekvések kölcsönhatásait vizsgálja átalában a szociálpszichológia bűnbakfogalma segítségével. Ezt a fogalmi keretet használom azután a győztesek második világháború utáni, Németország és a németek felelősségével kapcsolatos politikai álláspontjait értelmezve. Az utolsó rész a második világháború politikai és nem politikai okainak néhány tudományos értelmezését tekinti át. Az előadás kulcskérdése: lehetnek-e a történésznek eszközei a katasztrófákhoz vezető tömeges lelkiállapotok gyökereinek feltárásához?
Ózd, magyarország egyik legfontosabb ipari településévé vált a 19. század végére, ahol az ipari munka társadalmának a kialakulásával párhuzamosan erősödött meg a modern polgári társadalom. Ennek a kialakulásában, kis-, közép-, és nagypolgárként egyaránt fontos szerepet játszott az Ózdon a 19. század elejétől megtelepülő zsidóság. A kezdetben kis létszámú zsidó közösség a 20. század elejére már a község egyik meghatározó csoportja volt, létrehozta a saját felekezeti, kulturális, oktatási intézményrendszerét is. A kisebbség-többség együttélése a második világháborúig, a zsidótörvények életbe léptetéséig gyakorlatilag mentes volt az érdemi konfliktusoktól. A lényegében kisvárosi helyi társadalomban az antiszemita hangulat, az országos mintázatot követve változott. A helyzet a gettósítással és a deportálással változott meg, amikor a többségi társadalom tagjainak jelentős része nemhogy nem volt szolidáris a törvényen kívülivé tett kisebbséggel szemben, hanem saját anyagi gyarapodásának a lehetőségét látta meg a helyzetben.Előadásomban röviden összefoglalom az ózdi zsidó társadalom 19-20. századi történetét, különös tekintettel arra, hogy ennek keretét egy ipari település társadalma adta. A második részben pedig az 1944-46-os évek történetét,annak fontosabb eseményeit mutatom be, kitérve a deportálás utáni mindennapi vagyonszerzésre, a koncentrációs táborokból visszatérő túlélők beilleszkedésének a problémáira, a közösség újjászerveződési törekvéseire, az 1946-os ózdi pogromra, ami hozzájárult a helyi zsidó közösség elfogyásához.
In this interview Grischa Vercamer, an interim professor for European regional history at Chemnitz University of Technology, discusses his on-going research into the representation of rulership in late medieval Central Europe. The interview focuses on the chronicles of Eberhard Windeck, a merchant and close advisor to the Holy Roman Emperor, Sigismund of Luxemburg. Grischa considers how Windeck presents Sigismund to his readers in terms of politics and piety, and compares this presentation with other sources, including other late medieval chronicles of rulers. Based on this comparative research Grischa offers us a deep insight into the writing of Eberhard Windeck, the roles of medieval rulership and the public persona and private piety of Sigismund of Luxemburg.This podcast is part of a series of interviews covering central Europe in the medieval period for MECERN and CEU Medieval Studies.
In this interview Leslie Carr-Riegel discusses her research into inter-state mercantile trade in the medieval period and the ways in which the Right of Reprisal influenced that trade. Leslie explains that a reprisal was a legal instrument that compensated for losses due to theft and the non-payment of debts and doweries. Her on-going, summative work compares reprisals, and the process of gaining reprisals throughout Europe during the whole medieval period. Surprisingly, she shows that reprisals functioned in a very similar way at a time when most aspects of trade were variable and determined locally. Leslie also explains how reprisals influenced state-building and the development of inter-state trade treaties.This podcast is part of a series of interviews covering central Europe in the medieval period for MECERN and CEU Medieval Studies.
In this interview Agnes Flora, an archivist at the Romanian National Archives in Cluj, discusses her research into the city archives in Cluj in Transylvania, Romania. She highlights the changes in urban demography that occurred due to inward migration, encouraged by the city council which needed both tax revenue and labour. Agnes explains how Cluj promoted the inward movement of peasants from the city’s hinterland, and welcomed longer distance skilled craftsmen as migrants, and how these two migration movements impacted the style and business of the city. She also offers fascinating insights into the working and personal life of one Italian migrant as he becomes a citizen of Cluj and finally a Guild Master and leading political figure within the city.This podcast is part of a series of interviews covering central Europe in the medieval period for MECERN and CEU Medieval Studies.
In this interview, Paweł Figurski, Assistant Professor at the Polish Academy of Sciences and a Humboldt Research Fellow at the University of Regensburg, talks with Karen Culver about his current research into medieval liturgy and the making of Polish political identity around the year 1000. In this newly Christianised region, Paweł shows how the liturgy was used, not only to spread the Christian message, but also to build awareness of the emerging early medieval state through the repetition of rulers’ names and propagation of the new name of a country (Polonia). This ritual was a key part in building a political identity not only among the literate clergy, but also with more straightforward means among the other members of the political elite.This podcast is part of a series of interviews covering Central Europe in the medieval period for MECERN and CEU Medieval Studies.In the interview the following recordings have been utilized. We thank the authors for enabling us to share medieval music in the podcast:1) "Annua recolamus” from the album Sacer Nidus - Św. Wojciech, Bolesław I. Chrobry i Otton III. w muzyce średniowiecznej by Ensemble Peregrina, dir. Agnieszka Budzińska-Bennett, Raumklang 2011 2) Exultet chant based on the Gradual of Bolesław II of Mazovia, MNK Czartoryski Museum in Kraków, Rr. 4922-4940 (olim: KrM MNK/XV/rys/2271-89), performed by Isabella Burns at the University of Notre Dame, 2015.
In this interview, Lucie Doležalová, professor of Medieval Latin at the Charles University in Prague, discusses her current research into the additions made by scribes at the end of their copied texts in late medieval Bohemia. Lucie shows how these seemingly personal additions, sometimes humorous, sometimes requesting rewards, sometimes nonsensical, were often quite formulaic. The research will map the scribal additions by time and place to identify the source of the more formulaic additions, and possibly the routes by which the ideas were transmitted. Scribal additions also offer a rare glimpse over the shoulder of the scribe and allows us to see the material and physical nature of the scribes’ work of copying text, including his tiredness, hunger, and relief at finishing the task.This podcast is part of a series of interviews covering central Europe in the medieval period for MECERN and CEU Medieval Studies.
Előadásom témája egy 1932 őszén Horthy Miklós kormányzó és Bethlen István miniszterelnök ellen kommunisták által tervezett merénylet kísérlet bemutatása, amely azonban sokkal inkább látszik a csendőrség koholmányának, mintsem kommunista-internacionalista konspirációnak. A csendőrség célja ezzel az üggyel, nagy valószínűséggel az ekkoriban a csendőrség berkeiben megalakított politikai nyomozó osztály súlyának, presztízsének növelése volt, a riválisnak tartott és eladdig a politikai nyomozati ügyekben országos hatáskörrel bíró Budapesti Rendőrfőkapitányság politikai nyomozó alosztályával szemben. A mind a konspiráció, mind a középkori hóhérokat megszégyenítő vallatások terén gazdag fantáziával „megáldott” újszászi csendőrök illetve a csendőrség nyomozói, egy egyszerű családi perpatvarból európai méretű összeesküvést kreáltak. Az „összeesküvésben” érintettek voltak nem csak egykori Jászberényi Direktórium itthon maradt tagjait – Wittreich Jenő, Szívós István, Zigholcz Géza –, de a Szovjetunióba kikerültek is – Vitéz Sándor, Paczauer Gábor, Gárdos Henrik –, akik „hozták” az összeesküvés Párizstól Bécsen és Budapesten át Moszkváig tartó szálát. Az ügyből nem maradhatott ki természetesen az ekkoriban vidéken újra szervezkedni kezdő MSZDP sem. Az előadás végén igyekszem még kitérni az összeesküvéssel megvádoltak további sorsára is.
In this interview, Grigor Boykov, an assistant professor at the University of Vienna (Institute for East European history) discusses his research into waqf villages in Bulgaria during the early Ottoman period. Ottoman landholders in the conquered territories founded waqf villages to create a stream of income that they endowed to religious or social welfare activities within the Ottoman empire. Grigor’s research using the original Ottoman tax and legal records, and techniques of modern spatial analysis, shows the waqf also were instrumental in re-populating empty lands, maintaining social order, increasing the value of the land, and safeguarding the heredity rights of the landholders.This podcast is part of a series of interviews covering central Europe in the medieval period for MECERN and CEU Medieval Studies.
Pillanatképek - nyitott akadémia a második világháború történetéről.Az MTA II. világháború története albizottság előadássorozata.A lengyelek annak ellenére, hogy országukat a második világháború elején totalitárius szomszédai felszámolták, a háború első napjától az utolsóig harcoltak a náci Németországgal szemben szinte az összes hadszíntéren. A lengyel hadsereg nem kapitulált, a kormány emigrációban működve fenntartotta az állami jogfolytonosságot, a megszállt országban pedig Európa legnagyobb létszámú ellenállása alakult ki. Ennek ellenére a háború végén nem ismerték el őket győztes államnak.Előadásomban bemutatom a jelenlegi lengyel historiográfia legfontosabb vitáit, megállapításait és (emlékezetpolitikai) korlátait, valamint példákkal szeretnék rávilágítani arra, hogy a magyar történetírás máig nem tudott igazán tárgyilagos értékelést adni a lengyel ellenállás történetéről.
Pillanatképek - nyitott akadémia a második világháború történetéről.Az MTA II. világháború története albizottság előadássorozata.A második világháború éveiben mintegy 100.000 – 120.000 magyarországi német teljesített szolgálatot a Waffen-SS-ben. Ott voltak a keleti fronton, a normandiai partraszállásnál, Budapest ostrománál, sőt Auschwitz és más lágerek őrszemélyzetének soraiban is. Az előadás azt vizsgálja, milyen előzmények vezettek oda, hogy német származású magyar állampolgárok tömegei kerültek a német haderőbe. Egy további fókusz a következményeken lesz: miként kezelték a volt Waffen-SS katonákat Magyarországon, illetve Németországban a háború elvesztése után, illetve miként épültek be ezek az események a kisebbségi közösség önképébe és kollektív emlékezetébe.
Pillanatképek - nyitott akadémia a második világháború történetéről.Az MTA II. világháború története albizottság előadássorozata.Előadásom két területet ölel fel. Egyrészt bemutatom a politikaipropaganda által leggyakrabban használt taktikákat, módszereket, másrészt bemutatom hogyan alkalmazták mindezeket a brit, amerikai, szovjet és német II. világháborús plakátok estében.A politikai propaganda történetén végigtekintve azt az összefüggést fedezzük fel, hogy nem más, mint a háború puska nélkül. A propaganda a társadalmi kommunikáció egyik formája. Társadalmi termék, amelyet a társadalom tagjainak meggyőzésére állítanak elő. Szoros kapcsolatban van a politikai marketinggel és reklámmal. A plakátok, a propaganda egyik legkiválóbb médiumai: nagyon sok emberhez eljutnak, tömegeket tudnak megmozgatni, továbbá a képi világ és a plakáton szereplő felirat nagyon meggyőző tud lenni. A plakátok a közterületen szinte mindenhol jelen vannak, így kéretlenül is „szóval” tartják a befogadókat. Arra kérdésre keresem a választ, miszerint a II. világháború idején miképpen vált a politikai propagandaplakát a politika, az ellenségkép, a félelemgerjesztés hatásos eszközévé.
In this interview Dr Jana Gajdosova talks about her research into the architects, their lives, their business practice, and their architecture during the late gothic period. The conversation focusses on the architects Peter Parler, who worked on Prague Cathedral, and Lorenz Lechler, both of whom may be described as members of an international, professional elite of the middle-ages. Dr Gajdosova is a medieval art specialist at Sam Fogg, an international art dealership and gallery in London.Link to the video of the Lorenz Lechler drawing - https://vimeo.com/666276544This podcast is part of a series of interviews covering central Europe in the early and medieval period for MECERN and CEU Medieval Studies.
The UrbanCommunity podcast normally elevates voices from community led initiaitves for sustainable and just cities.However, in this episode I am joined by Kieran McCarthy, a city councillor in Cork, Ireland, and an Irish member of the EU Committee of the Regions. We talk about the importance of collaboration between cities and community led initiatives and Kieran explains how important it is to have a plan! The Pure Cork Action Plan pulls actors together to smash silos and get the whole city working together to address its headline issues.
Pillanatképek - nyitott akadémia a második világháború történetéről.Az MTA II. világháború története albizottság előadássorozata.Előadásom során hat fő tézis mellett fogok érvelni. Elsőként azt fejtem majd ki, hogy az erőszak kultúránk egyik kulcskérdése, melynek tanulmányozása komoly tudományos kihívásokat is rejt. Másodjára azt állítom, hogy a tömeges erőszak tanulmányozásakor a népirtás távolról sem problémátlan fogalma került a hierarchia csúcsára, lett a bűnök bűnének kortárs szinonimájául megtéve. Érveket hozok továbbá amellett, hogy a holokauszt közismert, ugyanakkor vitatható értelmezése a holokausztot a népirtás archetípusaként ábrázolja. Ezt követően amellett foglalok állást, hogy a holokausztot lehet és érdemes is összehasonlítani a tömeges erőszak további eseteivel. Ötödikként vázolom majd a népirtások kutatásának egy szűkebb és egy tágabb agendáját, mégpedig leginkább azért, hogy rámutathassak arra, hogy az Európán kívüli koloniális és az Európán belüli náci erőszak közti összefüggések vizsgálata miért is oly fontos. Végezetül pedig azt vetem fel, hogy a történettudomány releváns megkülönböztetéseket kell, hogy tegyen, az etikus emlékezetnek azonban inkább az áldozatok közti szolidaritást elősegítő és kifejező közös tényezőket lenne érdemes előtérbe helyeznie.
Klacsmann Borbála Holokauszttörténetek című könyvéről a szerzővel Pető Andrea beszélget.https://www.libri.hu/konyv/klacsmann_borbala.holokauszttortenetek.html
The podcast shares the perspectives of faculty and students of OSUN Collaborative Network Course on Antisemitism, Holocaust, Colonialism, Gender. This collaborative OSUN network course addresses topics that are of urgent global importance in our era of continuing discrimination, forced migration, socially sanctioned violence – and war. It promotes new teaching and thinking about the relationships among four distinct, but overlapping, historical, cultural, and political phenomena: antisemitism, the Holocaust, colonialism, and gender. Each of these terms becomes a lens through which to examine exclusion, prejudice, discrimination, race, and hate in their historical and contemporary manifestations. Each of these questions is widely discussed in its own setting, with antisemitism and the Holocaust studied separately from forms of racism rooted in colonial legacies. The aim of this course is to reframe such vital discussions that at present take place in parallel, and sometimes even in an antagonistic manner.
Hét séta a politikai eszmetörténet erdejébenHét séta, hét expedíció a politikai eszmetörténet 3000 éves őserdejébe. Erre vállalkozunk. Hét beszélgetés a politikai eszmetörténet különböző korszakainak legizgalmasabb témáiról az ókortól egészen a jövőig. Mit tanultunk vagy tanulhatnánk a klasszikus antikvitás politikai kultúrájából? Vajon az ókori athéni demokrácia és a római köztársaság története tanulságos lehet-e napjainkban? És miben változtatta meg Machiavelli azt, ahogyan a keresztény középkor teológusai az államról és az uralkodásról gondolkodtak? Mikor és hogyan jött létre a modern demokrácia és jogállam? Mit jelent és miért fontos a hatalmi ágak szétválasztása, a „fékek és ellensúlyok” rendszere és a szubszidiaritás elve? Kellenek-e pártok a demokráciához? Elég-e hozzá egy? Vagy kettő? Mi a különbség liberálisok és konzervatívok között? Vagy vannak liberális konzervatívok is? Esetleg konzervatív liberálisok? Vajon a jogvédő szervezetek a liberalizmus őrei? Miben hasonlít és miben különbözik a szociáldemokrácia, a kereszténydemokrácia és a népi mozgalom? Fenntartható-e a kapitalista fogyasztói társadalom? Bolsevista trükk-e a szakértelem? Mi történik, ha megrendül az emberek bizalma a politikában, az állami intézményekben és a tudományban?A beszélgetéssorozat egyes alkalmain ilyen kérdésekről beszélgetünk a téma két-három szakértőjével, kutatójával. És természetesen a közönség is kérdezhet. A beszélgetések témájához néhány hasznos és elgondolkodtató olvasmányt is ajánlunk az érdeklődőknek. A beszélgetéssorozat szervezője és a beszélgetések moderátora: Paksa Rudolf történész.A kurzusra jelentkezni itt lehet: https://biboszabadegyetem.org/A podcast az OHMSTUDIO-ban készült.
In recent years, there has been a significant increase in Holocaust museums established worldwide, prompting numerous studies examining how they portray the Holocaust. Some researchers have emphasized the dominant roles of Yad Vashem and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in creating a canon and universalizing the Holocaust narrative. Others have highlighted the variations in Holocaust commemoration around the world. Additional studies have explored various aspects, including pedagogy and education, politics and nationalism, museum design and architecture, ethics, survivor testimonies, and more. This podcast delves into ongoing research funded by the Gerda Henkel Stiftung, investigating the role nationalism plays in shaping Holocaust narratives across seven countries within the European Union and beyond. The study, titled "When Nationalism Fails: A Comparative Study of Holocaust Museums," specifically focuses on Nazi collaboration, examining whether and how Holocaust museum exhibits address this subject and if nationalism affects the portrayal. As the research is still underway, this podcast serves as an initial platform for discussing the research rather than presenting its findings.
Pillanatképek - nyitott akadémia a második világháború történetéről.Az MTA II. világháború története albizottság előadássorozata.A 1949-49-es szabadságharc leverésében segédkező orosz csapatok által zsákmányolt honvédzászlókat a Szovjetunió kétszer is visszaadta Magyarországnak. Először 1941. március 20-án Moszkvában kaptunk vissza 56 zászlót – részben két politikai fogolyért, Rákosi Mátyásért és Vas Zoltánért cserébe, akiket 1940 novemberében engedtek a magyar hatóságok a Szovjetunióba távozni. 1944-ben a Hadtörténeti Múzeum Somlóvárra, az Erdődy-kastélyba menekített gyűjteményéből újra szovjet kézre kerültek a ’48-as zászlók is, amelyeket (pontosan 66 darabot) Budapesten adtak újra vissza 1948. április 4-én. A két ceremóniára gyökeresen eltérő körülmények között került sor. https://2vh-albizottsag.hu/https://www.facebook.com/MTAMasodikVilaghaboruTorteneteAlbizottsag
Elképzelhetőnek tartod, hogy az önkormányzat arra kér, tölts le egy applikációt a telefonodra, és szavazz a közösségi költségvetésre? Beleszólhatunk a döntéshozatalba? Az állampolgárok többsége elégedetlen a képviseleti demokrácia intézményeivel. Erre a problémára kinálnak megoldást az ún. demokratikus innovációk, melyek célja a demokratikus kormányzat és a politika struktúráinak, folyamatainak javítása. Miközben világszerte, sőt, hazánkban is léteznek sikeres demokratikus innovációk, ezek terjedése, közismertsége Magyarországon mégis korlátozott. Hogyan működhetnének demokratikusabban a politikai pártok?Hogyan vonhatók be az állampolgárok közvetlenül a politikai döntéshozatalba?Milyen pozitív gyakorlatok vannak erre máshol?Oross Dániellel, a hamarosan induló Demokratikus innovációk kurzus vezetőjével Bari Bence beszélget. A kurzusra jelentkezni itt lehet: https://biboszabadegyetem.org/A podcast az OHMSTUDIO-ban készült.
Pillanatképek - nyitott akadémia a második világháború történetéről.Az MTA II. világháború története albizottság előadássorozata.Legtöbbünknek már nincs személyes tapasztalata a második világháborúról, sőt alig találkozhatunk ma már olyannal, akinek van. A második világháború mégsem csak könyvekből és az iskolai tanórákról ismert számunkra, hiszen a témáról készült filmek (és játékok) személyes közelségbe hozzák sokunkhoz. Ezek az élmények pedig gyakran meghatározóbbak, mint a történelemoktatás és a hagyományos ismeretterjesztés produktumai. Ezért érdemes figyelmet fordítanunk ezekre. Előadásomban a második világháborúról szóló filmekről lesz szó - történész szemmel. Megnézzük, milyen típusú filmek és miként alakítják a közemlékezetet. Hiteles múltképet adnak-e? Használhatóak-e a történelemoktatásban? Mit kezdhet velük a történész, a történelemtanár és a történelem iránt érdeklődő széles publikum?https://2vh-albizottsag.hu/https://www.facebook.com/MTAMasodikVilaghaboruTorteneteAlbizottsag
The UrbanCommunity podcast elevates voices from community led initiaitves for sustainable and just cities.In today's episode, Tatiana and Honorata from JUSThood turn traditional city planning on its head by sharing their creative neighbourhood planning method. We ponder what women, fish and children have in common, and ask a group of men to step into the shoes of pregnant women - all with the goal of creating urban spaces that are suited for the diverse needs of people and hedgehogs that inhabit them. Learn more about JUSThood here: https://www.justhood.net/Like the topic? Listen to the ICLEI Europe podcast episode on 'Cultivating the gender equal city' here: https://iclei-europe.org/podcast/
In this interview, Orsolya Lang, the Director of the Aquincum Museum in Budapest, Hungary, talks about her work in the town of Aquincum on the Roman Limes, and its legacy on the early medieval period. Orsolya discusses Aquincum, which at its height had a population of around 60,000, including a legionary fortress, administrative centre and civil town, and the settlement was an important part of the global Roman world. Aquincum initially absorbed and ‘Romanised’ settlers from outside the empire, but with the gradual decline of the empire, semi-nomadic ‘barbarian’ tribes from regions north and east of the Limes slowly replaced the settled, urban, Roman population. These people brought new cultures and new life styles, and with them the early middle-ages emerged. This podcast is part of a series of interviews covering central Europe in the early and medieval period for MECERN and CEU Medieval Studies.
Pillanatképek - nyitott akadémia a második világháború történetéről.Az MTA II. világháború története albizottság előadássorozata.https://2vh-albizottsag.hu/https://www.facebook.com/MTAMasodikVilaghaboruTorteneteAlbizottsag
In this interview, Robert Antonin, Associate Professor of History at Ostrava University in Czech Republic, discusses his research into the importance of rulership rituals in the High Middle Ages, Bohemia. He shows how the visualization of rulership through the public display of ritual built the legitimacy of the ruler, and how the public acceptance of this legitimacy enhanced social cohesion and stability. While Robert’s research period is the high medieval, he suggests a similar process happens in today’s modern democracies.This podcast is part of a series of interviews covering central Europe in the medieval period for MECERN and CEU Medieval Studies.
The UrbanCommunity podcast elevates voices from community led initiaitves for sustainable and just cities.In today's episode, Sıla from Roof Coliving in Turkey convinces us that civic engagement, especially from young people, is what puts the 'just' in 'Just Transition'. She also tells us about a quirky project in Maltepe that's poking people to think about climate change, and shares her mindset around hopefulness in activism. Learn about Roof Coliving here: https://www.roofcoliving.org/ https://www.instagram.com/roofcoliving/
The UrbanCommunity podcast elevates voices from community led initiaitves for sustainable and just cities.In today's episode, Filippos from Pervolarides in Thessaloniki shares his experience with creating a social solidarity net through food and beyond. He gives an honest take on the personal strain of community work, tips on how to lessen it, and a surprising account of how the Covid-19 pandemic boosted support and engagement.Learn about Pervolarides here: https://www.facebook.com/PervolaridesThessalonikis/
The ‘Oxford Handbook of Medieval Central Europe 800 – 1600’ was conceived in Budapest, Hungary in 2014, outlined in Olomouc, Czechia in 2016 and finally published by Oxford University Press in 2022. In this interview, the joint editors of the book, Nada Zecevic and Daniel Ziemann, discuss the process of creating a Handbook that consists of twenty-four chapters written by over fifty different scholars spread throughout the world. They discuss how the book’s style and content was created, how the boundaries of chronology and geography were defined and agreed upon, and how they managed the many challenges of such an extensive subject and ambitious project. Nada and Daniel also reflect on the final chapter of the Handbook and consider the use, and potential abuse, of medieval history and the role that historians should play in presenting medieval history.
Amanda Cote (University of Oregon) discusses how crunch has become deeply embedded in the video game industry, leading developers to distinguist between "good crunch" and "bad crunch."YouTube version:https://youtu.be/DQltuh_EwlwFollow Amanda on social media:https://twitter.com/accotehttp://www.amandaccote.com/Original Study:https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14614448211014213
The UrbanCommunity podcast elevates voices from community led initiaitves for sustainable and just cities.In today's episode, Amy from HubRen in London shares her thoughts on the interconectedness of all things, how hope is a verb, and the power of art and culture in climate conversations.Learn about the Hub here: https://www.hubren.org/
Ian and Kate are off on new adventures, but the podcast continutes! Sophia Silverton introduces its new focus: sharing the stories of community initiaives for sustainable and just cities.Image by Lucia Di Paola
Welcome to the first episode of the CEU Press podcast series! To start us off, Frances Pinter (Executive Chair, CEU Press) and Emily Poznanski (Director, CEU Press) sit down with Andrea Talabér (Managing Editor, CEU Review of Books) to talk about the beginnings of the CEU Press, its mission, how it has developed since its foundation and about the Press’s plans for the future.Ever wonder what goes into publishing an academic book? The CEU Press podcast series aims to delve into various aspects of the publishing process: from crafting a book proposal, getting peer review feedback on the manuscript, and the subsequent distribution, promotion and marketing of academic books. We will also talk to series editors and authors, who will share their experiences of getting published and talk about their series or books.Interested in the CEU Press’ publications? Click here to find out more: https://ceupress.com/We support all routes to open access, see here: https://ceupress.com/open-access-ceu-pressAnd for more on our home-grown initiative see, Opening the Future: https://ceup.openingthefuture.net/Stay tuned for future episodes and subscribe to our podcast to be the first to be notified.
In this interview Éloïse Adde, Assistant Professor at Central European University's Medieval Studies Department, speaks on the topic of the medieval nation. Using examples from Luxemburg Bohemia and the duchy of Brabant, she demonstrates the processes that led to the creation of pre-modern political nationhood.
In this interview, Associate Professor Daniela Rywikova, University of Ostrava, talks about her book ‘Spectrum Mortis, The Image of Death in Late Medieval Bohemian Painting’. She considers how the people of Bohemia in the medieval period thought about death, represented death, prepared for their own death, and how the worlds of the living dead and the dead were compressed together in ways which are quite different from our own, modern approach to death and dying.This interview podcast is part of the series of podcasts for MECERN and the CEU Department of Medieval Studies.
Chris J. Young (University of Toronto) discusses how the Canadian independent video game maker scene has evolved thanks to such robust tools as the Unity Engine, as well as how Unity managed to become a silent giant in the video game industry thanks to its strong grip on the indie scene and mobile platforms.Video version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEp8g4y-cJkChris on social media: https://twitter.com/drchrisjyoung Link to study: https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/bitstream/1807/89734/3/Young_Chris_J_201806_PhD_thesis.pdf Game Production Studies: https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/47043Syd Bolton collection at the U of T: https://collections.utm.utoronto.ca/collections/syd-bolton-collection
In this interview, Zoë Opačić, Senior Lecturer in the Department of the History of Art at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK, discusses her current research into how royalty, religion and relics impacted town planning and architecture, and thus changed the shape of major cities in central Europe. The interview focusses on Prague, Krakow and Vienna in the fifteenth century, specifically during the reigns of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV and Kasimir the Great.This podcast is part of a series of interviews covering central Europe in the medieval period for MECERN and CEU Medieval Studies.
Jan Švelch (Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic) discusses how player surveillance and the gathering of player data have become a norm in the gaming industry and how developers and publishers have entered into a seemingly reciprocal relationship with players, who receive limited access to this data through infographics and "fun fact" metrics that are disseminated among players and in the gaming press.Video version: https://youtu.be/azt34I65v5USpotify version: https://open.spotify.com/show/6qdPrf6CCNjQ9nqNj5SUh9To follow Jan on social media: https://mobile.twitter.com/snewgoblinLink to study: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/14614448221097889Prague Game Production Studies Group: https://gameproductionstudies.fsv.cuni.cz/Links to infographics:https://gallery.neoseeker.com/Shadow+of+Death/photostream/2745099782https://www.reddit.com/r/HuntShowdown/comments/fc95ab/hunt_second_anniversary_infographics_compiled/ https://www.pcgamer.com/mass-effect-3-infographic/https://geekoutpost.com/cyberpunk-2077-stat-memes-flood-the-community-after-tone-deaf-social-media-accounts-share-player-statistics/Main theme: Technology by 2TECH-AUDIO | https://2tech-audio.bandcamp.comMusic promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com
In this episode Adrienn Kiss, a CEU Legal Studies Department alumna talks with Serge Sych, Vice President for Enrollment Management, Career Services and Alumni Relations and Pavel Tereshchenko, Department of Public Policy student and Alumni Scholarship recipient, about her involvement with Ukrainian refugees in Hungary as she compiles databases with all the information they might need during their first weeks in the country.
In this interview, Dr. Fabian Kümmeler talks about his on-going research into the socio-professional community of herders on the island of Korčula in Venetian Dalmatia, in the fifteenth century. Based on largely neglected archival holdings from the Croatian State Archive in Zadar, which include business contracts, records of litigation and dispute resolution, Fabian describes how the herding business functioned, who was involved, the legal environment and how it was enforced. Together they offer a fascinating window into the daily life of the herders and their fellow islanders in 15th century.Dr. Fabian Kümmeler is the APART-GSK Fellow at the Austrian Academy of Sciences and Principal Investigator of a project on “Pastoral Communities in Southeast Europe, 1400–1600”.This podcast is part of a series for the CEU Department of Medieval Studies and MECERN
In this episode Gulnoza Khasanova, a CEU Cultural Heritage Studies Program alumna talks with Serge Sych, Vice President for Enrollment Management, Career Services and Alumni Relations and Oleksandr Vasylenko Legal Studies Department student and Alumni Scholarship recipient about her initiative to provide CEU graduates escaping the war in Ukraine with vacant rooms at the CEU dorm in Budapest.
GENS: Behind the Scenes was inaugurated by Sara Anselmo and Lilli Settari, two master’s students at the Gender Studies department of Central European University, in Spring 2022. They were curious about the lives and careers of Gender Studies faculty members they had encountered as teachers, and keen to get to know them beyond the classroom - and at the same time, to give their peers and prospective students a chance to listen to personal, informative-but-fun interviews with their professors.The first faculty member who sat down in front of Sara and Lilli's mics was Professor Francisca de Haan, the current and outgoing head of the Gender Studies Department.
MECERN interview with Michaela Antonín MalaníkováMichaela Antonín Malaníková is the Assistant Professor in the Department of History, Faculty of Arts at Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic.In this interview, she discusses the marital disputes which resulted in litigation before ecclesiastical and municipal courts in the Bohemian lands, 1300 – 1500. She considers the general approach to marriage in the period, the different roles taken by the courts, and how the two juridical systems worked in harmony; she also discusses individual cases of alleged bigamy, mis-understood flirtation, pre-nuptial agreements and dissolution of marriage.
The podcast shares the perspectives of faculty and students of OSUN Collaborative Network Course on Antisemitism, Holocaust, Colonialism, Gender. These termes are used as a lens through which to examine prejudice, discrimination, race and hate in their historical and contemporary manifestations. These questions have often been discussed in a bifurcated way, with antisemitism and the Holocaust studied separately from forms of racism rooted in colonial legacies. The aim is to reframe discussions that at present take place in parallel, and sometimes in an antagonistic manner. Faculty and students explore how we may use teaching to clarify and work through such intellectual tensions, which have real-world implications that take form in diverse national and regional contexts.
What is the difference between altar and altarpiece? How were the altarpieces produced and used in medieval churches? How did medieval people see and understand them? In this interview, Chris Mielke talks with Emese Sarkadi Nagy, an art historian from the Christian Museum in Esztergom, Hungary, about the manufacturing and symbolism of Transylvanian altarpieces and their place in medieval society. The researcher speaks about the meaning of Transylvanian altarpieces for the local communities, the people who stood behind their manufacturing, and the unusual iconography on the altarpieces. The discussion reveals that these objects of Christian art can show the connections between art and local saints venerations, the economic situation of the community, and the transition of styles and schools. Emese Sarkadi Nagy also speaks about her work and recent projects in Christian Museum and how its catalogs and collections can help us understand medieval Christian culture. Past Perfect! is CEU Medieval Radio’s show on medieval and early modern history and culture, where Christopher Mielke casually discusses with his guests various issues from the crusades to archeo-zoology to medieval urine sampling. The discussions are made with the aim to popularize medieval and early modern studies with the help of experts such as early musicians, historians, philologists and archeologists.This episode was first recorded and broadcast in 2013.
In this episode of Past Perfect, Chris Mielke is joined by Ádám Nádasdy, a professor of English linguistics and a poet who is famous for translation Sheakspears plays into Hungarian. The professor starts the conversation with the Anglo-Norman world, the development of English in the Middle Ages, and the interactions between English and French. You will learn how the difference between „swine” and „pork” appeared, which strange French expressions still exist in English, and when did British start pronounce vowels as it is now. Ádám Nádasdy also speaks about the changes in English between Chaucer to Shakespeare: is it true that Elizabeth I would instead prefer American English over the modern British one?The second part of the interview tells about the current project of the professor, the translation of Dante’s „Divine Comedy” into Hungarian. Ádám Nádasdy explains „Science Fiction” of Dantes Heaven and the mistakes of cosmology, which were made both by Dante and Christopher Columbus. In the end, the professor shares his thoughts on the spirit of the Middle Ages, whether they were gloomy and “gothic,” or did the medieval people enjoy life even more than we do it nowadays. Past Perfect! is CEU Medieval Radio’s show on medieval and early modern history and culture, where various issues from the crusades to archeo-zoology to medieval urine sampling are discussed. The discussions are made with the aim to popularize medieval and early modern studies with the help of experts such as early musicians, historians, philologists and archeologists.This episode was recorded in 2013.
In this episode, Chris Mielke has an exciting conversation about medieval forests and the woodcutting economy with the researcher Péter Szabó. The doctor explains how to study medieval landscapes, shows the difference between forests and woodlands, and talks about woodcutting's technologies and economic benefits in the Middle Ages and Early Modern times. He also tells where to find medieval forests in Central Europe and how to compare the source descriptions with the landscapes that we see now. Péter Szabó's research is a good example of interdisciplinarity, which involves specialists from various fields and contributes to substantial European environmental projects. During the episode, you will also discover whether the movies about Robin Hood show the proper medieval forests, what to do with a medieval tree for prolonging its life, and why the small forests are more interesting for historians than the big ones. Past Perfect! is CEU Medieval Radio’s show on medieval and early modern history and culture, where Christopher Mielke casually discusses with his guests various issues from the crusades to archeo-zoology to medieval urine sampling. The discussions are made with the aim to popularize medieval and early modern studies with the help of experts such as early musicians, historians, philologists and archeologists.This episode was first recorded and broadcast in 2013.
Why was it important for the regent of the Netherlands to be unmarried? What is the connection between a Hungarian Queen and Luther? Why did Mary of Austria sign herself as Mary of Hungary? And why is it possible to create an exhibition about these queens full of empty glass boxes? In this interview, Chris Mielke speaks with Orsolya Réthelyi, a specialist in Early Modern Queenship, and explores unexpected facts from the lives of queens in Hungary and the Netherlands. The central person of the discussion is Mary of Austria, a Hungarian Queen, who was also a regent of Law Countries and an important figure in Habsburg politics. Orsolya Réthelyi tells how the queen dealt with wars, lack of money, and Reformation, and which unique personal documents can be found about her. Then, the discussion reveals the general patterns of queenship in the sixteenth century and the cultural transformations, which were the consequences of queens moving from one country to another. In addition, the professor reveals her recent research of songs about dying queens and how they show the personalities of these famous women and the acceptance of queens among subjects. Past Perfect! is CEU Medieval Radio’s show on medieval and early modern history and culture, where Christopher Mielke casually discusses with his guests various issues from the crusades to archeo-zoology to medieval urine sampling. The discussions are made with the aim to popularize medieval and early modern studies with the help of experts such as early musicians, historians, philologists and archeologists.This episode was first recorded and broadcast in 2012.
What do Faust and John Dee, Queen Elizabeth I's official magician, have in common? How to speak the language of angels and use magic crystals? What did Renaissance occultism look like, and how did it affect the modern understanding of magic? Christopher Melke discusses all these issues with György Szőnyi, a specialist in Renaissance and modern literature, whose academic interests include occultism and cultural transfers.Professor Szőnyi talks about occult practices in the Renaissance, the connection between magic and clergy, and how Renaissance occultism was used by modern writers such as Umberto Eco. Also, he describes various challenges of finding and interpreting sources, and the impact of digitalization, copyright policies, and postmodern reality on the historian's work. Past Perfect! is CEU Medieval Radio’s show on medieval and early modern history and culture, where Christopher Mielke casually discusses with his guests various issues from the crusades to archeo-zoology to medieval urine sampling. The discussions are made with the aim to popularize medieval and early modern studies with the help of experts such as early musicians, historians, philologists and archeologists.This episode was first recorded and broadcast in 2012.
In this episode, Felicitas Schmieder, a professor of Medieval History in FernUniversität Hagen and visiting professor at CEU, speaks about medieval urbanism, perception, and eschatology. She begins with the research on her hometown, Frankfurt am Main, and the unique features of this royal city. Her focus is the medieval clergy, its role, and its challenges in the feudal world. Felicitas Schmieder would explain the pros and cons of being a cleric and why she does not consider the medieval Church an obstacle but rather a productive force for the city's development.In the second part, the professor speaks about her studies of perception in the Middle Ages. With Marco Polo as an example, she describes the key differences between modern and medieval people's vision of the world and foreign lands. The final part of the episode is devoted to medieval eschatology and how it influenced the people's understanding of the changes and environmental catastrophes around them. Felicitas Schmieder describes how people handled the changes of the Late Middle Ages, how they knew that Apocalypse was coming and how medieval prophets showed Apocalypse as a possible win-win situation. Past Perfect! is CEU Medieval Radio’s show on medieval and early modern history and culture, where Christopher Mielke casually discusses with his guests various issues from the crusades to archeo-zoology to medieval urine sampling. The discussions are made with the aim to popularize medieval and early modern studies with the help of experts such as early musicians, historians, philologists and archeologists.This episode was first recorded and broadcast in 2013.
After the graduation from CEU, doctor Magdolna Szilágyi talks about her dissertation about road systems in Western Hungary during the Arpad period. While the stereotypes say that medieval people lived in isolated societies and traveled a little, the research proved that the long journeys to the pilgrim locations, annual fairs, and other destinations were common. The doctor also claims that the road systems were not homogenous, describing eight main categories of the routes from her research and their hierarchy. She focuses on the county of Vas, the border territory with both the old Roman roads and medieval paths.From this episode, you may also learn what the illegal routes were and how they appeared, what was the difference between “ecclesiastical,” “corpse,” and “king” road, and why salt was transported only on the Roman roads. In the conclusions, Magdolna Szilágyi gives the insight into recent innovations in medieval archaeology and the international digital projects on roads and communication in Central Europe. Past Perfect! is CEU Medieval Radio’s show on medieval and early modern history and culture, where Christopher Mielke casually discusses with his guests various issues from the crusades to archeo-zoology to medieval urine sampling. The discussions are made with the aim to popularize medieval and early modern studies with the help of experts such as early musicians, historians, philologists and archeologists.This episode was first recorded and broadcast in 2013.
Interview with Christian Raffensperger, Professor and Chair of the Department of History, Kenneth E. Wray Chair in the Humanities, Wittenberg University, USAIn this interview, Professor Christian Raffensperger discusses his current research and forthcoming book Rulers and Rulership in the Arc of Medieval Europe, 1000-1200. The ‘arc’ refers to a vast area from Iberia through Scandinavia, central Europe and Rus to Byzantium. In this work, he challenges the traditional construction of medieval Europe and its focus on England and France, while viewing other parts of Europe as ‘peripheral and other’. Christian also challenges the approach of medieval European research delineated by modern nation states, titles, and academic constructs. This interview is part of a series in which scholars associated with the Medieval Central European Research Network (MECERN) discuss their research. MECERN is an intitative of the CEU Department of Medieval Studies.
In this episode, Chris Mielke speaks with Rubina Raja, the professor of Classical Archaeology at Aarhus University in Denmark, about her research of regional identities in the Roman Empire. First, the professor explains how archaeologists can study identities and what “Roman” really means for such studies. Rubina Raja also talks about the functions of the temples, objects, and city walls in urban landscapes and regional identities. In the second part of the interview, she describes her recent projects on four ancient cities in the Eastern provinces (Athens, Ephesus, Aphrodisias, and Jerash) and the archaeological discoveries, including funeral inscriptions, which contributed to understanding the concept of family in Roman and Early Medieval times. The discussion reveals whether the stereotype about indifferent parents is true and how important it was to have a family for survival in that period. Past Perfect! is CEU Medieval Radio’s show on medieval and early modern history and culture, where Christopher Mielke casually discusses with his guests various issues from the crusades to archeo-zoology to medieval urine sampling. The discussions are made with the aim to popularize medieval and early modern studies with the help of experts such as early musicians, historians, philologists and archeologists.This episode was first recorded and broadcast in 2013.
This is an interview with Maarten Prak, Professor of Social and Economic History at the Department of History and Art History, Utrecht University, Netherlands, hosted by Karen Culver.They discuss Maarten’s book Citizens without Nations: Urban Citizenship in Europe and the World c. 1000-1789. Maarten discusses how urban citizenship functioned in medieval and early modern Europe. He argues that urban citizenship in the period was much deeper and wider than many people assume as it includes people who participated in all the activities related to being a citizen plus those with formal citizenship status. He also demonstrates how this definition of citizen impacts urban and national governance in the period before 1789.
Sigismund of Luxembourg (1368-1437) was king of Hungary, king of Bohemia, and Holy Roman Emperor at the same time. However, he was popular neither in Germany nor in Hungary or Bohemia, and long-abandoned in historiography. In this interview, Chris Mielke and his guest, Attila Bárány, talk about mysterious king Sigismund and Hungarian diplomacy of his age.The first part of the interview is about King Sigismund's personality and its perception in the historiography, the international contacts of Hungary with England, Germany, and France, and the royal visit of Sigismund to England. In the second part, doctor Bárány continues the topic of Hungarian diplomacy speaking about Anne of Foix-Candale, a Hungarian Queen with French and English roots. He also explains past and new cooperations between international scholars in royal diplomacy and their shared projects.Past Perfect! is CEU Medieval Radio’s show on medieval and early modern history and culture, where various issues from the crusades to archeo-zoology to medieval urine sampling are discussed. The discussions are made with the aim to popularize medieval and early modern studies with the help of experts such as early musicians, historians, philologists and archeologists.This episode was recorded in 2013.
In this interview, Dan Knox, (PhD student), talks about his research into coalitions, networks, and conflict around the double papal election in 498 and the subsequent Laurentian Schism. Using social network analysis methodologies, and based on personal letters and other writing of the period, Dan aims to tell the story of the papal election and the period of post-election violence in terms of the coalitions, the networks and the people involved.This podcast is part of the ‘New Faces, New Ideas’ series in which Ph.D students in the CEU Department of Medieval Studies talk about their current research and future ambitions.
In this interview, Anna (Ph.D student) talks about her research into the construction and function of late medieval cathedrals in Central Europe. Her research focusses on the eastern end of the cathedral and how the design and use of the space reflected the contemporary society. Anna also discusses how the concepts used in the design of these ancient buildings are relevant to the design of buildings and public spaces today.This podcast is part of the ‘New Faces, New Ideas’ series in which Ph.D students in the Department of Medieval Studies talk about their current research and future ambitions.
What can the fragments of glass bottles or beakers retell from their past? In this episode, Christopher Mielke speaks with Tanja Tolar about this very particular type of source materials and discovers how much the fragments can say about trade, manufacturing techniques, imagery, diplomacy, and contacts between the Western and Middle East societies in the 15-16th century. Tanja Tolar talks about her work experience with fragmented materials, the images that could be found, and the utilization of glass objects in the Late Medieval World. She also reveals the connection between the imagery on glass objects (such as «seated ruler») and royal representation in public space, looking for the patterns and individual figures on the materials and symbolism of the images. The historian proves that the fragments of glass objects can recreate a fascinating context of long-distance trades in the Medieval World and the contacts between western and eastern markets. Past Perfect! is CEU Medieval Radio’s show on medieval and early modern history and culture, where Christopher Mielke casually discusses with his guests various issues from the crusades to archeo-zoology to medieval urine sampling. The discussions are made with the aim to popularize medieval and early modern studies with the help of experts such as early musicians, historians, philologists and archeologists.This episode was first recorded and broadcast in 2012.
What can the fragments of glass bottles or beakers retell from their past? In this episode, Christopher Mielke speaks with Tanja Tolar about this very particular type of source materials and discovers how much the fragments can say about trade, manufacturing techniques, imagery, diplomacy, and contacts between the Western and Middle East societies in the 15-16th century. Tanja Tolar talks about her work experience with fragmented materials, the images that could be found, and the utilization of glass objects in the Late Medieval World. She also reveals the connection between the imagery on glass objects (such as «seated ruler») and royal representation in public space, looking for the patterns and individual figures on the materials and symbolism of the images. The historian proves that the fragments of glass objects can recreate a fascinating context of long-distance trades in the Medieval World and the contacts between western and eastern markets. Past Perfect! is CEU Medieval Radio’s show on medieval and early modern history and culture, where Christopher Mielke casually discusses with his guests various issues from the crusades to archeo-zoology to medieval urine sampling. The discussions are made with the aim to popularize medieval and early modern studies with the help of experts such as early musicians, historians, philologists and archeologists.This episode was first recorded and broadcast in 2012.
In this interview, David Rockwell, Ph.D student with the Department of Medieval Studies, discusses his research into the lobbying practices of bankers and other lenders that aimed to influence imperial law-making affecting the economic life of sixth century Byzantium. He looks at the history of economics and corruption of the period from his unique perspective as a former senior finance and capital markets lawyer in today’s global trading hubs.This podcast is part of the ‘New Faces, New Ideas’ series in which Ph.D students in the Department of Medieval Studies talk about their current research and future ambitions.
In this interview Antonin Kalous talks about his recent book ‘The Legation of Angelo Pecchinoli at the Court of King of Hungary, 1488- 1490’. This wonderful book includes documents and personal letters to Pope Innocent VIII from his nuncio Angelo Pecchinoli, detailing daily life and even personal conversations at the court of King Matthias Corvinus. Antonin also discusses his new research into the religious reformation in fifteenth century Bohemia, looking at individuals and institutions, and their impact on wider society.This podcast is part of a series for the Medieval Central European Research Network (MECERN) which was established by the CEU Department of Medieval Studies. Antonin Kalous is an alumna of CEU Department of Medieval Studies and Associate Professor of Medieval History of Palacký University, Olomouc in the Czech Republic.
Why was Jewish the only non-Christian minority tolerated in Europe? How did the Jewish and Christians share their neighborhood? What was the tendency in attitude to this minority in Medieval Europe? Today, Chris Mielke discusses these and many other questions with Carsten Wilke, primary CEU specialist in Jewish studies. The historian speaks about engagement of Jewish people into various aspects of medieval life such as royal courts, Christian communities, gothic style, medieval theology, and economy. Also, he shared the conclusions of his previous research about the role of rabbinate, a unique institution, which changed a lot from Antiquity to modernity. More recently, Carsten Wilke has been working with Hebrew grave inscriptions, so he explains how this type of source can reveal communication between Jewish diasporas, local traditions of commemoration of death, and Jewish visions of the afterlife. The discussion reveals why the Jewish were simultaneously stigmatized and needed in medieval society and how changes in the society influenced the toleration of the Jewish people.Past Perfect! is CEU Medieval Radio’s show on medieval and early modern history and culture, where Christopher Mielke casually discusses with his guests various issues from the crusades to archeo-zoology to medieval urine sampling. The discussions are made with the aim to popularize medieval and early modern studies with the help of experts such as early musicians, historians, philologists and archeologists.This episode was first recorded and broadcast in 2013.
A Military Analysis of the ‘Iron Gate’ Defence against the Ottoman Invasion of Hungary in the 14th century. In this interview, Jason Snider (Ph.D Student) talks about his research into the defence of the Kingdom of Hungary by the Teutonic Knights. He considers the defensive strategy from a military perspective and poses the question of why it failed.This podcast is part of the ‘New Faces, New Ideas’ series in which Ph.D students in the Department of Medieval Studies talk about their current research and future ambitions.
In the new episode of Past Perfect, professor Terence Barry from Trinity College, Dublin, speaks about the Norman conquest of Ireland, urban development, and the island's economy in the Middle Ages. He starts with the Normans' invasion, explaining how they appeared on the Irish coast and why it was so difficult to conquer the whole island. In the second part, Terence Barry reveals what castles can say about Anglo-Norman presence in Ireland and how they survived till our days. The last part of the interview is devoted to Irish trade in the Middle Ages. The professor claims that Ireland was an essential part of the European trade routes, having partners everywhere from Italy to Scandinavia. In the end, Terence Barry focuses on markets and fairs, especially on the Kells market in the County Meath near Dublin, where the medieval market cross can still be seen in the heart of the city.Past Perfect! is CEU Medieval Radio’s show on medieval and early modern history and culture, where Christopher Mielke casually discusses with his guests various issues from the crusades to archeo-zoology to medieval urine sampling. The discussions are made with the aim to popularize medieval and early modern studies with the help of experts such as early musicians, historians, philologists and archeologists.This episode was first recorded and broadcast in 2013.
In this episode, Chris Mielke speaks with Alan Cameron, Professor Emeritus at Columbia University, New York. The professor tells about his various books on the Late Antique world and the unexpected interconnections between paganism and Christianity.In the first part, Alan Cameron focuses on the figure of Claudian, a Greek poet at the court of emperor Honorius in Rome. What could a pagan poet write about a Christian emperor? How does the poetry take part in imperial propaganda? Why did so many of his poems survive? And how the Christian world accepted the pagan allusions in the court poetry?In the next part, the professor develops the topic of Greek mythology in the Late Antiquity. His research discovers how the myths were transmitted through generations and how Christians knew about the myths. Alan Cameron also speaks about the key differences between paganism and Christianity, which helped the latter fastly spread across the Mediterranean. The professor shares his thoughts on how the Christians and pagans lived together, when the real paganism died and why Early Christians were afraid of traces of paganism even after that.Past Perfect! is CEU Medieval Radio’s show on medieval and early modern history and culture, where various issues from the crusades to archeo-zoology to medieval urine sampling are discussed. The discussions are made with the aim to popularize medieval and early modern studies with the help of experts such as early musicians, historians, philologists and archeologists.This episode was recorded in 2013.
Andrea Petö, Professor for Gender Studies at the Central European University, Vienna, talks with Lori Weintrob, Professor of History and founding director of the Wagner College Holocaust Center, Staten Island, New York, and Laura Morowitz, who is currently researching issues of art in Nazi Vienna about the different forms of Jewish women’s heroism. They discuss why it is important to remember these heroines and what they mean for us today.Bet Debora Podcast channel
Urban Arena is a series of critical conversations with activists, entrepreneurs, intellectuals and policy-makers in different European cities who are working, in complimentary and conflicting ways, to create cities that respond to the twin challenges of justice and sustainability. This time we're talking with Linda Gustafsson, Gender Equality Officer, City of Umeå.Image by Arnica Bäckström from Pixabay
This Nightworkpod episode is based on a talk centred on the experiences of a platforming woman offering ‘alternative transport’ services with Bolt, Romania. The talk focuses on one day in the life of S. a Bolt driver. "In July 2021, S. switched from the long hours of international driving between Oradea and Milan, to offering 'alternative transport' services on a 2km radius and four rides per hour (during high demand or 'red code' time)."You can also read the text online at StoryMaps https://bit.ly/30WDyS9
This episode is based on a talk that I gave as part of a conversation moderated by Ann Lui, principal @futurefirm. I was delighted to join @cyruspenarroyo discussing our films at this event organised @futurefirm and hosted by @exhibitcolumbus and moderated by Ann Lui, principle at Future Firm. You can also watch both films (Nightshift Spitalfields, 2020, UK and Manifest Destiny, 2021, US) throughout November 2021 at Midnight Palace, Columbus, IN and in Chicago, US.In the next episode, Ann Lui is joined by Cyrus Peñarroyo the maker of Manifest Destiny (2021, US). Till then, enjoy the presentation. You can find more @anightworkshop on twitter and IG @thenightworkshop @futurefirm @exhibitcolumbus #film #night #nightowl #nightshift #nightshiftnurses #nightwork
Urban Arena is a series of critical conversations with activists, entrepreneurs, intellectuals and policy-makers in different European cities who are working, in complimentary and conflicting ways, to create cities that respond to the twin challenges of justice and sustainability. This time we're talking with Tom Meeuws, Vice Mayor for Social Affairs and Environmental Affairs, in the city of Antwerp.Photo by Bobo Boon
Introduction into law and politics behind facial recognition in the recent years (until 2021).Special guest of the episode: Jennifer Brody, U.S. Advocacy Manager of Access Now (https://twitter.com/brodyjab?s=20).Editor: Natalie L. Payne (https://www.facebook.com/natalie.l.payne.9).Sources:Comparitech research: https://www.comparitech.com/vpn-privacy/the-worlds-most-surveilled-cities/.NY Post article: https://nypost.com/2021/06/07/biden-admin-starts-using-controversial-facial-recognition-tool-on-migrants-report/.Sound effects: https://quicksounds.com & https://freesound.org/.
Beszédes (el)hallgatás – szigorúan ellenőrzött megszólalások. Csöndes megemlékezés 2021. június 11-i beszélgetése.
A beszélgetés németül zajlott / The conversation was in GermanA podcast elérhető magyar felirattal a Fővárosi levéltár YouTube csatornáján.Háborúkban megerőszakolt nők emlékezete projekt - Előadássorozat XI., 2021. június 17. Mélyi József művészettörténész interjúja Eduard Freudmann-nal Eduard Freudmann (1979) Bécsben élő osztrák művész tevékenységének középpontjában a köztér és az emlékezet áll. 2015-ben Varsóban a Gabu Heindl osztrák építésszel közösen készített Az emlékmű lehet egy erdő című tervük nyerte a Holokauszt idején zsidókat mentő lengyelek emlékművére kiírt pályázatot, amely azonban hosszas vitákat követően nem valósult meg. Budapesten szintén 2015-ben, a Spinoza Házban mutatta be A fehér elefánt archívuma című projektjét, amelyben családi archívumának segítségével, a dokumentarista- és tárgyszínház eszközeivel járta körül a Holokauszt emlékezetének jelenkori problémáit. 2010-es évek során Bécsben, a Schiller Parkban a Történelempolitikai Platform csoport kezdeményezésére számos akció zajlott le a harmincas években a nácik szolgálatába állt költő, Josef Weinheber 1975-ben felállított mellszobránál. Freudmann a beavatkozások, rekontextualizálások egyik szervezője volt.
In the interview with Andrea Pető they are discussing two topics: the importance of memory in transformative politics and the forms of forgetting in relation to the planned monument of victims of war time rape in Budapest.
In the 50th podcast of the series Andrea Peto speaks about the achievements, fun facts and outreach of the previous 49 podcasts.
In the closing episode of this series, we will talk about an increasingly popular funding strategy for small, independent media organizations: hybrid business models - where media outlets combine revenues from various sources as a means of financing their journalistic work. These business models usually involve a mix of small donations or subscriptions from audiences, grants from big donors like foundations, and from selling services or specialized products. We invited Monia ben Hamadi, editor in chief of Inkyfada, a Tunisia-based independent media organisation, and Marius Dragomir, director of the Center for Media, Data and Society, to reflect on these questions.
Urban Arena is a podcast about creating just and sustainable cities. This month Romane Joly from the University of Freiburg speaks with Kaja Zimmermann and David Bachmann from foodsharing Freiburg.
As an internationally recognized expert on public art and the memorial genre, James E. Young has served on juries for a number of prospective memorials, from the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin to the National 9/11 Memorial in New York. In this interview, within the context of the Budapest memorial site project in memory of women who were raped in times of war, we touch on the specifics of the call for applications, the importance of selecting the right site for the memorial, the role of the jury, and the ways in which the commemoration process can continue. Drawing on his experiences as a member of various juries, Young views the memorial as an extended process, stressing that preparation and afterlife are as important, as elements of the meanings of a memorial, as the physical object or site themselves.
On April 24, 2016, Tiempo Argentino published its first edition as a workers' cooperative. Before this, it was a printed newspaper, managed by a businessman, with a traditional financing model using advertising to support its operations. The money was mostly coming from government sources, but when the Argentine economy went into recession and the government changed, Tiempo Argentino lost its funding and left 125 workers without their jobs. But the paper did not shot down, it resurrected in the form of a workers' cooperative, becoming the first media in Argentina financed by its readers. An event that changed lives forever and revolutionized journalism in Argentina.In this special episode of the series, Andrea Gálvez, a journalist based in Argentina, takes over and tell this fantastic story of mobilisation.Javier Pardo contributed to the editing of this episode. Photo credit: Pixabay
Malaysiakini is one of Malaysia’s most popular news sites, and was founded in 1999. In 2002, still a medium size organization, with 20 staff members, making money mostly from advertising and other services, Malaysiakini decided to introduce a paywall at a time when internet access, credit cards and online payments were far from popular anywhere in the world. This episode tells the story of this incredible experiment and its consequences for independent media. We talked to Premesh Chandran, CEO and co-founder of Malaysiakini, and Patrice Schneider, Chief Strategy Officer at MDIF, who were there in 2002 to find out how it was to innovate back in 2002 and what type of expertise does it take to do it. For further reading on paywall implementation in Malaysiakini, go to Case studies on paywall implementation: Gazeta Wyborcza and Malaysiakini. Data from this report was used extensively in this episode.
Interview with Michael Rothberg conducted by Hedvig Turai.Michael Rothberg, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, 1939 Society Samuel Goetz Chair in Holocaust Studies, UCLA, has major contributions to trauma and memory studies. The present interview is mostly connected to his latest book, The Implicated Subject. Beyond Victims and Perpetrators, as he considers questions of guilt, responsibility, contemporaneity, burning issues for all of us. What do we have to do with the past that we did not participate in, we did not do anything but we are still granddaughters and grandsons of perpetrators or victims? What do we have to do with distant sufferings, including wartime rape? In all his works, Michael Rothberg pays special attention to art, to contemporary art that he considers theoretical objects that are important parts of Holocaust Studies as well.
‘Szadvar Castle – its Foes and its Friends’ is a documentary of the medieval Szadvar Castle in the north of Hungary and The Friends of Szadvar, a brilliant group of volunteers who were founded to save Szadvar Castle from being forgotten. Together they research, excavate and conserve the castle, making it more accessible to the general public. Karen Culver, alumna of CEU Cultural Heritage Studies Programme talks to volunteer and professional archaeologists involved in The Friends of Szadvar during their regular excavation & conservation week in August 2020. The Friends tell the history of the castle, how a volunteer-based heritage association works, and why they feel it is important for volunteers to ‘adopt’ a castle. They also describe many of the exciting archaeological finds made during the week-long excavation. The programme includes music by the medieval band Hollóének Hungarica.This episode is a special, one-hour-long documentary style episode of Past Perfect!, CEU Medieval Radio’s show on medieval and early modern history and culture. The discussions are made with the aim to popularize medieval and early modern studies with the help of experts such as early musicians, historians, philologists and archeologists.This episode was recorded in August 2020.
Can journalism cooperatives and subscription newsletters put power back in the hands of journalists?In the third episode of our series we explore this question with Maria Bustillos, journalist and co-founder of the Brick House, a collectively-owned journalism cooperative and Walker Bragman, a New York-based journalist, who discusses the advantages of publishing on Substack, a newsletter platform established in 2017 that allows writers to distribute their work to subscribers at tiered subscription rates.
Urban Arena is a podcast about creating just and sustainable cities. This month Kate speaks with Heidi Lindvall from seed stage ClimateTech VC company Pale Blue Dot. Do you want to become an Urban Arena podcast correspondent! We want your voice on the pod. If you’d like to featured then please answer the question ‘What is a sustainable and just city?’ in a maximum of 3 minutes. Record it on your phone or recording device and send it over. It’s up to you what you put in your message, but we encourage you to think about urban sustainability and justice together. Email us at urbana@ceu.edu // Find us on twitter or instagram - @arena_urban // Facebook UrbanA - Urban ArenasPhoto from here.
Pasts, Inc., Center of Historical Studies at CEU, CEU Department of Gender Studies, the Working Group of Democracy in History of CEU Democracy Institute, and the Subcommittee of the History of Second World War of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences launched the thematic issue of The Hungarian Historical Review with the authors present.https://hunghist.org/archive/79-hhr-issue/637-volume-9-issue-3
In this episode we will talk about two media organizations that overcame geographical distances to report on their homes from abroad. They are also doing much more than that: they have created a synthesis of different art forms and journalism and became critical voices and sources of information for their public. The story of Belarus Free Theatre, an underground theatre company and Al-Hudood a satirical news site show how journalism can transform critical art forms and political activism. This special episode was split in two parts in order to allow for the stories to be told in their own terms. Original music for the series was composed by András Simongáti-Farquhar.
In this first episode of the series, we’ll bring you the story of Telex, a media organisation that was willed into being by its founders when one of Hungary’s flagship media outlets was pushed to the brink of collapse by government pressure. When almost all of Index’s 90-member staff resigned, they set out to start their own organisation and to fund it through reader contributions. In the first month of their crowdfunding campaign, they collected 1 million euros from their readers. Audio excerpts for the episode were used with the permission of 444.hu. Index staff resigning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faKBfU5bvNwProtests in Budapest, Hungary in support of Index staff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJ-MD54iKEU
Urban Arena is a podcast about creating just and sustainable cities. This month Kate and Ian take a break from interviewing as Sophia Silverton chats with Isabell Eberlein and Denis Petri from Changing Cities. They talk about the role of participatory actions in trying to bring about more just distributions of urban space. The conversation is framed around the notion of ‘governance arrangements’, which you can read more about here: http://wiki.urban-arena.eu/index.php?title=Database_of_governance_arrangementsDo you want to become an Urban Arena podcast correspondent! We want your voice on the pod. If you’d like to featured then please answer the question ‘What is a sustainable and just city?’ in a maximum of 3 minutes. Record it on your phone or recording device and send it over. It’s up to you what you put in your message, but we encourage you to think about urban sustainability and justice together. Email us at urbana@ceu.edu // Find us on twitter or instagram - @arena_urban // Facebook UrbanA - Urban Arenas
The nadir point is sometimes reached between 4 and 6 in the morning and represents the lowest level of activity of the human body during the 24-hour life cycle. During that time, I often felt like I was losing my balance and my whole body was getting tired. It was strange, physically and mentally, as if the ground was running from underneath my feet, as if I would ‘hear’ my body ‘screaming’ that it wants to lie down, but I couldn't stop, because I had to carry crates and bags, most of the time with a client in my shadow. I have heard and felt what nadir is for the first time in my life during the nightshift as a night ethnographer.NOTE: This episode is also available to listen to in Romanian: Tura de noapte.If you like what you heard in this episode and wish to find out more about the topic here are a few resources to watch and read: Film: Nightworkshop on VimeoArticle: While Others Sleep (2020). DOI doi.org/10.21428/1d6be30e.fb029d9bBlog: Voices from Backstage (2020). DOI: doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.13110635.v2 Web: Nightworkshop | A project set up to research nightwork communities in urban spacesFollow me @tweetsfromdrjc | @anightworksopDr. Julius-Cezar MacQuarie is a nocturnal anthropologist trained at Central European University, concerned with the invisibility of migrant nightshift workers from discussions on today's capitalism. He set up the NIGHTWORKSHOP project to research night work communities in urban spaces.
Original title: "24 - Nightwork: migrant labour and embodied precarity in the global city"By contrasens is licensed under a Creative Commons License.Produced & edited by: Maria Martelli & Karol Pataki Visuals: Maria Martelli Intro & Outro: KindStudios Support contrasens on Patreon: www.patreon.com/podcastcontrasens"How often do we consider the work that goes on at night? How do we think about the ones that make night culture possible, the ones that keep things moving, so in the morning we have fresh vegetables, and deliveries are made? In this episode, Dr Julius-Cezar MacQuarie tells us about his research on migrant and precarious labour in Europe’s big cities. He tells stories from his fieldwork, of his visual methods and of the embodied hardship of night work.Dr. Julius-Cezar MacQuarie is a nocturnal anthropologist trained at Central European University, concerned with the invisibility of migrant nightshift workers from discussions on today's capitalism. He founded the NIGHTWORKSHOP to research night work in global and smaller cities. He was a STAR-UBB Research Fellow based at the Centre for Population Studies and wants to extend a special thanks to the Institute of Advanced Studies in Science and Technology at Babeș-Bolyai University for the STAR-UBB generous support in this phase of his research."Episode rundown:2:50 - 10:35 - An intro to doing body anthropology and fieldwork during the night 10:35 - 24:45 - The conditions of night work and its embodied precarity 24:45 - 33:10 - The forms of engagement of visual methods 33:10 - 45:55 - Night studies, night culture, migration and safety 45:55 - 1:05:05 - The present and possible futures of night workIf you like what you heard and want to know more about the topic here are a few resources to watch and read: Film: Nightworkshop on Vimeo Article: While Others Sleep (2020). DOI doi.org/10.21428/1d6be30e.fb029d9b Blog: Voices from Backstage (2020). DOI: doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.13110635.v2 COMPAS.ac.ukWeb: Nightworkshop | A project set up to research nightwork communities in urban spacesFollow me @tweetsfromdrjc | @anightworksop
This episode is based on the talk that I gave at the 2020 European Association for Social Anthropologists. I was delighted to take part in the first virtual 2020 EASA panel on Ethnography beyond the looking glass. I presented the work that I have been doing as part of the Nightworkshop project designed to research nightwork communities in urban spaces. In this talk I focus on the use of the body in research and the use of cyberethnographic methods to capture the sensorial experiences of a researcher immersed in night ethnography. The audio-visual methods that I have used to bring this information to the mixed audiences includes short ethnographic films and this podcast series, the Nightworkpod. The three short films, Invisible Lives, Nocturnal Lives and Nightshift Spitalfields are available to watch on Vimeo and Youtube or go to Nightworkshop. This work is based on a book chapter due for OPEN ACCESS publication in May 2021. You can read the abstract here.
This podcast episode is based on a talk that I gave as part of Night Modes panel, a NIGHT SCENE Virtual event by UCL Urban Laboratory (London, 2020). The episode is complemented by a video recording, which you can watch here. This talk is about the embodied precariousness experienced by migrant nightshift workers. The findings of this research result from a night ethnography that I did in 2015 in a fruit and vegetable market in Leyton, East London. This presentation, nonetheless, was (video)recorded during the full pandemic lockdown 2020. Apologies for the silence breaks due to the online recording quality. Special thanks to Prof Ben Campkin and Jo Marshall, both associated with UCL Urban Laboratory for organising this exciting round of presentations, as part of the NIGHT SCENES event series. To watch and listen to the other guest's talks (by DJ Ritu and Rob Shaw) on the Night Modes panel click here. More about Night spaces: migration, culture and Integration in Europe (NITE) will entail an ambitious programme of community co-designed cultural events and activities, and close engagement with policy-makers, with the aim to positively influence policy approaches on night-time economies, helping to release the potential night spaces offer in creating more inclusive cities. Authorities have historically wrestled with the issue of night-time control, and the hours after dark are often still perceived as harbouring threats to public order and potential criminality. However, current policy attention to night-time urban economies, exemplified by the creation of the office of Night Mayor in Amsterdam (2014) and Night Czar in London (2016) illustrate the increasing interest in the potentialities of the urban night. NITE will contribute with otherwise overlooked evidence on the production, experience and narration of migrant urban night spaces, in their material, symbolic and virtual dimensions. The project brings together five parallel sub-projects mapping night spaces in eight cities in the Netherlands, Ireland, UK, Germany, Denmark and Portugal. Read more ...
I close this series with the last episode called "Reflections from Researching the Nightshift". Here, I address the lessons learnt during my research on London's 'other workers' invested in the night shift.An excerpt from the interview with our guest, Marion Roberts, Emeritus Professor in Urban Design at the University of Westminster offers insights into the problematics with night-time expansion in London. For the full interview go to Ep. 04. Some of Prof Roberts important work informed and shaped the Greater London Authority’s policy and vision of London as a 24-hour City - 24-hour London – and the subsequent publication, From Good Night to Great Night: A Vision For London asa 24-hour City. For full-text click http://bit.ly/LENTE_report2018In making this series of podcasts about working the night shift I aimed to raise awareness of issues that need addressing in a 24/7 society relying on the workers trapped in its gig economy, at night. This podcast series follows my efforts to disseminate the findings to the academic community, via conferences, working papers, and journal articles. I also used documentary making tool to reach out to political actors, policymakers and stakeholders who have the power to improve the lives of night workers and the issues around isolation, health inequalities, fragmentation and lack of cooperation amongst night shift workers to unionise and demand their rights to decent work.
Episode: 04Time: 21’45”Date: Nov 2018Place: Interview recorded in Sofia, Bulgaria. Produced in London @anightworkshopGuest: Marion Roberts, Professor in Urban Design, University of Westminster | UKSynopsis: In this third and last episode of the series called “London the Glocturnal City, and its 'other workers' “our first guest, Marion Roberts, Emeritus Professor in Urban Design at the University of Westminster talks about her invested interest and research that she has carried out on various themes related to the night-time city since 2001. Currently she serves on the board of Data and Research sub-committee of the Greater London Authority, the sub-committee on London's night-time commission. Roberts and colleagues (2018) have published a report on the scale and importance of London’s Evening and Night Time Economy that was commissioned by the Greater London Authority, April 2016. The authors (Roberts et al, 2018) report provides a snapshot of London’s evening and night-time economies. It scrutinises the regulatory policies of licensing and planning, investigates crime and anti-social behaviour and drills down into the economic contribution of night-time activities. These outputs helped inform and shape the Greater London Authority’s policy and vision of London as a 24-hour City - 24-hour London – and subsequent publication, From Good Night to Great Night: A Vision For London as a 24-hour City.
Paradox módon, miközben felmérések és statisztikai adatok bizonyítják a romák esélytelenségét, generációs kirekesztettségét, a magyar társadalom többsége még mindig úgy vélekedik, hogy a romák “túltámogatottak”, „mindent megkaptak”, de nem élnek, éltek ezzel a lehetőséggel és ezért kizárólag őket terheli felelősség. Ezzel szemben a szomorú valóság az, hogy a privatizáció, az állami vállalatok felszámolása, a jóléti újraelosztás radikális átszervezése és csökkentése hátrányosabban sújtották a roma, mint a nem-roma lakosságot. A romák társadalmi integrációját célzó intézkedések, elenyésző eredménnyel jártak. A rendszerváltás utáni gazdasági és társadalmi átrendeződések sokkal nagyobb mértékben rontották a romák helyzetét, mint amennyit ezek a programok tudtak tenni a romák valós integrációjáért.A rendszerváltozás tragikus hatásain túl, a romákkal kapcsolatos aggodalmaknak mély történelmi gyökerei vannak, amelyek hol a szabad barbárok csodálatában öltenek testet, hol pedig a “cigányok” megneveléséhez, civilizációjához, “integrációjához”, vagy kiirtásához vezetnek.A kurzusnak két fő célja van: (1) napjaink romákkal kapcsolatos narratíváinak átfogó kritikai vizsgálata; (2) fórumot biztosítani progresszív alternatív víziók és gyakorlatok megvitatásához.Adott szeminárium témáját felkért előadók vezetik fel, akik között megtalálható - többek között - újságíró, irodalmár, politikus és civil aktivista.https://biboszabadegyetem.org/a-cigany-problematol-a-roma-emancipacioig
Urban Arena is a podcast about creating just and sustainable cities. This month we're joined by Panagiota Kotsila, Isabelle Anguelovski, and Jonathan Luger from the Barcelona Lab for Urban Environmental Justice and Sustainability.We're talking about drivers of urban injustice: https://wiki.urban-arena.eu/index.php?title=Database_of_drivers_of_injusticeIan was searching the following stat whilst rambling: the richest 10 percent of the world produces more than half its carbon. Thanks Oxfam. !!READ THIS!!Do you want to become an Urban Arena podcast correspondent! We want your voice on the pod. If you’d like to featured then please answer the question ‘What is a sustainable and just city?’ in a maximum of 3 minutes. Record it on your phone or recording device and send it over. It’s up to you what you put in your message, but we encourage you to think about urban sustainability and justice together. Email us at urbana@ceu.edu // Find us on twitter or instagram - @arena_urban // Facebook UrbanA - Urban Arenas
Paksa Rudolf beszélget Gárdos Péterrel és Szántó T. Gáborral a holokauszt magyarországi filmes emlékezetéről és a történeti filmekről. Részletesen beszélünk Gárdos Péter: Hajnali láz című filmjéről, valamint Szántó T. Gábor: Hazatérés című művéről és filmes adaptációjáról, Török Ferenc: 1945 című filmjéről. A beszélgetésen szóba kerül a holokauszt és annak következményei a magyar társadalomra és a magyarországi zsidó közösségre. Beszélünk arról is, miként készül egy történeti film, s miben gondolkodik másként egy forgatókönyvíró és egy rendező, mint egy történész. De említjük Kempelen Farkas "sakkautomatáját" és Semmelweis Ignác tragédiáját és Kafka macskáit is.
In this episode, I am hosting Zeynep Serinkaya Winter. We will discuss the gendered representations of disability in the Turkish cinema, focusing on melodramas produced between 1960 and 1980. Zeynep reveals how disability and gender intersect to signify bodies as spaces of modernization and consolidation of the nation-state project.Zeynep is a social scientist with an interdisciplinary background, currently working on digital dissidence, queer movements in Turkey and digital intimate publics. She completed her master’s degree in the Comparative Studies in History and Society Program at Koç University. Zeynep has also been actively involved in civil society work, advocating for freedom of expression. She is a founding member of the Civic Space Studies Association and the co-coordinator and translator for LGBTI News Turkey, where she occasionally contributes as a writer. Her translations have also appeared in publications such as Cogito and Jacobin. Currently, she continues her doctoral studies in the Design, Technology and Society program at Koç University.Zeynep’s research depicts the genre of melodrama as conducive to the enmeshment of ableism, hetero-patriarchy and nationalism. Melodrama’s sensationalist nature, coupled with its simplistic depiction of events and character development, can be seen as an infrastructure of essentialist representations reproducing ableism, hetero-patriarchy and nationalism.Zeynep highlights the fact that Turkish melodramas responded to the side effects of modernization efforts of Early Republican Turkey. The rapid industrialization, urbanization, state-led rise of a national bourgeoisie, internal migration from rural to urban areas had led to urban sprawl, poverty and a disenchanted working class. Melodramas became the medium through which emotions arising from these complex social events can be filtered and reduced to a dichotomy of traditional values vs modern lifestyles. A middle class consisting of able bodies is the golden mean of representation in melodramas, through which hetero-patriarchal gender norms are reproduced.By drawing upon eugenic discourses that had been circulating amongst the intelligentsia, Turkish melodramas marginalize both extreme richness and extreme poorness. Melodramas equate both with moral corruptions such as excessive drinking, overt sexualization, or gluttony and idleness. People living at these extremes are marked as undesired citizens via grotesque demonization or extreme victimization. For example, the image of a rich woman excessively drinking signifies that woman as a villain who does extreme evil deeds to separate the hero and the heroine. On the other hand, the image of a poor woman excessively drinking signifies that woman as a victim whose subjectivity had been completely erased by every unfortunate event that happened to her.Gendered representations of disability are incorporated into melodramas as a crucial narrative tool to perpetuate hetero-patriarchal norms. For example, melodramas equate mobility impairment with asexuality or sexual dysfunction. As Zeynep puts it: “Wheelchair users are often depicted as failing from performing their gender roles, as a husband that satisfies his wife or as a wife that can be procreated with.” Moreover, bodies that are marked as female and male experience different effects of disability in Turkish movies. For example, female blindness means vulnerability to male sexual aggression. Blind women are depicted as in need of male protection and care. Male blindness, on the other, means loss of patriarchal control over women.
Paksa Rudolf beszélget Fahidi Évával és Zoltán Gáborral a II. világháború kulturális emlékezetéről. Beszélünk Fahidi Éva: A dolgok lelke című kötetéről, valamint a szereplésével készült Sóvirág című darabról és A létezés eufóriája című filmről, illetve Zoltán Gábor két helytörténeti dokumentumregényéről az Orgiáról és a Szomszédről, valamint az 1944-es év líráját megidéző Szép versek 1944 című kötetéről. Szóba kerül még számos film: a Saul fia, az 1945, valamint Stocker Éva: Háború a zsidók ellen című filmje, valamint Erdélyi József, Pilinszky János, Radnóti Miklós költészete. Beszélünk arról, hogy melyek az autentikus holokausztfilmek, s mi a különbség a dokumentumregény és a törtnetírás között. Kik és hogyan lettek áldozatok, kikből lettek az elkövetők, s mit tettek a többiek?
Paksa Rudolf beszélget Müller Rolffal és Takács Tiborral a II. világháború utáni állami erőszakszervezetekről. Beszélünk Almási Tamás: Ítéletlenül című dokumentumfilmjéről, internálótáborokról, Kistarcsáról, valamint átfogóan az 1945 utáni politikai és társadalmi változásokról. Volt-e "mesterterv", ami alapján az 1945 utáni átalakulások lezajlottak? Ki volt Péter Gábor? Mit kutat az erőszaktörténet? Milyen dokumentumokat őriz az Állambiztonsági Szolgálatok Történeti Levéltára?
Paksa Rudolf beszélget Kádár Zsuzsanna és Stark Tamás történészekkel a II. világháború végének 75. évfordulójáról. Megemlékezett-e a történész szakma és a közélet a II. világháború végének 75. évfordulójáról? Miért tűnik úgy, hogy ez a kérdés csak Oroszországnak fontos? Vajon Magyarországon csak a járvány miatt volt visszafogott a megemlékezés? A beszélgetésen szóba kerül az MTA Történettudományi Bizottsága II. világháborús albizottságának tevékenysége és két decemberi konferenciája: a december 11-12-én tartandó angol és magyar nyelvű online konferenciája a háború utolsó évének legújabb kutatásairól; valamint a december 13-án megrendezésre kerülő megemlékező előadássorozata a második világháború történetének már elhunyt magyar kutatóiról. Beszélünk még Stark Tamás készülő könyvéről; a Kádár Zsuzsa részvételével készült online adatbázisról; a II. világháború után szovjet hadifogságba, illetve kényszermunkára hurcolt magyarok készülő levéltári adatbázisáról; valamint a nők elleni háborús erőszak fővárosi emlékművéről.
Urban Arena is a podcast about creating just and sustainable cities. This month we're joined by Meera Ghani, ECOLISE Policy Coordinator, and Tamara Steger, Associate Professor at the Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy at Central European University. The topic? Environmental and racial justice.Do you want to become an Urban Arena podcast correspondent! We want your voice on the pod. If you’d like to featured then please answer the question ‘What is a sustainable and just city?’ in a maximum of 3 minutes. Record it on your phone or recording device and send it over. It’s up to you what you put in your message, but we encourage you to think about urban sustainability and justice together. Email us at urbana@ceu.edu // Find us on twitter or instagram - @arena_urban // Facebook UrbanA - Urban ArenasPhoto credit: News Oresund, CC BY 2.0 .
Martin tells us about his studies of the Taborites, a radical faction of the Hussite revolution, who transitioned from the passive escapist apocalyptic thought into a revolutionary activist mode. They participated in what they perceived as the Apocalypse through violence, seeing themselves as agents that have to participate in the cleansing of the world. They went to the fortified town of Tabor, they became militarized and were very important for the Hussites and what became known as the Hussite wars. Martin has studied sermons, theological debates, polemics and letters that the leaders of the Taborite movement have sent to their followers. He traced the neoplatonic philosophical background of the Taborites, which came out of university circles, was translated into vernacular and mixed with the apocalyptic thoughts. He also tells us of his involvement with the Centre for Medieval Studies in Prague participating in a research group focusing on conflict in Central Europe in the Late Middle Ages. In the second half of the interview, Martin talks about the Utraquist communion - consuming both the bread and the wine - and the pacifist movements and thought patterns within the Hussite movement. He also explains the downfall of the Taborite faction, when the main request of the Hussites, the Utraquist communion was granted, but the other ones that the Taborites also held important were not, which sparked a divide between the Taborites and the moderate Hussites. This culminated in a war in which the Catholics and moderate Hussites joined forces and defeated the Taborites in the Battle of Lipany in 1434. Concluding the talk, Martin talks about the controversial nature of the Taborite vision, and how we probably wouldn’t want to live in a post-revolutionary world where the Taborite way of thinking is prevalent.
A CEU Bibó István Szabadegyetem, MTA 2. világháború története albizottság A II. világháborús nemi erőszak emlékezete 75 ÉV ÁRNYÉKA. VILÁGHÁBORÚ, KÖVETKEZMÉNYEK, EMLÉKEZET előadássorozatában Pető Andrea, Skrabski Fruzsina beszélgetett Paksa Rudolffal a II. világháborús nemi erőszak történetéről.
Veerle Vanden Daelen, deputy director of Kazerne Dossin and Andrea Pető, Professor at CEU are discussing problems of how to remember dark history, what are the challenges for museums and art works.With the support of Flemish Representation in Budapest, Budapest City Archive, Municial of Budapest, Subcommittee of History of the Second World War of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
No disputing the fact, the past few months have been quite tough and stressful for CEU students. I had hoped to earlier share the lots of beautiful conversations I had had with friends and colleagues from CEU over the summer but it just never quite felt like the right thing to do at such a time as this. Why talk relationship, dating or engage in prattles amidst the myriad of challenges CEU students are going through? But then, the question is, why not? If life is wholesome, then it is necessary to pierce through foggy, unfavourable times with a deep gaze into moments when life was bright, lively and a little less uninspirational.In this rather long episode, I invite you to listen to two former CEU students, who were in a relationship at the time of this conversation, as they recount memories filled with good vibes and a bouncy ambience while playing the guessing game and trying to test just how well they know each other. Their dreamy chit-chats about their 7-8 month long relationship are sure to remind you that, even in not-so-great times, love is still what makes the world go round.P.S: This is one of many more discussions on relationship to come.Referenced song: Take Me On by SaltNPaper, SAya
Paksa Rudolf beszélget B. Stenge Csaba hadtörténésszel és Virányi Péter propagandakutatóval a II. világháborús magyar szerepvállalásról, illetve a háborús propagandáról. Részletesen beszélünk az 1943-ban készült Magyar Sasok című filmről, valamint szóba kerül Kassa bombázása, Horthy István repülőgép balesete, valamint a munkaszolgálatra vitt Petschauer Attila halála is.
Urban Arena is a podcast about creating just and sustainable cities. This month Kate talks with Florian Strenge - an urbanist fascinated by spaces, people and processes.Our urban arena podcast correspondent this month is Sophia Silverton. Would you like to follow in her footsteps? If so, please answer the question ‘What is a sustainable and just city?’ in a maximum of 3 minutes. Record it on your phone or recording device and send it over. It’s up to you what you put in your message, but we encourage you to think about urban sustainability and justice together. Email us at urbana@ceu.edu // Find us on twitter or instagram - @arena_urban // Facebook UrbanA - Urban ArenasPhoto from here
Urban Arena is a podcast about creating just and sustainable cities. This month Kate and Ian get lost in the voices of people who have helped sustain, build and critically assess networks that aim to create just and sustainable cities: Matthew Bach, Flor Avelino and Tom Henfrey.Do you want to become an Urban Arena podcast correspondent! We want your voice on the pod. If you’d like to featured then please answer the question ‘What is a sustainable and just city?’ in a maximum of 3 minutes. Record it on your phone or recording device and send it over. It’s up to you what you put in your message, but we encourage you to think about urban sustainability and justice together. Email us at urbana@ceu.edu // Find us on twitter or instagram - @arena_urban // Facebook UrbanA - Urban ArenasImage from here.
A CEU Bibó István Szabadegyetem egy online beszélgetéssel jelentkezett, amelynek középpontjában a fehérororszországi események álltak. Ezzel kapcsolatban hallgathattuk meg Jarábik Balázs (Head of Political Analysis and Coordination Department at EUAM Ukraine), Toka Gábor (CEU Politikatudományi Tanszék), Bíró Zoltán (Rendszerváltás Történetét Kutató Intézet és Archívum) és Berczeli Zoltán (Robert Schuman Intézet) közös elemzését, amelyet Bruszt László (CEU Politikatudományi Tanszék) moderált. Miért lehetett Lukasenko oly hosszú időn át népszerű a beloruszok körében, és miért lett vége ennek a rajongásnak? Mi a szerepe Oroszországnak az éppen zajló folyamatokban, milyen lépések várhatók Putyintól? Mennyiben hasonlítanak vagy különböznek a fehérorosz események korábbi sikeres (vagy sikertelen) demokratizálási kísérletekre a rendőrterrorra is támaszkodó, a politikai pluralizmust csak kis dózisban toleráló országokban? Miért egyszerűsödtek az események három központi szereplő játékára, mi adja ezek kohézióját, és hova tűntek a többiek? Ilyen és ehhez hasonló kérdésekre kaphattunk választ szeptember 4.-én (péntek), 17 órától Zoom-találkozónk keretében.
This is the second part of the episode. Here, I converse with two amazing ladies from CEU, Burcu Kisac (POLS '21) and Tetiana Horban (IR '20) about unexpectedly finding home in strange, foreign lands, comparing metros in several metropolises and shitting on NY city while we were having a really nice Turkish breakfast on a Saturday morning at an apartment bustling with nature and two cats nicknamed Meow and Garfield Jr. by me (lol) who add life and colour to our conversation with their sheer presence and endless, dramatic noise-making.Photo credit: Burcu Kisac; Funmi Akinpelu
Over 25 years ago, Central European University chose to make a home in Budapest, creating a Hogwarts-without-magic haven of higher education within the metropolitan, touristy location steeped in the heart of Hungary and, for all these years, CEU has attracted a milieu of students from different parts of the world, thus creating an internationally-inclined student body. Although the mindblowing campus(es) in Budapest are in themselves centres of attraction for many students, staff members and outsiders, the CEU Residence Centre located in Kerepesi út 87 poses as a comfort lair without which any commentary on CEU will not be complete.Knowing that, very soon, there will be a complete transition to Vienna which literally means that most continuing and incoming students will miss the privilege that comes with living as part of a student community within the RC, I thought it good to stop for a bit during summer to reminisce on the moments, memories and miracles that come with living in the RC with co-CEU students. Interestingly, in my prologue, I took my mind all the way back to times before CEU. Transported to the previous student dorm I lived in - G Floor in Moremi Hall which was, in fact, a 'health floor' - I reflected on its distinct qualities, the people I encountered and what this place came to mean to me eventually.I am not the only one looking back on what are already becoming echoes of nostalgic thoughts in a chamber, three other students have joined me to do this.In Act One, Filip Rambousek (NATS '20) talks extensively about the joys of living with his girlfriend at the RC during the heat of the COVID-19 pandemic. According to him, he has always been fascinated by sub-urbs but the RC and its especially sub-urban environs opened itself up to him in new, unbelievably rapturous ways during the period of the lockdown plus he got to discover that he is not afraid of spending an entire lifetime being under lockdown with his girlfriend. Pretty cool, right?Prince Addo (SPP '21) features again in this episode. This time, in Act Two, he narrows in on his former experiences at the student dorm in Ghana and how this came to influence what he thinks of the RC upon coming to live here as a student. Owura is all about tolerance, seizing the moment and having fun with 'his boys' but there are just some things he cannot stand - a dirty common kitchen, for one. Well, what does he do about it? You will find out as you listen to him.In Act three, Sharmin Jahan (Economic Policy '20) steps in to create a nostalgic mood by giving a picturesque account of her CEU-RC experience, starting right from the first day of stepping into Budapest to the beautiful times that flew by and caught her in the midst of making memories, establishing friendships, learning new recipes from friends and eventually becoming the Mother of Semolina with a knack for making fine delicacies out of the special flour.P.S: This is the first part of what is to be a two-part episode. Forgive me, this part is unexpectedly long because the speakers had a lot of memories to pour out; most of these memories and shared experiences splattered over me in representative, artful ways that gave me the impression that they needed to stay, to be crafted into permanence and exhibited reverently not only for this moment; but for all times.
There are plenty of people who will be quick to tell you that journalism is broken. But we’re not here to wallow in negatives. As part of the Journalism Breakthrough series from the Centre for Media Data and Society at the Central European University, instead, in this episode we take a look at three different innovations that bridge academia and journalism: how students can become journalists, how journalists can build on academics’ research, and how scholars and journalists can work together.Further reading - What Happens When Academia and Media Work TogetherPhotography by Jon S.Original music for this episode was composed by András Simongáti-Farquhar.
The second episode of the Journalism Breakthroughs podcast discusses how Velocidad, a media accelerator in Latin America, not only injects money but also explores the different dimensions and challenges of financial health in the news ecosystem.The host, Patricio Contreras, a Chilean journalist and university professor talks to Janine Warner, Co-Founder and Executive Director of SembraMedia, one of the organizations responsible for Velocidad. Janine has experience leading teams at The Miami Herald and CNET Latin America. In addition, she has written twenty books, is a teacher and has a broad knowledge of entrepreneurial journalism in Latin America.Then, our host talks with Vanina Berghella, Director of Velocidad. Vanina is an Argentinian journalist with experience as a teacher and consultant. She was Head of Digital Projects at Grupo Clarín and was also the Director of the Argentine Journalism Forum (FOPEA).Finally, our host speaks with Jazmín Acuña, Co-Founder and Editor of El Surtidor, a Paraguayan digital outlet that was selected to participate in the final stage of the accelerator. Jasmín holds a BA in International Relations from Connecticut College and describes herself as a journalist covering "what it is like to be a woman in the most Catholic country in the region."Original music for this episode was composed by András Simongáti-Farquhar.
In this first episode of CEU Chatroom, Funmilayo Akinpelu (HIST '21) starts with a prologue in which she reflects on the thoroughly devastating changes her skin underwent upon coming to Budapest from Nigeria. She vaguely connects the dots between her own personal case of terribly blotched skin and George Floyd's killing in the US, an event which, alongside others, have culminated in the amplification of the Black Lives Matter movement.Chioma Nwosu (SPP '20) picks up on the conversation in Act One by narrowing in on the skin-based prejudices in her home country Nigeria and how even her own sister has had to contend with several issues related to this. She also expresses her strong opinion about hair on the skin and the beauty it embodies for her.Ian Salvana (POLS' 20), the speaker in Act Two, recounts a deeply personal experience of dealing with being physically assaulted by three Mongolians because of a weird contention over being Chinese or not. As this happened during the heat of the COVID-19 lockdown, it reflects the localised power dynamics of colourism and its entanglements with other sociopolitical and even health-based factors.Esther Ebimoghan (LEGS '20) beautifully renders a poetic ode to black skin in Act Three. For her, the black skin is amazing, bold and beautiful. And isn't she just right?Chitrangi Kakoti (Gender Studies '21) chit-chats with the host Funmi in Act Four on why being comfortable in one's skin is very complicated and so difficult, especially when there is Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) to deal with, sickle cell to battle, nagging relatives to contend with and several dressing mirrors in shopping malls to stare into.Benatare Omemu Kingsley (ECBS '20) gives a controversial take in Act Five about the (im)possibility of getting rid of racism on a global scale. According to him, victims of "subtle, racist jabs" might have to learn to look the other way because it ain't gonna stop anytime soon. He also has an ample lot to say about the myth of black virility especially in the European context and how his own relationships in Budapest have fared due to this myth.Prince Kwaku Addo (SPP '21) in Act Six converses about when he came to really discover he was black and how this changed the way he came to perceive his skin. He reflects on colourism in Ghana and strongly opines that all curious stares, frowning faces and insensitive remarks are not exactly synonymous to racism. Also, Prince speaks on how his skin has an uncanny love affair with cocoa butter.In Act Seven, Tijana Rupcic (HIST '20) unapologetically touches on the age factor and what this means when it comes to embracing one's skin. For her, when you are a teen, you can worry to the ends of the earth about every pimple on your face because teenage life is specially built for that kind of hassle. But when you are in your 30s like she is, "dude, get over yourself already," she says.
An introductory opening to what I hope will subsequently be a hub of lively, practically relevant and gossipy conversations within the CEU community. This is the first step of many more baby steps to come. An experimental opening to a shaky new beginning, sorta; and what better time to debut a project such as this than in the thick of summer!
A CEU Bibó Szabadegyetem online szemináriumán a magyar lakosság Orbán-kormány elmúlt tíz évéről alkotott véleménye volt a fókuszban. A beszélgetés első számú forrását a FES és a Policy Solutions a témában végzett, közelmúltbeli felmérése szolgáltatta.https://www.policysolutions.hu/hu/hirek/496/orban10_publikacio
Urban Arena is a podcast about creating just and sustainable cities. Kate is on interview duty and the moment and she caught up with Kemo Camara, founder and CEO of Omek, a new digital and physical platform dedicated to the social and professional advancement of the African diaspora community. Do you want to become an Urban Arena podcast correspondent! We want your voice on the pod. If you’d like to featured then please answer the question ‘What is a sustainable and just city?’ in a maximum of 3 minutes. It’s up to you what you put in your message, but we encourage you to think about urban sustainability and justice together. Email us at urbana@ceu.edu // Find us on twitter or instagram - @arena_urban // Facebook UrbanA - Urban Arenas
A szemináriumon Bakos Petra, Pető Andrea, Tompa Andrea mellett Gálffi László színész és Szvoren Edina író beszélget Balla Zsófia "Kiáltvány" és Szvoren Edina "Szeretnék valamit mondani az életemről" c. szövegei alapján. https://litera.hu/irodalom/elso-kozles/balla-zsofia-kialtvany.html http://www.jelenkor.net/archivum/cikk/15170/szeretnek-mondani-valamit-az-eletemrol
The podcasts discusses Topographie der Shoah: Gedächtnisorte an das zerstörte jüdische Wien, Lappin –Engel was directing. The places of the Holocaust are the iconic places of destruction like Auschwitz, Bergen Belsen, Dachau. These places were under German command and they give the false impression that the extermination of the European Jewry has happened somewhere far away. But it actually started with neighbors not returning greetings or hoping to obtain fur coat of their neighbors.
In this episode, David Rockwell asks Pietro Delcorno, research fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study, about his research related to late medieval sermons. Some of the questions discussed in this episode are how the Bible reached common people, and how flexible the Bible could be for interpretation in sermons and religious theatre. Pietro also talks about the sermons as the primary means of communicating religious content to the lay people, and what sources he uses, like model sermons, or ad-hoc notes of preachings. Sermons tell us about the shared religious language of the people, especially those who could not read and write. Preaching was the mass-media of the time. Pietro also talks about how medieval preachers incorporated histrionics into their preaching practice and what techniques they used to catch the attention of their audience. They must have been quite successful in the last regard, as some preachers rose to quite high fame, and were treated like rock stars of the Late Medieval society. Past Perfect! is CEU Medieval Radio’s show on medieval and early modern history and culture, where various issues from the crusades to archeo-zoology to medieval urine sampling are discussed. The discussions are made with the aim to popularize medieval and early modern studies with the help of experts such as early musicians, historians, philologists and archeologists.This episode was recorded in June 2019.
The inaugural episode of the Journalism Breakthroughs podcast discusses how the media coped with the crisis triggered by the COVID-19 virus. Innovation in journalism allowed media outlets to survive the pandemic. We talked to Robert Nemeth, who works as Outreach Coordinator for the Center for Media, Data and Society, walked us through a series of innovative ways of responding to the Covid crisis he collected in a series of four articles published on the CMDS website. Then, we discussed with John Masuku, a journalist from Zimbabwe, a CMDS fellow and an old friend of our Center, about the situation of journalists in his country and how much they have the energy and resources to deal with the effects of a pandemic. Finally, we approached some of the structural issues that made journalism even more vulnerable during the pandemic, with Kate Coyer a Research Affiliate with CMDS and an Affiliate of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University.Read John's article on how a media NGO in Zimbabwe changed the narrative on COVID-19 here.Original music for this episode was composed by András Simongáti-Farquhar.Photo credit: Kovid Bhushan Pathak.
CEU Bibó István Szabadegyetem A boldogság politikája online eseménye május 27-én szerdán 17.30-19.00 között az OTTHON témában. Bakos Petra, Pető Andrea, Tompa Andrea mellett Selyem Zsuzsa, író és Győri-Dani Lajos, a Máltai Szeretetszolgálat ügyvezető alelnöke beszélgetett Selyem Zsuzsa: A hangyák boldogsága, Danyi Magdolna két verse és Gorkij: Éjjeli menedékhely című munkái kapcsán.
This episode is about what a 'just energy transition' looks like in Romania. The EU is now putting a lot of money into it’s new Green Deal and other initiatives to support a just energy transition. Today, we are going to learn what this all means by speaking with Roxana Bucata, a Romanian journalist and a student at Central European University. She has done research on this topic in the context of the Jiu Valley in Romania.The Jiu Valley, is the oldest coal region in Romania. It is one of the 18 coal regions in Europe that joined the EU’s Just Transition Platform that oversees alternative and sustainable projects for the communities. Over 750 million euros are expected to be invested in Jiu Valley over the next seven years through the Just Transition Mechanism, part of the EU’s Green Deal.We speak to two people active in the revitalization of the Jiu Valley. First, Alexandru Mustata of Bank Watch Romania. Bank Watch became the interface between local community and the EU. The European Commission was informed of the local initiatives and soon a direct communication and collaboration between Brussels and Jiu Valley started.The second speaker is Mihai Danciu, an architect and part of the Planeta Petrila Association. Danciu and artist Ion Barbu started the association with the aim of reclaiming the mining heritage for the community. The idea is that coal mining is part of the cultural identity of Jiu Valley. So their vision is to use the mining heritage – former buildings, railroads, miners neighborhoods, etc. – for new projects, in an effort to revitalize the area.This episode provides the context to begin to understand the long history of a region and how energy transititons are wrapped up in the deindustrialization of regions along with broader socio-economic changes. The answers seem to be from the bottom, within communities, rather than money funneled from the top-down to local politicians.This episode falls under the activities of the Jean Monnet Chair in Energy and Innovation Strategies, co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union.[[{"fid":"886","view_mode":"full","fields":{"format":"full","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":false,"field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":false},"link_text":null,"type":"media","field_deltas":{"1":{"format":"full","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":false,"field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":false}},"attributes":{"class":"media-element file-full","data-delta":"1"}}]]
Urban Arena is a podcast about creating just and sustainable cities. This month we’re speaking with Marilyn Hamilton the founder of Integral City and author of the Integral City book series. This month we also launch a new feature - the Urban Arena podcast correspondent! We want your voice on the pod. If you’d like to featured then please answer the question ‘What is a sustainable and just city?’ in a maximum of 3 minutes. It’s up to you what you put in your message, but we encourage you to think about urban sustainability and justice together. Our first correspondent is Marcelline Bonneau CEO and founder at Resilia Solutions.
„Hétköznapjainkból az veszett el, ami talán a legfontosabb: a boldogság. Nem az indexekkel mért illetve kémiával létrehozott érzelmekre gondolok, hanem a megélt, építő kapcsolatban létrejött érzelemre. Számomra az a kérdés, hogy milyen nyelvet lehet használni ennek a világnak a jobbítására, ha első pillantásra úgy tűnik, hogy semmit nem lehet tenni? A CEU Bibó Szabadegyeteme jó keretet ad ennek a kérdésnek a megbeszélésére, hiszen ez az intézmény visszanyúlik a kommunizmus alatt nagy sikerrel működő repülő egyetemek hagyományához. Ide nem kreditért és pecsétes papírért jönnek az érdeklődők, hanem a szellemi munka öröméért és kiváltságáért.”
In this episode, we will pick up where we left off with Elif Birced and discuss how government becomes a source of insecurity for academic labour. Elif will also talk about the possibilities of solidarity against the precarization of academia.Back in the 10th episode, Elif revealed different ways in which neoliberal restructuring of Turkey’s economy has led to the establishment of foundation universities and precarization of work conditions in social sciences.Today, Elif will zoom in on the government’s direct involvement in politically contributing to the precarious working conditions in Turkey. She mentions three methods that the government uses in order to control universities and facilitate precarization. The first one is the state apparatus called the Council of Higher Education which has authority over procedures of hiring and promoting academics, conducting disciplinary proceedings and so on. The second method is putting pressure on foundation universities via its boards of trustees. Since the members of the board of trustees have business ties with the government, they are inclined to hinder or censor academic researches that challenge and criticize the government. The final one is the economic deterrents such as taxation on the businesses of the board of trustees’ members. The state has always been a power agent in the rise of bourgeoisie class since the foundation of the republic. Thus, governments can utilize this historical legacy of control over the bourgeoisie class via different economic deterrents.In the second part of the episode, Elif will help us find reasons to be cautiously hopeful for solidarity against precarization of academia! During her fieldwork, she observed three crucial incentives for solidarity. The first is a court decision that constitutes a precedent for precarious graduate student assistants to sue the foundation universities if their payment and fringe benefits are significantly less than their counterparts in the state universities. The second is the existence of prior labour movement in their universities. Finally, Elif will show how the Gezi Park Movement helped graduate student assistants to question their working conditions and how it inspired them to initiate collective actions against precarization.However, Elif will also mention barriers against solidarity. The first one is sexist behaviours within solidarity networks. With a striking example of asking women to “use their sexuality when negotiating with male members of the university administration”, Elif explains how sexist behaviours within solidarity networks have alienated women from participating in those networks. The second one is different class positions of faculty members and graduate student assistants. Intra and intergroup hierarchies within a university, as Elif will elaborate, prevents the construction of solidarity networks that bring faculty members and graduate student assistants together.
Bárdi Nándorral beszélgettünk a 20. századi magyar kisebbségek történetéről, pozícióiról, illetve az ehhez kapcsolódó magyarságpolitikákról.
In this episode, I am hosting Selin Altunkaynak Vodina. We will talk about the gendered and racialized discourses that are reproduced during the social encounter between Syrian and Turkish women living in the South East of Turkey. Selin will start with one of the most reproduced discourses; the sexist and racist claim that Syrian women go after and “steal” Turkish husbands. The discourse, unfortunately, has been reproduced in the media in various forms. However, Selin will take a novel approach and trace such discourses as they are reproduced within the daily social encounters between Syrian and Turkish women.Selin is a PhD candidate in Humanistic Studies at Rovira i Virgili University in Spain. She is currently conducting research about the social relations between Syrian and Turkish women living in the South East Region of Turkey. While advancing on her PhD, she has been also assuming different positions within humanitarian organizations in Turkey since 2015. Her work in the humanitarian sector helped her gain diverse experiences in the areas of refugee protection and social cohesion of refugees.Selin will utilize Deniz Kandiyoti’s famous concept ‘patriarchal bargain’ in analyzing the racially charged discourses directed at Syrian women. She will argue that different images of Syrian women have caused a perceived disturbance in patriarchal order within Turkish society. Such sexualized and racialized images include Syrian women being “well-groomed”, wearing make-up and so on. Selin will reveal that in an effort to bargain with the patriarchy and sustain their own limited power within a patriarchal system, Turkish women depict themselves as dedicated mothers and wives who are better than Syrian women in taking care of their houses, children and husbands. Thus, the patriarchal bargain effectively reproduces two discourses at once; the sexualized and racialized discourse directed at Syrian women and the discourse of wifehood and motherhood as the proper signifiers of womanhood. Finally, Selin will share her candid accounts of the patriarchal bargains she had to do in order to conduct her research. As a woman researcher in Turkey, Selin had to bargain with the patriarchy on many levels for example as a daughter of a middle-class family and as an unmarried young woman conducting research on her own. She will mention how she navigated patriarchal expectations in the field and in her personal relations.
Urban Arena is a podcast about creating just and sustainable cities. This month we're talking with Panagiota Kotsila, a political ecologist who works at the Barcelona Lab for Urban Environmental Justice and Sustainability and is part of the editorial collective with Undisciplined Enviroments. She'll be talking about the article "Nature-based solutions as discursive tools and contested practices in urban nature’s neoliberalisation processes" that she co-wrote with Isabelle Anguelovski, Francesco Baró, Johannes Langemeyer, Filka Sekulova and James J.T. Connolly for the journal Environment and Planning E.Foto
Sandeep Pai and Savannah Carr-Wilson set out to compare how people are dealing with the energy transition in India, Canada and Africa. They are co-authors of the book, 'Total Transition: The Human Side of the Renewable Energy Revolution'. The authors travel on three continents meeting people who are work in the fossil fuel industry and those benefiting from clean technology like solar power. Their travel writing style brings the experience of these people into a stark reality as they learn about the daily health impact of living in the Canadian tar sands and in Indian coal fields. People literally live on top of the deposits.Link to the book, Total Transition"As we went to look more closely at the fire, Kundan told us that people have jumped into the burning hot crater to commit suicide. As we moved back from the fire, Savannah asked Kundan what one thing he thinks could really help Jharia. He hesitated for a minute, and looked at the ground. “One thing,” he said, “is just give the people of Jharia basic human rights. To clean air, and water. To work. And to have good working hours.” We all fell silent, thinking about his simple request for the people of Jharia. So basic, yet seemingly so unattainable."[[{"fid":"891","view_mode":"full","fields":{"format":"full","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"Erasmus+","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":false},"link_text":null,"type":"media","field_deltas":{"1":{"format":"full","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"Erasmus+","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":false}},"attributes":{"alt":"Erasmus+","class":"media-element file-full","data-delta":"1"}}]]
A kurzus célja a mai magyar médiarendszer vizsgálata közép- és kelet-európai összehasonlító perspektívában. Fókuszában a politika és a média kölcsönhatása, a politikai kommunikáció, a médiapolitika és az újságírói szerepfelfogások alakulása áll. Az előadások közös vonása az összehasonlító médiakutatás módszertanának alkalmazása: a politikai és a médiarendszerek dinamikusan változó viszonyának néhány aspektusát igyekeznek feltárni.
Urban Arena is a podcast about creating just and sustainable cities. This month we're talking with Rafael Calado about FabLabs. Ian is joined by special guest podcaster Lucia Di Paola for the trip to Lisbon's best FabLab. Rafael Calado is the Programme and Operations Manager FabLab Lisboa. An architect by trade, he also co-founded Repair Café Lisboa and BioHacking Group Lisboa 2017.[[{"fid":"706","view_mode":"full","fields":{"format":"full","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":false,"field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":false},"link_text":null,"type":"media","field_deltas":{"1":{"format":"full","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":false,"field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":false}},"attributes":{"class":"media-element file-full","data-delta":"1"}}]]
„Hétköznapjainkból az veszett el, ami talán a legfontosabb: a boldogság. Nem az indexekkel mért illetve kémiával létrehozott érzelmekre gondolok, hanem a megélt, építő kapcsolatban létrejött érzelemre. Számomra az a kérdés, hogy milyen nyelvet lehet használni ennek a világnak a jobbítására, ha első pillantásra úgy tűnik, hogy semmit nem lehet tenni? A CEU Bibó Szabadegyeteme jó keretet ad ennek a kérdésnek a megbeszélésére, hiszen ez az intézmény visszanyúlik a kommunizmus alatt nagy sikerrel működő repülő egyetemek hagyományához. Ide nem kreditért és pecsétes papírért jönnek az érdeklődők, hanem a szellemi munka öröméért és kiváltságáért.”
Urban Arena is a podcast about creating just and sustainable cities. In this fourth episode, we discuss shipping. We were lucky to speak with Elisabeth Schober, Associate Professor at the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo. She is the Principle Investigator within the upcoming “Ports”-project, which will be funded by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement number 851132.
In this last episode of the Romanian Media Matrix series, I collected three initiatives or efforts that try new ways of doing things. From new funding models, forms of association or community involvement, these examples of innovation show courage and temerity.Ștefan Mako from Inclusiv will tell us about a journalistic project that managed to get a community of members to support them not just financially, but also with their expertise and their feedback; Cristina Guseth from Freedom House Romania talk about Press Hub, a network of independent local media outlets trying to bypass local pressure in order to survive financially, and Liana Ganea from Active Watch will tell us about Radio Civic, the first rural community radios in Romania.Check out these three articles if you need companions to your listening session: https://en.ejo.ch/author/dumitrita-holdis.Photo: The Sfântu Gheorghe antennaOriginal music for this episode was composed and performed by András Gaat.
In this episode, we will pick up where we left off with Nilay Kılınç and discuss women’s experiences of return migration from Germany to Turkey. Nilay will make a compelling case to consider return migration as resistance to patriarchy in the diaspora.Back in the 11th episode, Nilay talked about the transnational phenomenon of ‘return migration’ and further complicate it by adding onto a gender dimension. Nilay also warned us to be cautious of seeing return migration as a smooth departure from Germany and a warm welcome in Turkey. Today, Nilay will tell us stories of resistance in which second-generation Turkish-German women have been able to disengage from two patriarchal narratives imposed upon them. The first is the image of dutiful daughters as carriers of “traditional Turkish culture in the diaspora.” The second is the image of modernized women who should integrate into German society by forgoing their cultural ties with “a strictly traditional diaspora.” Each image demands and exerts control over women’s bodies and choices. Return migration, as Nilay will detail, will become a crucial way for women to disengage from such expectations and become autonomous in self-realizing their futures.Finally, Nilay will introduce locality as an essential dimension of gendered experiences of return migration. The locality in Turkey where Turkish-German women settle upon returning can promote or hinder resistance to patriarchy and autonomous self-realization. However, Nilay gives us reasons to be hopeful even in cases where women migrate to more conservative localities in Turkey. Nilay will reveal how women transform the localities that they settled in a way for them to be more autonomous.Nilay holds her PhD from the University of Surrey, wherein she wrote her thesis on the notion of ‘searching for self’ for the second-generation Turkish-Germans in their post-return lives in Turkey. She is currently a fellow at the Centre of Advanced Studies in Sofia, Bulgaria, researching about the highly-skilled Turkish immigrants’ ‘alternative diaspora spaces’ in Europe. Nilay has a BA in International Relations from Istanbul Bilgi University and an MA in European Studies from Lund University.
In Romania, indicators such as the high speed of the internet and the low price of mobile packages make Romanians look like lucky people. However, the story, as always, is much more complicated than that. Access to technology is not equal and its use varies according to class, gender, ethnicity and location.In this third episode of the Romanian Media Matrix Podcast, I asked Bogdan Manolea, executive director for the Association for Technology and Internet and Georgiana Linca or Aldessa, a local facilitator working for the E-Romnja association to discuss how Romanians use the media technology available to them.Original music for this episode was composed and performed by András Gaat.Track title: No Rhythm No Problem References:The full text of the Romanian Media Matrix Report is available online here: https://cmds.ceu.edu/Romania.
In the second episode of the Romanian Media Matrix podcast series, we will take a brief look at the legislation, regulation and policy that govern Romanian journalism and we will stop to discuss how labor legislation has major consequences for media practitioners.My guests are Raluca Petre, associate professor of journalism at the University of Ovidius’ Department of Letters and Cristi Godinac, the president of MediaSind, the biggest union in the media sector in Romania.Original music for this episode was composed and performed by András Gaat.References:The full text of the Romanian Media Matrix Report is available online here: https://cmds.ceu.edu/Romania.
The first episode of the Romanian Media Matrix Podcast series will focus on funding. First, a short overview of how the Romanian media is funded will introduce the topic, and then two case studies will explore unusual funding cases and how they underline the most vulnerable actors in the media system. The case of the Hungarian language media in Romania will show us how state money, when coming from two states with a seemingly conflicting history leads to a subservient, controlled media. And then, we’ll stay in the area of small media serving small publics, but we’ll look at independent journalistic projects jumping through financial loops to keep that independence.My guest for this episode are Zoltán Sipos, journalist at Átlatszó Erdély, Cluj-Napoca and Ioana Avădani, president of the Center for Independent Journalism, Bucharest.Original music for this episode was composed and performed by András Gaat.Track title: The World Is On Fire And I Hear You Whisper. References:The full text of the Romanian Media Matrix Report is available online here: https://cmds.ceu.edu/Romania.More on the Hungarian Government’s funding of Hungarian media from Transylvania, available online here: https://atlatszo.ro/en/important-en/media-funding-record-in-transylvania-a-network-of-businesses-covered-in-mist/
Urban Arena is a podcast about creating just and sustainable cities. In this third episode, we discuss the potential of textile recycling as part of a circular economy. We’re lucky to get to speak to Hilde van Duijn from EigenDraads, a Rotterdam based initiative that wants to take our non-reusable clothes and transform them into something new.
In this episode, I am hosting Nilay Kılınç. We will discuss the transnational phenomenon of ‘return migration’ and further complicate it by adding onto a gender dimension. In Nilay’s research, the term return migration refers to the second generation Turkish-Germans migrating back to Turkey from Germany. Nilay urges us to consider return migration as a paradoxical concept, especially for the second generation. Born and raised in Germany, the second generation had minimal physical contact with Turkey, which had been usually in the form of short holiday trips. Their memories of Turkey were mostly shaped by stories they acquired from their parents. Thus, Nilay warns us to be cautious of seeing return migration as a smooth departure from Germany and a warm welcome in Turkey.Nilay holds her PhD from the University of Surrey, wherein she wrote her thesis on the notion of ‘searching for self’ for the second-generation Turkish-Germans in their post-return lives in Turkey. She is currently a fellow at the Centre of Advanced Studies in Sofia, Bulgaria, researching about the highly-skilled Turkish immigrants’ ‘alternative diaspora spaces’ in Europe. Nilay has a BA in International Relations from Istanbul Bilgi University and an MA in European Studies from Lund University.Nilay will situate today’s episode in her impressive ethnographic fieldwork spreading over eight years, eight cities of Turkey and including more than 120 interviews with returnees.Nilay identifies six reasons for return migration: return as a search for self-identity, involuntary return through family decision, return for marriage or romantic relationship, return for education and career purposes, return as an adventure, and finally force return or deportation.Nilay will share stories of three critical steps during a return migration; tales of returnees’ lives in Germany, their stories of returning, and their stories of establishing their lives upon returning to Turkey. Each reason and each step of return migration generates gender-specific experience for returnees. Nilay will provide ample examples of differing gendered experiences of return migration. For instance, migration literature on the guest workers of Germany usually depicted women as dependent migrants coming into Germany via family reunification. However, the stories Nilay gathered during her fieldwork reveal that women were also autonomous migrants travelling to Germany in search of work.Besides, return reasons and experiences of returning may differ according to gender. For example, Nilay notes that only men were deported from Germany as a result of committing crimes.Finally, the localities in Turkey, where the second generation had settled play an essential role in the post-return lives of women. Settling in more conservative regions of Turkey, women experience clashes and hardship with strong hetero-patriarchal social life. However, Nilay shares remarkable stories of women transforming their immediate surrounding and carving out autonomous economic and social spaces within more conservative localities.
Urban Arena is a podcast about just and sustainable cities. In this second episode, we discuss transition management as a governance approach. To help us do so, we travel to a real live urban arena in Rotterdam and meet Derk Loorbach director of DRIFT - The Dutch Research Institute For Transitions - and Professor of Socio-economic Transitions at the Faculty of Social Science, both at Erasmus University Rotterdam.
In this episode, I am hosting Elif Birced. We will talk about the neoliberal restructuring of higher education in Turkey. By drawing upon her interviews with 40 professors and graduate student assistants, Elif will make a compelling case for the precarization of work conditions in social sciences as a result of this the neoliberal restructuring. She will also discuss the intersectional role gender plays in the precarization of academia.Elif is a PhD student at the Department of Sociology at Boston University. She is interested in economic sociology, work, organizations, and sociology of culture. Elif has a B.S. in Economics from Middle East Technical University and an M.A. in Cultural Studies from Sabancı University. Her M.A. thesis was about the precarity of academic labour in Turkey with a particular focus on the experiences of professors and graduate student assistants in the social sciences.Today, Elif will be revisiting the impressive fieldwork she conducted for her M.A. thesis. She will first introduce her own interpretation of the concept of “precarity”. Elif adopts Guy Standing’s approach to precarity but also brings her own twist to the concept. While Standing describes precarity in two dimensions – objective and subjective, Elif points out to the need for considering precarity also as a relational concept.Thus, Elif analyses precarity in three dimensions. In the objective aspect, she looks for structural patterns of insecurities at work such as lack of protection against arbitrary dismissal, lack of adequate and stable income to sustain life or absence of any representative body in the workplace. In the subjective dimension, she focuses on how individuals experience these insecurities. Individuals may accept, internalize or give consent to several right violations committed under the name of neoliberal restructuring. Finally, Elif introduces the relational dimension of precarity, which signals to the importance of relations established, for example, between professors and graduate student assistants and how these relationships affect one’s perception of her precarious position.Elif’s unique approach to precarization of higher education also opens up a valuable space to acknowledge and analyze the direct role of government in creating political insecurities in the workplace. While Elif was conducting her fieldwork in 2016, a group of academics was calling upon the government to end its attacks in the Kurdish villages of Southern East Turkey (for more detail, please listen to the podcast on Academics for Peace), and they were fired from their jobs. Elif points out the fact that social scientists may experience a heightened sense of vulnerability in the workplace if their academic works criticize the government or do not conform to the official government accounts.Finally, Elif will reveal different ways in which gender could become integrated into precarity. She will talk about how job insecurity for women may lead to silencing of sexual harassment in academia. The lack of protection mechanisms against sexual harassment in universities only makes it more precarious for women to work as professors and graduate student assistants.
Urban Arena is a podcast about just and sustainable cities. In this first episode, we discuss sustainability and justice in food and transport. To help us do so, we are speaking (and cycling around Budapest) with UrbanA fellow Orsolya Lazányi. She is a co-founder of Cargonomia, a Budapest-based community space for locally-produced food and cargo bike rentals. Listen in as we talk about Orsolya's work, her views on the degrowth movement, and the cultural intricacies of building an organization like Cargonomia in Hungary.
How much were medieval monastic orders similar to modern corporations? What is the deal with monks wearing red pointy shoes? Why did King Andrew II invite the Teutonic order to settle in the Hungarian Kingdom? In the very first episode of Past Perfect! ever broadcast, Chris Mielke talks with professor József Laszlovszky, director of the Cultural Heritage Studies Program at CEU about studying the Middle Ages, archaeology, monastic culture, crusades and video games. The talk serves as an introduction to the study of archaeology and medieval studies, but also goes into more abstract questions about professor Laszlovszky’s research interests. The discussion also details how to present findings to the public - often the process one uses to arrive to a conclusion can be more interesting than the findings themselves. Past Perfect! is CEU Medieval Radio’s show on medieval and early modern history and culture, where Christopher Mielke casually discusses with his guests various issues from the crusades to archeo-zoology to medieval urine sampling. The discussions are made with the aim to popularize medieval and early modern studies with the help of experts such as early musicians, historians, philologists and archeologists.This episode was first recorded and broadcast in 2012.
In this episode, I am hosting three guests; Didem Şalgam, Balacan Ayar and Zeynep Serinkaya-Winter.We will talk about the effects of neo-conservativism on women’s experiences with gynaecological violence. Didem will draw upon her research to argue that conservative gender norms that have already and always resulted in gynaecological violence are being given new meanings by the ruling government of Turkey. Also, neoconservative interpretations of gender norms manifest themselves in the state policies about healthcare provided for women.Balacan will mention an important legal case related to gynaecological violence and how this case has the potential to be a me-too movement in Turkey, especially within the healthcare system.Finally, Zeynep will share her experiences with gynaecological violence, helping our listeners affectively understand the importance of solidarity in dealing with gynaecological violence.Didem has an MS degree in Sociology from Middle East Technical University. She also has an MA degree in Gender Studies from CEU. She is currently a doctoral candidate in gender studies working on practices of sexting in “new turkey”. Please have a listen at episode three for a detailed discussion of Didem’s research.Balacan is currently an MA student in Gender Studies at CEU and a research assistant at Koç University in Turkey. She received her first master’s degree in Comparative Studies in History and Society at Koç University. Her research interests are medical anthropology, sociology of health and illness, gender studies, sexuality, and feminist studies Zeynep Serinkaya Winter received her Master’s degree from Koç University, where she is currently a doctoral student. Her Master’s thesis analysed the representations of disability and gender in Turkish melodrama films and the construction of normalcy through these representations. Her current research interests include freedom of speech, censorship, the LGBTI+ movement in Turkey, Turkish cinema and digital media. You can reach her at zserinkaya13 [at] ku dot edu dot tr. We will start the discussion with an attempt to define what gynaecological violence could entail. Gynaecological violence has eluded researchers, and it has remained as a silent but very persistent problem. Thus, we believe it is best to approach it from multiple perspectives in order not to leave out any experience that may not be as apparent as physical violence.From the cases our guests will present, we observe different ways in which violence upon women during gynaecological exams are justified — the norm of women remaining a virgin until marriage is one of them. The anti-abortion stance of the government, which has de-facto stopped state hospitals from performing an abortion on demand is another source of gynaecological violence. Sexual harassment during gynaecological exams is yet another source, especially in the cases where perpetrators try to gaslight women by arguing that the harassment was a part of the gynaecological exam. Finally, ignoring women’s autonomy over their body, and performing medical exams without their consents must also count as gynaecological violence.Gynaecological violence could manifest itself as phycological attacks of the doctors and nurses such as verbally assaulting women for not being virgin or making them extremely uncomfortable through their actions. It could manifest in the form of physical violence such as not using lubricants during vaginal exams, inserting the devices or fingers without warning, too fast and with extreme force. Gynaecological violence could continue outside the examination room, for example, when the doctor violates patient-doctor confidentiality and discloses women’s illness or pregnancy to their families or to others.
Magdalena and Pin Lean Lau discuss the proliferation of artificial intelligence (AI), its benefits and dangers, with implications on contemporary societies, legal systems, the labour market, ethics and human values. As a research and teaching fellow in a Hungarian state university, Pin Lean had designed and delivered a multi-disciplinary course on the subject. In the podcast, Pin Lean and Magdalena consider that if AI is becoming more and more human-like, what does that mean for our self-understanding and for human rights? As we have now entered the Fourth Industrial Revolution, Pin Lean hypothesizes that critical challenges posed by AI systems must be addressed through inclusive stakeholder engagement and flexible regulatory mechanisms in various industries. She cautions for the need to carefully reflect on notions of personhood and human dignity for AI systems, balanced against the underlying representation of values and behaviors that may threaten to erode human rights.Music: Nordlys by Lauge & Baba Gnohm
In this forty minutes long interview, Christpher Mielke talks with Marianna Birnbaum of UCLA and visiting professor at CEU about Hungarian Renaissance literature, Jews in the Renaissance, studying women in history, and more broadly about how it is to deal with individual life stories as historians. What were the main currents of Renaissance literature? Who were the main figures of Hungarian Renaissance poetry? How does a historian approach literary figures? In the first part of this interview, Marianna Birnbaum talks about Humanist literature, how books circulated in Renaissance Europe, and how Humanists approached Hebrew language and culture. The second part concerns a 16th century Portugese woman called Gracia Mendes. Why is she interesting, and how was she related to the famous Fuggers, a Jewish banker family? How did she come to manage this vast economic enterprise and why did she emigrate to the Turkish Empire? The third part of the interview is related to 18th century figure Fromet Mendelssohn, wife of the great philospher Moses Mendelssohn. How did she contribute to the intellectual milieu of the Jewish Enlightenment? What are the sources that can tell us about her life? Past Perfect! is CEU Medieval Radio’s show on medieval and early modern history and culture, where Christopher Mielke casually discusses with his guests various issues from the crusades to archeo-zoology to medieval urine sampling. The discussions are made with the aim to popularize medieval and early modern studies with the help of experts such as early musicians, historians, philologists and archeologists.This episode was first recorded and broadcast in 2013.
In this fifty minutes long interview, Chris Mielke talks with Cristian-Nicolae Gaşpar of the Medieval Department at CEU about his journey as a classical philologist, ancient taboos and translating the vita of Saint adalbert of Prague. Was there really a decline after the “Golden Age” of the Roman Empire? Why is Late Antiquity as a period interesting to study for philologists and Historians? What exactly happened in this transitional period? The second part of the interview is about Cristian’s course, which deals with sexuality in antiquity: how did ancient people talk or not talk about sex? What were the taboos related to sexuality and nakedness? How did prostitution work in the ancient world? In the final part, Christian talks about translating the vita of Saint Adalbert, the bishop of Prague for the Central European Medieval text series produced by CEU Medieval Department, and some more details about Adalbert’s life and afterlife.Past Perfect! is CEU Medieval Radio’s show on medieval and early modern history and culture, where Christopher Mielke casually discusses with his guests various issues from the crusades to archeo-zoology to medieval urine sampling. The discussions are made with the aim to popularize medieval and early modern studies with the help of experts such as early musicians, historians, philologists and archeologists.This episode was first recorded and broadcast in 2012.
Magdalena speaks with Pin Lean Lau, whose research has been focused on pre-implantation genetic interventions, particularly regulatory models for biomedical technologies of this nature, whose development move at the pace of lightning speed. Pin Lean dispels myths about ‘designer babies’ with blue eyes and blond hair; and instead, asks us to think about the kind of equitable future we want to have access to: to be able to harness the benefits of technologies such as genome editing, but also to be able to ensure that our humanity, human rights and human nature are not compromised at the expense of individual hubris and greed. She suggests using a rights-based approach that is infused with a renewed and renegotiated understanding of human rights universality, shared common values, and a symbiosis of different regulatory designs that work to complement formal laws or legislation.Music: Nordlys by Lauge & Baba Gnohm
In this episode, I am hosting Tegiye Birey.We will discuss the effects of the British colonization on sexuality and gender in Cyprus. We will also talk about how the current occupation of Northern Cyprus by Turkey has shaped not just sexuality and gender but also feminist and queer movements.Tegiye has a BA in Women's Studies and Political Science with a minor in French Studies from the University of New Hampshire, and an MSc in Gender and Social Policy from the London School of Economics and Political Science with a particular focus on the gendered discourses on sex-trafficking. After her studies, she worked in the field of refugee rights and engaged in gender research and training. She has been part of feminist, queer, anti-militarist and anti-racist activist networks in Cyprus and transnationally. Tegiye's current research examines the gendered politics of migrants' and solidarity networks in Malmö, and her research interests are migration, postcolonial/decolonial feminisms and politics of resistance.Tegiye was a part of a research project called "how to introduce gender in history teaching in Cyprus" analyzing the course books of primary schools to find different ways in which gender can become part of history teaching in Cyprus. In other words, Tegiye was a part of an important initiative that aims to remedy the silencing of women in history. Tegiye also has been actively involved with the feminist and queer movements in Cyprus.Today she will speak to us from the position of a researcher as well as an activist.Tegiye will raise two important issues in relation to sexuality and gender in Cyprus. The first one is the fact that it was the colonial laws of the British Empire that establish homosexuality as "a crime of unnatural sex". These laws were in place well into the twentieth-first century, and thus their legacies could be heavily felt on the queer as well as feminist movement in different ways. Tegiye mentions a nostalgic remembering of British colonial times that forgets or neglects to mention such laws under British colonization but instead argues that being a former British colony means having gender equality. But of course, gender inequality was believed to be not a problem only among the natives of the islands. Gender inequality was also attributed to being a problem related to migrants coming from Turkey.The Turkish invasion and occupation of the Northern part of the island have prevented direct relations between the divided parts of the island. This lack of relationships also included feminist and LGBT movements on both sides, thus also making solidarity links very hard to establish. This division became clearer as Southern Cyprus became a part of the EU while Northern Cyprus remained an unrecognized state. This had a curious effect on NGOization processes of the civil society in Northern Cyprus, which Tegiye will discuss now.For a short history of Cyprus, please take a listen to episode six.
What was it like to be a pagan in fourth century Rome? Why was paganism expensive? Why was it both hard and easy for Romans to convert to Christianity? What are the similarities between the fourth and the fourteenth centuries? In this fifty minutes long interview christopher Mielke talks with the late professor Marianne Sághy of CEU’s Medieval Department about researching Late Antique and Fourteenth-Century European Christianity and culture. Some of the topics covered include ancient Roman culture and its revival in the fourteenth century, important personalities like Cicero, Virgil and Petrarch, the reason why the papal residence was in Avignon and how pilgrimage was a phenomenon was managed by the Church. Past Perfect! is CEU Medieval Radio’s show on medieval and early modern history and culture, where Christopher Mielke casually discusses with his guests various issues from the crusades to archeo-zoology to medieval urine sampling. The discussions are made with the aim to popularize medieval and early modern studies with the help of experts such as early musicians, historians, philologists and archeologists.This episode was first recorded and broadcast in 2012.
In this episode, I am hosting Sercan Çınar again.Back in the fourth episode, we discussed the historical, political and social dynamics that played an important role in constructing, what Sercan calls, socialist masculinities. Sercan detailed how the political violence of the 1970s in Turkey was utilized by the socialist-Marxist movement to reproduce the dichotomy of man/woman and masculinity and femininity. He also pointed out two important factors that differentiate socialist masculinities from hegemonic masculinities. Please take a listen to episode four for a detailed discussion.In this latest episode, we shift our focus to the legacies of the political violence of the 1970s, specifically in relation to the current socialist-Marxist movement in Turkey and the configurations of socialist masculinities.One of the legacies is a lingering conservative politics of sexuality amongst the socialist-Marxist movement. Drawing upon his own experiences with the current socialist-Marxist movement as well as his research, Sercan will argue that sexuality is still considered as a matter for the private sphere and, whenever it is politically voiced in public sphere, it can receive backlash from men performing socialist masculinities.Some within the socialist-Marxist movement also fear being replaced by the feminist and LGBT movements as the main source of oppositional power. Since the political violence of the 1970s and the coup d’état of 1980 weakened the socialist-Marxist movement in Turkey, the increasing influence of feminist and LGBT movement in Turkey posed a threat to the position of men who perform socialist masculinities. Sercan will note that although we can observe socialist-Marxist movement aligning with the feminist and LGBT movements, there are still tendencies to consider these movements as “separatist” or “products" of capitalism or post-modernist academia.
How one can study the medieval towns of Hungary? What is the use of historical geography?In this fifty minutes long interveiw, Chris Mielke talks with Katalin Szende, theoutgoing head of the Department of Medieval Studies at CEU about urban topography, urban communities, and the sources that can tell us more about city life in Medieval Hungary. Past Perfect! is CEU Medieval Radio’s show on medieval and early modern history and culture, where Christopher Mielke casually discusses with his guests various issues from the crusades to archeo-zoology to medieval urine sampling. The discussions are made with the aim to popularize medieval and early modern studies with the help of experts such as early musicians, historians, philologists and archeologists.This episode was first recorded and broadcast in 2013.
How were bone tools made and used? Was there a specialized guild for boneworking? What are the cultural notions surrounding horsemeat? What is the Medieval Animal Database? What are the different kinds of data pertaining to animals? In this fifty minutes long interveiw, Chris Mielke talks with Alice Choyke of the Department of Medieval Studies at CEU about archaeozoology, medieval animals and the various things you can learn studying bones.Some of the topics covered include how medieval people thought about animals, what were the divisions between real and unreal animals, the role of butchers, the importance of animals in diets, the role of zooarcheology and archaeology in general related to history. Past Perfect! is CEU Medieval Radio’s show on medieval and early modern history and culture, where Christopher Mielke casually discusses with his guests various issues from the crusades to archeo-zoology to medieval urine sampling. The discussions are made with the aim to popularize medieval and early modern studies with the help of experts such as early musicians, historians, philologists and archeologists.This episode was first recorded and broadcast in 2012.
In this episode, I host Professor Andrea Pető, a highly esteemed academic who researches anti-gender movements across Europe. She also has hands-on experience in dealing with the attacks on academic freedom in Hungary, and close ties to the Academics for Peace movement in Turkey.Pető will first depict her academic collaboration and friendship with Professor Ayşe Gül Altınay, who recently received 25-month prison sentence because she signed the statement “We will not be a party to this crime”. Then she will explain how, through this academic collaboration and friendship, she has been able to observe and experience the feminist movement including feminist academics in Turkey, who have a long history of standing up for peace and justice.By comparing the attacks in Turkey and Hungary, Pető will also present a compelling case of illiberal and authoritarian governments creating what she calls polypore states. Such states “feed on the vital resources of their liberal predecessors and produce a fully dependent state structure in return. This style of government involves appropriating the institutions, mechanisms and funding channels of the European liberal democratic project.” The attacks on academic institutions and academic freedom are an important part of the governmentality of polypore states as they seek to seize and usurp the realm of knowledge production.
What was it like to be a doctor in the Middle Ages? What measures did cities take to preserve their citizens' health? How did medieval people explain the plague? In this interview, Chris Mielke talks with Ottó Gecser of Eötvös Lóránd University, Budapest about medieval sanitation, medical history and plague research.Some of the topics mentioned in this hour-long talk include urban waste and water management, the role of hospitals, humoral theory and the importance of bathing. Professor Gecser also talks about the research questions of medical history, especially plague research, and the different diseases that can be associated with the Black Death. This is an archival episode of Past Perfect!, CEU Medieval Radio’s show on medieval and early modern history and culture, which was produced in association with Civil Rádió FM98. In this series, Christopher Mielke casually discusses with his guests various issues from the crusades to archeo-zoology to medieval urine sampling. The discussions are made with the aim to popularize medieval and early modern studies with the help of experts such as early musicians, historians, philologists and archeologists.This episode was originally recorded and aired in 2012.
Welcome to a new podcast series on Attacks on Academic Freedom in Turkey and around the World.The first episode is dedicated to Academics for Peace in Turkey who have been facing trials for saying “We will not be a party to this crime”. In this episode, we will first give context to the movement. Then we will read sections of defense speeches from the academics who have stood trial. By translating them to English, we hope to make the powerful content of their speeches that calls for peace, freedom of expression and academic freedom more accessible.We wish we could share defense speeches of every academic, but, for practical reasons, we had to choose only a few. However, we hope to keep reflecting on the movement of Academics for Peace in the upcoming episodes.The defense speech belongs to the following academics; Ayse Gul AltinayNur MardinMeltem AhıskaBülent KüçükAyfer Bartu CandanFiliz ArıözAyşe ErzanÖmer TuranDidem PekünMesut YeğenBüşra Eraslanlı
In this episode, I am hosting Ezgican Özdemir. We will talk about the symbolic meanings ascribed to water and infrastructures in Northern Cyprus, which also includes gendered imageries of motherhood. Ezgi conducted impressive fieldwork on the water pipelines transferring water from Turkey to Northern Cyprus.Ezgi will make a compelling case for these symbolic meanings as an important lens through which locals understand the dependent and unequal relations between Northern Cyprus and Turkey. She will also explain how such symbolic meanings play an important role in mediating the daily life experiences of living under a de-facto state that remains unrecognized by the international community to this day.Today, Ezgi will present us a small part of her Ph.D. research, focusing on two important sets of symbolic meanings ascribed to water and infrastructure.At the heart of the first set of symbolic meanings lies water as a gift. This particular symbol is cemented with the gendered imageries of a mother nourishing its child via an umbilical cord which signals the water pipeline carrying water from "motherland" (Turkey) to the "babyland" (Northern Cyprus). Ezgi will demonstrate how such symbols have been reproduced by officials from Turkey and Northern Cyprus as well as by locals who utilize the symbols in depicting Turkey as the “unconditional caregiver”. The metaphor of the umbilical cord also played an important role in reiterating ethnic and kin relations with Turkey. Ezgi argues that the second set of symbolic meanings have emerged especially after it became clearer that water was not a gift and that Turkey was not providing unconditional care. She details how Turkey has imposed a privatization deal on the pipeline which states that Northern Cyprus has an obligation to purchase water, but that Turkey does not have an obligation to supply water. After the privatization deal surfaced, water and infrastructure also started to represent the lack of sovereignty felt by many.Ezgi is a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at CEU. For her MA degree, also at CEU, she conducted research on identity politics, the anthropology of the body and image, and cultural politics in the Turkish context. She now pursues her doctoral research on water politics, infrastructure, and the anthropology of state and sovereignty in Northern Cyprus. Her dissertation explores the socio-political implications of a newly built Turkish state-sponsored water pipeline project that runs beneath the Mediterranean Sea and provides clean water resources to the internationally unrecognized polity of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC).
In this episode, we will pick up where we left off with Tankut Atuk and discuss sexualized and racialized deservingness of LGBTI refugees in Turkey. In the second episode, we discussed different ways in which Global North oriented categorizations of vulnerability have migrated to Turkey. We saw that they migrated in the form of project-based funding, and they are enacted through local NGOs. We also explained how these categories violently make space for their existence within local realities by transforming subjectivities of LGBTI refugees.Now we will shift our focus to the concept of deservingness, and it is relations to vulnerability. Drawing upon my fieldwork, I will argue that being deserving of refugee status and rights is proved or performed via a continuous parody of vulnerability. I am calling it a parody, because, vulnerability here does not reflect the complexity of social and political exclusion LGBTI refugees face. Instead, vulnerability reflects only one or two essentialized feature of these exclusions -- i.e. the ones that speak to the sensibilities of UNHCR or countries in the Global North. Thus, this approach to vulnerability creates hierarchies within certain forms of social and political exclusions while ignoring others. It also means that being deserving of refugee status and rights depends on refugees’ ability to perform a Global North oriented parody of vulnerability.For a written discussion of a similar topic, please have a look at my article "Who is 'Queerer' and Deserves Resettlement?: Queer Asylum Seekers and Their Deservingness of Refugee Status in Turkey".
In this episode, I am hosting Sercan Çınar. We will talk about the construction of socialist masculinities in the 1970s at the height of socialist-Marxist political mobilization in Turkey. Sercan asks a very powerful question: how could socialist-Marxist men justify and reproduce gender inequalities and power relations as natural while, at the same time, remaining extremely critical of the naturalization of, for example, property relations? Sercan will argue that the practices of social mobilization during 70s, especially in response to political violence that marked the decade played an important role in constructing socialist masculinities. Sercan conducted oral history interviews and archival research concerning the decade and, with the help of his findings, he will provide examples of how responses to political violence on the street were utilized to justify and reproduce the dichotomy of man/woman and masculinity/femininity.Sercan will also elaborate on two important factors in the construction of socialist masculinities as a distinct category from hegemonic masculinities.He will first reveal the effects of feminist women sharing political space with socialist men in regards to socialist masculinities.Secondly, he will detail the effects of Global Cold War Politics on the construction of socialist masculinities in Turkey. One of the most striking examples Sercan provides is the border crossing essentialized images and discourses of “Soviet immoral sexualities” which aimed to create moral panic in localities and hoped to fuel anti-communist sentiments. Finally, Sercan will talk about how the socialist-Marxist scene in Turkey simply played into these discourses by pursuing a conservative politics of sexuality.Sercan Çınar is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Gender Studies at CEU. He received his BSc in Political Science from Middle East Technical University. He holds an MA in European Women’s and Gender History from CEU. His MA thesis is on socialist masculinities in Turkey in the 1970s, and he is currently working on his Ph.D. dissertation about Turkish migrant left-feminism in Western Europe during the late Cold War. His research interests include gender and women’s history, the history of masculinities in Turkey and the transnational history of communism and anarchism.
2004 is credited as a turning point in the recent history of Romania in regards to its attitude towards the Holocaust. The Final Report on the Holocaust in Romania, published in 2004 by an international commission of experts chaired by Elie Wiesel, was officially recognised by the Romanian state. Adrian Cioflâncă (The National Council for the Study of the Securitatea Archives / The Center for the Study of Jewish History, Bucharest) talks with Andrea Pető about the memorialisation of the Holocaust in Romania in the last 15 years.
In this episode, I am hosting Didem Şalgam, a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Gender Studies, CEU. We will talk about neoliberal and neoconservative politics of intimacy in Turkey. Didem will make a compelling case for the need to challenge Global North-dominated narratives around the sexuality of heterosexual cisgender women in general and Muslim women in particular. First, she will discuss how neoliberal politics of individualization and self-management clashes with Turkey’s neoconservative politics of re-inventing traditions through strict control over women’s bodies and their sexualities. She will argue that the tendency and demand for the individualization among young, educated middle-class adults in Turkey subvert the dominant norms of intimacy, gender, and sexual morality.Didem will also argue that sexting has become a practice among young urban university students to resist the neoliberal and neoconservative politics of intimacy that has been fiercely promoted by the current government for more than fifteen years. Sexting here refers to exchanging sexually explicit written text or visual and audio recordings. Didem will demonstrate that sexting can become a medium through which restrictions around sexuality can be negotiated. Didem will also complicate the understanding of sexuality as mere penetrative acts. And finally, Didem will share many obstacles and preconceptions she has faced as a woman researching sexuality in Turkey. Her own experience is very telling of conservative norms surrounding sexuality in Turkey.The “New Turkey” Didem refers to is a dominant narrative of the current ruling party of Turkey, Justice and Development Party (AKP). AKP has been promoting the idea that they have initialized a “progressive break” from the secular republican era. This break has been enacted through many cultural, social and material changes in the society and in the state structure. These changes include slow but steady erosion of independence of state apparatuses, shift from a parliamentary system to a presidential system, cultural wars over important symbols of the Republican Era, the attacks on Istiklal Street and Gezi Park, the transfer of capital to a Muslim elite and to those who are in direct alliance with the government and so on.
A szovjet hadifogság történetének része a korábbi ellenség ideológiai meggyőzésére tett kísérlet. Az antifasiszta átnevelés magyar programját Rákosi Mátyás dolgozta ki, a kádereket a krasznogorszki Központi Antifasiszta Iskola marxista-leninista kurzusain képezték. A táborok politikai osztályainak élére az itt végzett hallgatókat helyezték, feladatuk az antifasiszta propaganda meggyőző terjesztése volt. Ennek hátterét, tartalmát és módját két forrástípus, a táborokban készült úgynevezett búcsúalbumok, és volt hadifoglyok visszaemlékezései alapján mutatja be az előadás. Propaganda a második világháborúban című konferencia előadása, mely elhangzott az MTA Székház Felolvasótermében, a Magyar Tudomány Napja alkalmából az MTA II. világháború története albizottság szervezésében 2018. november 16-án.
A fagyos szovjet-magyar viszony 1940-es évek eleji rövid enyhülésének egyik szimbolikus eseménye az 1849-ben hadizsákmányként elvitt honvédzászlók 1941-es visszaadásának gesztusa volt. A zászlók hazahozatala a szimbolikus politizálás térbeli és testi gyakorlatainak számos példáját felvonultatva a háborús propaganda részeként szolgálta a Románia vonatkozásában rövid ideig egyező szovjet és magyar érdekeket. Az előadás ennek szimbolikus eszköztárát és gyakorlati megvalósulását tekinti át. Propaganda a második világháborúban című konferencia előadása, mely elhangzott az MTA Székház Felolvasótermében, a Magyar Tudomány Napja alkalmából az MTA II. világháború története albizottság szervezésében 2018. november 16-án.
Az előadás bemutatja, hogy a magyarországi náciellenességnek azonban nem ez volt az egyetlen, vagy éppen a kor diskurzusait leginkább meghatározó dimenziója, hiszen a náciellenes közszereplők zavarba ejtően sokféle ideológiai háttérrel és motivációval rendelkeztek és nem alkottak monolit csoportot. A régi vágású liberális demokraták, konzervatívok, legitimisták, intézményesülő fajvédők, sőt aktív szélsőjobboldali politikusok is náci ellenesek voltak, akik a deklaráltan „nemzeti alapra helyezkedett” szociáldemokratákhoz és az igen fragmentált kommunistákhoz hasonlóan a náci térhódítás ellen foglaltak állást. Az előadás bemutatja az azonosítható fontosabb csoportokat, illetve azok fórumait (pártok, lapok, társaságok, törzsasztalok stb.), kitekintéssel a német megszállás alatti ellenállásokban betöltött szerepvállalásukra. Propaganda a második világháborúban című konferencia előadása, mely elhangzott az MTA Székház Felolvasótermében, a Magyar Tudomány Napja alkalmából az MTA II. világháború története albizottság szervezésében 2018. november 16-án.
Az előadás bemutatja, milyen változáson ment keresztül a német nyelv 1933-tól kezdődően. A hangsúlyt azokra a szavakra és kifejezésekre fektetve, amelyek bekerültek a náci nyelvhasználatba, majd az antifasiszta propaganda ideje alatt kikerültek; illetőleg jelentésük változott a nemzetiszocialista időszak alatt, majd azt követően is. Ehhez az előadás forrásként propagandaanyagokat, így újságcikkeket, plakátokat, reklámokat, szórólapokat használ. Propaganda a második világháborúban című konferencia előadása, mely elhangzott az MTA Székház Felolvasótermében, a Magyar Tudomány Napja alkalmából az MTA II. világháború története albizottság szervezésében 2018. november 16-án.
Az előadás a kevésbé kutatott téma az ún. „afro-németek” történetét elemzi a németországi gyarmat-revizionizmussal összefüggő propagandatevékenység során. Hiszen hiába voltak ők is német állampolgárok, a többségében afrikai-német vegyesházasságokból származó, Németországban felnőtt, német anyanyelvűek, nem tartozhattak az „árja” német néphez, így megmenekülésüket főleg a hiperrealista filmábrázolásnak köszönhették. A filmekben végig szükség volt rájuk kisebb szerepek, és főleg a tömeges statisztajelenetek miatt ezért elkerülték a deportálást. Propaganda a második világháborúban című konferencia előadása, mely elhangzott MTA Székház Felolvasótermében, a Magyar Tudomány Napja alkalmából az MTA II. világháború története albizottság szervezésében 2018. november 16-án.
Az előadás két müncheni székhelyű német vicclap, a Fliegende Blätter és Simplicissimus 1939 szeptembere és 1944 szeptembere (mindkét lap ekkor szűnt meg) közötti időintervallumban keletkezett karikatúráit és cikkeit elemezi, elsősorban a két újság háborús propaganda-tevékenységére koncentrálva, de kitérve általános jellemzőikre is. Propaganda a második világháborúban című konferencia előadása, mely elhangzott az MTA Székház Felolvasótermében, a Magyar Tudomány Napja alkalmából az MTA II. világháború története albizottság szervezésében 2018. november 16-án.
Németország 1933 és 1939 között modern ipari nagyhatalommá, mely együtt járt a rendszer széleskörű tömegbázisának megteremtésére és egyszemélyi politikai, ideológiai és katonai vezetői kultusza megszilárdításával. Az előadás az építészeti terveket elemzi, amelyek Berlint a világ leendő fővárosává, „Welthaupstadt Germaniává” voltak hivatottak átalakítani. A hatalmi reprezentáció vizuális eszközeiben rejlő lehetőségeket a Führer és környezete megdöbbentő pontossággal ismerte fel, és kíméletlen céltudatossággal tervezte kiaknázni a birodalom és a vezér hatalma alátámasztására. Propaganda a második világháborúban című konferencia előadása, mely elhangzott az MTA Székház Felolvasótermében, a Magyar Tudomány Napja alkalmából az MTA II. világháború története albizottság szervezésében 2018. november 16-án.
A titkos, vagy “fekete” propaganda olyan befolyásoló információs tevékenység, ahol a címzett nincs tisztában az információ valódi forrásával és terjesztőjével. Az előadás bemutat egy olyan propaganda műveletet, amivel magyarországi zsidókat céloztak volna meg a soá kellős közepén, de amit végül a washingtoni OSS főhadiszálláson megvétóztak. Propaganda a második világháborúban című konferencia előadása, mely elhangzott az MTA Székház Felolvasótermében, a Magyar Tudomány Napja alkalmából az MTA II. világháború története albizottság szervezésében 2018. november 16-án.
Az előadás a fennmaradt újpesti sajtóanyagok (Fórum, Független Újság, Igaz Szó, Újpest) egy részére támaszkodva, az egymást követő zsidótörvények és jogfosztó rendeletek helyi megvalósulásán keresztül bemutatja az újpesti zsidó közösséggel szembeni propagandisztikus légkör felerősödését, amellyel a helyi társadalmat igyekeztek meggyőzni arról, hogy a zsidók a keresztény nép ellenségei és kizsákmányolói. Ehhez segítő kezet nyújtottak a város vezetésében szerepet játszó hivatalnokok és a mindenkori polgármester, akik a zsidók virilis névjegyzékből és a képviselőtestületből való fokozatos kizárásával, egyesületeik felszámolásával, iparjogosítványaik felülvizsgálatával és elvételével, a piaci árusítástól való eltiltásukkal igyekeztek kedvezőbb helyzetbe hozni a helyi keresztény kereskedő és iparos társadalmat. Propaganda a második világháborúban című konferencia előadása, mely elhangzott az MTA Székház Felolvasótermében, a Magyar Tudomány Napja alkalmából az MTA II. világháború története albizottság szervezésében 2018. november 16-án.
Bosnyák Zoltán főszerkesztésével 1944 májusa és decembere között, heti rendszerességgel jelent meg a Harc című folyóirat. A lap a Zsidókérdéskutató Magyar Intézet hivatalos lapja volt. A kutatás eredményeként kirajzolódik, hogy a lap célja az idegenérzet növelése, a korábbi korszakokból átvett zsidóellenes képek átformálása és megújítása az adott kornak megfelelően, a honi társadalom egészére való hatásgyakorlás, negatív érzet erősítése ill. elültetése a zsidósággal kapcsolatban. Miképp működött, mik voltak a céljai a tudatos zsidóellenes propagandának Magyarországon? A különböző igényű cikkeivel, hirdetéseivel a társadalom valamennyi rétegét meg szerette volna szólítani és „végső harcba hívni” a zsidóság ellen. Propaganda a második világháborúban című konferencia előadása, mely elhangzott az MTA Székház Felolvasótermében, a Magyar Tudomány Napja alkalmából az MTA II. világháború története albizottság szervezésében 2018. november 16-án.
Miképp jelennek meg ezek az események a magyar propagandában, hogy az 1941 nyarán a szovjet állambiztonsági szervek illetve a visszavonuló Vörös Hadsereg alakulatai több ezer politikai foglyot, túszt és katonát végeztek ki. A Baltikumban, az egykori kelet-lengyelországi területeken és Ukrajnában elkövetett gyilkosságok fellelt bizonyítékai a német propaganda egyik legfontosabb szovjetellenes elemévé váltak mind a hadseregen belül, mind a hátországi és megszállt lakosság körében. Propaganda a második világháborúban című konferencia előadása, mely elhangzott az MTA Székház Felolvasótermében, a Magyar Tudomány Napja alkalmából az MTA II. világháború története albizottság szervezésében 2018. november 16-án.
Az előadás bemutatja a Magyar Távirati Iroda Rt., a Magyar Telefonhírmondó és Rádió Rt. ügyviteli dokumentumait, felügyelő és igazgatósági üléseinek jegyzőkönyveit, műsorülések jegyzőkönyveit, a sajtócikk gyűjteményét abból a szempontból, hogy meglepetéseket tartogatnak a második világháború történetét kutató történészeknek. Propaganda a második világháborúban című konferencia előadása, mely elhangzott az MTA Székház Felolvasótermében, a Magyar Tudomány Napja alkalmából az MTA II. világháború története albizottság szervezésében 2018. november 16-án.
Az előadás a Kárpát-medencére és környékére fókuszáló, anyanyelvi és nemzetiségi adatokat ábrázoló térképeket elemzi. Az első világháború időszakától a második világháború végéig az ilyen jellegű térképek nagy szerephez jutottak a különböző területi követelések tudományos legitimalizálásában, hiszen teljesen objektív etnikai térképek nem léteznek. Hogyan vizsgálja az ilyen jellegű térképek e jelentésrétegeit napjainkban a kritikai kartográfia? Propaganda a második világháborúban című konferencia előadása, mely elhangzott az MTA Székház Felolvasótermében, a Magyar Tudomány Napja alkalmából az MTA II. világháború története albizottság szervezésében 2018. november 16-án.
Az előadás azt vizsgálja, hogy a II. világháborús magyar propagandaplakátok miként szólították meg a lakosságot, hogyan próbálták a véleményüket, a háború eseményeihez való hozzáállásukat befolyásolni, emellett mennyire töltöttek be fontos szerepet a propaganda terjesztésében a korszak többi médiumához képest. A II. világháborús magyar plakátok kategorizálása a főbb propaganda témák megismerését és áttekinthetőséget segíti elő, emellett behatárolja a háború egyes szakaszait, amely során megfigyelhető a kormány számára mely témák voltak a legfontosabbak, ennek következtében hogyan próbálták formálni a lakosság véleményét, hozzáállását a háborúhoz. Propaganda a második világháborúban című konferencia előadása, mely elhangzott az MTA Székház Felolvasótermében, a Magyar Tudomány Napja alkalmából az MTA II. világháború története albizottság szervezésében 2018. november 16-án.
Horthy István, a kormányzó idősebb fia a második világháború időszakának tragikus sorsú mellékszereplője volt. Meghatározó közéleti tevékenységet nem folytatott, az ország sorsát érintő döntésekben nem vett részt, magas közjogi méltóságát, kormányzó-helyettesi pozícióját váratlan halála miatt mindössze hat hónapig töltötte be. Mégis hogyan lett kultikus figura a háborús propagandában? –erre ad választ az előadás. Propaganda a második világháborúban című konferencia előadása, mely elhangzott az MTA Székház Felolvasótermében, a Magyar Tudomány Napja alkalmából az MTA II. világháború története albizottság szervezésében 2018. november 16-án.
Az előadás bemutatja a Horthy-kultusz egyes fázisait a második világháborúban. A Horthy-kép kiegészítő üzeneteként az állampolgároktól elvárt magatartásformák is idővel jóval hangsúlyosabbá váltak, így különösképpen a kötelességteljesítés és az önfeláldozás. Propaganda a második világháborúban című konferencia előadása, mely elhangzott az MTA Székház Felolvasótermében, a Magyar Tudomány Napja alkalmából az MTA II. világháború története albizottság szervezésében 2018. november 16-án.
In this episode, I am hosting Tankut Atuk again. We will talk about one of the worst kept secrets of non-governmental organizations working with refugees; the fact that project-based funding of NGOs reduces refugees to mere numbers and categories while ignoring their subjectivity and agency. There were many instances in my own research in Turkey when I observed that the priority of NGOs was to report higher number of refugees to the funding organizations instead of focusing on the quality of services and protection for refugees. One of the most striking examples was the practice of collecting identification numbers of families as a whole. That is to say, even though only one member of the family was visiting NGOs, they were asked to provide ID numbers of other family members. This way, NGOs were seemingly serving more refugees than they actually did.Tankut will further complicate this fact by talking about a project for LGBTI and women refugees at the NGO he worked for as a project manager. Sharing his experiences, Tankut will reveal how refugees are subjected to the violence of categories, or as Judith Butler would call it, normative violence. We will also discuss the material effects of those violent categories. Normative violence, here, refers to the Global North oriented liminal categorisations of refugees in Turkey that disarticulate citizenship rights and rearticulates them in very small bundles. Turkey differentially distributes these small bundles to the refugees according to different categories of “vulnerability” assigned to them. In other words, the language of the projects funded by organisations such as UNHCR or the EU violently reproduces itself in the localities and it produces new subjectivities of deserving and undeserving refugees. We will also problematize the concept of vulnerability that is established in the projects. These projects are funded by transnational organizations such as UNHCR, UNFPA, the EU or international bodies of states such as the USA, the UK or Germany. As countries in the Global North, the projects they fund create hierarchies of vulnerability for refugees which determine who deserve what form of services and rights. Vulnerability thus becomes a tool of managing refugee populations as opposed to granting equal protection to every refugee.Tankut is a Ph.D. Student in Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies at the University of Minnesota. His current work is on the conservative politics of HIV in Turkey, but his first MA thesis was on the gay men who served in the army.I have conducted a multi-sited ethnography in four cities of Turkey; Ankara, Istanbul, Eskişehir, and Yalova. Ankara and Istanbul can be seen as capitals of NGOs as their headquarters are in these cities. On the other hand, Eskişehir and Yalova are heavily populated by refugees in general, LGBTI refugees in particular. I conducted participant observations and oral history style interviews with ninety-four informants. Forty-five of them was LGBTI refugees and forty-nine of them worked in transnational organizations such as UNHCR or local NGOs for refugees and LGBTI people.For a written discussion of a similar topic, please have a look at my article "Who is 'Queerer' and Deserves Resettlement?: Queer Asylum Seekers and Their Deservingness of Refugee Status in Turkey".
Since 2017, the Department for Modern and Contemporary History at LMU Munich and the Center for Holocaust Studies at the Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History co-host the colloquium »The Holocaust and its Context«. In this special session, recorded on 14 January 2019, Frank Bajohr and Kim Wünschmann discuss Holocaust research, memory and politics in Eastern Europe with Natalia Aleksiun (Touro College, New York), Ekaterina Makhotina (University of Bonn), Andrea Pető (CEU Budapest) and Svetlana Suveica (University of Regensburg). The panel focusses on developments in Moldova and Romania, Lithuania, Poland and Hungary. The podcast was prepared in a cooperation with CEU/ MTA WWII Podcast Series.
A konferencia bevezető előadása a propaganda történetén keresztül kísérletet tesz a propaganda fogalmának tisztázására, másrészt a propaganda természetének bemutatásával egy szélesebb történelmi, társadalmi összefüggésre mutat rá. Propaganda a második világháborúban című konferencia előadása, mely elhangzott MTA Székház Felolvasótermében, a Magyar Tudomány Napja alkalmából az MTA II. világháború története albizottság szervezésében 2018. november 16-án.Második világháborús propaganda konferenciaA második világháború időszakában jelentős szerep jutott a propagandának, mellyel a társadalom minél szélesebb körét kívánták a háborús folyamatok részévé és támogatójává tenni. Konferencia célja a háborúhoz kapcsolódó propagandatevékenységek széleskörű és sokrétű bemutatása a téma iránt érdeklődő nagyközönség számára. A konferencia egyaránt foglalkozik a propaganda tartalmával és technikájával.
In this episode, I am hosting Tankut Atuk; a Ph.D. student at the Department of Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies at the University of Minnesota. We will talk about the construction of masculinity in the Turkish Army while sharing the findings of our field researches, showing how far the military is willing to go in order to maintain hegemonic masculinity within the barracks. We will talk about unfortunate moments in very recent history when the Army asked gay men and trans women to provide photos and videos of themselves having sex with another man as so-called 'proof' of their sexuality and gender identity in order to be granted exemption from military service. Tankut makes an especially compelling case for effeminacy being the cornerstone in constructing the military as a masculine space. Effeminacy here roughly refers to bodies that are marked as male from birth performing behaviors that are socially accepted as feminine. He argues that it is not homosexuality per se that the Turkish military is against, but rather effeminacy since it destabilizes the military's fragile masculinity. For a written discussion of a similar topic, please have a look at Tankut's article "Comrades-in-[Each Other’s]-Arms: Homosociality, Masculinity and Effeminacy in the Turkish Army".
In this episode of the energy and innovation podcast I speak with Simon Pirani, a senior visiting fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies. Simon is author of many studies and books on energy and history, notably a very good report on the Russia-Ukraine 2009 gas dispute that came out soon after the conflict was resolved.Our discussion today centers on two recent publications of Simon's. The first, is an update on the transit of Russian gas through Ukraine after 2019, published by the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies. It has been 10 years, since the shut-down and Simon and I reflect on what has been done and what are the future threats. His latest report outlines the ongoing conflict and how any gas agreement between the two countries will be kept on a very short leash, posing potential shutdown threats for transit gas to Europe. We also discuss Simon's new book, Burning up: A global history of Fossil Fuel Consumption, published in 2018 by Pluto Press. Some of the key take-aways of this episode include:Russian gas comes with political conditions. The 2009 crisis stemmed from Soviet era gas policies and the deteriorating political conditions between Russia and Ukraine.How cheap gas enabled Soviet citizens to have a higher quality of life in the citiesThe Annexation of Crimea was a reaction to Ukrainian politics which Russia found working against its interests.The centrality of fossil fuels for our economies is under appreciated by those looking for using more renewable energy and the hypocrisy of leaders discussing how to reduce carbon emissions, while our use of fossil fuels continues to increase.The technological decedents of our transport system, the car and truck, are still fundamentally rooted in the industrial revolution. Inefficiency turned into a mass consumer product. And governments are not hard enough on companies to innovate and increase efficiency in transport.For more of Simon's publications visit his website.
Denisa Nestakova (Comenius University, Bratislava) who is working with a grant of the Foundation for the Memory of the Shoah, Paris (France) on the history of Sered talks to Andrea Pető. They discuss a newly opened museum, public debates about memorization strategies and the use of photographs in a Holocaust Museum.
Synne Corell, historian and researcher at the Norwegian Center for Holocaust and Minority Studies, talks with Andrea Pető about a recent seminar series organized in National Library of Norway. Journalists, historians and artists met to reflect on a photograph taken on 26th of November 1942 by Georg W. Fossum, depicting a crowd witnessing the departure of a boat transporting 529 Norwegian Jews to Auschwitz. The photograph has a significant place in the visual memory of Holocaust in Norway, and has been used in newspapers, books, moves and works of art. What does this photo and the works around us tell us about memory of the Holocaust in Norway?
Building a Sustainable Bank: Why ING invests in clean energy (and not coal)In this episode we talk to Christopher Steane, former Deputy Head of Wholesale Banking of ING bank. He worked for ING from 2010 until his retirement in October, 2018. We speak to Christopher about his efforts to transform ING into a sustainable finance lender - after he was challenged to do so by a younger colleague. We cover his experience in finance and why being environmentally aware reduces risks for banks. We also discuss why coal is not a good product to finance, and why only state companies will finance these carbon intensive projects. I found the interview very interesting for how climate change and risk assessments of older energy technologies are transforming financing options for the energy projects.For this episode, I have to thank the organizers of the Budapest Energy Summit. This interview would not have been possible without their support. They made it possible for me to attend the event and to connect with Christopher, who was a panelist on finance in the energy sector. [[{"fid":"892","view_mode":"full","fields":{"format":"full","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"Erasmus+","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":false},"link_text":null,"type":"media","field_deltas":{"1":{"format":"full","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"Erasmus+","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":false}},"attributes":{"alt":"Erasmus+","class":"media-element file-full","data-delta":"1"}}]]
Rainer M. Jánossal, az egri Eszterházy Károly Főiskola Egyetem Történelemtudományi Intézete professzorával Pető Andrea beszélget új könyvéről: Századosok, Osiris, 2018. És arról hogyan jelenik meg a “századosok” a második világháború tisztjeinek társadalomtörténetében, a militarizmus szerkezete és működési módja a Horthy hardseregében, és hogyan lett a századosok története a nők és a csend története.
Kerpel-Fronius Ádám a Meggyilkolt Európai Zsidók Emlékműve Alapítvány tudományos munkatársa az európai emlékhelyek főszerkesztője az európai holokauszt emlékezetről és emlékművekről beszélget Pető Andreával.
This episode focuses on poor labour conditions in Czech super- and hypermarkets, along with the possibilities of collective action.
Sabine Grenz, professor for Gender Studies at the University of Vienna, talks to Andrea Pető about her research on gender history in the Nazi period through women's diaries. They discuss how, through ego documents, people constructed the idea that “Opa und Oma waren keine Nazis” as part of a general amnesia about the Nazi past. Sabone Grenz served as a president of the German Gender Studies Association and she also talks about recent debates in gender studies in the country.
How do you smuggle wagon loads of coal into the EU? In this episode of Energy and Innovation you'll learn how Anthracite, a form of hard coal, is funding the conflict in Eastern Ukraine. Reporters, Karolina Baca-Pogorzelska and Michał Potocki explain how anthracite is transported out of the occupied regions of Ukraine and into the EU. In 2014, Russian backed separatists invaded the Eastern part of Ukraine and established the territories called the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republic. In these territories are the anthracite mines, that the separatists took control of, and are now selling and shipping the coal through Russia to European and other international markets. Anthracite is a form of hard coal, often used in metallurgy, like steel making and in other chemical processes.In this episode you'll understand how the label 'conflict minerals', does not ONLY apply to diamonds or minerals we find in batteries. But also how conflict resources fund and fuel the Russian separatist in Eastern Ukraine. [[{"fid":"890","view_mode":"full","fields":{"format":"full","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"Erasmus+","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":false},"link_text":null,"type":"media","field_deltas":{"1":{"format":"full","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"Erasmus+","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":false}},"attributes":{"alt":"Erasmus+","class":"media-element file-full","data-delta":"1"}}]]Despite sanctions on Russia and separatists, the trade in Ukrainian Anthracite still exists in a gray area which does not prohibit the buying of it in the EU. For more information, check out the show notes, where you'll find links to Michal and Karolina's work on this topic in English.And a final note in this introduction. My apologies for the quality of the interview audio. We recorded the interview in a café in Warsaw after I met Michal and Carolina while I was doing my own research on the Polish energy sector. As you may know these early episodes of my podcast are a process of learning. And there's a lot of technical issues for me to learn about - that's an understatement. Regardless of some audio issues - mainly my with my own voice, I think you'll find the conversation fascinating to understand how you can even begin to smuggle wagon loads of coal out of a country and into the EU to make money out of it.Anthracite FAQ. What’s the Deal with the Donbas Coal? autor: Michał Potocki, Karolina Baca-Pogorzelska
This episode looks into working conditions in the commercial cleaning sector in Italy. You will hear from migrant and local workers about their common experiences and mutual interests.
This episode follows the story of three Ukrainians working in Poland. The thread connecting the different stories of migrant labour is that in each case, the work is mediated in specific ways.
This episode is a journey to an all-inclusive resort on the Bulgarian coast where Bulgarians and Ukrainians find seasonal work. You will get to know which factors influence the workers' perceptions of their work.
This episode explores how the organized domestic and care workers can find mutual grounds for solidarity with the feminist movement in Spain. We will learn how migrant workers and local activists built a shared strike on the 8th of March.
Séllei Nóra egyetemi tanár, az MTA doktora, a Gendertudományi Központ vezetője a Debreceni Egyetem Angol-Amerikai Intézetében, négy éven keresztül pedig a Magyar Anglisztikai Társaság elnöke volt, Pető Andreával arról beszél, hogy hogyan kezd el egy Virgina Woolf kutató a 2. Világháború történetével foglalkozni és mi Polcz Alaine: Asszony a fronton című könyve körül kialakult viták főbb érvei.
Patrycja Dołowy, Polish photographer, multimedia artist and playwright, talks with Andrea Pető. They discuss topics such as what it means to be a memory activist in Poland; how women’s memories and femininity are woven into artistic projects; and why stories matter.
In this interview, philosopher Simon Rippon and I discuss his role as a philosopher in the ETHOS (Towards a European Theory of Justice and Fairness) project. Analyzing the link between (political) philosophy and real-world politics, we talk about the need for ideal theory, what it means to have knowledge about justice, the fact-value gap and how philosophy might contribute to solving injustices such as the European refugee crisis.
Dr. Gabor Maté, renowned expert, speaker, and author, in conversation with Magdalena Smieszek, reflects on human development and the interplay of biological, social, and psychological factors in a human being that he calls biopsychosocial. He talks about his childhood in Hungary between the Second World War, as a Jewish survivor of the Holocaust, and the Hungarian Revolution in 1956 at which point he migrated with his family to Canada. The discussion covers a range of subjects, considering child development, genetics and the environment, multigenerational pain and trauma, identity formation, addiction, and the historical political conflicts around the world caught in a cycle of oppression and retribution. Gabor Maté considers different healing methods for the mind and body and calls for a sense of individual and collective responsibility.Music: Move Forward by Edoby Beats
Laczó Ferenc a Maastrichti Egyetem adjunktusa beszél Pető Andreának Munkácsi Ernőről, a Zsidó Tanács prominens figurájáról, akinek most jelent meg How it Happened. Documenting the Tragedy of Hungarian Jewry, (McGill-Queen University Press, 2018) címmel angolul a naplója. Hogyan értékeli utólag írt naplójában saját és a Zsidó Tanács szerepét, mikor kezdődött az üldöztetés, és szerinte mi volt a magyar hatóságok szerepe a deportálásokban?
Pedro Aires Oliveira, Professor of History at New University of Lisbon, talks about Salazar and his New State with Andrea Pető. They talk about Salazar’s pragmatism, historical analogies and the major debates today in Portuguese historiography about Salazar’s regime.
Today I talk to David Papineau about his book Knowing The Score: How Philosophy can Teach us about Sport and Sport can Teach Us about Philosophy. Philosopher David Papineau explains how sport sheds light on unresolved questions regarding the connection between intention and action and regarding how rules can or cannot give rise to moral reasons, and lays out his fascinating theory of why sport matters - what its value is.
In Episode 3 I'm speaking with Mark Anielski, who specializes in the economics of well-being. Mark and I discuss a range of topics: including, how and why businesses should become more sustainable, the balance between maximizing shareholder value and sustainability. We discuss why money makes us nervous and how we can develop a new relationship with it. We address the idea of a living wage, and even discuss Mark's bicycle trip down the Danube. Mark is the author of two books on the subject of well-being and happiness, with the latest, An Economy of Wellbeing published this year. Mark draws on his international experience with countries like China, Singapore and Bhutan to give insight in developing how we can contribute towards happier and fairer communities. Just a note, in this episode, we don't actually hit on the topic of energy but we do get to innovation in life and business. Mark has his own podcast, and I suggest you check it out at https://anchor.fm/mark-anielski. Mark Anielski is an economic strategist who specializes in the economics of well-being. He is schooled in economics, accounting and forestry. Mark believes that our measures of success should be focused on maximizing the well-being of people and the planet. He is the author of The Economics of Happiness: Building Genuine Wealth (2007) and his forthcoming book An Economy of Well-being (2018), which provides a road map for this new economy of well- being. Mark has served as an economic advisor to China, Singapore, French Polynesia, Bhutan, The Netherlands, Austria, the US, Canada and the Netherlands on new systems for measuring progress and well-being. Mark is the president and chief well-being officer of Anielski Management Inc. an Edmonton-Canada-based economic advisory services group dedicated to building the new economy of well-being.
Barna Ildikó habilitált egyetemi docenst, az ELTE Társadalomkutatások Módszertana Tanszék tanszékvezetőjét Pető Andrea kérdezte az International Tracing Service adatbázisáról, mi a jelentősége és mit lehet megtudni belőle, amit eddig nem tudtunk?
Today I talk to Tim Crane about his book The Meaning of Belief: Religion from an Atheist's Point of View.Tim was Knightbridge Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Peterhouse from 2009. He is currently the Head of Department and Professor of Philosophy at Central European University.In the interview, Tim explains why the claim of some scientists that all philosophical questions will eventually become scientific questions is false. We discuss what religion is and why the so-called New Atheists work with an incomplete conception of religion. Believing is not just about accepting cosmological and moral propositions but also centrally involves what Tim calls, the "religious impulse" and an aspect of identification. Tim argues that indicating the fault of a religion is in a way a self-flattering intellectual project and calls for reflection on whether the kind of arguments put forward by New Atheists ever work. After going into the rationality of religious beliefs, we end by exploring whether the question of the meaning of life is tremendously important or only seems that way but is, in fact, an ill-formed one. I hope you'll enjoy this conversation as much as I did!
Anna Ullrich is a Research Assistant at the Center for Holocaust Studies at IfZ Munich and involved in a variety of EHRI activities, among them coordinating EHRI's Training and Education. She spoke with Andrea Pető about the EHRI - Seminar Budapest Researching and Remembering the Holocaust in Central Europe – new sources, methods and approaches 3 - 7 September, 2018 at CEU Campus. What is the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure, who are the members and what are the main activities?
A konferencia két szervezője Paksa Rudolf, történész, a Magyar Tudományos Akadémia Bölcsészettudományi Kutatóközpont Történettudományi Intézetének tudományos munkatársa és Virányi Péter címzetes egyetemi docens Reklámszociológia BME szociológia és kommunikációs tanszékének munkatársa az MTA II. világháború története albizottság konferenciájáról, mely 2018. november 16. MTA Székházában a Felolvasóteremben lesz, beszélget Pető Andreával. A második világháború időszakában jelentős szerep jutott a propagandának, mellyel a társadalom minél szélesebb körét kívánták a háborús folyamatok részévé és támogatójává tenni. Konferencia célja a háborúhoz kapcsolódó propagandatevékenységek széleskörű és sokrétű bemutatása a téma iránt érdeklődő nagyközönség számára. A konferencia egyaránt foglalkozik a propaganda tartalmával és technikájával.
The two term director of the Agency for Cooperation of Energy Regulators, Alberto Pototschnig discusses the development of the agency since its founding in 2011. At the end of his second mandate as director, Mr. Pototschnig discusses how the agency has evolved from it conception to its role today as a electricity and gas market monitor. Other topics discussed include long-term financing of the agency, the role of REMIT, the potential of coupling electricity and gas markets to assist the role of renewables. The role technology plays in altering regulations and how ACER has assisted national energy regulators. [[{"fid":"889","view_mode":"full","fields":{"format":"full","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"Erasmus+","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":false},"link_text":null,"type":"media","field_deltas":{"1":{"format":"full","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"Erasmus+","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":false}},"attributes":{"alt":"Erasmus+","class":"media-element file-full","data-delta":"1"}}]]
Magdalena Smieszek speaks with Mate Tokic, Humanities Professor at CEU, joined by Azka Zia, Patricia Velicu and Julia Hasani, participants in the course on "The Other in European History and Politics".The discussion considers the formation of European identity and thinking critically about what it means to be European, how the process of inclusion and exclusion has challenged and continues to reshape what is and is not Europe. How does this ambivalence between unity and inclusion on the one hand, and exclusion and difference on the other play into the discourse of Europe in politics and society? In what ways do migration, human rights, religion, nationalism, citizenship and numerous other issues around identity politics affect Europe's self-definition? We reflect on the historical and contemporary manifestations surrounding the idea of Europe, its development through the encounter with what's been traditionally or newly considered the Other, as well as prospects for the future of Europe.
Jasmin Gamez, a recent master's graduate in Public Administration from the School of Public Policy, interviews her mom Otilia Gamez about her three favorite songs and how they represent her life. Otilia Gamez originally grew up in Mexicali, Mexico. She first migrated to the United States in the 1970s, first as a seasonal farm worker working throughout California and living in Mexicali. She finally moved to the United States in the 1980s. Intro and Outro song by "Cold Fund" by Kevin MacLeod
Today we are with Professor Stefan Bouzarovski from the University of Manchester. He has just published a book on energy poverty. Called, Energy Poverty: (Dis)Assembling Europe’s Infrastructural Divide, published by Palgrave Macmillan. He is also the Chair of the Steering Committee for The EU Energy Poverty Observatory. On today's episode we discuss the observatory and energy poverty in the EU, how research on the issue can inform policy choices. We talk about the role of academics, including the role of geographers and how we can produce research that makes a difference.Intro music credit: Andrew Codeman, Tired traveler on the way home[[{"fid":"888","view_mode":"full","fields":{"format":"full","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"Erasmus+","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":false},"link_text":null,"type":"media","field_deltas":{"1":{"format":"full","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"Erasmus+","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":false}},"attributes":{"alt":"Erasmus+","class":"media-element file-full","data-delta":"1"}}]]
Tom Kristiansen, Professor of History at UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromso discusses the new project he heads on rewriting the history of Norway during the Second World War. He shares his reflections on challenges and results of the project “In a World of Total War: Norway 1939-1945” aiming to map Norwegian wartime alliances, the occupation regime, everyday life and memories of war and occupation.
Pető Andrea, a CEU egyetemi tanárával Stefano Bottoni, MTA Bölcsészettudományi Kutatóközpont Történettudományi Intézet tudományos főmunkatárs, az MTA II. világháború történeti albizottság titkára beszélget Elmondani az elmondhatatlant. A nemi erőszak története a Magyarországon a II világháború alatt (Jaffa, 2018) kötetéről, hogy mit lehet tudni a nemi erőszakból megszületett gyerekekről, milyen tényezők járultak hozzá a háborús nemi erőszak elhallgatásához, és hogyan alakul a szovjet katonák által elkövetett nemi erőszak emlékezetének időbelisége Magyarországon és Oroszországban.
This is the third in a short series of podcasts on the UNESCO 2003 Convention on Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH). In this podcast, Karen Culver, an MA student in the Cultural Heritage Studies Programme, talks to Dr Laszlo Nemes, the Director of the International Kodaly Institute in Hungary and to Dr. Eszter Csonka-Takacs, the Director of the UNESCO Committee in Hungary. They discuss the process of listing the Kodaly Concept of music preservation and teaching with UNESCO, and what the community of Kodaly Concept music teachers might gain from the listing. In the other podcasts in the series Karen looks at how the 2003 Convention on Intangible Cultural Heritage was developed; some of the challenges faced by the 2003 UNESCO Convention; and the relationship between UNESCO and the community that holds the heritage.
This is the second in a short series of podcasts on the UNESCO 2003 Convention on Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH). In this podcast, Karen Culver, an MA student in the Cultural Heritage Studies Programme, talks to Dr Chiara Botolotto, a Research Associate at the Interdisciplinary Institute of Contemporary Anthropology in Paris; they discuss why some world regions are under-represented in the global list of ICH; role of the community in listing their ICH with UNESCO, and how this listing impacts the community.In the other podcasts in the series Karen looks at how an item of Intangible Cultural Heritage is listed; some of the challenges faced by the 2003 UNESCO Convention; what is the relationship between UNESCO and the community that holds the heritage, and what a community might gain from listing their heritage with UNESCO.
In this podcast, Karen Culver, an MA student in the Cultural Heritage Studies Programme, talks to her tutor, Professor Gabor Soos about the UNESCO 2003 Convention on Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH); what it is; how the Convention works, and how communities that hold the heritage are involved.This is the first of a short series in which Karen looks at the challenges faced by the Convention; the relationship between UNESCO and the community that holds the heritage, and what a community might gain from listing their heritage with UNESCO.
Pető Andrea, a Magyar Történelmi Emlékek Okmánytárak sorozatban megjelent „…Akkor aszt mondták kicsi robot”. A magyar polgári lakosság elhurcolása a Szovjetunióba korabeli dokumentumok tükrében (Budapest, 2018) című kötet szerzőjével, Stark Tamással az MTA Bölcsészettudományi Kutatóközpont főmunkatársával beszélgetett. A második világháború során, különösen annak utolsó hónapjaiban Magyarország háború alatti területéről mintegy 600 ezren kerültek szovjet fogságba. A foglyok közel harmada civilként lett „hadifogoly”. A kötet szerzője elmondta, hogy a 347 doboznyi forrásanyagból válogatott dokumentumok, levelek nemcsak az elhurcolásról, hanem az elhurcolás miatt bekövetkező családi tragédiákról, megtört életpályákról, titokzatos letartóztatásokról, valamint az üldöztetést túlélő zsidók újabb megpróbáltatásairól is tudósítanak. Kitért a kényszermunkások történetével kapcsolatos kutatások nehézségeire, valamint arra, hogy a magyar kormányzat közvetlenül a világháború után, hogyan próbált közbenjárni a szovjet vezetésnél az elhurcoltak kiszabadítása érdekében. A beszélgetésben szó esett a kormányzat által 2015-ben meghirdetett “Gulág-emlékév”-ről és az emlékezetpolitikáról is.
Walking around Budapest, we can see greater Hungary map stickers on car bumpers and people wearing T-shirts or sometimes tattoos that represent resentment over formerly lost territories. Marches are held to express nostalgia for the historical greater Hungary. A visitor who spends time in Hungary will soon discover that the word “Trianon” carries a complex, emotionally charged resonance among Hungarians.It has come to signify Hungary’s greatest injustice, the imposed dismemberment of Greater Hungary by Western powers to the advantage of surrounding nations. This podcast analyzes the background causes of the Trianon treaty, the way it is still politicized in Hungary fuelling nationalist emotions and the possibilities for reconciliation.Eszter Nagy, masters student of international relations at CEU, discusses the topic with Margaret McMillan (University of Oxford) and András Bozóki (Central European University).
Philipp Ther, Director of Institute of East European History, University of Vienna, speaks with Andrea Pető about his new book: Die Außenseiter. Flucht, Flüchtlinge und Integration im modernen Europa (Berlin: Suhrkamp, 2017)A history of war is also a history of refugees, forced movement and resettlement. In the 20th century alone, around thirty million people lost their homeland due to radical, ethnic, and, in part, racist nationalism. In this podcast we explore migration and escape, using historical analogy as a methodological tool, and recent debates on provincializing Europe and methodological nationalism.
John Evans discusses his book What Is a Human? What the Answers Mean for Human Rights, the results of his empirical study across the United States. The research concerns long-standing academic debates about how the human is defined: whether primarily as a biological being determined by genetic makeup; whether defined by certain capacities that philosophers have outlined, such as rationality; what it means to be made in the image of God; and whether the promotion of these perspectives affects viewpoints on human rights issues such as genocide and torture. Are the critics correct that propagation of the biological and philosophical view of the human leads to less value for some humans, and thus for human rights?The results from respondents in the American context reveal nuance in how the perspectives interact. Moreover, a socially-conferred perspective is also included, one in which humans are recognized through social relations. This approach can be positive if it is fully inclusive, and significant as technology advances. Conversely, it can go astray and lead to dehumanization. A distinction between a human being and being human emerges in the responses, the latter focused on the expression of compassion and love. Based on the overall findings, a call is made for human sacredness to be firmly incorporated in the definitions.
In this podcast, Samten Yeshi, Masters student at Central European University's History Department, presents the life of Tibet's sixth Dalai Lama through his famous composition of poems which is sung as songs among his Tibetan subjects. His poems reflect an autobiographical account of his life expressed through an artistic composition of melodious poems. The sixth Dalai Lama known as Rigzin Tsangyang Gyatsho lived from 1683 to 1706. References:1. Desi Sangay Gyatsho, Biography of sixth Dalai Lama Tsangyang Gyatsho (in Tibetan scripts)2. Treasury of Lives: https://treasuryoflives.org/biographies/view/Sixth-Dalai-Lama/TBRC_P3523. Some Poems of the 6th Dalai Lama: http://tibetwrites.in/index.html%3FSome-poems-of-the-Sixth-Dalai-Lama.html
• Please beware that this episode may contain disturbing content •In this second episode, two professionals and long-term London residents, a public health practitioner and a fire fighter, share how night shift work impacts on their circadian rhythms, and the challenges that each face according to the nature of the job that they have preformed over the years. Two important sectors of work, health and emer-gency services part of the fire fighting industry rely on professionals working the night shift through rotation.Voice Over by Romanian artist Natalia CarataEP3 TEASER:I will end this series with one more episode when I invite Marion Roberts, Emeritus Professor in Urban Design at the University of Westminster, whose specialist’s interests are the night-time city and gender related topics in Urban Design.
Stefano Bottoni, az MTA Bölcsészettudományi Kutatóközpont Történettudományi Intézet tudományos főmunkatárs, az MTA II. világháború történeti albizottság titkára Pető Andreával beszélget Mikó Imre készülő életrajzáról (“Talking to the System: Imre Mikó, 1911–1977 A Lifelong Story of Collaboration and Service”. (East Central Europe 44 (2017) 47-75)) és arról, hogy milyen kutatásetikai kérdéseket vet fel, ha a valaki a politikai rendszerek változásának függvényében átírja és a történész hozzáfér az önéletrajzaihoz, miért nem lehet megírni egy életrajzot az orosz levéltárak nélkül, és mi a különbség az gyüttműködés, adaptáció, kollaboráció, valamint a “beilleszkedés” között.
Rigó Róberttel - a Neumann János Egyetem Pedagógusképző Karának tanszékvezető főiskolai docensével - a “A Sorosfordító évtizedek Kecskeméten” (Kecskemét Írott Örökségéért Alapítvány és a Neumann János Egyetem Pedagógusképző Kar Hely- és Családtörténeti Kutótóműhely, 2018) című kötet szerkesztőjével Pető Andrea beszélgetett arról, hogy a front átvonulásának milyen helyi sajátosságai, tapasztalatai voltak Kecskeméten. A beszélgetésben kitértek arra is, hogy milyen levéltári forrásai vannak a német és szovjet megszállásnak, milyen módszertani kérdéseket vet fel az interjúk elemzése, és mit tudhatunk meg a kecskeméti háborús mindennapokról.
Featuring twenty entries on subjects such as music, voice, noise, shape and the body Keywords in Sound (Duke, 2015) pushes at the boundaries of ‘sound studies’ through its intellectual overviews and suggested openings on each of the key words. In this podcast we speak to the book’s editors David Novak and Matt Sakakeeny. David Novak is Associate Professor of Music at the University of California, Santa Barbara whilst Matt Sakakeeny is Associate Professor of Music at Tulane University.
This podcast engages critically with the concept of development by tracing back its roots to the 18th-19th centuries' ideas of capitalism and historical progress. The analysis outlines the contradiction between the idea of development, in the sense of improvement of society through the increase of its wellbeing and equity, and the crisis-prone models which development promotes, due to its dependency on growth.Patricia Velicu, recent graduate of international relations at CEU, discusses wthe topic with Vincent Liegey, an expert on degrowth - an alternative social movement that advocates for the abolishment of economic growth as the ultimate social objective and argues for a different organization of life around human and social values.
What were the gender politics of WWII in Iceland? What happened to children who were fathered by British or American occupying soldiers?Erla Hulda Halldórsdóttir is a lecturer in history at the Faculty of History and Philosophy, University of Iceland. She is also the leader of the project: 'In the Wake of Suffrage. Icelandic Women as cultural and political agents, (1915-2015)' at the University of Iceland ,funded by Rannis, The Icelandic Research Fund. In this podcast episode she speaks with Andrea Pető about the theoretical and methodological challenges involved in writing women’s history, how to solve the issue of elitism when focusing on women who make a difference.
Bánkuti Gábor a Pécsi Tudományegyetem habilitált egyetemi docensével “A frontátvonulás és a diktatúra kiépülésének egyházi recepciója” szerzőjével (In: Szerk.: Csikós Gábor, Szerk.: Ö Kovács József, Szerk.: Kiss Réka: Váltóállítás: Diktatúrák a vidéki Magyarországon 1945-ben. Budapest: MTA Bölcsészettudományi Kutatóközpont Történettudományi Intézet, 2017. 411-424.) Pető Andrea beszélgetett milyen kihívást jelent “élő forrással”, a Historia Domus-okkal dolgozni, mit tudhatunk meg a német és szovjet megszállás tapasztalattörténetéről, és milyen az egyháztörténeti kutatás helyzete Magyarországon.
Laborczi Dórával A Sztehlo gyerekek voltunk, Andrási Andorral közösen szerkesztett (Luther Kiadó, 2018) interjú kötetéről Pető Andrea beszélgetett az interjú készítés nehézségeiről és arról, hogy hogyan és mikor kezdődött a gyerekmentés ,mit tudhatunk meg az emberi minőség szerepéről a történelem sötét korszakaiban.
Thomas Weber Professor of History and International Affairs at the University of Aberdeen talks to Andrea Pető about how to ask different questions, how to read well-known sources differently and how to find new archives. When a historian has too many sources, what should she do? How can historical analogies help understand the political challenges of today?
The last episode of the Five Senses of Austerity deals with the rationing of food in late Romanian socialism. It tells the story of the 1987 worker's revolt from the city of Brasov, which marked the beginning of the end of the regime, and then goes on to explore the final moments of Romanian socialism.
This podcast explores how music is perceived in conservative societies like Yemen. Through Ahmed's journey of learning and making music, we try to understand the cultural, social and the religious constraints of playing and making music and how these constraints are connected to people's perceptions. Ahmed is similar to musicians in communist Hungary or Czechoslovakia. The restrictions of the state (in the Hungarian case) or society (in Ahmed's case) affect musicians, serving as a motivation for artists to be more creative and innovative in their approaches. They played music secretly and created an unofficial musical life their own.
Paksa Rudolffal a Magyar Tudományos Akadémia Bölcsészettudományi Kutatóközpont Történettudományi Intézetének tudományos munkatársával a “Zsidókérdéskutató Magyar Intézet, avagy a „tudományos antiszemitizmus” Magyarországon” (Múltunk 2018/1.) cikkéről beszélget Pető Andrea. Kik, mikor és miért alapították a “Zsidókérdéskutató Intézetet”, s mi volt a szerepe a holokausztban? Német befolyás alatt állt vagy magyar kezdeményezés volt? Mennyire volt tudományos a tudományosnak hirdetett tevékenységük, illetve a fajbiológia, amelyre alapozták azt? Mit segíthet megérteni a tudománytörténeti megközelítés, és volt-e a Horthy-korszak tudományosságának felelőssége abban, hogy nem lépett fel idejében és hatékonyan az áltudományos nézetek ellen?
Austerity takes different forms. This episode of the Five Senses of Austerity explores one of the ways in which it was felt strongest in late Romanian socialism. This is the story of the fuel scarcity, which led to a lack of heating during winter and regular power blackouts.
Money! You either have it, or you don't. Socialist Romania did not. Therefore, it had to borrow money from abroad in order to meet its ambitious development goals. This episode explores socialist Romania's failed crusade on the sea of global high finance starting from the late 1960s up until the 1980s, discussing the underlying reason for the turn towards austerity: the decision to pay off the accumulated foreign debt in its entirety.
Barbara Stelzl-Marx, director of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Research on Consequences of War (BIK), talks with Andrea Pető about how to get access to Russian archives; the surprise moment when she wrote her book: Stalin’s Soldiers in Austria; the ethical concerns surrounding doing research on children born from rape; and new ways of researching the history of the Second World War.This podcast series, produced in cooperation with the subcommittee of history of Second World War of Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Central European University, introduces cutting edge publications by the members of the subcommittee and other authors. It's aim is to change the ways we talk about the history of the Second World War.
Pető Andrea arról beszélget Pihurik Judittal, a Szegedi Tudományegyetem docensével, aki a Naplók és memoárok a Don-kanyarból 1942-1943 (Budapest, 2007 és 2015) és a Perben és haragban második világháborús önmagunkkal (Budapest, 2015) című kötetek szerzője, hogy miért fontosak a szubjektív források - a résztvevők, szemtanúk személyes tapasztalatai, emlékei - a háborús történelem feldolgozása során.A Közép-európai Egyetem és az MTA második világháború története albizottság közös podcastjában az albizottság tagjaival és szerzőkkel beszélgetünk most megjelent munkájuk kulisszatitkairól és azokról a kutatási eredményekről, melyek megváltoztatják azt, amit a háborúról tudunk.
A discussion about auditory perception with Nick Young, Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centre for Philosophy of Time, University of Milan.Nick explains his claims that we do not, philosophically speaking, ever perceive what are commonly thought of as 'sounds' and also that we are capable of hearing empty spaces. His work is available here.Recorded by Chris Couch as part of the Autumn 2017 Sound Studies course.
In 1977 Romania was hit by one of the most powerful earthquakes in its history. Episode two of the Five Senses of Austerity engages with the way in which the state dealt with the aftermath. On the one hand, the state saw the natural disaster as an opportunity for a particular kind of redevelopment, while on the other hand, for many Romanians, the earthquake marked the actual moment when things started to take a turn for the worse. The moment when austerity began.
Why are there so few Roma in white-collar jobs in Hungary (and elsewhere in eastern Europe)? The podcast discusses reasons for underrepresentation of Roma in traditional 'office work', especially in the business sector, through the experiences of an ongoing project trying to change this, the 'Bridging Young Roma and Business: Intervention for inclusion of Roma youth through employment in the private sector in Bulgaria and Hungary (Bridge to Business)'. The podcast is produced by the Center for Policy Studies at Central European University, which is responsible for the impact assessment of the project.The podcast guests are Vera Messing, from the Center for Policy Studies at Central European University; Marina Csikós, a CEU Roma Graduate Preparation Program student; and Ágnes Kelemen from the Autonómia FoundationMusic: Dolly Parton: "Nine to five"
In this episode, Julius-Cezar introduces the listeners to a world of work that is invisible to the diurnal eye and inaudible to the nocturnal sleeper. Ger Duijzings, Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Regensburg, joins the host to talk about his Nightlaboratory project.Two other guests, Jeff (a London night bus driver), and an anonymous outreach worker with sex workers in East London, give their views and experiences of working at night.
What did Nicolae Ceausescu have in common with Romania's most famous radio DJ, Cornel Chiriac? In Episode 1 of 'Five Senses of Austerity' we explore this and how it relates to the invasion of Prague in 1968. This was a period before austerity, the so-called 'golden age' of Romanian socialism. And yet, it is a period in which austerity was already slowly creeping in, especially through the politics surrounding 'Western' rock music.
The most unusual expedition to Transsiberian railway was organised by British anthropologist Maurice Fitzmaurice in the 1920s: a daring scientific campaign, which had a disastrous end and mysterious consequences. Keen to capture the unique soundscape of the newly built gargantuan railroad from Leningrad to Vladivostok, Fitzmaurice assembled state-of-art recording equipment and selected a group of blind researchers. Through the eyes and ears of Buddhist monks, Soviet commissars, and SS officers the story follows the members of the expedition between 1926 and 1952 from England to Soviet Russia to Tibet, as their lives are torn and twisted in the political grindstones of the restless inter- and postwar period.
In recent years, most of us have become used to hearing about austerity. Following the 2007 financial crisis, it was said that austerity was the only viable cure. Today, more than 10 years later, the ghost of austerity still haunts Europe and much of the Western World. But this is not the first time that austerity was imposed on people in order to solve a financial crisis. In Five Senses of Austerity, we will go back to socialist Romania in the 1980s: a textbook case of harsh austerity that ended, as some might know, in bloodshed and a coup d’etat.In each episode austerity will be explored through the lens of one of the five basic senses: hearing, seeing, touching, smelling and tasting. The podcast is part of the Sound Relations Project based at Central European University, Budapest, and is done in collaboration with the Blinken Open Society Archives.
Since the Revolution of Dignity took place and the war with Russia started, many Ukrainians reconsidered their lives. Many have got involved in activism or volunteering; however, it rarely has a systematic character for the majority. My project presents stories of people, who were brave enough to change their lives in difficult times. I aim to give some inspiration for those, who passed their boiling point of anger or despair and need a guidance about how to make an activism more strategic for themselves, what group to join or how to plan and develop their own projects. It also will highlight how to make activities systematical, manageable, inspirational, etc. My guest is Iryna Koval, a current CEU SoPP student, one of the founders of a “Free People’s Employment Center”. Together with Iryna we will discuss how the Revolution of Dignity and the following war became a platform for us both to find a new niche in the social life of the country. “At a time when some passively waited for decisions from the state, from above, we decided not to stand aside, but to take matters into their own hands”, - says Iryna.Music used - Iyeoka Okoawo "Revolution"
In this episode, CEU Alumni Scholarship Recipients Elena Krusheuskaja, Andrej Hagan and Jani Korhonen - host the Alumnus of the School of Public Policy and former leader of the Alumni Chapter in Brussels - Andrija Visic. Our discussion evolves around Alumni Scholarship experience, career path after CEU and the concept of Giving Back.
Ms. Zainab Najeeb, 2018 MA Candidate of CEU's Department of Gender Studies, talks about LGBT and queer situations, her personal experiences and the opportunities for the LGBT and queer communities of Pakistan. Music used at the beginning and end of the podcast is "Chori Chori" by Meesha Shafi, Coke Studio Sessions. Image credit: The Express Tribune.
In our last episode, we explore some of the critiques and shortcomings of the Irish Citizens’ Assembly and look into the feasibility of replicating the model in other country contexts.
In episode 2, our team travels to Dublin to talk with experts, politicians, civil society and a few random people in pubs about Ireland’s experiment with deliberative democracy. We’ll give you the scoop on how it came about, how it works in practice and what people think about it.
In this episode, we chat with governance and rule of law experts to learn more about the challenges to democratic governance on both sides of the Atlantic. We explore whether or not a citizens’ assembly might help rebuild trust democratic processes.
In 2012, the Hungarian government changed the criteria for being an officially recognized church, reducing the list from around 370 to a total of 14 officially recognized churches. A year later, 18 additional religious organizations were granted status as well, bringing the total to 32. Esther Holbrook interviews members of different local minority religious groups to find out more about their community and how these regualtions effected their religious idenity and sense of religious freedom.In this episode, Zsuzsanna Bajó shares a little bit about her life in Hungary as a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
There are few countries in the world, where wood plays as important role as in Poland. Less than four decades ago, wooden houses still dominated the landscape of the eastern region Lubelskie, but today they are almost impossible to spot. Two world wars, the socialist regime, fires and local communities’ desire to dismantle any remnants of the past led to widescale removal of wooden dwellings. Even though professionals in the field agree that protecting wooden houses is rather impracticable, some brilliant heritage advocates found a new way to help this unique heritage to survive. Meet Ms. Joanna Zętar who coordinated the project “Wooden Treasure. Preserving Heritage, Design Future”.Cover Photo: A wooden house in Tyszowce, Poland, courtesy of Teatr NN, http://teatrnn.pl/drewnianyskarb/en/wooden-architecture/
The Age of Noise in Britain: Hearing Modernity (University of Illinois Press, 2017) by James G. Mansell brings forward the opportunity to hear modernity and examine how sound shaped the selves of Britons in an age of economic, social and political upheaval. Industrial and technological sounds created anxiety, especially for the middle classes; sound experts were engaged by the state to manage, manipulate, and contain sounds; individuals negotiated as best as they could their distance to what became an increasingly noisy world. Mansell argues that these acts of hearing - not always listening - elicited new ways if thinking about being modern. James G. Mansell is Assistant Professor of Cultural Studies in the Department of Culture, Film and Media at the University of Nottingham. James's research and teaching expertise are in cultural history, sensory studies, and sound studies. His research has focused on the cultural history of sound and hearing, sound media, and on histories of sonic modernity and modernism.New Books in Sound Studies is a collaboration between the Centre for Media Data and Society at the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary and the New Books Network.
Tibetans are the best example of a diaspora that is very politically active but not violent, or at least outwardly violent in a different way. The situation in Tibet remains unresolved and the situation of Tibetans living in India is highly problematic, yet they have not resorted to violence in the same kind of way as other diasporas might have. Through their own engagement with their personal and spiritual beliefs, they see self-immolation as an act of the last resort. However, it seems like the world accepts this kind of violence because it does not involve physical harm to the masses. Of course, we might be saddened by it, but we do not struggle against it in the same way as, for example, we struggle with the Tamil diaspora in Sri Lanka that is engaged in evident terrorism. However, what is crucial to understand is that as long as the situation in Tibet remains unresolved, this diaspora will still remain politically active.
The end is nigh! As the Soviet Union veered from attempted military coup to total collapse in 1991, we trace the role which Radio Liberty played in documenting and influencing these tumultuous events. In looking at Radio Liberty’s decision to broadcasting Boris Yeltsin’s speeches during the August coup, as well as the somewhat bewildered Radio Liberty broadcasts which went out as the Soviet Union dissolved in December 1991, we conclude the series with an attempt to summarize Radio Liberty’s impact on the course of these extraordinary historical events, and upon the very nature of the Cold War itself.
We’re all familiar with the story – in 1989 the USSR collapsed and the path was made for Russia to return to Europe through the acceptance of capitalism and democracy… except that nowadays it would seem that it didn’t quite turn out that way. Many academics have come to the fore to try and explain why it is that Russia behaves the way that it does. But do these analyses unwittingly obscure the object of their study by not allowing it to speak for itself? Do the questions that researchers ask about Russia and the methods used to answer them unintentionally develop an image of a static, unchanging Russia permanently at the boundaries of Europe? This podcast attempts to assess the ways in which Russia has been made out to be Europe’s Other, and searches for new ways to conceptualize researching Russia.
This episode discusses the patterns of radicalization of ordinary citizens during the Troubles in Northern Ireland and the role of various political actors involved in legitimizing the use of political violence by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (referred to as the IRA for greater simplicity) in the eyes of the public. It presents the main roots of the conflict of political loyalties, which is a complicated struggle fought along national, ethnic and religious lines with the prevailingly protestant Loyalists or Unionists wanting to remain part of the United Kingdom and the prevailingly catholic Nationalists or Republicans wanting the re-unification of Ireland. The Troubles are discussed in an interview with Mr Jude Collins, a former hight-school teacher in Derry and Dublin and lecturer at the University of Ulster. Please see the references of this episode here.
The nuclear accident at Chernobyl in 1986 was not just a catastrophic event in terms of its effect upon the environment and the health of those who lived nearby. Some claim that the media coverage of the disaster, and particularly that by Radio Liberty, contributed to the introduction of radical reforms within the Soviet Union that changed it forever – and perhaps even hastened its eventual downfall. In this episode, we will assess those claims and show how important Radio Liberty’s place within the Soviet media consumer’s life had become by the Gorbachev era.
This podcast is a story of Irish America during an exciting time both in Irish and American history. While “The Troubles” were raging in Northern Ireland, USA was experiencing the end of the “melting pot” and the beginning of “cultural mosaic”. Irish-America was one of the groups at the forefront of this transformation and made their presence felt on "The Troubles". Hence, this podcast is an attempt to paint a clearer and more colorful picture of Irish-America and its identity, going beyond treating it simply as a financier of Provisional IRA. It is a podcast about Irish-America and its diversity facing a highly contentious and politically charged situation at “home”. It is also a podcast about a diaspora and its homeland, and all the dynamics of that relationship. By the end of it, you will find out in what ways did Irish-America mobilize during "The Troubles", what was the determining factor in opting out for one or the other way of political action, how it compared to Irish and Northern Irish in political thinking of the time, and where it stands today.
What can whale songs teach us about queer theory? Marianna Szczygielska and Adriana Qubaia-ova from CEU’s Gender Studies Department interview Eva Hayward and Jack Halberstam about their most recent works. From marine creatures in Aquariums to a rebellious cow in Poland, we discuss captivity, ferality, and wildness as they collude in shaping our human understandings of sexuality and animality. Take a listen!
How did RL adapt to the political shifts of the 1970s, the rise of “détente” and the emergence of human rights as a key narrative affecting the relationship between Communist governments, the West, and the populations of the Soviet Union and Eastern bloc? This episode delves into the ways in which RL covered the world of dissidents, freedom of speech trials and underground literature in the Soviet Union, as well as telling you everything you’ve always wanted to know about the Helsinki Final Act of 1975, but were afraid to ask.
In this short introduction to the series Mate Nikola Tokić, Humanities Initiative Visiting Professor at Central European University’s Department of International Relations, talks about the six episodes produced in his class and the way in which podcasting disrupts teaching and learning with excellent results.
How does the absence of a generally accepted definition on terrorism, codified under international law, affect national policies that target diasporas in host states? The attempt to develop one generally accepted and overall recognized definition of terrorism sparked a heated debate within the international community and the academia. Until February 2018, 14 major international conventions regarding terrorism have been concluded and came into force, without a single and clear definition of what terrorism entails. This absence of a single definition can enable states to adopt different ‘abusive’ policies and legislations, targeting specific actors or groups in the society under the official banner of fighting terrorism. This becomes particularly relevant when it is linked to diaspora communities, as they generally become the first targets of such restrictive policies and legislation. This episode analyzes this problematic in an interview with Prof. Boldizsár Nagy, an expert in international law. The central argument proposed here is that the failure of the international community to develop a single definition of terrorism, and an international counter-terrorism regime compatible with human rights, might actually be one of the reasons which enables states to adopt arbitrary policies that marginalize and stigmatize diasporas in host states.
On September 16, 1920, an explosion rocked the financial district in New York City; it was the deadliest terrorist attack in the United States up to that point, and would remain so for seventy-five years. The culprit was an Italian anarchist immigrant, and he was part of one of the greatest enemies of the United States government in the early part of the 20th century. Italians came to the United States in massive numbers. What drove some of their cohort to engage in violent acts against the state? What was it about anarchism as an ideology that made it so attractive to Italian immigrants at the time? And what would an anarchist picnic look like? The Italian immigrant anarchist experience goes far beyond that of the trial of Sacco and Vanzetti, and offers important lessons for a greater understanding of the nature of transnational political violence.
Interviewing as a technique of gaining information is as old as humankind. Talking to people as a form of scientific inquiry about their experiences is fun but also a methodological and theoretical challenge. In the past decades, oral history has become a widely used research method in different disciplines. Given that oral history is a technique and a way of constructing histories this series of podcasts tries to offer an overview of different ways of how to construct the information and how to analyze it in a wider methodological context. This podcast on oral history is designed for those who want to use interviewing as a method collecting empirical material. It consists of eight sections: oral history development historiography politics of oral history, connecting social and personal, ethical and legal dimension, practicalities, questions and questioning, narrativity, interpretationThe sections are around 20 minutes each.Information on the course and the instructor is available here: https://courses.ceu.edu/courses/qualitative-methods-oral-history/
Can we have sound media that is ecologically sound? Can we fine tune our media production and consumption habits to a greener key? How can an environmental perspective on sound media contribute to our understanding of how media culture is involved in the ecological crisis? These are just some of the questions Jacob Smith is trying to answer in his latest book, Eco-Sonic Media (University of California Press, 2015). The book brings an ecological critique to the history of sound media technologies and contributes with an environmental perspective to the field of sound studies. It is more than a methodological and theoretical exploration. It is a reckoning with our media consumption practices in an age where speed and volume are taken for granted, and alternatives to the digital are disregarded with huge costs.Hartz Canary Training Record is the jingle used in the episode and was kindly provided by Jacob Smith. It was cut and edited for the purpose of this podcast.
Interviewing as a technique of gaining information is as old as humankind. Talking to people as a form of scientific inquiry about their experiences is fun but also a methodological and theoretical challenge. In the past decades, oral history has become a widely used research method in different disciplines. Given that oral history is a technique and a way of constructing histories this series of podcasts tries to offer an overview of different ways of how to construct the information and how to analyze it in a wider methodological context. This podcast on oral history is designed for those who want to use interviewing as a method collecting empirical material. It consists of eight sections: oral history development historiography politics of oral history, connecting social and personal, ethical and legal dimension, practicalities, questions and questioning, narrativity, interpretationThe sections are around 20 minutes each.Information on the course and the instructor is available here: https://courses.ceu.edu/courses/qualitative-methods-oral-history/
Interviewing as a technique of gaining information is as old as humankind. Talking to people as a form of scientific inquiry about their experiences is fun but also a methodological and theoretical challenge. In the past decades, oral history has become a widely used research method in different disciplines. Given that oral history is a technique and a way of constructing histories this series of podcasts tries to offer an overview of different ways of how to construct the information and how to analyze it in a wider methodological context. This podcast on oral history is designed for those who want to use interviewing as a method collecting empirical material. It consists of eight sections: oral history development historiography politics of oral history, connecting social and personal, ethical and legal dimension, practicalities, questions and questioning, narrativity, interpretationThe sections are around 20 minutes each.Information on the course and the instructor is available here: https://courses.ceu.edu/courses/qualitative-methods-oral-history/
Interviewing as a technique of gaining information is as old as humankind. Talking to people as a form of scientific inquiry about their experiences is fun but also a methodological and theoretical challenge. In the past decades, oral history has become a widely used research method in different disciplines. Given that oral history is a technique and a way of constructing histories this series of podcasts tries to offer an overview of different ways of how to construct the information and how to analyze it in a wider methodological context. This podcast on oral history is designed for those who want to use interviewing as a method collecting empirical material. It consists of eight sections: oral history development historiography politics of oral history, connecting social and personal, ethical and legal dimension, practicalities, questions and questioning, narrativity, interpretationThe sections are around 20 minutes each.Information on the course and the instructor is available here: https://courses.ceu.edu/courses/qualitative-methods-oral-history/
Interviewing as a technique of gaining information is as old as humankind. Talking to people as a form of scientific inquiry about their experiences is fun but also a methodological and theoretical challenge. In the past decades, oral history has become a widely used research method in different disciplines. Given that oral history is a technique and a way of constructing histories this series of podcasts tries to offer an overview of different ways of how to construct the information and how to analyze it in a wider methodological context. This podcast on oral history is designed for those who want to use interviewing as a method collecting empirical material. It consists of eight sections: oral history development historiography politics of oral history, connecting social and personal, ethical and legal dimension, practicalities, questions and questioning, narrativity, interpretationThe sections are around 20 minutes each.Information on the course and the instructor is available here: https://courses.ceu.edu/courses/qualitative-methods-oral-history/
Interviewing as a technique of gaining information is as old as humankind. Talking to people as a form of scientific inquiry about their experiences is fun but also a methodological and theoretical challenge. In the past decades, oral history has become a widely used research method in different disciplines. Given that oral history is a technique and a way of constructing histories this series of podcasts tries to offer an overview of different ways of how to construct the information and how to analyze it in a wider methodological context. This podcast on oral history is designed for those who want to use interviewing as a method collecting empirical material. It consists of eight sections: oral history development historiography politics of oral history, connecting social and personal, ethical and legal dimension, practicalities, questions and questioning, narrativity, interpretationThe sections are around 20 minutes each.Information on the course and the instructor is available here: https://courses.ceu.edu/courses/qualitative-methods-oral-history/
Interviewing as a technique of gaining information is as old as humankind. Talking to people as a form of scientific inquiry about their experiences is fun but also a methodological and theoretical challenge. In the past decades, oral history has become a widely used research method in different disciplines. Given that oral history is a technique and a way of constructing histories this series of podcasts tries to offer an overview of different ways of how to construct the information and how to analyze it in a wider methodological context. This podcast on oral history is designed for those who want to use interviewing as a method collecting empirical material. It consists of eight sections: oral history development historiography politics of oral history, connecting social and personal, ethical and legal dimension, practicalities, questions and questioning, narrativity, interpretationThe sections are around 20 minutes each.Information on the course and the instructor is available here: https://courses.ceu.edu/courses/qualitative-methods-oral-history/
Interviewing as a technique of gaining information is as old as humankind. Talking to people as a form of scientific inquiry about their experiences is fun but also a methodological and theoretical challenge. In the past decades, oral history has become a widely used research method in different disciplines. Given that oral history is a technique and a way of constructing histories this series of podcasts tries to offer an overview of different ways of how to construct the information and how to analyze it in a wider methodological context. This podcast on oral history is designed for those who want to use interviewing as a method collecting empirical material. It consists of eight sections: oral history development historiography politics of oral history, connecting social and personal, ethical and legal dimension, practicalities, questions and questioning, narrativity, interpretationThe sections are around 20 minutes each.Information on the course and the instructor is available here: https://courses.ceu.edu/courses/qualitative-methods-oral-history/
Welcome to the Voice Matters podcast, a series of discussions on media and communication as part of the Open Learning Initiative for refugees and asylum seekers at the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary. Each week, a few minutes after the academic seminar, students interview the guest lecturer about the subject that was discussed in class. The seminar reflects on the power of media to shape reality and the challenge of making our voices heard in today’s society. All interviews are conducted by participants from the course. Today’s guest is William Ejalu, Protection Officer at UNHCR. William is interviewed by Parviz and Michael.
Welcome to the Voice Matters podcast, a series of discussions on media and communication as part of the Open Learning Initiative for refugees and asylum seekers at the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary. Each week, a few minutes after the academic seminar, students interview the guest lecturer about the subject that was discussed in class. The seminar reflects on the power of media to shape reality and the challenge of making our voices heard in today’s society. All interviews are conducted by participants from the course.Today’s guest is Eva Bognar, Senior Program Officer and Researcher at CMDS. Eva discusses with Akpe, Roni and Hussein the way in which refugees are being portrayed in the Hungarian media.
The Death of Stalin was a key moment in Cold War history, creating new possibilities but also new uncertainties in the difficult post-war relationship between the US and the Soviet Union. It took place on March 5th, 1953, just 4 days after Radio Liberty started broadcasting. How do you cover the death of your greatest enemy for maximum propaganda effect when broadcasting to an audience raised to idolize him? And you how do you handle his legacy moving forward? This episode takes a look at how Radio Liberty handled this test in its formative years.
Adiveh Podcast Series is discussing the latest events concerning the Roma in Europe. The show has variety of guests depending on the topic of discussion.
Jennifer Fleeger‘s Mismatched Women: The Siren’s Song Through the Machine (Oxford University Press, 2014) tells the story of women in film and their representation as aberrations, but also as moments of emancipation and agency. Fleeger’s book discusses exceptional voices such as Kate Smith, known as the First Lady of Radio; Deanna Durbin, whose soprano voice allegedly saved Universal Studios from bankruptcy, Susan Boyle the woman who shocked Britain’s Got Talent jury and public to the point of tears, amongst many others. Fleeger’s approach broadens the traditionally cinematic context of feminist psychoanalytic film theory to account for literary, animated, televisual, and virtual influences.All the songs played in this episode are available on the books companion website, available here.
In this episode of the Media & Change podcast series of the Center for Media, Data and Society of the School of Public Policy at Central European University, Julia Sonnevend, assistant professor of Communication Studies at the University of Michigan, and non-resident fellow of our Center talks about the themes of her recent book published by Oxford University Press: Stories Without Borders: The Berlin Wall and the Making of a Global Iconic Event. Julia discusses how the act of storytelling works in the case of global iconic events, and how the media coverage and social construction of events such as the fall of the Berlin wall serve as social myths and narratives around history. Julia talks about how it is inevitable that the media condenses and at the same time distorts events into decodable universal narratives, and how recent retellings of the fall of the Berlin wall rely on the myth of the fall of the Berlin wall. See more here: https://cmds.ceu.edu/events/2016-11-15/stories-without-borders-berlin-wall-and-making-global-iconic-event
If you’re an American radio station broadcasting to the Soviet Union, how do you address the awkward fact that the Communists are winning the space race? This episode focuses on Radio Liberty’s discussion of technology, progress and co-operation through a 1968 programme commemorating the death of Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, and shows just how much thinking had evolved since RL’s earliest years about how best to persuade and influence its audience in the Soviet Union.
This episode discusses Euripides’ Medea, in which the most important themes and remaining scholarly questions concerning the play are introduced.This podcast is the first podcast of a potential future series. It was created during the AudioFiles podcasting workshop at CEU. For more information, including how you can get involved see here.
Adiveh Podcast Series is discussing the latest events concerning the Roma in Europe. The show has variety of guests depending on the topic of discussion.Adiveh is a Romany Daily News Portal and Digest. Adiveh Podcast has been initiated by CEU Romany students and alumni, in order to discuss the relevant to the Roma life topics. The first topic of Discussion is Romany media through the years. Discussion takes place in two streams.
Welcome to the Voice Matters podcast, a series of discussions on media and communication as part of the Open Learning Initiative for refugees and asylum seekers at the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary. Each week, a few minutes after the academic seminar, students interview the guest lecturer about the subject that was discussed in class. The seminar reflects on the power of media to shape reality and the challenge of making our voices heard in today’s society. All interviews are conducted by participants from the course.Today’s guest is Silvia Chocarro (IFEX), consultant on freedom of expression and media development for international organizations and NGOs. She is currently Global Advocacy Strategist for IFEX, providing strategic advice to the international network of more than 100 NGOs defending free speech worldwide. Tasha and Kaleem interview Silvia on her experience as a journalist in a world that is increasingly dangerous for the profession.
Welcome to the Voice Matters podcast, a series of discussions on media and communication as part of the Open Learning Initiative for refugees and asylum seekers at the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary. Each week, a few minutes after the academic seminar, students interview the guest lecturer about the subject that was discussed in class. The seminar reflects on the power of media to shape reality and the challenge of making our voices heard in today’s society. All interviews are conducted by participants from the course.Today's guests are Mussa Idris & Behrooz Torki from the Migrant Solidarity Group of Hungary (Migszol). They are interviewed by Wafa and Rita about their work, experiences and the differences between working with or for migrants. You can watch the video they refer to in the podcast here.
Welcome to the Voice Matters podcast, a series of discussions on media and communication as part of the Open Learning Initiative for refugees and asylum seekers at the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary. Each week, a few minutes after the academic seminar, students interview the guest lecturer about the subject that was discussed in class. The seminar reflects on the power of media to shape reality and the challenge of making our voices heard in today’s society. All interviews are conducted by participants from the course.Today's guest is Péter Erdélyi, editor and journalist at the Hungarian news site 444.
Welcome to the Voice Matters podcast, a series of discussions on media and communication as part of the Open Learning Initiative for refugees and asylum seekers at the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary. Each week, a few minutes after the academic seminar, students interview the guest lecturer about the subject that was discussed in class. The seminar reflects on the power of media to shape reality and the challenge of making our voices heard in today’s society. All interviews are conducted by participants from the course.Today's guest is Márton Gergely, former deputy editor in chief at Népszabadság and journalist at HVG.
Welcome to the Voice Matters podcast, a series of discussions on media and communication as part of the Open Learning Initiative for refugees and asylum seekers at the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary. Each week, a few minutes after the academic seminar, students interview the guest lecturer about the subject that was discussed in class. The seminar reflects on the power of media to shape reality and the challenge of making our voices heard in today’s society. All interviews are conducted by participants from the course.Today's guest is Ian Cook, researcher within the project Sound Relations Transgressions, Disruptions, Transformations at the Center for Media, Data and Society.
How do we humans study the human? Hosted by Magdalena Smieszek, this episode of the How We Are Human podcast presents a discussion with Maria Kronfeldner, Professor in the Philosophy Department at the Central European University, and three Master's students, Olesya Bondarenko, Noha Hendi, and Rachel Sanderoff, as part of the course entitled Topics in the Philosophy of the Human and Social Sciences (ToPHSS).The discussion considers how concepts travel between scientific disciplines and philosophy in the study of the human. A focus is placed on the interaction between facts and values within the scientific findings as well as communication of the findings to the public. The outcome is that science and society influence each other, through communication of science and its connection with everyday language. Some examples are discussed, namely the study of rape and aggression within disciplines such as evolutionary psychology, and how the social and biological aspects of human behaviour are interlinked. Categorizations of humans, such as categories of race and sex, are also considered in terms of their social and biological sources. Finally, the discussion reflects on what it means to think of ourselves as biological beings, the emancipatory as well as potentially discriminatory elements. This leads to reflection on the interaction of the biological understanding of the human with the social environment.The ToPHSS course was funded by the CEU Humanities Initiative. The podcast was created by Magdalena Smieszek with the support of the CEU Centre for Media, Data and Society as part of the AudioFiles Project funded by the Intellectual Themes Initiative.
Sonic Rupture: A Practice-led Approach to Urban Soundscape Design(Bloomsbury 2016) by Jordan Lacey offers a practice-led alternative approach to urban soundscape design. Rather than understanding the functional noises of the city as solely problematic or unaesthetic annoyances to be eliminated, Lacey instead suggests ways in which they can be creatively harnessed to give new expression to urban life. Featuring expansive theoretical discussions and detailed analysis of Lacey’s own work as a sound artist, the book proposes the 5 element sonic rupture model as a way to diversify our experiences of city life.New Books in Sound Studies is a collaboration between the Centre for Media Data and Society at the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary and the New Books Network.
In this episode of the Media and Change Podcast Series, CMDS's Eva Bognar is interviewing Monroe Price on the the foundation of our Center, on the role of CEU in the region and internationally, and the concept of open society. He emphasizes the importance of including the notion of power in our thinking about open societies and discusses the significance of media studies at CEU.Monroe Price is an Adjunct Full Professor at the Annenberg School for Communication, and Professor of Law at the Cardozo School of Law. He has published essential and widely influential research in international communications studies and policy analysis in various contexts. Besides major theoretical contributions such as the enabling environment for free and independent media and the concept of global market for loyalties, he also published on memory and information intervention in Bosnia-Herzegovina; on the making of state media policy in Iraq; and on global civil society and the Beijing Olympics, just to mention a few.
Do we know ourselves better biologically or socially? Hosted by Magdalena Smieszek, this episode of the How We Are Human podcast is part 2 of the discussion with Maria Kronfeldner, Professor in the Philosophy Department at the Central European University, and three Master's students Olesya Bondarenko, Noha Hendi, and Rachel Sanderoff, as part of the course entitled Topics in the Philosophy of the Human and Social Sciences (ToPHSS).The discussion continues to consider how humans understand themselves, the separation of cultures within the natural and social sciences, as well as the implications for knowledge and even politics. The conversation touches on how the theological understanding of the human connects with the human sciences. In discussing whether there can be a unified concept of the human, the agreement is that that there are different ways of connecting and unifying, and a continual contestation and negotiation is part of that process of agreeing on what we mean when it comes to the varied conceptualizations about humans. We can be guided both by what science tells us about human nature but also how we envision ourselves, and how these concepts come together in considering the facts and making decisions about what is essential for us. This involves bridging the divisions between knowledge coming from the West and East in a number of areas, including human rights discourse.The ToPHSS course was funded by the CEU Humanities Initiative. The podcast was created by Magdalena Smieszek with the support of the CEU Centre for Media, Data and Society as part of the AudioFiles Project funded by the Intellectual Themes Initiative.
This episode focuses on another source of extreme embarrassment for US foreign policy – the war in Vietnam – and explores the ways in which RL’s coverage of the war tried to address and minimize the damage to the US’s reputation that Soviet media coverage of the war was spreading across the Soviet population.
In this episode of the CMDS Media & Change podcast series, resident CMDS fellow Benjamin De Cleen, who is assistant professor at the Department of Communication Studies of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, discusses populist rhetoric. Benjamin’s research is situated within discourse studies and focuses on political rhetoric and on the intersections between media and politics. He analyses populist radical right rhetoric, and has worked on the discourse-theoretical conceptualization of populism, conservatism, and nationalism. Here, he speaks about the differences and similarities between parties and politicians regarded as populist, common strategies of populist parties such as the creation of enemies, and what he is currently working on. Referenced works in the episode:De Cleen, Benjamin (forthcoming, 2017) Populism and Nationalism. In Handbook of Populism, edited by Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser, Paul Taggart, Paulina Ochoa Espejo and Pierre Ostiguy. Oxford: Oxford University Press.De Cleen, Benjamin & Stavrakakis, Yannis (forthcoming, 2017) Distinctions and Articulations. A Discourse-Theoretical Framework for the Study of Populism and Nationalism. Javnost – The PublicDe Cleen, Benjamin & Stavrakakis, Yannis (eds.) (forthcoming, 2017) Special issue on ‘Populism and nationalism: Representing the people as underdog and as nation’. Javnost-The Public
What is a human and what is humanity? Hosted by Magdalena Smieszek, this episode of the How We Are Human podcast is part 3 of the discussion with Maria Kronfeldner, Professor in the Philosophy Department at the Central European University, and three Master's students, Olesya Bondarenko, Noha Hendi, and Rachel Sanderoff, as part of the course entitled Topics in the Philosophy of the Human and Social Sciences (ToPHSS).The discussion considers the different ways that the question about the human can be asked, how we can delineate between human properties, relations, and other aspects of the human. We consider how different societies approach the question of what is a human, humanity and human nature, whether from the religious or the scientific discourse. Finally, we reflect on whether the category of human as a historical construct will disappear, and what the subsequent constructs will mean for the relations between humans, humane treatment and human rights.The ToPHSS course was funded by the CEU Humanities Initiative. The podcast was created by Magdalena Smieszek with the support of the CEU Centre for Media, Data and Society as part of the AudioFiles Project funded by the Intellectual Themes Initiative.
This episode of Make a Joyful Noise explores the Nunc dimittis, one of the elements of traditional Anglican Evensong. Richard Solyom, director of the Gabrielli Choir in Budapest, is interviewed about his experience with the choir and Herbert Howells' setting of the canticle.This podcast is the first podcast of a potential future series. It was created during the AudioFiles podcasting workshop at CEU. For more information, including how you can get involved see here.
This episode introduces a unique research project at Blinken OSA, the goal of which is to collect and make available online the dispersed cultural heritage of the refugees who fled Hungary following the 1956 Revolution. The documents assembled from the collections of the International Rescue Committee at the Hoover Institution at Stanford and the National Archives and Records Administration in Washington DC shed a unique light on the history of 1956. (Contributors : Judit Izinger , Csaba Szilágyi , Alexey Zelensky)This podcast is the first podcast of a potential future series. It was created during the AudioFiles podcasting workshop at CEU. For more information, including how you can get involved see here.
The Lebanese Penal Code contains an ambiguous article that punishes “any penetration contrary to nature” for up to a year in prison. LGBT activists commonly refer to the article by its number; 534, and fight for its removal claiming it targets same-sex practices, gay men, and lesbian women. Since 2010, several judges have ruled that the article is too ambiguous to be applied to persons arrested for alleged engagement in homosexual practices. But on January 26th 2017, a judge in Beirut not only acquitted 9 persons charged with the article, but also dedicated several pages to redefining homosexual desire as part of “nature” in his ruling. While some activists and LGBT groups were quick to embrace the verdict and applaud the significant legal redefinition, others have argued that the ruling does not mean that the fight for legalizing homosexuality is complete, rather the contrary. The case raises several questions about homosexuality in Lebanon: does the law itself differentiate between a (homo)sexual act and a (homo)sexual orientation? What are the ruling’s implications for the process of on-ground arrests? In this episode, I speak with Ahmad Saleh about his on-ground experience with case work as a previous volunteer in an LGBT organization in Beirut. Sources: Lebanese Penal CodeBBC Pop Up, "Gay, trans, and illegal in Lebanon"Song: OUM TARAGALTE - (Soul Of Morocco)This podcast is the first podcast of a potential future series. It was created during the AudioFiles podcasting workshop at CEU. For more information, including how you can get involved see here.
Abu Bashir is sixty years old. He is one of the Bedouins who spent the first years of his life traveling with his herd in the desert. Abu Bashir has never found the Jinni of Aladdin, but his stories are full of the wonders of the jinn. The true jinns have never been mentioned in the story of Aladdin.
In this episode I present the "Sydne Rome Aerobic Kondicionalo Tanc" record by Favorit Records Hungary (1983). I discuss the gendered aspects of the aerobics culture in Central Eastern Europe during 1980s and 1990s with my guest Katarzyna Pabijanek, a cultural studies scholar. The "200 HUF Record" podcast is featuring the forgotten second-hand vinyls from a local charity shop to illuminate on the larger cultural politics of postsocialist Central Eastern Europe.