The Slavic Connexion: Recent Episodes
The University of Texas at Austin
A fresh international chat show from The University of Texas at Austin meant to share research, ideas, and culture from the Slavic world and beyond in digestible episodes. Each week we feature faculty, students (both undergraduate and graduate), and speakers of note from other institutions and countries. The Slavic Connexion is a production of the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies within the College of Liberal Arts at UT Austin... "It's not typical Texas." The Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies condemns the Russian Federation’s military invasion of Ukraine. We stand in support of the people of Ukraine who are fighting for their lives and sovereignty in the face of the unjustified invasion by Russian military forces. TPN 2021 https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/9/9a59b135-7876-4254-b600-3839b3aa3ab1/P1EKcswq.png Texas Podcast Network is brought to you by The University of Texas at Austin. Podcasts are produced by faculty members and staffers at UT Austin who work with University Communications to craft content that adheres to journalistic best practices. The University of Texas at Austin offers these podcasts at no charge. Podcasts appearing on the network and this webpage represent the views of the hosts, not of The University of Texas at Austin.
In this episode, we sit down with Dr. Keith Brown, a distinguished anthropologist from Arizona State University's Melikian Center. Dr. Brown takes us on a deep dive into the rich and often contentious history of Macedonia, exploring the complexities of historiography and the narratives that shape our understanding of the Balkan region. Join us as Dr. Brown shares his unique journey into the study of Macedonia, revealing how personal and historical narratives intertwine in the pursuit of knowledge.
ABOUT THE GUEST
Keith Brown is the Director of the Melikian Center: Russian, Eurasian and East European Studies, and Professor in the School of Politics and Global Studies at Arizona State University. During 2021-22 he was on research leave as a Core Fellow at the Collegium for Advanced Studies at the University of Helsinki. He holds a PhD in anthropology from the University of Chicago and a BA in classics from Oxford University. His work focuses on history, culture and politics in the Western Balkans, with a particular emphasis on 20th century Macedonia. He has spent extended time in the region, and his published works include The Past in Question: Modern Macedonia and the Uncertainties of Nation (Princeton University Press, 2003) and Loyal Unto Death: Trust and Terror in Revolutionary Macedonia (Indiana University Press, 2013).PRODUCER'S NOTE: This episode was recorded on December 02, 2023 at the ASEEES Convention in Philadelphia.
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PRODUCTION CREDITS
Host/Assistant Producer: Taylor Helmcamp
Host/Supervising Producer: Nicholas Pierce
Assistant EP: Misha Simanovskyy (@MSimanovskyy)
Associate Producer: Cullan Bendig (@cullanwithana)
Associate Producer: Sergio Glajar
Production Assistant: Faith VanVleet
Production Assistant: Eliza Fisher
SlavX Editorial Director: Sam Parrish
Main Theme by Charlie Harper and additional background music by Alex Productions, Blue Dot Sessions)
Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (@M_S_Daniel) www.msdaniel.com
On this episode, Nick speaks with Susanna Weygandt a scholar studying performance theories of Russian and East European theater. She discusses the work of Anatoly Vasiliev, famed Russian theater director for the Moscow School of Dramatic Arts. Thanks for listening!
ABOUT THE GUEST: Elena Susanna Weygandt analyzes and documents performance theories indigenous to Russia and East Europe that have not yet been documented. She draws on methods of interview and ethnography as well as digital display in her research on contemporary topics. In her soon-to-be published book with the University of Wisconsin Press, From Metaphor to Direct Speech: Drama and Performance Theory in Contemporary Russia, she identifies the main writers and performance theories of the vibrant movement, Novaia Drama, and situates this pioneering literature in the contemporary Russian literary canon, the Performance Studies field, and within Post-Soviet studies. The New Dramatists assert that it is precisely in the theatre, with its inherent form of critique and reflection provided by the stage, where the contemporary moment of the present can be held at arm's length away, which creates enough of a distance from the present for a historical perspective about it to emerge. This research has shaped her into a scholar and teacher of visual language, the body, feminist art, gender, exhibition on digital platforms, and all genres of documentary and realism in Russian and East European literature. Her publications on these topics of cultural history in Russia and East Europe from 1953 to the present appear in The Russian Review, Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema, TDR: The Drama Review, Apparatus: Film, Media, and Digital Cultures in Central and Eastern Europe, and in a co-edited anthology published by Columbia UP. She received her training in Slavic Languages and Literatures from Princeton (PhD 2015; Graduate Certificate in History of Science 2015). At Sewanee: The University of the South she teaches all levels of Russian in the Russian Department and her joint affiliation in the Humanities Program.https://new.sewanee.edu/programs-of-study/russian/faculty-staff/susanna-weygandt/
If you have questions, comments, or would like to be a guest on the show, please email slavxradio@utexas.edu and we will be in touch!
PRODUCTION CREDITS
Assistant EP: Misha Simanovskyy (@MSimanovskyy)
Associate Producer: Cullan Bendig (@cullanwithana)
Associate Producer: Eliza Fisher
Assistant Producer: Taylor Helmcamp
Assistant Producer/Videographer: Basil Fedun
Social Media Manager: Faith VanVleet
Host/Supervising Producer: Nicholas Pierce
Main Theme by Charlie Harper and additional background music by Beat Mekanik, Crowander, Dlay)
Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (@M_S_Daniel) www.msdaniel.com
On this episode, José Vergara (Bryn Mawr College) delves into the challenges and rewards of teaching literature in a carceral setting and his continued exploration of novels born behind bars. From the haunting prose of incarcerated writers to the innovative realms of digital humanities, Vergara shares his many projects such as the Encyclopedia of the Dog (https://encyclopediaofthedog.com/) based on the iconic novel "Between Dog and Wolf" by Sasha Sokolov, and the Reactor Room, an immersive Chernobyl Exhibition (https://digitalscholarship.brynmawr.edu/reactor-room/). Thanks for listening!
ABOUT THE GUEST
José Vergara is assistant professor of Russian at Bryn Mawr College. In addition to his work as a scholar and teacher, he enjoys collaborating with others to advance and support Slavic Studies and the Humanities. He has organized numerous guest lectures, a teach-in on the centennial of the October Revolution, and a symposium on the state of Russian Studies today. As advisor to the Swarthmore Project for East European Studies (SPEER), he has worked with students to develop conversations on campus about the region and its culture and politics. Visit his personal website for more on his teaching, research, events, and upcoming projects: https://josevergara.net/
PRODUCER'S NOTE: This episode was recorded on December 1, 2023 during the 2023 ASEEES Convention at the Philadelphia Marriott Downtown.
If you have questions, comments, or would like to be a guest on the show, please email slavxradio@utexas.edu and we will be in touch!
PRODUCTION CREDITS
Host/Assistant Producer: Eliza Fisher
Host/Editorial Director: Sam Parrish
Assistant EP: Misha Simanovskyy (@MSimanovskyy)
Associate Producer: Cullan Bendig (@cullanwithana)
Associate Producer: Sergio Glajar
Assistant Producer: Taylor Helmcamp
Assistant Producer/Videographer: Basil Fedun
Social Media Manager: Faith VanVleet
Supervising Producer: Nicholas Pierce
Main Theme by Charlie Harper and additional background music by Beat Mekanik, Crowander, Dlay)
Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (@M_S_Daniel) www.msdaniel.com
On this episode, Lera and Cullan chat with Tatiana Tkacheva, a research fellow at the Higher School of Economics in St. Petersburg, about the strategies of the autocrat in dealing with regional governors. In her paper, she and her co-authors attempt to answer this question by using the example of premature withdrawals and dismissals of Russia’s regional governors from office. Tatiana also talks about her previous publications about the United Russia (UR) party and their declining popularity in Russia. Thanks for listening! PRODUCER'S NOTE: If you have questions, comments, or would like to be a guest on the show, please email slavxradio@utexas.edu and we will be in touch! We are conducting a talent search and are now auditioning university students (graduate level preferred) for all team positions, but especially to be show hosts. Please be in touch if you would like to become a part of the SlavX team. This episode was recorded on November 10th, 2022 in Chicago at the ASEEES 2022 Convention. CREDITS Host/Associate Producer: Lera Toropin (@earlportion) Host/Associate Producer: Cullan Bendig (@cullanwithana) Assistant Producer: Taylor Ham Assistant Producer: Sergio Glajar Assistant Producer: Misha Simanovskyy (@MSimanovskyy) Social Media Manager: Eliza Fisher Supervising Producer: Katherine Birch Recording, Editing, and Sound Design: Michelle Daniel Music Producer: Charlie Harper (@charlieharpermusic) www.charlieharpermusic.com (Main Theme by Charlie Harper and additional background music by Beat Mekanik, Broke For Free, Joey Hendrixx, Polkavant) Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (@MSDaniel) www.msdaniel.com DISCLAIMER: Texas Podcast Network is brought to you by The University of Texas at Austin. Podcasts are produced by faculty members and staffers at UT Austin who work with University Communications to craft content that adheres to journalistic best practices. The University of Texas at Austin offers these podcasts at no charge. Podcasts appearing on the network and this webpage represent the views of the hosts, not of The University of Texas at Austin. https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/9/9a59b135-7876-4254-b600-3839b3aa3ab1/P1EKcswq.png Special Guest: Tatiana Tkacheva.
On this episode, Lera sits down with Anastasiya Osipova, a scholar of Soviet and contemporary Russian and Ukrainian cultures, who shares about her research on DOXA, a student journal on political harassment in academia that emerged from Higher School of Economics in Moscow in 2017. DOXA was stripped of its status as a university organization in 2019 and since then exists as an independent magazine. After February 2022, DOXA left Russia and continues to operate outside of the country. "In recent years, Russian student-run DOXA journal has emerged as one of the main platforms for anti-authoritarian youth. Simultaneously a source of independent news (including about Russia’s war in Ukraine), legal resources, and anti-harassment strategies, it sets a unique tone and articulates a consistent set of attitudes for the new generation of Russian youth, for whom detention and imprisonment have become a constant horizon of possibility. Anastasia Osipova looks at the strategies used by the former editors of DOXA who have been living under a pre-trial house arrest following the police raid of the journal’s office in April of 2021. She analyzes their poetic, performative, and activist strategies of dealing with confinement and police aggression––strategies that represent a new chapter in the long history of Russian repression of youth and that mark a decisive departure from both the Soviet dissident model and the actionism of the 2010s." The interview mentioned in the episode can be found here: https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/its-not-so-easy-to-break-us-despite-everything/ Check out Cicada Press https://www.cicadapress.net/ and the book the Everburning Pilot by Leonid Schwab https://www.cicadapress.net/products-page/ ABOUT THE GUEST Anastasiya Osipova is scholar of Soviet and contemporary Russian and Ukrainian cultures, with a focus on materialist aesthetics. Her first book, Survival and Mobilization: The Genre Memory of Soviet Prison Writing explores inter-generational aesthetic influence among political prisoners from 1920s to 2020s. In addition to her academic work, she is active as a writer, translator, and publisher of contemporary art and poetry in Russia and Ukraine. In 2013 she co-founded Cicada Press, an imprint committed to publishing formally experimental Eastern European writing. PRODUCER'S NOTE: This episode was recorded on November 11, 2022 in Chicago Palmer Hilton at the 2022 ASEEES convention. If you have questions, comments, or would like to be a guest on the show, please email slavxradio@utexas.edu and we will be in touch! CREDITS Host/Associate Producer: Lera Toropin (@earlportion) Associate Producer: Cullan Bendig (@cullanwithana) Assistant Producer: Taylor Ham Assistant Producer: Sergio Glajar Assistant Producer: Misha Simanovskyy (@MSimanovskyy) Recording, Editing, and Sound Design: Michelle Daniel Music Producer: Charlie Harper (@charlieharpermusic) www.charlieharpermusic.com (Main Theme by Charlie Harper and additional background music by Joey Hendrixx, Mindseye, Nu Tiel Records, Eme Hache) Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (@MSDaniel) www.msdaniel.com DISCLAIMER: Texas Podcast Network is brought to you by The University of Texas at Austin. Podcasts are produced by faculty members and staffers at UT Austin who work with University Communications to craft content that adheres to journalistic best practices. The University of Texas at Austin offers these podcasts at no charge. Podcasts appearing on the network and this webpage represent the views of the hosts, not of The University of Texas at Austin. https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/9/9a59b135-7876-4254-b600-3839b3aa3ab1/P1EKcswq.png Special Guest: Anastasiya Osipova.
On this episode, Lera and Misha sit down with Dr. Alexander Chertenko, a professor of Ukrainian literature at the University of Giessen in Germany. Dr. Chertenko is uniquely positioned to trace the wartime development of Ukrainian literature in the country since 2014. He also illuminates the usually underdiscussed topic of literature in Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts from 2014 until Russia's full-scale invasion on February 24, 2022. Thank you for listening! To learn more about UNDIPUS check out the project's website for more on the principal investigators and the individual subprojects: https://slawistik.uni-greifswald.de/mitarbeitende/lehrstuhl-fuer-ukrainische-kulturwissenschaft/projekte/ ABOUT THE GUEST Dr. Alexander Chertenko, born in Kyiv (Ukraine) in 1980, is a German-Ukrainian literary and cultural scholar, Slavic scholar, and comparative scholar and currently works at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen. In his research he deals with Ukrainian, Belarusian, and Russian literature and culture from the 19th to the 21st century, in particular with revolutions, wars, and identity conflicts in the post-socialist space. He has been living in Germany since 2015. PRODUCER'S NOTE: If you have questions, comments, or would like to be a guest on the show, please email slavxradio@utexas.edu and we will be in touch. We are actively looking for team members for the 2023-2024 academic year. If you are a current graduate student enrolled at a university (anywhere in the world) and would be interested in building your resume with us as a host, editor, writer, or producer, please send an email to slavxradio@utexas.edu with the subject line "SlavX 2023-2024 Team." Thank you! Header image source: Paris Review, Photographer: Kryazich CREDITS Associate Producer: Lera Toropin (@earlportion) Associate Producer: Misha Simanovskyy (@MSimanovskyy) Associate Producer: Sergio Glajar Associate Producer: Cullan Bendig (@cullanwithana) Assistant Producer: Taylor Ham Supervising Producer: Katherine Birch Recording, Editing, and Sound Design: Michelle Daniel Music Producer: Charlie Harper (@charlieharpermusic) www.charlieharpermusic.com (Main Theme by Charlie Harper and additional background music by Shaolin Dub, Mindseye, Broke for Free) Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel www.msdaniel.com DISCLAIMER: Texas Podcast Network is brought to you by The University of Texas at Austin. Podcasts are produced by faculty members and staffers at UT Austin who work with University Communications to craft content that adheres to journalistic best practices. The University of Texas at Austin offers these podcasts at no charge. Podcasts appearing on the network and this webpage represent the views of the hosts, not of The University of Texas at Austin. https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/9/9a59b135-7876-4254-b600-3839b3aa3ab1/P1EKcswq.png Special Guest: Alexander Chertenko.
On this episode, Elise Herrala takes us on a tour of the evolution of art and artists in Soviet Russia and post-Soviet Russia. Elise also gives us some insight into what is going on today in Putin's Russia in terms of state repression and renewed restriction on creative freedoms. Thanks for listening! ABOUT THE GUEST: Elise Herrala teaches in the Department of Humanistic Studies at the Maryland Institute College of Art. She holds a doctorate in sociology from the University of California, Berkeley. NOTE: If you have questions, comments, or would like to be a guest on the show, please email slavxradio@utexas.edu and we will be in touch! CREDITS Host: Michelle Daniel (@MSDaniel) Associate Producer: Lera Toropin (@earlportion) Associate Producer: Cullan Bendig (@cullanwithana) Assistant Producer: Taylor Ham Assistant Producer: Sergio Glajar Assistant Producer: Misha Simanovskyy (@MSimanovskyy) Recording, Editing, and Sound Design: Michelle Daniel Music Producer: Charlie Harper (@charlieharpermusic) www.charlieharpermusic.com (Main Theme by Charlie Harper and additional background music by Ketsa, C Scott, Shaolin Dub, Mindseye, and Broke for Free, and Alliance "Na Zare") Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (@MSDaniel) www.msdaniel.com DISCLAIMER: Texas Podcast Network is brought to you by The University of Texas at Austin. Podcasts are produced by faculty members and staffers at UT Austin who work with University Communications to craft content that adheres to journalistic best practices. The University of Texas at Austin offers these podcasts at no charge. Podcasts appearing on the network and this webpage represent the views of the hosts, not of The University of Texas at Austin. https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/9/9a59b135-7876-4254-b600-3839b3aa3ab1/P1EKcswq.png Special Guest: Elise Herrala.
On this episode, Sergio talks with Yacov Zohn, football historian and former semi-professional footballer in Russia, France, and the US. Yacov's research into the development of Soviet football sheds light on the immense political pressure placed on the primary USSR team, the Sbornaya, to win each and every game--but ultimately the unrealistic aim to earn gold at the Olympics in 1952 and 1956 is never realized, and football remains one of only two gold medal categories that eluded the USSR. Yacov also discusses how Lavrentiy Beria himself was involved in the politics of the sport. The USSR furthermore declined the invitation to compete in the FIFA World Cup, undoubtedly due to concerns from Beria and others about the Soviet team's inability to perform with top teams internationally. ABOUT THE GUEST Yacov Zohn is a semi-professional footballer and a PhD candidate in history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His dissertation traces the history of the national Soviet soccer team from its official recognition by the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) in 1946 to its tortuous disintegration in the early 1990s. His aim is to elucidate how the narrative of Soviet sports history intersects with the kaleidoscope of competing narratives from nation-states and global sport governing institutions to form a complex mosaic of transnational sports history. PRODUCER'S NOTE: This episode was recorded on November 10th, 2022 at the Palmer House Hilton in Chicago. If you have questions, comments, or would like to be a guest on the show, please email slavxradio@utexas.edu and we will be in touch! CREDITS Host/Associate Producer: Sergio Glajar Associate Producer: Lera Toropin (@earlportion) Associate Producer: Cullan Bendig (@cullanwithana) Assistant Producer: Taylor Ham Assistant Producer: Misha Simanovskyy (@MSimanovskyy) Social Media Manager: Eliza Fisher Supervising Producer: Katherine Birch Recording, Editing, and Sound Design: Michelle Daniel Music Producer: Charlie Harper (@charlieharpermusic) www.charlieharpermusic.com (Main Theme by Charlie Harper and additional background music by Comfort Fit, Ketsa, Mr. Smith, Eddie Aich, Lame Drivers) Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (@MSDaniel) www.msdaniel.com DISCLAIMER: Texas Podcast Network is brought to you by The University of Texas at Austin. Podcasts are produced by faculty members and staffers at UT Austin who work with University Communications to craft content that adheres to journalistic best practices. The University of Texas at Austin offers these podcasts at no charge. Podcasts appearing on the network and this webpage represent the views of the hosts, not of The University of Texas at Austin. https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/9/9a59b135-7876-4254-b600-3839b3aa3ab1/P1EKcswq.png Special Guest: Yacov Zohn.
On this episode, Friederike Kind-Kovács visits with us in Austin, Texas, to talk about her latest book which explores the ways in which migration, hunger, and destitution affected children's lives, casting light on their particular vulnerability in times of distress. You can find her book "Budapest's Children" (published by Indiana University Press) here: https://iupress.org/9780253062161/budapests-children/. The book series referenced in the episode is Worlds in Crisis: Refugees, Asylum, and Forced Migration, information about which can be found on this page: https://iupress.org/new-series-accepting-submissions/. ABOUT THE GUEST Friederike Kind-Kovács is a contemporary historian and senior researcher at the Hannah Arendt Institute for Totalitarianism Studies at TU Dresden and a lecturer at Regensburg University in Germany. She is author of Written Here, Published There: How Underground Literature Crossed the Iron Curtain, which won the University of Southern California Book Prize in Cultural and Literary Studies in 2015. She is editor (with Machteld Venken) of the double special issue "Childhood in Times of Political Transformation in the 20th Century" in the Journal of Modern European History; (with Heike Karge and Sara Bernasconi) of From the Midwife's Bag to the Patient's File: Public Health in Eastern Europe; and (with Jessie Labov) of Samizdat, Tamizdat, and Beyond: Transnational Media During and After Socialism. PRODUCER'S NOTE: This episode was recorded in person on November 3rd, 2022 at The University of Texas at Austin. If you have questions, comments, or would like to be a guest on the show, please email slavxradio@utexas.edu and we will be in touch! CREDITS Host/Associate Producer: Sergio Glajar Host/Assistant Producer: Eliza Fisher Associate Producer: Lera Toropin (@earlportion) Associate Producer: Cullan Bendig (@cullanwithana) Associate Producer: Taylor Ham Assistant Producer: Misha Simanovskyy (@MSimanovskyy) Supervising Producer: Katherine Birch Recording, Editing, and Sound Design: Michelle Daniel Music Producer: Charlie Harper (@charlieharpermusic) www.charlieharpermusic.com (Main Theme by Charlie Harper and additional background music by Michelle Daniel Trio, Ketsa, and Glass Boy) Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (@MSDaniel) www.msdaniel.com DISCLAIMER: Texas Podcast Network is brought to you by The University of Texas at Austin. Podcasts are produced by faculty members and staffers at UT Austin who work with University Communications to craft content that adheres to journalistic best practices. The University of Texas at Austin offers these podcasts at no charge. Podcasts appearing on the network and this webpage represent the views of the hosts, not of The University of Texas at Austin. https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/9/9a59b135-7876-4254-b600-3839b3aa3ab1/P1EKcswq.png Special Guest: Friederike Kind-Kovács.
On this episode, recorded in-person at the ASEEES 2022 Convention in Chicago, Lera and Taylor sit down with Will Pomeranz, the director of the Wilson Center's Kennan Institute, to talk about his experience practicing Russian law in Russia, the work of the Kennan Institute, the evolution (and devolution) of Russian law from the tsarist period through Vladimir Putin today, and the legality of the referenda in Ukraine. A timely discussion, especially in light of the bombings Poland at the Ukraine-Poland border on November 15th, 2022. We hope you enjoy! For more information on the Wilson Center and its vast resources, please visit their website: https://www.wilsoncenter.org/. For the Kennan Institute specifically, visit: https://www.wilsoncenter.org/program/kennan-institute. ABOUT THE GUEST William Pomeranz is the Director of the Kennan Institute, a part of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars located in Washington, D.C. He also has taught Russian law at the Center for Eurasian, Russian, and East European Studies (CERES), Georgetown University. He hold a B.A. from Haverford College, a M.Sc. from the University of Edinburgh, a J.D. cum laude from American University, and a Ph.D. in Russian History from the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London. Prior to joining the Kennan Institute, Dr. Pomeranz practiced international law in the United States and Moscow, Russia. He advised clients on investment in the Russian Federation as well as on U.S. anti-money laundering requirements, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), and various U.S. sanctions programs. His research interests include Russian legal history as well current Russian commercial and constitutional law. His academic articles have been published in the Russian Review, Slavonic and East European Review, Kritika, Review of Central and East European Law, Demokratizatsiya, and Problems of Post-Communism. He also has provided commentary and conducted numerous press interviews with CNN, NPR, C-SPAN, Reuters, VOA, Bloomberg, and other media outlets. PRODUCER'S NOTE: This episode was recorded in Chicago's Palmer House Hilton on November 12th, 2022 at the ASEEES Convention. If you have questions, comments, or would like to be a guest on the show, please email slavxradio@utexas.edu and we will be in touch! CREDITS Host/Associate Producer: Lera Toropin (@earlportion) Host/Associate Producer: Taylor Ham Associate Producer: Cullan Bendig (@cullanwithana) Assistant Producer: Sergio Glajar Assistant Producer: Misha Simanovskyy (@MSimanovskyy) Social Media Manager: Eliza Fisher Supervising Producer: Katherine Birch Recording, Editing, Sound Design: Michelle Daniel Music Producer: Charlie Harper (@charlieharpermusic) www.charlieharpermusic.com (Main Theme by Charlie Harper and additional background music by Charlie Harper, Makaih Beats, Kirk Osamayo, Independent music collective) Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (@MSDaniel) www.msdaniel.com DISCLAIMER: Texas Podcast Network is brought to you by The University of Texas at Austin. Podcasts are produced by faculty members and staffers at UT Austin who work with University Communications to craft content that adheres to journalistic best practices. The University of Texas at Austin offers these podcasts at no charge. Podcasts appearing on the network and this webpage represent the views of the hosts, not of The University of Texas at Austin. https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/9/9a59b135-7876-4254-b600-3839b3aa3ab1/P1EKcswq.png Special Guest: William Pomeranz.
On this episode, author and historian Brigid O'Keeffe joins Sergio and Misha to discuss her research and newly released work on the rise and fall of the multiethnic Soviet Union. The social histories which Dr. O'Keeffe mentions are: Jeff Sahadeo's Voices from the Soviet Edge https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501738203/voices-from-the-soviet-edge/ and Adrienne Edgar's Intermarriage and the Friendship of Peoples https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501762949/intermarriage-and-the-friendship-of-peoples/#bookTabs=1 ABOUT THE GUEST Brigid O'Keeffe is a Professor of History at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. She is a specialist on the history of late imperial Russia and the Soviet Union. O’Keeffe is the author of The Multiethnic Soviet Union and its Demise (Bloomsbury); Esperanto and Languages of Internationalism in Revolutionary Russia (Bloomsbury; Winner of the 2021 Ab Imperio Award) and New Soviet Gypsies: Nationality, Performance, and Selfhood in the Early Soviet Union (University of Toronto Press). She is at work on her next book, The Family Litvinov: A History of the Twentieth Century. PRODUCER'S NOTE: This episode was recorded on October 31st, 2022 via Zoom. If you have questions, comments, or would like to be a guest on the show, please email slavxradio@utexas.edu and we will be in touch! CREDITS Host/Assistant Producer: Sergio Glajar Host/Assistant Producer: Misha Simanovskyy (@MSimanovskyy) Associate Producer: Lera Toropin (@earlportion) Associate Producer: Cullan Bendig (@cullanwithana) Assistant Producer: Taylor Ham Social Media Manager: Eliza Fisher Supervising Producer: Katherine Birch Recording, Editing, and Sound Design: Michelle Daniel Music Producer: Charlie Harper (@charlieharpermusic) www.charlieharpermusic.com (Main Theme by Charlie Harper) Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (@MSDaniel) www.msdaniel.com DISCLAIMER: Texas Podcast Network is brought to you by The University of Texas at Austin. Podcasts are produced by faculty members and staffers at UT Austin who work with University Communications to craft content that adheres to journalistic best practices. The University of Texas at Austin offers these podcasts at no charge. Podcasts appearing on the network and this webpage represent the views of the hosts, not of The University of Texas at Austin. https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/9/9a59b135-7876-4254-b600-3839b3aa3ab1/P1EKcswq.png Special Guest: Brigid O'Keeffe.
To continue our discussion on the effects of the War in Ukraine on the energy sector, Foreign Policy columnist and Stimson Center senior fellow Dr. Emma Ashford joins us to share about her book "Oil, the State, and War: Foreign Policy of Petrostates." You can find more about this comprehensive guide to understanding petrostates and the significant role that oil plays in international relations here: http://press.georgetown.edu/book/georgetown/oil-state-and-war. Follow her on Twitter @EmmaMAshford. http://press.georgetown.edu/sites/default/files/9781647122379.jpg ABOUT THE GUEST https://www.stimson.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Emma-Ashford-headshot.jpg Emma Ashford is a Senior Fellow with the Reimagining US Grand Strategy program at the Stimson Center. She works on a variety of issues related to the future of US foreign policy, international security, and the politics of global energy markets. She has expertise in the politics of Russia, Europe, and the Middle East. Ashford is also a nonresident fellow at the Modern War Institute at West Point, and an adjunct assistant professor in the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University. Her first book, Oil, the State, and War: The Foreign Policies of Petrostates, was published by Georgetown University Press in 2022, and explored the international security ramifications of oil production and export in states such as Russia, Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Venezuela. Prior to joining the Stimson Center, Ashford was a senior fellow with the Atlantic Council’s New American Engagement Initiative, which focused on challenging the prevailing assumptions governing US foreign policy. She was also a research fellow in defense and foreign policy at the Cato Institute, where she worked on a variety of issues including the US-Saudi relationship, sanctions policy, and US policy towards Russia, and US foreign policy and grand strategy more broadly. Ashford writes a bi-weekly column, “It’s Debatable,” for Foreign Policy, and her long-form writing has been featured in publications such as Foreign Affairs, the Texas National Security Review, Strategic Studies Quarterly, the York Times, the Washington Post, the National Interest, and War on the Rocks, among others. She is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and holds a PhD in Foreign Affairs from the University of Virginia. PRODUCER'S NOTE: This episode was recorded on October 24th, 2022 via Zoom. If you have questions, comments, or would like to be a guest on the show, please email slavxradio@utexas.edu and we will be in touch! CREDITS Assistant Producer/Host: Taylor Ham Associate Producer/Host: Lera Toropin (@earlportion) Assistant Producer: Misha Simanovskyy (@MSimanovskyy) Associate Producer: Cullan Bendig (@cullanwithana) Assistant Producer: Sergio Glajar Social Media Manager: Eliza Fisher Supervising Producer: Katherine Birch Recording, Editing, and Sound Design: Michelle Daniel Music Producer: Charlie Harper (@charlieharpermusic) www.charlieharpermusic.com (Main Theme by Charlie Harper and additional background music by Holizno, Broke for Free) Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (@MSDaniel) www.msdaniel.com DISCLAIMER: Texas Podcast Network is brought to you by The University of Texas at Austin. Podcasts are produced by faculty members and staffers at UT Austin who work with University Communications to craft content that adheres to journalistic best practices. The University of Texas at Austin offers these podcasts at no charge. Podcasts appearing on the network and this webpage represent the views of the hosts, not of The University of Texas at Austin. https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/9/9a59b135-7876-4254-b600-3839b3aa3ab1/P1EKcswq.png Special Guest: Emma Ashford.
On this episode, Misha speaks with Middle East expert Nicole Robinson who expounds on how MENA countries have responded to Russia's War in Ukraine and the reasons why. Ms. Robinson sheds some light on the future of the region as the conflict evolves and Russia's capacity to arm and feed its regional allies dwindles. Furthermore, she suggests that Russia's declining influence may allow for other actors to increase their influence in the Middle East region -- actors such as China, for example, which is one of the biggest recipients of oil and natural gas from the Persian Gulf. Ms. Robinson says it's unwise for the US to take a step back in the Middle East when it is geographically and strategically the region that is situated in between giants. This war is not only shifting great power competition, but also changing "how each of these countries think about their bilateral relationships." For more on Russia's War in Syria, listen to Ret. Col. Robert E. Hamilton's episode here: https://www.slavxradio.com/hamilton ABOUT THE GUEST https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQaNutVpZT13oUm_Eu8AovNN5d727uuySIXzA&usqp=CAU Nicole Robinson is a senior research associate in the Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign Policy at The Heritage Foundation, focusing on Middle East Policy. She researches and writes on economic, security, and political challenges facing the Middle East and North Africa, with a particular focus on the Levant region. Among other topics, she has written on women’s empowerment and domestic developments in Iran, Lebanon, and Yemen. Before joining Heritage, Nicole lived in Jordan for a year and half, studying at the University of Jordan and working at the Stabilisation Network and Near East Foundation.She is fluent in Arabic and is continuing to expand her knowledge about the Middle East. Nicole received her Master’s Degree in Arab Studies from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Middle East Studies from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. She was born and raised in Woodbury, Minnesota, and currently resides in Alexandria, Virginia. PRODUCER'S NOTE: This episode was recorded on October 21st, 2022 via Zoom. If you have questions, comments, or would like to be a guest on the show, please email slavxradio@utexas.edu and we will be in touch! CREDITS Assistant Producer/Host: Misha Simanovskyy (@MSimanovskyy) Associate Producer: Lera Toropin (@earlportion) Associate Producer: Cullan Bendig (@cullanwithana) Assistant Producer: Sergio Glajar Assistant Producer: Taylor Ham Social Media Manager: Eliza Fisher Supervising Producer: Katherine Birch Recording, Editing, and Sound Design: Michelle Daniel Music Producer: Charlie Harper (@charlieharpermusic) www.charlieharpermusic.com (Main Theme by Charlie Harper and additional background music by Broke For Free, Shaolin Dub, "Karma" by Kazka) Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (@MSDaniel) www.msdaniel.com DISCLAIMER: Texas Podcast Network is brought to you by The University of Texas at Austin. Podcasts are produced by faculty members and staffers at UT Austin who work with University Communications to craft content that adheres to journalistic best practices. The University of Texas at Austin offers these podcasts at no charge. Podcasts appearing on the network and this webpage represent the views of the hosts, not of The University of Texas at Austin. https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/9/9a59b135-7876-4254-b600-3839b3aa3ab1/P1EKcswq.png Special Guest: Nicole Robinson.
On this episode, Taylor talks with the director of CREEES, Dr. Mary Neuburger, about her latest book entitled Ingredients of Change: The History and Culture of Food in Modern Bulgaria. Thanks for listening! https://cornellpress-us.imgix.net/covers/9781501762581.jpg?auto=format&w=300 From the publisher: Ingredients of Change explores modern Bulgaria's foodways from the Ottoman era to the present, outlining how Bulgarians domesticated and adapted diverse local, regional, and global foods and techniques, and how the nation's culinary topography has been continually reshaped by the imperial legacies of the Ottomans, Habsburgs, Russians, and Soviets, as well as by the ingenuity of its own people. Changes in Bulgarian cooking and cuisine, Mary C. Neuburger shows, were driven less by nationalism than by the circulation of powerful food narratives—scientific, religious, and ethical—along with peoples, goods, technologies, and politics. You can find Ingredients of Change on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Ingredients-Change-History-Culture-Bulgaria/dp/1501762494#:~:text=%22Ingredients%20of%20Change%20provides%20exciting,was%20lost%20with%20its%20collapse.%22 ABOUT THE GUEST Dr. Mary Neuburger is currently the Director of the Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, the Chair of Slavic and Eurasian Studies, Professor of History, and Associate Director of the Global (Dis)Information Lab, at The University of Texas at Austin. Her research focus is on modern Eastern Europe with a specialization in Southeastern Europe. Her research interests include urban culture, consumption, commodity exchange, gender and nationalism. She is the author of Balkan Smoke: Tobacco and the Making of Modern Bulgaria (Cornell University Press, 2016) and The Orient Within: Muslim Minorities and the Negotiation of Nationhood in Modern Bulgaria (Cornell University Press, 2011). She teaches courses on the history of modern Eastern Europe. PRODUCER'S NOTE: This episode was recorded on October 5th, 2022 via Zoom. If you have questions, comments, or would like to be a guest on the show, please email slavxradio@utexas.edu and we will be in touch! CREDITS Host/Assistant Producer: Taylor Ham Associate Producer: Lera Toropin (@earlportion) Associate Producer: Cullan Bendig (@cullanwithana) Assistant Producer: Misha Simanovskyy (@MSimanovskyy) Assistant Producer: Sergio Glajar Social Media Manager: Eliza Fisher Supervising Producer: Katherine Birch Recording, Editing, and Sound Design: Michelle Daniel Music Producer: Charlie Harper (@charlieharpermusic) www.charlieharpermusic.com (Main Theme by Charlie Harper and additional background music by various Bulgarian folk artists) Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (@MSDaniel) www.msdaniel.com DISCLAIMER: Texas Podcast Network is brought to you by The University of Texas at Austin. Podcasts are produced by faculty members and staffers at UT Austin who work with University Communications to craft content that adheres to journalistic best practices. The University of Texas at Austin offers these podcasts at no charge. Podcasts appearing on the network and this webpage represent the views of the hosts, not of The University of Texas at Austin. https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/9/9a59b135-7876-4254-b600-3839b3aa3ab1/P1EKcswq.png Special Guest: Mary C. Neuburger.
On this episode, Eliza talks with sports historian Bruce Berglund who shares about his personal love of hockey, the global development of the sport, the rise of hockey in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, and its role of hockey in the expression of national identity on the international stage. Thanks for listening! We encourage you to check out Dr. Berglund's excellent book, entitled "The Fastest Game in the World: Hockey and the Globalization of Sports": https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08P2ZZ8R9/ref=dbsadefrwthschvapitkinp1i5 ABOUT THE GUEST https://calvin.edu/contentAsset/image/c94cae26-bbad-4efc-b25f-ff567a1effa7/bannerImage/filter/Jpeg/jpeg_q/55.jpg Bruce Berglund is a historian of Europe, Russia & world sports. He did research in eight countries for his book The Fastest Game in the World: Hockey and the Globalization of Sports. His articles on world sports have appeared in the Washington Post and CNN Opinion, and he has have been interviewed for Sports Illustrated, The Athletic, National Public Radio, and television and radio programs in the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Australia. Some of the books he has most enjoyed writing are the series for Sports Illustrated Kids on sports records and all-time greatest athletes. A proud son of Duluth, Bruce lives in a small town in southern Minnesota. Follow him on Twitter @brberglund . PRODUCER'S NOTE: This episode was recorded on October 12, 2022 via Zoom. If you have questions, comments, or would like to be a guest on the show, please email slavxradio@utexas.edu and we will be in touch! CREDITS Host: Eliza Fisher (@elizaafisher) Associate Producer: Lera Toropin (@earlportion) Associate Producer: Cullan Bendig (@cullanwithana) Assistant Producer: Sergio Glajar Assistant Producer: Misha Simanovskyy (@MSimanovskyy) Supervising Producer: Katherine Birch Social Media Manager: Eliza Fisher Recording, Editing, and Sound Design: Michelle Daniel Music Producer: Charlie Harper (@charlieharpermusic) www.charlieharpermusic.com (Main Theme by Charlie Harper and additional background music by Independent Music Collective, Scott Holmes, Holizna, Kevin Bryce, and PK Jazz Collective ) Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (@MSDaniel) www.msdaniel.com DISCLAIMER: Texas Podcast Network is brought to you by The University of Texas at Austin. Podcasts are produced by faculty members and staffers at UT Austin who work with University Communications to craft content that adheres to journalistic best practices. The University of Texas at Austin offers these podcasts at no charge. Podcasts appearing on the network and this webpage represent the views of the hosts, not of The University of Texas at Austin. https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/9/9a59b135-7876-4254-b600-3839b3aa3ab1/P1EKcswq.png Special Guest: Bruce Berglund.
On this episode, Lera and Taylor speak with returning guest Leonid Ragozin who candidly updates us on the war in Ukraine and helps us make sense of the fog of this conflict and the continual stream of headline-making actions from the Kremlin. They discuss Putin's mobilization orders, the West's response to Russians fleeing the draft, an unseen struggle for power within the Russian military, the "annexed" Donbas region, and the role that the coming Winter may play in the war for Europeans dependent on Russian oil and gas. Follow Leonid Ragozin on Twitter @leonidragozin. Thank you for listening. ABOUT THE GUEST https://149346090.v2.pressablecdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/vBl5zWMc_400x400-300x300.png Leonid Ragozin is an independent journalist and Lonely Planet author, formerly based in Moscow. He has contributed to many major publications including Al Jazeera, Business Week, the Guardian, Time, Buzzfeed and The New Republic. He previously worked as BBC producer in Moscow for 14 years and Russian Newsweek foreign correspondent. He has co-authored numerous Lonely Planet travel guides. https://twitter.com/leonidragozin/?lang=en PRODUCER'S NOTE: This episode was recorded on October 6th, 2022 via Zoom. If you have questions, comments, or would like to be a guest on the show, please email slavxradio@utexas.edu and we will be in touch! CREDITS Associate Producer/Host: Lera Toropin (@earlportion) Assistant Producer/Host: Taylor Ham Assistant Producer/Host: Misha Simanovskyy (@MSimanovskyy) Associate Producer: Cullan Bendig (@cullanwithana) Assistant Producer: Sergio Glajar Social Media Manager: Eliza Fisher Supervising Producer: Katherine Birch Recording, Editing, and Sound Design: Michelle Daniel Music Producer: Charlie Harper (@charlieharpermusic) www.charlieharpermusic.com (Main Theme by Charlie Harper and additional background music by Charlie Harper, Shaolin Dub, Kiggler, Audiorezout, AngelGarcia) Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (@MSDaniel) www.msdaniel.com DISCLAIMER: Texas Podcast Network is brought to you by The University of Texas at Austin. Podcasts are produced by faculty members and staffers at UT Austin who work with University Communications to craft content that adheres to journalistic best practices. The University of Texas at Austin offers these podcasts at no charge. Podcasts appearing on the network and this webpage represent the views of the hosts, not of The University of Texas at Austin. https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/9/9a59b135-7876-4254-b600-3839b3aa3ab1/P1EKcswq.png Special Guest: Leonid Ragozin.
On this episode, luminary historian Professor Norman Davies joins us to talk about the state of Polish studies, the deep history of Ukraine when it was ruled from Warsaw and Krakow, and the importance of broadening European and Slavic studies as taught in academic spaces. This episode was all about historical context, so we hope you enjoy. Thanks for listening! ABOUT THE GUEST Norman Davies, born in 1939 in Bolton (Lancashire) was educated at Bolton School, Magdalen College, Oxford, the University of Sussex and at several continental universities including Grenoble, Perugia and Kraków. His formative years created a lifelong European outlook. He was for many years Professor of History at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London, and has also taught as a visitor to Columbia, McGill, Hokkaido, Stanford, Harvard, Adelaide, and Australian National, Canberra. He is the author of White Eagle, Red Star: the Polish-Soviet War, 1919-20 (1972): God’s Playground: A History of Poland (1981); the No.1 bestseller Europe: A History (1996); The Isles: A History (1998); Microcosm: Portrait of a Central European City (with Roger Moorhouse, 2002); Rising ’44, the Battle for Warsaw (2003); Europe at War, 1939-45 (2006); and Vanished Kingdoms (2011). His books have been translated into more than twenty languages, and he is a regular broadcaster. From 1997 to 2006 he was a Supernumerary Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford, and is now an Honorary Fellow at St. Antony’s College, Oxford and Professor at the Jagiellonian University, Cracow. He has been a Fellow of the British Acadamy since 1997 and since 2011 of the Learned Society of Wales. He has been awarded Poland’s Order of the White Eagle and in Britain the CMG ‘for services to history’. He holds honorary doctorates from several universities in Britain and Poland as well as the honorary citizenship of five cities, and is a life member both of Clare Hall and of Peterhouse Cambridge. He lives in Oxford and Krakow with his wife, Maria, and has two grown sons, Daniel and Christian. “There is too much history,” he says, “for anyone to try and understand it all.” Visit his website: http://www.normandavies.com/?lang=en PRODUCER'S NOTE: This episode was recorded on September 23rd, 2022 via Zoom. A special thanks to Michalina at the Warsaw Security Forum for facilitating the conversation. If you have questions, comments, or would like to be a guest on the show, please email slavxradio@utexas.edu and we will be in touch! CREDITS Associate Producer/Host: Cullan Bendig (@cullanwithana) Assistant Producer/Host: Sergio Glajar Associate Producer: Lera Toropin (@earlportion) Assistant Producer: Misha Simanovskyy (@MSimanovskyy) Social Media Manager: Eliza Fisher Supervising Producer: Katherine Birch Recording, Editing, and Sound Design: Michelle Daniel Music Producer: Charlie Harper (@charlieharpermusic) www.charlieharpermusic.com (Main Theme by Charlie Harper and additional background music by The Polish Ambassador, Audiorezout, and Makaih Beats) Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (@MSDaniel) www.msdaniel.com DISCLAIMER: Texas Podcast Network is brought to you by The University of Texas at Austin. Podcasts are produced by faculty members and staffers at UT Austin who work with University Communications to craft content that adheres to journalistic best practices. The University of Texas at Austin offers these podcasts at no charge. Podcasts appearing on the network and this webpage represent the views of the hosts, not of The University of Texas at Austin. https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/9/9a59b135-7876-4254-b600-3839b3aa3ab1/P1EKcswq.png Special Guest: Norman Davies.
On this first episode of season 5, Lera and Zach talk with Dr. Artyom Tonoyan about the ongoing Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, delving into the history of tensions between Armenia and Azerbaijan, Russia's role and presence as mediator, and the various geopolitical vectors in the region. Thanks for listening! From the publisher: "East View Press aims to provide readers with the immediate context of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict through the lens of Moscow, along with some insight into its complex historical, political and ethnic underpinnings." To purchase "Black Garden Aflame: The Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict in the Soviet and Russian Press" visit https://www.eastviewpress.com/resources/books/black-garden-aflame/. Enter the code BGA35 at checkout for 35% off the full price! https://www.eastviewpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Karabakh-cover-681x1024.jpg ABOUT THE GUEST Dr. Artyom Tonoyan was born and grew up in Gyumri, Armenia and now makes his home in Minneapolis, Minnesota where he was a research associate at the University of Minnesota’s Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies (2015-2021). A sociologist by training, his research focuses on the intersection of religion and nationalism in Russia and the South Caucasus. His articles have appeared in Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization, Society, and Modern Greek Studies Yearbook, among others. He has been a frequent guest on the BBC, Deutsche Welle, France 24, and other outlets. He is currently working on a book charting the social, historical, and religious backgrounds of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. He received his Ph.D. from Baylor University. Follow him on Twitter @ArtyomTonoyan. PRODUCER'S NOTE: This episode was recorded on September 16th, 2022 via Zoom. If you have questions, comments, or would like to be a guest on the show, please email slavxradio@utexas.edu and we will be in touch! CREDITS Associate Producer/Host: Lera Toropin (@earlportion) Associate Producer/Host: Zach Johnson Associate Producer: Cullan Bendig (@cullanwithana) Assistant Producer: Misha Simanovskyy (@MSimanovskyy) Assistant Producer: Sergio Glajar Social Media Manager: Eliza Fisher (@elizaafisher) Supervising Producer: Katherine Birch (@KatherineBirc12) Recording, Editing, and Sound Design: Michelle S Daniel Music Producer: Charlie Harper (www.charlieharpermusic.com) - Main Theme by Charlie Harper and additional background music by Shaolin Dub, Chad Crouch, Kirk Osamayo. Additional sound effects from NASA and Soviet space program archives. Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle S Daniel (@MSDaniel www.msdaniel.com) DISCLAIMER: Texas Podcast Network is brought to you by The University of Texas at Austin. Podcasts are produced by faculty members and staffers at UT Austin who work with University Communications to craft content that adheres to journalistic best practices. The University of Texas at Austin offers these podcasts at no charge. Podcasts appearing on the network and this webpage represent the views of the hosts, not of The University of Texas at Austin. https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/9/9a59b135-7876-4254-b600-3839b3aa3ab1/P1EKcswq.png Special Guest: Artyom Tonoyan.
With the end of the 2021-2022 academic year, we are taking a short reprieve before beginning our new season. In the meantime, we have the pleasure of bringing out a wonderful episode from our backlog recorded at the end of 2021 with guest José Vergara who speaks both about his passion for Russian literature and the unique methods he applies in the classroom to help students engage with novels by Dostoevsky, Nabokov, and others. Vergara also talks about his book which came out in October 2021 and focuses on the reception of James Joyce's works, particularly Ulysses and Finnegan's Wake, on Soviet-era writers through the various phases of the Cold War. ABOUT THE GUEST https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55e5dfc6e4b016ed0f9ba00a/1634668895847-WHH8GTITKGNPWXT7YLY2/FUJIFILM+X-T3+6240x4160_000358.jpg?format=1000w José Vergara is assistant professor of Russian at Bryn Mawr College. In addition to his work as a scholar and teacher, he enjoys collaborating with others to advance and support Slavic Studies and the Humanities. He has organized numerous guest lectures, a teach-in on the centennial of the October Revolution, and a symposium on the state of Russian Studies today. As advisor to the Swarthmore Project for East European Studies (SPEER), he has worked with students to develop conversations on campus about the region and its culture and politics. Visit his personal website for more on his teaching, research, events, and upcoming projects: https://josevergara.net/ To purchase his book, vIsit Cornell University Press here: https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501759901/all-future-plunges-to-the-past/#bookTabs=0 PRODUCER'S NOTE: This episode was recorded on December 11th, 2021 via Zoom, before the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 24, 2022. If you have questions, comments, or would like to be a guest on the show, please email slavxradio@utexas.edu and we will be in touch! CREDITS Associate Producer/Host: Lera Toropin (@earlportion) Assistant Producer: Misha Simanovskyy (@MSimanovskyy) Associate Producer: Cullan Bendig (@cullanwithana) Assistant Producer: Sergio Glajar Assistant Producer: Zach Johnson Assistant Producer: Taylor Ham Recording, Editing, and Sound Design: Michelle Daniel Music Producer: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic) www.charlieharpermusic.com Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) www.msdaniel.com DISCLAIMER: Texas Podcast Network is brought to you by The University of Texas at Austin. Podcasts are produced by faculty members and staffers at UT Austin who work with University Communications to craft content that adheres to journalistic best practices. The University of Texas at Austin offers these podcasts at no charge. Podcasts appearing on the network and this webpage represent the views of the hosts, not of The University of Texas at Austin. https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/9/9a59b135-7876-4254-b600-3839b3aa3ab1/P1EKcswq.png Special Guest: José Vergara.
On this episode, Andreas Umland talks with Lera and Cullan about the Right and the Far Right political movements in Ukraine, addressing the ultranationalist claim propounded by Russian propaganda versus the reality reflected at the election polls in Ukraine since 2014. Dr. Umland convincingly argues that the Far Right narrative, including the alarms raised over the Azov movement as justification for Putin's war, is a "non-story" and largely a "manipulation of consciousness." ABOUT THE GUEST https://lithuaniatribune.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/5752901.jpg Andreas Umland is a political scientist studying contemporary Russian and Ukrainian history as well as regime transitions. He has published on the post-Soviet extreme right, municipal decentralization, European fascism, post-communist higher education, East European geopolitics, Ukrainian and Russian nationalism, the Donbas and Crimea conflicts, as well as the neighborhood and enlargement policies of the European Union. He is a Senior Expert at the Ukrainian Institute for the Future in Kyiv as well as a Research Fellow at the Swedish Institute for International Affairs in Stockholm. He lives in Kyiv and is Associate Professor of Politics at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. Follow him on Twitter @UmlandAndreas PRODUCER'S NOTE: This episode was recorded on April 27th, 2022 via Zoom. If you have questions, comments, or would like to be a guest on the show, please email slavxradio@utexas.edu and we will be in touch! CREDITS Associate Producer/Host: Lera Toropin (@earlportion) Assistant Producer/Host: Misha Simanovskyy (@MSimanovskyy) Associate Producer: Cullan Bendig (@cullanwithana) Assistant Producer: Sergio Glajar Assistant Producer: Zach Johnson Executive Assistant: Katherine Birch Recording, Editing, and Sound Design: Michelle Daniel Music Producer: Charlie Harper (@charlieharpermusic www.charlieharpermusic.com) (Main Theme by Charlie Harper and additional background music by Ketsa, Shaolin Dub, Metre, Tea K Pea, Charlie Harper) Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) DISCLAIMER: Texas Podcast Network is brought to you by The University of Texas at Austin. Podcasts are produced by faculty members and staffers at UT Austin who work with University Communications to craft content that adheres to journalistic best practices. The University of Texas at Austin offers these podcasts at no charge. Podcasts appearing on the network and this webpage represent the views of the hosts, not of The University of Texas at Austin. https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/9/9a59b135-7876-4254-b600-3839b3aa3ab1/P1EKcswq.png Special Guest: Andreas Umland.
On this episode, Lera and Sergio speak with Douglas Selvage at the Humboldt University of Berlin about his research on the disinformation cooperation between KGB and STASI during the Cold War and specifically the work of Operation "Denver" in the 1980s. Dr. Selvage talks of how these same Cold War propaganda tactics are nearly verbatim recycled today in Putin's war of aggression in Ukraine. For his recent article, as mentioned in this episode, visit: https://www.wilsoncenter.org/blog-post/moscow-bioweapons-and-ukraine-cold-war-active-measures-putins-war-propaganda. ABOUT THE GUEST Dr. Douglas Selvage is a Research Associate (wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter) at the Institute for History of the Humboldt University in Berlin. He prevously served as acting director for the historical research project, “The GDR, the Ministry for State Security, and the CSCE Process, 1973-1989,” in the Education and Research Division of the Office of the Federal Commissioner for the Stasi Records in Berlin. He has published widely on the CSCE process, Polish-German relations under communism, and the history of the Soviet bloc. Previously, he also directed a grant project funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities to translate Warsaw Pact documents into English for the Parallel History Project (PHP) on Collective Security. From 2001-2006, he worked at the Historian’s Office of the U.S. Department of State, where his publications included Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969-1976: European Security, 1969-76, and a co-edited joint publication with the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Soviet-American Relations: The Détente Years, 1969-1972. PRODUCER'S NOTE: This episode was recorded on October 10th, 2021 and April 28th, 2022 via Zoom. If you have questions, comments, or would like to be a guest on the show, please email slavxradio@utexas.edu and we will be in touch! CREDITS Associate Producer/Host: Lera Toropin (@earlportion) Assistant Producer/Host: Sergio Glajar Assistant Producer: Misha Simanovskyy (@MSimanovskyy) Associate Producer: Cullan Bendig (@cullanwithana) Assistant Producer: Zach Johnson Assistant Producer: Taylor Ham Executive Assistant: Katherine Birch Recording, Editing, and Sound Design: Michelle Daniel Music Producer: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic) www.charlieharpermusic.com (Main Theme by Charlie Harper and additional background music by Holizna, Tea K Pea, Uncan, TAG) Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) DISCLAIMER: Texas Podcast Network is brought to you by The University of Texas at Austin. Podcasts are produced by faculty members and staffers at UT Austin who work with University Communications to craft content that adheres to journalistic best practices. The University of Texas at Austin offers these podcasts at no charge. Podcasts appearing on the network and this webpage represent the views of the hosts, not of The University of Texas at Austin. https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/9/9a59b135-7876-4254-b600-3839b3aa3ab1/P1EKcswq.png Special Guest: Douglas Selvage.
In this special episode, we feature Drs. Mary Neuburger and Oksana Lutsyshyna, and former SlavX hosts Matthew Orr and Lauren Nyquist who together undertook a phenomenal investigative project in spring 2019 to examine and closely follow Ukrainian youth political engagement during the presidential election in which Volodymyr Zelenskyy ultimately beat incumbent Petro Poroshenko. The team discusses the fascinating process by which they began their research, how they connected with Ukrainian students via Skype (not Zoom!), and what it was like when they eventually traveled to Ukraine itself. The lasting relationships and connections they made during that memorable month abroad in summer 2019 inform their thinking and processing of the War in Ukraine today. Take a listen! PRODUCER'S NOTE: This episode was recorded on March 14th, 2022 for The Other Side of Campus podcast at UT Austin. Visit https://www.texasptf.org/28 for more information and to listen to the original episode. ABOUT THE GUESTS Dr. Mary C. Neuburger is a Professor of history, the Director of the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies (CREEES), and the Chair of Slavic and Eurasian Studies at the University of Texas of Austin. She is the author of The Orient Within: Muslim Minorities and the Negotiation of Nationhood in Modern Bulgaria (Cornell 2004), and Balkan Smoke: Tobacco and the Making of Modern Bulgaria (Cornell, 2012). Dr. Neuburger is also the co-editor with Paulina Bren of Communism Unwrapped: Consumption in Cold War Eastern Europe (Oxford, 2012) and has authored numerous articles on Bulgarian history. Her latest book, Ingredients of Change, is a cultural history of food in Bulgaria and recently came out with Cornell University Press. She is also co-editor of the Journal of Contemporary History. Dr. Oksana Lutsyshyna was born in Uzhhorod in 1974. She is a writer and translator, and lecturer in Ukrainian studies at the University of Texas in Austin, where she teaches Ukrainian language and Eastern European literatures. She holds a PhD in comparative literature from the University of Georgia. Lutsyshyna's most recent novel Ivan and Phoebe (2019) won two of the most prestigious literary awards in Ukraine, in 2020 and 2021, respectively: the Lviv City of Literature UNESCO Prize and Taras Shevchenko National Prize in fiction. The novel is forthcoming in the English translation by Nina Murray from Deep Vellum Publishing in 2022. Oksana Lutsyshyna's poetry collection, Persephone Blues, in the English translation, was released in 2019 by Arrowsmith. Matthew Orr is a Eurasia analyst at RANE, a risk intelligence company that provides geopolitical information and consultation to consumers and corporate clients with business interests around the globe. Prior to starting at RANE, Orr received dual Master’s degrees in Global Policy Studies and Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies at The University of Texas at Austin. Lauren Nyquist is a former undergraduate student at UT Austin and is currently pursuing her PhD in Geography at Texas A&M University. PRODUCER'S NOTE: This episode was recorded on March 14th, 2022 via Zoom. If you have questions, comments, or would like to be a guest on the show, please email slavxradio@utexas.edu and we will be in touch! CREDITS Associate Producer/Host: Lera Toropin (@earlportion) Assistant Producer: Misha Simanovskyy (@MSimanovskyy) Associate Producer: Cullan Bendig (@cullanwithana) Assistant Producer: Sergio Glajar Assistant Producer: Zach Johnson Executive Assistant: Katherine Birch Recording, Editing, and Sound Design: Michelle Daniel Music Producer: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic) www.charlieharpermusic.com (Main Theme by Charlie Harper and additional background music by Charlie Harper, Holizna, Scott Holmes, Shaolin Dub, and Exetexe) Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) DISCLAIMER: Texas Podcast Network is brought to you by The University of Texas at Austin. Podcasts are produced by faculty members and staffers at UT Austin who work with University Communications to craft content that adheres to journalistic best practices. The University of Texas at Austin offers these podcasts at no charge. Podcasts appearing on the network and this webpage represent the views of the hosts, not of The University of Texas at Austin. https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/9/9a59b135-7876-4254-b600-3839b3aa3ab1/P1EKcswq.png Special Guests: Mary C. Neuburger and Oksana Lutsyshyna.
Journalist Leonid Ragozin joins us to talk about the irrationality of Putin's invasion of Ukraine and Zelensky's steadfast resistance which has led to the present stalemate situation that we now have. Ragozin states, "History will show whether Zelensky was right in this game of chicken to collide with Putin..." Ragozin calls Putin's gamble a suicidal move ("complete insanity"), not just for Putin's regime but for Russia itself. "I don't see how... they [can] win in the way they want to win." Boldly he says that no one has done more to harm Russia's interests since World War II than Putin himself who falsely calls himself the protector of Russophones in Ukraine -- "Putin is fighting his own people." See Ragozin's Al-Jazeera article here: https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2022/2/24/is-putins-gamble-on-ukraine-rational ABOUT THE GUEST Leonid Ragozin was born in Moscow on October 28, 1972. From 1989 to 1994, he studied in the prestigious Moscow State University, majoring in geology and foreign languages. He worked as an English-to-Russian translator and a travel agent till 1998. From 1998 to 2006, he worked for BBC as a journalist in Moscow and London. Later, he was a reporter and later an editor with Russian Newsweek magazine till 2010. From 2010 to 2013, he worked as a producer for BBC’s English-language office in Moscow. After 2013, he worked with Lonely Planet. As a freelance journalist, he writes op-eds for many major outlets, including Al-Jazeera, Bloomberg, Guardian, Politico, The New Republic, Time, Washington Post, and other English-language media. Follow him on Twitter @leonidragozin. https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2022/2/24/is-putins-gamble-on-ukraine-rational https://www.politico.eu/author/leonid-ragozin/ If you would like to make a donation to help the people of Ukraine, we highly recommend the Ukraine Relief Network, providing essential and immediate help to war refugees on the ground. Check out http://www.ukrainereliefnetwork.org/. PRODUCER'S NOTE: This episode was recorded on March 12th, 2022 via Zoom. If you have questions, comments, or would like to be a guest on the show, please email slavxradio@utexas.edu and we will be in touch! CREEES STATEMENT OF SOLIDARITY The Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies condemns the Russian Federation’s military invasion of Ukraine. We stand in support of the people of Ukraine who are fighting for their lives and sovereignty in the face of the unjustified invasion by Russian military forces. CREDITS Assistant Producer/Host: Sergio Glajar Assistant Producer/Host: Misha Simanovskyy (@MSimanovskyy) Associate Producer: Lera Toropin (@earlportion) Assistant Producer/Host: Zach Johnson Associate Producer: Cullan Bendig (@cullanwithana) Recording, Editing, and Sound Design: Michelle Daniel (@MSDaniel) Music Producer: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic www.charlieharpermusic.com) (Main Theme by Charlie Harper and additional background music by TAG, techtheist, Anna Centauri, Polkavant, Uncan) Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci www.msdaniel.com) DISCLAIMER: Texas Podcast Network is brought to you by The University of Texas at Austin. Podcasts are produced by faculty members and staffers at UT Austin who work with University Communications to craft content that adheres to journalistic best practices. The University of Texas at Austin offers these podcasts at no charge. Podcasts appearing on the network and this webpage represent the views of the hosts, not of The University of Texas at Austin. https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/9/9a59b135-7876-4254-b600-3839b3aa3ab1/P1EKcswq.png Special Guest: Leonid Ragozin.
Returning guest, Alex Kokcharov, joins us from London to share his personal views and stories on the war in Ukraine. He talks of the stark informational divides that have arisen between Russia and the West, wherein even family on both sides of the Ukraine-Russia border cannot agree on what is happening in this conflict or why. Putin's Propaganda machine "brainwashes" Russian people outside of Moscow and St. Petersburg that even those with family in the midst of shelling in Russian-speaking cities like Mariupol do not believe that Russia is at all responsible. Follow Mr. Kokcharov on Twitter: @AlexKokcharov . If you would like to make a donation to help the people of Ukraine, we highly recommend the Ukraine Relief Network, providing essential and immediate help to war refugees on the ground. Check out http://www.ukrainereliefnetwork.org/. PRODUCER'S NOTE: This episode was recorded on March 5, 2022 via Zoom. Mr. Kokcharov appears here in a personal capacity, speaking to his own views, experiences, and connections. If you have questions, comments, or would like to be a guest on the show, please email slavxradio@utexas.edu and we will be in touch! CREEES STATEMENT OF SOLIDARITY The Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies condemns the Russian Federation’s military invasion of Ukraine. We stand in support of the people of Ukraine who are fighting for their lives and sovereignty in the face of the unjustified invasion by Russian military forces. CREDITS Associate Producer/Host: Lera Toropin (@earlportion) Assistant Producer/Host: Zach Johnson Assistant Producer: Misha Simanovskyy (@MSimanovskyy) Associate Producer: Cullan Bendig (@cullanwithana) Assistant Producer: Sergio Glajar Executive Assistant: Katherine Birch Recording, Editing, and Sound Design: Michelle Daniel Music Producer: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic) www.charlieharpermusic.com (Main Theme by Charlie Harper and additional background music by ) Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) www.msdaniel.com DISCLAIMER: Texas Podcast Network is brought to you by The University of Texas at Austin. Podcasts are produced by faculty members and staffers at UT Austin who work with University Communications to craft content that adheres to journalistic best practices. The University of Texas at Austin offers these podcasts at no charge. Podcasts appearing on the network and this webpage represent the views of the hosts, not of The University of Texas at Austin. https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/9/9a59b135-7876-4254-b600-3839b3aa3ab1/P1EKcswq.png Special Guest: Alex Kokcharov.
With the unconscionable Russian invasion of Ukraine ordered by Russian president Vladimir Putin, we will be focusing the next several episodes on Ukraine. These episodes will aim to provide our global listeners, who are seeking to inform themselves truthfully about the war, with background, context, analyses, and historical appreciation of this country and why the world absolutely must care and must combat Putin's revisionist and disinformationist campaigns. On this episode, the first of our Ukraine-focused series, returning guest Dr. David Marples, professor of history at the University of Alberta, graciously joins us to help unpack, if not understand, Putin's full-scale invasion of Ukraine by providing a basic yet thorough overview of the conflict's history. Visit slavxradio.com/ukraine for a list of trusted organizations addressing this humanitarian crisis. We highly recommend the Ukraine Relief Network, providing essential and immediate help to war refugees on the ground. Check out http://www.ukrainereliefnetwork.org/. ABOUT THE GUEST https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSKREOSquxhEyxP99KQnxCve9JXmnnFMOeYzQ&usqp=CAU Dr. David R. Marples is a former President of The North American Association for Belarusian Studies (2010–15) and was formerly Director of the Stasiuk Program on Contemporary Ukraine at the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies (2004–14), University of Alberta. In 2014 he was a Visiting Professor at the Slavic and Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University, Japan. At the University of Alberta he is a recipient of the J. Gordin Kaplan Award for Excellence in Research (2003) and the University Cup (2008), the university's highest award. He is regarded as one of the leading Western authorities on the Chernobyl nuclear catastrophe (social and political aspects), Lukashenko's regime in Belarus, and contemporary Ukraine. Follow him on Twitter @drmarples for more insights.
PRODUCER'S NOTE: This episode was recorded on March 3rd, 2022 via Zoom. If you have questions, comments, or would like to be a guest on the program, please email slavxradio@utexas.edu and we will be in touch! https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/slavic/_files/images/banners/ukraine-statement.png The Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies condemns the Russian Federation’s military invasion of Ukraine. We stand in support of the people of Ukraine who are fighting for their lives and sovereignty in the face of the unjustified invasion by Russian military forces. CREDITS Associate Producer/Host: Lera Toropin (@earlportion) Associate Producer: Cullan Bendig (@cullanwithana) Assistant Producer: Zach Johnson Assistant Producer: Misha Simanovskyy (@MSimanovskyy) Assistant Producer: Sergio Glajar Assistant Producer: Taylor Ham Recording, Editing, and Sound Design: Michelle Daniel & Charlie Harper Music Producer: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic) www.charlieharpermusic.com (Special Episode Theme by Charlie Harper and additional background music by Charlie Harper, Ketsa, Polkavant) Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci) DISCLAIMER: Texas Podcast Network is brought to you by The University of Texas at Austin. Podcasts are produced by faculty members and staffers at UT Austin who work with University Communications to craft content that adheres to journalistic best practices. The University of Texas at Austin offers these podcasts at no charge. Podcasts appearing on the network and this webpage represent the views of the hosts, not of The University of Texas at Austin. https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/9/9a59b135-7876-4254-b600-3839b3aa3ab1/P1EKcswq.png Special Guest: David R. Marples.
В этом выпуске Лера и Миша берут интервью у известного российского оппозиционного политика, историка, и публициста Владимира Кара-Мурзы. Они обсуждают перспективы российской оппозиции на ближайшие годы, состояние гражданского общества в России, положение оппозиционной прессы в России, преследование про-демократических активистов и постепенную, но плавную смену риторики президента Путина в отношении демократии и сменяемости власти в Российской Федерации. Мы искренне надеемся что вам понравится! Желаем приятного прослушивания! ABOUT THE GUEST https://www.iri.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/iri_honors_heroes_of_democracy_at_2015_freedom_award_3_0.jpg (Image source: IRI. Kara-Murza accepting the Freedom Award on behalf of Boris Nemtsov from Senator John McCain, Nov 2015 https://www.iri.org/news/iri-honors-heroes-of-democracy-at-2015-freedom-award/) Vladimir Vladimirovich Kara-Murza (Russian: Влади́мир Влади́мирович Кара́-Мурза́, born 7 September 1981) is a Russian opposition politician and Boris Nemtsov’s protégé. He serves as vice-chairman of Open Russia, a NGO founded by Russian businessman and former oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky, which promotes civil society and democracy in Russia. He was elected to the Coordinating Council of the Russian Opposition in 2012, and served as deputy leader of the People's Freedom Party from 2015 to 2016. He is the author of two documentaries, They Chose Freedom and Nemtsov. As of 2021 he acts as Senior Fellow to the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights. He was awarded the Civil Courage Prize in 2018. For the English version of his interview please see here: https://www.slavxradio.com/kara-murza PRODUCER'S NOTE: This episode was recorded on February 9th, 2021 at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin. If you have questions, comments, or would like to be a guest on the show, please email slavxradio@utexas.edu and we will be in touch! CREDITS Associate Producer/Host: Lera Toropin (@earlportion) Assistant Producer/Host: Misha Simanovskyy (@MSimanovskyy) Associate Producer: Cullan Bendig (@cullanwithana) Assistant Producer: Zach Johnson Assistant Producer: Sergio Glajar Assistant Producer: Taylor Ham Executive Assistant: Katherine Birch Recording, Editing, and Sound Design: Michelle Daniel Music Producer: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic) www.charlieharpermusic.com (Main Theme by Charlie Harper and additional background music by Uncan, Ketsa, Holizna) Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel DISCLAIMER: Texas Podcast Network is brought to you by The University of Texas at Austin. Podcasts are produced by faculty members and staffers at UT Austin who work with University Communications to craft content that adheres to journalistic best practices. The University of Texas at Austin offers these podcasts at no charge. Podcasts appearing on the network and this webpage represent the views of the hosts, not of The University of Texas at Austin. https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/9/9a59b135-7876-4254-b600-3839b3aa3ab1/P1EKcswq.png Special Guest: Vladimir Kara-Murza.
On this special episode, we had the opportunity to speak with Russian opposition leader Vladimir Kara-Murza during his visit to The University of Texas at Austin. Mr. Kara-Murza provides insight into the Russian dissident movement today, perspective on Mr. Putin and US-Russian relations over the last two decades, and personal reflections on the life and legacy of Boris Nemtsov before and after his assassination on February 27, 2015. We hope you enjoy! ABOUT THE GUEST https://www.iri.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/iri_honors_heroes_of_democracy_at_2015_freedom_award_3_0.jpg (Image source: IRI. Kara-Murza accepting the Freedom Award on behalf of Boris Nemtsov from Senator John McCain, Nov 2015 https://www.iri.org/news/iri-honors-heroes-of-democracy-at-2015-freedom-award/) Vladimir Vladimirovich Kara-Murza (Russian: Влади́мир Влади́мирович Кара́-Мурза́, born 7 September 1981) is a Russian opposition politician and Boris Nemtsov’s protégé. He serves as vice-chairman of Open Russia, a NGO founded by Russian businessman and former oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky, which promotes civil society and democracy in Russia. He was elected to the Coordinating Council of the Russian Opposition in 2012, and served as deputy leader of the People's Freedom Party from 2015 to 2016. He is the author of two documentaries, They Chose Freedom and Nemtsov. As of 2021 he acts as Senior Fellow to the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights. He was awarded the Civil Courage Prize in 2018. https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/9/9a59b135-7876-4254-b600-3839b3aa3ab1/t-t9uGtc.jpg PRODUCER'S NOTE: This episode was recorded on February 9, 2022 at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin. Mr. Kara-Murza appears courtesy of the Intelligence Studies Project (ISP) at UT Austin with support from the Global (Dis)Information Lab (GDIL); the Center for European Studies; and the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies (CREEES). If you have questions, comments, or would like to be a guest on the show, please email slavxradio@utexas.edu and we will be in touch! CREDITS Assistant Producer/Host: Zach Johnson Assistant Producer/Host: Taylor Ham Associate Producer: Lera Toropin (@earlportion) Associate Producer: Cullan Bendig (@cullanwithana) Assistant Producer: Misha Simanovskyy (@MSimanovskyy) Assistant Producer: Sergio Glajar Executive Assistant: Katherine Birch Recording, Editing, and Sound Design: Michelle Daniel Music Producer: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic) www.charlieharpermusic.com (Main Theme by Charlie Harper and additional background music by Strobotone, Ketsa, Shaolin Dub, Jaco Pastorius, Polkavant) Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) www.msdaniel.com DISCLAIMER: Texas Podcast Network is brought to you by The University of Texas at Austin. Podcasts are produced by faculty members and staffers at UT Austin who work with University Communications to craft content that adheres to journalistic best practices. The University of Texas at Austin offers these podcasts at no charge. Podcasts appearing on the network and this webpage represent the views of the hosts, not of The University of Texas at Austin. https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/9/9a59b135-7876-4254-b600-3839b3aa3ab1/P1EKcswq.png Special Guest: Vladimir Kara-Murza.
On this episode, Lera and our new host Misha speak with travel writer and journalist Mark Baker based in Prague. They discuss how he went from writing for the likes of Bloomberg and working for Radio Free Europe to researching and creating travel books for Lonely Planet and others. Mark Baker expounds on his latest book, not a travel guide but a memoir, which covers his amazing stories and experiences in Prague in the decade following the Cold War. We hope you enjoy! ABOUT THE GUEST https://markbakerprague.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/about1-1500x1100c.jpg Mark Baker is a travel writer and journalist. He first visited Prague as a student in 1984 and began living there, after a stint in Vienna, in the early 1990s. Since then he has written or co-written a number of guidebooks to the Czech Republic and other countries in the region. Baker was also one of the founders of the Globe coffeehouse and bookstore, a center of Prague’s English-speaking community in the 1990s, when capitalism returned to Czechoslovakia. Check out his website to read his blog and see his many publications! https://markbakerprague.com/ (Photo credit: Mark Baker)
NEW EPISODE with journalist and travel writer Mark Baker who talks about his personal journey and epic adventures in Prague during a time of transformation at the end of the Cold War and after. Take a listen!https://t.co/Bot1WGkKeo@earlportion @MSimanovskyy @markbakerprague pic.twitter.com/qTzoFWl1U7
— The Slavic Connexion (@SlavXRadio) February 4, 2022
PRODUCER'S NOTE: This episode was recorded on October 29th, 2021 via Zoom. If you have questions, comments, or would like to be a guest on the show, please email slavxradio@utexas.edu and we will be in touch! CREDITS Associate Producer/Host: Lera Toropin (@earlportion) Assistant Producer/Host: Misha Simanovskyy (@MSimanovskyy) Associate Producer: Cullan Bendig (@cullanwithana) Assistant Producer: Sergio Glajar Assistant Producer: Zach Johnson Executive Assistant: Katherine Birch Recording, Editing, and Sound Design: Michelle Daniel Music Producer: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic) www.charlieharpermusic.com (Main theme by Charlie Harper and additional background music by Ketsa, Dlay, Anthem of Rain, Makaih Beats, Antony Raijekov, Shaolin Dub) Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci www.msdaniel.com) DISCLAIMER: Texas Podcast Network is brought to you by The University of Texas at Austin. Podcasts are produced by faculty members and staffers at UT Austin who work with University Communications to craft content that adheres to journalistic best practices. The University of Texas at Austin offers these podcasts at no charge. Podcasts appearing on the network and this webpage represent the views of the hosts, not of The University of Texas at Austin. https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/9/9a59b135-7876-4254-b600-3839b3aa3ab1/P1EKcswq.png Special Guest: Mark Baker.
Sergey Radchenko, a prolific historian with a multifaceted background and perspective, regales us on many topics from Cold War history to the current sitaution with Russia and Ukraine and Moscow's continued pursuit of legitimacy on the global stage. On a personal note, he shares about his time as an exchange student in Hong Kong and expounds on what it was like living in Mongolia while finishing his PhD with the London School of Economics. Dr. Radchenko questions Russia's continual status as the "Bear in the woods," saying it doesn't have to be this way while providing perspective on NATO's relationship with the USSR. He tackles the topic of sanctions and explains why they are helpful, or at least preferable to war, and if they do, in fact, work. He persuasively argues that Russia is a huge issue that must be taken seriously by the West though not quite through military means. A better US foreign policy towards Russia would include (1) engagement, (2) focus on strategic dialogue, (3) efforts to revive people-to-people contact, and (4) efforts to reopen consular sections, all of which he holds is important for the future of relations between the West and Russia and "for the future of the world." Take a listen! ABOUT THE GUEST https://sais.jhu.edu/sites/default/files/radchenko-600x400_0.png Sergey Radchenko is the Wilson E. Schmidt Distinguished Professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. He has written extensively on the Cold War, nuclear history, and on Russian and Chinese foreign and security policies. He has served as a Global Fellow and a Public Policy Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Centre and as the Zi Jiang Distinguished Professor at East China Normal University (Shanghai). Professor Radchenko’s books include Two Suns in the Heavens: the Sino-Soviet Struggle for Supremacy (Wilson Center Press & Stanford UP, 2009) and Unwanted Visionaries: the Soviet Failure in Asia (Oxford UP, 2014). Professor Radchenko is a native of Sakhalin Island, Russia, was educated in the US, Hong Kong, and the UK, where he received his PhD in 2005 (LSE). Before he joined SAIS, Professor Radchenko worked and lived in Mongolia, China, and Wales.
NEW EPISODE ALERT! We had the pleasure of talking with historian @DrRadchenko who lends us his expertise on Soviet/Russia-China relations, the current Ukraine crisis, and the ongoing conflict between NATO and Russia. Take a listen! @SAISHopkins https://t.co/hvBNJW9dXl pic.twitter.com/JYqGaKd6LJ
— The Slavic Connexion (@SlavXRadio) January 27, 2022
PRODUCER'S NOTE: This episode was recorded on January 10th, 2022 via Zoom. CREDITS Associate Producer/Host: Lera Toropin (@earlportion) Associate Producer/Host: Cullan Bendig (@cullanwithana) Assistant Producer: Sergio Glajar Assistant Producer: Misha Simanovskyy Assistant Producer: Zach Johnson Executive Assistant: Katherine Birch Recording, Editing, and Sound Design: Michelle Daniel Music Producer: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic) www.charlieharpermusic.com (Main Theme by Charlie Harper and additional background music by Charlie Harper, Ketsa, Dlay, ) Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci www.msdaniel.com) DISCLAIMER: Texas Podcast Network is brought to you by The University of Texas at Austin. Podcasts are produced by faculty members and staffers at UT Austin who work with University Communications to craft content that adheres to journalistic best practices. The University of Texas at Austin offers these podcasts at no charge. Podcasts appearing on the network and this webpage represent the views of the hosts, not of The University of Texas at Austin. https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/9/9a59b135-7876-4254-b600-3839b3aa3ab1/P1EKcswq.png Special Guest: Sergey Radchenko.
On this episode, UT CREEES's new cohort of MA graduate students, under the direction of Dr. Mary Neuburger, presents their findings of a Fall 2021 project in which they analyzed North Macedonia’s mired quest for EU accession, which was blocked for over 25 years by Greece and since 2019 has been held up by a Bulgarian ultimatum. Since both Greece and Bulgaria are EU members, they have veto power over Macedonian accession, which has put the country now called North Macedonia into an untenable position in its desire to become a fully integrated part of Europe. Thanks for listening! PRODUCER'S NOTE: This episode was recorded over several sessions in Fall 2021, both via Zoom and in studio at The University of Texas at Austin. CREDITS Supervising Producer: Dr. Mary C. Neuburger Co-host/Assistant Producer: Sergio Glajar Co-host: Taylor Ham Associate Producer: Lera Toropin (@earlportion) Associate Producer: Cullan Bendig (@cullanwithana) Assistant Producer: Zach Johnson Assistant Producer: Misha Simanovskyy Executive Assistant: Katherine Birch Recording, Editing, and Sound Design: Michelle Daniel, Dr. Mary C. Neuburger Music Producer: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 @charlieharpermusic) www.charlieharpermusic.com (Main Theme by Charlie Harper) Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) www.msdaniel.com DISCLAIMER: Texas Podcast Network is brought to you by The University of Texas at Austin. Podcasts are produced by faculty members and staffers at UT Austin who work with University Communications to craft content that adheres to journalistic best practices. The University of Texas at Austin offers these podcasts at no charge. Podcasts appearing on the network and this webpage represent the views of the hosts, not of The University of Texas at Austin. https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/9/9a59b135-7876-4254-b600-3839b3aa3ab1/P1EKcswq.png Special Guests: Aleksej Demjanski and Kiril Avramov.
Happy Holidays, y'all! On this episode, Lera gets to sit down and chat with Dr. Juliane Fürst who unpacks 10 years worth of research and personal explorations in the Soviet Hippie movement as published in her latest book from Oxford University Press. Her stories will thrill, so gather 'round and take a listen. We hope you enjoy! ABOUT THE GUEST https://newageru.hypotheses.org/files/2020/05/F%C3%BCrst-320x320.jpg Juliane Fürst is head of the department of Communism and Society at the Centre of Contemporary History at Potsdam and a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Bristol. She completed a monograph on the culture and history of the Soviet Hippie movement entitled Flowers through Concrete: Explorations in the Soviet Hippieland (OUP 2020). She is also the author of Stalin’s Last Generation: Soviet Post-War Youth and the Emergence of Late Socialism and the editor of Dropping Out of Socialism: Alternative Cultures and Lifestyles in the Soviet Bloc (2016). You can find Flowers Through Concrete here: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08XJGHT62/ref=dbsadefrwtbiblvppii0 SELECT QUOTES FROM THE EPISODE "I've always... been interested in capturing the feelings and the subjectivities and the emotional subjectivities of people as much as the political developments. It always felt to me that it was a really important part of the story." "In retrospect, I can see that all my topics--they look like choices, but actually these topics found me, and I just sort of wandered around until the topic found me and then I knew it." "I always told my mother, you're very lucky, I'm not punkish, I'm not hippyish... I don't pierce my nose, my ears, whatever. But... interviewing all these hippies, I could suddenly see that actually in my own quiet way, I was quite anarchic and possibly still am..." "The one thing they all had in common was a crazy love of The Beatles... It wasn't only a case of privilege, but quite often it was a case of privilege. In many places, these very early Hippie crowds came from children of the nomenklatura in the Party." "The Soviet Hippieland... is a civilization in its own right, rather than some imitation of a Western movement." "Long hair goes a long way in the Soviet union because it's somethign that was so forbidden... It's like wearing red and white in Belarus was nothing like 2 years ago and now it's a political statement that gets you into prison." "I very much feel that one can only understand a society if you really listen to the pluralities of voices... especially in the outer edges... If you never try to see how far can somebody be from the mainstream of society, then you never get a full picture of it... It really gave me enormous pleasure over the last 10 years... that I'm really preserving something..." "We have come to the point where we've realized that... it isn't anymore all about people doing things or policies, the in-between and the ephemeral and the emotional... are what matters." PRODUCER'S NOTE: This episode was recorded on November 19th, 2021 via Zoom. If you have questions, comments, or would like to be a guest on the show, please send a message to slavxradio@utexas.edu and we will be in touch! CREDITS Co-Producer/Host: Lera Toropin (@earlportion) Associate Producer: Cullan Bendig (@cullanwithana) Associate Producer: Zach Johnson Assistant Producer: Sergio Glajar Assistant Producer: Misha Simanovskyy Executive Assistant: Katherine Birch Recording, Editing, and Sound Design: Michelle Daniel Music Producer: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic) www.charlieharpermusic.com (Main Theme by Charlie Harper and additional background music by Charlie Harper, Ketsa, Shaolin Dub, JayKode Trap Remix - "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy", Aliev Beatz - "Home Alone" remix, The Fab 4 Beatles cover band, Joe Truswell - The Beatles remix, Dopant Beats "In the Hall of the Mountain King", Stas Namin and the Flowers, Pyotr Mamonov) Clip of "hippie girl" from episode of Smothers Brothers Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) www.msdaniel.com DISCLAIMER: Texas Podcast Network is brought to you by The University of Texas at Austin. Podcasts are produced by faculty members and staffers at UT Austin who work with University Communications to craft content that adheres to journalistic best practices. The University of Texas at Austin offers these podcasts at no charge. Podcasts appearing on the network and this webpage represent the views of the hosts, not of The University of Texas at Austin. https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/9/9a59b135-7876-4254-b600-3839b3aa3ab1/P1EKcswq.png Special Guest: Juliane Fürst.
On this, the 30th anniversary of the institution of martial law in Poland (which took place on December 13th, 1981), we talked with Eastern Europe historian Tomek Jankowski to commemorate this momentous point in modern history which roughly coincides with the release of the 2nd edition of his comprehensive and entertaining history of Eastern Europe. Sharing with us his personal experiences and stories from his time in Hungary as a student to his getting caught in the Romanian revolution of 1989, Tomek reflects on the unimaginable changes in Eastern Europe since the 1st edition of his book (2013) and unpacks the concept of Eastern Europe both in geographical terms and in contemporary culture. We hope you enjoy this amazing discussion! Check out the 2nd edition here from New Europe Books and Academic Studies Press: https://www.neweuropebooks.com/eastern-europe And find it in Kindle form on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Eastern-Europe-2nd-Everything-History-ebook/dp/B09329R24B/ref=tmmkinswatch0?encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= https://images-us.bookshop.org/ingram/9780997316926.jpg?height=500&v=v2 ABOUT THE GUEST Tomek Jankowski--who grew up in a Polish family in Buffalo, New York--worked, studied, and traveled in Poland, Hungary, and other regions of Eastern Europe from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s. He gained a functional literacy in Polish, Hungarian, Russian, and German, while also studying other Slavic languages. Jankowski holds a degree in history from the State University of New York at Buffalo. Since the late 1990s he has held positions in the business sector ranging from bond analysis to data research. Currently he is a senior analyst at a research firm that specializes in producing market analysis for the management consulting world--a capacity that has seen him author numerous reports focusing on Eastern Europe--as well as the financial services industry. He lives in Londonderry, New Hampshire. Be sure to visit his homepage: http://www.tomekjankowski.com/ PRODUCER'S NOTE: This episode was recorded on December 3, 2021 via Zoom. Tomek Jankowski appears courtesy of New Europe Books and Academic Studies Press. CREDITS Co-host/Associate Producer: Cullan Bendig (@cullanwithana) Co-host/Assistant Producer: Sergio Glajar Associate Producer: Lera Toropin (@earlportion) Assistant Producer: Zach Johnson Assistant Producer: Misha Simanovskyy Assistant Producer/Administrator: Kathryn Yegorov-Crate Executive Assistant: Katherine Birch Recording, Editing, and Sound Design: Michelle Daniel Music Producer: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 @charlieharpermusic) www.charlieharpermusic.com (Main Theme by Charlie Harper and additional background music by Charlie Harper and Michelle Daniel, Kai Engel, and Ketsa) Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) www.msdaniel.com DISCLAIMER: Texas Podcast Network is brought to you by The University of Texas at Austin. Podcasts are produced by faculty members and staffers at UT Austin who work with University Communications to craft content that adheres to journalistic best practices. The University of Texas at Austin offers these podcasts at no charge. Podcasts appearing on the network and this webpage represent the views of the hosts, not of The University of Texas at Austin. https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/9/9a59b135-7876-4254-b600-3839b3aa3ab1/P1EKcswq.png Special Guest: Tomek Jankowski.
Lera and Zach talk with Atlantic Council fellow and prolific American journalist Vladislav Davidzon. Davidzon has extensively covered the Belarussian protests from within Minsk, Ukrainian political and cultural developments since 2014, and Russian elections and Navalny's impact on Moscow politics and policies. His new book From Russia With Love is now available. You can find it here: https://www.amazon.com/Odessa-Love-Political-Literary-Post-Soviet/dp/1680539663. For a recent review by the Atlantic Council check out this link: https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/american-authors-timely-love-letter-to-odesa/. We hope you enjoy! ABOUT THE GUEST Vladislav Davidzon is a nonresident fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center, based in France. Since 2018, he has served as a co-producer for a television series on the effects of the dissolution of the Soviet Union and, since 2012, also serves as the European culture correspondent for Tablet Magazine in Paris, France. While working at the magazine, he has been an investigative journalist and researcher with assignments in Russia, Ukraine, England, and Poland. In 2015, Davidzon founded the Odessa Review and served as its chief editor until July 2018. While he was with Odessa Review, Davidzon helped publish 13 quarterly issues over the course of his tenure at the magazine. His work has been featured in numerous publications, including the Wall Street Journal, World Policy Journal, the New York Observer, and the American Interest. Davidzon holds a master’s degree in human rights and democratization from the European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights in Italy and earned his bachelor’s degree at the City University of New York.
NEW EPISODE!! @VladDavidzon sheds light on all pressing current events in Eastern Europe, from Belarus to Russia to Ukraine. And we touch on his new book From Odessa With Love, which (fun fact) makes a splendid stocking stuffer! Thanks for listening! https://t.co/myg64Skdsn pic.twitter.com/i3Ny4tmqvt
— The Slavic Connexion (@SlavXRadio) December 9, 2021
PRODUCER'S NOTE: This episode was recorded on November 12th, 2021 via Zoom. If you have questions, comments, or would like to be a guest on the show, please send a message to slavxradio@utexas.edu and we will be in touch! CREDITS Co-Producer/Host: Lera Toropin (@earlportion) Associate Producer/Host: Zach Johnson Assistant Producer: Sergio Glajar Assistant Producer: Misha Simanovskyy Executive Assistant: Katherine Birch Recording, Editing, and Sound Design: Michelle Daniel Music Producer: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic) www.charlieharpermusic.com (Main Theme by Charlie Harper and additional background music by Charlie Harper, Ketsa, and featuring music from Serhiy Zhadan & the Dogs); Clip of Tsikhanouskaya's speech to the European Council given October 2020, taken from YouTube. Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) www.msdaniel.com DISCLAIMER: Texas Podcast Network is brought to you by The University of Texas at Austin. Podcasts are produced by faculty members and staffers at UT Austin who work with University Communications to craft content that adheres to journalistic best practices. The University of Texas at Austin offers these podcasts at no charge. Podcasts appearing on the network and this webpage represent the views of the hosts, not of The University of Texas at Austin. https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/9/9a59b135-7876-4254-b600-3839b3aa3ab1/P1EKcswq.png Special Guest: Vladislav Davidzon.
Mark Temnycky, a Ukrainian-American journalist, breaks down the Nord Stream 2 issue, its timeline, and its relation to the energy situation in Europe. He expounds on the Biden administration's reversal on its position concerning the pipeline, and explains the security concerns that a working Nord Stream 2 that bypasses Belarus and Ukraine creates for America, NATO, and Europe in general. Thanks for listening! ABOUT THE GUEST https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1298811942015045632/s4KAE6n__400x400.jpg Mark Temnycky is an accredited freelance journalist covering Eastern Europe, and has been published widely. Mark also guest lectures on Eastern European affairs to various U.S. universities. He was a recipient of the Ukrainian World Congress' inaugural "Ukrainian Diaspora 30 Under 30" award. His full portfolio can be found on his website https://wakelet.com/@MTemnycky or Twitter page https://twitter.com/MTemnycky. Mark has a Master's Degree in Public Administration and a Master of Arts Degree in International Relations from the Maxwell School at Syracuse University. He earned a Bachelor of Arts in History, with Departmental Honors, from Le Moyne College. Mark works and resides in Washington, DC. PRODUCER'S NOTE: This episode was recorded on October 8th, 2021 via Zoom. To reach us via email, send a message to slavxradio@utexas.edu if you have questions, suggestions, or would like to be a guest on the show! CREDITS Co-Producer/Host: Lera Toropin (@earlportion) Assistant Producer/Host: Katherine Birch Associate Producer: Zach Johnson Assistant Producer: Sergio Glajar Assistant Producer: Misha Simanovskyy Associate Producer/Administrator: Kathryn Yegorov-Crate Executive Assistant: Katherine Birch Recording, Editing, and Sound Design: Michelle Daniel Music Producer: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic) www.charlieharpermusic.com (Main Theme by Charlie Harper and additional background music by Charlie Harper, Ketsa, Scott Holmes, Kevin MacLeod, Anthem of Rain) Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) www.msdaniel.com DISCLAIMER: Texas Podcast Network is brought to you by The University of Texas at Austin. Podcasts are produced by faculty members and staffers at UT Austin who work with University Communications to craft content that adheres to journalistic best practices. The University of Texas at Austin offers these podcasts at no charge. Podcasts appearing on the network and this webpage represent the views of the hosts, not of The University of Texas at Austin. https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/9/9a59b135-7876-4254-b600-3839b3aa3ab1/P1EKcswq.png Special Guest: Mark Temnycky.
Dr. Johanna Mellis, a former D1 swimmer and current history professor at Ursinus College, joins Lera for a lively conversation on the history of sports in Hungary during the Cold War. They also touch on the Olympics (past and present), sport diplomacy, and the development of competitive sports on an international plane. For a great visual timeline of Sport in the Cold War and further related resources and collections, visit the Wilson's Center digital archive: https://digitalarchive.wilsoncenter.org/theme/sport-in-the-cold-war ABOUT THE GUEST https://www.ursinus.edu/live/image/scale/3x/gid/7/width/250/height/250/38576_171-Ursinus2021_copy.rev.1635790475.jpg Dr. Mellis is assistant professor in the history department at Ursinus College. She was a D1 swimmer at the College of Charleston from 2004-2008 and co-captain of the team from 2006-2008. She was the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) conference champion in the 400 Individual Medley in 2006, and a bronze medalist that year in the 200 butterfly. She later coached at High Tide Aquatics and Gator Swim Club in Gainesville, FL while getting her MA and PhD at the University of Florida. Dr. Mellis’s research focuses on Cold War sport. Her manuscript, Changing the Global Game: Hungarian Athletes and International Sport During the Cold War, examines Hungarian sportspeople’s interactions with the International Olympic Committee from 1948-1989. Changing the Global Game shows how Hungarian athletes, Socialist Hungarian state sport officials, and the IOC gradually realized by the 1960s that sporting cooperation with one another - and not East-West political clashes nor resistance - was the way to achieve their respective aims of sport success, career and financial stability, and political and institutional strength. Dr. Mellis is also a cohost of the End of Sport podcast with Drs. Nathan Kalman-Lamb and Derek Silva. They interview athletes, critical sports journalists, and fellow academics to explore all the ways that people use sport to harm others - i.e. through racist mascotry, the NCAA and higher ed’s exploitation of Black and Brown college athletic workers, sexual abuse and harassment, transphobia, and more. Through the End of Sport (endofsport.com), she has co-authored pieces for public outlets such as The Chronicle of Higher Ed, The Guardian, Time, The Baffler, and more. She also has sole-authored pieces with The Washington Post and Arizona State University’s Global Sport Matters. Follow her on Twitter @JohannaMellis and check out some of her articles referenced in this episode: The ISL article: https://ussporthistory.com/2020/10/16/the-international-swimming-league-is-trying-to-forge-a-new-path-for-professional-swimmers-but-it-is-working-with-an-authoritarian-country/ WaPo article on Biles: https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/08/02/by-taking-care-herself-simone-biles-may-transform-sports/ The Guardian article on racial dynamics in sport: https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2021/mar/17/college-sports-racial-dynamics Please send an email to slavxradio@utexas.edu with any questions, comments, or guest suggestions. Thank you and we look forward to connecting! PRODUCER'S NOTE: This episode was recorded on August 24th, 2021 via Zoom. CREDITS Host/Co-Producer: Lera Toropin (@earlportion) Co-Producer: Cullan Bendig (@cullanwithana) Assistant Producer: Zach Johnson Assistant Producer: Sergio Glajar Assistant Producer: Misha Simanovskyy Assistant Producer/Administrator: Kathryn Yegorov-Crate Executive Assistant: Katherine Birch Recording, Editing, and Sound Design: Michelle Daniel Music Producer: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 @charlieharpermusic) www.charlieharpermusic.com (Main Theme by Charlie Harper and additional background music by Charlie Harper and Michelle Daniel, Kai Engel, and Ketsa) Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) www.msdaniel.com DISCLAIMER: Texas Podcast Network is brought to you by The University of Texas at Austin. Podcasts are produced by faculty members and staffers at UT Austin who work with University Communications to craft content that adheres to journalistic best practices. The University of Texas at Austin offers these podcasts at no charge. Podcasts appearing on the network and this webpage represent the views of the hosts, not of The University of Texas at Austin. https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/9/9a59b135-7876-4254-b600-3839b3aa3ab1/P1EKcswq.png Special Guest: Johanna Mellis.
Author Jordan Steven Sher, a social worker and former teacher based in California, joins Lera and Cullan to talk about his new historical fiction novel which authentically and carefully explores the grossly overlooked Bosnian Genocide of Muslims and Catholic Croats during the Bosnian War of 1992-95, as carried out by Slobodan Milošević. You can find out more about Jordan's book (entitled And Still We Rise: A Novel About the Genocide in Bosnia) through his website www.jordanstevensher.com. ABOUT THE BOOK https://atmospherepress.com/books/and-still-we-rise-a-novel-about-the-genocide-in-bosnia-by-jordan-steven-sher/ Based on real-life events, in spring, 1992 in Prijedor, Bosnia, the Kovacevic’s, a Muslim family, is confronted with the harsh reality that they are the targets of a brutal campaign to rid the country of non-Serbs. Neighbors turn on neighbors as the nationalist Serb propaganda leads to the so-called “ethnic cleansing” of communities that destroys families and their homes. Elvir, and his fifteen-year-old son Amir, are sent to the Omarska concentration camp where torture and death haunt them daily. With a world that turns a blind eye, both suffer physically, psychologically, and spiritually. Yet they must rely upon each other if they are to survive. Hajra, Elvir’s wife, along with their two younger children, Halima and Danis, are imprisoned in another camp called Trnopolje. They, too, must survive the atrocities that visit them including rape and witnessing beatings and murder. Hajra and the children encounter Elvir’s brother, Tarik, who has been transferred to Trnopolje from another camp, only to see him disappear a short time later. As they all have learned too well in the camps, many disappear never to return. The Kovacevic’s eventually leave the camps and reconnect with Tarik’s wife, Merjem, who is unable to accept the possibility of the loss of her husband. The families’ trajectories lead them to journey together as they face unforeseen obstacles that must be overcome if they are to find true freedom from the trauma that continues to inform their decisions. As refugees, they move to Germany and then to America seeking to rediscover meaning in their lives after surviving genocide, grieving their losses, and to place roots in their new home. https://static.wixstatic.com/media/b894ac_4b2e0b63d7174639925be6f0df5b868d~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_746,h_1138,al_c,q_85,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01/Copy%20of%20Sher%20-%20Cover%20Project%20front%20jpg.webp For more information on Balkan Mama Therapy, as mentioned by Jordan Steven Sher in this episode, please visit: https://www.selmabacevac.com/. PRODUCER'S NOTE: This episode was recorded on July 29th, 2021 via Zoom. CREDITS Co-Producer: Lera Toropin (@earlportion) Co-Producer: Cullan Bendig (@cullanwithana) Assistant Producer: Zach Johnson Assistant Producer: Sergio Glajar Assistant Producer: Misha Simanovskyy Assistant Producer/Administrator: Kathryn Yegorov-Crate Executive Assistant: Katherine Birch Recording, Editing, and Sound Design: Michelle Daniel Music Producer: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 @charlieharpermusic) www.charlieharpermusic.com (Main Theme by Charlie Harper and additional background music by Charlie Harper and Michelle Daniel, Kai Engel, and Ketsa) Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci @michelledaniel86) www.msdaniel.com DISCLAIMER: Texas Podcast Network is brought to you by The University of Texas at Austin. Podcasts are produced by faculty members and staffers at UT Austin who work with University Communications to craft content that adheres to journalistic best practices. The University of Texas at Austin offers these podcasts at no charge. Podcasts appearing on the network and this webpage represent the views of the hosts, not of The University of Texas at Austin. https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/9/9a59b135-7876-4254-b600-3839b3aa3ab1/P1EKcswq.png Special Guest: Jordan Steven Sher.
In this episode, Patrice Dabrowski takes us on a historical journey through the highly understudied Carpathian Mountains of Poland, Slovakia, and Ukraine. Her brand new book details the many forces at play in the mountainous region over the years from 1860 to 1980 and shows how this area gradually went from terra incongita to tourist attraction. We hope you enjoy! ABOUT THE BOOK https://cornellpress-us.imgix.net/covers/9781501759673.jpg?auto=format&w=298&q=20&dpr=2 In The Carpathians, Patrice M. Dabrowski narrates how three highland ranges of the mountain system found in present-day Poland, Slovakia, and Ukraine were discovered for a broader regional public. This is a story of how the Tatras, Eastern Carpathians, and Bieszczady Mountains went from being terra incognita to becoming the popular tourist destinations they are today. It is a story of the encounter of Polish and Ukrainian lowlanders with the wild, sublime highlands and with the indigenous highlanders--Górale, Hutsuls, Boikos, and Lemkos--and how these peoples were incorporated into a national narrative as the territories were transformed into a native/national landscape. The set of microhistories in this book occur from about 1860 to 1980, a time in which nations and states concerned themselves with the "frontier at the edge." Discoverers not only became enthralled with what were perceived as their own highlands but also availed themselves of the mountains as places to work out answers to the burning questions of the day. Each discovery led to a surge in mountain tourism and interest in the mountains and their indigenous highlanders. Although these mountains, essentially a continuation of the Alps, are Central and Eastern Europe's most prominent physical feature, politically they are peripheral. The Carpathians is the first book to deal with the northern slopes in such a way, showing how these discoveries had a direct impact on the various nation-building, state-building, and modernization projects. Dabrowski's history incorporates a unique blend of environmental history, borderlands studies, and the history of tourism and leisure. (Publisher) ABOUT THE GUEST https://www.umass.edu/archivenewsoffice/sites/default/files/styles/article_small/public/Patrice%20Dabrowski%20copy.jpg Patrice M. Dabrowski has taught and worked at Harvard, Brown, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and the University of Vienna. She is currently an associate of the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, a member of the Board of Directors of the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America (PIASA), and editor of H-Poland. Dabrowski is the author of three books: Poland: The First Thousand Years (2014), Commemorations and the Shaping of Modern Poland (2004), and The Carpathians: Discovering the Highlands of Poland and Ukraine (2021). In 2014 she was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland. PRODUCER'S NOTE: This episode was recorded on August 27th, 2021 via Zoom. To reach us via email, send a message to slavxradio@utexas.edu if you have questions, suggestions, or would like to be a guest on the show! CREDITS Co-Producer/Host: Lera Toropin (@earlportion) Co-Producer/Host: Cullan Bendig (@cullanwithana) Associate Producer: Zach Johnson Assistant Producer: Sergio Glajar Assistant Producer: Misha Simanovskyy Associate Producer/Administrator: Kathryn Yegorov-Crate Executive Assistant: Katherine Birch Recording, Editing, and Sound Design: Michelle Daniel Music Producer: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic) www.charlieharpermusic.com (Main Theme by Charlie Harper and additional background music by Charlie Harper, Ketsa, Scott Holmes, Kevin MacLeod, Quantum Jazz, Kai Engel, Anthem of Rain ) Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) www.msdaniel.com DISCLAIMER: Texas Podcast Network is brought to you by The University of Texas at Austin. Podcasts are produced by faculty members and staffers at UT Austin who work with University Communications to craft content that adheres to journalistic best practices. The University of Texas at Austin offers these podcasts at no charge. Podcasts appearing on the network and this webpage represent the views of the hosts, not of The University of Texas at Austin. https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/9/9a59b135-7876-4254-b600-3839b3aa3ab1/P1EKcswq.png Special Guest: Patrice M. Dabrowski.
On this episode, Marko Dumančić joins Lera and Cullan to talk about his recently published monograph entitled Men Out of Focus: The Soviet Masculinity Crisis in the Long Sixties wherein he unpacks the changing conceptions of men in post-Stalinist society by taking a deeper look at Soviet films made at the time. This is a fun conversation, riddled with film talk. We hope you enjoy! ABOUT THE GUEST https://cseees.unc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/282/2018/10/fullsizeoutput_d03.jpeg Marko Dumančić is an associate professor at Western Kentucky University’s History Department. He works on a range of topics involving gender and sexual identity in the Soviet Union during the Cold War and in former Yugoslavia during the 1980s and 1990s. His first monograph, Men out of Focus: The Soviet Masculinity Crisis in the Long Sixties, examines the causes undergirding changing conceptions of masculinity in post-Stalinist society. His current research looks at the concept of genocidal masculinities in Bosnia during the 1990s and seeks to determine the motivations of soldiers who committed wartime human rights abuses. His work has appeared in Journal of Cold War Studies, Cold War History, Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema, and The Cambridge History of Communism. You can find Men Out of Focus here (https://www.amazon.com/Dumancic-Men-Focus-Marko-Duman%C4%8Di%C4%87/dp/1487505256/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=men+out+of+focus&qid=1633818233&sr=8-1). https://mail.google.com/mail/u/1?ui=2&ik=7aed11d76b&attid=0.0.1&permmsgid=msg-f:1710259909750369228&th=17bc10539a432bcc&view=fimg&sz=s0-l75-ft&attbid=ANGjdJ9DZ0Rg0n1tFqBOc6RIaSotw-x0zPMJD_cYgVv1_EdhP6GIyvTH_6EN9GPHwC3VfNFXRhLZEpMumZTG-sVmQRg2-DWM7Fj_4fgOb-f4-8epLnCQMaV0ULD7zBw&disp=emb PRODUCER'S NOTE: This episode was recorded on June 15th, 2021 via Zoom. To reach us via email, send a message to slavxradio@utexas.edu if you have questions, suggestions, or would like to be a guest on the show! CREDITS Co-Producer: Lera Toropin (@earlportion) Co-Producer: Cullan Bendig (@cullanwithana) Associate Producer: Zach Johnson Assistant Producer: Sergio Glajar Assistant Producer: Misha Simanovskyy Associate Producer/Administrator: Kathryn Yegorov-Crate Executive Assistant: Katherine Birch Recording, Editing, and Sound Design: Michelle Daniel Music Producer: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic) www.charlieharpermusic.com (Main Theme by Charlie Harper and additional background music by Charlie Harper, Ketsa, Scott Holmes) Additional sound effects and clips from movies referenced in the episode come from YouTube. Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) www.msdaniel.com DISCLAIMER: Texas Podcast Network is brought to you by The University of Texas at Austin. Podcasts are produced by faculty members and staffers at UT Austin who work with University Communications to craft content that adheres to journalistic best practices. The University of Texas at Austin offers these podcasts at no charge. Podcasts appearing on the network and this webpage represent the views of the hosts, not of The University of Texas at Austin. https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/9/9a59b135-7876-4254-b600-3839b3aa3ab1/P1EKcswq.png Special Guest: Marko Dumančić.
In this episode, Dr. Nunan explores the nuances of the Soviet Union’s relationship with Islam throughout its lifetime, both inside and outside of its borders, before diving into the varied strategies of Soviet nation building efforts within Afghanistan as well as this ever important Central Asian country’s experience in the Cold War overall. With Afghanistan spanning news headlines, this episode is an outstanding introduction to the experiences that shaped Afghanistan's modern history. We hope you enjoy!! ABOUT THE GUEST https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1279500951137726464/6gDOJUV4_400x400.jpg Timothy Nunan is a scholar of international and global history. Combining international history methods with the toolkit of area studies, his work looks at how actors from the former Soviet Union, Iran, and Afghanistan have sought to challenge the Western-dominated world order. Since October 2016, he works as an Assistant Professor (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter) at the Center for Global History at the Free University of Berlin. His position and current research is funded by a Freigeist Fellowship from the Volkswagen Foundation. In 2020, he was awarded with the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize, the major prize for early-career researchers of the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft). Timothy received his intellectual training to this point at Princeton (A.B., 2008), the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen and the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, where he was a Fulbright Scholar from 2008-2009, and Corpus Christi College of the University of Oxford (M.Phil., 2011), where he was a Rhodes Scholar. After receiving a D.Phil. in History at Oxford, he began as a Harvard Academy Scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. Visit him at www.timothynunan.com and follow him on Twitter: @timothynunan. PRODUCER'S NOTE: This episode was recorded on September 1st, 2021 via Zoom. CREDITS Co-Producer: Lera Toropin (@earlportion) Host/Associate Producer: Cullan Bendig (@cullanwithana) Host/Assistant Producer: Sergio Glajar Assistant Producer: Zach Johnson Executive Assistant: Katherine Birch Recording, Editing, and Sound Design: Michelle Daniel Music Producer: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic) www.charlieharpermusic.com (Main Theme by Charlie Harper and additional background music by Charlie Harper, Strgatsky Brothers, Ketsa, Polish Ambassador) Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) www.msdaniel.com DISCLAIMER: Texas Podcast Network is brought to you by The University of Texas at Austin. Podcasts are produced by faculty members and staffers at UT Austin who work with University Communications to craft content that adheres to journalistic best practices. The University of Texas at Austin offers these podcasts at no charge. Podcasts appearing on the network and this webpage represent the views of the hosts, not of The University of Texas at Austin. https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/9/9a59b135-7876-4254-b600-3839b3aa3ab1/P1EKcswq.png Special Guest: Timothy Nunan.
Dr. Siobhán Hearne joins Katya to talk about her new book, Policing Prostitution: Regulating the Lower Classes in Late Imperial Russia, a social history of prostitution in last decades of the Russian Empire. Dr. Hearne uses archival research conducted in Moscow, St Petersburg, Arkhangelsk, Riga, Vilnius, Minsk, Kyiv and Tartu to examine how prostitution and its regulation functioned in different parts of the empire. We hope you enjoy! ABOUT THE GUEST https://research.ncl.ac.uk/eerrg/people/Siobhan%20Hearne.jpg Dr. Siobhán Hearne is a historian of gender and sexuality in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union. She currently holds a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures at Durham University. She earned her PhD from the University of Nottingham in 2017, and has completed postdoctoral research in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania since. Dr. Hearne uses sexuality as a lens to examine the relationship between ordinary people and the the Russian Imperial/Soviet state. Her new book Policing Prostitution: Regulating the Lower Classes in Late Imperial Russia (Oxford University Press, 2021) is a social history of prostitution in the final decades of the Russian Empire and draws extensively on materials produced by lower-class people. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/policing-prostitution-9780198837916?cc=us⟨=en& Her current project looks at Imperial Russia’s military and explores the impact of human and medical sciences on military masculinities. She is also one of the editors of Peripheral Histories, a collaborative digital history project exploring ‘peripheral’ spaces in the Russian Empire, Soviet Union, and post-Soviet world https://www.peripheralhistories.co.uk. Dr. Hearne’s other works include: “Prosecuting procurement in the Russian Empire” (2020) https://dro.dur.ac.uk/28713/; “Liberation and Authoritarianism in the Early Soviet Campaign to ‘Struggle with Prostitution’ in The Fate of the Bolshevik Revolution Illiberal Liberation, 1917-41 (2020) https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/fate-of-the-bolshevik-revolution-9781350117907; “To denounce or defend? public participation in the policing of prostitution in late Imperial Russia” (2018) https://dro.dur.ac.uk/27307/; “Sex on the Front : prostitution and venereal disease in Russia’s First World War” (2017) https://dro.dur.ac.uk/27306/; “The 'black spot' on the Crimea : venereal diseases in the Black Sea fleet in the 1920s” (2017) https://dro.dur.ac.uk/27311/. Some English-language works on prostitution in the Russian Empire: Andrew A. Gentes on Sakhalin https://muse.jhu.edu/article/559826/pdf; Keely Stauter-Halsted on Poland https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9780801454196/the-devils-chain/#bookTabs=1; Yulia Uryadova on the Ferghana Valley https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/SHAD30010097; Dan Healey on same-sex male prostitution https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/slavic-review/article/abs/masculine-purity-and-gentlemens-mischief-sexual-exchange-and-prostitution-between-russian-men-18611941/30CD22517A4CEBE83F7D12C5EF9D910F; Philippa Hetherington on the ‘traffic in women’ https://www.proquest.com/docview/1558123277?pq-origsite=gscholar&fromopenview=true. Producer's Note: This episode was recorded on August 10th, 2021 via Zoom. CREDITS Producer: Kathryn Yegorov-Crate Associate Producer: Lera Toropin Associate Producer: Cullan Bendig Assistant Producer: Zach Johnson Executive Assistant: Katherine Birch Editing and Sound Design: Michelle Daniel, Charlie Harper Music Producer: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic) www.charlieharpermusic.com (Main Theme by Charlie Harper and additional background music by Charlie Harper, Michelle Daniel Trio, Blue Dot Sessions, ) Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) www.msdaniel.com DISCLAIMER: Texas Podcast Network is brought to you by The University of Texas at Austin. Podcasts are produced by faculty members and staffers at UT Austin who work with University Communications to craft content that adheres to journalistic best practices. The University of Texas at Austin offers these podcasts at no charge. Podcasts appearing on the network and this webpage represent the views of the hosts, not of The University of Texas at Austin. https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/9/9a59b135-7876-4254-b600-3839b3aa3ab1/P1EKcswq.png Special Guest: Siobhán Hearne.
Dr. Robert Hamilton of the U.S. Army War College returns to the show to speak with hosts Lera and Zach about the future of Afghanistan and the fate of the region's security architecture. Currently on leave to serve as advisor to the Georgian Ministry of Defense, Dr. Hamilton discusses the role of the Georgian military in the Afghanistan War and what the U.S. withdrawal (and Taliban rule) means for Georgia's future as well. He poses three questions concerning the regional security architecture: (1) What's the role of the SCO (the Shanghai Cooperation Organization), (2) What is the relationship between Russia and China going forward, and (3) How will Russia and China step in to fill the vacuum created by the withdrawal of US presence from Afghanistan? Thanks for listening and we hope you enjoy! ABOUT THE GUEST https://www.fpri.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/bio-book-photo-march-2019-819x1024.jpg Colonel (Retired) Robert E. Hamilton, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Eurasian Studies at the U.S. Army War College and a Black Sea Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. In a 30-year career in the U.S. Army, spent primarily as a Eurasian Foreign Area Officer, he served overseas in Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Germany, Belarus, Qatar, Afghanistan, the Republic of Georgia, Pakistan and Kuwait. He is the author of numerous articles and monographs on conflict and security issues, focusing principally on the former Soviet Union and the Balkans. He is a graduate of the German Armed Forces Staff College and the U.S. Army War College and holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the United States Military Academy, a Master’s Degree in Contemporary Russian Studies and a Ph.D. in Political Science, both from the University of Virginia. Dr. Hamilton is currently on leave from the U.S. Army War College and serving as advisor to the Georgian Ministry of Defense in Tbilisi, Georgia. https://www.slavxradio.com/guests/hamilton Follow him on Twitter: @bobham88. NOTE: This episode was recorded on August 24, 2021 via Zoom. CREDITS Producer: Lera Toropin (Twitter: @earlportion) Producer: Cullan Bendig Assistant Producer: Zach Johnson Assistant Producer: Kathryn Yegorov-Crate Executive Production Assistant: Katherine Birch Recording, Editing, and Sound Design: Michelle Daniel, Charlie Harper Music Producer: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic) Main Theme by Charlie Harper www.charlieharpermusic.com Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) www.msdaniel.com DISCLAIMER: Texas Podcast Network is brought to you by The University of Texas at Austin. Podcasts are produced by faculty members and staffers at UT Austin who work with University Communications to craft content that adheres to journalistic best practices. The University of Texas at Austin offers these podcasts at no charge. Podcasts appearing on the network and this webpage represent the views of the hosts, not of The University of Texas at Austin. https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/9/9a59b135-7876-4254-b600-3839b3aa3ab1/P1EKcswq.png Special Guest: Robert E. Hamilton.
Zoltán Ginelli from Budapest joins Zach and Cullan to talk about his field of critical geography and the framing of colonial history of Central Europe following both World War II and the Cold War. We hope you enjoy this conversation! ABOUT THE GUEST https://milestone-institute.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/ginelli-grey-sq-1140x1140.jpg Zoltán Ginelli is an independent researcher and a critical geographer, historian of science and global historian. His research is in the geographies of knowledge, world-systems analysis, and the histories of geography, colonialism and racism, with a focus on the historical relations between Eastern Europe and the Global South or the Third World. Zoltán presented his work at numerous international academic conferences and taught at various universities and colleges, including Milestone Institute and guest lectures at The University of Manchester and Rutgers University. Between 2015 and 2019, he worked as an assistant researcher in the 1989 After 1989 and Socialism Goes Global projects at The University of Exeter. In 2020, his project Postcolonial Hungary: Eastern European Semiperipheral Positioning in Global Colonialism in the EEGA program at The University of Leipzig explored Hungarian colonial history from a world-systemic perspective. Recently, he co-curated with art historian Eszter Szakács the exhibition Transperiphery Movement: Global Eastern Europe and Global South in May 2021 for the OFF-Biennale Budapest. Zoltán is currently working on two books. One for Cambridge University Press with James Mark and Péter Apor about the global histories of Hungarian relations to colonialism and anti-colonialism in the long 20th century, entitled "Che in Budapest: Hungary Between the Colonial and Anti-Colonial Worlds". The other is his individual book project based on his doctoral research about the global histories of the "quantitative revolution" in geography. Whenever he can, Zoltán enjoys doing research, but he also loves teaching, travelling, art, music and Mediterranean cuisine. On gloomy evenings he plays Texas blues on his prized American Fender Stratocaster guitar. Check him out on his website at zoltanginelli.com and on Twitter: @ZGinelli. And also check out the Decolonizing Eastern Europe group on Facebook and Twitter: @DecolonizingE as well as the Transperiphery Movement: Global Eastern Europe and Global South exhibition at transperiphery.com, Twitter: @transperiphery, Instagram: transperiphery. NOTE: This episode was recorded on June 21st, 2021 via Zoom. CREDITS Co-Producer: Lera Toropin Co-Producer/Host: Cullan Bendig Associate Producer/Host: Zach Johnson Assistant Producer: Kathryn Yegorov-Crate Admin Assistant: Katherine Birch Recording, Editing, and Sound Design: Michelle Daniel, Charlie Harper Music Producer: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic) www.charlieharpermusic.com (Main Theme by Charlie Harper and additional background music by Charlie Harper, Ketsa, Blue Dot Sessions) Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) www.msdaniel.com DISCLAIMER: Texas Podcast Network is brought to you by The University of Texas at Austin. Podcasts are produced by faculty members and staffers at UT Austin who work with University Communications to craft content that adheres to journalistic best practices. The University of Texas at Austin offers these podcasts at no charge. Podcasts appearing on the network and this webpage represent the views of the hosts, not of The University of Texas at Austin. https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/9/9a59b135-7876-4254-b600-3839b3aa3ab1/P1EKcswq.png Special Guest: Zoltán Ginelli.
On this episode, Professor Dina Fainberg joins Zach and Lera to talk about her latest book, the highly readable "Cold War Correspondents" in which she highlights stories of Soviet and American journalists and draws fascinating parallels to the US-Russia media landscape today. We hope you enjoy! ABOUT THE GUEST https://www.city.ac.uk/__data/assets/image/0007/599200/varieties/breakpoint-max.jpg Dr. Dina Fainberg is a Lecturer in Modern History and the Director of History BA Programme at City University of London. Her research explores the history of the Soviet Union and modern Russia, with a particular emphasis on the Cold War, late socialism, mass media, propaganda, and Russia's relationship with the West. Her teaching covers a wide range of topics in modern Russian, European, and U.S. History. Her latest book, Cold War Correspondents: Soviet and American Reporters on the ideological Frontlines, 1945-1991 is published with Johns Hopkins University Press. She holds a PhD in Modern Russian and Modern U.S. History from Rutgers. PRODUCER'S NOTE: This episode was recorded on June 15, 2021 via Zoom. CREDITS Host/Associate Producer: Lera Toropin (Connect: Twitter @earlportion) Associate Producer: Cullan Bendig Host/Associate Producer: Zach Johnson Assistant Producer: Katherine Birch Assistant Producer/Administrator: Kathryn Yegorov-Crate Recording, Editing, and Sound Design: Michelle Daniel, Charlie Harper Music Producer: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic) www.charlieharpermusic.com (Main Theme by Charlie Harper and additional background music by Charlie Harper, Ketsa, Polish Ambassador, Scott Holmes) Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) www.msdaniel.com DISCLAIMER: Texas Podcast Network is brought to you by The University of Texas at Austin. Podcasts are produced by faculty members and staffers at UT Austin who work with University Communications to craft content that adheres to journalistic best practices. The University of Texas at Austin offers these podcasts at no charge. Podcasts appearing on the network and this webpage represent the views of the hosts, not of The University of Texas at Austin. https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/9/9a59b135-7876-4254-b600-3839b3aa3ab1/P1EKcswq.png Special Guest: Dina Fainberg.
On this special (musical) episode, guest host Sophia Kontos helps us understand Eurovision and break down the politics and ploys behind the song entries themselves, focusing on three major countries: Greece, Turkey, and Ukraine. Eurovision is an annual televised European Song Contest started in 1956 to boost morale and European integration after WWII. When Greece won in 2005, Sophia, whose Dad is Greek, became enamored by Eurovision. She's since followed the competition as a spectator, but in this episode, she used Eurovision as an object of study instead of as entertainment. Specifically, she looked at Turkey’s winning entry from 2003, Sertab Erener’s “Every Way That I Can,” to consider how the performance represents Turkish national identity. This discussion builds from existing scholarship by Thomas Solomon and Matthew Gumpert. She compared Turkey's entry to the winning entries from 2004, Ukraine’s “Wild Dances,” and 2005, Greece’s “My Number One,” discussing how countries on the periphery of Europe use Eurovision as an arena to plead for acceptance by Western Europe. Producer's Note: This special episode was originally created by undergraduate student Sophia Kontos from Dr. Vlad Beronja's course entitled "Punks and Divas in Southeastern Europe: Popular Music and Cultural Identity in the Balkans" (course number REE 325). The course examines the social, political, and cultural transformations in the former Yugoslavia in the 20th and 21st centuries through the lens of popular music. For the final project, the students were asked to come up with a unique topic related to the course content and produce a podcast, a video, or a written essay based on their interests and research. The showcased projects stand out for their innovative angle on the topic and quality of research. CREDITS Guest Producer/Host: Sophia Kontos Co-Producer: Lera Toropin (Connect: Twitter @earlportion) Associate Producer: Cullan Bendig Assistant Producer: Samantha Farmer Assistant Producer: Katherine Birch Assistant Producer: Zach Johnson Assistant Producer/Administrator: Kathryn Yegorov-Crate Produced for The Slavic Connexion by Michelle Daniel Music Producer: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic) www.charlieharpermusic.com (Main Theme by Charlie Harper) Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) www.msdaniel.com DISCLAIMER: Texas Podcast Network is brought to you by The University of Texas at Austin. Podcasts are produced by faculty members and staffers at UT Austin who work with University Communications to craft content that adheres to journalistic best practices. The University of Texas at Austin offers these podcasts at no charge. Podcasts appearing on the network and this webpage represent the views of the hosts, not of The University of Texas at Austin. https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/9/9a59b135-7876-4254-b600-3839b3aa3ab1/P1EKcswq.png
On this episode, Professor David Moon from the UK joins Tom and Lera to talk about the fascinating personal journey which led to the release of his latest book, The American Steppes: Unexpected Russian Roots of Great Plains Agriculture. He clearly delineates how the kernels of his transnational research all began during his tenure at The University of Texas at Austin, demonstrating that in fact "What Starts Here Changes the World." We hope you enjoy! ABOUT THE GUEST https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ssees/sites/ssees/files/styles/small_image/public/david_moon_burabay_1.jpg?itok=Qi_w1174 David Moon is an Emeritus Professor at the University of York and also an Honorary Professor at the University College London at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies. He is a specialist on Russian, Eurasian, and transnational environmental history. His latest book, The American Steppes: The Unexpected Russian Roots of Great Plains Agriculture, 1870s-1930s (2020), explores transfers of people, plants (crops and weeds), sciences and techniques from the Eurasian steppes to the Great Plains of the USA. It follows up on his previous monograph, The Plough that Broke the Steppes: Agriculture and Environment on Russia’s Grasslands, 1700-1914 (2013), which analyzes how Russians and other settlers came to understand the steppe environment and their relationship with it. It was awarded the Alexander Nove Prize. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ssees/sites/ssees/files/styles/small_image/public/unnamed_2.jpg?itok=q9kKkNpi He is co-editor, with Nicholas Breyfogle and Alexandra Bekasova, of a volume of essays based on field trips to various locations in Russia: Place and Nature: Essays in Russian Environmental History (White Horse Press, 2021). https://www.whpress.co.uk/Books/Moon.html This collection builds on the concept of a similar volume he co-edited with Peter Coates and Paul Warde entitled Local Places, Global Processes: Histories of Environmental Change in Britain and Beyond (Windgather Press, 2016). He has published articles in journals in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. And his research has been supported by the Leverhulme Trust, the AHRC, the British Academy, and other funders. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ssees/professor-david-moon CREDITS Host/Co-Producer: Tom Rehnquist (Connect: Twitter @RehnquistTom) Host/Co-Producer: Lera Toropin Co-Producer: Matthew Orr (Connect: Twitter @More_Orr) Associate Producer: Cullan Bendig Assistant Producer: Samantha Farmer Assistant Producer: Katherine Birch Assistant Producer: Zach Johnson Assistant Producer/Administrator: Kathryn Yegorov-Crate Recording, Editing, and Sound Design: Michelle Daniel, Charlie Harper Music Producer: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic) www.charlieharpermusic.com (Main Theme by Charlie Harper and additional background music by Charlie Harper, Ketsa, Scott Holmes, and Antony Raijekov ) Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) www.msdaniel.com DISCLAIMER: Texas Podcast Network is brought to you by The University of Texas at Austin. Podcasts are produced by faculty members and staffers at UT Austin who work with University Communications to craft content that adheres to journalistic best practices. The University of Texas at Austin offers these podcasts at no charge. Podcasts appearing on the network and this webpage represent the views of the hosts, not of The University of Texas at Austin. https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/9/9a59b135-7876-4254-b600-3839b3aa3ab1/P1EKcswq.png Special Guest: David Moon.
Our wonderful guest is Dr. Sarah Phillips, director of the Russian and East European Institute at Indiana University Bloomington. Dr. Phillips walks us through her remarkable anthropological career in the Slavic world from her beginnings in the 90s with studying the effects of Chernobyl to her many social activism projects in Ukraine, taking us to her present fascination with the culture that developed in the USSR around Kurt Vonnegut's writings and translated works. We hope you enjoy, and as always thanks for listening! ABOUT THE GUEST https://rsw.indiana.edu/images/profiles/profiles-768x768/phillips.jpg Sarah Phillips is professor of Anthropology and director of the Russian and East European Institute at Indiana University Bloomington. She received her B.A. in Anthropology and Russian from Wake Forest University, and earned an M.A. and Ph.D. in Anthropology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She has been a faculty member at IU-Bloomington since 2003, where she teaches courses on the Anthropology of Russia and Eastern Europe, Postsocialist Gender Formations, and Medical Anthropology. Dr. Phillips' research focuses on gender, health, disability, HIV-AIDS, and addiction in Ukraine. She is currently collaborating with Dr. Jill Owczarzak (Johns Hopkins U) on a four-year research project funded by the National Institutes on Drug Abuse (NIDA). Dr. Phillips was elected board member-at-large for the Association for the Advancement of Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) for 2015-2016, and is Treasurer for the Association for Women in Slavic Studies (AWSS). CREDITS Host/Co-Producer: Tom Rehnquist (Connect: Twitter @RehnquistTom) Host/Associate Producer: Lera Toropin (Connect: Twitter @earlportion) Co-Producer: Matthew Orr (Connect: facebook.com/orrrmatthew) Associate Producer: Cullan Bendig Assistant Producer: Samantha Farmer Assistant Producer: Katherine Birch Assistant Producer: Zach Johnson Assistant Producer/Administrator: Kathryn Yegorov-Crate Recording, Editing, and Sound Design: Michelle Daniel, Charlie Harper Music Producer: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic) www.charlieharpermusic.com (Main Theme by Charlie Harper and additional background music by Charlie Harper, Ketsa, Revolution Void, and The Polish Ambassador ) Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) www.msdaniel.com DISCLAIMER: Texas Podcast Network is brought to you by The University of Texas at Austin. Podcasts are produced by faculty members and staffers at UT Austin who work with University Communications to craft content that adheres to journalistic best practices. The University of Texas at Austin offers these podcasts at no charge. Podcasts appearing on the network and this webpage represent the views of the hosts, not of The University of Texas at Austin. https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/9/9a59b135-7876-4254-b600-3839b3aa3ab1/P1EKcswq.png Special Guest: Sarah Phillips.
On this episode, Professor Nana Osei-Opare from Fordham University joins Lera and Cullan to talk about the history of Ghana's independence from Great Britain and the way in which this country in West Africa looked to the Soviet Union to build itself as an "industrialized, socialist" post-colonialist state. Many black thinkers across the world saw the USSR as a space of equality and freedom and as a way to envision how a multi-racial multinational society could come together. This is a fascinating discussion of not only African and Soviet history but of some very important social issues that continue to challenge the modern world. We hope you enjoy! ABOUT THE GUEST https://www.fordham.edu/images/Nana_Osei_Opare.jpg Dr. Nana Osei-Opare is Assistant Professor of African & Cold War History at Fordham University in New York, having received his PhD in History from UCLA in 2019. He is currently working on a manuscript tentatively titled "Socialist Decolony: Ghana’s Cold War, 1957-1966." Socialist Decolony gives the first-ever comprehensive treatment of Ghana-Soviet relations and how those connections shaped Ghana’s political-economy, Pan-African program, and its modalities of citizenship during the Kwame Nkrumah era. His work has been supported in part by the Office of the President of the University of California, Fulbright-Hays DDRA, UCLA International Institute, and Stanford University’s Hoover Institution Library and Archives. His research has appeared in the Journal of West African History, Journal of African History, The Washington Post, Ufahamu: A Journal of African Studies, and Foreign Policy Magazine, amongst other places. You can follow him on Twitter @NanaOseiOpare and on Instagram @oseiopare . PRODUCER'S NOTE: This episode was recorded on March 4th, 2021 via Zoom. Professor Nana Osei-Opare appears courtesy of the History Department at The University of Texas at Austin. CREDITS Host/Associate Producer: Lera Toropin (Connect: Twitter @earlportion) Host/Associate Producer: Cullan Bendig (Connect: Instagram @cullanwithana) Co-Producer: Matthew Orr (Connect: Twitter @More_Orr) Co-Producer: Tom Rehnquist (Connect: Twitter @RehnquistTom) Assistant Producer: Samantha Farmer Assistant Producer: Katherine Birch Assistant Producer: Zach Johnson Assistant Producer/Administrator: Kathryn Yegorov-Crate Recording, Editing, and Sound Design: Michelle Daniel, Charlie Harper Music Producer: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic) www.charlieharpermusic.com (Main Theme by Charlie Harper and additional background music by Charlie Harper, ) Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) www.msdaniel.com DISCLAIMER: Texas Podcast Network is brought to you by The University of Texas at Austin. Podcasts are produced by faculty members and staffers at UT Austin who work with University Communications to craft content that adheres to journalistic best practices. The University of Texas at Austin offers these podcasts at no charge. Podcasts appearing on the network and this webpage represent the views of the hosts, not of The University of Texas at Austin. https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/9/9a59b135-7876-4254-b600-3839b3aa3ab1/P1EKcswq.png Special Guest: Nana Osei-Opare.
In this episode, Matt speaks with Dr. Oksana Lutshyshyna, acclaimed fiction author and beloved professor at UT Austin, about her most recent book Ivan and Feba (Іван і Феба), as well as about her earlier work Love Life (Любовне життя), humor in her writing, her inspirations, and the state of American and Ukrainian politics and literature. A few weeks ago, Dr. Lutshyshyna won Ukraine's highest state prize for the arts, the Shevchenko National Prize for Literature, for her latest book Ivan and Feba. See more about the prize and her award here: http://shevchenko.org/news-events/news/winner-shevchenko-prize/ ABOUT THE GUEST/AUTHOR https://0.academia-photos.com/18633880/5173795/15108744/s200_oksana.lutsyshyna.jpg Dr. Oksana Lutsyshyna was born in Uzhhorod, Ukraine SSR in 1974. She is a writer and translator, and lecturer in Ukrainian studies at the University of Texas in Austin, where she teaches Ukrainian language and Eastern European literatures. She holds a PhD in comparative literature from the University of Georgia. Dr. Lutsyshyna translates alone or in collaboration with Olena Jennings, Kevin Vaughn, and Daniel Belgrad. Her translations of poems and essays by Vasyl Makhno, Marianna Kiyanovska, Bohdana Matiyash and other Ukrainian authors have appeared in Postroad Magazine, The Wolf, Ukrainian Literature: A Journal of Translation, St. Petersburg Review, and other venues. Her original work includes two novels, a collection of short stories, and three collections of poetry, all published in Ukraine. Her most recent novel received the Shevchenko Prize in literature in March 2021, which is traditionally awarded by the president of Ukraine. CREDITS Host/Co-Producer: Matthew Orr (Connect:Twitter@More_Orr facebook.com/orrrmatthew) Co-Producer: Tom Rehnquist (Connect: Twitter @RehnquistTom) Associate Producer: Lera Toropin Associate Producer: Cullan Bendig Assistant Producer: Samantha Farmer Assistant Producer: Katherine Birch Assistant Producer: Zach Johnson Assistant Producer/Administrator: Kathryn Yegorov-Crate Recording, Editing, and Sound Design: Michelle Daniel, Charlie Harper Music Producer: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic) www.charlieharpermusic.com (Main Theme by Charlie Harper and additional background music by Charlie Harper ) Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) www.msdaniel.com DISCLAIMER: Texas Podcast Network is brought to you by The University of Texas at Austin. Podcasts are produced by faculty members and staffers at UT Austin who work with University Communications to craft content that adheres to journalistic best practices. The University of Texas at Austin offers these podcasts at no charge. Podcasts appearing on the network and this webpage represent the views of the hosts, not of The University of Texas at Austin. https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/9/9a59b135-7876-4254-b600-3839b3aa3ab1/P1EKcswq.png Special Guest: Oksana Lutsyshyna.
In honor of Women's History Month, we have a special episode featuring American Studies professor Dr. Julia Mickenberg who joins us to talk about her spectacular book "American Girls in Red Russia" which explores the intimate lives of American women who traveled to the USSR chasing the "Soviet Dream." We hope you enjoy! ABOUT THE GUEST https://minio.la.utexas.edu/colaweb-prod/person_files/0/913/julia_mickenberg_profile_image.jpeg Julia L. Mickenberg grew up in Connecticut, about 90 miles from New York City. She holds an A.B. degree in American Civilization from Brown University and a Ph.D. in American Studies (with a minor in Feminist Studies) from the University of Minnesota. Prior to graduate school, she did work in public history, at the Smithsonian Institution, the Old York Historical Society (in York Maine), and with the National Park Service in Stehekin, Washington. Before starting as an assistant professor at UT in 2001 she taught history at Pitzer College in Claremont, California. In her spare time, she enjoys yoga, running, hiking, and reading fiction. Learn more about American Girls in Red Russia: Chasing the Soviet Dream here: https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/ams/faculty/jlm05150#recent-press-coverage CREDITS Host/Assistant Producer: Samantha Farmer Co-Producer: Matthew Orr (Connect: facebook.com/orrrmatthew) Co-Producer: Tom Rehnquist (Connect: Twitter @RehnquistTom) Associate Producer: Lera Toropin Associate Producer: Cullan Bendig Assistant Producer: Katherine Birch Assistant Producer: Zach Johnson Assistant Producer/Administrator: Kathryn Yegorov-Crate Recording, Editing, and Sound Design: Michelle Daniel, Charlie Harper Music Producer: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic) www.charlieharpermusic.com (Main Theme by Charlie Harper and additional background music by Charlie Harper, Ketsa, Michelle Daniel, and Blue Dot Sessions) Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86 Twitter: @MSDaniel) www.msdaniel.com DISCLAIMER: Texas Podcast Network is brought to you by The University of Texas at Austin. Podcasts are produced by faculty members and staffers at UT Austin who work with University Communications to craft content that adheres to journalistic best practices. The University of Texas at Austin offers these podcasts at no charge. Podcasts appearing on the network and this webpage represent the views of the hosts, not of The University of Texas at Austin. https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/9/9a59b135-7876-4254-b600-3839b3aa3ab1/P1EKcswq.png Special Guest: Julia Mickenberg.
On this special episode, we have renowned expert on far right youth movements, Dr. Cynthia Miller-Idriss who joins us courtesy of UT's ISPRII (the Initiative for the Study of Politico-Religious Ideation and Influence). ISPRII guest host Eliza talks with Dr. Miller-Idriss about her research and latest book, Hate in the Homeland: The New Global Far Right. This is a fascinating episode on a very critical topic for the international community, and we hope you enjoy! To learn more about ISPRII, visit: https://isprii.la.utexas.edu/. ABOUT THE GUEST https://www.american.edu/uploads/profiles/large/Miller-Idrissresized.jpg Cynthia Miller-Idriss is Professor in the School of Public Affairs and in the School of Education, and runs the Polarization and Extremism Research & Innovation Lab (PERIL) in the Center for University Excellence (CUE). Before her move into the School of Public Affairs in fall 2020, she was Professor of Education and Sociology at American University. In addition to her faculty role, Dr. Miller-Idriss is also Director of Strategy and Partnerships at the U.K.-based Centre for Analysis of the Radical Right and serves on the international advisory board of the Center for Research on Extremism (C-REX) in Oslo, Norway. She has spent two decades researching radical and extreme youth culture, and preventative interventions, in the U.S. and Europe. Dr. Miller-Idriss has testified before the U.S. Congress and has briefed the UN Security Council's Counter Terrorism Committee on white nationalist terrorism and white supremacist extremism. A globally recognized expert on far right youth, she is the author, co-author, or co-editor of six books, including Hate in the Homeland: The New Global Far Right, published by Princeton University Press in October 2020. You can find it here or wherever books are sold: https://www.amazon.com/Hate-Homeland-New-Global-Right-ebook/dp/B087YW7THM. https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51b5wjwEHSL.jpg PRODUCER'S NOTE: This episode was recorded on November 12, 2020 via Zoom. Special thanks to Matthew Maldonado and Dr. Jason Roberts for their help and support. CREDITS Guest Host/Assistant Episode Producer: Eliza J Fisher Co-Producer: Matthew Orr (Connect: facebook.com/orrrmatthew) Co-Producer: Tom Rehnquist (Connect: Twitter @RehnquistTom) Associate Producer: Lera Toropin Associate Producer: Cullan Bendig Assistant Producer: Samantha Farmer Assistant Producer: Katherine Birch Assistant Producer: Zach Johnson Assistant Producer/Administrator: Kathryn Yegorov-Crate Recording, Editing, and Sound Design: Michelle Daniel, Charlie Harper Music Producer: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic) www.charlieharpermusic.com (Main Theme by Charlie Harper and additional background music by Charlie Harper, Ketsa, Seamphore, and Loyalty Freak ) Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) www.msdaniel.com DISCLAIMER: Texas Podcast Network is brought to you by The University of Texas at Austin. Podcasts are produced by faculty members and staffers at UT Austin who work with University Communications to craft content that adheres to journalistic best practices. The University of Texas at Austin offers these podcasts at no charge. Podcasts appearing on the network and this webpage represent the views of the hosts, not of The University of Texas at Austin. https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/9/9a59b135-7876-4254-b600-3839b3aa3ab1/P1EKcswq.png Special Guest: Cynthia Miller-Idriss.
In this episode, Matt is joined by Dr. Kathryn Stoner of Stanford University to talk about her new book, Russia Resurrected: Its Power and Purpose in a New Global Order. The book pushes back at some misconceptions about Russia’s place in the international system while offering a new perspective on how the West should approach Russia. Matt and Dr. Stoner discuss how the book informs ongoing policy challenges related to recent news coming out of Russia. ABOUT THE GUEST https://fsi-live.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/styles/headshot_195x260/public/rsd20_007_0221a.jpg?itok=TsXmammL Dr. Kathryn E. Stoner is the Deputy Director at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University and a Senior Fellow at the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law, and the Center on International Security and Cooperation at FSI. She teaches in the Department of Political Science at Stanford, and in the Program on International Relations, as well as in the Ford Dorsey Master's in International Policy Program. Prior to coming to Stanford in 2004, she was on the faculty at Princeton University for nine years, jointly appointed to the Department of Politics and the Woodrow Wilson School for International and Public Affairs. At Princeton she received the Ralph O. Glendinning Preceptorship awarded to outstanding junior faculty. She also served as a Visiting Associate Professor of Political Science at Columbia University, and an Assistant Professor of Political Science at McGill University. She has held fellowships at Harvard University as well as the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, DC. Her latest book can be found here: https://www.amazon.com/Russia-Resurrected-Power-Purpose-Global/dp/0190860715/ref=sr11?crid=9MQKXDSGNDSU&dchild=1&keywords=russia+resurrected&qid=1613682696&sprefix=russia+resurre%2Caps%2C191&sr=8-1 https://ci3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/TK2iqeCppTH5lB63FmW2WL99PrWJMqN2LyrBBv1-ANeeToKmbBXBKH2-u3woLREbAoEjXw4pDjhse0KBNMLQV1V6K-PEwPS3XFrpWKK2-0z8OYLZbGhuBbsoQu7xA8g8EMvPyQrkvxtfY-0=s0-d-e1-ft#https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51-mOqzm3ZL._SX327_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg CREDITS Co-Producer: Matthew Orr (Connect: Twitter @More_Orr) Co-Producer: Tom Rehnquist (Connect: Twitter @RehnquistTom) Associate Producer: Lera Toropin Associate Producer: Cullan Bendig Assistant Producer: Samantha Farmer Assistant Producer: Katherine Birch Assistant Producer: Zach Johnson Assistant Producer/Administrator: Kathryn Yegorov-Crate Recording, Editing, and Sound Design: Michelle Daniel, Charlie Harper Music Producer: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic) www.charlieharpermusic.com (Main Theme by Charlie Harper and additional background music by Charlie Harper) Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) www.msdaniel.com DISCLAIMER: Texas Podcast Network is brought to you by The University of Texas at Austin. Podcasts are produced by faculty members and staffers at UT Austin who work with University Communications to craft content that adheres to journalistic best practices. The University of Texas at Austin offers these podcasts at no charge. Podcasts appearing on the network and this webpage represent the views of the hosts, not of The University of Texas at Austin. https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/9/9a59b135-7876-4254-b600-3839b3aa3ab1/P1EKcswq.png Special Guest: Kathryn Stoner.
Once again, Dr. Mark Galeotti joins Matt to discuss yesterday's sentencing of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, and what it means for Russia's short and long term future. Is this the end of the first installment of Navalny’s battle with the Kremlin, which peaked with his poisoning at the hands of the FSB in August 2020? Mark lays out Navalny’s possible next steps, and how the ongoing standoff in neighboring Belarus figures into these events. They also discussed Mark’s latest book, released just last week: A Short History of Russia. (https://www.amazon.com/Short-History-Russia-Largest-Invented/dp/1335145702/ref=sr_1_1?crid=17IRK8CYKFGAR&dchild=1&keywords=a+short+history+of+russia+mark+galeotti&qid=1612395851&sprefix=a+short+history+of+russia%2Caps%2C229&sr=8-1) We hope you enjoy!! https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51+6v+VL2WL._SX328_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg For Galeotti's previous episode with us, listen to "In Moscow's Shadows": https://www.slavxradio.com/galeotti ABOUT THE GUEST Dr Mark Galeotti has been researching Russian history and security issues since the late 1980s. Educated at Cambridge University and the LSE, he is now an Honorary Professor at UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies and a Senior Associate Fellow at RUSI. He also remains a senior non-resident fellow at the Institute of International Relations Prague and for 2018-19 a Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute. He is also the director of the consultancy firm Mayak Intelligence. Previously he has been Head of the Centre for European Security at the Institute of International Relations Prague, Professor of Global Affairs at New York University, head of the History department at Keele University in the UK, an adviser at the British Foreign Office and a visiting professor at MGIMO (Moscow), Charles University (Prague) and Rutgers (Newark), as well as a visiting fellow with the ECFR. His books include We Need To Talk About Putin (Ebury) and The Vory: Russia’s super mafia (Yale University Press), several Osprey books, and the edited collections The Politics of Security in Modern Russia (Ashgate) and Russian & Soviet Organized Crime (Ashgate) and he is a regular contributor to Jane’s Intelligence Review, Oxford Analytica and many other outlets. He is a columnist for Raam op Rusland and the Moscow Times. NOTE: This episode was recorded February 3rd at 10am CST via Zoom. CREDITS Host/Co-Producer: Matthew Orr (Connect: facebook.com/orrrmatthew) Co-Producer: Tom Rehnquist (Connect: Twitter @RehnquistTom) Associate Producer: Lera Toropin Associate Producer: Cullan Bendig Assistant Producer: Samantha Farmer Assistant Producer: Katherine Birch Assistant Producer: Zach Johnson Assistant Producer/Administrator: Kathryn Yegorov-Crate Recording, Editing, and Sound Design: Michelle Daniel Music Producer: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic) www.charlieharpermusic.com (Main Theme by Charlie Harper and additional background music by Charlie Harper, Ketsa, Blue Dot Sessions) Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) www.msdaniel.com DISCLAIMER: The Texas Podcast Network is brought to you by The University of Texas at Austin. Podcasts are produced by faculty members and staffers at UT Austin who work with University Communications to craft content that adheres to journalistic best practices. The University of Texas at Austin offers these podcasts at no charge. Podcasts appearing on the network and this webpage represent the views of the hosts, not of The University of Texas at Austin. https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/9/9a59b135-7876-4254-b600-3839b3aa3ab1/P1EKcswq.png Special Guest: Mark Galeotti.
From St. Petersburg, Angelina Davydova, Environmental journalist and head of the German Russian Office of Environmental Information, graciously joins us to give us the surprising facts on environmental activism, protests, and reforms in Russia. She talks about the very real effects of climate change in that part of the world, including the fires in Siberia, the record high temperatures, and the meteorological phenomena in Vladivostok. This was an eye-opening but uplifting conversation in many ways. We learned a lot and we hope you will too! ABOUT THE GUEST https://cdn.theconversation.com/avatars/99966/width238/3pqxrntc-1375095811.jpg Angelina Davydova is a renowned journalist, civil society expert, educator and change-maker with more than 20 years of experience in Russian and international media, international non-governmental organizations, think-tanks and the academy. Her main focus is on climate and environmental policies, efforts and solutions. She is regarded as an expert in Russian climate/environmental policy, “green” civil society initiatives and grass-root movements, environmental/climate journalism and communication, sustainable and resilient urban development. She is regularly contributing for Russian and international media outlets, while also editing a quarterly “Environment and Law”. In addition to this, she is also a director of an NGO “Office of environmental information” (based in St.Petersburg, Russia) and an expert with the DRA e. V. (Berlin). She teaches at the St. Petersburg State University (School of Journalism), the European University in St. Petersburg, School of Architecture March (Moscow) and gives guest lectures and seminars in universities in Germany and the USA. Since 2008 Angelina Davydova has also been an observer of the UN Climate Negotiations (the UNFCCC). She has graduated from The St.Petersburg State University of Economics and Finance in 2000 and completed a number of international educational and professional development programs, including the Thomson Reuters Foundation programme in Oxford University (2006), City of Hamburg Young Leaders Internship Program (2009), Beahrs Environmental Leadership Program (UC Berkeley, California, 2012) and Humphrey Fellowship (UC Davis, 2018-2019. Angelina Davydova is a member of the Global Reference Group (Bread for the World, development and relief agency of the Protestant Churches in Germany) and a virtual fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (DC, 2020-2021). She is a member of the World Future Council since October 2020. https://www.worldfuturecouncil.org/p/angelina-davydova/ Check out Angelina's journalism here: https://www.reuters.com/journalists/angelina-davydova NOTE: This episode was recorded on November 23rd, 2020 via Zoom. CREDITS Co-Host/Associate Producer: Cullan Bendig Co-Host/Assistant Producer: Zach Johnson Co-Producer: Matthew Orr (Connect: facebook.com/orrrmatthew) Co-Producer: Tom Rehnquist (Connect: Twitter @RehnquistTom) Associate Producer: Lera Toropin Assistant Producer: Samantha Farmer Assistant Producer: Katherine Birch Associate Producer/Administrator: Kathryn Yegorov-Crate Recording, Editing, and Sound Design: Michelle Daniel, Charlie Harper Music Producer: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic) www.charlieharpermusic.com (Main Theme by Charlie Harper and additional background music by Charlie Harper, Ketsa, Scott Holmes, The Polish Ambassador, Michelle Daniel Trio) Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) www.msdaniel.com DISCLAIMER: Texas Podcast Network is brought to you by The University of Texas at Austin. Podcasts are produced by faculty members and staffers at UT Austin who work with University Communications to craft content that adheres to journalistic best practices. The University of Texas at Austin offers these podcasts at no charge. Podcasts appearing on the network and this webpage represent the views of the hosts, not of The University of Texas at Austin. https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/9/9a59b135-7876-4254-b600-3839b3aa3ab1/P1EKcswq.png Special Guest: Angelina Davydova.
Samantha chats with Dr. Dimitar Bechev on the geopolitics of the Balkans and the stratagems of Russia in the region. Dr. Bechev also discusses Russia's relationship with Turkey and Turkey's ties with the US and how these affect the countries nested in the Balkans which have fallen out of US foreign policy priority since the George W. Bush administration. ABOUT THE GUEST https://www.fpri.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/2283-dimitar-bechev_160313_171008.jpg Dimitar Bechev is the director of the European Policy Institute, a think-tank based in Sofia, Bulgaria. Previously, he held research fellowships at Harvard University, University of Oxford and the London School of Economics, and headed the Sofia office of the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR). Dr. Bechev has written extensively on EU’s external relations, the politics and modern history of Turkey and the Balkans, and Russia’s foreign policy. His book Rival Power: Russia in Southeast Europe (Yale University Press, 2017) explores Russia’s geopolitical role in the Balkans, Greece, Cyprus, and Turkey. He is a regular contributor to Al Jazeera, the American Interest, Politico, Foreign Policy, and Open Democracy. Check out Dr. Bechev's book "Rival Power: Russia in Southeastern Europe" https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71pSNH0dlZL.jpg NOTE: This episode was recorded on September 30th, 2020 via Zoom. CREDITS Host/Assistant Producer: Samantha Farmer Co-Producer: Matthew Orr (Connect: facebook.com/orrrmatthew) Co-Producer: Tom Rehnquist (Connect: Twitter @RehnquistTom) Associate Producer: Lera Toropin Associate Producer: Cullan Bendig Assistant Producer: Katherine Birch Assistant Producer: Zach Johnson Associate Producer/Administrator: Kathryn Yegorov-Crate Recording, Editing, and Sound Design: Charlie Harper, Michelle Daniel Music Producer: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic) www.charlieharpermusic.com (Main Theme by Charlie Harper and additional background music by Charlie Harper) Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) www.msdaniel.com DISCLAIMER: Texas Podcast Network is brought to you by The University of Texas at Austin. Podcasts are produced by faculty members and staffers at UT Austin who work with University Communications to craft content that adheres to journalistic best practices. The University of Texas at Austin offers these podcasts at no charge. Podcasts appearing on the network and this webpage represent the views of the hosts, not of The University of Texas at Austin. https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/9/9a59b135-7876-4254-b600-3839b3aa3ab1/P1EKcswq.png Special Guest: Dimitar Bechev.
Амар мэндээ or hello and Happy New Year! Dr. Kathryn Graber of Indiana University Bloomington joins the show to talk about her research on the Buryat language and minority-language media in Russia’s Buryat territories, a multilingual region of eastern Siberia on the Mongolian border. Her fifteen years of research in this area is the foundation of her new book, Mixed Messages: Mediating Native Belonging in Asian Russia. Enjoy! Ехэ баярлаа! ABOUT THE GUEST Kathryn Graber, PhD, is a linguist, sociocultural anthropologist, and assistant professor of Anthropology and Central Eurasian Studies at Indiana University Bloomington. Dr. Graber’s geographic focus is on post-Soviet Eurasia, and her research lies at the intersection of two clusters of problems. The first is indigenous language shift, endangerment, and revitalization, which she has been studying in Russia’s Buryat territories, a multilingual region of eastern Siberia on the Mongolian border, since 2005. This research was the basis for her first book, Mixed Messages: Mediating Native Belonging in Asian Russia (Cornell University Press, 2020). Mixed Messages shows how language and the production, circulation, and consumption of media are practices by which residents of the Buryat territories perform and negotiate competing possible identities. The book integrates production data from Buryat media institutions with consumption/reception data from audiences and linguistic analyses of texts and transcripts, employing a novel holistic approach to elucidate how the language used in institutional settings circulates from and into other domains of daily life. The second, related cluster concerns materiality, technology, circulation, and notions of property. Dr. Graber is particularly interested in how value is interactionally negotiated across different nodes in a global commodity chain, which she has been studying in the Mongolian cashmere industry since 2014. She is also currently working on a large collaborative project on the cultural afterlives and anticipatory pre-lives of infrastructural projects in Siberia. Mixed Messages: https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501750519/mixed-messages/#bookTabs=3 As part of Cornell Press’ “Top 10 Most Viewed Books This Month" special, you can use the promo code 09TRENDING to save 44% on a copy of Mixed Messages. After this special promotion ends, you can use 09FLYER to save 30% (in the UK, Europe, Asia, Middle East, & Africa, use code CS09FLYER). Join the Siberian Collaborative Research Network: https://siberiannetwork.com/ Check out Golosa, Chicago's Russian folk choir with whom Dr. Graber first traveled to Buryatia in 2001: http://www.golosa.org/ Katya used Телекомпания АТВ’s Буряадаар дуугараял (“Let’s talk Buryat”) series to learn a little Buryat. You can find the 16-part lesson series (taught in Russian) here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRwkvBgxoEEmblwL2Z5-Ime8K_Ip5cflq For folks without knowledge of Russian and knowledge of English, you can check out SRAS’s Folkways “Talking Buryat Phrasebook” here: http://folkways.today/talking-buryat-phrasebook/ NOTE: This episode was recorded November 20, 2020 via Zoom. CREDITS Host/Associate Producer: Kathryn Yegorov-Crate Co-Producer: Matthew Orr (Connect: facebook.com/orrrmatthew) Co-Producer: Tom Rehnquist (Connect: Twitter @RehnquistTom) Associate Producer: Lera Toropin Associate Producer: Cullan Bendig Assistant Producer: Samantha Farmer Assistant Producer: Katherine Birch Assistant Producer: Zach Johnson Recording, Editing, and Sound Design: Michelle Daniel Music Producer: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic) www.charlieharpermusic.com (Main Theme by Charlie Harper and additional background music by Charlie Harper, Ketsa,) Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) www.msdaniel.com DISCLAIMER: Texas Podcast Network is brought to you by The University of Texas at Austin. Podcasts are produced by faculty members and staffers at UT Austin who work with University Communications to craft content that adheres to journalistic best practices. The University of Texas at Austin offers these podcasts at no charge. Podcasts appearing on the network and this webpage represent the views of the hosts, not of The University of Texas at Austin. Special Guest: Kathryn Graber.
In this episode, Matt and Tom talked to Nina Jankowicz of the Wilson Center about her new book, How to Lose the Information War, and how it serves as a useful primer for understanding the disinformation challenges facing the US today, particularly in the aftermath of the 2020 election. To read some of Nina's work, click the links below and do be sure to follow her on Twitter @wiczipedia . Thank you for listening! https://www.forbes.com/sites/jessedamiani/2020/07/23/to-win-the-information-war-we-first-have-to-understand-what-it-is-and-how-were-losing-it-book-review/?sh=474cb0da762f https://cepa.org/democratic-offense-against-disinformation/ https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2020/05/estonia-america-congress-online-pandemic/612034/ ABOUT THE GUEST https://wiczipedia.files.wordpress.com/2017/05/hromadske.jpg?w=600&h=402 Nina Jankowicz is a Washington DC-based writer and analyst who studies the intersection of technology and democracy in Central and Eastern Europe and Beyond. Her first book How to Lose the Information War: Russia, Fake News, and the Future of Conflict will be published by Bloomsbury’s IBTauris in Summer 2020. She currently serves as Disinformation Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Previously, she served as a Fulbright-Clinton Public Policy Fellow, a role in which she provided strategic communications guidance to the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry. She has also managed democracy assistance programs to Russia and Belarus at the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, a frequent target of Russian disinformation. Her writing has been published by The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, BuzzFeed News, Foreign Policy and others. Nina received her MA in Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies from Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, where she was a Title VIII and FLAS scholarship recipient, and her BA in Russian and Political Science from Bryn Mawr College, where she graduated magna cum laude. She has lived and worked in Russia and Ukraine, and speaks fluent Russian and proficient Polish and Ukrainian. Nina was a 2017 Foreign Policy Interrupted Fellow. You can check out her website https://wiczipedia.com/ for much more on her publications, research, and media appearances. https://wiczipedia.files.wordpress.com/2019/12/9781838607685_cov_front.jpg?w=656 NOTE: This episode was recorded on December 4th, 2020 via Zoom. CREDITS Host/Co-Producer: Matthew Orr (Connect: facebook.com/orrrmatthew) Host/Co-Producer: Tom Rehnquist (Connect: Twitter @RehnquistTom) Associate Producer: Lera Toropin Associate Producer: Cullan Bendig Assistant Producer: Samantha Farmer Assistant Producer: Katherine Birch Assistant Producer: Zach Johnson Assistant Producer/Administrator: Kathryn Yegorov-Crate Recording, Editing, and Sound Design: Michelle Daniel Music Producer: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic) www.charlieharpermusic.com (Main Theme by Charlie Harper and additional background music by Charlie Harper, ) Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) www.msdaniel.com DISCLAIMER: The views expressed on this episode do not necessarily reflect those of the show or the University of Texas at Austin. Special Guest: Nina Jankowicz.
On this special episode, Zack speaks with English journalist Matthew Luxmoore. Matthew is the Moscow Correspondent for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, and his work has appeared in The New York Times, Foreign Policy, Politico, and elsewhere. Zach and Matthew discuss a wide-range of issues, from the Russian Far East to the current state of the Russian opposition movement, to environmental concerns and other current affairs of the day. We hope you enjoy! ABOUT OUR GUEST https://gdb.rferl.org/ACB3A93A-8718-4E90-A7FF-E2152ABBB9B2_cx7_cy3_cw79_w144_r5.jpg Matthew Luxmoore is a Moscow-based correspondent for RFE/RL covering Russia and the former Soviet Union. Before joining RFE/RL in 2018, he reported for The New York Times in Moscow and has written for The Guardian, Politico, The New Republic, and Foreign Policy. He’s a graduate of Harvard’s Davis Center and a recipient of New York University's Reporting Award and the Fulbright Alistair Cooke Journalism Award. Read his latest for RFE/RL on Belarus here: https://www.rferl.org/a/exiled-defectors-belarus-police-holding-ex-colleagues-to-account/30976835.html Follow Matthew on Twitter: @mjluxmoore. NOTE: This episode was recorded on October 16th, 2020 via Zoom. CREDITS Co-Producer: Matthew Orr (Connect: facebook.com/orrrmatthew) Co-Producer: Tom Rehnquist (Connect: Twitter @RehnquistTom) Associate Producer: Lera Toropin Associate Producer: Cullan Bendig Assistant Producer: Samantha Farmer Host/Assistant Producer: Zach Johnson Assistant Producer: Katherine Birch Assistant Producer/Administrator: Kathryn Yegorov-Crate Recording, Editing, and Sound Design: Michelle Daniel, Charlie Harper Music Producer: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic) www.charlieharpermusic.com (Main Theme by Charlie Harper and additional background music by Charlie Harper, Blue Dot Sessions, Ketsa, and Scott Holmes) Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) www.msdaniel.com DISCLAIMER: The views expressed on this episode do not necessarily reflect those of the show or the University of Texas at Austin. Special Guest: Matthew Luxmoore.
In this episode, Matt talks with Dr. Sarah Young of University College London about her upcoming book "Writing Resistance: Revolutionary Memoirs of Shlissel’burg Prison, 1884-1906" and the genre of carceral literature. Where do Russian literary titans like Dostoevsky and Shalamov fit in and how are they perceived in the Russian imagination? Dr. Young also speaks about the uses and importance of spatially mapping historic and literary events and why she undertook such mapping projects in the course of her research. We hope you enjoy! Some extras for those viewing this episode on our website are found below. 1) The Interior of Shlissel'burg Prison as found in the memoir by Ivan Iuvachev (image provided by Dr. Sarah Young) https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/9/9a59b135-7876-4254-b600-3839b3aa3ab1/0kuGEG7J.jpeg 2) Exterior view of Shlissel'burg Prison (image source: Wikimedia) https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/73/Shlisselburg.jpg ABOUT THE GUEST https://assets.fireside.fm/file/fireside-images/podcasts/images/9/9a59b135-7876-4254-b600-3839b3aa3ab1/guests/7/70e8e88f-fb9f-43a6-97b0-05a4a3b33e3a/avatar_small.jpg?v=2 Dr. Sarah J. Young is an Associate Professor at University College London. Her main areas of research are nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russian literature, thought, and culture. She began studying Russian at school, and got hooked on Russian literature after an early encounter with Gogol's Nose. A degree in Russian and French at Trinity College, Cambridge, including a year studying in Moscow and Minsk, was followed by a brief period translating books on chess theory from Russian. After studying for her Masters in European Languages and Culture at the University of Manchester, she was supervised for her PhD by Malcolm Jones at the University of Nottingham, resulting in a thesis on the role of character in the structuring of the narrative of Dostoevsky's The Idiot. This later became her first book, Dostoevsky's 'The Idiot' and the Ethical Foundations of Narrative. She is currently finishing up a book on narratives of prison, hard labour and exile, and on a new digital project on the geography of the Petersburg text in the nineteenth century. She writes a blog about her research and teaching at www.sarahjyoung.com. Visit her on the web and follow her on Twitter @russianist A blurb about Dr. Young's forthcoming book Writing Resistance: Revolutionary Memoirs of Shlissel’burg Prison, 1884-1906 (to be released in 2021 by UCL Press): In 1884, the first of 68 prisoners convicted of terrorist offences and membership of the revolutionary organization the People’s Will, were transferred to a new maximum security prison at Shlissel´burg Fortress near St Petersburg, the Russian Empire’s most notorious penal institution. The regime of indeterminate sentences in total isolation, complete inactivity and constant surveillance, caused severe mental and physical deterioration among the prisoners, over half of whom died. But the survivors fought back to reform the prison, ultimately overcoming the system of solitary confinement and improving the inmates’ living conditions. The memoirs many survivors wrote enshrined their story in revolutionary mythology, and acted as an indictment of the Tsarist autocracy’s loss of moral authority. Writing Resistance features three of these memoirs, all translated into English for the first time. They show the process of transforming the regime as a collaborative endeavour that resulted in flourishing allotments, workshops and intellectual culture – and in the inmates running many of the prison’s everyday functions. Sarah J. Young’s introductory essay analyses the Shlissel´burg memoirs’ construction of a collective narrative of resilience, resistance and renewal. It uses distant reading techniques to explore the communal values they inscribe, their adoption of a powerful group identity, and emphasis on overcoming the physical and psychological barriers of the prison. The first extended study of Shlissel´burg’s revolutionary inmates in English, and the first in any language to assess their experience and memoirs as a collective, Writing Resistance uncovers an episode in the history of political imprisonment that bears comparison with the inmates of Robben Island in South Africa’s apartheid regime, and the Maze Prison in Belfast during the Troubles in Northern Ireland. It will be of interest to scholars and students of the Russian revolution, carceral history, penal practice and behaviours, and prison and life writing. NOTE: This episode was recorded on October 26th, 2020 via Zoom. CREDITS Host/Co-Producer: Matthew Orr (Connect: facebook.com/orrrmatthew) Co-Producer: Tom Rehnquist (Connect: Twitter @RehnquistTom) Associate Producer: Lera Toropin Associate Producer: Cullan Bendig Assistant Producer: Samantha Farmer Assistant Producer: Katherine Birch Assistant Producer: Zach Johnson Assistant Producer/Administrator: Kathryn Yegorov-Crate Recording, Editing, and Sound Design: Michelle Daniel, Charlie Harper Music Producer: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic) www.charlieharpermusic.com (Main Theme by Charlie Harper and additional background music by Charlie Harper, Ketsa, and Jazzafari) Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) www.msdaniel.com DISCLAIMER: The views expressed on this episode do not necessarily reflect those of the show or the University of Texas at Austin. Special Guest: Sarah J. Young.
On this fun episode, Dr. Eliot Borenstein from NYU joins us to talk about his research on memes and meme culture in Russia as well as his freshly-released book on Pussy Riot (available from Bloomsbury). This was a great time all around, and even if you don't consume memes or like them very much, this is still an enjoyable discussion. Thanks for joining us! ABOUT THE GUEST: https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/668226829162029057/zPPxzpej_400x400.jpg Eliot Borenstein is a Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies, Collegiate Professor at New York University, and Senior Academic Convenor for the Global Network. Educated at Oberlin College (B.A., 1988) and the University of Wisconsin, Madison (M.A., 1989, Ph.D., 1993), Professor Borenstein was an Assistant Professor at the University of Virginia (1993-95) before taking an appointment at NYU in 1995. His new book, Plots against Russia: Conspiracy and Fantasy after Socialism will soon be published by Cornell University Press; an earlier draft is available at plotsgainstrussia.org. Also, you can check out his book on Pussy Riot here: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/pussy-riot-9781350113558/ Follow Dr. Borenstein on Twitter: @eliotb2002 CREDITS Co-Host/Associate Producer: Lera Toropin (Connect: Twitter @earlportion) Co-Host/Associate Producer: Cullan Bendig Co-Producer: Matthew Orr (Connect: facebook.com/orrrmatthew) Co-Producer: Tom Rehnquist (Connect: Twitter @RehnquistTom) Assistant Producer: Samantha Farmer Assistant Producer/Administrator: Kathryn Yegorov-Crate Recording, Editing, and Sound Design: Michelle Daniel, Charlie Harper Music Producer: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic) www.charlieharpermusic.com (Main Theme by Charlie Harper and additional background music by Charlie Harper, Michelle Daniel Trio, and Nihilore) Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) www.msdaniel.com Twitter: @SlavXRadio) DISCLAIMER: The views expressed on this episode do not necessarily reflect those of the show or the University of Texas at Austin. Special Guest: Eliot Borenstein.
From the Foreign Policy Research Institute comes a fantastic, dispassionate resource on Russia's intervention into Syria. Here to speak with us about the book and the process of compiling this insightful tome written by both American and Russian experts is Associate professor of Eurasian Studies at the US Army War College Robert E. Hamilton. Enjoy! Please do check out and download the book here: https://www.fpri.org/research/eurasia/russias-war-in-syria-assessing-russian-military-capabilities-and-lessons-learned/) ABOUT THE GUEST https://www.fpri.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Hamilton_Robert.jpg Colonel (Retired) Robert E. Hamilton, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Eurasian Studies at the U.S. Army War College and a Black Sea Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. In a 30-year career in the U.S. Army, spent primarily as a Eurasian Foreign Area Officer, he served overseas in Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Germany, Belarus, Qatar, Afghanistan, the Republic of Georgia, Pakistan and Kuwait. He is the author of numerous articles and monographs on conflict and security issues, focusing principally on the former Soviet Union and the Balkans. He is a graduate of the German Armed Forces Staff College and the U.S. Army War College and holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the United States Military Academy, a Master’s Degree in Contemporary Russian Studies and a Ph.D. in Political Science, both from the University of Virginia. NOTE: This episode was recorded on October 2nd, 2020 via Zoom. CREDITS Co-Producer: Tom Rehnquist (Connect: Twitter @RehnquistTom) Co-Producer: Matthew Orr (Connect: facebook.com/orrrmatthew) Associate Producer: Lera Toropin Associate Producer: Cullan Bendig Assistant Producer: Samantha Farmer Assistant Producer/Administrator: Kathryn Yegorov-Crate Recording, Editing, and Sound Design: Michelle Daniel, Charlie Harper Music Producer: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic) www.charlieharpermusic.com (Main Theme by Charlie Harper and additional background music by Charlie Harper, Soularflair, Kevin MacLeod, Ion Romania, The Polish Ambassador, John Bartmann, Axeltree) Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) www.msdaniel.com DISCLAIMER: The views expressed on this episode do not necessarily reflect those of the show or the University of Texas at Austin. Additional DoD Disclaimer: The views expressed on this episode by retired Colonel Robert Hamilton are his own and do not represent the policy or position of the US Army War College, the US Army, or the US Department of Defense. Special Guest: Robert E. Hamilton.
On this whirlwind episode, Tom visits with London-based journalist and risk research analyst Alex Kokcharov on an impressive array of events and current conflicts across the CIS region. This is hardly a boring episode and we don't sit on one topic for too long, so if you're looking for a quick, but in-depth Eurasia fix (while we in the US patiently, calmly wait on those election results), look no further! And as always, thanks for listening. NOTE: This episode was recorded on October 12th, 2020 via Zoom. Thus, some of the information is outdated, primarily with regards to Ukraine's local elections which have already taken place.
While the world is waiting for the outcome of US #election, here is a map with outcomes of #Ukraine's local elections on 25 Oct. Pro-Russian OPFL did well in southern and eastern regions, while many local parties dominated city votes in regional centres:https://t.co/Kt0ZL1NIwW pic.twitter.com/7moQ3rDL4e
— Alex Kokcharov (@AlexKokcharov) November 4, 2020
ABOUT THE GUEST https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DdbjEYgVwAAJQg2.jpg Alex Kokcharov is the Principal Country Risk Research Analyst on Europe and CIS region for IHS Markit. He is a Principal Analyst with the Country Risk team responsible for analysis of political, operational and security risks in Russia, Ukraine and CIS. Alex is responsible for country risk analysis of Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Armenia and Tajikistan. He provides in-depth political and security risk analysis including producing regular publication of risk forecasts and analysis, advisory briefings, and tailored reports. Alex has over fifteen years of experience in data-driven business and political journalism and country risk analysis. He has particular expertise on Russian and Ukrainian political, business and energy developments. He has lived in Belarus, Ukraine, Tajikistan, Russia, Germany and the UK. Alex speaks English, Russian, German and Belarusian fluently, has a working knowledge of Ukrainian and speaks basic Polish. He has a Masters in Geography and Economics from Belaruski Dziarzhauny Universitet in Minsk and studied for a PhD in Human Geography at the University of Oxford. https://ihsmarkit.com/experts/kokcharov-alex.html ++Follow Alex on Twitter: @AlexKokcharov CREDITS Host/Co-Producer: Thomas Rehnquist (Connect: Twitter @RehnquistTom) Co-Producer: Matthew Orr (Connect: facebook.com/orrrmatthew) Associate Producer: Lera Toropin Associate Producer: Cullan Bendig Assistant Producer: Samantha Farmer Assistant Producer/Administrator: Kathryn Yegorov-Crate Recording, Editing, and Sound Design: Michelle Daniel, Charlie Harper Music Producer: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic) www.charlieharpermusic.com (Main Theme by Charlie Harper and additional background music by Charlie Harper, Ketsa, Revolutions, Kai Engel) Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) www.msdaniel.com DISCLAIMER: The views expressed on this episode do not necessarily reflect those of the show or the University of Texas at Austin. Special Guest: Alex Kokcharov.
Dr. Jasmin Mujanović, a political scientist focused on democratization and social movements in the Western Balkans and a host of the podcast "Sarajevo Calling", joins Samantha and Cullan for an in-depth discussion on the state of democracy in the region in 2020. This is a great walkthrough of the elite maneuvering and politics in the Western Balkans and which nuclear powers hold sway and influence in the region. We hope you enjoy! ABOUT THE GUEST https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/91mjV7-cKZL._US230_.jpg Jasmin Mujanović is a political scientist and analyst of southeast European and international affairs with a PhD from York University. His career background is a unique blend of global academic and professional engagement, having worked as a scholar, policy analyst, consultant, researcher, and writer in both North America and Europe. His academic research concentrates primarily on the politics of contemporary southeastern Europe, with a particular focus on the politics of the non-EU states of the Western Balkans. More broadly, his academic fields of interest and expertise are split between international relations, global political economy, and political theory. He is interested in democratization processes, state development (including the process of state failure), and post-conflict and peace studies, in particular as these topics relate to southeastern Europe. These concerns likewise keep him invested in debates on social movements and organized labor, regionally and globally. His commentary has also appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Foreign Affairs, The America Interest, as well as a host of other international media, including regular appearances for all major Balkan news networks as a current affairs analyst. Connect with him on Twitter: @JasminMuj and listen to the podcast "Sarajevo Calling" wherever you get your podcasts. https://sarajevo-calling.simplecast.com/ Visit him on his website: http://www.jasminmujanovic.com/ and check out his book "Hunger and Fury" avilable with Oxford University Press https://global.oup.com/academic/product/hunger-and-fury-9780190877392?cc=us⟨=en& NOTE: This episode was recorded on September 16th, 2020 via Zoom. CREDITS Co-Producer: Matthew Orr (Connect: facebook.com/orrrmatthew) Co-Producer: Tom Rehnquist (Connect: Twitter @RehnquistTom) Co-Host/Associate Producer: Cullan Bendig Associate Producer: Lera Toropin Co-Host/Assistant Producer: Samantha Farmer Assistant Producer: Katherine Birch Assistant Producer: Zach Johnson Assistant Producer/Administrator: Kathryn Yegorov-Crate Recording, Editing, and Sound Design: Michelle Daniel, Charlie Harper Music Producer: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic) www.charlieharpermusic.com (Main Theme by Charlie Harper and additional background music by Charlie Harper, Ketsa, Blue Dot Sessions, Demoiselle) Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) www.msdaniel.com DISCLAIMER: The views expressed on this episode do not necessarily reflect those of the show or the University of Texas at Austin. Special Guest: Jasmin Mujanovic.
The New Yorker's Moscow correspondent, Joshua Yaffa, joins us from Moscow in fact to talk about the conditions in Russia during the pandemic, his latest book Between Two Fires, and the oft-debated Russian interference in US elections. Additionally, Yuri Levada's work and coining of the term "Wily Man" figures prominently into this discussion having played a role in Yaffa's attempt to understand the characters he sought to portray in his book. This is a fascinating conversation, and we hope you enjoy! Be sure to follow Joshua Yaffa on Twitter: @yaffaesque ! ABOUT THE GUEST https://images4.penguinrandomhouse.com/author/2148444 Joshua Yaffa is a correspondent for The New Yorker, based primarily in Moscow, Russia. He is also the author of Between Two Fires: Truth, Ambition, and Compromise in Putin’s Russia, published in January 2020 by Tim Duggan Books. He has also written for the Economist, The New York Times Magazine, National Geographic, Bloomberg Businessweek, The New Republic, and Foreign Affairs. For his work in Russia, he has been named a fellow at New America, a recipient of the American Academy’s Berlin Prize, and a finalist for the Livingston Award. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, and master’s degrees in journalism and international affairs from Columbia University, where he was a visiting scholar at the Harriman Institute and taught at the journalism school for several years. He is originally from San Diego, California. Check out his archive of work on the New Yorker here: https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/joshua-yaffa Also, watch Yaffa's interview on Putin with Frontline here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sm_0o7l0Ao Check out Yaffa's excellent book here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/555637/between-two-fires-by-joshua-yaffa/ https://images2.penguinrandomhouse.com/cover/9780593167083 NOTE: This episode was recorded on September 28th, 2020 via Zoom. CREDITS Co-Host/Associate Producer: Lera Toropin Associate Producer: Cullan Bendig Assistant Producer: Samantha Farmer Assistant Producer/Administrator: Kathryn Yegorov-Crate Recording, Editing, and Sound Design: Michelle Daniel, Charlie Harper Co-Host/Co-Producer: Matthew Orr (Connect: facebook.com/orrrmatthew) Co-Producer: Tom Rehnquist (Connect: Twitter @RehnquistTom) Music Producer: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic) www.charlieharpermusic.com (Main Theme by Charlie Harper and additional background music by Charlie Harper, Ketsa, Demoiselle, Soularflair, Polish Ambassador, ) Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) www.msdaniel.com DISCLAIMER: The views expressed on this episode do not necessarily reflect those of the show or the University of Texas at Austin. Special Guest: Joshua Yaffa.
On this episode, we discuss the ongoing political crisis in Kyrgyzstan, resulting from the disputed October 4th elections, with Nazgul Kulova, a resident of Bishkek (the capital of Kyrgyzstan) and a policy analyst in the mining sector. As a former government official at the State Agency for Mineral Resources, she has worked with various international organizations and is thus a valuable inside resource. Nazgul talks with Matt about Kyrgyzstan's tumultuous political history, the motivations for constant upheaval, and the consequences of the latest political crisis gripping the country. We hope you enjoy this current event episode! NOTE: This episode was recorded on October 14th, 2020 via Zoom. CREDITS Co-Host/Co-Producer: Matthew Orr (Connect: facebook.com/orrrmatthew) Co-Producer: Tom Rehnquist (Connect: Twitter @RehnquistTom) Associate Producer: Lera Toropin Associate Producer: Cullan Bendig Assistant Producer: Samantha Farmer Assistant Producer/Administrator: Kathryn Yegorov-Crate Recording, Editing, and Sound Design: Michelle Daniel, Charlie Harper Music Producer: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic) www.charlieharpermusic.com (Main Theme by Charlie Harper and additional background music by Blue Dot Sessions, Ketsa, ) Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) www.msdaniel.com DISCLAIMER: The views expressed on this episode do not necessarily reflect those of the show or the University of Texas at Austin.
We're back to Belarus with this episode, but this time we take an in-depth look at the still-thrumming situation from the dictator's perspective with one of the foremost experts on the region, Dr. David Marples. Dr. Marples talks about the potential end of the dictator while rounding out the context for the current revolution, allowing us to see just how and why Alexander Lukashenko came into power. Follow Dr. Marples on Twitter @drmarples. ABOUT THE GUEST https://visegradinsight.eu/app/uploads/2019/04/Dm2-300x199.jpg Dr. David R. Marples is a former President of The North American Association for Belarusian Studies and was formerly Director of the Stasiuk Program on Contemporary Ukraine at the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta. In 2014 he was a Visiting Professor at the Slavic and Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University, Japan. At the University of Alberta he is a recipient of the J. Gordin Kaplan Award for Excellence in Research (2003) and the University Cup (2008), the university's highest award. He is regarded as one of the leading Western authorities on the Chernobyl nuclear catastrophe (social and political aspects), Lukashenko's regime in Belarus, and contemporary Ukraine. In 2014 he published Our Glorious Past': Lukashenka's Belarus and the Great Patriotic War', the product of an Insight Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. In 2017, he published 'Ukraine in Conflict' with E-International Relations Publishing. In 2020, he co-edited a book with Aya Fujiwara entitled Hiroshima-75: Nuclear Issues in Global Contexts," published by Ibidem-Verlag, and the result of a conference at the University of Alberta. As a historian Marples has written extensively on Eastern European history of the 20th Century including such major historical events as the Russian Revolution 1917-1920, Ukrainian Famine 1932-1933, Stalinism, and fall of the Soviet Union. NOTE: This episode was recorded on September 21st, 2020 via Zoom. CREDITS Co-Host/Co-Producer: Tom Rehnquist (Connect: Twitter @RehnquistTom) Co-Host/Co-Producer: Matthew Orr (Connect: facebook.com/orrrmatthew) Associate Producer: Lera Toropin Associate Producer: Cullan Bendig Assistant Producer: Samantha Farmer Assistant Producer: Milena D-K Assistant Producer/Administrator: Kathryn Yegorov-Crate Recording, Editing, and Sound Design: Michelle Daniel Additional Editing: Jada Geraci Music Producer: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic) www.charlieharpermusic.com (Main Theme by Charlie Harper and additional background music by Charlie Harper and Michelle Daniel, Ketsa, Eme Hache, and Ion Romania) Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) www.msdaniel.com DISCLAIMER: The views expressed on this episode do not necessarily reflect those of the show or the University of Texas at Austin. Special Guest: David R. Marples.
Dr. Susan Crate returns to the show to share her 1990 journey to Tuva, the geographic center of Asia. At this time, Tuva had only recently opened up to foreign travelers and the oblast (region) experienced heavy upheaval across the domains of the former Soviet Union. This moment also proved to be a turning point for the revitalization of lost or hidden cultural traditions, and many Tuvans openly displayed their heritage, wearing their garments and exhibiting their practices. Dr. Crate spent time in the capital city of Kyzyl and traveled across Tuva to remote villages, recording traditional songs, prayers, and oral poetry. She shares with us original recordings of khoomei (Tuvan throat singing), labor songs (folk songs that organize work through a certain rhythm), ovaa prayers, a bear dance ritual, and much more. Четтирдим! ABOUT THE GUEST https://esp.gmu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/f_Crate2.jpg Dr. Susan Crate is a professor of Anthropology in the Department of Environmental Science and Policy at George Mason University. She is trained as anapplied anthropologist, folklorist, and ethnomusicologist. Much of her research focuses on environmental and cognitive anthropology and human ecology among Viliui Sakha of Yakutia, Northeastern Siberia. Her research on the effects of unprecedented climatechange has recently expanded to Canada, Mongolia, Peru, Wales, Kiribati, and the ever-so exotic, Chesapeake Bay. She is the author of Cows, Kin, and Globalization: An Ethnography of Sustainability (2006), the coeditor of Anthropology and Climate Change: From Encounters to Actions (2009, 2016), and a lead author on Chapter 1 of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s “Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate”.Dr. Crate is currently working on a longitudinal ethnography titled Once Upon the Permafrost: Culture and Climate Change in the 21stCentury, which chronicles her thirty years of work in the Sakha Republic. The book is due out fall 2021 with University of Arizona Press. NOTE: This episode was recorded on September 6th, 2020. Apologies for the high-pitched ringing at points, which was entirely due to the presence of crickets. CREDITS Host/Assistant Producer: Kathryn Yegorov-Crate Associate Producer: Lera Toropin Associate Producer: Cullan Bendig Assistant Producer: Samantha Farmer Audio Processing, Editing, and Sound Design: Charlie Harper and Michelle Daniel Co-Producer: Tom Rehnquist (Connect: Twitter @RehnquistTom) Co-Producer: Matthew Orr (Connect: facebook.com/orrrmatthew) Music Producer: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic) www.charlieharpermusic.com (Main Theme by Charlie Harper and additional background music by Charlie Harper, Scott Holmes, and John Bartmann) All Tuvan recordings provided by Dr. Susan Crate. Order of songs: 1 Незаметно век проходит; духовные стихи (The century passes imperceptibly, spirital poem) 2 Бай-ла Тайгам (Bai-la Taigam, folk song) 3 Благопожелание (Prayers; ovaa, istochnik, baraba) 4 Трудовая песня для ягненка, козлёнка и телёнка (Functinoal song; lamb, goat, calf) 5 Горловое пение, отец с маленьким сынком 6 Импровизационная игра на варгоне (Improvisational playing on the mouth harp) 7 Шаманскoе камлание, Зелёное озеро (Shaman ritual healing song, Green Lake) 8 Танец медведя (Bear dance) Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) www.msdaniel.com DISCLAIMER: The views expressed on this episode do not necessarily reflect those of the show or the University of Texas at Austin. Special Guest: Susan Crate.
Admittedly, this is not a very Slavic episode, but we would like to balance the scales a little bit and discuss the existential crisis America is facing as well as we approach the 2020 presidential election. A New York Times article a few days ago said that though the United States makes up only 4% of the world's population, our Covid deaths account for 20% of the global totals. We're no math geniuses, but it looks like the U.S. has become Corona Country. So, what happened? Maybe you're wondering the same thing. But the pandemic is not really to blame--there's a lot more to our troubles than 200,000+ deaths and a Covid-downplaying President with Covid. (Hell, yes. It's complicated.) But as it turns out, our symptoms are basically universal. So, to help us measure how far the U.S. has fallen in 2020, several weeks ago (following the Republican National Convention in August), philosopher and scholar Dr. Lee McIntyre joined us to discuss how we (America, the West, take your pick) got to a place of truth denial and what (if anything) we can do about it? Dr. McIntyre discusses his highly relevant book Post-Truth (MIT Press) and the importance of face-to-face discussions (but with masks!) with people in order to "enlarge their circle of concern" as difficult as that may be in a pandemic. We hope you enjoy this discussion. It helped us make sense of the divisions in this nation, politically and existentially, and hopefully it will be of use to you as well. Thanks for listening and if you are an American citizen, please remember to do your civic duty and VOTE! ABOUT THE GUEST https://leemcintyrebooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/lee-new-JIG.jpg Lee McIntyre is a Research Fellow at the Center for Philosophy and History of Science at Boston University and an Instructor in Ethics at Harvard Extension School. He holds a B.A. from Wesleyan University and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor). He has taught philosophy at Colgate University (where he won the Fraternity and Sorority Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching Philosophy), Boston University, Tufts Experimental College, Simmons College, and Harvard Extension School (where he received the Dean’s Letter of Commendation for Distinguished Teaching). Formerly Executive Director of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University, he has also served as a policy advisor to the Executive Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard and as Associate Editor in the Research Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. Check out his website: https://leemcintyrebooks.com/ You can find his book Post-Truth on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Post-Truth-MIT-Press-Essential-Knowledge/dp/0262535041 View his appearance on Amanpour & Co. earlier this year here: https://www.pbs.org/video/lee-mcintyre-post-truth-vs-lies-n4mjnd/ Follow him on Twitter: @leemcintyre NOTE: This episode was recorded on August 25th, 2020 via Zoom. CREDITS Co-Producer: Tom Rehnquist (Connect: Twitter @RehnquistTom) Co-Host/Co-Producer: Matthew Orr (Connect: facebook.com/orrrmatthew) Co-Host/Associate Producer: Lera Toropin Associate Producer: Cullan Bendig Associate Producer: Samantha Farmer Assistant Producer: Milena D-K Assistant Producer/Administrator: Kathryn Yegorov-Crate Recording, Editing, and Sound Design: Michelle Daniel Additional Editing: Jada Geraci Music Producer: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic) www.charlieharpermusic.com (Main Theme by Charlie Harper and additional background music by Charlie Harper and Michelle Daniel, Scott Holmes, Eme Hache, Timecrawlers, and Ion Romania) Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) www.msdaniel.com DISCLAIMER: The views expressed on this episode do not necessarily reflect those of the show or the University of Texas at Austin. Special Guest: Lee McIntyre.
On this episode, former BBC journalist Leonid Ragozin joins Tom from Latvia to discuss the perception of Russia in the West, the origins of Western xenophobia towards Russia, his view of Vladimir Putin in 2000, and his experience working as an independent journalist on the investigations of high profile figures murdered in Ukraine. We hope you enjoy! ABOUT THE GUEST Leonid is a Russian journalist who worked for 12 years with the BBC in Moscow. He is a widely acknowledged expert on the ongoing crisis in Ukraine. Previously he was a correspondent for Newsweek. He now writes for The New Republic, Politico, Bloomberg, News Week, The Guardian and Al Jazeera and Morgenbladet. He is also co-author of the Lonely Planet Guides to Moscow and Ukraine. Additionally, he works on the investigation of Pavel Sheremet with Radio Free Europe-funded Ukrainian media outlet Zaborona. Here are links to a selection of Ragozin's excellent articles: 1) Articles for Bloomberg https://www.themoscowtimes.com/author/leonid-ragozin-for-bloomberg 2) Articles for Al Jazeera https://www.aljazeera.com/author/leonidragozin2013122273219325632/ 3) Articles for Kyiv Post https://www.kyivpost.com/author/leonid-ragozin?cn-reloaded=1 4) Articles for The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/profile/leonid-ragozin Follow Leonid on Twitter: @leonidragozin
Here is the 2nd part of our investigation into the death of Pavel Sheremet. It focuses on a group politicians and law-enforcers who managed to survive the 2016 political crisis despite zero popularity, while seizing assets of Sheremet’s de-facto employer.https://t.co/U4I6z9wvPW
— Leonid Ragozin (@leonidragozin) September 23, 2020
A rootless cosmopolitan (me) linking up with Texas on @SlavXRadio podcast. Talking about issues of journalism and nationality, Russia’s place in Western psyche and our latest @zaboronamedia investigation into the death of Pavel Sheremet. https://t.co/QJNb2Npttx
— Leonid Ragozin (@leonidragozin) September 30, 2020
NOTE: This episode was recorded on Friday, September 25th, 2020 via Skype. CREDITS Co-Producer: Tom Rehnquist (Connect: Twitter @RehnquistTom) Co-Producer: Matthew Orr (Connect: facebook.com/orrrmatthew) Associate Producer: Lera Toropin Associate Producer: Cullan Bendig Assistant Producer: Samantha Farmer Assistant Producer: Milena D-K Assistant Producer/Administrator: Kathryn Yegorov-Crate Recording, Editing, and Sound Design: Michelle Daniel Music Producer: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic) www.charlieharpermusic.com (Main Theme by Charlie Harper and additional background music by Charlie Harper, Michelle Daniel, Ketsa, Soularflair, and Blue Dot Sessions) Additional clips of Vladimir Putin's speech on December 31, 1999, coverage of car bombing in Kyiv from RFE/RL, and Yeltsin endorsement of Putin while delivering his vote taken from YouTube. Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) www.msdaniel.com DISCLAIMER: The views expressed on this episode do not necessarily reflect those of the show or the University of Texas at Austin. Special Guest: Leonid Ragozin.
In this episode, Matt discussed with Dr. Maria Snegovaya the leading issues of the day in the Slavic region. Namely, the aftermath of Russia's recent regional elections, the Kremlin's response to Alexei Navalny's poisoning, and the ongoing spectre of Russian intervention in Belarus's post-election crisis. Connect with Dr. Snegovaya on Twitter: @MSnegovaya UPDATE (9-30-2020) View Dr. Snegovaya's research with CEPA here: https://cepa.org/russian-youth-and-civic-engagement/?fbclid=IwAR19gUFfqtpS4xkRCk0DH2RK-f3MEAGbVe2s8C3f_I6Sq3LXBCVU4UOlOV0 ABOUT THE GUEST https://mariasnegovaya.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/gjgkoiK4_400x400.jpg Maria Snegovaya is a Fellow at the Center for European Policy Analysis. Her research focus is the democratic backsliding, the spread of populist actors in Eastern Europe, and Russia’s domestic and foreign policy. She holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University. In the past, Maria collaborated with the Institute for the Study of War, the Brookings Institution, the Free Russia Foundation, the National Endowment for Democracy, the Eurasia Group, and Freedom House. Dr. Snegovaya is the author of several reports and studies, including “Policy Memo: Justifying a Counter-Cyclical US-Russia Policy (the Case of Energy Dependence)” for The Harriman Institute; “Stifling the Public Sphere: Media and Civil Society: Russia” for the National Endowment for Democracy; and “Putin’s Information Warfare in Ukraine. Soviet Origins of Russia’s Hybrid Warfare. Analytical Report” for The Institute for the Study of War. Dr. Snegovaya’s publications have appeared in the Vedomosti Business Daily, The Washington Post’s Monkey Cage (Political Science blog), The Huffington Post, The National Interest, The New Republic, and The American Interest. Her articles have been referenced by (among others) David Brooks (NYT), Andrew Sullivan (The Dish), Bloomberg, The Economist and The Telegraph in their columns, and she is frequently invited to give talks at U.S. think tanks, including the Kennan Institute at the Wilson Center and The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. See Dr. Snegovaya's most recent WaPo article here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/09/15/if-putin-sends-troops-belarus-dont-expect-russians-applaud/ Also, check out Maxim Mironov's LiveBlog journal page (in Russian) here: https://echo.msk.ru/blog/mmironov/2710287-echo/ And finally, the link to the Novaya Gazeta article Matt mentions is here: https://novayagazeta.ru/articles/2020/09/16/87115-kredit-do-sverzheniya NOTE: This episode was recorded on Friday, September 18th, 2020 via Zoom. CREDITS Host/Co-Producer: Matthew Orr (Connect: facebook.com/orrrmatthew) Co-Producer: Tom Rehnquist (Connect: Twitter @RehnquistTom) Associate Producer: Lera Toropin Associate Producer: Cullan Bendig Assistant Producer: Samantha Farmer Assistant Producer: Milena D-K Assistant Producer: Katherine E. Birch Assistant Producer/Administrator: Kathryn Yegorov-Crate Recording, Editing, and Sound Design: Michelle Daniel Music Producer: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic) www.charlieharpermusic.com (Main Theme by Charlie Harper. Additional background music by Charlie Harper and Michelle Daniel, Pistol Jazz, Scott Holmes, Kevin MacLeod, Glad Rags, John Bartmann, Ketsa, Gorowski, and Blue Dot Sessions) Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) www.msdaniel.com DISCLAIMER: The views expressed on this episode do not necessarily reflect those of the show or the University of Texas at Austin. Special Guest: Maria Snegovaya.
Bulgaria, Belarus, books—oh my! In this exciting episode hosted by Matt and newbie host Katherine, Assistant Professor Kiril Avramov the University of Texas at Austin sits down to discuss his new book, “Russia’s Hidden Armies,” the recent detainment of Russian mercenaries in Belarus, and the anti-corruption protests currently raging within Bulgaria. Tune in for an episode filled to the brim with shocking details over Post-Communist Bulgaria and secret armies! For more on the Wagner mercenaries, read the piece by SlavX blogger Lexi Jovanovic: https://www.slavxradio.com/articles/wagner ABOUT THE GUEST https://www.strausscenter.org/wp-content/uploads/Avramov.jpeg Dr. Kiril Avramov is a post-doctoral research fellow of the Intelligence Studies Project (ISP) at the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Avramov was, until December 2017, the Acting Vice-Rector for International Relations and Research at the New Bulgarian University (NBU) in Sofia, Bulgaria and an Assistant Professor of Political Science at NBU. He studied previously at Gustavus Adolphus College (USA/MN), the University of Aberdeen (Scotland), University of Sofia (Bulgaria), Central European University (Hungary), and NBU. He taught in the Department of Political Science at the University of Sofia until 2005 and, from 2006-2010, was also the Director of the international consultancy and research institute “Political Capital” in Bulgaria. In 2010, he was appointed as the Director for International Relations of Political Capital at the firm’s headquarters in Budapest. Dr. Avramov’s main research interests are information warfare, psychological operations and mass cognitive hacking, as well as the “weaponization of information” and their respective application and effects on individual and group decision-making processes in the Central and Eastern Europe and MENA regions. Additional areas of interest include political elites’ and non-elites’ decision-making resilience mechanisms and radicalization in post-transition democracies during identified active “psyops” and third party information operations. He is a member of the Bulgarian Political Science Association and the ECPR’s standing groups on Extremism & Democracy, Central and East European Politics, Elites and Political Leadership, Politics and the Arts, and Southeast Europe. He is also a member of the RAN-DERAD network under the Migration and Home Affairs Directorate of the European Commission. Connect with Dr. Avramov on Twitter: @avramovok Visit him on the Strauss Center website: https://www.strausscenter.org/person/kiril-avramov/ and at the Intelligence Studies Project page: https://intelligencestudies.utexas.edu/about/leadership NOTE: This episode was recorded on Monday, August 24th, 2020 via Zoom. CREDITS Co-Host/Co-Producer: Matthew Orr (Connect: facebook.com/orrrmatthew) Co-Producer: Tom Rehnquist (Connect: Twitter @RehnquistTom) Co-Host/Associate Producer: Katherine E. Birch Associate Producer: Lera Toropin Associate Producer: Cullan Bendig Assistant Producer: Samantha Farmer Assistant Producer: Milena D-K Assistant Producer/Administrator: Kathryn Yegorov-Crate Recording, Editing, and Sound Design: Michelle Daniel Music Producer: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic) www.charlieharpermusic.com (Main Theme by Charlie Harper. Additional background music by Charlie Harper, Michelle Daniel, and Blue Dot Sessions) Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) www.msdaniel.com DISCLAIMER: The views expressed on this episode do not necessarily reflect those of the show or the University of Texas at Austin. Special Guest: Kiril Avramov.
Tom and Matt have the great opportunity to speak with Libyan national Mohamed Abufalgha and expert on the conflict that has been going on for several years now in this oil-rich, war-torn country. Mohamed helps us unpack the Russian-Libyan connection and exactly how many countries have their fingers--and fighters--in Libya. We hope you enjoy! For some basic information about the conflict in Libya, here are some great resources including Mohamed's own site in which he blogs about the conflict. We highly recommend both these sources: 1) Council on Foreign Relations https://www.cfr.org/in-brief/whos-who-libyas-war 2) Mohamed Abufalgha https://abufalgha.wordpress.com/2020/06/01/the-time-is-ripe-for-the-u-s-to-do-good-in-libya/ Also in the news via Al Jazeera: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/09/libya-rivals-reach-deal-allocate-positions-key-institutions-200911064210263.html ABOUT THE GUEST https://www.arabbarometer.org/wp-content/uploads/Abufalgha.jpg Mohamed Abufalga is currently a Research Data Specialist at the Arab Barometer. He is responsible for assisting the AB team in completing data validation, producing data visualizations, and conducting statistical analysis of AB survey data. Prior to joining the research network in 2020, he graduated with a Master’s degree in global policy studies from University of Texas, Austin. He has previously worked on Syrian Palestinian refugee issues in the Middle East and Europe. You can follow Mohamed on Twitter for more on the latest Libyan developments and the role of Russia's Wagner mercenaries in the region: @MAbufalgha
I had the pleasure of sitting down (virtually) with Matthew and Tom for a conversation on Libya and the Russian role in the conflict for the @SlavXRadio podcast.
مقابلتي مع بودكاست ذا سلافك كونيكشن وحديث عن ليبيا والدور الروسي في الصراع الليبي. https://t.co/p6hi06dx5X
— Mohamed Abufalgha (@MAbufalgha) September 12, 2020
@MAbufalgha , Arab Barometer's expert on #Libya, shares his thoughts on the Second Libyan Civil War & the Russia Connexion on the latest episode of @SlavXRadio podcast.
Tune in: https://t.co/HJIvDAeIQs https://t.co/2SSeEtAJrA— الباروميتر العربي /Arab Barometer (@ArabBarometer) September 14, 2020
NOTE: This episode was recorded on Friday, September 4th, 2020 via Zoom. CREDITS Co-Producer: Matthew Orr (Connect: facebook.com/orrrmatthew) Co-Producer: Tom Rehnquist (Connect: Twitter @RehnquistTom) Associate Producer: Lera Toropin Associate Producer: Cullan Bendig Assistant Producer: Samantha Farmer Assistant Producer: Milena D-K Assistant Producer/Administrator: Kathryn Yegorov-Crate Recording, Editing, and Sound Design: Michelle Daniel Additional Editing: Jada Geraci Music Producer: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic) www.charlieharpermusic.com (Main Theme by Charlie Harper and additional background music by Charlie Harper, Boss Bass, The Polish Ambassador, Ketsa, and Blue Dot Sessions) Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) www.msdaniel.com DISCLAIMER: The views expressed on this episode do not necessarily reflect those of the show or the University of Texas at Austin. Special Guest: Mohamed Abufalgha.
The Balkan Circle is a weekly seminar (during the academic year) which features lectures, presentations, exhibits, or open interactive dialogues that focus on any (and all) aspects of historical, political, economic, social and cultural phenomena in the (so-called) Balkans. The seminar is free and open to the public and will be held every Friday from 12:00 pm to 1:15 pm online. Visit https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/slavic/events/balkan-circle.php for more information. ABOUT THE BALKAN CIRCLE SPECIAL GUEST Dimitar Bechev https://www.fpri.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/2283-dimitar-bechev_160313_171008.jpg Dimitar Bechev is the director of the European Policy Institute, a think-tank based in Sofia, Bulgaria. Previously, he held research fellowships at Harvard University, University of Oxford and the London School of Economics, and headed the Sofia office of the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR). Dr. Bechev has written extensively on EU’s external relations, the politics and modern history of Turkey and the Balkans, and Russia’s foreign policy. His book Rival Power: Russia in Southeast Europe (Yale University Press, 2017) explores Russia’s geopolitical role in the Balkans, Greece, Cyprus, and Turkey. He is a regular contributor to Al Jazeera, the American Interest, Politico, Foreign Policy, and Open Democracy. NOTE: This episode was recorded via Zoom on Friday, September 4th, 2020. CREDITS Balkan Circle organizers: Dr. Mary C. Neuburger and Dr. Kiril Avramov Administrative and Technical Support: Cara Keirstead and Roy Flores Music Producer: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic) www.charlieharpermusic.com (Additional music by Ketsa, Scott Holmes, John Bartmann, and Kariatida ) Executive Producer/Editor: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) www.msdaniel.com Follow us on social media! Twitter: @SlavXRadio Facebook: /slavxradio Instagram: @slavxradio Visit https://slavxradio.com for more episodes and content. DISCLAIMER: The views expressed on this episode do not necessarily reflect those of the show or the University of Texas at Austin. Special Guests: Dimitar Bechev, Kiril Avramov, and Mary C. Neuburger.
Our guest today is Dr. Tomasz Samojlik, an environmental historian and researcher at the Mammal Research Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Białowieża. His research focuses on Poland's Białowieża Primeval Forest, one of the last remaining primeval forests in Europe. In addition to his research, Dr. Samojlik spoke with us about his work popularising science and scientific knowledge using books, comics and graphic novels for children. In his own words, "My aim is to instill the curiosity for nature, wildlife and science in kids during workshops, seminars and lectures in Poland." ABOUT THE GUEST http://tomaszsamojlik.pl/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/DSC05590.jpg According to his Twitter and Instagram account (@wiedzmun and @tomasz.samojlik) he is an "Environmental historian by day, comics and children books creator by night, basketball fan for life." Visit his website for more on his books for children and the Mammal Research Institute's site for more about his work as an environmental historian on the Białowieża Forest. See his bio on our site for more information. https://slavxradio.com/guests/samojlik http://tomaszsamojlik.pl/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Polinka-zagin%C4%99%C5%82a-ok%C5%82adka.jpg http://tomaszsamojlik.pl/wp-content/uploads/2000/04/15_Niesmiala_salamandra_OKLADKA_DO_DRUKU_poprawiony.jpg http://tomaszsamojlik.pl/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/najstraszniejszy-drapie%C5%BCnik.jpg
NOTE: This episode was recorded via Zoom on August 24th, 2020. And a very special thanks to Audrius Rickus, a friend of the SlavX team for graciously connecting us with Dr. Samojlik. Also, thank you to CREEES's graduate coordinator and assistant director Agnes Sekowski for joining us on this episode to chime in with her expertise on the topic of Poland's forest. CREDITS Co-Producer: Tom Rehnquist (Connect on Twitter: @RehnquistTom) Co-Producer: Matthew Orr (Connect: facebook.com/orrrmatthew) Host/Associate Producer: Cullan Bendig Guest Host: Agnes Sekowski Associate Producer: Lera Toropin Associate Producer: Samantha Farmer Assistant Producer: Katherine Birch Assistant Producer/Administrator: Kathryn Yegorov-Crate Contributing Producer: Audrius Rickus Executive Editor/Music Producer: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic) www.charlieharpermusic.com (Additional background music by The Polish Ambassador, Blue Dot Sessions, Kai Engel, and John Bartmann) Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) www.msdaniel.com DISCLAIMER: The views expressed on this episode do not necessarily reflect those of the show or the University of Texas at Austin. Special Guests: Agnes Sekowski and Tomasz Samojlik.
On this episode, Tom speaks with UT's own Professor Sparrow about his 2015 book on legendary multi-administration US National Security Advisor Brent Scowcroft who sadly passed away recently on August 6th, 2020. This is a great conversation, remembering the unassuming but brilliant strategist who was so integral during the late Cold War period. Hope you enjoy! ABOUT THE GUEST https://i.vimeocdn.com/video/540586625.webp?mw=900&mh=507&q=70 Dr. Sparrow is the author of The Strategist: Brent Scowcroft and the Call of National Security, a biography of the former U.S. national security advisor. He is previously the author of The Insular Cases and the Emergence of American Empire; Uncertain Guardians: The News Media as a Political Institution; and From the Outside In: World War II and the American State. He is co-editor, with Sanford Levinson, of The Louisiana Purchase and American Expansion, 1803-1898 and, with Roderick Hart, of Politics, Discourse, and American Society: New Agendas. He has chapters in several edited volumes, and his articles have appeared in the American Political Science Review, Political Communication, Diplomatic History, the International Journal of Public Opinion Research, and other journals. He attended Dartmouth College, The University of Texas at Austin, and the University of Chicago. NOTE: This episode was recorded via Zoom on August 20th, 2020. CREDITS Host/Co-Producer: Tom Rehnquist (Connect on Twitter: @RehnquistTom) Co-Producer: Matthew Orr (Connect: facebook.com/orrrmatthew) Associate Producer: Cullan Bendig Associate Producer: Lera Toropin Assistant Producer: Samantha Farmer Assistant Producer: Milena D-K Assistant Producer: Katherine Birch Assistant Producer/Administrator: Kathryn Yegorov-Crate Development Assistant: Luis Camarena Executive Editor/Music Producer: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic) www.charlieharpermusic.com (Additional clips of Brent Scowcroft from RFE/RL and "Remembering Brent Scowcroft" video on YouTube) Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) www.msdaniel.com DISCLAIMER: The views expressed on this episode do not necessarily reflect those of the show or the University of Texas at Austin. Special Guest: Bartholomew Sparrow.
In this episode, Matt spoke with Dr. Mark Galeotti about the pressing issues of the day in Eurasia: the suspected poisoning of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, the ongoing protests in the far-eastern city of Khabarovsk, and the Kremlin's view on the post-election crisis in Belarus. Using his keen understanding of the Kremlin's decision-making process, Dr. Galeotti, creator of the blog and podcast "In Moscow's Shadow", provides a number of timely insights for our listeners. We eagerly await your feedback! Check out Dr. Galeotti's latest book here: https://www.amazon.com/We-Need-Talk-About-Putin/dp/1529103592/ref=sr11?dchild=1&keywords=mark+galeotti+putin&qid=1598298607&sr=8-1 https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41Uavu44UNL._SX313_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg
If you #follow #Eurasia #geopolitics, the news has been coming fast. From Alexei Navalny #poisoning in #Russia to #protests in Khabarovsk, & the #Belarus crisis. #Listen to @RANEnetwork Matt Orr break everything down with @MarkGaleotti on @SlavXRadio https://t.co/LmMzOale8T
— Stratfor - a RANE Company (@Stratfor) August 25, 2020
ABOUT THE GUEST https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1196790504752648193/6WTTzv2U.png Mark Galeotti (born October 1965) is a London-based lecturer and writer on transnational crime and Russian security affairs and principal director of the consultancy Mayak Intelligence. He is an Honorary Professor at the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies and a Senior Associate Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute, as well as a Senior Non-Resident Fellow at the Institute of International Relations Prague and previously head of its Centre for European Security. He writes on his own blog, In Moscow's Shadows (https://inmoscowsshadows.wordpress.com/) as well as guest writes for Raam op Rusland, EUROPP, oD:Russia, the International Policy Digest, and other blogs. He also contributes articles to The Moscow Times and War on the Rocks (https://warontherocks.com/) (from the Texas National Security Review), and is a contributing editor to Business New Europe. NOTE: This episode was recorded on Sunday, August 23, 2020 via Zoom. https://axs1qa.sn.files.1drv.com/y4mfEm-n9Da_2qheVdGaBh_5nnns9XGaqLHexM2klX8s1RAtNGD67sjKQ9pUnIbeEMG-6p70nvMPEEK8SkI_2Bk7G15t4f98xVwq6TJFyTTAPva4zpXv56PxC_CskphzfbOj5N6dPTaGiJqzXoq1S5UhnfU9tTUDjFsZ11o8USQBSfkfMFdOc6LjsszDIcYYh5YejYRR0RMaDHQdZyErHzAoA?width=3832&height=1902&cropmode=none CREDITS Co-Producer: Matthew Orr (Connect: facebook.com/orrrmatthew) Co-Producer: Tom Rehnquist (Connect: Twitter @RehnquistTom) Associate Producer: Lera Toropin Associate Producer: Cullan Bendig Assistant Producer: Samantha Farmer Assistant Producer: Milena D-K Assistant Producer/Administrator: Kathryn Yegorov-Crate Recording, Editing, and Sound Design: Michelle Daniel Additional Editing: Jada Geraci Music Producer: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic) www.charlieharpermusic.com (Main Theme by Charlie Harper and additional background music by Charlie Harper, Boss Bass, and Blue Dot Sessions) Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) www.msdaniel.com DISCLAIMER: The views expressed on this episode do not necessarily reflect those of the show or the University of Texas at Austin.
Had a nice chat on Sunday with the @SlavXRadio folk at @UTCREEES for their Slavic Connexion podcast: Belarus, Navalny, adhocracy and more...https://t.co/cpjlmc7KhT
— Mark Galeotti (@MarkGaleotti) August 25, 2020
Special Guest: Mark Galeotti.
On this episode recorded August 21, 2020, Matt and Lera speak with Alexei Navalny's close co-collaborator on anti-corruption in Russia, Maxim Mironov. They discuss the current situation with Alexei Navalny's alleged poisoning and also Russian state corruption in a broader, global context. NOTE: We apologize for audio difficulties with our guest due to bad internet connections in Buenos Aires. This episode was recorded via Zoom on August 21, 2020. We thank our guest Maxim Mironov for graciously agreeing to join us on the show. ABOUT THE GUEST Maxim Mironov is professor of finance at the IE Business School in Madrid, Spain. His primary research interest is in empirical corporate finance. He also is interested in international accounting, management compensation, and corporate governance. Before joining IE in 2009, Maxim taught as a visiting professor at New Economic School (Moscow). His non-academic experience includes working as an Investment Director at PSC, one of the largest direct investment funds in Russia. He earned a bachelor’s degree in Economics at Novosibirsk State University in 2000. Maxim received a master’s degree in Economics at New Economic School (Moscow) in 2003 and a PhD in Finance at Chicago GSB in 2008. Maxim enjoys travel, skiing, and cooking. Visit his LiveJournal page: https://mmironov.livejournal.com/ https://a3s3qa.sn.files.1drv.com/y4mtZT5JSasE-8Qn_MJu6aq2UY90fYf43XfEly9-LMF3cNACC3a-vu16kbZQCdR9cLMPR92FEgr75GJ9OGDp-qyQsAaqvHReAxpM-a4JkA82-FYmdi4_HRO6LVwRDNXtxLAN6owq3BZi14K-RuMIPAIGtioZvJEdyACpskbOfVA7qFNMh9id23botBt7owOPKEXQKNwfT7AGOjVWQNML8_z7g?width=3712&height=1812&cropmode=none CREDITS Co-Producer: Matthew Orr (Connect: facebook.com/orrrmatthew) Co-Producer: Tom Rehnquist (Connect: Twitter @RehnquistTom) Associate Producer: Lera Toropin Associate Producer: Cullan Bendig Associate Producer: Samantha Farmer Associate Producer: Milena D-K Supervising Producer/Administrator: Kathryn Yegorov-Crate Recording, Editing, and Sound Design: Michelle Daniel Music Producer: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic) www.charlieharpermusic.com (Main Theme by Charlie Harper and additional Background music by Charlie Harper, John Bartmann, and Blue Dot Sessions) News sound bites and Alexei Navalny interview snippet from BBC and Deutsche Welle (DW). Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) www.msdaniel.com DISCLAIMER: The views expressed on this episode do not necessarily reflect those of the show or the University of Texas at Austin. Special Guest: Maxim Mironov.
Is this the end of Europe's Last Dictator? In this episode, Matt spoke with Aliaksandr aka Ales Herasimenka, a researcher at the University of Westminster and previous guest on the show about the ongoing presidential elections in Belarus, where embattled president Alexander Lukashenko faces the most organized opposition in the history of his 26 years as president. A new generation has rallied around the 37-year-old English teacher Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, who promises to usher in a new era of democracy to Belarus. The final day of voting is Sunday, August 9th, after which no one is exactly sure what to expect following an election campaign that has already broken all the norms.
"Is this the end of Europe's Last Dictator?" - a lovely title to the most recent podcast episode by a great team at The...
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NOTE: This episode was recorded on August 5th, 2020 via Zoom. CREDITS Co-Producer: Matthew Orr (Connect: facebook.com/orrrmatthew) Co-Producer: Tom Rehnquist (Connect: @RehnquistTom) Associate Producer: Lera Toropin Associate Producer: Cullan Bendig Associate Producer: Samantha Farmer Associate Producer: Milena D-K Assistant Producer/Social Media Manager: Kathryn Yegorov-Crate Recording, Editing, and Sound Design: Michelle Daniel Music Producer: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic) www.charlieharpermusic.com (Main Theme by Charlie Harper and additional Background music by Charlie Harper, John Bartmann, and Blue Dot Sessions) Tikhanovskaya sound bites from BBC World News coverage. Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) www.msdaniel.com DISCLAIMER: The views expressed on this episode do not necessarily reflect those of the show or the University of Texas at Austin. Special Guest: Aliaksandr Herasimenka.
BBC's Seva Novgorodsev joins us once more just in time for his 80th birthday! This time, we gather around Zoom, but the conversation is, as always, entertaining and unexpected--one never knows where Seva will lead us and what he will teach us. We hope you enjoy! If you wish to check out any of Seva's books and his latest audiobook "Настоящий джентльмен" (A True Gentleman), visit his site https://seva.ru/store/?id=16. https://seva.ru/img/ngcover.jpg NOTE: This episode was recorded on April 17th, 2020 via Zoom. CREDITS Co-Producer: Tom Rehnquist (Connect: facebook.com/thomas.rehnquist) Co-Producer/Host: Matthew Orr (Connect: facebook.com/orrrmatthew) Associate Producer/Co-Host: Lera Toropin Associate Producer: Kathryn Yegorov-Crate Associate Producer: Cullan Bendig Associate Producer: Samantha Farmer Associate Producer: Milena D-K Audio Editor: Michelle Daniel Music Theme by Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic) www.charlieharpermusic.com (Additional Background music by Blue Dot Sessions, Loyalty Freak, Michelle Daniel Trio, Charlie Harper & Michelle Daniel; Small samples of songs included from YouTube trailers of movies LETO and BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY) Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) www.msdaniel.com DISCLAIMER: The views expressed on this episode do not necessarily reflect those of the show or the University of Texas at Austin. Special Guests: Seva Novgorodsev (Сева Новгородцев) and Thomas Garza.
Former CIA officer Stephen Slick joins us to talk about his nearly three decades in intelligence, spent largely overseas in Ukraine, the Balkans, and East Germany. Professor Slick also discusses his return Stateside to a position in Langley just one week before 9-11 occurred and his present role as an educator at the University of Texas at Austin in building the Intelligence Studies Project--a first of its kind in the United States. We hope you enjoy! ABOUT THE GUEST https://lbj.utexas.edu/sites/default/files/styles/faculty_bio_image__258x344_/public/profilephotos/CCR_Slick_web.jpg?itok=FMyHks_P Stephen Slick was appointed in January 2015 as director of The University of Texas at Austin’s Intelligence Studies Project and clinical professor at the LBJ School of Public Affairs. Before moving to Austin, he served for 28 years in the CIA's clandestine service, including five assignments abroad. Between 2005 and 2009, he was a special assistant to the president and the senior director for intelligence programs and reform on the staff of the National Security Council. He received a B.A. from The Pennsylvania State University, a J.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles, School of Law and a Master in Public Policy degree from Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. NOTE: This episode was recorded on April 26th, 2020 via Zoom. Professor Slick appears courtesy of the LBJ School of Public Policy and the Intelligence Studies Project at UT Austin. For more information please visit: https://intelligencestudies.utexas.edu/ CREDITS Co-Producer: Tom Rehnquist (Connect: facebook.com/thomas.rehnquist) Co-Producer: Matthew Orr (Connect: facebook.com/orrrmatthew) Host/Associate Producer: Lera Toropin Associate Producer: Cullan Bendig Associate Producer: Samantha Farmer Associate Producer: Milena D-K Assistant Producer/Social Media Manager: Kathryn Yegorov-Crate Development Assistant: Luis Camarena Recording, Editing, and Sound Design: Michelle Daniel Music Producer: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic) www.charlieharpermusic.com (Main Theme by Charlie Harper and additional Background music by Charlie Harper, John Bartmann, and Blue Dot Sessions) Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) www.msdaniel.com DISCLAIMER: The views expressed on this episode do not necessarily reflect those of the show or the University of Texas at Austin. Special Guest: Stephen Slick.
Dr. Susie Crate returns to The Slavic Connexion! This time, Dr. Crate spoke with SlavX host Katya about her experiences collecting ethnomusicological material from 1989–1990 in the Kharkiv oblast in Eastern Ukraine, then still part of the Soviet Union. This work was part of a larger project to collect and preserve songs unique to particular villages in the Kharkiv oblast. The types of songs recorded include kozats’ki pisni (Cossack songs), wedding, balada (ballad), chastivka (joking), funeral, and religious. Dr. Crate shares six songs with us – a chastivka from Raketnaya, a wedding song from Kyseli, a Melanka song from Dmitrovka, an Ivan Kupala song from Izium, and two ballads from Raketnaya and Pisarevka. Special thanks to Dr. Vera Mikolaevna Osadcha, professor and head of the former Department of Ukrainian Folk Singing and Musical Folklore at the Kharkiv State Academy of Culture, and colleague and dear friend of Dr. Crate. Z Velykodnem! https://dl.boxcloud.com/api/2.0/internal_files/662490565839/versions/702604836639/representations/jpg_paged_2048x2048/content/1.jpg?access_token=1!rQTGP4sWADpc1C3D8PpKgOaOrs5iTRxADoR7qSgR8xLoQGZBGnSgzT-b_pOLDuoY-IjhtCro58IjDZLE4W0ivYgL7wJSrteZ0xqIZC9oH8YqCos-pHgUPbKeRHL4KgnrjSgLNyUfal1QawlSIL620d5EvLqxA6iy5bjFvvMkhUUqw7frLiztDGNma6GHOmepD3AP94Xe1BpGjeUjUnS6MM5cQ-lTlsNlHOJ-0e5ct6hc2MABlvKVe54owK94sBZXaTb-5I8kGBafhSBWdAxOHe74KGeJDVu5tvocZNqEogR3B0wmVkrbqQl2jKuhLTNYibpB_uLb4eqYzS26ZXubl0zN6UqtCqpQQymSSroY_f_YuLvigMAi90gMic9-WQWVUZ20JdnyiTlhpauFN2CBnjiogRFAU7MQ-UufIRpTbVEZ4x6Mg7yoSsGcr5CzWG5wd-LSmm4xJ63BwGoiYoUKwyR7DElRm79v5tiw3Ng-fZGEysv_UXhJ5QomycVgIKafkyvpwGNwyNCzVF0jT8_FJxcCCKJMpFxfIruahSY1AsfNjAYtqu69gGgbSADle54tOA..&box_client_name=box-content-preview&box_client_version=2.41.1 https://dl.boxcloud.com/api/2.0/internal_files/662491483007/versions/702605775407/representations/jpg_paged_2048x2048/content/1.jpg?access_token=1!6UUVqTyLM8gPBQE4Ffkzw_2UsPFmP_Rlzpfu1frlRzOAk59nmZ7m_oxVlctDGY-d8tzWJQGJeBBsfZEBERlG0N1HlgBCAzXGG-9oyRphTGCqaXRMoV_Tx7QqtbxJgnDNQfwu1ZS2f2_isN2vDcKsTF7K7PQdrlYL0MAXJQJ3vrNF_4KSi2Onh4tOYu1KN2elAln-sNWFZjI2zWpdlRUzmJyMcAxShzcihpIAPnttJm746xHtOmq_Owu8nn22HRw3Yii04aFerE6dIbuNpVcu6uay7BUWQaIBbB6cpijmpSvNnFzqc8ATqsRzB15sdU09mOCYIKYL7cVIQsYXnnOFesXoxJrBRdozd-zQz00nFNQIcCKAdLw0Ja71j-oHyPvLHQfdqgV6YWUvZXwJCUlckO_m_s-p3eZXDIxM7eUXsjcp4bB6HRvJle5R4HmmghedRXGk7D0ypI3ZpPliBYqKSbl3OHu_DhDjDDTJsxrriIju2BQ8KZqNlL_oesS1ZmVE9qJBoiIlDEW6MtgrFi0JiJDNfhhRyIwI7uJU3J54oYod9YDt5t2Y1AZLrqvcJVs9ww..&box_client_name=box-content-preview&box_client_version=2.41.1 Photo credit: Dr. Susan Crate. ABOUT THE GUEST Dr. Susan Crate is a professor of Anthropology in the Department of Environmental Science and Policy at George Mason University. She is trained as an applied anthropologist, folklorist, and ethnomusicologist. Much of her research focuses on environmental and cognitive anthropology and human ecology among Viliui Sakha of Yakutia, Northeastern Siberia. Her research on the effects of unprecedented climate change has recently expanded to Canada, Mongolia, Peru, Wales, Kiribati, and the ever-so exotic, Chesapeake Bay. She is the author of Cows, Kin, and Globalization: An Ethnography of Sustainability (2006), the coeditor of Anthropology and Climate Change: From Encounters to Actions (2009, 2016), and a lead author on Chapter 1 of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s “Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate”. NOTE: This episode was recorded on April 18th, 2020. Recordings of folk music provided by Dr. Susan Crate. CREDITS Co-Producer: Tom Rehnquist (Connect: facebook.com/thomas.rehnquist) Co-Producer: Matthew Orr (Connect: facebook.com/orrrmatthew) Assistant Producer: Kathryn Yegorov-Crate Associate Producer: Lera Toropin Associate Producer: Cullan Bendig Associate Producer: Samantha Farmer Associate Producer: Milena D-K Development Assistant: Luis Camarena Production Intern: Jada Sofia Executive Editor: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic) www.charlieharpermusic.com (Additional Background music by John Bartmann, Michelle Daniel, and Axeltree) Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) www.msdaniel.com DISCLAIMER: The views expressed on this episode do not necessarily reflect those of the show or the University of Texas at Austin. Special Guest: Susan Crate.
Renowned geopolitical strategist Peter Zeihan (www.zeihan.com) graciously joins us via Zoom for an intensive breakdown of the current world order and his predictions for the future concerning the economic and political directions of America, Russia, China, Saudi Arabia, Mexico, and other nations. This is a true international whirlwind, and a must-listen for any student or aficionado of global policy and IR theory. We hope you enjoy! ABOUT THE GUEST https://chartwellspeakers.b-cdn.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Peter_Zeihan_HS-2-768x791.jpg Peter Zeihan is a geopolitical strategist, author, and speaker who specializes in global energy, demographics and security. He analyzes the realities of geography and populations to deepen the understanding of how global politics impact markets and economic trends. His latest book DISUNITED NATIONS is now available on Amazon and as an e-book on Audible (https://smile.amazon.com/Disunited-Nations-Scramble-Power-Ungoverned/dp/B082WK4LY9/ref=sr_1_2?crid=22K1RCXQM5RQ7&dchild=1&keywords=disunited+nations+peter+zeihan&qid=1589250246&sprefix=disunited%2Caps%2C187&sr=8-2). https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41mXcWuv1-L.jpg NOTE: This episode was recorded on May 6th, 2020 via Zoom. CREDITS Co-Producer/Host: Tom Rehnquist (Connect: facebook.com/thomas.rehnquist) Co-Producer: Matthew Orr (Connect: facebook.com/orrrmatthew) Associate Producer: Lera Toropin Associate Producer: Kathryn Yegorov-Crate Associate Producer: Cullan Bendig Associate Producer: Samantha Farmer Associate Producer: Milena D-K Development Assistant: Luis Camarena Production Intern: Jada Sofia Executive Editor: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic) www.charlieharpermusic.com (Additional Background music by Blue Dot Sessions, Scott_Holmes, Loyalty Freak) Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) www.msdaniel.com DISCLAIMER: The views expressed on this episode do not necessarily reflect those of the show or the University of Texas at Austin. Special Guest: Peter Zeihan.
В этом эпизоде Мэтт беседует со знаменитой российской журналисткой Жанной Немцовой о многих темах, от ее времени в Америке до Украины. Надеемся, вам понравится слушать! Фонд Бориса Немцова за свободу: https://nemtsovfund.org/ Летняя школа журналистики и социокультурных исследований: https://summerschool.nemtsovfund.org/apply/ Статья о коронавирусе и рейтинге власти, которую мы обсуждали: https://www.forbes.ru/obshchestvo/398943-udar-po-kreativnomu-klassu-pochemu-pandemiya-privedet-k-padeniyu-reytingov-vlasti Краткое содержание: 1:16 Что хочет внутренний журналист Жанны во время карантина и чем она занимается 4:40 Зачем берут американских славистов в летнюю школу журналистики? 9:33 Представление о Америке в детстве и сейчас 15:17 Читала ли Жанна Конституцию США? 17:40 Про равноправие и феминизм 23:33 Раздавать людям наличные во время карантина хорошая идея? 27:58 Как карантинные меры повлияют на экономику и рейтинг власти в России 33:33 Украина и Саакашвили 38:11 Менялись ли ценности Жанны когда-нибудь? 46:02 Планы на будущее и формат интервью. Кто лучший? 53:40 Приглашаю Жанну в Остин О НАШЕМ ГОСТЕ: https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0?ui=2&ik=2cef33b391&attid=0.0.1&permmsgid=msg-f:1666148141689672636&th=171f58e8409713bc&view=fimg&sz=s0-l75-ft&attbid=ANGjdJ8rhiW_2XPD0vwdESVHCLVHrtjJJo2qNwnrYOKLUMBenAFkGrQLFSnIyFAfXmnsfxfTdcMzNuy3d14qyplFj3ZErmzPQGGZRjsNQPt7rNngjmi1-omzGSrsU34&disp=emb&realattid=ii_k9yj2xo90 Фото: Георгий Кривошеев Жанна Борисовна Немцова— российская журналистка и общественный деятель, телеведущая телеканала РБК в 2011—2015 годах. С августа 2015 года по январь 2020 года работала в Германии репортёром русской редакции немецкой телерадиокомпании Deutsche Welle и ведущей телепрограммы «Немцова. Интервью» и «DW Новости». С 1997 года, после назначения отца заместителем председателя правительства России, переехала с семьёй в Москву. Одну четверть проучилась в лицее № 1239 (бывшая школа № 20, где учились дети и внуки ряда известных лиц), откуда самовольно вернулась в Нижний, к бабушке Дине Яковлевне (матери Б. Немцова), и продолжила учёбу в нижегородском лицее № 8. Через год по настоянию родителей всё же обосновалась в Москве. В 2001 году окончила 312-ю московскую школу на Чистых прудах. В том же году поступила в Fordham University, однако, вскоре вернулась в Россию и перевелась в Московский государственный институт международных отношений МИД России. В 2005 году окончила МГИМО по специальности «мировая экономика» со знанием иностранных языков. Получала второе высшее образование в Московской государственной юридической академии. В 2017 году приняла участие в программе Стэнфордского университета «Summer Fellowship on Democracy and Development Program». (Source: Wikipedia) NOTE: This episode was recorded on April 25th, 2020 via Zoom. CREDITS Co-Producer: Tom Rehnquist (Connect: facebook.com/thomas.rehnquist) Co-Producer: Matthew Orr (Connect: facebook.com/orrrmatthew) Associate Producer: Lera Toropin Associate Producer: Kathryn Yegorov-Crate Associate Producer: Cullan Bendig Associate Producer: Samantha Farmer Associate Producer: Milena D-K Development Assistant: Luis Camarena Production Intern: Jada Sofia Executive Editor: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic) www.charlieharpermusic.com (Additional Background music by Blue Dot Sessions, Scott_Holmes, Loyalty Freak) Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) www.msdaniel.com DISCLAIMER: The views expressed on this episode do not necessarily reflect those of the show or the University of Texas at Austin. Special Guest: Zhanna Nemtsova (Жанна Борисовна Немцова).
Columnist, radio host, and Hoover Institution fellow Dr. Markos Kounalakis joins us via Zoom to talk about California's early response to Covid-19, the cognitive dissonance of beautiful Hungary, his experience in Central and Eastern Europe in the late 80s/early 90s as a journalist, and much more! And if you haven't yet and are looking for a decent read, check out Dr. Kounalakis's recommendation World War Z by Max Brooks. ABOUT THE GUEST https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d05260e4b0ad63feee0c13/1410371990050-8Y4UF9RMV1LD578LVDQN/ke17ZwdGBToddI8pDm48kIHjW4L_FvD_dDf_0CmCumF7gQa3H78H3Y0txjaiv_0fDoOvxcdMmMKkDsyUqMSsMWxHk725yiiHCCLfrh8O1z4YTzHvnKhyp6Da-NYroOW3ZGjoBKy3azqku80C789l0hZPx-jNbZA_TaS-5l2nNKGNWMgnIfADgDZ5pQ6bs1KlRcyVhDpF6PECwk1xWEoIVg/image-asset.jpeg Markos Kounalakis, Ph.D. is a Visiting Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution and a Senior Fellow at the Center on Media, Data, and Society at Central European University in Budapest, Hungary. He is an award-winning, nationally-syndicated foreign affairs columnist, author, and scholar. Wars and revolutions are where he cut his teeth as a foreign correspondent. His columns appear weekly in the McClatchy chain of 30 newspapers from Sacramento, California to Miami, Florida. His work is in global syndication and read worldwide from South Korea to the Middle Eastern Gulf states. In 2018, the National Society of Newspaper Columnists recognized “Kounalakis’s world affairs columns not only offer strong prose and strong opinions, they offer an education.” He is currently a co-host of the public broadcasting “World Affairs” program. He frequently appears on television as a foreign affairs analyst. Books he has authored are wide-ranging – from the Silicon Valley’s global technological revolution to America’s geopolitical struggles with China and Russia. His latest book, Spin Wars & Spy Games: Global Media and Intelligence Gathering, was published by the Hoover Institution Press in 2018. In 2017, President Barack Obama appointed Dr. Kounalakis to the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board in the U.S. State Department’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. Dr. Kounalakis is married to Eleni Kounalakis, the former U.S. Ambassador to Hungary and current Lt. Governor of the State of California, making him California’s “Second Partner.” The family has two teenaged boys anagrammatically named Neo and Eon. NOTE: This episode was recorded on April 16th, 2020 via Zoom. CREDITS Co-Producer: Tom Rehnquist (Connect: facebook.com/thomas.rehnquist) Co-Producer: Matthew Orr (Connect: facebook.com/orrrmatthew) Associate Producer: Lera Toropin Associate Producer: Kathryn Yegorov-Crate Associate Producer: Cullan Bendig Associate Producer: Samantha Farmer Associate Producer: Milena D-K Development Assistant: Luis Camarena Executive Editor: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic) www.charlieharpermusic.com (Additional Background music by Mt Fuji, Three Ravens, Social Kapital, and Blue Dot Sessions) Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) www.msdaniel.com DISCLAIMER: The views expressed on this episode do not necessarily reflect those of the show or the University of Texas at Austin.
Jeff Trimble, Moscow Bureau Chief for US News & World Report during the late Soviet period, talks to us about his wild experiences reporting from behind the Iron Curtain and witnessing the dissolution of the USSR. A radio professional as well (and earnest space aficionado and Star Trek fan) he certainly brings some extra finesse to yet another Zoom session. Hope you enjoy! NOTE: This episode was recorded via Zoom on April 15th, 2020. (Pictured below, guest Jeff Trimble with famed lead singer of Aquarium, Boris Grebenshchikov in Trimble's Moscow apartment in the late 80s)
(Pictured below is the photo taken by David Remnick of Jeff Trimble in Yerevan in the 80s--the picture talked about at the beginning of the episode) https://comm.osu.edu/sites/default/files/styles/full_width/public/Jeffrey-Trimble-in-Soviet-Union.jpeg?itok=r_pv1HlW CREDITS Co-Producer: Tom Rehnquist (Connect: facebook.com/thomas.rehnquist) Co-Producer: Matthew Orr (Connect: facebook.com/orrrmatthew) Associate Producer: Lera Toropin Associate Producer: Kathryn Yegorov-Crate Associate Producer: Cullan Bendig Associate Producer: Samantha Farmer Associate Producer: Milena D-K Development Assistant: Luis Camarena Executive Editor/Music Producer: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic) www.charlieharpermusic.com (Additional Background music by Blue Dot Sessions, and sound effects from Star Trek the original series from mediacollege.com and trekcore.com) Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) www.msdaniel.com DISCLAIMER: Texas Podcast Network is brought to you by The University of Texas at Austin. Podcasts are produced by faculty members and staffers at UT Austin who work with University Communications to craft content that adheres to journalistic best practices. The University of Texas at Austin offers these podcasts at no charge. Podcasts appearing on the network and this webpage represent the views of the hosts, not of The University of Texas at Austin. https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/9/9a59b135-7876-4254-b600-3839b3aa3ab1/P1EKcswq.png Special Guest: Jeff Trimble.
Joining us via Zoom from self-isolation in Moscow, New Jersey native Joseph Crescente talks to us about his area of expertise as the media literacy fellow at the US Embassy/American Center in Moscow. This is a fascinating and relevant discussion on how to navigate the media landscape in today's COVID-19 information-rich and facts-poor environment. Take a listen! NOTE: This episode was recorded via Zoom on April 10th, 2020. CREDITS Co-Producer: Tom Rehnquist (Connect: facebook.com/thomas.rehnquist) Co-Producer: Matthew Orr (Connect: facebook.com/orrrmatthew) Host/Associate Producer: Lera Toropin Associate Producer: Kathryn Yegorov-Crate Associate Producer: Cullan Bendig Associate Producer: Samantha Farmer Associate Producer: Milena D-K Development Assistant: Luis Camarena Executive Editor/Music Producer: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic) www.charlieharpermusic.com (Additional Background music by Blue Dot Sessions, King Elizabeth, and the Michelle Daniel Trio) Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) www.msdaniel.com DISCLAIMER: The views expressed on this episode do not necessarily reflect those of the show or the University of Texas at Austin. Special Guest: Joe Crescente.
If you're at all a Russophile and you've never visited Russia Beyond (rbth.com), find out what you've been missing as we connect with the editor-in-chief of this amazing, culturally-focused international publication that now boasts 5 million readers worldwide. (Also, the alternate title for this episode is "Pants Challenge", courtesy of Tom -- you'll have to listen all the way to the end to find out who wins the pants challenge or at least who clearly does not.) Thank you for listening! https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/977487723790585856/4BVUH8GX_400x400.jpg NOTE: This episode was recorded via Zoom on April 10th, 2020. CREDITS Co-Host/Co-Producer: Tom Rehnquist (Connect: facebook.com/thomas.rehnquist) Co-Host/Co-Producer: Matthew Orr (Connect: facebook.com/orrrmatthew) Associate Producer: Kathryn Yegorov-Crate Associate Producer: Cullan Bendig Associate Producer: Lera Toropin Associate Producer: Samantha Farmer Associate Producer: Milena D-K Development Assistant: Luis Camarena Production Intern: Jasmine Geraci Additional Audio Editing: Jada Geraci Executive Editor/Music Producer: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic) www.charlieharpermusic.com Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) www.msdaniel.com DISCLAIMER: The views expressed on this episode do not necessarily reflect those of the show or the University of Texas at Austin. Special Guest: Vsevolod Pulya.
Joining us via Zoom is the authority on public diplomacy from University of Southern California, Nicholas Cull. Having written the primary resource on the subject as used by the US State Department, Dr. Cull defines public diplomacy for us and expounds on how it has changed and will continue to change in this digital age. (Note: this is one of Tom's favorite interviews.) ABOUT THE GUEST https://pressroom.usc.edu/files/2012/09/Cull_Nick_October.jpg Nicholas J. Cull is Professor of Public Diplomacy and is the founding director of the Master of Public Diplomacy program at USC. He took both his BA and PhD at the University of Leeds. While a graduate student, he studied at Princeton as a Harkness Fellow of the Commonwealth Fund of New York. From 1992 to 1997 he was lecturer in American History at the University of Birmingham in the UK. From September 1997 to August 2005 he was Professor of American Studies and Director of the Centre for American Studies in the Department of History at Leicester. Check out his latest book here: https://www.amazon.com/Public-Diplomacy-Foundations-Contemporary-Communication-ebook/dp/B07QMVJD75/ref=sr11?dchild=1&keywords=public+diplomacy&qid=1586826285&sr=8-1 Public Diplomacy: Foundations for Global Engagement In The Digital Age https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41QbGPL0A7L._SX330_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg https://b00xqa.sn.files.1drv.com/y4m_laSIVTJMWanQNonYP44JnvrqnGQpClA1d-dU_SsHISg5yakczwBarPhECpIzfB8cUjQLV5IOraA615VfKdJnkNU7YMVODaNXAcelJIcLj-Uxn28pqEYkeANQudpp0FrWxmrvEh0Ya6zzuLSvtzYD1lKCHnnCQtlX_nVC6NXQnKSj7y7TYGW0DRgNPMsnFICi6grpvbapWMttI1hpFCzNg?width=1024&height=576&cropmode=none NOTE: This episode was recorded via Zoom on April 8th, 2020. CREDITS Co-Host/Co-Producer: Tom Rehnquist (Connect: facebook.com/thomas.rehnquist) Co-Host/Co-Producer: Matthew Orr (Connect: facebook.com/orrrmatthew) Supervising Producer: Kathryn Yegorov-Crate Associate Producer: Cullan Bendig Associate Producer: Lera Toropin Associate Producer: Samantha Farmer Associate Producer: Milena D-K Development Assistant: Luis Camarena Production Intern: Jasmine Geraci Additional Audio Editing: Jada Geraci Executive Editor/Music Producer: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic) www.charlieharpermusic.com Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) www.msdaniel.com DISCLAIMER: The views expressed on this episode do not necessarily reflect those of the show or the University of Texas at Austin. Special Guest: Nicholas Cull.
Artemy Troitsky was scheduled to come to Austin and visit us at the University of Texas just a few weeks ago, but of course, due to enforced travel restrictions and a host of unforeseen coronavirus complications, his visit has been postponed until the Fall of 2020, hopefully. However, we decided to check in with him via Zoom, anyway, and he was gracious enough to join us not once but twice in both English and Russian to discuss music past and present and also biopics about the most famous musical artists of our time. Matt asks him what biopic he would make and about whom if he had the resources and budget for it. Find out Troitsky's answer in this episode. (You can check out the episode in English here: https://www.slavxradio.com/rocktheussr2.)
As always, thank you for listening! NOTE: This episode was recorded on April 7th, 2020 via Zoom.
CREDITS Co-Host/Co-Producer: Tom Rehnquist (Connect: facebook.com/thomas.rehnquist) Co-Host/Co-Producer: Matthew Orr (Connect: facebook.com/orrrmatthew) Supervising Producer: Kathryn Yegorov-Crate Associate Producer: Cullan Bendig Associate Producer: Lera Toropin Associate Producer: Samantha Farmer Associate Producer: Milena D-K Development Assistant: Luis Camarena Additional Audio Editing: Jada Geraci Sound design: Michelle Daniel Music credits: Clips of songs included for educational purposes from YouTube videos of Splean, Alla Pugacheva, Leto move trailer, Bohemian Rhapsody trailer, Rocketman trailer, Simon Slepakov. Executive Editor/Music Producer: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic) www.charlieharpermusic.com Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) www.msdaniel.com DISCLAIMER: The views expressed on this episode do not necessarily reflect those of the show or the University of Texas at Austin. Special Guest: Artemy Troitsky (Артемий Троицкий).
Back for more via Zoom, Tom Garza joins Matt and Tom once again to discuss Russian rock during the late USSR period to modern-day Russia, the power of nostalgia, and the role of music in COVID-19. And this time legendary music critic Artemy Troitsky also joins from Estonia. To listen to the previous episode in this short series, follow this link: https://www.slavxradio.com/sovietskyrock As always, thank you for listening, and we hope you enjoy!! RAW and UNEDITED Zoom video:
For the episode in Russian with Artemy Troitsky please visit: https://www.slavxradio.com/troitskyinrussian
For more on the impact of rock and roll on the USSR, see a feature from PRI: https://www.pri.org/stories/2011-05-19/how-rock-and-roll-brought-soviet-union-down To read about Joanna Stingray, see: https://www.rbth.com/arts/330211-joanna-stingray And check out the book Troitsky mentions: How the Beatles Rocked the Kremlin by Leslie Woodhead https://www.amazon.com/How-Beatles-Rocked-Kremlin-Revolution-ebook/dp/B009SJZKFY/ref=sr11?crid=1WXAE8411Y28M&keywords=how+the+beatles+rocked+the+kremlin&qid=1572282790&sprefix=the+beatles+rocked%2Caps%2C175&sr=8-1 Also, as mentioned by Tom Garza in the first episode ROCK THE USSR, Artemy Troitsky's famous book BACK IN THE USSR: THE TRUE STORY OF RUSSIAN ROCK is available here: https://www.amazon.com/Back-USSR-True-Story-Russia/dp/0571129978/ref=sr13?keywords=artemy+troitsky&qid=1572282885&sr=8-3 Along similar lines, Troitsky in recent years released a new book on Soviet subculture, called (aptly enough) Subkultura: Stories of Youth and Resistance in Russia. https://www.cornerhousepublications.org/publications/artemy-troitsky-subkultura-stories-of-youth-and-resistance-in-russia-1815-2017/ Music credits: Clips of songs included for educational purposes from YouTube videos of Valery Kipelov, Boris Grebenshchikov, and Artik & Asti. CREDITS Co-Host/Co-Producer: Tom Rehnquist (Connect: facebook.com/thomas.rehnquist) Co-Host/Co-Producer: Matthew Orr (Connect: facebook.com/orrrmatthew) Supervising Producer: Kathryn Yegorov-Crate Associate Producer: Cullan Bendig Associate Producer: Lera Toropin Associate Producer: Samantha Farmer Associate Producer: Milena D-K Development Assistant: Luis Camarena Production Intern: Jasmine Geraci Additional Audio Editing: Jada Geraci Executive Editor/Music Producer: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic) www.charlieharpermusic.com Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) www.msdaniel.com DISCLAIMER: The views expressed on this episode do not necessarily reflect those of the show or the University of Texas at Austin. Special Guests: Artemy Troitsky (Артемий Троицкий) and Thomas Garza.
On this episode, Tom, Matt, and Graham reunite to discuss more about Covid-19, the continuing oil drama between Russia and Saudi Arabia, and the ways in which the pandemic will permanently affect our world. As Dave from 2001 A Space Odyssey said, "Everything is going extremely well." NOTE: This episode was recorded on March 31, 2020 via Zoom. Thanks for listening and if you like us and support open academic programming, please take a second to rate the show on Apple Podcasts, TuneIn, or on our Facebook page. We so appreciate your support!! CREDITS Co-Host/Co-Producer: Tom Rehnquist (Connect: facebook.com/thomas.rehnquist) Co-Host/Co-Producer: Matthew Orr (Connect: facebook.com/orrrmatthew) Co-Host/Assistant Producer: Graham Reblitz Assistant Producer: Cullan Bendig Associate Producer: Lera Toropin Associate Producer: Samantha Farmer Associate Producer: Milena D-K Supervising Producer: Kathryn Yegorov-Crate Development Assistant: Luis Camarena Executive Editor/Music Producer: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic) www.charlieharpermusic.com Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) www.msdaniel.com DISCLAIMER: The views expressed on this episode do not necessarily reflect those of the show or the University of Texas at Austin.
On this episode, we meet with freelance journalist Aliide Naylor who joins us for our first Zoom interview from London to discuss her experiences in Russia, Ukraine, and her newly released book on Putin and the Baltics. This is our 80th episode, and we want tthank you for listening wherever you are in the world. We hope you enjoy! ABOUT THE GUEST: Aliide Naylor https://0.academia-photos.com/360830/12370189/13770105/s200_aliide.naylor.png Aliide Naylor is a freelance journalist focusing on Russia and eastern Europe. Her writing has appeared in the Guardian, New Statesman, POLITICO Europe, frieze, openDemocracy, New Eastern Europe and Vocativ, among others. Naylor has travelled to all corners of the Baltic states and has also lived in both St. Petersburg and Moscow, where she served as Arts Editor at The Moscow Times. Read an interview with her here: https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2020/03/07/the-shadow-in-the-east-a69554 Check out her new book The Shadow in the East: Vladimir Putin and the New Baltic Front, now available on Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Shadow-East-Vladimir-Putin-Baltic-ebook/dp/B083QZWNMH/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=shadow+in+the+east&qid=1585854228&sr=8-2): https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81WnRcZ832L.jpg TO ALL LISTENERS GLOBALLY: If you'd like to join the conversation through Zoom to let us know how you're coping with COVID-19 whether you're an academic or student or journalist or small business owner, please reach out to us via our contact page (https://www.slavxradio.com/contact) or on our Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/slavxradio/). We would love to hear from you! NOTE: This episode was recorded on March 31st, 2020 via Zoom. Thanks for listening and if you like us and support open academic programming, please take a second to rate the show on Apple Podcasts, TuneIn, or on our Facebook page. We so appreciate your support!! CREDITS Co-Producer: Tom Rehnquist (Connect: facebook.com/thomas.rehnquist) Host/Co-Producer: Matthew Orr (Connect: facebook.com/orrrmatthew) Assistant Producer: Cullan Bendig Associate Producer: Lera Toropin Associate Producer: Samantha Farmer Associate Producer: Milena D-K Supervising Producer: Kathryn Yegorov-Crate Development Assistant: Luis Camarena Executive Editor/Music Producer: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic) www.charlieharpermusic.com Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) www.msdaniel.com DISCLAIMER: The views expressed on this episode do not necessarily reflect those of the show or the University of Texas at Austin. Special Guest: Aliide Naylor.
At this time, we understand the world is in chaos, but it's still a good idea to take a break from the headlines every once in a while and feed your Slavic mind! (Almost as important as washing your hands and responsible social distancing!!) So, while we get our Zoom on, please enjoy some of our squirreled away interviews that we've saved for such a time as this. On this episode, Cullan has a great conversation with the engaging Dr. James Felak, Central European historian at the University of Washington. Dr. Felak has an extra special connection for us and CREEES as our fearless leader Dr. Mary Neuburger (https://www.slavxradio.com/bulgarian-yogurt-episode) was a former student of his! Also joining Cullan is cultural studies professor Dr. Kateřina Kolářová from Charles University in Prague. We sincerely hope you enjoy!! ABOUT THE GUESTS James Felak https://history.washington.edu/sites/history/files/styles/portrait/public/photos/2017-06-20_history_department_15_1.jpg?itok=Kyvt6xCm&c=2807f175ca8982e7cc7ab707b0a8eed5 Dr. James Felak is Professor at the University of Washington. He covers the countries of Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Slovakia in modern times, especially the twentieth century. His research interest is in the intersection of religion, politics, and nationalism within the region, especially during the interwar, wartime, and Communist periods. *Kateřina Kolářová * https://gender.fhs.cuni.cz/KGSENG-7-version1-kolarova.png Dr. Kateřina Kolářová received her PhD in Anglo-American Literary Studies and an MA in History and English and American Studies and History from Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague. Thanks for listening and if you like us and support open academic programming, please take a second to rate the show on Apple Podcasts, TuneIn, or on our Facebook page. We so appreciate your support!! And we also take suggestions for guests, so feel free to drop us a line if there's someone you think we should feature on The Slavic Connexion! CREDITS Co-Producer: Tom Rehnquist (Connect: facebook.com/thomas.rehnquist) Co-Producer: Matthew Orr (Connect: facebook.com/orrrmatthew) Host/Assistant Producer: Cullan Bendig Associate Producer: Lera Toropin Associate Producer: Samantha Farmer Associate Producer: Milena D-K Supervising Producer: Kathryn Yegorov-Crate Development Assistant: Luis Camarena Executive Editor/Music Producer: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic) www.charlieharpermusic.com Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) www.msdaniel.com NOTE + Disclaimer: This episode was recorded on November, 2019 at the ASEEES 2019 conference in San Francisco. Neither the University of Texas at Austin nor The Slavic Connexion is in any way affailiated with ASEEES and any guests who have appeared on this show do not represent an endorsement. Special Guests: James Felak and Kateřina Kolářová.
On this episode, Tom and Matt are joined by returning guest Graham Reblitz to delve into the meaty headlines of the day: Russian politics, the conflict between Russia and Saudi Arabia, and the WHO-declared pandemic that is sweeping the globe. NOTE: This episode was recorded on March 11, 2020 at the University of Texas at Austin. Thanks for listening and if you like us and support open academic programming, please take a second to rate the show on Apple Podcasts, TuneIn, or on our Facebook page. We so appreciate your support!! CREDITS Co-Host/Co-Producer: Tom Rehnquist (Connect: facebook.com/thomas.rehnquist) Co-Host/Co-Producer: Matthew Orr (Connect: facebook.com/orrrmatthew) Co-Host/Assistant Producer: Graham Reblitz Assistant Producer: Cullan Bendig Associate Producer: Lera Toropin Associate Producer: Samantha Farmer Associate Producer: Milena D-K Supervising Producer: Kathryn Yegorov-Crate Development Assistant: Luis Camarena Executive Editor/Music Producer: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic) www.charlieharpermusic.com Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) www.msdaniel.com DISCLAIMER: The views expressed on this episode do not necessarily reflect those of the show or the University of Texas at Austin.
Christian Ray Flores is an entrepreneur, world traveler, and philanthropist who was an international music "supernova" during the 90s in post-Soviet Russia. Though he may have, by his own estimation, been a short-lived phenomena in Russia he continues to make tremendous impact globally to this day. From charities to start-up ventures to churches to film, Christian does it all and has (quite literally) seen it all! Listen to his amazing, highly-entertaining story on this episode. ABOUT THE GUEST: https://elitespeakerservices.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Christian-Ray-500-x-650-photo-shoot.jpg Christian Ray Flores holds an MA in Economics, speaks four languages and has a diverse international background of life and work in Latin America, Africa, Europe, and the US. Christian started several entertainment and marketing companies, his first at the age of 24. A successful artist, producer, award-winning marketer, and conference speaker, Christian has inspired audiences all over the world. He is passionate about Christian leadership and serving the poor through his non-profit work in places like Eastern Europe, Latin America, and Africa. Christian is married to Deb de Flores and has three daughters. Check out his Wikipedia page for more. Here are links to some of his ventures including Third Drive Media: https://www.thirddrive.co/ and Hollywood World https://www.hollywoodworld.org. You can also check out his albums on Amazon Music https://music.amazon.com/albums/B002QJCSE4 and his YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPVszVZrOp6NP6iLh8iB1NQ?pbjreload=10 where there is a fascinating short biographical video about him in Russian: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGCAqTBrw5o. NOTE: This episode was recorded on February 28, 2020 at the University of Texas at Austin. Thanks for listening and if you like us and support open academic programming, please take a second to rate the show on Apple Podcasts, TuneIn, or on our Facebook page. We so appreciate your support!! CREDITS Co-Producer: Tom Rehnquist (Connect: facebook.com/thomas.rehnquist) Co-Producer: Matthew Orr (Connect: facebook.com/orrrmatthew) Logistics/Assistant Producer: Cullan Bendig Associate Producer: Lera Toropin Associate Producer: Samantha Farmer Associate Producer: Milena D-K Supervising Producer: Kathryn Yegorov-Crate Development Assistant: Luis Camarena Executive Editor/Music Producer: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic) www.charlieharpermusic.com (Songs by Christian Ray Flores; additional background music by Blue Dot Sessions, Demoiselle) Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) www.msdaniel.com DISCLAIMER: The views expressed on this episode do not necessarily reflect those of the show or the University of Texas at Austin. Special Guest: Christian Ray Flores.
On this episode we have the privilege of speaking with History professor and Eisenstein expert Dr. Joan Neuberger who among many things is also co-host and co-creator of 15-Minute History podcast and the public history project Not Even Past. ABOUT THE GUEST: https://minio.la.utexas.edu/colaweb-prod/person_files/0/373/joan_neuberger_profile_image.jpeg Dr. Neuberger received her PhD from Stanford University in 1985. She is currently a professor in the History Department at the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Neuberger studies modern Russian culture in social and political context, with a focus on the politics of the arts. She is the author of an eclectic range of publications, including Hooliganism: Crime and Culture in St Petersburg, 1900-1914 (California: 1993), Ivan the Terrible: The Film Companion (Palgrave: 2003); co-author of Europe and the Making of Modernity, 1815-1914 (Oxford: 2005); and co-editor of Imitations of Life: Melodrama in Russia (Duke: 2001) and Picturing Russia: Explorations in Visual Culture (Yale: 2008); Everyday Life in Russian History: Quotidian Studies in Honor of Daniel Kaiser (Slavica, 2010); and The Flying Carpet: Studies on Eisenstein in Honor of Naum Kleiman (Mimésis International. 2017). Her most recent book is This Thing of Darkness: Eisenstein’s Ivan the Terrible in Stalin’s Russia (Cornell: 2019). We encourage you to check out her public history site, Not Even Past, www.notevenpast.org and also the related podcast "15-Minute History" at www.15minutehistory.org which she co-hosts and co-founded. Both are great and fun resources! NOTE: This episode was recorded on February 21, 2020 at the University of Texas at Austin. Thanks for listening and if you like us and support open academic programming, please take a second to rate the show on Apple Podcasts, TuneIn, or on our Facebook page. We so appreciate your support!! CREDITS Co-Producer: Tom Rehnquist (Connect: facebook.com/thomas.rehnquist) Co-Producer: Matthew Orr (Connect: facebook.com/orrrmatthew) Logistics/Assistant Producer: Cullan Bendig Associate Producer: Lera Toropin Associate Producer: Samantha Farmer Associate Producer: Milena D-K Supervising Producer: Kathryn Yegorov-Crate Production Assistant: Luis Camarena Executive Editor/Music Producer: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic) www.charlieharpermusic.com Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) www.msdaniel.com DISCLAIMER: The views expressed on this episode do not necessarily reflect those of the show or the University of Texas at Austin. Special Guest: Joan Neuberger.
On this episode, we have the pleasure of getting to know the president of UT's International Affairs Society, Graham Reblitz, who brings his broad, cosmopolitan perspective to our studio and discussing everything from geopolitics in Europe to sports on the international plane. ABOUT THE GUEST: Graham Reblitz https://www.clementscenter.org/media/k2/items/cache/d53aa7f89db2d1935feed7588780d953_L.jpg Graham is a senior from Lakewood Ranch, Florida currently studying Economics and Government at UT, while also pursuing an undergraduate Certificate in Security Studies from the Clements Center. Academically, his interests include foreign affairs, diplomacy, and national security. Personally, his interests include sports, playing the guitar, movies, traveling, and doing anything outdoors. After graduation, he intends pursue a career that ties together both foreign policy and business in addition to eventually attending graduate school. On campus, he is the President of the International Affairs Society. Graham has one brother, Ethan, who is fifteen months younger and attends the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. He also has a yellow lab at home named Callie. Additionally, he speaks fluent Spanish as his mother is from Madrid, Spain. Check out the International Affairs Society at UT on the web: https://utexasias.squarespace.com/ NOTE: This episode was recorded on February 19, 2020 at the University of Texas at Austin. Special thanks to the Clements Center for their additional support. Thanks for listening and if you like us and support open academic programming, please take a second to rate the show on Apple Podcasts, TuneIn, or on our Facebook page. We so appreciate your support!! CREDITS Co-Producer: Tom Rehnquist (Connect: facebook.com/thomas.rehnquist) Co-Producer: Matthew Orr (Connect: facebook.com/orrrmatthew) Logistics/Assistant Producer: Milena D-K Associate Producer: Lera Toropin Associate Producer: Samantha Farmer Associate Producer: Cullan Bendig Supervising Producer: Kathryn Yegorov-Crate Production Assistant: Luis Camarena Executive Editor/Music Producer: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic www.charlieharpermusic.com) (Additional background music by Blue Dot Sessions) Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) www.msdaniel.com DISCLAIMER: The views expressed on this episode do not necessarily reflect those of the show or the University of Texas at Austin.
On this episode, we have the privilege of speaking with a modern-day archaeologist Dr. Adam Rabinowitz and archaeology grad student Susan Crane. Both take us into the ancient world of Romania through their exciting (and sometimes not-so-exciting) archaeological expeditions and unbelievable discoveries. ABOUT THE GUESTS Adam T. Rabinowitz https://minio.la.utexas.edu/colaweb-prod/person_files/0/304/adam_t_rabinowitz_profile_image.jpeg Adam Rabinowitz is an Associate Professor in the Department of Classics and Assistant Director of the Institute of Classical Archaeology at The University of Texas at Austin. He holds his PhD (2004) from the Interdepartmental Program in Classical Art and Archaeology at the University of Michigan, where he wrote a dissertation on the role of communal wine-drinking in political and social interactions in the colonial Greek world. He is a 2002 Fellow of the American Academy in Rome and a field archaeologist with twenty-five years of archaeological field experience at Greek, Roman, and Byzantine sites in Italy, England, Israel, Tunisia, and Ukraine. His archaeological research focuses on daily life, domestic architecture, commensal practices and the lived experience of culture contact. Read more here: www.slavxradio.com/rabinowitz Susan Crane https://minio.la.utexas.edu/colaweb-prod/news_images/1/12801/susan_crane_wins_jane_c_waldbaum_archaeological_field_school_scholarship.jpeg Susan is an assistant instructor in the Department of Classics within the University of Texas at Austin and is currently taking Romanian language with Professor Jason Roberts at the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies. NOTE: This episode was recorded on February 19, 2020 at the University of Texas at Austin. Thanks for listening and if you like us and support open academic programming, please take a second to rate the show on Apple Podcasts, TuneIn, or on our Facebook page. We so appreciate your support!! CREDITS Co-Producer: Tom Rehnquist (Connect: facebook.com/thomas.rehnquist) Co-Producer: Matthew Orr (Connect: facebook.com/orrrmatthew) Logistics/Assistant Producer: Milena D-K Associate Producer: Lera Toropin Associate Producer: Samantha Farmer Associate Producer: Cullan Bendig Supervising Producer: Kathryn Yegorov-Crate Production Assistant: Luis Camarena Executive Editor/Music Producer: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic www.charlieharpermusic.com) (Additional background music by Blue Dot Sessions) Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) www.msdaniel.com DISCLAIMER: The views expressed on this episode do not necessarily reflect those of the show or the University of Texas at Austin. Special Guest: Adam T. Rabinowitz.
Dr. Mark Pomar, Russia expert and senior fellow at the Clements Center for National Security, revisits the studio to speak with us about modern-day politics and foreign policy in the US. Drawing on his extensive experience and service to the US government, Dr. Pomar gives us a deeper look into US-Russia relations and the future of the international landscape. NOTE: This episode was recorded on February 7, 2020 at the University of Texas at Austin. Thanks for listening and if you like us and support open academic programming, please take a second to rate the show on Apple Podcasts, TuneIn, or on our Facebook page. We so appreciate your support!! CREDITS Co-Producer: Tom Rehnquist (Connect: facebook.com/thomas.rehnquist) Co-Producer: Matthew Orr (Connect: facebook.com/orrrmatthew) Associate Producer: Tracy Heim Associate Producer: Lera Toropin Associate Producer: Samantha Farmer Associate Producer: Cullan Bendig Supervising Producer: Kathryn Yegorov-Crate Executive Editor/Music Producer: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic www.charlieharpermusic.com) (Additional background music by Blue Dot Sessions, John Bartmann) Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) www.msdaniel.com DISCLAIMER: The views expressed on this episode do not necessarily reflect those of the show or the University of Texas at Austin. SPONSORED PRODUCT:
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In this episode, Tom and Tracy team up to talk with three former CREEES and LBJ dual degree grad students who are successfully applying their classroom experience to the real world in very big ways. If you're a student eyeing that scary drop-off after graduation, then this episode is totally for you. Let our fabulous UT CREEES alumni Michael Deegan, Jessica Terry, and Ryan Williams reassure you: degrees CAN turn into awesome careers, and yes, you will get paid! NOTE: This episode was recorded on January 31, 2020 at the University of Texas at Austin. Alumni appeared courtesy of CREEES. Thanks for listening and if you like us and support open academic programming, please take a second to rate the show on Apple Podcasts, TuneIn, or on our Facebook page. We so appreciate your support!! CREDITS Co-Producer: Tom Rehnquist (Connect: facebook.com/thomas.rehnquist) Co-Producer: Matthew Orr (Connect: facebook.com/orrrmatthew) Associate Producer: Tracy Heim Associate Producer: Lera Toropin Associate Producer: Samantha Farmer Associate Producer: Cullan Bendig Supervising Producer/Audio Technician: Kathryn Yegorov-Crate Executive Editor/Music Producer: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic www.charlieharpermusic.com) (Additional background music by Blue Dot Sessions, Loyalty Freak Music, John Bartmann, Glad Rags, Psalters, and King Elizabeth) Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) www.msdaniel.com DISCLAIMER: The views expressed on this episode do not necessarily reflect those of the show or the University of Texas at Austin. Follow The Slavic Connexion on Instagram: @slavxradio, Twitter: @SlavXRadio, and on Facebook: facebook.com/slavxradio . Visit www.slavxradio.com for more episodes and information.
At the 2019 ASEEES Conference, PhD student Raya Shapiro shares with SlavX host Samantha about their research on the Jewish émigré playwright and author S. Ansky. And then, anthropoligist Jenanne Ferguson from the University of Nevada talks about the language of Sakha (Yakut) and the intrinsic spirit of all languages. ABOUT THE GUESTS: Raya Shapiro is a 3rd year PhD student at the University of Illinois Chicago. They are interested in how late 19th/early 20th century Eastern European Jewish writers used different languages - for politics, for publication, for practicality - and how their multilingualism creatively shaped the languages they chose to write in (Polish, Russian, Yiddish, German). They have managed to write at least one paper about S. An-sky for every seminar this year. Jenanne K. Ferguson of the University of Nevada currently researches the maintenance and transmission of the Sakha (Yakut) language in northeastern Siberia, Russia, through the lens of mobility by and through language. Her dissertation works dealt with ways of speaking Sakha among Sakha-Russian bilinguals living in urban and rural regions and the language ideologies shaping their language choices and practices. Ongoing and future work deals with the revitalization and transformation of Sakha oral literary genres and the local creation of new online spaces (e.g. social networking, SMS, Wikipedia) for Sakha language transmission and usage, as well as a project comparing the politics and aesthetics of indige (https://www.aseees.org/)nous storytelling in Canada and Russia. She also has worked on questions and themes with Canadian indigenous languages. A native Canadian, she earned her PhD in Anthropology from the University of Aberdeen in 2013. EDITOR'S NOTE: Episode recorded during the 2019 ASEEES Conference in San Francisco, California. Thanks for listening and if you like this show and support open academic programming, please take a second to rate the show on Apple Podcasts, TuneIn, or on our Facebook page. We so appreciate your support!! CREDITS Co-Producer: Tom Rehnquist (Connect: facebook.com/thomas.rehnquist) Co-Producer: Matthew Orr (Connect: facebook.com/orrrmatthew) Associate Producer: Samantha Farmer Associate Producer: Lera Toropin Associate Producer: Cullan Bendig Associate Producer: Tracy Heim Associate Producer: Milena D.K. Supervising Producer/Recording Engineer: Kathryn Yegorov-Crate Executive Editor/Music Producer: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic, www.charlieharpermusic.com) Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86, www.msdaniel.com) Follow The Slavic Connexion on Instagram: @slavxradio, Twitter: @SlavXRadio, and on Facebook: facebook.com/slavxradio . Visit www.slavxradio.com for more episodes and information. EXECUTIVE PRODUCER'S NOTE: A special thanks to the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies for the financial support necessary to take the SlavX team to San Francisco for the multi-day convention. In just a few days, four hosts completed an amazing 18 interviews with unique guests from all over the world. Most of these will be made available on the podcast. Thank you also to the conference directors and staff at ASEEES for being so accommodating and helping SlavX staff find rooms to use as recording spaces. Additional thanks to Professor Craig Campbell at UT for inspiring our supervising producer with the idea to attend the conference and to SlavX team members Katya and Samantha for taking the trouble to apply for travel funds during the busiest time of the semester for grad students. Their initiative is nothing short of amazing to me, and hopefully everybody appreciates their efforts as much as I do. We hope you all enjoy these exclusive interviews!! Disclaimer: The Slavic Connexion is not affiliated with ASEEES and does not represent the association or otherwise explicitly endorse ASEEES' values or views.
Russia and Japan have yet to reconcile when it comes to the islands in the Pacific. Professor Akaha gives us his take on the relations between these two nations in the aftermath of the Cold War. Then, in the second half of the episode, Dr. Smeltz from the Chicago Council on Global Affairs explains her findings from surveys that reveal Russians still approve of Putin's foreign policy and also the increased negativity of Americans towards Russians post-Crimean annexation. ABOUT THE GUESTS Tsuneo Akaha Professor Akaha currently teaches at Middlebury Institute of International Studies (MIIS). He is a native of Japan and first came to the U.S. as a high school exchange student. After graduating from Waseda University in Tokyo, he returned to the U.S. to pursue graduate studies at the University of Southern California (USC) and received his PhD in International Relations in 1981. Before joining the Institute in 1989 he had taught at USC, Kansas State University, and Bowling Green State University (Ohio). He teaches courses on human security, international migration, multiculturalism, East Asia, and Russia-East Asia Relations. He has authored or edited 11 books and authored over 100 journal articles and book chapters on topics ranging from human security and migration in East Asia to Japan’s relations with the U.S., Russia, China, and Korea. His co-edited book The U.S.-Japan Alliance: Balancing Soft and Hard Power in East Asia received an Ohira Memorial Award Special Prize. Dina Smeltz With 25 years of experience designing and fielding international social and political surveys, Dina Smeltz joined the Chicago Council on Global Affairs as senior fellow on public opinion and foreign policy in 2012. She oversees the Council’s well-known annual survey of American attitudes toward foreign policy and has authored and coauthored many of the analyses based on that work. She also directs the Council’s collaboration with Russian, Mexican, Canadian, Australian, and East Asian research organizations. Smeltz has published commentary on public opinion and international issues in The Washington Post, RealClearWorld, Foreign Policy, and the Council’s survey blog (Running Numbers). Smeltz has an MA from the University of Michigan and a BS from Pennsylvania State University. EDITOR'S NOTE: Episode recorded during the 2019 ASEEES Conference in San Francisco, California. Thanks for listening and if you like this show and support open academic programming, please take a second to rate the show on Apple Podcasts, TuneIn, or on our Facebook page. We so appreciate your support!! CREDITS Co-Producer: Tom Rehnquist (Connect: facebook.com/thomas.rehnquist) Co-Producer: Matthew Orr (Connect: facebook.com/orrrmatthew) Associate Producer: Samantha Farmer Associate Producer: Lera Toropin Associate Producer: Cullan Bendig Supervising Producer: Kathryn Yegorov-Crate Executive Editor/Music Producer: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic, www.charlieharpermusic.com) Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86, www.msdaniel.com) Follow The Slavic Connexion on Instagram: @slavxradio, Twitter: @SlavXRadio, and on Facebook: facebook.com/slavxradio . Visit www.slavxradio.com for more episodes and information. EXECUTIVE PRODUCER'S NOTE: A special thanks to the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies for the financial support necessary to take the SlavX team to San Francisco for the multi-day convention. In just a few days, four hosts completed an amazing 18 interviews with unique guests from all over the world. Most of these will be made available on the podcast. Thank you also to the conference directors and staff at ASEEES for being so accommodating and helping SlavX staff find rooms to use as recording spaces. Additional thanks to Professor Craig Campbell at UT for inspiring our supervising producer with the idea to attend the conference and to SlavX team members Katya and Samantha for taking the trouble to apply for travel funds during the busiest time of the semester for grad students. Their initiative is nothing short of amazing to me, and hopefully everybody appreciates their efforts as much as I do. We hope you all enjoy these exclusive interviews!! Disclaimer: The Slavic Connexion is not in any way affiliated with or supported by ASEEES and does not represent the association or otherwise explicitly endorse ASEEES' values or views. Special Guests: Dina Smeltz and Tsuneo Akaha.
Dr. Sabina Amanbayeva (Oklahoma City University) takes us into the magical world of Winnie the Pooh... but in the Soviet Union, unpacking the ways in which the Disney show translated into a very different and yet similar production in the USSR. In the second segment of this episode, Dr. Sunnie Rucker-Chang (University of Cincinnatti) discusses the nonalignment movement in Yugoslavia and also the surprising ways in which people see themselves in the Balkans. https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BZWI2MjAwNTEtYzNhOC00YTFmLTlkNzktOWY0MDIzYTVhZTU2L2ltYWdlL2ltYWdlXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNTQ0MTY3MQ@@._V1_UY268_CR6,0,182,268_AL_.jpg EDITOR'S NOTE: Episode recorded during the 2019 ASEEES Conference in San Francisco, California. Thanks for listening and if you like this show and support open academic programming, please take a second to rate the show on Apple Podcasts, TuneIn, or on our Facebook page. We so appreciate your support!! CREDITS Co-Producer: Tom Rehnquist (Connect: facebook.com/thomas.rehnquist) Co-Producer: Matthew Orr (Connect: facebook.com/orrrmatthew) Associate Producer: Samantha Farmer Associate Producer: Lera Toropin Associate Producer: Cullan Bendig Supervising Producer: Kathryn Yegorov-Crate Executive Editor/Music Producer: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic, www.charlieharpermusic.com) Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86, www.msdaniel.com) Follow The Slavic Connexion on Instagram: @slavxradio, Twitter: @SlavXRadio, and on Facebook: facebook.com/slavxradio . Visit www.slavxradio.com for more episodes and information. EXECUTIVE PRODUCER'S NOTE: A special thanks to the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies for the financial support necessary to take the SlavX team to San Francisco for the multi-day convention. In just a few days, four hosts completed an amazing 18 interviews with unique guests from all over the world. Most of these will be made available on the podcast. Thank you also to the conference directors and staff at ASEEES for being so accommodating and helping SlavX staff find rooms to use as recording spaces. Additional thanks to Professor Craig Campbell at UT for inspiring our supervising producer with the idea to attend the conference and to SlavX team members Katya and Samantha for taking the trouble to apply for travel funds during the busiest time of the semester for grad students. Their initiative is nothing short of amazing to me, and hopefully everybody appreciates their efforts as much as I do. We hope you all enjoy these exclusive interviews!! Disclaimer: The Slavic Connexion is not in any way affiliated with or supported by ASEEES and does not represent the association or otherwise explicitly endorse ASEEES' values or views.
Wrapping up our ASEEES conference series, we have a super fun couple's episode with the dynamic duo of Alexander Prokhorov and Elena Prokhorova from Moscow State University who talk about their personal journeys and how they ended up at teaching at College of William & Mary. THE GUESTS: Elena Prokhorova and Alexander Prokhorov https://www.wm.edu/news/images/2017/content/prokhorova_content.jpg https://www.wm.edu/news/images/archive/2008/content/prokhorov1.jpg EDITOR'S NOTE: Episode recorded during the 2019 ASEEES Conference in San Francisco, California. Thanks for listening and if you like this show and support open academic programming, please take a second to rate the show on Apple Podcasts, TuneIn, or on our Facebook page. We so appreciate your support!! CREDITS Co-Producer: Tom Rehnquist (Connect: facebook.com/thomas.rehnquist) Co-Producer: Matthew Orr (Connect: facebook.com/orrrmatthew) Associate Producer: Samantha Farmer Associate Producer: Lera Toropin Associate Producer: Cullan Bendig Supervising Producer: Kathryn Yegorov-Crate Executive Editor/Music Producer: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic, www.charlieharpermusic.com) Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86, www.msdaniel.com) Follow The Slavic Connexion on Instagram: @slavxradio, Twitter: @SlavXRadio, and on Facebook: facebook.com/slavxradio . Visit www.slavxradio.com for more episodes and information. EXECUTIVE PRODUCER'S NOTE: A special thanks to the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies for the financial support necessary to take the SlavX team to San Francisco for the multi-day convention. In just a few days, four hosts completed an amazing 18 interviews with unique guests from all over the world. Most of these will be made available on the podcast. Thank you also to the conference directors and staff at ASEEES for being so accommodating and helping SlavX staff find rooms to use as recording spaces. Additional thanks to Professor Craig Campbell at UT for inspiring our supervising producer with the idea to attend the conference and to SlavX team members Katya and Samantha for taking the trouble to apply for travel funds during the busiest time of the semester for grad students. Their initiative is nothing short of amazing to me, and hopefully everybody appreciates their efforts as much as I do. We hope you all enjoy these exclusive interviews!! Disclaimer: The Slavic Connexion is not in any way affiliated with or supported by ASEEES and does not represent the association or otherwise explicitly endorse ASEEES' values or views. Special Guest: Alexander (Sasha) Prokhorov.
If you're like us, you probably don't know too much about Albania--that little former Soviet satellite state that we certainly couldn't have picked out on a map in high school (maybe not even after 4 years of college). But Albania is a very unique nation and although not Slavic, as Tom says, "it's close enough for the Slavic Connexion". Through the eyes of the incredible Chelsi West Ohueri, we gain perspective while having a ton of laughs at the same time. https://dellmed.utexas.edu/directory/chelsi-west-ohueri Recorded at the University of Texas at Austin on April 19th, 2019. CREDITS Co-Producer: Tom Rehnquist (Connect: facebook.com/thomas.rehnquist) Associate Producer: Matthew Orr (Connect: facebook.com/orrmatthew) Music/Sound Design: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic www.charlieharpermusic.com) Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) Follow The Slavic Connexion on Instagram: @slavxradio, Twitter: @SlavXRadio, and on Facebook: facebook.com/slavxradio . Check out our YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDqMRKmAtJRxBVxFTI82pgg Special Guest: Chelsi West Ohueri.
In this episode, we trek back in time to the late Habsburg Empire and post-World War I Eastern Europe with Dr. Hsia. And then we discuss Slavic Folklore in modern young adult literature with Dr. Martiniuk who talks about the romanticized Russian symbols used by authors everywhere of all backgrounds. We'll get into the issues behind using such symbols, and if it's cultural appreciation or appropriation. ABOUT THE GUESTS: Ke-Chin Hsia https://history.indiana.edu/images/Faculty/Hsia_Ke-Chin.jpg Having his received his PhD from the University of Chicago in 2013, Dr. Hsia is a lecturer in the department of history at Indiana University Bloomington. His current book manuscript, tentatively titled Victims’ State: War and Welfare in Austria, 1868-1925, is an analysis of how the Austrian state (first Imperial/Habsburg and then republican) and society tackled the human and social consequences of soldering in an era of universal military service, democratizing political culture, and totalizing war mobilization. Two other research projects are underway. One is on the “internal colonization” proposals in Imperial Austria during the First World War. The other is about political asylum and law and order in revolutionary Vienna. Growing up in Taiwan, receiving graduate education in the U.S., and doing research in Europe, He is also very interested in the rise of social insurance systems in Europe and East Asia from a transnational perspective. Additionally, his fascination with baseball as a subject of international and transnational history is growing as well. He is a member of the research network, The Quest for Welfare and Democracy, hosted by European University Institute. https://history.indiana.edu/facultystaff/faculty/hsiake-chin.html Jill Martiniuk https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/C5603AQHn8l4kOGnGYw/profile-displayphoto-shrink_800_800/0?e=1583366400&v=beta&t=Vj4izdYGW8d9KhmjgtZ_o5PK-9Pm0yvuQYvoASPMaV0 A visiting instructor in the English Department at the University of South Florida, Professor Martiniuk received her PhD in Slavic Languages and Literature from the University of Virginia. She specializes in 20th century Russian novels and their relationship with Western works. For her research on maternal grief and how expressions of grief are gendered in 19th and 20th century Russian literary and visual arts, she was the 2016 Scholar-in-Residence at the Hillwood Museum. In addition, she was one of the recipients of the 2013 Summer Language Institute Summer Research Grants and the 2013 GSAS Foreign Study Award, which allowed her to conduct research on Dante in Russian literature in Florence, Italy and Moscow, Russia. Her current research interests also focus on using the digital humanities to teach writing, literature, and culture. Her digital projects include a collaborative digital lesson plan on Ivan Bunin’s “The Gentleman From San Francisco” and curriculum redesigns that focus on bringing 3D printing into the humanities classroom. NOTE: Episode recorded on November 23rd and 24th, 2019 in San Francisco, California during the ASEEES 2019 Conference. Thanks for listening and if you like this show and support open academic programming, please take a second to rate the show on Apple Podcasts, TuneIn, or on our Facebook page. We so appreciate your support!! CREDITS Co-Producer: Tom Rehnquist (Connect: facebook.com/thomas.rehnquist) Co-Producer: Matthew Orr (Connect: facebook.com/orrrmatthew) Associate Producer: Cullan Bendig Associate Producer: Samantha Farmer Associate Producer: Lera Toropin Supervising Producer: Kathryn Yegorov-Crate Executive Editor/Music Producer: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic, www.charlieharpermusic.com) (Additional b/g music by Blue Dot Sessions "Molly Molly") Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86, www.msdaniel.com) Follow The Slavic Connexion on Instagram: @slavxradio, Twitter: @SlavXRadio, and on Facebook: facebook.com/slavxradio . Visit www.slavxradio.com for more episodes and information. EXECUTIVE PRODUCER'S NOTE: A special thanks to the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies for the financial support necessary to take the SlavX team to San Francisco for the multi-day convention. In just a few days, four hosts completed an amazing 18 interviews with unique guests from all over the world. Most of these will be made available on the podcast. Thank you also to the conference directors and staff at ASEEES for being so accommodating and helping SlavX staff find rooms to use as recording spaces. Additional thanks to Professor Craig Campbell at UT for inspiring our supervising producer with the idea to attend the conference and to SlavX team members Katya and Samantha for taking the trouble to apply for travel funds during the busiest time of the semester for grad students. Their initiative is nothing short of amazing to me, and hopefully everybody appreciates their efforts as much as I do. We hope you all enjoy these exclusive interviews!! Disclaimer: The Slavic Connexion is not in any way affiliated with or supported by ASEEES and does not represent the association or otherwise explicitly endorse ASEEES' values, beliefs, or other views.
From the ASEEES Conference in San Francisco, Professor Chad Bryant of UNC Chapel Hill speaks with us about Czech cultures and in the second half of the episode, Professor Laura Todd of the University of Nottingham lets us in on her research on early 1980s MTV and the Yugoslavian rock scene. ABOUT THE GUESTS: CHAD BRYANT (UNC Chapel Hill) https://history.unc.edu/wp-content/blogs.dir/804/files/2017/07/Chad-pic-150x150-wpcf_150x150.jpg Chad Bryant is Associate Professor of History at UNC Chapel Hill. He studies the social and cultural history of Central and Eastern Europe from the eighteenth century to the present. His research focuses on the Bohemian Lands, most of which now constitute the Czech Republic. His first book, Prague in Black, examined the ways in which Nazi rule radically transformed nationality politics and national identities in the Bohemian Lands. Amongst other works, he has published, with Paul Readman and Cynthia Radding, a collection of essays entitled Borderlands in World History, 1700-1914 that emerged from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s ongoing collaboration with King’s College London. LAURA TODD (University of Nottingham) https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/clas/departments/modern-languages/people/staff-images/lauratodd.jpg After studying for a BA (Hons) in Russian with Serbian/Croatian at the University of Nottingham, Laura Todd received her MA from the School of Slavonic and East European Studies (UCL) in Politics, Security and Integration, with a focus on memory politics in Russia and South-East Europe. She was awarded her PhD in Russian and Slavonic Studies from the University of Nottingham in 2016 for her thesis 'Youth Film in Russia and Serbia Since the 1990s'. She has taught in Russian and Slavonic Studies and History at the University of Nottingham and De Montfort University in the areas of Russian, Soviet, Yugoslav and post-Yugoslav history and culture, as well as teaching Russian and Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian language. Her main areas of current research are into the histories of childhood and youth in Russia, the Soviet Union, the Western Balkans (specifically Serbia and Bosnia-Hercegovina), and the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Within this, she focuses primarily on visual culture (photography and film), the representation of childhood and youth, memory, and educational practices in these states. In addition to this, she has research interests in nationalism, memory and commemoration, propaganda and political culture, and heritage in post-conflict and post-socialist states. EDITOR'S NOTE: Episode recorded during the 2019 ASEEES Conference in San Francisco, California. Thanks for listening and if you like this show and support open academic programming, please take a second to rate the show on Apple Podcasts, TuneIn, or on our Facebook page. We so appreciate your support!! CREDITS Co-Producer: Tom Rehnquist (Connect: facebook.com/thomas.rehnquist) Co-Producer: Matthew Orr (Connect: facebook.com/orrrmatthew) Associate Producer: Samantha Farmer Associate Producer: Lera Toropin Associate Producer: Cullan Bendig Supervising Producer: Kathryn Yegorov-Crate Executive Editor/Music Producer: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic, www.charlieharpermusic.com) Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86, www.msdaniel.com) Follow The Slavic Connexion on Instagram: @slavxradio, Twitter: @SlavXRadio, and on Facebook: facebook.com/slavxradio . Visit www.slavxradio.com for more episodes and information. EXECUTIVE PRODUCER'S NOTE: A special thanks to the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies for the financial support necessary to take the SlavX team to San Francisco for the multi-day convention. In just a few days, four hosts completed an amazing 18 interviews with unique guests from all over the world. Most of these will be made available on the podcast. Thank you also to the conference directors and staff at ASEEES for being so accommodating and helping SlavX staff find rooms to use as recording spaces. Additional thanks to Professor Craig Campbell at UT for inspiring our supervising producer with the idea to attend the conference and to SlavX team members Katya and Samantha for taking the trouble to apply for travel funds during the busiest time of the semester for grad students. Their initiative is nothing short of amazing to me, and hopefully everybody appreciates their efforts as much as I do. We hope you all enjoy these exclusive interviews!! Disclaimer: The Slavic Connexion is not in any way affiliated with or supported by ASEEES and does not represent the association or otherwise explicitly endorse ASEEES' values, beliefs, or other views. Special Guests: Chad Bryant and Laura Todd.
In this episode, Lera talks with anthropologist Craig Campbell talks about his interest in the river life of Siberia, the age of the Anthropocene, and how "time is profoundly weird." ABOUT THE GUEST: Dr. Craig Campbell is associate professor of anthropology and Slavic studies at UT Austin. A Canadian, he received his PhD from the University of Alberta. His academic work has most recently been concerned with the realm of ethnographic and documentary images. In his own words, the research and visual experiments that he undertakes explore the possibility for failed, defaced, degraded, manipulated, and damaged photographs to activate interpretive fields typically unacknowledged in conventional ethnographies and histories. This intermedia and aesthetic approach pushes the sensuousness of the world back into an intellectual and scholarly understanding of it. Professor Campbell is the director of the Intermedia Workshop, a laboratory of visual and sensory ethnography. Visit his websites: www.metafactory.ca and http://dam.metafactory.ca/ Thanks for listening and if you like this show and support open academic programming, please take a second to rate the show on Apple Podcasts, TuneIn, or on our Facebook page. We so appreciate your support!! EDITOR'S NOTE: Episode was recorded on October 28th, 2019 at the University of Texas at Austin. CREDITS Co-Producer: Matthew Orr (Connect: facebook.com/orrrmatthew) Co-Producer: Tom Rehnquist (Connect: facebook.com/thomas.rehnquist) Associate Producer: Lera Toropin Associate Producer: Tracy Heim Supervising Producer: Kathryn Yegorov-Crate Executive Editor/Music Producer: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic Visit him on the web: www.charlieharpermusic.com) Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) www.msdaniel.com Follow The Slavic Connexion on Instagram: @slavxradio, Twitter: @SlavXRadio, and on Facebook: facebook.com/slavxradio . Visit www.slavxradio.com for more episodes and information. Special Guest: Craig Campbell.
During the ASEEES conference, Ukrainian history expert Dr. Magosci talks with Cullan about Carpatho-Rusyn nationality and his pivotal role in forming this movement as a specialist in this region of the world. ABOUT THE GUEST: https://history.utoronto.ca/sites/history.utoronto.ca/files/styles/people_single/public/field/images/Paul-Robert-Magocsi-Department-of-History.jpg?itok=VocK_ljD Paul Robert Magocsi is professor of history and political science at the University of Toronto, where since 1980 he also holds the John Yaremko Chair of Ukrainian Studies. He completed his education at Rutgers University (B.A. 1966; M.A. 1967), Princeton University (M.A. 1969; Ph.D. 1972), and Harvard University (Society of Fellows 1976). He is a member of the Harvard University Society of Fellows (1976). Professor Magocsi has taught at Harvard University, the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Prešov University in Slovakia, and on five occasions was historian-in-residence at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle, Germany. In 1996 he was appointed a permanent fellow of the Royal Society of Canada—Canadian Academies of Arts, Humanities, and Sciences, and has been awarded honorary degrees from Prešov University in Slovakia (doctor honoris causa, 2013) and from Kamianets-Podilskyi National University in Ukraine (pochesnyi profesor, 2015). https://history.utoronto.ca/people/paul-robert-magocsi EDITOR'S NOTE: Episode recorded during the 2019 ASEEES Conference in San Francisco, California. EXECUTIVE PRODUCER'S NOTE: A special thanks to the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies for the financial support necessary to take the SlavX team to San Francisco for the multi-day convention. In just a few days, four hosts completed an amazing 18 interviews with unique guests from all over the world. Most of these will be made available on the podcast. Thank you also to the conference directors and staff at ASEEES for being so accommodating and helping SlavX staff find rooms to use as recording spaces. Additional thanks to Professor Craig Campbell at UT for inspiring our supervising producer with the idea to attend the conference and to SlavX team members Katya and Samantha for taking the trouble to apply for travel funds during the busiest time of the semester for grad students. Their initiative is nothing short of amazing to me, and hopefully everybody appreciates their efforts as much as I do. We hope you all enjoy these exclusive interviews!! Disclaimer: The Slavic Connexion is not in any way affiliated with or supported by ASEEES and does not represent the association or otherwise explicitly endorse ASEEES' values, beliefs, or other views. Thanks for listening and if you like this show and support open academic programming, please take a second to rate the show on Apple Podcasts, TuneIn, or on our Facebook page. We so appreciate your support!! CREDITS Co-Producer: Tom Rehnquist (Connect: facebook.com/thomas.rehnquist) Co-Producer: Matthew Orr (Connect: facebook.com/orrrmatthew) Associate Producer: Lera Toropin Associate Producer: Samantha Farmer Associate Producer: Cullan Bendig Supervising Producer: Kathryn Yegorov-Crate Executive Editor/Music Producer: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic, www.charlieharpermusic.com) Additional background music by Blue Dot Sessions "Arizona Moon". Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86, www.msdaniel.com) Follow The Slavic Connexion on Instagram: @slavxradio, Twitter: @SlavXRadio, and on Facebook: facebook.com/slavxradio . Visit www.slavxradio.com for more episodes and information.
SlavX host Lera gets the chance to talk with Professor Vladimir Golstein from Brown University at the 2019 ASEEES conference in San Francisco. Check it out! ABOUT THE GUEST: Vladimir Golstein holds his M.S. in Computers from Moscow Institute of Management, his B.A. in Philosophy from Columbia University, and his Ph.D. in Slavic Languages and Literatures from Yale University. Prior to coming to Brown he taught at Oberlin College (1990-93) and Yale University (1993-2003), where he has taught a wide range of graduate and undergraduate courses that explore Western and Russian literary traditions. His scholarly interests embrace Russian culture, religion, philosophy, and poetry, of the past two centuries, as well as the current foreign policy issues. He is putting together two scholarly monographs: one on the conflict of generations in Russia and another on the use of musical communication in a literary text. EDITOR'S NOTE: Episode recorded during the 2019 ASEEES Conference in San Francisco, California. EXECUTIVE PRODUCER'S NOTE: A special thanks to the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies for the financial support necessary to take the SlavX team to San Francisco for the multi-day convention. In just a few days, four hosts completed an amazing 18 interviews with unique guests from all over the world. Most of these will be made available on the podcast. Thank you also to the conference directors and staff at ASEEES for being so accommodating and helping SlavX staff find rooms to use as recording spaces. Additional thanks to Professor Craig Campbell for inspiring us with the idea to attend the conference and to SlavX team members Katya and Samantha for taking the trouble to apply for travel funds during the busiest time of the semester for grad students. Their initiative is nothing short of amazing to me, and hopefully everybody appreciates their efforts as much as I do. We hope you all enjoy these exclusive interviews!! Disclaimer: The Slavic Connexion is not in any way affiliated with or supported by ASEEES and does not represent the association or otherwise explicitly endorse ASEEES' values, beliefs, or other views. Thanks for listening and if you like this show and support open academic programming, please take a second to rate the show on Apple Podcasts, TuneIn, or on our Facebook page. We so appreciate your support!! CREDITS Co-Producer: Tom Rehnquist (Connect: facebook.com/thomas.rehnquist) Co-Producer: Matthew Orr (Connect: facebook.com/orrrmatthew) Associate Producer: Tracy Heim Associate Producer: Lera Toropin Associate Producer: Samantha Farmer Associate Producer: Cullan Bendig Supervising Producer: Kathryn Yegorov-Crate Executive Editor/Music Producer: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic Visit him on the web: www.charlieharpermusic.com) Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) www.msdaniel.com Follow The Slavic Connexion on Instagram: @slavxradio, Twitter: @SlavXRadio, and on Facebook: facebook.com/slavxradio . Visit www.slavxradio.com for more episodes and information. Special Guest: Vladimir Golstein.
On this episode, Aigul Adzhieva (Айгуля Аджиева) a TV producer from Kyrgyzstan, joins Matt for a discussion about media challenges today, bride kidnapping, and the role of journalists in her country. Enjoy! ABOUT OUR GUEST: Aigul Adzhieva is a TV producer from Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan with a bachelor’s degree in Journalism and 11 years of working experience in Broadcasting. She started working as a reporter of the morning program and moved to a management position, helping her obtain a distinguished knowledge of video production process. She participated in a one-year fellowship at the European College of Liberal Arts in Berlin, where she learned about art analysis and research and discovered the sources of creativity and imagination. In the past two years she has become interested in talk show and documentaries production. As a mid-career professional, she wants to develop Kyrgyz media’s ability to produce high quality content. NOTE: Episode recorded on November 4th, 2019 at the University of Texas at Austin. Our guest appears courtesy of the Meridian International Center and the Central Asian Journalist-in-Residence program funded by the US Department of State. Thanks for listening and if you like us and support open academic programming, please take a second to rate the show on Apple Podcasts, TuneIn, or on our Facebook page. We so appreciate your support!! CREDITS Co-Producer: Matthew Orr (Connect: facebook.com/orrrmatthew) Co-Producer: Tom Rehnquist (Connect: facebook.com/thomas.rehnquist) Supervising Producer: Kathryn Yegorov-Crate Associate Producer: Tracy Heim Associate Producer: Lera Toropin Executive Editor/Music Producer: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic www.charlieharpermusic.com) Additional background music by Blue Dot Sessions Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86 www.msdaniel.com) Follow The Slavic Connexion on Instagram: @slavxradio, Twitter: @SlavXRadio, and on Facebook: facebook.com/slavxradio . Visit www.slavxradio.com for more episodes and information. Special Guest: Aigulya Adjieva (Айгуля Аджиева).
As Winter claims the Slavic world (much of it anyway), we thought we'd take a trip south of the equator with this episode on Venezuela with yet another special guest from the History department Latin American expert Marcus Golding. ABOUT THE GUEST: Marcus Golding is a doctoral student in History at the University of Texas at Ausin. He specializes on social and political movements in Latin America during the Cold War. In particular, he focuses on the relationship between foreign corporations and labor movements in the Venezuelan oil industry, and how this interaction shaped local conceptions of citizenship rights, modernity and development. Other minor scholarly interests include mass politics, populism and revolutions in the 20th century. He has also engaged with the field of Digital Humanities, specifically with the digitization and preservation of archival collections. He holds a M.A. in Latin American Studies from Georgetown University (2016). Marcus contributes regularly to UT's public history forum, Not Even Past, and has a blog: https://serapeionhumanitas.wordpress.com/. Thanks for listening and if you like us and support open academic programming, please take a second to rate the show on Apple Podcasts (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-slavic-connexion/id1455852324), TuneIn, or on our Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/slavxradio/). We so appreciate your support!! CREDITS Co-Producer: Tom Rehnquist (Connect: facebook.com/thomas.rehnquist) Co-Producer: Matthew Orr (Connect: facebook.com/orrrmatthew) Associate Producer: Tracy Heim Associate Producer: Lera Toropin Supervising Producer: Kathryn Yegorov-Crate Executive Editor/Music Producer: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic Visit him on the web: www.charlieharpermusic.com) Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) www.msdaniel.com Follow The Slavic Connexion on Instagram: @slavxradio, Twitter: @SlavXRadio, and on Facebook: facebook.com/slavxradio . Visit www.slavxradio.com for more episodes and information. Special Guest: Marcus O. Golding.
On this episode, we meet the wonderful Dr. Evgenia Wilkins, a native of St. Petersburg who now teaches Russian language, Soviet culture, and environmental studies here in the heart of Texas. She talks about her upcoming Maymester program in Siberia in which students of all disciplines will get to explore the beauty of Lake Baikal through hands-on environmental studies (no knowledge of Russian necessary). If interested in learning more about Dr. Wilkins' study abroad program, visit https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/slavic/international-programs/russia-maymester.php. Application deadlines are coming up, so feel free to reach out if interested, or email creees@austin.utexas.edu with any questions you may have. Hope to see you in Siberia! NOTE: Episode was recorded on October 11th, 2019 at the University of Texas at Austin. Additional interviews with Michael Kuehl and Hannah Hospital recorded separately on October 24th and 18th, 2019 respectively. CREDITS Co-Producer: Matthew Orr (Connect: facebook.com/orrrmatthew) Co-Producer: Tom Rehnquist (Connect: facebook.com/thomas.rehnquist) Associate Producer: Tracy Heim Associate Producer: Lera Toropin Supervising Producer: Kathryn Yegorov-Crate Executive Editor/Music Producer: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic Visit him on the web: www.charlieharpermusic.com) Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) www.msdaniel.com Follow The Slavic Connexion on Instagram: @slavxradio, Twitter: @SlavXRadio, and on Facebook: facebook.com/slavxradio . Visit www.slavxradio.com for more episodes and information. Special Guest: Evgenia Wilkins.
Kazakh journalists Aigerim Toleukhan and Yelnur Alimova, visiting Austin on a State Department exchange program, enlighten Matt and Tracy about their experiences as independent and international media practitioners, the challenges they face in a country they say whose government tolerates no opposition. We definitely learned a lot from their perspectives and personal anecdotes. Thanks to the Central Asian Journalist-in-Residence program (CAJIR) for making their visit to our studios possible! See here for a BBC article from 2017 on the alphabet change in Kazakhstan which is dictating the change in spelling to Qazaqstan: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-41800186 NOTE: Episode was recorded on October 28th, 2019 at the University of Texas at Austin. CREDITS Co-Producer: Matthew Orr (Connect: facebook.com/orrrmatthew) Co-Producer: Tom Rehnquist (Connect: facebook.com/thomas.rehnquist) Associate Producer: Tracy Heim Associate Producer: Lera Toropin Supervising Producer: Kathryn Yegorov-Crate Music Producer: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic Visit him on the web: www.charlieharpermusic.com) (additional original background music from John Bartman, Philip Gross, Glad Rags, Loyalty Freak Music, and Lobo Loco ) Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) www.msdaniel.com Follow The Slavic Connexion on Instagram: @slavxradio, Twitter: @SlavXRadio, and on Facebook: facebook.com/slavxradio . Visit www.slavxradio.com for more episodes and information. Special Guests: Aigerim Toleukhan and Yelnur Alimova (Елнур Алимова).
On this episode, Tom and Matt speak with two of our favorite EU experts on the upcoming December 12th vote in the UK which looms large and uncertainly on the European horizon. What exactly will become of the EU without Britain? Has its usefulness declined in the world? What does the EU today have to offer European states that might be lost without it? As Dr. Mosser so aptly put it: "The EU is like a drunk, stumbling around, but never quite falling." In this case, will Brexit have any real effect at all on the institution? Thank you to Dr. Lorinc Redei and Dr. Michael Mosser for joining us and giving us their invaluable insights! EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT: Attention Austinites INVITATION FROM LBJ'S MIRTA BASELOVIC to join graduate students for the Interntional Relations and Human Rights panel which will be held on UT campus November 22nd, 2019 from 12pm to 2pm in UTC 3.104. If you can't make it, the event should be featured on this podcast and/or livestreamed. For more information email: mdaniel@austin.utexas.edu . Food provided for attendees! Be sure to register here! (https://global.utexas.edu/events/speaker-panel-hosted-lbj-graduate-students-human-rights-multilateral-settings?utm_campaign=INTO_FY19-20_EVENT_SavetheDate+IEW_EML&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua&fbclid=IwAR1ZvnsalPnxMBo1xHczJOdvWj_yRNsRAH2Bchp5JODzgYERVQDn7Knc82g) RECORDING NOTE: Episode recorded November 8th, 2019 at the University of Texas at Austin in the Liberal Arts Instructional Technology Services (LAITS) studios. Special thanks to LAITS audio studios director Jacob Weiss and audio specialist Wiliam Kurzner for being exceptionally awesome and welcoming the Slavic Connexion into their recording space. https://bwy9tq.sn.files.1drv.com/y4mel4G7mzg4xdzDYAHXVGbrY3-7hCYFrVqmSN3Rps05nKKZbPIXMsJuOsLH8Zcia2VM4XUCH3ldwIVzBdtqw66fuDD5jO55myREh8o6qGALoE25nTixqfonWa9b7vaisUlEQluL_UqNFS1Nx05KHXvrmvzIUgj1Z7qq62ReCkLZpVTlk_GTvLOZ8mMsmHAACubPF0GnCPU86-sm5GMVtvJow?width=1024&height=576&cropmode=none https://ygywtq.sn.files.1drv.com/y4meHSDg_QndBE0hDywqzRKkZPlBzQ-3kfNl-CNAssFyrtvs6QKtl5QPH4J0MRLXpRnubsBvSc4dsn6vxJevlx1_s4sEMzDaUZPqN0dIbQLMoF51RJliRQgn6SVgfb_aL9PEjXmhnNVsO4Sq-_-jCZ_8_QWjHOBx5NFBjTixUu6nM1qmSAIj53h7BMn-2nlxNcEpRCk9GRYgQan-BzyXCnwJA?width=1024&height=576&cropmode=none https://bwy4tq.sn.files.1drv.com/y4mTjN9gUugaFBQIDTmg7W8KN0HQsoabXqUqpXZpe7EXTlfjd7amyPSospDD2ugoYUqH1m191XDW5VUGsyGJSG0h3HicKXsCbz26_tXoPXSwq4gBoQXyVE0CzJ_teP_y9NVMQqAocSpgInlx71E-pJ_zInp9Ek-MNGz9yqOkkMhmd6_-QdZPvXNGp_BjQI9kqCeWk4SBtX7riCvrN9qRe2CYw?width=1024&height=576&cropmode=none CREDITS Co-Producer: Matthew Orr (Connect: facebook.com/orrrmatthew) Co-Producer: Tom Rehnquist (Connect: facebook.com/thomas.rehnquist) Associate Producer: Tracy Heim Associate Producer: Lera Toropin Supervising Producer: Kathryn Yegorov-Crate Music Producer: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic Visit him on the web: www.charlieharpermusic.com) (original background music from Carl Phaser, Lobo Loco, Semaphore, and Scott Holmes) Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) www.msdaniel.com Follow The Slavic Connexion on Instagram: @slavxradio, Twitter: @SlavXRadio, and on Facebook: facebook.com/slavxradio . Visit www.slavxradio.com for more episodes and information. SPONSORED PRODUCT:
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Our guest today is Czech professor Petra Dominková, from Prague, who has stepped into our studio to talk about the upcoming demonstration led by Million Moments for Democracy against the current controversial Prime Minister who is both rich in controversy and currency. The demonstration will take place in just a few days on November 16th! Listen and also find out whether the country is branding itself the Czech Republic or Czechia or even... "Bohemia". To read more about the historic Czech protest that took place in June 2019, see the Washington Post article: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/06/25/prague-protesters-demand-resignation-prime-minister-andrej-babi/ and similar sources. ABOUT THE GUEST: Petra Dominková is the manager of the Cinematography Department at FAMU in Prague. She teaches the Theory of Cinematography class where students learn various theoretical approaches to the aspects of the cameraman’s work they already know from first-hand experience. In addition, she teaches foreign students within the FAMU International program and has also lectured at the Department of Scriptwriting and Dramaturgy and CAS. She received her PhD from CAS FAMU in 2008. As a Fulbright scholar, she spent one year at UCLA. Besides FAMU, she teaches international students at CIEE and CET. Her main research interests include Czech and East European cinematography and film noir. Attention Austinites INVITATION FROM LBJ'S MIRTA BASELOVIC to join graduate students for the Interntional Relations and Human Rights panel which will be held on UT campus November 22nd, 2019 from 12pm to 2pm in UTC 3.104. If you can't make it, the event should be featured on this podcast and/or livestreamed. For more information email: mdaniel@austin.utexas.edu . Food provided for attendees! RECORDING NOTE: Episode recorded November 7th, 2019 at the University of Texas at Austin. CREDITS Co-Producer: Matthew Orr (Connect: facebook.com/orrrmatthew) Co-Producer: Tom Rehnquist (Connect: facebook.com/thomas.rehnquist) Associate Producer/Host: Tracy Heim Associate Producer: Lera Toropin Supervising Producer: Kathryn Yegorov-Crate Music Producer: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic Visit him on the web: www.charlieharpermusic.com) (original background music from Carl Phaser, Lobo Loco, Semaphore, and Scott Holmes) Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) www.msdaniel.com Follow The Slavic Connexion on Instagram: @slavxradio, Twitter: @SlavXRadio, and on Facebook: facebook.com/slavxradio . Visit www.slavxradio.com for more episodes and information.
In the next few episodes, we are excited to have an intimate look into Central Asian countries thanks to a rare visit from several wonderful journalists who were competitively selected for a US State Department-sponsored exchange program, which was made possible through the Meridian International Center (see the press release here: https://www.meridian.org/news/texas-international-education-consortium-brings-u-s-state-departments-central-asian-journalist-in-residence-program-for-month-long-mentorship-and-residency-program-in-texas/). On this episode, Matt and Tom speak with Erkinbek and Aigul, two media professionals from Kyrgyzstan who are wrapping up internships at main media outlets here in Austin, Texas. Thanks to their insights, we gain a glimpse of the media landscape in their country and the differences between US and Kyrgyzstan media and the various issues that crop up in each space. PRODUCER'S NOTE: Our guests today appear courtesy of Texas International Education Consortium (www.tiec.org) and Meridian International Center (www.meridian.org). Special thanks to Sonia McLaughlin at TIEC, Professor Mark Pomar from the School of Journalism at UT, and the CAJIR program for providing funding. Attention Austinites INVITATION FROM LBJ'S MIRTA BASELOVIC to join graduate students for the Interntional Relations and Human Rights panel which will be held on UT campus November 22nd, 2019 from 12pm to 2pm in UTC 3.104. If you can't make it, the event should be featured on this podcast and/or livestreamed. For more information email: mdaniel@austin.utexas.edu . Food provided for attendees! RECORDING NOTE: Episode recorded November 1st, 2019 at the University of Texas at Austin. CREDITS Co-Producer: Tom Rehnquist (Connect: facebook.com/thomas.rehnquist) Co-Producer: Matthew Orr (Connect: facebook.com/orrrmatthew) Supervising Producer: Kathryn Yegorov-Crate Associate Producer: Samantha Farmer Associate Producer: Lera Toropin Music Producer: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic Visit him on the web: www.charlieharpermusic.com) (Additional original music by Scott Holmes, Chuzausen, Mid-Air Machine, Checkie Brown, Christian Bjoerklund) Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) www.msdaniel.com Follow The Slavic Connexion on Instagram: @slavxradio, Twitter: @SlavXRadio, and on Facebook: facebook.com/slavxradio . Visit www.slavxradio.com for more episodes and information. Special Guests: Aigulya Adjieva (Айгуля Аджиева) and Erkinbek Kamalov.
Returning to the studio, Tom Garza joins us to discuss not vampires but Russian rock, from the years prior to the fall of the USSR to today itself. And this is not just an academic subject for him, it's his lived experience. Featuring snippets with legendary music critic Artemy Troitsky, who launched the first discotheque in Soviet Russia, this episode (not to overstate the theme) truly ROCKS. For more on the impact of rock and roll on the USSR, see a feature from PRI: https://www.pri.org/stories/2011-05-19/how-rock-and-roll-brought-soviet-union-down To read about Joanna Stingray, see: https://www.rbth.com/arts/330211-joanna-stingray And check out the book Troitsky mentions: How the Beatles Rocked the Kremlin by Leslie Woodhead https://www.amazon.com/How-Beatles-Rocked-Kremlin-Revolution-ebook/dp/B009SJZKFY/ref=sr11?crid=1WXAE8411Y28M&keywords=how+the+beatles+rocked+the+kremlin&qid=1572282790&sprefix=the+beatles+rocked%2Caps%2C175&sr=8-1 Also, as mentioned by Tom Garza, Artemy Troitsky's famous book BACK IN THE USSR: THE TRUE STORY OF RUSSIAN ROCK is available here: https://www.amazon.com/Back-USSR-True-Story-Russia/dp/0571129978/ref=sr13?keywords=artemy+troitsky&qid=1572282885&sr=8-3 https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51-9zBDsUTL._SX323_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg Along similar lines, Troitsky in recent years released a new book on Soviet subculture, called (aptly enough) Subkultura: Stories of Youth and Resistance in Russia. https://www.cornerhousepublications.org/publications/artemy-troitsky-subkultura-stories-of-youth-and-resistance-in-russia-1815-2017/ https://www.cornerhousepublications.org/cms/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/9780992952488-2.jpg (Below) A picture of Garza and Troitsky taken this summer in Moscow at the Russian language release of Subkultura. https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRU9EzepAliOkpZOVViOaDX2e659s1MDb-2wSne2396KimTaVlP&s Music credits: Clips of rock songs included for educational purposes from YouTube recordings of Aquarium, Viktor Tsoi/Kino, Vladimir Vysotsky, Okujawa, Boston, Zemfira, Basta, and Alla Pugacheva. RECORDING NOTE: Episode recorded October 11th, 2019 at the University of Texas at Austin. Clips with Artemy Troitsky recorded on July 2019 in Moscow, Russia. CREDITS Co-Producer: Matthew Orr (Connect: facebook.com/orrrmatthew) Co-Producer: Tom Rehnquist (Connect: facebook.com/thomas.rehnquist) Associate Producer: Lera Toropin Supervising Producer: Kathryn Yegorov-Crate Music Producer: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic Visit him on the web: www.charlieharpermusic.com) (original background music from Carl Phaser, Computer Music All Stars, Kai Engel, David Hilowitz, Hiro, Byzance, Christian Bjoerklund, Semaphore, and Scott Holmes) Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) www.msdaniel.com Follow The Slavic Connexion on Instagram: @slavxradio, Twitter: @SlavXRadio, and on Facebook: facebook.com/slavxradio . Visit www.slavxradio.com for more episodes and information. Special Guest: Thomas Garza.
Александр Генис присоединяется к нам, чтобы обсудить русскую литературу, от Довлатова до Пелевина. RECORDING NOTE: Episode recorded September 30th, 2019 at the University of Texas at Austin. CREDITS Co-Producer: Matthew Orr (Connect: facebook.com/orrrmatthew) Co-Producer: Tom Rehnquist (Connect: facebook.com/thomas.rehnquist) Associate Producer: Lera Toropin Supervising Producer: Kathryn Yegorov-Crate Music Producer: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic Visit him on the web: www.charlieharpermusic.com) Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) www.msdaniel.com Follow The Slavic Connexion on Instagram: @slavxradio, Twitter: @SlavXRadio, and on Facebook: facebook.com/slavxradio . Visit www.slavxradio.com for more episodes and information. Special Guest: Alexander Genis.
In this episode, Matt talks with Marina Alexandrova about her challenges coming to America from Russia, and the art of teaching Russian culture as a talented and creative professor at the University of Texas at Austin. ABOUT THE GUEST: Voted one of UT's Top Ten Professors (which is a big deal), Dr. Marina Alexandrova was born and raised in Saratov, Russia. She received her MA equivalent in English from Saratov State University, and her PhD in Comparative Literature (Russian and Spanish American Literatures) from the University of Texas at Austin. Her dissertation analyzes the formation of the literary public spheres in Russia and Argentina, focusing on the avant-garde literary groups and their complex interactions with the state. Dr. Alexandrova's current research interests include the art and literature of Russian modernism and avant-garde, the history of Russian food production and consumption, and Russian radical and revolutionary movements. During Spring 2018, Dr. Alexandrova taught her new course "Advanced Russian through Drama," which culminated in student production of Vladimir Mayakovsky's controversial comedy "Bedbug" (1928). Watch clips from the performance here: https://utexas.app.box.com/s/c5yxguq40pznz9tg721vea0u0xvqo3w0. Visit Dr. Alexandrova's guest page on our site https://www.slavxradio.com/guests/marina for more. NOTE: Episode recorded September 20, 2019 at the University of Texas at Austin. CREDITS Co-Producer: Matthew Orr (Connect: facebook.com/orrrmatthew) Co-Producer: Tom Rehnquist (Connect: facebook.com/thomas.rehnquist) Supervising Producer: Katya Yegorov-Crate (Connect: facebook.com/furthestconstellationofmysoul) Associate Producer/Host: Lera Toropin (Connect: www.facebook.com/ltoropin) Executive Editor/Music Producer: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic) www.charlieharpermusic.com Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) www.msdaniel.com Follow The Slavic Connexion on Instagram: @slavxradio, Twitter: @SlavXRadio, and on Facebook: facebook.com/slavxradio . Visit www.slavxradio.com for more episodes and information. Special Guest: Marina Alexandrova (Марина Александрова).
How does one wind up in Northeastern Siberia? Dr. Susan Crate recounts her almost 30 years conducting research in Russia, a journey that began with an interest in Russian folklore and a Bridges for Peace trip and resulted in a thirst to learn the Russian language and travel to Siberia. New Slavix host Lera sat down with Dr. Crate to talk about her research interests concerning cultural practices, kinship systems, climate change in Northeastern Siberia. ABOUT THE GUEST: Dr. Susan Crate is a professor of Anthropology in the Department of Environmental Science and Policy at George Mason University. The bulk of her research centers on environmental and cognitive anthropology and human ecology among Viliui Sakha of Yakutia, Northeastern Siberia, but her research on the effects of unprecedented climate change has expanded to Canada, Mongolia, Peru, Wales, Kiribati, and the ever-so exotic Chesapeake Bay. She is the author of Cows, Kin, and Globalization: An Ethnography of Sustainability (2006), the coeditor of Anthropology and Climate Change: From Encounters to Actions (2009) and its second volume, Anthropology and Climate Change: From Actions to Transformations (2016), and a lead author on Chapter 1 of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s “Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate”. She also stars in The Anthropologist (2015). From the documentary review by the New York Times: "The film follows Susan Crate, an anthropologist at George Mason University, and her daughter, Katie Yegorov-Crate, as they globe-hop to places where climate change is having a dramatic effect. In Siberia, they see hayfields that are underwater because of the thawing of the permafrost layer. In Kiribati in the South Pacific, they talk to residents grappling with the possibility that their islands will disappear into the sea. (“Right here was the most-populated village on the island,” a man tells Ms. Crate as they stand in water up to the breastbone.)" View the full article here: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/11/movies/the-anthropologist-review.html NOTE: Episode recorded September 27, 2019 at the University of Texas at Austin. CREDITS Supervising Producer: Katya Yegorov-Crate (Connect: facebook.com/furthestconstellationofmysoul) Associate Producer/Host: Lera Toropin (Connect: www.facebook.com/ltoropin) Music Producer: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic Visit him on the web: www.charlieharpermusic.com) Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) www.msdaniel.com Follow The Slavic Connexion on Instagram: @slavxradio, Twitter: @SlavXRadio, and on Facebook: facebook.com/slavxradio . Visit www.slavxradio.com for more episodes and information. Special Guest: Susan Crate.
Literary critic, broadcaster, and writer Alexander Genis privileges Matt and Tom with an interview on coming to America during the 70s, his impression of Texas, his longtime career in radio, and his take on the future. ABOUT THE GUEST: Alexander Genis (born February 11, 1953) is a Russian–American writer, broadcaster, and cultural critic. He has written more than a dozen books that are non-fiction bestsellers in Russia. Genis, an American citizen, resides in the New York City area. He is the father of Daniel Genis, writer and journalist. After graduating from the Latvian State University in Riga, then in the Soviet Union, Genis immigrated to the USA in 1977 at the age of 24. His career started in New York City where he met and worked with Nobel Prize in Literature winner Joseph Brodsky, writer Sergei Dovlatov, painter and writer-conceptualist Vagrich Bakhchanyan. Genis is an anchorman of the weekly radio-show American Hour with Alexander Genis broadcast in Russian by Radio Liberty since the 1990s. Genis is a columnist and a contributing writer for the main liberal Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta, and used to be the host of the TV show Alexander Genis. Letters from America, shown on Russian TV channel "Culture". NOTE: Episode recorded on September 30th, 2019 at the University of Texas at Austin. CREDITS Co-Producer: Thomas Rehnquist (Connect: facebook/com/thomas.rehnquist) Co-Producer: Matthew Orr (Connect: facebook.com/orrrmatthew) Hosts/Associate Producers: Lera Toropin & Katya Yegorov-Crate Music Producer: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic Visit him on the web: www.charlieharpermusic.com) Sound Effects from BBC Sound Effects BETA and Sample Swap Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) www.msdaniel.com Follow The Slavic Connexion on Instagram: @slavxradio, Twitter: @SlavXRadio, and on Facebook: facebook.com/slavxradio . Visit www.slavxradio.com for more episodes and information. Special Guest: Alexander Genis.
Cultural geographer and linguist Bella Jordan returns to the SlavX studio to discuss languages, indigenous peoples of the former Russian Empire, and the process of "de-Russification" that is the tendency now of many societies in the post-Soviet space. ABOUT THE GUEST: A native of Sakha (Yakutia), an ethnic republic located in northeast Siberia, Bella grew up in a multicultural and multilinguial environment that inspired her interest in different cultures and traditions. She began to study Germanic languages quite early and got a Bachelor's degree in English Philology from Yakutsk State University in 1986. In 1987-91 she studied Linguistics and Text Stylistics at the Moscow Institute of Foreign Languages after Moris Torez (now Moscow Lingusitics University). Afterwards she worked as an official translator for the government of Sakha (Yakutia) and was instrumental in translating important documents and treaties into English and participated in the rough diamonds trade negotiations between the local government and DeBeers. In 1995 Bella began Master's program at the University of Texas at Austin in the Geography department and defended her doctoral dissertaion in 2002. The focus of her PhD was the ethnogenesis of the Sakha (Yakut) people and creation of their homeland since the 14th century. Currently Dr. Jordan teaches Geography of the Former Soviet Union; Northern Lands and Cultures; Regions and Cultures of Europe; Russian Society, Economics and Politics, Advanced Russian Language course "Advanced Comprehension and Composition"; Business Russian; Cultural Geography of Russia; Religion in Eastern Europe and Russia; and the graduate seminar "Geopolitics and Nation-Building in Central Asia". NOTE: Episode recorded on September 20th, 2019 at the University of Texas at Austin. CREDITS Co-Producer: Matthew Orr (Connect: facebook.com/orrrmatthew) Hosts/Associate Producers: Lera Toropin & Katya Yegorov-Crate Music Producer: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic Visit him on the web: www.charlieharpermusic.com) Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) www.msdaniel.com Follow The Slavic Connexion on Instagram: @slavxradio, Twitter: @SlavXRadio, and on Facebook: facebook.com/slavxradio . Visit www.slavxradio.com for more episodes and information. Special Guest: Bella Jordan.
В этом эпизоде ведущие Мэтт и Лера садятся с профессором Мариной Александровой, чтобы рассказать о своем опыте адаптации к жизни в Америке. Марина - очень любимый профессор Техасского университета в Остине. Послушайте и узнайте почему. ABOUT THE GUEST: Voted one of UT's Top Ten Professors (which is a big deal), Dr. Marina Alexandrova was born and raised in Saratov, Russia. She received her MA equivalent in English from Saratov State University, and her PhD in Comparative Literature (Russian and Spanish American Literatures) from the University of Texas at Austin. Her dissertation analyzes the formation of the literary public spheres in Russia and Argentina, focusing on the avant-garde literary groups and their complex interactions with the state. Dr. Alexandrova's current research interests include the art and literature of Russian modernism and avant-garde, the history of Russian food production and consumption, and Russian radical and revolutionary movements. During Spring 2018, Dr. Alexandrova taught her new course "Advanced Russian through Drama," which culminated in student production of Vladimir Mayakovsky's controversial comedy "Bedbug" (1928). Watch clips from the performance here: https://utexas.app.box.com/s/c5yxguq40pznz9tg721vea0u0xvqo3w0 RECORDING NOTE: Episode recorded September 20th, 2019 at the University of Texas at Austin. CREDITS Co-Producer: Matthew Orr (Connect: facebook.com/orrrmatthew) Co-Producer: Tom Rehnquist (Connect: facebook.com/thomas.rehnquist) Co-Host/Associate Producer: Lera Toropin Editor/Associate Producer: Kathryn Yegorov-Crate Music Producer: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic Visit him on the web: www.charlieharpermusic.com) Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) www.msdaniel.com Follow The Slavic Connexion on Instagram: @slavxradio, Twitter: @SlavXRadio, and on Facebook: facebook.com/slavxradio . Visit www.slavxradio.com for more episodes and information. Special Guest: Marina Alexandrova (Марина Александрова).
On this episode, hosts Tracy and Cullan sit down with geographer, anthropologist, food studies expert, Dr. Elizabeth Cullen Dunn. Dr. Dunn delves into her fascinating experiences studying abroad in Martial Law-ed China, working in a Communist-era baby food factory in Poland, and living and working in camps for victims of forced migration in the Republic of Georgia. Her recent work and activism centers on food workers, refugees, and asylum seekers in the United States and Europe. ABOUT THE GUEST: Dr. Dunn is a professor in Indiana University Bloomington’s Department of Geology. Her work regularly merges food studies with politics, focusing on the restructuring and privatization of food labor in Poland, fruit and vegetable processing and smuggling in the Republic of Georgia, and investigations into the red tape encompassing UN Food and Agriculture Organization and European Union food regulations. Her latest book, No Path Home: Humanitarian Camps and the Grief of Displacement, explores how internally displaced persons exist in humanitarian camps in after the 2008 Russo-Georgian War. RECORDING NOTE: Episode recorded September 20th, 2019 at the University of Texas at Austin. CREDITS Co-Producer: Tom Rehnquist (Connect: facebook.com/thomas.rehnquist) Co-Producer: Matthew Orr (Connect: facebook.com/orrrmatthew) Hosts/Associate Producers: Tracy Heim & Cullan Bendig Editor/Associate Producer: Kathryn Yegorov-Crate Additional Team Members: Lera Toropin Music Producer: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic Visit him on the web: www.charlieharpermusic.com) Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) www.msdaniel.com Follow The Slavic Connexion on Instagram: @slavxradio, Twitter: @SlavXRadio, and on Facebook: facebook.com/slavxradio . Visit www.slavxradio.com for more episodes and information. Special Guest: Elizabeth Dunn.
Professor Keith Livers joins us as our somewhat reluctant Conspiratologist (yes, that's a word), that is to say, he studies conspiracies not out of a personal desire but because 21st century society demands it. Since the subject is in itself distasteful to him, he necessarily gets creative in the classroom -- hence, the X-Files. RECORDING NOTE: Episode recorded September 13th, 2019 at the University of Texas at Austin. CREDITS Co-Producer: Tom Rehnquist (Connect: facebook.com/thomas.rehnquist) Co-Producer/Co-Host: Matthew Orr (Connect: facebook.com/orrrmatthew) Associate Producer/Co-Host: Cullan Bendig Recording Engineer: Kathryn Yegorov-Crate Additional Team Members: Lera Toropin, Tracy Heim Music Producer: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic Visit him on the web: www.charlieharpermusic.com) Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) www.msdaniel.com Follow The Slavic Connexion on Instagram: @slavxradio, Twitter: @SlavXRadio, and on Facebook: facebook.com/slavxradio . Visit www.slavxradio.com for more episodes and information. Special Guest: Keith Livers.
Our guest on this episode is Daniel Satinsky, a business professional and associate of the Davis Center at Harvard University who is an expert on the Soviet diaspora's impact and innovative success in the U.S. economy. His book HAMMER AND SILICON (2018), coauthored with Sheila Puffer and Daniel McCarthy of Northeastern University, covers in depth "of the contributions of Soviet and post-Soviet immigrants to the US innovation economy, revealed through in-depth interviews and analysis". About the Guest: Daniel Satinsky is an attorney, business consultant and independent scholar. His business experience includes importing Soviet rare earth oxides; developing international telecommunications in Russia, Georgia & Uzbekistan; providing business services in Yaroslavl'; introducing Russian software companies to New England, and working as a consultant on innovation policy to Regional Governments in Russia. He served as President of the Board of the U.S.-Russia Chamber of Commerce of New England from 1998 to 2017, and is now an associate of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University. His latest work HAMMER AND SILICON co-authored with Professors Sheila Puffer and Daniel McCarthy of Northeastern University is available for purchase on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Hammer-Silicon-Innovation-Immigration-Institutions/dp/1316641260/ref=sr11?keywords=hammer+and+silicon&qid=1568680968&sr=8-1 https://images.app.goo.gl/gP8PfJRSdkyYwanS7 RECORDING NOTE: Episode recorded September 12th, 2019 at the University of Texas at Austin. CREDITS Co-Producer: Tom Rehnquist (Connect: facebook.com/thomas.rehnquist) Co-Producer/Co-Host: Matthew Orr (Connect: facebook.com/orrrmatthew) Associate Producer/Co-Host: Cullan Bendig Associate Producer/Tech Assistant: Kathryn Yegorov-Crate Additional Team Members: Lera Toropin, Tracy Heim Music Producer: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic Visit him on the web: www.charlieharpermusic.com) Credit for recordings of protests goes to Aleksej Demjanski (recorded on iPhone) Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) www.msdaniel.com Follow The Slavic Connexion on Instagram: @slavxradio, Twitter: @SlavXRadio, and on Facebook: facebook.com/slavxradio . Visit www.slavxradio.com for more episodes and information. Special Guest: Daniel Satinsky.
Aleksej Demjanski continues regaling us with the saga of the Colorful Revolution in part 2 of his episode. His bottom line? "People should pay more attention to Macedonia and the region because" the political strife in the area "carries a lot of lessons" for all of us. Listen for a bonus 2 minute segment at the end with Kathryn Yegorov-Crate (Katya), a first year master's student in CREEES whom we are excited to welcome to the SlavX production team. ABOUT THE GUEST: Aleksej Demjanski is a dual-degree master's candidate with the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies and the Global Policy Studies program at the LBJ School of Public Affairs. He holds a B.A. in International Affairs and Political Science magna cum laude with special honors from The George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs. He currently works as the Communications and Social Media Assistant for the academic journal Southeast European and Black Sea Studies based out of the Hellenic Foundation for European & Foreign Policy in Athens, Greece. This fall semester he will also work as the teaching assistant for REE 301 – Introduction to Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies. NOTE: Episode recorded August 30th, 2019 at the University of Texas at Austin. CREDITS Co-Producer: Tom Rehnquist (Connect: facebook.com/thomas.rehnquist) Co-Producer: Matthew Orr (Connect: facebook.com/orrrmatthew) Associate Producer/Tech Assistant: Kathryn Yegorov-Crate Additional Team Members: Cullan Bendig, Lera Toropin, Tracy Heim Music Producer: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic Visit him on the web: www.charlieharpermusic.com) Credit for recordings of protests goes to Aleksej Demjanski (recorded on iPhone) Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) www.msdaniel.com Follow The Slavic Connexion on Instagram: @slavxradio, Twitter: @SlavXRadio, and on Facebook: facebook.com/slavxradio . Visit www.slavxradio.com for more episodes and information. Special Guest: Aleksej Demjanski.
Welcome to Season 2! To kick us off we have with us in the studio Fulbright-er (that's a word, right?) Aleksej Demjanski. Aleksej brings the riveting tales of protest movements in Southeast Europe to the microphone. Listen for a bonus 2 minute segment at the end with Tracy Heim, a dual-degree master's student in CREEES and the LBJ School of Public Affairs whom we are welcoming this new season to the SlavX team. ABOUT THE GUEST: Aleksej Demjanski is a dual-degree master's candidate with the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies and the Global Policy Studies program at the LBJ School of Public Affairs. He holds a B.A. in International Affairs and Political Science magna cum laude with special honors from The George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs. He currently works as the Communications and Social Media Assistant for the academic journal Southeast European and Black Sea Studies based out of the Hellenic Foundation for European & Foreign Policy in Athens, Greece. This fall semester he will also work as the teaching assistant for REE 301 – Introduction to Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies. NOTE: Episode recorded August 30th, 2019 at the University of Texas at Austin. CREDITS Co-Producer: Tom Rehnquist (Connect: facebook.com/thomas.rehnquist) Co-Producer: Matthew Orr (Connect: facebook.com/orrrmatthew) Associate Producer/Tech Assistant: Kathryn Yegorov-Crate Additional Team Members: Cullan Bendig, Lera Toropin, Tracy Heim Music Producer: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic Visit him on the web: www.charlieharpermusic.com) Credit for recordings of protests goes to Aleksej Demjanski (recorded on iPhone) Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) www.msdaniel.com Follow The Slavic Connexion on Instagram: @slavxradio, Twitter: @SlavXRadio, and on Facebook: facebook.com/slavxradio . Visit www.slavxradio.com for more episodes and information. Special Guest: Aleksej Demjanski.
Илья Яблоков, профессор Университета Лидса, говорит с ведущим Мэттом о США, городах которые он посетил, и так далее. NOTE: Episode recorded April 24th, 2019 at the University of Texas at Austin. CREDITS Co-Producer: Tom Rehnquist (Connect: facebook.com/thomas.rehnquist) Co-Producer: Milena D-K (Connect: facebook.com/profile.php?id=100010939368892 Instagram: @thedistantsea and @milena.d.k) Associate Producer: Matthew Orr (Connect: facebook.com/orrrmatthew) Associate Producer: Lauren Nyquist (Connect: facebook.com/lenyquist Instagram: @nyquabbit) Music/Sound Design: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic Visit him on the web: www.charlieharpermusic.com) Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) www.msdaniel.com Follow The Slavic Connexion on Instagram: @slavxradio, Twitter: @SlavXRadio, and on Facebook: facebook.com/slavxradio . Visit www.slavxradio.com for more episodes and information. Special Guest: Ilya Yablokov.
THIS IS PART 2 OF A 2-PART EPISODE. Conspiracy theory expert Ilya Yablokov joins SlavX host Matt to talk about... well... conspiracies: "When Notre Dame was on fire, you can't imagine how many of my Facebook friends were saying, 'oh my God this must be a sign', 'it must be a plan of Macron's to finance reconstruction'... Bloody hell! What kind of reconstruction plan is that?" (And yes, Ilya says he hopes Texas conspiracy man Alex Jones listens to this episode.) NOTE: Episode recorded April 24th, 2019 at the University of Texas at Austin. CREDITS Co-Producer: Tom Rehnquist (Connect: facebook.com/thomas.rehnquist) Co-Producer: Milena D-K (Connect: facebook.com/profile.php?id=100010939368892 Instagram: @thedistantsea and @milena.d.k) Associate Producer: Matthew Orr (Connect: facebook.com/orrrmatthew) Associate Producer: Lauren Nyquist (Connect: facebook.com/lenyquist Instagram: @nyquabbit) Music/Sound Design: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic Visit him on the web: www.charlieharpermusic.com) Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) www.msdaniel.com Follow The Slavic Connexion on Instagram: @slavxradio, Twitter: @SlavXRadio, and on Facebook: facebook.com/slavxradio . Visit www.slavxradio.com for more episodes and information. Special Guest: Ilya Yablokov.
THIS IS PART 1 OF A 2-PART EPISODE. Conspiracy theory expert Ilya Yablokov joins SlavX host Matt to talk about... well... conspiracies: "When Notre Dame was on fire, you can't imagine how many of my Facebook friends were saying, 'oh my God this must be a sign', 'it must be a plan of Macron's to finance reconstruction'... Bloody hell! What kind of reconstruction plan is that?"" (And yes, Ilya says he hopes Texas conspiracy man Alex Jones listens to this episode.) NOTE: Episode recorded April 24th, 2019 at the University of Texas at Austin. CREDITS Co-Producer: Tom Rehnquist (Connect: facebook.com/thomas.rehnquist) Co-Producer: Milena D-K (Connect: facebook.com/profile.php?id=100010939368892 Instagram: @thedistantsea and @milena.d.k) Associate Producer: Matthew Orr (Connect: facebook.com/orrrmatthew) Associate Producer: Lauren Nyquist (Connect: facebook.com/lenyquist Instagram: @nyquabbit) Music/Sound Design: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic Visit him on the web: www.charlieharpermusic.com) Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) www.msdaniel.com Follow The Slavic Connexion on Instagram: @slavxradio, Twitter: @SlavXRadio, and on Facebook: facebook.com/slavxradio . Visit www.slavxradio.com for more episodes and information. Special Guest: Ilya Yablokov.
Our first Student Spotlight segment features Anna-Maria Andreeva, an international relations and global studies major from Bulgaria. Note: Recorded at the University of Texas at Austin on May 10th, 2019. CREDITS Co-Producer: Milena D-K (Connect: facebook.com/profile.php?id=100010939368892 Instagram: @thedistantsea and @milena.d.k) Associate Producer: Tom Rehnquist (Connect: facebook.com/thomas.rehnquist) Associate Producer: Matthew Orr (Connect: facebook.com/orrrmatthew) Associate Producer: Lauren Nyquist (Connect: facebook.com/lenyquist Instagram: @nyquabbit) Music/Sound Design: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic www.charlieharpermusic.com) Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) Follow The Slavic Connexion on Instagram: @slavxradio, Twitter: @SlavXRadio, and on Facebook: facebook.com/slavxradio .
Legendary Texas professor Thomas Garza brings his tremendous treasure chest of personal experiences in the Soviet Union to the studio, rekindling sights, sounds, and smells and recalling how and why he became so invested in Russia and (yes!) vampires. Visit his guest page for more information: https://www.slavxradio.com/guests/tjgarza NOTE: Episode recorded May 10th, 2019 at the University of Texas at Austin CREDITS Co-Producer: Tom Rehnquist (Connect: facebook.com/thomas.rehnquist) Co-Producer: Milena D-K (Connect: facebook.com/profile.php?id=100010939368892 Instagram: @thedistantsea and @milena.d.k) Associate Producer: Matthew Orr (Connect: facebook.com/orrrmatthew) Associate Producer: Lauren Nyquist (Connect: facebook.com/lenyquist Instagram: @nyquabbit) Music/Sound Design: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic Visit him on the web: www.charlieharpermusic.com) Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) www.msdaniel.com Follow The Slavic Connexion on Instagram: @slavxradio, Twitter: @SlavXRadio, and on Facebook: facebook.com/slavxradio . Visit www.slavxradio.com for more episodes and information. Special Guest: Thomas Garza.
John Gleb is back on the Tom & Matt Show to discuss his favorite topic: U.S. diplomacy. It's slightly less than Slavic, sure, but still relevant to understanding modern international relations and foreign policy. Episode recorded April 12th, 2019 at the University of Texas at Austin. CREDITS Co-Producer: Tom Rehnquist (Connect: facebook.com/thomas.rehnquist) Co-Producer: Milena D-K (Connect: facebook.com/profile.php?id=100010939368892 Instagram: @thedistantsea and @milena.d.k) Associate Producer: Matthew Orr (Connect: facebook.com/orrrmatthew) Associate Producer: Lauren Nyquist (Connect: facebook.com/lenyquist Instagram: @nyquabbit) Music/Sound Design: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic Visit him on the web: www.charlieharpermusic.com) Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) www.msdaniel.com Follow The Slavic Connexion on Instagram: @slavxradio, Twitter: @SlavXRadio, and on Facebook: facebook.com/slavxradio . Visit www.slavxradio.com for more episodes and information. Special Guest: John Gleb.
If you're interested in learning more about Turbofolk, check out the Scalar website which Dr. Beronja's class put together with the help of UT librarian Ian Goodale, featuring writings by the students along with further listening for your guilty pleasure. Turbofolk website found here: http://scalar.usc.edu/works/turbofolk/index Some YouTube music videos referenced: Ceca - Oprostajna vecera - (Audio 1999) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfdNbabc_0M Severina - Halo (2019) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjYs1RtdZ3o Severina - Silikoni (2016) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRXGyCjZG7Y Severina - Uno Momento (2014) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gvchbkh4jQY Sasa Kovacevic - Temperatura (2016) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYgezb4-UX0 Episode recorded May 10th, 2019 at the University of Texas at Austin. https://z9igbq.sn.files.1drv.com/y4mZnwoEbznHSsz9pu1t7-thuxeiVCK-eRJVpBHjgWU3gdPj4k7LX3NFMNAzDT-VYQo_9GYv4B0XS6zHW8MDpEcaAi89EKSPmv_bBUlMpPqpPTSSKmh3hyQAjXlF7VS2B-0xA1UCVhpU0ebECOKVPbm59wbymbc048lmy7T9uwSB5RrQqonjKq9r9V7U1A9jJmIFqrQ-UVLkPeAXaqiZGoVPQ?width=4128&height=2322&cropmode=none CREDITS Co-Producer: Tom Rehnquist (Connect: facebook.com/thomas.rehnquist) Co-Producer: Milena D-K (Connect: facebook.com/profile.php?id=100010939368892 Instagram: @thedistantsea and @milena.d.k) Associate Producer: Matthew Orr (Connect: facebook.com/orrmatthew) Associate Producer: Lauren Nyquist (Connect: facebook.com/lenyquist Instagram: @nyquabbit) Music/Sound Design: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic www.charlieharpermusic.com) Main theme: Charlie Harper Opening music: Phillip Gross Songs sampled from above referenced artists' YouTube videos Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) Follow The Slavic Connexion on Instagram: @slavxradio, Twitter: @SlavXRadio, and on Facebook: facebook.com/slavxradio . Special Guest: Vladislav Beronja.
About the Guest: Peter Pomerantsev (Питер Померанцев) is a Soviet-born British journalist, author and TV producer. His father is the writer and broadcaster Igor Pomerantsev. He is a Visiting Senior Fellow at the Institute of Global Affairs at the London School of Economics. He specialises on propaganda and media development, and has testified on the challenges of information war to the US House Foreign Affairs Committee, US Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the UK Parliament Defense Select Committee. He writes for publications including the Financial Times, London Review of Books, Politico, Atlantic and many others. His book on Russian propaganda, Nothing is True and Everything is Possible, won the 2016 Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize, was nominated for the Samuel Johnson, Guardian First Book, Pushkin House and Gordon Burns Prizes. It is translated into over a dozen languages. His forthcoming book, THIS IS NOT PROPAGANDA, looks at developments in the 'battle for hearts and minds' across the world. Check out his upcoming August release on Amazon! https://www.amazon.com/This-Not-Propaganda-Adventures-Against/dp/1541762118/ref=sr12?keywords=peter+pomerantsev&qid=1560456750&s=gateway&sr=8-2 You can find his previous award-winning book "Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible" here: https://www.amazon.com/Nothing-True-Everything-Possible-Surreal/dp/1610396006/ref=sr11?keywords=peter+pomerantsev&qid=1560456750&s=gateway&sr=8-1 Episode recorded April 25th, 2019 at the University of Texas at Austin. CREDITS Co-Producer: Tom Rehnquist (Connect: facebook.com/thomas.rehnquist) Co-Producer: Matthew Orr (Connect: facebook.com/orrmatthew) Associate Producer: Lauren Nyquist (Connect: facebook.com/lenyquist Instagram: @nyquabbit) Associate Producer: Milena D-K (Connect: facebook.com/profile.php?id=100010939368892 Instagram: @thedistantsea and @milena.d.k) Music/Sound Design: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic www.charlieharpermusic.com) Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) Follow The Slavic Connexion on Instagram: @slavxradio, Twitter: @SlavXRadio, and on Facebook: facebook.com/slavxradio . Special Guest: Peter Pomerantsev.
SlavX hosts Lauren and Milena sit down with Ukrainian researchers Olga Onuch (Westminster) and Emma Mateo (Oxford) to talk about their choice to study Ukraine and mass protest. Dr. Onuch and Emma were guest speakers at the Information Wars Symposium at UT Austin on April 25th, 2019 and thus graciously agreed to appear on the Slavic Connexion. We're so glad they did! For more on Dr. Onuch, see https://www.slavxradio.com/guests/doctor-o For more on Emma Mateo, see https://www.slavxradio.com/guests/emma Producer's Note: At the time of the release of this episode, Lauren and Milena (and fellow host Matt) are in Ukraine visiting with university students who participated in the youth, media, and politics study conducted over the course of the spring 2019 semester. Recorded at the University of Texas at Austin on April 26th, 2019. CREDITS Co-Producer: Lauren Nyquist (Connect: facebook.com/lenyquist Instagram: @nyquabbit) Co-Producer: Milena D-K (Connect: facebook.com/profile.php?id=100010939368892 Instagram: @thedistantsea and @milena.d.k) Associate Producer: Tom Rehnquist (Connect: facebook.com/thomas.rehnquist) Associate Producer: Matthew Orr (Connect: facebook.com/orrmatthew) Music/Sound Design: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic www.charlieharpermusic.com) Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) Follow The Slavic Connexion on Instagram: @slavxradio, Twitter: @SlavXRadio, and on Facebook: facebook.com/slavxradio . Check out our YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDqMRKmAtJRxBVxFTI82pgg Special Guests: Emma Mateo and Olga Onuch.
We know almost everybody is disappointed with the Game of Thrones ending - trust us, we feel your pain - but maybe this will cheer you up. All four of our hosts--Tom, Matt, Milena, and Lauren--get together in the studio to reflect on our first season before they each went their separate ways for the summer. But not to worry, episodes will continue to be released over the summer... but from Moscow! Thanks for listening!! (Note: Bonus clip at the end) Hosts' Recommendations: 1) Lauren recommends... Snap Judgment (podcast) 2) Milena recommends... The Color of Pomegranates (movie) 3) Matt recommends... PBS Frontline (TV journalistic series) 4) Tom recommends... Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World by Adam Tooze (book) https://www.amazon.com/Crashed-Decade-Financial-Crises-Changed/dp/0670024937/ref=sr11?crid=2WTQ4S5424FE5&keywords=crash+adam+tooze&qid=1558643237&s=gateway&sprefix=crash+by+adam+%2Caps%2C494&sr=8-1; Thunder Road (movie) Producer's Note: The name of the 16-year-old activist (whom Lauren could not quite remember) is Greta Thunberg. See her UN address on climate change here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFkQSGyeCWg Recorded at the University of Texas at Austin on May 10th, 2019. CREDITS Producer: Tom Rehnquist (Connect: facebook.com/thomas.rehnquist) Producer: Matthew Orr (Connect: facebook.com/orrmatthew) Associate Producer: Lauren Nyquist (Connect: facebook.com/lenyquist Instagram: @nyquabbit) Associate Producer: Milena D-K (Connect: facebook.com/profile.php?id=100010939368892 Instagram: @thedistantsea and @milena.d.k) Music/Sound Design: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic www.charlieharpermusic.com) Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) Follow The Slavic Connexion on Instagram: @slavxradio, Twitter: @SlavXRadio, and on Facebook: facebook.com/slavxradio . Check out our YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDqMRKmAtJRxBVxFTI82pgg
Dr. Herasimenka in his own words: I have been involved in media production since 2006. My favourite time as a professional in the field includes seven years of work as a journalist, an editor and a media relation specialist. During that time, I authored hundreds of publications both analytical and journalistic for TV, radio, newspapers and the web. This work was honoured with national and international awards. Currently, I am a research associate and a visiting lecturer at Westminster School of Media and Communications, University of Westminster, United Kingdom. I am also a Fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States.As an activist of several NGOs, I followed the election processes in difficult environments like Russia, Belarus and Ukraine where elections are not necessarily associated with a "democratic procedure." Struggle for the world without borders (at least in Eastern Europe) was another great passion of that period of my life. Follow Dr. Herasimenka on Twitter @alesherasimenka. Thank you for listening! Recorded Live at the Glickman Conference Center at the University of Texas at Austin on April 25th, 2019. www.slavxradio.com Follow us on Twitter: @SlavXRadio Instagram: @slavxradio Facebook: /slavxradio Associate Producer: Tom Rehnquist Music: Charlie Harper www.charlieharpermusic.com Sound effects: Daniel Simion and Mike Koenig Executive Producer: Michelle Daniel Please note: The views expressed by Info Wars speakers are their own and do not necessarily reflect those of The Slavic Connexion; the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies; or the University of Texas at Austin. Special Guest: Aliaksandr Herasimenka.
Ilya Yablokov teaches a variety of courses in Russian studies at the University of Leeds. The areas of academic interests are conspiracy theories as a tool of political mobilisation and political communication. His recent monograph 'Fortress Russia: Conspiracy Theories in the Post-Soviet World' explores how political elites in post-Soviet Russia use conspiracy theories for political purposes and to boost social cohesion. He is also working on the second monograph on conspiracy theories exploring the broadcasts of Russia Today and the place of conspiracy theories in it. The second stand of research is post-Socialist media management and the nature of self-censorship in the work of journalists across the former Soviet bloc. Follow Dr. Yablokov on Twitter @ilya_yablokov. Dr. Yablokov's latest book: FORTRESS RUSSIA available on Amazon https://www.amazon.com/Fortress-Russia-Conspiracy-Theories-Post-Soviet/dp/1509522654/ref=sr11?crid=1B5YHV6DB524F&keywords=fortress+russia&qid=1557937087&s=books&sprefix=fortress+russia%2Caps%2C173&sr=1-1 Visit Dr. Yablokov's website for more information: https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/languages/staff/1261/ilya-yablokov Thanks for listening! Recorded Live at the Glickman Conference Center at the University of Texas at Austin on April 25th, 2019. www.slavxradio.com Follow us on Twitter: @SlavXRadio Instagram: @slavxradio Facebook: /slavxradio Associate Producer: Tom Rehnquist Music: Charlie Harper www.charlieharpermusic.com Sound effects: Daniel Simion and Mike Koenig Executive Producer: Michelle Daniel Please note: The views expressed by Info Wars speakers are their own and do not necessarily reflect those of The Slavic Connexion; the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies; or the University of Texas at Austin. Special Guest: Ilya Yablokov.
Dr. Heather Rice, one of the nicest professors at the University of Texas, talks about her journey from Houston, Texas to post-Soviet Russia which made her eventually fall in love with the Russian language. As a Russian language professor, she discusses the difficulties and successes of her now-famous (relatively-speaking) Russian online course that's open to the public globally and taking the linguistics world by storm, making learning Russian actually FUN. Our very own Tom R. hosts as a former student of this very same class. https://laits.utexas.edu/lang/russian/ NOTE: This episode was recorded April 26th, 2019 at the University of Texas at Austin. Russian Online Trailer (made by LAITS)
About Dr. Rice in her own words: Born and raised in Northeast Houston to Texan natives whose ancestry most likely traces back to French and Irish immigrants, I never knew much about Russia - its language or its culture. I came to The University of Texas as a freshman, ready to study Spanish and math, but instead ended up in a Russian class full of very clever and intimidating graduate students. I fell in love with the enigmatic beauty of Russian almost immediately and changed my major nearly as fast. I have traveled to Russia several times - as student, teacher, and study abroad guide. I continue to study Russian, for it is a life-long process, and my love for it has not once wavered. In 2015 I earned my Ph.D. in linguistics and Slavic languages, and I now have the privilege of creating the content for and teaching the Department's new and fully online Russian language course. About RUS 406: Добро пожаловать! Welcome to Russian 406! This is the first of a three-semester online course designed to introduce you to the language and culture of one of the most influential and important regions of the world today. Russian is spoken by more than 200 million people in the former Soviet Union, and an additional 150 million throughout the world. Now you can speak it, too. This introductory Russian language course will be conducted entirely online. We will be using a new multi-media curriculum developed at the University of Texas. All course content and materials will be delivered online, and you will not need to purchase additional textbooks. Students will be required to meet as a class, along with the instructor, one hour per week in a virtual classroom. The pace of Russian 406 is designed to be moderately intensive. Although class meets only once a week, you should expect to do between 12 and 18 hours of work each week, depending on the types and number of activities assigned. Your assignments will require you to work independently a large portion of the time, but you can also expect to work with your classmates for various communication activities, including video recording conversations in Russian. Our goal is to introduce you to Russian language and culture and, by doing so, help you develop functional proficiency in speaking, listening, reading, and writing. Additionally, we will be online, so you can expect to start learning to navigate the Russian language realm of the Internet, which is truly an entirely other world, replete its own social media, search engines, and shopping hot-spots. This course follows the dates of the regular University of Texas fall semester, August 30 – December 11. Just one video sample of the basics! (Video made by LAITS)
CREDITS Co-Producer: Tom Rehnquist (Connect: facebook.com/thomas.rehnquist) Associate Producer: Matthew Orr (Connect: facebook.com/orrmatthew) Associate Producer: Lauren Nyquist (Connect: facebook.com/lenyquist Instagram: @nyquabbit) Associate Producer: Milena D-K (Connect: facebook.com/profile.php?id=100010939368892 Instagram: @thedistantsea and @milena.d.k) Music/Sound Design: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic www.charlieharpermusic.com) Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) Follow The Slavic Connexion on Instagram: @slavxradio, Twitter: @SlavXRadio, and on Facebook: facebook.com/slavxradio . Check out our YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDqMRKmAtJRxBVxFTI82pgg Thanks for listening and please don't forget to subscribe!! Special Guest: Heather Rice.
Tom and Matt host a special guest of the Information Wars symposium: Dr. Joshua Tucker, director of NYU's Jordan Center for Advanced Study of Russia, and co-editor of the Washington Post independent political science newsletter "The Monkey Cage". Books Mentioned: 1) PARTISAN HEARTS AND MINDS by Green, Palmquist, and Schickler https://www.amazon.com/Partisan-Hearts-Minds-Donald-Green/dp/0300101562 2) CENSORED by Margaret E. Roberts https://www.amazon.com/Censored-Distraction-Diversion-Inside-Firewall/dp/0691178860/ref=sr11?keywords=censored+molly+roberts&qid=1556683176&s=books&sr=1-1-catcorr 3) THE CITY & THE CITY by China Mieville https://www.amazon.com/City-China-Mieville/dp/0345497511/ref=sr11?crid=1F1ZSTDFQ0FKA&keywords=china+melville&qid=1556683266&s=books&sprefix=china+mevill%2Cstripbooks%2C176&sr=1-1 https://z9jnka.dm.files.1drv.com/y4mJVnN_46KSo3jA79gvuV73RicGifCMORXK8bDRp0Dn-BpZsgxxXuMr4RPMH02X4WKrQWeQIV4ApqLpkUULS6I0yXLAmr8d_3Hv-uh98sd5K0auMqlcLgixI2nkVUH7eTyLoaGD1IHGXYcfCtmyIsf4elRyyv6tvmsrusdTwP1ouBDXBnms3Dk0XWML9MqDDPAu_9YMA0ZxETDmBIM4PAA6A?width=3699&height=2081&cropmode=none About the Guest Joshua A. Tucker is Professor of Politics, affiliated Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies, and affiliated Professor of Data Science at New York University. He is the Director of NYU’s Jordan Center for Advanced Study of Russia, a co-Director of the NYU Social Media and Political Participation (SMaPP) laboratory, and a co-author/editor of the award-winning politics and policy blog The Monkey Cage at The Washington Post. He serves on the advisory board of the American National Election Study, the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems, and numerous academic journals, and was the co-founder and co-editor of the Journal of Experimental Political Science. His original research was on mass political behavior in post-communist countries, including voting and elections, partisanship, public opinion formation, and protest participation. In 2006, he was awarded the Emerging Scholar Award for the top scholar in the field of Elections, Public Opinion, and Voting Behavior within 10 years of the doctorate. More recently, he has been at the forefront of the newly emerging field of study of the relationship between social media and politics. His research in this area has included studies on the effects of network diversity on tolerance, partisan echo chambers, online hate speech, the effects of exposure to social media on political knowledge, online networks and protest, disinformation and fake news, how authoritarian regimes respond to online opposition, and Russian bots and trolls. Tucker has been a visiting Professor at the Fundacion Juan March in Madrid, Spain, and Luiss Guido Carli University in Rome, Italy. His research has appeared in over two-dozen scholarly journals, and his most recent book is the co-authored Communism’s Shadow: Historical Legacies and Contemporary Political Attitudes (Princeton University Press, 2017), available here: https://www.amazon.com/Communisms-Shadow-Historical-Contemporary-Political/dp/0691175594/ref=sr12?qid=1556495057&refinements=p_27%3AJoshua+Tucker&s=books&sr=1-2&text=Joshua+Tucker. Follow him on Twitter: @jatucker . Episode recorded April 25th, 2019 at the University of Texas at Austin. CREDITS Co-Producer: Matthew Orr (Connect: facebook.com/orrmatthew) Co-Producer: Tom Rehnquist (Connect: facebook.com/thomas.rehnquist) Associate Producer: Lauren Nyquist (Connect: facebook.com/lenyquist Instagram: @nyquabbit) Associate Producer: Milena D-K (Connect: facebook.com/profile.php?id=100010939368892 Instagram: @thedistantsea and @milena.d.k) Music/Sound Design: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic www.charlieharpermusic.com) Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) Follow The Slavic Connexion on Instagram: @slavxradio, Twitter: @SlavXRadio, and on Facebook: facebook.com/slavxradio . Check out our YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDqMRKmAtJRxBVxFTI82pgg Thanks for listening and please don't forget to subscribe!! Special Guest: Joshua Tucker.
For more on our guest, visit: https://slavxradio.fireside.fm/admin/guests/844c0e5b-e1c5-4117-8497-9661fbe51195/edit This episode was recorded on April 24th, 2019 at the University of Texas at Austin. CREDITS Co-Producer: Matthew Orr (Connect: facebook.com/orrmatthew) Associate Producer: Tom Rehnquist (Connect: facebook.com/thomas.rehnquist) Associate Producer: Lauren Nyquist (Connect: facebook.com/lenyquist Instagram: @nyquabbit) Associate Producer: Milena D-K (Connect: facebook.com/profile.php?id=100010939368892 Instagram: @thedistantsea and @milena.d.k) Music/Sound Design: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic www.charlieharpermusic.com) Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) Follow The Slavic Connexion on Instagram: @slavxradio, Twitter: @SlavXRadio, and on Facebook: facebook.com/slavxradio . Check out our YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDqMRKmAtJRxBVxFTI82pgg Thanks for listening and please don't forget to subscribe!! Special Guest: Aliaksandr Herasimenka.
Peter Pomerantsev is a Visiting Senior Fellow at the Institute of Global Affairs at the London School of Economics, an author and TV producer. He specialises on propaganda and media development, and has testified on the challenges of information war to the US House Foreign Affairs Committee, US Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the UK Parliament Defense Select Committee. He writes for publications including the Financial Times, London Review of Books, Politico, Atlantic and many others. His book on Russian propaganda, Nothing is True and Everything is Possible, won the 2016 Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize, was nominated for the Samuel Johnson, Guardian First Book, Pushkin House and Gordon Burns Prizes. It is translated into over a dozen languages. His next book, THIS IS NOT PROPAGANDA: ADVENTURES IN THE WAR AGAINST REALITY, which looks at developments in the 'battle for hearts and minds' across the world, will debut in hardcover August 2019. http://www.lse.ac.uk/iga/people/peter-pomerantsev Thanks for listening. Recorded Live at the Glickman Conference Center at the University of Texas at Austin on April 25th, 2019. www.slavxradio.com Follow us on Twitter: @SlavXRadio Instagram: @slavxradio Facebook: /slavxradio Associate Producer: Tom Rehnquist Music: Charlie Harper www.charlieharpermusic.com Sound effects: Daniel Simion and Mike Koenig Executive Producer: Michelle Daniel Please note: The views expressed by Info Wars speakers are their own and do not necessarily reflect those of The Slavic Connexion; the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies; or the University of Texas at Austin. Special Guest: Peter Pomerantsev.
Dr. Denis Stukal is a postdoctoral researcher with SMaPP. He is doing research in the fields of Comparative Politics and Political Methodology. His primary focus is the use of machine learning techniques to study political misinformation in post-communist countries (especially, in Russia). Recorded Live at the Glickman Conference Center at the University of Texas at Austin on April 25th, 2019. www.slavxradio.com Associate Producer: Tom Rehnquist Music: Charlie Harper www.charlieharpermusic.com Sound effects: Daniel Simion and Mike Koenig Executive Producer: Michelle Daniel Please note: The views expressed by Info Wars speakers are their own and do not necessarily reflect those of The Slavic Connexion; the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies; or the University of Texas at Austin. Special Guest: Denis Stukal.
Dr. Joshua Tucker, director of NYU's Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia, presents his most recent research at the 2019 Trust Me: Information Wars symposium, which was made possible by the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies in collaboration with the Intelligence Studies Project (ISP). Follow Dr. Tucker on Twitter: @jatucker Thanks for listening! Recorded Live at the Glickman Conference Center at the University of Texas at Austin on April 25th, 2019. www.slavxradio.com Follow us on Twitter: @SlavXRadio Instagram: @slavxradio Facebook: /slavxradio Associate Producer: Tom Rehnquist Music: Charlie Harper www.charlieharpermusic.com Sound effects: Daniel Simion and Mike Koenig Executive Producer: Michelle Daniel Please note: The views expressed by Info Wars speakers are their own and do not necessarily reflect those of The Slavic Connexion; the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies; or the University of Texas at Austin. Special Guest: Joshua Tucker.
As a kickoff to the Information Wars Social Media Conference here at the University of Texas today, we are releasing this episode featuring one of UT's own speakers, Dr. Kiril Avramov who is not only brilliant but one of the most caring and engaging educators on these Forty Acres! Dr. Avramov was until December 2017 the Acting Vice-Rector for International Relations and Research at the New Bulgarian University (NBU) in Sofia, Bulgaria and an Assistant Professor of Political Science at NBU. He studied previously at Gustavus Adolphus College (USA/MN), the University of Aberdeen (Scotland), University of Sofia (Bulgaria), Central European University (Hungary), and NBU. He taught in the Department of Political Science at the University of Sofia until 2005 and, from 2006-2010, was also the Director of the international consultancy and research institute “Political Capital” in Bulgaria. In 2010, he was appointed as the Director for International Relations of Political Capital at the firm’s headquarters in Budapest. Dr. Avramov’s main research interests are information warfare, psychological operations and mass cognitive hacking, as well as the “weaponization of information” and their respective application and effects on individual and group decision-making processes in the Central and Eastern Europe and MENA regions. Additional areas of interest include political elites’ and non-elites’ decision-making resilience mechanisms and radicalization in post-transition democracies during identified active “psyops” and third party information operations. BOOK RECOMMENDATION: "Fortress Russia: Conspiracy Theories in the Post-Soviet World" by Ilya Yablokov https://www.amazon.com/Fortress-Russia-Conspiracy-Theories-Post-Soviet/dp/1509522662/ref=sr11?crid=3EA8MAIYQ3KII&keywords=fortress+russia&qid=1556198139&s=books&sprefix=fortress+russia%2Caps%2C152&sr=1-1 Note: Dr. Kiril Avramov appears courtesy of the Intelligence Studies Project, a joint endeavor of the Clements Center for National Security and the Strauss Center for International Security and Law at the University of Texas at Austin. Producer's Note: This episode was recorded on April 12th, 2019, therefore the Ukrainian presidential election had not occurred yet, deeming Volodymyr Zelensky as the uncontested winner. CREDITS Co-Producer: Matthew Orr (Connect: facebook.com/orrmatthew) Associate Producer: Tom Rehnquist (Connect: facebook.com/thomas.rehnquist) Associate Producer: Lauren Nyquist (Connect: facebook.com/lenyquist Instagram: @nyquabbit) Associate Producer: Milena D-K (Connect: facebook.com/profile.php?id=100010939368892 Instagram: @thedistantsea and @milena.d.k) Music/Sound Design: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic www.charlieharpermusic.com) Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) Follow The Slavic Connexion on Instagram: @slavxradio, Twitter: @SlavXRadio, and on Facebook: facebook.com/slavxradio . Check out our YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDqMRKmAtJRxBVxFTI82pgg Thanks for listening and please don't forget to subscribe!! Special Guest: Kiril Avramov.
Our host Matt visits with special guest and East Asia expert Dr. Artyom Lukin about Russian geopolitics in the Asia-Pacific region. Этот эпизод на русском языке. Dr. Artyom Lukin is the deputy director for Research at the School of Regional and International Studies and associate professor at Far Eastern Federal University in Vladivostok, Russia. Dr. Lukin earned his PhD in Political Science from Far Eastern State University in 2002. In addition to his academic career, he worked as a public relations officer for the city of Vladivostok from 1998 to 2002 and at Dalenergo, the largest energy utility company in Russia’s Far East, from 2002–2007. He has authored numerous chapters, papers and op-eds, in Russian and English, on Asia-Pacific international politics and Russia’s engagement with Asia. Russia’s Far East: New Dynamics in Asia Pacific and Beyond, Lynne Rienner, (2015). Artyom Lukin’s research interests include international relations and security in the Asia-Pacific and Northeast Asia, Russian foreign policy, Russia’s engagement with the Asia-Pacific, and social, political and economic processes in the Russian Far East. Lukin has authored and co-authored multiple scholarly publications in Russian and English. He has been involved in numerous research and publication projects both in Russia and abroad. Artyom Lukin is an expert with the Russian International Affairs Council and he serves as a regular commentator for Russian and international news media. Connect with Dr. Lukin on Twitter: @ArtyomLukin and via email: artlukin@mail.ru Dr. Lukin appears on this show courtesy of the Kozmetsky Center at St. Edward's University in Austin, Texas. Special thanks to Dr. Sharyl Cross and Joseph Sadek for bringing Dr. Lukin in from Russia and sharing him with The Slavic Connexion! CREDITS Co-Producer: Tom Rehnquist (Connect: facebook.com/thomas.rehnquist) Associate Producer: Matthew Orr (Connect: facebook.com/orrmatthew) Associate Producer: Lauren Nyquist (Connect: facebook.com/lenyquist Instagram: @nyquabbit) Associate Producer: Milena D-K (Connect: facebook.com/profile.php?id=100010939368892 Instagram: @thedistantsea and @milena.d.k) Music/Sound Design: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic www.charlieharpermusic.com) Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) Follow The Slavic Connexion on Instagram: @slavxradio, Twitter: @SlavXRadio, and on Facebook: facebook.com/slavxradio . Check out our YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDqMRKmAtJRxBVxFTI82pgg Thanks for listening and please don't forget to subscribe!! Special Guest: Artyom Lukin (Артём Лукин).
"In Russia, we don't see North Korea as a threat," says Dr. Artyom Lukin, an expert on Russian foreign policy in the Asia-Pacific region. A contributing writer to Washington Post, Huffington Post, and more, Dr. Lukin clears up American misconceptions in the Far East and gives us some uniquely Russian insight and perspective. Dr. Artyom Lukin is the deputy director for Research at the School of Regional and International Studies and associate professor at Far Eastern Federal University in Vladivostok, Russia. Dr. Lukin earned his PhD in Political Science from Far Eastern State University in 2002. In addition to his academic career, he worked as a public relations officer for the city of Vladivostok from 1998 to 2002 and at Dalenergo, the largest energy utility company in Russia’s Far East, from 2002–2007. He has authored numerous chapters, papers and op-eds, in Russian and English, on Asia-Pacific international politics and Russia’s engagement with Asia. Russia’s Far East: New Dynamics in Asia Pacific and Beyond, Lynne Rienner, (2015). Artyom Lukin’s research interests include international relations and security in the Asia-Pacific and Northeast Asia, Russian foreign policy, Russia’s engagement with the Asia-Pacific, and social, political and economic processes in the Russian Far East. Lukin has authored and co-authored multiple scholarly publications in Russian and English. He has been involved in numerous research and publication projects both in Russia and abroad. Artyom Lukin is an expert with the Russian International Affairs Council and he serves as a regular commentator for Russian and international news media. Connect with Dr. Lukin on Twitter: @ArtyomLukin and via email: artlukin@mail.ru Dr. Lukin appears on this show courtesy of the Kozmetsky Center at St. Edward's University in Austin, Texas. Special thanks to Dr. Sharyl Cross and Joseph Sadek for bringing Dr. Lukin in from Russia and sharing him with The Slavic Connexion! CREDITS Co-Producer: Tom Rehnquist (Connect: facebook.com/thomas.rehnquist) Associate Producer: Matthew Orr (Connect: facebook.com/orrmatthew) Associate Producer: Lauren Nyquist (Connect: facebook.com/lenyquist Instagram: @nyquabbit) Associate Producer: Milena D-K (Connect: facebook.com/profile.php?id=100010939368892 Instagram: @thedistantsea and @milena.d.k) Music/Sound Design: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic www.charlieharpermusic.com) Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) Follow The Slavic Connexion on Instagram: @slavxradio, Twitter: @SlavXRadio, and on Facebook: facebook.com/slavxradio . Check out our YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDqMRKmAtJRxBVxFTI82pgg Thanks for listening and please don't forget to subscribe!! Special Guest: Artyom Lukin (Артём Лукин).
The future Dr. Ashlyn Hand dialogues with Matt about the super fun topic of religious freedom in U.S. foreign policy and the specific case of post-USSR Uzbekistan. And she says nobody wants her at the dinner table... About the Guest: Ashlyn Hand is a fourth-year doctoral student at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs. Ashlyn’s research interests involve the intersection of women’s political representation and issues of religious liberty. Ashlyn received her Master’s in Public Affairs from the LBJ School in May 2015. Before graduate school, Ashlyn worked in public relations, serving as the Director of Communication for the Research Valley Partnership. BOOK MENTIONED THE WHITE NIGHTS: PAGES FROM A RUSSIAN DOCTOR'S HANDBOOK (A MEMOIR) by Boris Sokoloff (1956) https://www.amazon.com/White-Nights-Russian-doctors-notebook/dp/B002JS8KAI/ref=sr11?qid=1555514758&refinements=p_27%3ABoris+Sokoloff&s=books&sr=1-1&text=Boris+Sokoloff CREDITS Co-Producer: Tom Rehnquist (Connect: facebook.com/thomas.rehnquist) Associate Producer: Matthew Orr (Connect: facebook.com/orrmatthew) Associate Producer: Lauren Nyquist (Connect: facebook.com/lenyquist Instagram: @nyquabbit) Associate Producer: Milena D-K (Connect: facebook.com/profile.php?id=100010939368892 Instagram: @thedistantsea and @milena.d.k) Music/Sound Design: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic www.charlieharpermusic.com) Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) Follow The Slavic Connexion on Instagram: @slavxradio, Twitter: @SlavXRadio, and on Facebook: facebook.com/slavxradio . Check out our YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDqMRKmAtJRxBVxFTI82pgg Thanks for listening and please don't forget to subscribe!! Special Guest: Ashlyn Hand.
On this episode, Tom hosts half-Russian graduate student Lucia Winkeler as they talk all things Caucasus and how many times she has to explain to people that it's not Czechia, it's CHECHNYA as in the First and Second Chechen Wars. Lucia is a dual-degree CREEES and LBJ Global Policy Studies graduate student who is primarily focusing her research on female terrorists originating in the North Caucasus region. She is a graduate of Texas A&M University and is fluent in Russian with a working proficiency in Spanish. EDITOR'S CORRECTION: The man in charge of the 2002 Moscow Dubrovka theatre crisis was in fact Movsar Buharovich Barayev, and not (as named in the episode) Shamil Basayev who was actually leader of another operation in 2004 as our guest Lucia pointed out, the Belsan school crisis which was not in Moscow. Our sincere apologies to our listeners for the error. BOOK MENTIONED THE BLACK GARDEN: ARMENIA AND AZERBAIJAN THROUGH PEACE AND WAR by Thomas de Waal https://www.amazon.com/Black-Garden-Armenia-Azerbaijan-Anniversary/dp/0814760325 CREDITS Co-Producer: Tom Rehnquist (Connect: facebook.com/thomas.rehnquist) Associate Producer: Matthew Orr (Connect: facebook.com/orrmatthew) Associate Producer: Lauren Nyquist (Connect: facebook.com/lenyquist Instagram: @nyquabbit) Associate Producer: Milena D-K (Connect: facebook.com/profile.php?id=100010939368892 Instagram: @thedistantsea and @milena.d.k) Music/Sound Design: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic www.charlieharpermusic.com) Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) Follow The Slavic Connexion on Instagram: @slavxradio, Twitter: @SlavXRadio, and on Facebook: facebook.com/slavxradio . Check out our YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDqMRKmAtJRxBVxFTI82pgg Thanks for listening and please don't forget to subscribe!! Special Guest: Lucia Winkeler.
In this episode Matt and Tom discuss everything you probably NEVER wanted to know about Alexander Dugin. But who is Dugin and what does he want? Wikipedia says simply "[he] is a Russian political analyst and strategist known for his fascist views." High commendation, indeed. But Dugin and his concept of Eurasianism is far too complicated for us in general. However, Tom could write a book about this subject... and he probably will, so this ought to be interesting. Books mentioned: 1) (Recommended read!) Masha Gessen - THE FUTURE IS HISTORY https://www.amazon.com/Future-History-Totalitarianism-Reclaimed-Russia/dp/159463453X/ref=sr11?keywords=the+future+is+history&qid=1555029233&s=gateway&sr=8-1 2) Alexander Dugin - GEOPOLITICS OF POSTMODERN https://www.amazon.com/Geopolitics-postmodern-Russian-Dugin/dp/5519515441/ref=sr14?keywords=alexander+dugin&qid=1555029494&s=gateway&sr=8-4 3) Alexander Dugin - FOURTH POLITICAL THEORY (Четвертая политическая теория) https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15785079-the-fourth-political-theory And for a "fun" deep-dive into Eurasianism, Marlene Laruelle's RUSSIAN EURASIANISM: AN IDEOLOGY OF EMPIRE ought to cover the concept in full: https://www.amazon.com/Russian-Eurasianism-Ideology-Marlène-Laruelle/dp/1421405768/ref=sxbssxwds-stvp?pdrdi=1421405768&pdrdr=f8eb50e2-6b3c-4149-accf-390e012bf7f3&pdrdw=wGIv8&pdrdwg=eDgg7&pfrdp=5c5ea0d7-2437-4d8a-88a7-ea6f32aeac11&pfrdr=XRP5TC55RSVK141V5QZF&qid=1555029573&refinements=p27%3AA.+Dugin&s=books&text=A.+Dugin CREDITS Co-Producer: Tom Rehnquist (Connect: facebook.com/thomas.rehnquist) Associate Producer: Lauren Nyquist (Connect: facebook.com/lenyquist Instagram: @nyquabbit) Associate Producer: Matthew Orr (Connect: facebook.com/orrmatthew) Associate Producer: Milena D-K (Connect: facebook.com/profile.php?id=100010939368892 Instagram: @thedistantsea and @milena.d.k) Music/Sound Design: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic www.charlieharpermusic.com) Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) Follow The Slavic Connexion on Instagram: @slavxradio, Twitter: @SlavXRadio, and on Facebook: facebook.com/slavxradio . Check out our YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDqMRKmAtJRxBVxFTI82pgg Thanks for listening and please don't forget to subscribe!!
For more information on Seva Novgorodsev (DJ with the BBC Russian Service), visit his website www.seva.ru. Watch the interview on our YouTube channel with English subtitles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ7t-TDkR-M&t=650s CREDITS Co-Producer: Matthew Orr (Connect: facebook.com/orrmatthew) Co-Producer: Tom Rehnquist (Connect: facebook.com/thomas.rehnquist) Music/Sound Design: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic www.charlieharpermusic.com) Associate Producer: Sergey Pantsirev Exec Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) Follow The Slavic Connexion on Instagram: @slavxradio and on Facebook: facebook.com/slavxradio . Thanks for listening and please don't forget to subscribe!! Special Guest: Seva Novgorodsev (Сева Новгородцев).
The indomitable Dr. Susanne Sternthal joins host Matt Orr in the studio to discuss her breadth of experience from New York to Moscow. Please visit her guest page for more on her bio and published works. https://www.slavxradio.com/guests/sternthal Movie mentioned by Susanne: GET OUT https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5052448/ Book mentioned by Susanne: D.H. Lawrence's THE RAINBOW https://www.amazon.com/Rainbow-Wordsworth-Classics-D-Lawrence/dp/1853262501/ref=sr13?crid=2XSJ7C4WNZNWH&keywords=the+rainbow+d.h.+lawrence&qid=1554698969&s=gateway&sprefix=the+rainbow+d.h%2Caps%2C187&sr=8-3 Co-Producer: Tom Rehnquist (Connect: facebook.com/thomas.rehnquist) Co-Producer: Matthew Orr (Connect: facebook.com/orrmatthew) Music/Sound Design: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic www.charlieharpermusic.com) Exec Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) Follow The Slavic Connexion on Instagram: @slavxradio and on Facebook: facebook.com/slavxradio . Thanks for listening and please don't forget to subscribe!! Special Guest: Susanne Sternthal.
Dr. Beronja talks about the fascinating musical genre of Turbofolk which emerged during the tumultuous 80s in the former Yugoslavia, expanded to mass popularity in the 90s under Slobodan Milošević, and aligned itself with Balkan identity. For more on how nostalgia (such as "Yugo-nostalgia") directs politics and dialogue, check out the following website of digital scholarship by Dr. Beronja: https://nostalgiaandpop.omeka.net/introduction Clips played in the episode are from the following YouTube videos: 1. Ceca "Nije Monotonija" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soiKKyQs-6k 2. Jovana Karleusa "Slatka Mala" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XGrxLCBZoQ Co-Producer: Tom Rehnquist (Connect: facebook.com/thomas.rehnquist) Associate Producer: Lauren Nyquist (Connect: facebook.com/lenyquist Instagram: @nyquabbit) Associate Producer: Matthew Orr (Connect: facebook.com/orrmatthew) Associate Producer: Milena D-K (Connect: facebook.com/profile.php?id=100010939368892 Instagram: @thedistantsea and @milena.d.k) Music/Sound Design: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic www.charlieharpermusic.com) Exec Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) Follow The Slavic Connexion on Instagram: @slavxradio and on Facebook: facebook.com/slavxradio . Thanks for listening and please don't forget to subscribe!! Special Guest: Vladislav Beronja.
Seva Novgorodsev reprises his long-running show "Sevaoborot" while at the University of Texas at Austin. He is joined by Harvard-alum Dr. Thomas Garza of the university who specializes in Russian Language and popular culture and directs the Texas Language Center. www.seva.ru For more information about Dr. Thomas Garza, visit https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/slavic/faculty/garzatj Produced by The Slavic Connexion and made possible by the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Record March 28th, 2019 at the University of Texas at Austin. Music: Original Sevaoborot theme song from BBC Russian Service Produced by: Michelle Daniel Special Guests: Seva Novgorodsev (Сева Новгородцев) and Thomas Garza.
One of the most unique rising scholars at the University of Texas, John Gleb talks with host Tom Rehnquist about the development of the U.S. State Department in terms of American diplomacy and also on the tie with dollar diplomacy. To quote Tom: "Judging by [John's] input in class, this should be a very rich conversation." Books mentioned include: 1) Fighting for American Manhood: How Gender Politics Provoked the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars by Kristin L. Hoganson 2) From Selma to Moscow: How Human Rights Activists Transformed U.S. Foreign Policy by Sarah B. Snyder 3) The Master Architects: Building the United States Foreign Service 1890–1913 by Richard Hume Werking People mentioned include Paul Cambon (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Cambon) (French diplomat late 19th century), Jules Cambon (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules_Cambon) (diplomat to Germany early 20th century) and Elliott Abrams (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliott_Abrams) (American diplomat and lawyer who served under Reagan, Bush, and Trump), Professors mentioned for the 50th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights include panel moderator Dr. Jeremi Suri (https://lbj.utexas.edu/directory/faculty/jeremi-suri) and featured speakers Dr. Mark Lawrence (https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/history/faculty/ut1markl), who has been a guest on the show (see The Vietnam Connexion (https://www.slavxradio.com/the-vietnam-soviet-connexion)), Dr. Michael Stoff (https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/history/faculty/stoffmb), and Dr. Lina Del Castillo (https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/history/faculty/ld9277) CREDITS Co-Producer: Tom Rehnquist (Connect: facebook.com/thomas.rehnquist) Associate Producer: Lauren Nyquist (Connect: facebook.com/lenyquist Instagram: @nyquabbit) Associate Producer: Matthew Orr (Connect: facebook.com/orrmatthew) Associate Producer: Milena D-K (Connect: facebook.com/profile.php?id=100010939368892 Instagram: @thedistantsea and @milena.d.k) Music/Sound Design: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic www.charlieharpermusic.com) Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) Follow The Slavic Connexion on Instagram: @slavxradio and on Facebook: facebook.com/slavxradio . Thanks for listening and please don't forget to subscribe!! Special Guest: John Gleb.
With the Ukrainian presidential election just a week away (at the release of this episode), hosts Tom and Matt felt they had to give a rundown of the leading candidates and draw comparisons (because they can't help themselves) to US political struggles and trends. And while they know it's a wee bit early to talk American presidential elections, Matt and Tom just had to touch on a few of the many, many White House hopefuls who have thrown their proverbial hat into the ring. Who's their leading pick so far? You'll find out on this episode. Note: Session recorded on March 15th, 2019 at the Unviersity of Texas at Austin. CREDITS Associate Producer: Matthew Orr (Connect: facebook.com/orrmatthew) Co-Producer: Tom Rehnquist (Connect: facebook.com/thomas.rehnquist) Music/Sound Design: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic www.charlieharpermusic.com) Creator/Executive Producer Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) Visit The Slavic Connexion's YouTube Channel for more content--videos being added all the time! (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDqMRKmAtJRxBVxFTI82pgg) Connect with The Slavic Connexion on Instagram: @slavxradio and on Facebook: facebook.com/slavxradio . Thanks for listening and please don't forget to subscribe!!
Matt and Tom discuss the late great DFW: David Foster Wallace and have another of their generally pessimistic conversations about modern-society in this mini-episode. Recommended works by David Foster Wallace: The Infinite Jest (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0316066524/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0) "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do" (https://www.amazon.com/Supposedly-Fun-Thing-Never-Again/dp/0316925284/ref=sr_1_1?crid=25TSM5DUVMP2T&keywords=david+foster+wallace&qid=1553215785&s=books&sprefix=david+foster+wallace%2Caps%2C196&sr=1-1) Consider the Lobster (https://www.amazon.com/Consider-Lobster-David-Foster-Wallace-ebook/dp/B000S1LVHW/ref=sr_1_fkmrnull_1?keywords=Up+Simba+David+foster+wallace&qid=1553216063&s=digital-text&sr=1-1-fkmrnull) String Theory (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1598534807/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i3) CREDITS Associate Producer: Matthew Orr (Connect: facebook.com/orrmatthew) Co-Producer: Tom Rehnquist (Connect: facebook.com/thomas.rehnquist) Music/Sound Design: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic www.charlieharpermusic.com) Creator/Executive Producer Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) Visit The Slavic Connexion's YouTube Channel for more content--videos being added all the time! (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDqMRKmAtJRxBVxFTI82pgg) Note: Interview recorded on February 28th, 2019 at the University of Texas at Austin. Connect with The Slavic Connexion on Instagram: @slavxradio and on Facebook: facebook.com/slavxradio . Thanks for listening and please don't forget to subscribe!!
Czech-American Austin Sappington, a Clements Center Undergraduate Fellow for 2018-2019, talks about his identification with the local Austin Czech community, Russian influence in the EU, Ukrainian democracy, the Czech Republic, and threats to Ukraine's economic well-being. Having visited these regions, Austin has had much insight into the regional politics and on-the-ground opinion of Eastern Ukraine. His opinion as an undergraduate is particularly valuable as it reflects the sentiments of many in his generation. Note: Interview recorded on March 8th, 2019 at the Unviersity of Texas at Austin. CREDITS Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) Co-Producer: Tom Rehnquist (Connect: facebook.com/thomas.rehnquist) Associate Producer: Lauren Nyquist (Connect: facebook.com/lenyquist Instagram: @nyquabbit) Associate Producer: Matthew Orr (Connect: facebook.com/orrmatthew) Associate Producer: Milena D-K (Connect: facebook.com/profile.php?id=100010939368892 Instagram: @thedistantsea and @milena.d.k) Music/Sound Design: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic www.charlieharpermusic.com) Connect with The Slavic Connexion on Instagram: @slavxradio and on Facebook: facebook.com/slavxradio . Thanks for listening and please don't forget to subscribe!! Special Guest: Austin Sappington.
Watch the full interview with Dr. Redei on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LC7VI-Lk9eo)! During this episode, Dr. Redei mentions the following group, FOR OUR FUTURE'S SAKE, which we at The Slavic Connexion are particularly excited about, not for its purpose or rhetoric necessarily, but its youthful composition. Brexit or no, this is an interesting development where youth are getting organized and trying to make their voices heard. Please check out their website: https://ffsakes.uk/ . Books, articles, and media mentioned during Tom and Matt's interview with Dr. Redei include: 1) "You Only Wish You Had Ukraine's Democracy" (https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/02/10/you-only-wish-you-had-ukraines-democracy/) 2) "The Strongmen Strike Back" by Robert Kagan (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/opinions/wp/2019/03/14/feature/the-strongmen-strike-back/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.fb56bb1cd855) 3) BREXIT - show on HBO featuring Benedict Cumberbatch (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brexit:_The_Uncivil_War) 4) Novel by Hugh Howey: WOOL (https://www.amazon.com/Wool-Hugh-Howey/dp/1476733953/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=hugh+howey+wool&qid=1552768219&s=gateway&sr=8-1) CREDITS Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) Co-Producer: Tom Rehnquist (Connect: facebook.com/thomas.rehnquist) Associate Producer: Lauren Nyquist (Connect: facebook.com/lenyquist Instagram: @nyquabbit) Associate Producer: Matthew Orr (Connect: facebook.com/orrmatthew) Associate Producer: Milena D-K (Connect: facebook.com/profile.php?id=100010939368892 Instagram: @thedistantsea and @milena.d.k) Music/Sound Design: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic www.charlieharpermusic.com) Connect with The Slavic Connexion on Instagram: @slavxradio and on Facebook: facebook.com/slavxradio . Thanks for listening and please don't forget to subscribe!! Special Guest: Lorinc Redei.
Dr. Pomar discourses on a full breadth of topics, including his experiences living in the Soviet Union under Brezhnev and the ideological bent of Radio Free Europe after the collapse of the USSR. CREDITS Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) Co-Producer: Tom Rehnquist (Connect: facebook.com/thomas.rehnquist) Associate Producer: Lauren Nyquist (Connect: facebook.com/lenyquist Instagram: @nyquabbit) Associate Producer: Matthew Orr (Connect: facebook.com/orrmatthew) Associate Producer: Milena D-K (Connect: facebook.com/profile.php?id=100010939368892 Instagram: @thedistantsea and @milena.d.k) Music/Sound Design: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic www.charlieharpermusic.com) Connect with The Slavic Connexion on Instagram: @slavxradio and on Facebook: facebook.com/slavxradio . Thanks for listening and please don't forget to subscribe!! Special Guest: Mark G. Pomar.
Vilnius-born Audrius Rickus gives us a look at the Lithuanian presidential elections with a comprehensive run-down of the candidates. CREDITS Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) Co-Producer: Tom Rehnquist (Connect: facebook.com/thomas.rehnquist) Associate Producer: Matthew Orr (Connect: facebook.com/orrmatthew) Music/Sound Design: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic www.charlieharpermusic.com) Connect with The Slavic Connexion on Instagram: @slavxradio and on Facebook: facebook.com/slavxradio . Thanks for listening and please don't forget to subscribe!! Special Guest: Audrius Rickus.
Jonathan Parker breaks down Czech nationalism for us, getting into the historical depth and the many facets of this issue as it pertains to the trend of nationalism as a broader global movement. CREDITS Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) Co-Producer: Tom Rehnquist (Connect: facebook.com/thomas.rehnquist) Associate Producer: Matthew Orr (Connect: facebook.com/orrmatthew) Music/Sound Design: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic www.charlieharpermusic.com) Connect with The Slavic Connexion on Instagram: @slavxradio and on Facebook: facebook.com/slavxradio . Thanks for listening and please don't forget to subscribe!! Special Guest: Jonathan Parker.
In his humble and articulate manner, Dr. Lawrence provides the expert's view on Soviet reactions to U.S.-Vietnam relations during the Cold War. CREDITS Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) Co-Producer: Tom Rehnquist (Connect: facebook.com/thomas.rehnquist) Associate Producer: Lauren Nyquist (Connect: facebook.com/lenyquist Instagram: @nyquabbit) Associate Producer: Matthew Orr (Connect: facebook.com/orrmatthew) Associate Producer: Milena D-K (Connect: facebook.com/profile.php?id=100010939368892 Instagram: @thedistantsea and @milena.d.k) Music/Sound Design: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic www.charlieharpermusic.com) Connect with The Slavic Connexion on Instagram: @slavxradio and on Facebook: facebook.com/slavxradio . Thanks for listening and please don't forget to subscribe!! Special Guest: Mark A. Lawrence.
Who knew there was so much history behind a spoonful of yogurt? Balkan historian Dr. Mary Neuburger gives us the wholesome truth and nothing but in this delicious episode about Bulgarian yogurt. CREDITS Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) Co-Producer: Tom Rehnquist (Connect: facebook.com/thomas.rehnquist) Associate Producer: Lauren Nyquist (Connect: facebook.com/lenyquist Instagram: @nyquabbit) Associate Producer: Matthew Orr (Connect: facebook.com/orrmatthew) Associate Producer: Milena D-K (Connect: facebook.com/profile.php?id=100010939368892 Instagram: @thedistantsea and @milena.d.k) Music/Sound Design: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic www.charlieharpermusic.com) Connect with The Slavic Connexion on Instagram: @slavxradio and on Facebook: facebook.com/slavxradio . Thanks for listening and please don't forget to subscribe!! Special Guest: Mary C. Neuburger.
Everybody loves Bella! And in this episode, you'll see why. Dr. Bella Jordan hails from Siberia and you'll never meet a more splendid converesationalist. Her stories are amazing, and no matter how many times you talk to her, you'll find out something new every time that will astonish. CREDITS Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) Co-Producer: Tom Rehnquist (Connect: facebook.com/trehnquist) Associate Producer: Lauren Nyquist (Connect: facebook.com/lenyquist Instagram: @nyquabbit) Associate Producer: Matthew Orr (Connect: facebook.com/orrmatthew) Associate Producer: Milena D-K (Connect: facebook.com/profile.php?id=100010939368892 Instagram: @thedistantsea and @milena.d.k) Music/Sound Design: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic www.charlieharpermusic.com) Connect with The Slavic Connexion on Instagram: @slavxradio and on Facebook: facebook.com/slavxradio . Thanks for listening and please don't forget to subscribe!! Special Guest: Bella Jordan.
Dr. Mosser discusses his views on the democracy question, Ukrainian presidential elections, and the European Union's evolution in the current geostrategic landscape. Dr. Michael W. Mosser is is an Assistant Professor of Instruction with a joint appointment in the Department of Government, the Center for European Studies, and the International Relations and Global Governance (IRG) program at the University of Texas at Austin. https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/irg/faculty/mwm849 CREDITS Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) Co-Producer: Tom Rehnquist (Connect: facebook.com/trehnquist) Associate Producer: Lauren Nyquist (Connect: facebook.com/lenyquist Instagram: @nyquabbit) Associate Producer: Matthew Orr (Connect: facebook.com/orrmatthew) Associate Producer: Milena D-K (Connect: facebook.com/profile.php?id=100010939368892 Instagram: @thedistantsea and @milena.d.k) Music/Sound Design: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic www.charlieharpermusic.com) Connect with The Slavic Connexion on Instagram: @slavxradio and on Facebook: facebook.com/slavxradio . Thanks for listening and please don't forget to subscribe!! SPONSORED PRODUCT:
A sweeping geopolitical thriller set in Moscow, Russia. Now available in the Kindle Store... https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B085Y8GRMZ?pfrdr=BMSWBFGYNM10VA6KGH08&pfrdp=ab873d20-a0ca-439b-ac45-cd78f07a84d8 Special Guest: Michael W. Mosser.
To see the video of Dr. Pomar's full interview with host Tom Rehnquist, visit The Slavic Connexion's YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auO4Nc8J1cU&t=62s CREDITS Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) Co-Producer: Tom Rehnquist (Connect: facebook.com/trehnquist) Associate Producer: Lauren Nyquist (Connect: facebook.com/lenyquist Instagram: @nyquabbit) Associate Producer: Matthew Orr (Connect: facebook.com/orrmatthew) Associate Producer: Milena D-K (Connect: facebook.com/profile.php?id=100010939368892 Instagram: @thedistantsea and @milena.d.k) Music/Sound Design: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic www.charlieharpermusic.com) Connect with The Slavic Connexion on Instagram: @slavxradio and on Facebook: facebook.com/slavxradio . Thanks for listening and please don't forget to subscribe!! Special Guest: Mark G. Pomar.
Graduate student and researcher Matthew Orr talks about civic education and discourse in modern-day Russia and Ukraine. Books referenced include THE BET by Anton Chekhov. Available on Amazon here: https://www.amazon.com/Bet-Anton-Chekhov-Illustrated-ebook/dp/B074P937ZH/ref=sr11?keywords=the+bet+chekhov&qid=1552589351&s=gateway&sr=8-1 CREDITS Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) Co-Producer: Tom Rehnquist (Connect: facebook.com/thomas.rehnquist) Associate Producer: Lauren Nyquist (Connect: facebook.com/lenyquist Instagram: @nyquabbit) Associate Producer: Matthew Orr (Connect: facebook.com/orrmatthew) Associate Producer: Milena D-K (Connect: facebook.com/profile.php?id=100010939368892 Instagram: @thedistantsea and @milena.d.k) Music/Sound Design: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic www.charlieharpermusic.com) Connect with The Slavic Connexion on Instagram: @slavxradio and on Facebook: facebook.com/slavxradio . Thanks for listening and please don't forget to subscribe!!