The Ukraine Shelf Episode 5: Food with Olia Hercules and Felicity Spector
In this episode, we talk about one of the most fundamental things in all our lives: food. How can food help us understand culture, identity, and history? How does food bring people together in dark ti...
30 Syys 202549min
Talking Europe | Finding Europe on London’s Streets: understanding the enduring ties between London and the European Literary imagination
This episode of Talking Europe focuses on a unique literary project that underscores the enduring cultural ties between the UK and the rest of the European continent: the interactive, online European ...
3 Heinä 202521min
European Literary London: Irish Writing, Language and Identity
In this episode of our podcast 'Talking Europe', Hayley Anderson, one of our 2024-25 Student Ambassadors, sits down with Ciara Broderick, the UCL 2025 European Literary Map of London Writer in Residen...
7 Kesä 202538min
The Ukraine Shelf Episode 4: Writing War and Trauma
How can we speak and write about war? What role does silence play in this process? What does it mean for people and places to survive war? We discussed these questions and more with two brilliant writ...
15 Touko 20251h 4min
The Ukraine Shelf Episode 3: Eastern Ukraine with Olena Stiazhkina and Victoria Donovan
In this episode, we explore the industrial regions of Donetsk and Luhansk. From 2014 until 2022, this was where Russia focused its war of aggression against Ukraine, killing and uprooting thousands of...
20 Huhti 202554min
The Ukraine Shelf Episode 2: Identity and Culture under Attach with Sasha Dovzyk and Eugene Finkel
Russia has attempted to repress and destroy Ukrainian statehood and identity over two centuries. In this episode, we trace the historical roots of Russia’s current aggression to imperial myths from th...
25 Maalis 202558min
The Ukraine Shelf Episode 1: Crimea with Elmaz Asan and Rory Finnin
Russia’s aggression against Ukraine began not in 2022, but in 2014, with the invasion and occupation of Crimea. This episode explores Crimea’s significance as a strategically important nexus between e...
25 Helmi 202554min
Lost and Found soundscape FINAL
A soundscape commissioned as part of the UCL European Literary Map of London project, featuring voices reading texts about London written by European writers across the centuries in a variety of origi...
21 Tammi 20256min
