Transformation of Ukrainian Football After the Soviet Union (Kateryna Chernii)
What does football tell us about Ukraine's political and economic transformations after the collapse of the Soviet Union? In this episode, Kateryna Chernii (ZZF Potsdam) tells Jelena Đureinović (RECET...
3 Dec 202521min
How Music Shaped the Habsburg Empire (Philipp Ther)
In this episode, Hannah Käthler (RECET) talks to RECET's Founding Director Philipp Ther, whose newest book Der Klang der Monarchie (Suhrkamp, 2025) tells the history of the Austro-Hungarian Empire thr...
12 Nov 202512min
Between Duty and Survival: Wartime Masculinities in Ukraine (Sofie Rose)
Since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Ukrainian men of fighting age have been subject to a wartime draft. Yet many have chosen to flee the country, often risking peri...
15 Okt 202523min
The disputed Austro-Hungarian Border (Hannes Grandits, Katharina Tyran)
In the aftermath of World War I, what used to be the Habsburg Empire split up into several nation states. But where to draw a border between the new Austrian Republic and the Hungarian nation state? I...
4 Sep 202515min
Everyday Postsocialism (Jill Massino)
What is postsocialism and how has it been experienced around Eastern Europe? Ambiguously, according to Jill Massino, the editor, with Marcus Wien, of a new volume on the topic: Everyday Postsocialism ...
13 Aug 202519min
Socialist Tropical Medicine (Bogdan C. Iacob)
Is there socialist tropical medicine? Why is it important to write state-socialist Eastern Europe in the global history of medicine after 1945? In this episode, Bogdan Iacob tells Jelena Đureinović (R...
23 Juli 202521min
Transformations of Terrorism (Daniela Richterova)
Did Eastern Bloc states “aid and abet” terrorism, as US politicians like Ronald Reagan charged? Declassified archives in postsocialist Europe reveal a much more complicated story, as Daniela Richterov...
2 Juli 202520min
Historian in the Age of Social Media and Disinformation (Franziska Davies)
Do historians have a responsibility to engage in public and political discussions? How can one balance the role of a public intellectual, an activist and a scholar? How can scholars rise to the occasi...
11 Juni 202522min
