Past and Present: Migration, Crisis and Public History in Poland (Dariusz Stola)
With the unfolding crisis at the Polish-Belarussian border, and the Russian war against Ukraine, Polish society, public opinion and policy-makers have been confronted with critical challenges of migra...
15 Mars 202317min
Sexologists in Socialist Czechoslovakia (Kateřina Lišková)
Experts enjoyed a great deal of authority in state socialist Eastern Europe - but some experts were more equal than others. In this episode of the Transformative Podcast, sociologist Kateřina Lišková ...
22 Feb 202314min
Churches in Ukraine (Yuliya Yurchuk)
Part of Ukraine's ongoing struggle for independence from Russia is the establishment of a Ukrainian Orthodox church independent from the Moscow Patriarchate. Already before the full-scale Russian inva...
1 Feb 202316min
Dialectics of (Im)Mobility: Historical Transformations Through the Lens of Movement (Steffi Marung)
The Covid-19 pandemic has forced governments across the world to rethink (free) movement of peoples and things, and to revise mobility regimes in the face of new constraints. This is not a new phenome...
12 Jan 202317min
Guns and Globalization (Ned Richardson-Little)
If arms exports often rely on production processes and transportation networks spanning multiple countries, then their regulation has historically taken place at the level of the state. In this episod...
14 Dec 202216min
Racism By and Against Eastern Europeans (Ivan Kalmar)
East Europeans are white - or are they? In this episode, Jannis Panagiotidis (RECET) interviews Ivan Kalmar (University of Toronto) on his new book, in which he contends that the precarity of East Eur...
23 Nov 202219min
Ukrainian Refugees in Austria (Judith Kohlenberger)
The Russian military invasion of Ukraine that commenced on the February 24, 2022, led to the largest forced migration flows in Europe since WWII. In this episode, Irena Remestwenski (RECET) talks with...
2 Nov 202229min
Development Assistance as a Transformation Force (Artemy Kalinovsky)
Development as an approach to policy, as a theoretical paradigm, and as a force that can transform everyday life has been a powerful tool in changing societies on both sides of the Iron Curtain and in...
28 Sep 202213min
