Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchSara Jones, "Towards a Collaborative Memory: German Memory Work in a Transnational Context" (Berghahn Books, 2022)
Episode 142
Focusing on the memory of the German Democratic Republic, Towards a Collaborative Memory: German Memory Work in a Transnational Context (Berghahn Boo…
3 years, 7 months ago
Nicholas Micinski, "Delegating Responsibility: International Cooperation on Migration in the European Union" (U Michigan Press, 2022)
Episode 627
Delegating Responsibility: International Cooperation on Migration in the European Union (U Michigan Press, 2022) explores the politics of migration i…
3 years, 8 months ago
Ian Morris, "Geography Is Destiny: Britain and the World--A 10,000-Year History" (FSG, 2022)
Episode 49
In Geography Is Destiny: Britain and the World--A 10,000-Year History (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2022), Ian Morris chronicles the eight-thousand-year …
3 years, 8 months ago
Anna Triandafyllidou and Ruby Gropas, "What is Europe?" (Routledge, 2022)
Episode 5
As they worked on the second edition of What is Europe? (Routledge, 2022), Anna Triandafyllidou and Ruby Gropas admit that they struggled to keep up.…
3 years, 8 months ago
The Future of Vladimir Putin: A Discussion with Philip Short
Episode 36
President Vladmir Putin – the son of a foreman at a railway carriage works – is today one of the most powerful individuals on earth. What drives him?…
3 years, 8 months ago
Transitional Justice in Post-Communist Europe
Episode 178
An alienated society divided into groups and classes suspicious of one another does not pose an especially great problem for an authoritarian regime …
3 years, 8 months ago
Sara Wallace Goodman, "Citizenship in Hard Times: How Ordinary People Respond to Democratic Threat" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 626
What do citizens do in response to threats to democracy? Citizenship in Hard Times: How Ordinary People Respond to Democratic Threat (Cambridge UP, 2…
3 years, 8 months ago
A Most Similar Comparison: The Authoritarianism of Poland and Hungary with Edit Zgut-Przybylska
Episode 100
The leadership of Hungary and Poland seemingly shared the same playbook when it came to undermining judicial independence, consolidating electoral po…
3 years, 8 months ago
Ela Gezen et al., "Minority Discourses in Germany since 1990" (Berghahn Books, 2022)
Episode 141
While German unification promised a new historical beginning, it also stirred discussions about contemporary Germany's Nazi past and ideas of citizen…
3 years, 8 months ago
Arthur Bradley, "Unbearable Life: A Genealogy of Political Erasure" (Columbia UP, 2019)
Episode 323
In ancient Rome, any citizen who had brought disgrace upon the state could be subject to a judgment believed to be worse than death: damnatio memoria…
3 years, 8 months ago