CEU Podcasts

How do we humans study the human? Hosted by Magdalena Smieszek, this episode of the How We Are Human podcast presents a discussion with Maria Kronfeldner, Professor in the Philosophy Department at the Central European University, and three Master's students, Olesya Bondarenko, Noha Hendi, and Rachel Sanderoff, as part of the course entitled Topics in the Philosophy of the Human and Social Sciences...

Sonic Rupture: A Practice-led Approach to Urban Soundscape Design(Bloomsbury 2016) by Jordan Lacey offers a practice-led alternative approach to urban soundscape design. Rather than understanding the functional noises of the city as solely problematic or unaesthetic annoyances to be eliminated, Lacey instead suggests ways in which they can be creatively harnessed to give new expression to urban li...

In this episode of the Media and Change Podcast Series, CMDS's Eva Bognar is interviewing Monroe Price  on the the foundation of our Center, on the role of CEU in the region and internationally, and the concept of open society. He emphasizes the importance of including the notion of power in our thinking about open societies and discusses the significance of media studies at CEU.Monroe Price is an...

Do we know ourselves better biologically or socially? Hosted by Magdalena Smieszek, this episode of the How We Are Human podcast is part 2 of the discussion with Maria Kronfeldner, Professor in the Philosophy Department at the Central European University, and three Master's students Olesya Bondarenko, Noha Hendi, and Rachel Sanderoff, as part of the course entitled Topics in the Philosophy of the...

Do we know ourselves better biologically or socially? Hosted by Magdalena Smieszek, this episode of the How We Are Human podcast is part 2 of the discussion with Maria Kronfeldner, Professor in the Philosophy Department at the Central European University, and three Master's students Olesya Bondarenko, Noha Hendi, and Rachel Sanderoff, as part of the course entitled Topics in the Philosophy of the...

This episode focuses on another source of extreme embarrassment for US foreign policy – the war in Vietnam – and explores the ways in which RL’s coverage of the war tried to address and minimize the damage to the US’s reputation that Soviet media coverage of the war was spreading across the Soviet population.

In this episode of the CMDS Media & Change podcast series, resident CMDS fellow Benjamin De Cleen, who is assistant professor at the Department of Communication Studies of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, discusses populist rhetoric. Benjamin’s research is situated within discourse studies and focuses on political rhetoric and on the intersections between media and politics. He analyses populist ra...

What is a human and what is humanity? Hosted by Magdalena Smieszek, this episode of the How We Are Human podcast is part 3 of the discussion with Maria Kronfeldner, Professor in the Philosophy Department at the Central European University, and three Master's students, Olesya Bondarenko, Noha Hendi, and Rachel Sanderoff, as part of the course entitled Topics in the Philosophy of the Human and Socia...

What is a human and what is humanity? Hosted by Magdalena Smieszek, this episode of the How We Are Human podcast is part 3 of the discussion with Maria Kronfeldner, Professor in the Philosophy Department at the Central European University, and three Master's students, Olesya Bondarenko, Noha Hendi, and Rachel Sanderoff, as part of the course entitled Topics in the Philosophy of the Human and Socia...

This episode of Make a Joyful Noise explores the Nunc dimittis, one of the elements of traditional Anglican Evensong. Richard Solyom, director of the Gabrielli Choir in Budapest, is interviewed about his experience with the choir and Herbert Howells' setting of the canticle. This podcast is the first podcast of a potential future series. It was created during the AudioFiles podcasting workshop at...

This episode introduces a unique research project at Blinken OSA, the goal of which is to collect and make available online the dispersed cultural heritage of the refugees who fled Hungary following the 1956 Revolution. The documents assembled from the collections of the International Rescue Committee at the Hoover Institution at Stanford and the National Archives and Records Administration in Was...

The Lebanese Penal Code contains an ambiguous article that punishes “any penetration contrary to nature” for up to a year in prison. LGBT activists commonly refer to the article by its number; 534, and fight for its removal claiming it targets same-sex practices, gay men, and lesbian women. Since 2010, several judges have ruled that the article is too ambiguous to be applied to persons arrested fo...

The Lebanese Penal Code contains an ambiguous article that punishes “any penetration contrary to nature” for up to a year in prison. LGBT activists commonly refer to the article by its number; 534, and fight for its removal claiming it targets same-sex practices, gay men, and lesbian women. Since 2010, several judges have ruled that the article is too ambiguous to be applied to persons arrested fo...

Abu Bashir is sixty years old.  He is one of the Bedouins who spent the first years of his life traveling with his herd in the desert. Abu Bashir has never found the Jinni of Aladdin, but his stories are full of the wonders of the jinn. The true jinns  have never been mentioned in the story of Aladdin.

In this episode I present the "Sydne Rome Aerobic Kondicionalo Tanc" record by Favorit Records Hungary (1983). I discuss the gendered aspects of the aerobics culture in Central Eastern Europe during 1980s and 1990s with my guest Katarzyna Pabijanek, a cultural studies scholar. The "200 HUF Record" podcast is featuring the forgotten second-hand vinyls from a local charity shop to illuminate on the...

In this episode I present the "Sydne Rome Aerobic Kondicionalo Tanc" record by Favorit Records Hungary (1983). I discuss the gendered aspects of the aerobics culture in Central Eastern Europe during 1980s and 1990s with my guest Katarzyna Pabijanek, a cultural studies scholar. The "200 HUF Record" podcast is featuring the forgotten second-hand vinyls from a local charity shop to illuminate on the...