CEU Podcasts

In this interview, philosopher Simon Rippon and I discuss his role as a philosopher in the ETHOS (Towards a European Theory of Justice and Fairness) project. Analyzing the link between (political) philosophy and real-world politics, we talk about the need for ideal theory, what it means to have knowledge about justice, the fact-value gap and how philosophy might contribute to solving injustices su...

Dr. Gabor Maté, renowned expert, speaker, and author, in conversation with Magdalena Smieszek, reflects on human development and the interplay of biological, social, and psychological factors in a human being that he calls biopsychosocial. He talks about his childhood in Hungary between the Second World War, as a Jewish survivor of the Holocaust, and the Hungarian Revolution in 1956 at which point...

Laczó Ferenc a Maastrichti Egyetem adjunktusa beszél Pető Andreának Munkácsi Ernőről, a Zsidó Tanács prominens figurájáról, akinek most jelent meg How it Happened. Documenting the Tragedy of Hungarian Jewry, (McGill-Queen University Press, 2018) címmel angolul a naplója. Hogyan értékeli utólag írt naplójában saját és a Zsidó Tanács szerepét, mikor kezdődött az üldöztetés, és szerinte mi volt a mag...

Pedro Aires Oliveira, Professor of History at New University of Lisbon, talks about Salazar and his New State with Andrea Pető. They talk about Salazar’s pragmatism, historical analogies and the major debates today in Portuguese historiography about Salazar’s regime.

Today I talk to David Papineau about his book Knowing The Score: How Philosophy can Teach us about Sport and Sport can Teach Us about Philosophy.  Philosopher David Papineau explains how sport sheds light on unresolved questions regarding the connection between intention and action and regarding how rules can or cannot give rise to moral reasons, and lays out his fascinating theory of why sport ma...

In Episode 3 I'm speaking with Mark Anielski, who specializes in the economics of well-being. Mark and I discuss a range of topics: including, how and why businesses should become more sustainable, the balance between maximizing shareholder value and sustainability. We discuss why money makes us nervous and how we can develop a new relationship with it. We address the idea of a living wage, and ev...

Barna Ildikó habilitált egyetemi docenst, az ELTE Társadalomkutatások Módszertana Tanszék tanszékvezetőjét Pető Andrea kérdezte az International Tracing Service adatbázisáról, mi a jelentősége és mit lehet megtudni belőle, amit eddig nem tudtunk?

Today I talk to Tim Crane about his book The Meaning of Belief: Religion from an Atheist's Point of View. Tim was Knightbridge Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Peterhouse from 2009. He is currently the Head of Department and Professor of Philosophy at Central European University. In the interview, Tim explains why the claim of some scientists that all philosop...

Anna Ullrich is a Research Assistant at the Center for Holocaust Studies at IfZ Munich and involved in a variety of EHRI activities, among them coordinating EHRI's Training and Education. She spoke with Andrea Pető about the EHRI - Seminar Budapest Researching and Remembering the Holocaust in Central Europe – new sources, methods and approaches 3 - 7 September, 2018 at CEU Campus. What is the Euro...

A konferencia két szervezője Paksa Rudolf, történész, a Magyar Tudományos Akadémia Bölcsészettudományi Kutatóközpont Történettudományi Intézetének tudományos munkatársa és  Virányi Péter címzetes egyetemi docens Reklámszociológia BME szociológia és kommunikációs tanszékének munkatársa az MTA II. világháború története albizottság konferenciájáról, mely 2018. november 16. MTA Székházában a Felolvasó...

The two term director of the Agency for Cooperation of Energy Regulators, Alberto Pototschnig discusses the development of the agency since its founding in 2011. At the end of his second mandate as director, Mr. Pototschnig discusses how the agency has evolved from it conception to its role today as a electricity and gas market monitor. Other topics discussed include long-term financing of the age...

Magdalena Smieszek speaks with Mate Tokic, Humanities Professor at CEU, joined by Azka Zia, Patricia Velicu and Julia Hasani, participants in the course on "The Other in European History and Politics".The discussion considers the formation of European identity and thinking critically about what it means to be European, how the process of inclusion and exclusion has challenged and continues to resh...

Jasmin Gamez, a recent master's graduate in  Public Administration from the School of Public Policy,  interviews her mom Otilia Gamez about her three favorite songs and how they represent her life. Otilia Gamez originally grew up in  Mexicali,  Mexico. She first migrated to the United States in the 1970s, first as a seasonal farm worker working throughout California and living in Mexicali. She fin...

Today we are with Professor Stefan Bouzarovski from the University of Manchester. He has just published a book on energy poverty. Called, Energy Poverty: (Dis)Assembling Europe’s Infrastructural Divide, published by Palgrave Macmillan. He is also the Chair of the Steering Committee for The EU Energy Poverty Observatory. On today's episode we discuss the observatory and energy poverty in the EU, ho...

Tom Kristiansen, Professor of History at UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromso discusses the new project he heads on rewriting the history of Norway during the Second World War. He shares his reflections on challenges and results of the project “In a World of Total War: Norway 1939-1945” aiming to map Norwegian wartime alliances, the occupation regime, everyday life and memories of war and o...

Pető Andrea, a CEU egyetemi tanárával Stefano Bottoni, MTA Bölcsészettudományi Kutatóközpont Történettudományi Intézet tudományos főmunkatárs, az MTA II. világháború történeti albizottság titkára beszélget Elmondani az elmondhatatlant. A nemi erőszak története a Magyarországon a II világháború alatt (Jaffa, 2018) kötetéről, hogy mit lehet tudni a nemi erőszakból megszületett gyerekekről, milyen té...

This is the third in a short series of podcasts on the UNESCO 2003 Convention on Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH).   In this podcast, Karen Culver, an MA student in the Cultural Heritage Studies Programme, talks to Dr Laszlo Nemes, the Director of the International Kodaly Institute in Hungary and to Dr. Eszter Csonka-Takacs, the Director of the UNESCO Committee in Hungary.   They discuss the pro...

This is the second in a short series of podcasts on the UNESCO 2003 Convention on Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH).   In this podcast, Karen Culver, an MA student in the Cultural Heritage Studies Programme,  talks to Dr Chiara Botolotto, a Research Associate at the Interdisciplinary Institute of Contemporary Anthropology in Paris; they discuss why some world regions are under-represented in the...

In this podcast, Karen Culver, an MA student in the Cultural Heritage Studies Programme,  talks to her tutor, Professor Gabor Soos about the UNESCO 2003 Convention on Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH);  what it is; how the Convention works, and how communities that hold the heritage are involved. This is the first of a short series in which Karen looks at the challenges faced by the Convention; t...

Pető Andrea, a Magyar Történelmi Emlékek Okmánytárak sorozatban megjelent „…Akkor aszt mondták kicsi robot”. A magyar polgári lakosság elhurcolása a Szovjetunióba korabeli dokumentumok tükrében (Budapest, 2018) című kötet szerzőjével, Stark Tamással az MTA Bölcsészettudományi Kutatóközpont főmunkatársával beszélgetett.  A második világháború során, különösen annak utolsó hónapjaiban Magyarország h...

Walking around Budapest, we can see greater Hungary map stickers on car bumpers and people wearing T-shirts or sometimes tattoos that represent resentment over formerly lost territories. Marches are held to express nostalgia for the historical greater Hungary. A visitor who spends time in Hungary will soon discover that the word “Trianon” carries a complex, emotionally charged resonance among Hung...

Philipp Ther, Director of Institute of East European History, University of Vienna, speaks with Andrea Pető about his new book: Die Außenseiter. Flucht, Flüchtlinge und Integration im modernen Europa (Berlin: Suhrkamp, 2017)A history of war is also a history of refugees, forced movement and resettlement. In the 20th century alone, around thirty million people lost their homeland due to radical, et...

John Evans discusses his book What Is a Human? What the Answers Mean for Human Rights, the results of his empirical study across the United States. The research concerns long-standing academic debates about how the human is defined: whether primarily as a biological being determined by genetic makeup; whether defined by certain capacities that philosophers have outlined, such as rationality; what...

In this podcast, Samten Yeshi, Masters student at Central European University's History Department,  presents the life of Tibet's sixth Dalai Lama through his famous composition of poems which is sung as songs among his Tibetan subjects.  His poems reflect an autobiographical account of his life expressed through an artistic composition of melodious poems. The sixth Dalai Lama known as Rigzin Tsan...

• Please beware that this episode may contain disturbing content •In this second episode,  two professionals and long-term London residents, a public health practitioner and a fire fighter, share how night shift work impacts on their circadian rhythms, and the challenges that each face according to the nature of the job that they have preformed over the years.  Two important sectors of work, healt...