CEU Podcasts

Stefano Bottoni, az MTA Bölcsészettudományi Kutatóközpont Történettudományi Intézet tudományos főmunkatárs, az MTA II. világháború történeti albizottság titkára Pető Andreával beszélget Mikó Imre készülő életrajzáról (“Talking to the System: Imre Mikó, 1911–1977 A Lifelong Story of Collaboration and Service”. (East Central Europe 44 (2017) 47-75)) és arról, hogy milyen kutatásetikai kérdéseket vet...

Rigó Róberttel - a Neumann János Egyetem Pedagógusképző Karának tanszékvezető főiskolai docensével - a “A Sorosfordító évtizedek Kecskeméten”  (Kecskemét Írott  Örökségéért Alapítvány és a Neumann János Egyetem Pedagógusképző Kar Hely- és Családtörténeti Kutótóműhely, 2018) című kötet szerkesztőjével Pető Andrea beszélgetett arról, hogy a front átvonulásának milyen helyi sajátosságai, tapasztalata...

Featuring twenty entries on subjects such as music, voice, noise, shape and the body Keywords in Sound (Duke, 2015) pushes at the boundaries of ‘sound studies’ through its intellectual overviews and suggested openings on each of the key words. In this podcast we speak to the book’s editors David Novak and Matt Sakakeeny. David Novak is Associate Professor of Music at the University of California,...

This podcast engages critically with the concept of development by tracing back its roots to the 18th-19th centuries' ideas of capitalism and historical progress. The analysis outlines the contradiction between the idea of development, in the sense of improvement of society through the increase of its wellbeing and equity, and the crisis-prone models which development promotes, due to its dependen...

What were the gender politics of WWII in Iceland? What happened to children who were fathered by British or American occupying soldiers? Erla Hulda Halldórsdóttir is a lecturer in history at the Faculty of History and Philosophy, University of Iceland. She is also the leader of the project: 'In the Wake of Suffrage. Icelandic Women as cultural and political agents, (1915-2015)' at the University o...

Bánkuti Gábor a Pécsi Tudományegyetem habilitált egyetemi docensével “A frontátvonulás és a diktatúra kiépülésének egyházi recepciója” szerzőjével (In: Szerk.: Csikós Gábor, Szerk.: Ö Kovács József, Szerk.: Kiss Réka: Váltóállítás: Diktatúrák a vidéki Magyarországon 1945-ben. Budapest: MTA Bölcsészettudományi Kutatóközpont Történettudományi Intézet, 2017. 411-424.) Pető Andrea beszélgetett milyen...

Laborczi Dórával A Sztehlo gyerekek voltunk, Andrási Andorral közösen szerkesztett (Luther Kiadó, 2018) interjú kötetéről Pető Andrea beszélgetett az interjú készítés nehézségeiről és arról, hogy hogyan és mikor kezdődött a gyerekmentés ,mit tudhatunk meg az emberi minőség szerepéről a történelem sötét korszakaiban.

Thomas Weber Professor of History and International Affairs at the University of Aberdeen talks to Andrea Pető about how to ask different questions, how to read well-known sources differently and how to find new archives. When a historian has too many sources, what should she do? How can historical analogies help understand the political challenges of today?

The last episode of the Five Senses of Austerity deals with the rationing of food in late Romanian socialism. It tells the story of the 1987 worker's revolt from the city of Brasov, which marked the beginning of the end of the regime, and then goes on to explore the final moments of Romanian socialism.

This podcast explores how music is perceived in conservative societies like Yemen. Through Ahmed's journey of learning and making music, we try to understand the cultural, social and the religious constraints of playing and making music and how these constraints are connected to people's perceptions. Ahmed is similar to musicians in communist Hungary or Czechoslovakia. The restrictions of the stat...

Paksa Rudolffal a Magyar Tudományos Akadémia Bölcsészettudományi Kutatóközpont Történettudományi Intézetének tudományos munkatársával a “Zsidókérdéskutató Magyar Intézet, avagy a „tudományos antiszemitizmus” Magyarországon” (Múltunk 2018/1.) cikkéről beszélget Pető Andrea. Kik, mikor és miért alapították a “Zsidókérdéskutató Intézetet”, s mi volt a szerepe a holokausztban? Német befolyás alatt áll...

Austerity takes different forms. This episode of the Five Senses of Austerity explores one of the ways in which it was felt strongest in late Romanian socialism. This is the story of the fuel scarcity, which led to a lack of heating during winter and regular power blackouts.  

Money! You either have it, or you don't. Socialist Romania did not. Therefore, it had to borrow money from abroad in order to meet its ambitious development goals. This episode explores socialist Romania's failed crusade on the sea of global high finance starting from the late 1960s up until the 1980s, discussing the underlying reason for the turn towards austerity: the decision to pay off the acc...

Barbara Stelzl-Marx, director of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Research on Consequences of War (BIK), talks with Andrea Pető about how to get access to Russian archives; the surprise moment when she wrote her book: Stalin’s Soldiers in Austria; the ethical concerns surrounding doing research on children born from rape; and new ways of researching the history of the Second World War. This podc...

Pető Andrea arról beszélget Pihurik Judittal, a Szegedi Tudományegyetem docensével, aki a Naplók és memoárok a Don-kanyarból 1942-1943 (Budapest, 2007 és 2015) és a Perben és haragban második világháborús önmagunkkal (Budapest, 2015) című kötetek szerzője, hogy miért fontosak a szubjektív források - a résztvevők, szemtanúk személyes tapasztalatai, emlékei - a háborús történelem feldolgozása során....

A discussion about auditory perception with Nick Young, Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centre for Philosophy of Time, University of Milan. Nick explains his claims that we do not, philosophically speaking, ever perceive what are commonly thought of as 'sounds' and also that we are capable of hearing empty spaces. His work is available here. Recorded by Chris Couch as part of the Autumn 2017 Sound...

In 1977 Romania was hit by one of the most powerful earthquakes in its history. Episode two of the Five Senses of Austerity engages with the way in which the state dealt with the aftermath. On the one hand, the state saw the natural disaster as an opportunity for a particular kind of redevelopment, while on the other hand, for many Romanians, the earthquake marked the actual moment when things sta...

Why are there so few Roma in white-collar jobs in Hungary (and elsewhere in eastern Europe)? The podcast discusses reasons for underrepresentation of Roma in traditional 'office work', especially in the business sector, through the experiences of an ongoing project trying to change this, the 'Bridging Young Roma and Business: Intervention for inclusion of Roma youth through employment in the priva...

In this episode, Julius-Cezar introduces the listeners to a world of work that is invisible to the diurnal eye and inaudible to the nocturnal sleeper. Ger Duijzings, Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Regensburg, joins the host to talk about his Nightlaboratory project. Two other guests, Jeff (a London night bus driver), and an anonymous outreach worker with sex workers in East...

What did Nicolae Ceausescu have in common with Romania's most famous radio DJ, Cornel Chiriac? In Episode 1 of 'Five Senses of Austerity' we explore this and how it relates to the invasion of Prague in 1968. This was a period before austerity, the so-called 'golden age' of Romanian socialism. And yet, it is a period in which austerity was already slowly creeping in, especially through the politics...

The most unusual expedition to Transsiberian railway was organised by British anthropologist Maurice Fitzmaurice in the 1920s: a daring scientific campaign, which had a disastrous end and mysterious consequences. Keen to capture the unique soundscape of the newly built gargantuan railroad from Leningrad to Vladivostok, Fitzmaurice assembled state-of-art recording equipment and selected a group of...

In recent years, most of us have become used to hearing about austerity. Following the 2007 financial crisis, it was said that austerity was the only viable cure. Today, more than 10 years later, the ghost of austerity still haunts Europe and much of the Western World. But this is not the first time that austerity was imposed on people in order to solve a financial crisis.  In Five Senses of Auste...

Since the Revolution of Dignity took place and the war with Russia started, many Ukrainians reconsidered their lives. Many have got involved in activism or volunteering; however, it rarely has a systematic character for the majority. My project presents stories of people, who were brave enough to change their lives in difficult times. I aim to give some inspiration for those, who passed their boil...

In this episode, CEU Alumni Scholarship Recipients Elena Krusheuskaja, Andrej Hagan and Jani Korhonen - host the Alumnus of the School of Public Policy and former leader of the Alumni Chapter in Brussels - Andrija Visic. Our discussion evolves around Alumni Scholarship experience, career path after CEU and the concept of Giving Back.

Ms. Zainab Najeeb, 2018 MA Candidate of CEU's Department of Gender Studies, talks about LGBT and queer situations, her personal experiences and the opportunities for the LGBT and queer communities of Pakistan.  Music used at the beginning and end of the podcast is "Chori Chori" by Meesha Shafi, Coke Studio Sessions. Image credit: The Express Tribune.