CEU Podcasts

In the closing episode of this series, we will talk about an increasingly popular funding strategy for small, independent media organizations: hybrid business models - where media outlets combine revenues from various sources as a means of financing their journalistic work. These business models usually involve a mix of small donations or subscriptions from audiences, grants from big donors like f...

Urban Arena is a podcast about creating just and sustainable cities. This month Romane Joly from the University of Freiburg speaks with Kaja Zimmermann and David Bachmann from foodsharing Freiburg.

As an internationally recognized expert on public art and the memorial genre, James E. Young has served on juries for a number of prospective memorials, from the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin to the National 9/11 Memorial in New York. In this interview, within the context of the Budapest memorial site project in memory of women who were raped in times of war, we touch on the sp...

On April 24, 2016, Tiempo Argentino published its first edition as a workers' cooperative. Before this, it was a printed newspaper, managed by a businessman, with a traditional financing model using advertising to support its operations. The money was mostly coming from government sources, but when the Argentine economy went into recession and the government changed, Tiempo Argentino lost its fund...

Malaysiakini is one of Malaysia’s most popular news sites, and was founded in 1999. In 2002, still a medium size organization, with 20 staff members, making money mostly from advertising and other services, Malaysiakini decided to introduce a paywall at a time when internet access, credit cards and online payments were far from popular anywhere in the world. This episode tells the story of this in...

Interview with Michael Rothberg conducted by Hedvig Turai. Michael Rothberg, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, 1939 Society Samuel Goetz Chair in Holocaust Studies, UCLA, has major contributions to trauma and memory studies.  The present interview is mostly  connected to his latest book, The Implicated Subject. Beyond Victims and Perpetrators, as he considers questions of guilt, res...

‘Szadvar Castle – its Foes and its Friends’ is a documentary of the medieval Szadvar Castle in the north of Hungary and The Friends of Szadvar, a brilliant group of volunteers who were founded to save Szadvar Castle from being forgotten.  Together they research, excavate and conserve the castle, making it more accessible to the general public. Karen Culver, alumna of CEU Cultural Heritage Studies...

Can journalism cooperatives and subscription newsletters put power back in the hands of journalists? In the third episode of our series we explore this question with Maria Bustillos, journalist and co-founder of the Brick House, a collectively-owned journalism cooperative and Walker Bragman, a New York-based journalist, who discusses the advantages of publishing on Substack, a newsletter platform...

Urban Arena is a podcast about creating just and sustainable cities. This month Kate speaks with Heidi Lindvall from seed stage ClimateTech VC company Pale Blue Dot.  Do you want to become an Urban Arena podcast correspondent! We want your voice on the pod. If you’d like to featured then please answer the question ‘What is a sustainable and just city?’ in a maximum of 3 minutes. Record it on your...

Pasts, Inc., Center of Historical Studies at CEU, CEU Department of Gender Studies, the Working Group of Democracy in History of CEU Democracy Institute, and the Subcommittee of the History of Second World War of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences launched the thematic issue of The Hungarian Historical Review with the authors present.https://hunghist.org/archive/79-hhr-issue/637-volume-9-issue-3

In this episode we will talk about two media organizations that overcame geographical distances to report on their homes from abroad. They are also doing much more than that: they have created a synthesis of different art forms and journalism and became critical voices and sources of information for their public. The story of Belarus Free Theatre, an underground theatre company and Al-Hudood a sat...

In this first episode of the series, we’ll bring you the story of Telex, a media organisation that was willed into being by its founders when one of Hungary’s flagship media outlets was pushed to the brink of collapse by government pressure. When almost all of Index’s 90-member staff resigned, they set out to start their own organisation and to fund it through reader contributions. In the first mo...

Urban Arena is a podcast about creating just and sustainable cities. This month Kate and Ian take a break from interviewing as Sophia Silverton chats with Isabell Eberlein and Denis Petri from Changing Cities. They talk about the role of participatory actions in trying to bring about more just distributions of urban space. The conversation is framed around the notion of ‘governance arrangements’,...

The nadir point is sometimes reached between 4 and 6 in the morning and represents the lowest level of activity of the human body during the 24-hour life cycle. During that time, I often felt like I was losing my balance and my whole body was getting tired. It was strange, physically and mentally, as if the ground was running from underneath my feet, as if I would ‘hear’ my body ‘screaming’ that i...

Original title: "24 - Nightwork: migrant labour and embodied precarity in the global city"By contrasens is licensed under a  Creative Commons License. Produced & edited by: Maria Martelli & Karol Pataki Visuals: Maria Martelli Intro & Outro: KindStudios Support contrasens on Patreon: www.patreon.com/podcastcontrasens"How often do we consider the work that goes on at night? How do we think about th...

This episode is based on the talk that I gave at the 2020 European Association for Social Anthropologists. I was delighted to take part in the first virtual 2020 EASA panel on Ethnography beyond the looking glass. I presented the work that I have been doing as part of the Nightworkshop project designed to research nightwork communities in urban spaces. In this talk I focus on the use of the body i...

This podcast episode is based on a talk that I gave as part of Night Modes panel, a NIGHT SCENE Virtual event by UCL Urban Laboratory (London, 2020). The episode is complemented by a video recording, which you can watch here. This talk is about the embodied precariousness experienced by migrant nightshift workers. The findings of this research result from a night ethnography that I did in 2015 in...

I close this series with the last episode called "Reflections from Researching the Nightshift". Here, I address the lessons learnt during my research on London's 'other workers' invested in the night shift. An excerpt from the interview with our guest, Marion Roberts, Emeritus Professor in Urban Design at the University of Westminster offers insights into the problematics with night-time expansion...

Episode: 04Time: 21’45”Date: Nov 2018Place: Interview recorded in Sofia, Bulgaria. Produced in London @anightworkshopGuest: Marion Roberts, Professor in Urban Design, University of Westminster | UKSynopsis: In this third and last episode of the series called “London the Glocturnal City, and its 'other workers' “our first guest, Marion Roberts, Emeritus Professor in Urban Design at the University o...

Paradox módon, miközben felmérések és statisztikai adatok bizonyítják a romák esélytelenségét, generációs kirekesztettségét, a magyar társadalom többsége még mindig úgy vélekedik, hogy a romák “túltámogatottak”, „mindent megkaptak”, de nem élnek, éltek ezzel a lehetőséggel és ezért kizárólag őket terheli felelősség. Ezzel szemben a szomorú valóság az, hogy a privatizáció, az állami vállalatok fels...

Urban Arena is a podcast about creating just and sustainable cities. This month we're joined by Panagiota Kotsila, Isabelle Anguelovski, and Jonathan Luger from the Barcelona Lab for Urban Environmental Justice and Sustainability. We're talking about drivers of urban injustice: https://wiki.urban-arena.eu/index.php?title=Database_of_drivers_of_injusticeIan was searching the following stat whilst r...

Paksa Rudolf beszélget Gárdos Péterrel és Szántó T. Gáborral a holokauszt magyarországi filmes emlékezetéről és a történeti filmekről. Részletesen beszélünk Gárdos Péter: Hajnali láz című filmjéről, valamint Szántó T. Gábor: Hazatérés című művéről és filmes adaptációjáról, Török Ferenc: 1945 című filmjéről. A beszélgetésen szóba kerül a holokauszt és annak következményei a magyar társadalomra és a...

In this episode, I am hosting Zeynep Serinkaya Winter. We will discuss the gendered representations of disability in the Turkish cinema, focusing on melodramas produced between 1960 and 1980. Zeynep reveals how disability and gender intersect to signify bodies as spaces of modernization and consolidation of the nation-state project. Zeynep is a social scientist with an interdisciplinary background...

Paksa Rudolf beszélget Fahidi Évával és Zoltán Gáborral a II. világháború kulturális emlékezetéről. Beszélünk Fahidi Éva: A dolgok lelke című kötetéről, valamint a szereplésével készült Sóvirág című darabról és A létezés eufóriája című filmről, illetve Zoltán Gábor két helytörténeti dokumentumregényéről az Orgiáról és a Szomszédről, valamint az 1944-es év líráját megidéző Szép versek 1944 című köt...

Paksa Rudolf beszélget Müller Rolffal és Takács Tiborral a II. világháború utáni állami erőszakszervezetekről. Beszélünk Almási Tamás: Ítéletlenül című dokumentumfilmjéről, internálótáborokról, Kistarcsáról, valamint átfogóan az 1945 utáni politikai és társadalmi változásokról. Volt-e "mesterterv", ami alapján az 1945 utáni átalakulások lezajlottak? Ki volt Péter Gábor? Mit kutat az erőszaktörténe...