CEU Podcasts

Urban Arena is a podcast about creating just and sustainable cities. This month we’re speaking with Marilyn Hamilton the founder of Integral City and author of the Integral City book series. This month we also launch a new feature - the 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?’...

„Hétköznapjainkból az veszett el, ami talán a legfontosabb: a boldogság. Nem az indexekkel mért illetve kémiával létrehozott érzelmekre gondolok, hanem a megélt, építő kapcsolatban létrejött érzelemre. Számomra az a kérdés, hogy milyen nyelvet lehet használni ennek a világnak a jobbítására, ha első pillantásra úgy tűnik, hogy semmit nem lehet tenni? A CEU Bibó Szabadegyeteme jó keretet ad ennek a...

In this episode, we will pick up where we left off with Elif Birced and discuss how government becomes a source of insecurity for academic labour. Elif will also talk about the possibilities of solidarity against the precarization of academia. Back in the 10th episode, Elif revealed different ways in which neoliberal restructuring of Turkey’s economy has led to the establishment of foundation univ...

Bárdi Nándorral beszélgettünk a 20. századi magyar kisebbségek történetéről, pozícióiról, illetve az ehhez kapcsolódó magyarságpolitikákról.

In this episode, I am hosting Selin Altunkaynak Vodina. We will talk about the gendered and racialized discourses that are reproduced during the social encounter between Syrian and Turkish women living in the South East of Turkey. Selin will start with one of the most reproduced discourses; the sexist and racist claim that Syrian women go after and “steal” Turkish husbands. The discourse, unfortun...

Urban Arena is a podcast about creating just and sustainable cities. This month we're talking with Panagiota Kotsila, a political ecologist who works at the Barcelona Lab for Urban Environmental Justice and Sustainability and is part of the editorial collective with Undisciplined Enviroments. She'll be talking about the article "Nature-based solutions as discursive tools and contested practices in...

Sandeep Pai and Savannah Carr-Wilson set out to compare how people are dealing with the energy transition in India, Canada and Africa. They are co-authors of the book, 'Total Transition: The Human Side of the Renewable Energy Revolution'. The authors travel on three continents meeting people who are work in the fossil fuel industry and those benefiting from clean technology like solar power. Their...

A kurzus célja a mai magyar médiarendszer vizsgálata közép- és kelet-európai összehasonlító perspektívában. Fókuszában a politika és a média kölcsönhatása, a politikai kommunikáció, a médiapolitika és az újságírói szerepfelfogások alakulása áll. Az előadások közös vonása az összehasonlító médiakutatás módszertanának alkalmazása: a politikai és a médiarendszerek dinamikusan változó viszonyának néhá...

Urban Arena is a podcast about creating just and sustainable cities. This month we're talking with Rafael Calado about FabLabs. Ian is joined by special guest podcaster Lucia Di Paola for the trip to Lisbon's best FabLab. Rafael Calado is the Programme and Operations Manager FabLab Lisboa. An architect by trade, he also co-founded Repair Café Lisboa and BioHacking Group Lisboa 2017.[[{"fid":"706",...

„Hétköznapjainkból az veszett el, ami talán a legfontosabb: a boldogság. Nem az indexekkel mért illetve kémiával létrehozott érzelmekre gondolok, hanem a megélt, építő kapcsolatban létrejött érzelemre. Számomra az a kérdés, hogy milyen nyelvet lehet használni ennek a világnak a jobbítására, ha első pillantásra úgy tűnik, hogy semmit nem lehet tenni? A CEU Bibó Szabadegyeteme jó keretet ad ennek a...

Urban Arena is a podcast about creating just and sustainable cities. In this fourth episode, we discuss shipping. We were lucky to speak with Elisabeth Schober, Associate Professor at the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo. She is the Principle Investigator within the upcoming “Ports”-project, which will be funded by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European U...

In this last episode of the Romanian Media Matrix series, I collected three initiatives or efforts that try new ways of doing things. From new funding models, forms of association or community involvement, these examples of innovation show courage and temerity. Ștefan Mako from Inclusiv will tell us about a journalistic project that managed to get a community of members to support them not just fi...

In this episode, we will pick up where we left off with Nilay Kılınç and discuss women’s experiences of return migration from Germany to Turkey. Nilay will make a compelling case to consider return migration as resistance to patriarchy in the diaspora. Back in the 11th episode, Nilay talked about the transnational phenomenon of ‘return migration’ and further complicate it by adding onto a gender d...

In Romania, indicators such as the high speed of the internet and the low price of mobile packages make Romanians look like lucky people. However, the story, as always, is much more complicated than that. Access to technology is not equal and its use varies according to class, gender, ethnicity and location. In this third episode of the Romanian Media Matrix Podcast, I asked Bogdan Manolea, execut...

In the second episode of the Romanian Media Matrix podcast series, we will take a brief look at the legislation, regulation and policy that govern Romanian journalism and we will stop to discuss how labor legislation has major consequences for media practitioners. My guests are Raluca Petre, associate professor of journalism at the University of Ovidius’ Department of Letters and Cristi Godinac, t...

The first episode of the Romanian Media Matrix Podcast series will focus on funding. First, a short overview of how the Romanian media is funded will introduce the topic, and then two case studies will explore unusual funding cases and how they underline the most vulnerable actors in the media system. The case of the Hungarian language media in Romania will show us how state money, when coming fro...

Urban Arena is a podcast about creating just and sustainable cities. In this third episode, we discuss the potential of textile recycling as part of a circular economy. We’re lucky to get to speak to Hilde van Duijn from EigenDraads, a Rotterdam based initiative that wants to take our non-reusable clothes and transform them into something new.

In this episode, I am hosting Nilay Kılınç. We will discuss the transnational phenomenon of ‘return migration’ and further complicate it by adding onto a gender dimension. In Nilay’s research, the term return migration refers to the second generation Turkish-Germans migrating back to Turkey from Germany. Nilay urges us to consider return migration as a paradoxical concept, especially for the secon...

Urban Arena is a podcast about just and sustainable cities. In this second episode, we discuss transition management as a governance approach.  To help us do so, we travel to a real live urban arena in Rotterdam and meet Derk Loorbach  director of DRIFT - The Dutch Research Institute For Transitions - and Professor of Socio-economic Transitions at the Faculty of Social Science, both at Erasmus Uni...

In this episode, I am hosting Elif Birced. We will talk about the neoliberal restructuring of higher education in Turkey. By drawing upon her interviews with 40 professors and graduate student assistants, Elif will make a compelling case for the precarization of work conditions in social sciences as a result of this the neoliberal restructuring. She will also discuss the intersectional role gender...

Urban Arena is a podcast about just and sustainable cities. In this first episode, we discuss sustainability and justice in food and transport.  To help us do so, we are speaking (and cycling around Budapest) with UrbanA fellow Orsolya Lazányi. She is a co-founder of Cargonomia, a Budapest-based community space for locally-produced food and cargo bike rentals. Listen in as we talk about Orsolya's...

How much were medieval monastic orders similar to modern corporations? What is the deal with monks wearing red pointy shoes? Why did King Andrew II invite the Teutonic order to settle in the Hungarian Kingdom? In the very first episode of Past Perfect! ever broadcast, Chris Mielke talks with professor József Laszlovszky, director of the Cultural Heritage Studies Program at CEU about studying the M...

In this episode, I am hosting three guests; Didem Şalgam, Balacan Ayar and Zeynep Serinkaya-Winter. We will talk about the effects of neo-conservativism on women’s experiences with gynaecological violence. Didem will draw upon her research to argue that conservative gender norms that have already and always resulted in gynaecological violence are being given new meanings by the ruling government o...

Magdalena and Pin Lean Lau discuss the proliferation of artificial intelligence (AI), its benefits and dangers, with implications on contemporary societies, legal systems, the labour market, ethics and human values. As a research and teaching fellow in a Hungarian state university, Pin Lean had designed and delivered a multi-disciplinary course on the subject. In the podcast, Pin Lean and Magdalen...

In this forty minutes long interview, Christpher Mielke talks with Marianna Birnbaum of UCLA and visiting professor at CEU about Hungarian Renaissance literature, Jews in the Renaissance, studying women in history, and more broadly about how it is to deal with individual life stories as historians. What were the main currents of Renaissance literature? Who were the main figures of Hungarian Renais...