CEU Review of Books Podcast Series

In this episode of the CEU Review of Books Podcast, I sat down with Szabolcs László to talk about his new book, Cold War Brokers: Hungarian-American Cultural Exchanges and Transnational Mobility, 1956-1989 (Bloomsbury, 2026). We discussed how during the Cold War Hungarian writers, intellectuals, and academics took part in various programmes that allowed them to spend time in the United States of A...

In this episode of the CEU Review of Books Podcast, I sat down with Cynthia Paces to talk about her new book, Prague: The Heart of Europe (Oxford UP, 2025). Prague is the first English-language book to trace the history of the city from the tenth century to the present. Cynthia discusses her personal connection to Prague, highlights key moments in the city’s history, and shares a few tips for thos...

In this episode of the CEU Review of Books Podcast I sat down with Dr Doina Anca Cretu to talk about her first book, Foreign Aid and State Building in Interwar Romania: In Quest of an Ideal, published by Stanford University Press. In the podcast we talk about Anca’s academic background, how she came to research foreign aid in Romania, any surprises she encountered during her research, the nature o...

In this episode of the CEU Review of Books podcast host, Andrea Talabér (Managing Editor) is joined by three members of the the ERC-funded project Revenant - Revivals of Empire: Nostalgia, Amnesia, Tribulation project: Jeremy F. Walton, the PI; Kevin Kenjar, a post-doctoral researcher and Matea Magdić, a PhD Researcher on the project. Revenant examines how in Central Europe, the Balkans, and in th...

In this episode of the CEU Review of Books podcast host, Andrea Talabér (Managing Editor) is joined by Karolina Ćwiek-Rogalska, Karina Hoření, and Michal Korhel to discuss their ERC-project, Recycling the German Ghost: Resettlement Cultures in Poland, Czechia and Slovakia after 1945. Spectral Recycling. In the podcast we discuss objects that had been left behind following expulsions and resettleme...

In this episode of the CEURB Podcast, Andrea Talabér (Managing Editor, CEURB) sat down with Zoltán Ginelli and Piotr Puchalski to talk about their research on decolonizing Eastern European history. Among other topics we discussed historical relations between colonialism and race in Central and Eastern Europe, the contradiction between modernity and preserving national identity, and the politicizat...

In this episode of the CEU Review of Books Podcast Series we sat down with Mariia Shuvalova, Kateryna Zarembo and Roman Horbyk to discuss how Russian imperialism has impacted the study of Ukrainian history, literature and culture and contemplate the future of the field. Mariia, Kateryna and Roman are also preparing a special issue entitled Empathy vs Empire: How (Mis)Understanding of Imperialism S...

The official in-person launch of the CEU Review of Books took place on 29 November 2023 at the Nationalbibliothek in Vienna. The event, On seeing with new eyes - Books that inspired me, examines the importance of books through eyes of prominent academics.  Frances Pinter, Executive Chair of CEU Press, gave the opening remarks, followed by a discussed between Mary Kaldor (LSE) and Michael Ignatieff...

In this episode of the CEU Review of Books Podcast Series we sat down with Natasha Wheatley to talk about her book, The Life and Death of States: Central Europe and the Transformation of Modern Sovereignty (Princeton University Press, 2023). Natasha is an Assistant Professor of History at Princeton University, with a focus on modern European and intellectual history and an interest in legal histor...

In the second episode of the CEU Review of Books Podcast Series, we sat down with Andreea Cârstocea and Raul Cârstocea to talk about their research on the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on Roma communities on the borders of the European Union in: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Ukraine. In the podcast we discuss how the pandemic and the first lo...

Welcome to the CEU Review of Books Podcast Series! In this episode, Constantin Iordachi (Editor in Chief) and Andrea Talabér (Managing Editor) sit down with Rosemary Deller (Managing Editor, LSE Review of Books) to discuss the aims and mission of the CEU Review of Books and to talk about why there is a need for books reviews and book review platforms.  The CEU Review of Books Podcast Series explor...