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Svečias: Saulius Grybkauskas Epizodo vedėja: Violeta Davoliūtė Kuo sovietų nomenklatūros gyvenimas skyrėsi nuo eilinių Lietuvos gyventojų kasdienybės? Kokia šios temos tyrimų reikšmė šiandien, kai sovietmetis jau tampa kultūrinės vaizduotės objektu? Ar jau gebame kalbėti apie jį be supaprastinimų ar nostalgijos?   Šiame EUROPAST tinklalaidės epizode projekto vadovė prof. Violeta Davoliūtė kalbasi ...

Guest: Dora Komnenovic Hosts: Violeta Davoliūtė, Rūta Vyšniauskaitė What does it mean to do history? And what does it mean to do it not just for the public, but with the public? How can historical knowledge become accessible, engaging, and relevant beyond academia? In the latest EUROPAST podcast episode, Prof. Violeta Davoliūtė and doctoral researcher Rūta Vyšniauskaitė speak with Dr. Dora Komneno...

[English below] Svečiuose: dr. Akvilė Kabašinskaitė Epizodo vedėja: prof. Violeta Davoliūtė  Kaip valstybės paverčiamos nematomomis ir vėl tampa matomomis? Tai esminis mokslininkės dr. Akvilės Kabašinskaitės neseniai apgintos disertacijos klausimas. Kasmet minėdami Laisvės gynėjų dieną didžiuojamės tomis dienomis Lietuvos nepriklausomybę gynusių žmonių drąsa, tikėjimu suverenia Lietuvos valstybe i...

[English below] Svečiuose: Stanislovas Stasiulis Epizodo vedėja: Violeta Davoliūtė Šiame epizode EUROPAST projekto komandos vadovė Violeta Davoliūtė su istoriku Stanislovu Stasiuliu kalbasi apie propagandą, visuomenėse gajų sentimentų pasitelkimą politiniams tikslams ir atsparumą dezinformacijai šiuolaikiniame pasaulyje. Kaip atrodė propaganda Lietuvoje Antrojo pasaulinio karo metais? Kuo panašūs...

In the final episode of the mini-series "Fights for Freedom", the EUROPAST podcast turns to Ukraine to understand how memories of the past shape the present in times of war. In conversation with Stefanie Eisenhuth, Franziska Davies, and Iuliia Skubytska, the episode explores long traditions of Ukrainian resistance, the evolution of Ukrainian memory politics, and how history and memory have been mo...

Host: Janine Funke Guests: Corinna Kuhr-Korolev, Daria Ganzenko Production: Tim Schleinitz In the 4th episode of the mini-series "Fights for Freedom", the podcast turns to the imperial center to ask what happened when the Soviet system unravelled.  The late 1980s and 1990s were years of transformation marked by reform and hope, but also crisis, social decline, and contested memory. While often des...

Host: Janine Funke Guests: Abigail Scripka, David Jishkariani, Production: Tim Schleinitz In this episode, the podcast turns to Central Asia and the South Caucasus to explore how the intertwined histories of empire, resistance, and identity continue to shape the region’s present. In conversation with Abigail Scripka, doctoral candidate at the Central European University and the Leibniz-Centre for...

In the second episode of the mini series "Fights for Freedom", EUROPAST podcast turns to Poland and the Baltic states in the 1980s to explore how grassroots movements challenged Soviet rule during the final decade of the USSR. Florian Peters, historian of Central and Eastern Europe at Friedrich Schiller University Jena, joins our host, Janine Funke, to discuss the Polish uprising of 1980 and exami...

In this episode, the first of the mini series "Fights for Freedom", EUROPAST team heads Violeta Davoliūtė and Juliane Fürst join the podcast to introduce a new thematic mini-series on the contested memories of uprisings against Soviet rule in Eastern Europe. They discuss how memory, already a sensitive and contested terrain, has become an increasingly politicised battleground in light of Russia’s...

Guest: Jan Kubik Hosts: Violeta Davoliūtė, Dovilė Budrytė In this episode of the Europast podcast, hosts Professor Violeta Davoliūtė ((Vilnius University, Lithuanian Institute of History) and Professor Dovilė Budrytė (Vilnius University / Georgia Gwinnett College / Vytautas Magnus University) are joined by renowned political scientist Professor Jan Kubik (Rutgers University) to explore the critica...

Guest: Odeta Rudling Host: Violeta Davoliūtė In this episode of the EUROPAST podcast, Violeta Davoliūtė speaks with historian Odeta Rudling (Lund University) about her research on folklore, tourism, and nation-building in Soviet Lithuania. Rudling’s recent book, Von der nationalen Form zum nationalen Inhalt ("From National Form to National Content", Harrasowitz Verlag, 2023), explores how Soviet p...

Disclaimer. We’re sorry for the less-than-perfect sound in the first minute and a half. Rest assured, the rest of the conversation has our usual clear audio. Thank you for your understanding and for listening! Guest: Rita Gabis Host: Violeta Davoliūtė In this episode of the EUROPAST podcast, Violeta Davoliūtė holds a conversation with author and poet Rita Gabis to mark the tenth anniversary of the...

[English below] Svečiuose: prof. Dovilė Budrytė, Džiugas Siaurusaitis Epizodo vedėja: prof. Violeta Davoliūtė  Pirmajame lietuviškame EUROPAST tinklalaidės epizode projekto vadovė prof. Violeta Davoliūtė kalbina du žinomus Lietuvos žmones – Džiugą Siaurusaitį , aktorių, laidų vedėją, filmų įgarsintoją, ir prof. Dovilę Budrytę , Džordžijos Gvineto koledžo politologę, EUROPAST komandos narę. Dovilę...

Guest: Prof. Thomas Cauvin Hosts: Prof. Violeta Davoliūtė, Rūta Vyšniauskaitė, Giorgio Ruggeri What happens when historians step outside the archive and into the world? In this EUROPAST episode, Professor Thomas Cauvin invites us into the evolving world of public history—a way of doing history that is participatory, collaborative, and rooted in the present. We talk about the challenges of teaching...

Guest: Prof. Machteld Venken Host: Rūta Vyšniauskaitė In this episode, EUROPAST team member Rūta Vyšniauskaitė joins Prof. Machteld Venken to discuss participatory source creation amid Russia‘s war against Ukraine. Prof. Venken is a Professor of Contemporary Transnational History at the Centre for Contemporary and Digital History of the University of Luxembourg and one of the leaders of the projec...

Guest: Dr. Corinna Kuhr-Korolev; Host: Prof. Violeta Davoliūtė. In this episode, Prof. Violeta Davoliūtė speaks with Dr. Corinna Kuhr-Korolev, historian and curator at the Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam. Their conversation explores the role of cemeteries as sites of memory and education, focusing on the German War Cemetery in Kaunas. They discuss the challenges and ethical dilemma...

Guest: Prof. Saulius Sužiedelis Host: Dr. Indra Ekmanis EUROPAST podcast brings you a bonus episode from our colleagues at Baltic Ways, a podcast by the Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies, produced in collaboration with the Baltic Initiative at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. Join Baltic Ways for a discussion with Dr. Saulius Sužiedelis, professor emeritus of history at Mille...

Guest: Prof. Michael Bernhard Host: Prof. Violeta Davoliūtė Is the past alive in the present? How have different European countries dealt with their past, and what implications have these approaches had on the state of their societies in the present? How can the recent U.S. elections affect memory regimes and the state of democracy in Central and Eastern Europe?  The EUROPAST project lead, Prof. V...

Guest: Agnieška Avin; Hosts: Rūta Vyšniauskaitė, Ignė Rasickaitė. In the 6th episode of the EUROPAST Podcast, project researcher Rūta Vyšniauskaitė sat down with Agnieška Avin, a PhD candidate at the Institute Of Sociology At The Lithuanian Centre For Social Sciences. She is also an activist for Roma integration, working as an educator at the integrative children’s day-care centre “Padėk Pritapti”...

Guests: Dr. Rasa Antanavičiūtė, Živilė Miežytė. Hosts: Rūta Vyšniauskaitė, Ignė Rasickaitė. How does one curate an exhibition on the unspoken stories of marginalized people, and why is it important to highlight the beliefs that make life in the city inconvenient? Hear a conversation about it in in the 5th Episode of the EUROPAST podcast in which project esearchers Rūta Vyšniauskaitė and Ignė Rasic...

Guest: Prof. Emilia Koustova. Host: Prof. Violeta Davoliūtė. In the fourth episode of the EUROPAST Podcast, Professor Violeta Davoliūtė talks with Emilia Koustova from the University of Strasbourg about the European Gulag Memories project and her experience learning about and researching Soviet repressions in Eastern Europe. What is the state of oral history research into Soviet repressions and th...

Guest: Prof. Maria Mälksoo. Host: Dr. Viktorija Rimaitė-Beržiūnienė. In the third episode of EUROPAST Podcast, Viktorija Rimaitė-Beržiūnienė talks with Professor Maria Mälksoo from the University of Copenhagen about the intersection of war and memory. Why is memory so important for politics today? What is the autobiography of a state? How does it relate to practices of public history?  These are t...

Guest: Prof. Jonathan Brent. Host: Prof. Violeta Davoliūtė. In the second episode of the EUROPAST Podcast, Violeta Davoliūtė talks with Jonathan Brent, CEO and executive director of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. They cover the relevance of the past to the present, ideologies of hate and hope in public history, and the critical role of archives in the historiography of the Cold War. In th...

Guests: Prof. Violeta Davoliūtė, Prof. Barbara Törnquist-Plewa, Dr. Thomas Cauvin, Dr. Juliane Fürst. Host: Dr. Dora Komnenovic. The EUROPAST Podcast series focuses on Europe's most relevant public history issues. It explores complex and contested spaces of public memory in Europe, different memory laws in various European countries, monuments representing competing interpretations of history and...