CEU Podcasts
Episodes
Digital Gaming – Doing History Today
11 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this interview, Olga Kalashnikova and Jan Kremer discuss their on-going research into historical digital gaming. They note that around sixty perc...
Bringing Science Closer: Trust, Vulnerability, and the Ethics of Engagement
25 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The Collaboration Code is a podcast that explores engaged research and collaborative projects between academic and civil actors. In this second episo...
Not Just Data: Feelings, Doubts, and Hope in Academia at Risk
05 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Nadyia Kiss, Tania Arcimovich and Elena Trifan join for an intimate conversation about the emotional side of studying scholars at ris...
Auschwitzon túl- magyar zsidó nők lágernaplói
27 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Pillanatképek 2.0 - nyitott akadémia a második világháború történetéről.Az MTA II. világháború története albizottság előadássorozata...
A hidegháború kialakulásának második világháborús gyökerei
27 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Pillanatképek 2.0 - nyitott akadémia a második világháború történetéről.Az MTA II. világháború története albizottság előadássorozata...
Nyilasellenes zavargások Csepelen 1944 decemberében
27 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Pillanatképek - nyitott akadémia a második világháború történetéről.Az MTA II. világháború története albizottság előadássorozata.194...
A 104 éve született Szenes Hanna emlékezete Magyarországon az illiberális fordulat után
27 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Pillanatképek - nyitott akadémia a második világháború történetéről.Az MTA II. világháború története albizottság előadássorozata.Azt...
Menekültkérdés a háború alatt Baranya vármegyében
27 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Pillanatképek 2.0 - nyitott akadémia a második világháború történetéről.Az MTA II. világháború története albizottság előadássorozata...
Hogyan (ne) tanítsuk a holokausztot
27 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Pillanatképek - nyitott akadémia a második világháború történetéről.Az MTA II. világháború története albizottság előadássorozata.A m...
A múlt jövője: DEGOB jegyzőkönyvek új megvilágításban
27 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Pillanatképek2.0 - nyitott akadémia a második világháború történetéről.Az MTA II. világháború története albizottság előadássorozata....
Restory – Recovering Cultural Roots of Small Communities
24 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Adinel Dincă is Associate Professor at Babeș-Bolyai University (UBB) in Cluj-Napoca. In this interview he talks about his major research project ...
Where is academic freedom now (Q&A)
22 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is a bit more different then our last ones, we get to travel a bit in time. Back in April, we hosted a live conversation on academic free...
From Theory to Action: What's the Real Duty of Social Science?
13 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The Collaboration Code is a podcast that explores engaged research and collaborative projects between academic and civil actors. The first guest of t...
From Theory to Action: What's the Real Duty of Social Science?
13 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The Collaboration Code is a podcast that explores engaged research and collaborative projects between academic and civil actors. The first guest of t...
Introduction of The Collaboration Code
13 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The Collaboration Code is a podcast that explores the collaborative projects between academic and civil actors. The series deals with engaged research...
Introduction of The Collaboration Code
13 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The Collaboration Code is a podcast that explores the collaborative projects between academic and civil actors. The series deals with engaged research...
The Battle over Truth: Science, Ideology, and Academic Resistance
21 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Protecting Academia at Risk, we look at what happens when the boundaries between science, politics, and ideology are deliberately ...
Migrants, Missionaries and Merchants –from Lotharingia to New Europe in 11th to 13th Centuries
13 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this interview, Nicholas Tayler talks about his thesis research into the migration of missionaries and merchants from the Lotharingian region, in t...
New Models for Academic Solidarity: The Brandt School’s Research-at-Risk Initiative
06 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we have a special guest Professor Achim Kemmerling and we talk about what it means to protect knowledge when mobility is not an optio...
The Persistence of Jewish Otherness among the New Christians of Spalato – Integration, Persecution and Trade
03 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this interview, Lena Sadovski talks about her current research into the community of New Christian merchants trading between Apulia in southern Ita...
Epistemic Frontlines: How Conflicts Reshape Knowledge and Higher Education
22 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Wars don’t just destroy institutions, they reconfigure what counts as knowledge. In this episode, Elena Trifan speaks with Nadiya Kiss, Dina Gusejno...
Fair Relations: Business, Church and Power
10 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this interview, Katalin Szende, Professor of Medieval Studies at the Central European University, and founding member and current President of MECE...
Why Don’t We Learn from the Past? Academia Between Hubris and Risk
02 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Protecting Academia at Risk, we ask a pressing question: why don’t we seem to learn from the past? The host is Elena Trifan and ...
Pirates and Privateers – a Linguistic Conundrum of the 15th Century Baltic
30 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this interview, Gregor Rohmann, Professor for Regional Cultural History, University of Rostock, talks about his research into Pirates and Privateer...
From Safe Haven to Risk Zone: The Changing Geography of Academia at Risk
04 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Protecting Academia at Risk marks the beginning of a new series that examines how the global landscape of higher education and academi...
Establishing a Permanent Infrastructure for Supporting Academics in Europe
06 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A podcast on the protection of academic freedom by the OPEN Cost Action (www.opencostaction.eu)Description:Around the world—and particularly across ...
Places of Patronage and Piety – the Cult of the Virgin Mary in late Medieval Hungary
05 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this interview, Karen Stark discusses her on-going research into the cult of the Virgin Mary in late medieval Hungary. Originally an archaeologis...
Az újságírás szerepe és helyzete a 21. századi illiberális fordulat árnyékában
23 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A "Média és valóság viszonya a 21. században" című kurzusunk utolsó alkalmának felvétele 2025 május 21-én.Kurzusvezető: Balázs Zsuzsanna...
Cultures of Hate and Oppression: Faculty Reflection on the course
12 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Collaborative Seminar Cultures of Hate and Oppression was coordinated to address the complexities of these topics that are of urgent global import...
Cultures of Hate and Oppression: student podcasts on the Holocaust, antisemitism and gender
12 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Collaborative Seminar Cultures of Hate and Oppression was coordinated to address the complexities of these topics that are of urgent global import...
Seshat and Cliopatria – a Global View of Human History from 3,400BCE to the Present
24 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this interview, Jakob Zsambok of The Complexity Science Hub in Vienna, talks about the Seshat and Cliopatria databases, what they contain, their da...
Who Controls Knowledge? Neoliberalism, Liberalism, and Illiberalism in Academia
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What happens when universities shift from being spaces of critical thinking and public knowledge to institutions shaped by market logic? In this episo...
Symbolic Capital and a Saintly Bishop in Medieval Poland
17 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this interview, Grzegorz Pac, Professor at the Faculty of History of the University of Warsaw, discusses his on-going research into the cult of sai...
A szovjet fogság emlékezete
13 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
https://open.spotify.com/episode/2dB0O0F14zW7Vyxrfcml2N?si=Q5lHLPM3Sr-861hbLZyASgA mintegy 700 ezer Szovjetunióba vitt hadifogoly és civil internál...
Absent Knowledge: Who Gets to Be Part of Academia?
26 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we explore the often-overlooked struggles of at-risk scholars, focusing on the absence of Belarus in discussions on academic freedom,...
Absent Knowledge: Who Gets to Be Part of Academia?
26 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we explore the often-overlooked struggles of at-risk scholars, focusing on the absence of Belarus in discussions on academic freedom,...
Universities in Crisis: Academic Freedom, Mobility, and the Future of Higher Education
13 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Protecting Academia at Risk, we explore the urgent challenges facing universities today, from the rise of right-wing movements in E...
"Annak örültünk, hogy egy napnak mindig vége volt" - A pesti gettó története a túlélők szemével
11 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A pesti gettót hozták létre utoljára a II. világháború alatt. Ebben az előadásban a gettó rövid történetéről, illetve a gettólakók á...
The Rode Altarpiece and Time Travel to the 1480s
29 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this interview, Merike Kurisoo, Director, Niguliste Museum, Tallinn, discusses her work on the Rode Altarpiece and how it enables ‘time travel’...
Rethinking Risk in Academia: Challenges, Freedom, and the Future of Higher Education
29 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Protecting Academia at Risk, we explore the evolving landscape of risk in academia. Instead of framing risk only as a threat to in...
Navigating Academic Risk: Perspectives from the Romanian Periphery
15 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Elena Trifan, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Erfurt, delves into her research on at-risk academics within the Romanian hi...
Navigating Academic Risk: Perspectives from the Romanian Periphery
15 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Elena Trifan, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Erfurt, delves into her research on at-risk academics within the Romanian hi...
Revelations in Glass – Nuremberg’s Apocalyptic Windows
11 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this interview, Jessica Knowles discusses her current research into the apocalyptic stained-glass window in St Martha’s pilgrim hospice church in...
Revelations in Glass – Nuremberg’s Apocalyptic Windows
11 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this interview, Jessica Knowles discusses her current research into the apocalyptic stained-glass window in St Martha’s pilgrim hospice church in...
The Power of Language: Migration, Identity, and Resistance
11 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we are joined by our colleague, Dr. Nadiya Kiss, a social linguist from Ukraine and co-founder of the Vision Ukraine – Education, L...
The Making of the Wenceslas Bible
07 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this interview, Maria Theisen talks about her work on the Making of the Wenceslas Bible. This great bible was written in German in the late fou...
Protecting Academia: A Belarusian Perspective on Gender, Risk, and Academic Displacement
28 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we get to know our colleague Tania Arcimovich, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Erfurt and a key member of the Protecting A...
Good Friday Sermons – the Mass Media of 14th Century Bohemia
27 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this interview, Olga Kalashnikova, recent PhD graduate and researcher at the CEU Democracy Institute ‘History of Democracy’ section, discusses ...
Political Epistemologies: Exploring the Micro-Politics of Knowledge in Central and Eastern Europe
15 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we hear from our colleague, Prof. Dr. Bernhard Kleeberg from the History of Science (Historical Department) at the University of Erfu...
Political Epistemologies: Exploring the Micro-Politics of Knowledge in Central and Eastern Europe
15 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we hear from our colleague, Prof. Dr. Bernhard Kleeberg from the History of Science (Historical Department) at the University of Erfu...
Community takes practice
08 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The UrbanCommunity podcast elevates voices from community led initiaitves for sustainable and just cities.In this final episode (for now), our commu...
Cogmind, Roguelikes, and Aristotle’s Virtue Ethics
06 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode examines, through the lens of Aristotelian virtue ethics, how roguelike video games, such as Cogmind, can foster personal development a...
Silent Hill 2 and Freud’s Concept of the ‘Punishment Dream'
06 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode examines the classic psychological horror game Silent Hill 2 through the framework of psychoanalysis, investigating how the game represen...
Wittgenstein on Games (Part 2: Key Passages from the Philosophical Investigations Explained)
06 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode continues our exploration of Wittgenstein’s philosophy, moving on to his famous remarks on games in his Philosophical Investigations, w...
Wittgenstein on Games (Part 1: Intro to His Life and Philosophy)
06 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Wittgenstein famously wrote about games in a book called Philosophical Investigations, one of the most important philosophical works of the 20th centu...
Complexity, Controversy, Creativity: The History of the Roguelike Genre
06 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Named for their similarity to the 1980 video game Rogue, ‘roguelikes’ have one of gaming’s richest, most interesting histories, represent one of...
Why Research Video Games?: Answering with Existentialist Philosophy
06 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode explores the philosophical relevance of video games, examining why games matter and what they reveal about the human condition. At the co...
Rethinking Academia at Risk: Insights from Europe’s Peripheries
31 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Alina Dragolea, Associate Professor at the National University of Political Science and Public Administration in Bucharest, discusses...
Living with Risk: The Complexities of Supporting Displaced Scholars in Europe.
16 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Dina Gusejnova (PhD in History, University of Cambridge), Associate Professor in International History at LSE, shares her insights on...
Living with Risk: The Complexities of Supporting Displaced Scholars in Europe.
16 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Dina Gusejnova (PhD in History, University of Cambridge), Associate Professor in International History at LSE, shares her insights on...
Noble Ladies: Between East and West
05 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this interview, Natalia (Talia) Zajac, an Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Niagara University, New York State, discusses her on-going re...
Noble Ladies: Between East and West
05 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this interview, Natalia (Talia) Zajac, an Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Niagara University, New York State, discusses her on-going re...
From Resistance to Resilience: The Roots of Protecting Academia at Risk
24 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In our first episode of the Protecting Academia at Risk podcast, we introduce the project's origins and the personal journeys that brought our interdi...
Noble & Lazy? The Nuns of St George’s Abbey in Prague Castle
26 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this interview, Karel Pacovský discusses his on-going research into the daily lives of the Benedictine nuns of St George’s Monastery in Prague C...
The Golden Horde in the 13th Century; Coups, Conflicts and Gold
26 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this interview, Jack Wilson, historian of the Mongol Empire and PhD candidate at Central European University discusses his current research into th...
A Global Moment in the Middle Ages
05 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this interview, Martin Bauch, the leader of a group researching medieval climate history and climate change at the Leibniz Institute for the Histor...
Can Critics Create a Standard of Taste? - A Conversation with Kathrin Heinrich
25 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This podcast episode explores the role of art criticism, especially the question whether critics can establish a standard for determining what constit...
Mapping Castles, Churches and Cemeteries to Show How Central Europe Became Christian
06 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this interview, Maria Vargha, Assistant Professor for Spatial Approaches to Medieval Studies at University of Vienna, discusses her recent and curr...
Creating city commons
22 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The UrbanCommunity podcast elevates voices from community led initiaitves for sustainable and just cities.In this episode, originally recorded in 2023...
Cultures of Hate and Oppression: Connecting the Conversations about Antisemitism, Colonialism, Gender and the Holocaust.
19 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The OSUN Network Collaborative Seminar Cultures of Hate and Oppression was coordinated address the complexities of these topics that are of urgent glo...
Aki kimondja, amit ki kell mondani. Emlékkönyv Pető Andrea 60. születésnapjára
07 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Pető Andrea a legtöbbet idézett és legtöbb nemzetközi díjjal kitüntetett magyar történész. Munkássága előtt tisztelgő kiadvány jelent ...
Klímavédelem lakóépületfelújítás nélkül?
03 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Az energiatakarékos épületfelújítás a következő évek európai klímapolitikai törekvéseinek egyik legfontosabb eleme, ennek megfelelően kö...
A Kállay-kormány zsidópolitikája
03 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Adolf Hitler a Reichstagban 1939. január 30-n köntörfalazás nélkül kijelentette: „Ha a nemzetközi zsidó pénzembereknek még egyszer sikerü...
Plébánosi krónikák a front átvonulásáról, 1944-1945
30 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Az előadás az egyes plébániák fennmaradt Historia Domusai-ban rögzített leírások alapján tesz kísérletet a „kisemberek” frontátvonulá...
Plébánosi krónikák a front átvonulásáról, 1944-1945
30 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Az előadás az egyes plébániák fennmaradt Historia Domusai-ban rögzített leírások alapján tesz kísérletet a „kisemberek” frontátvonulá...
Bűnbakkeresés és a második világháború
24 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A bevezető a kulturális-intellektuális gyűlölködések és az erőszakos politikai cselekvések kölcsönhatásait vizsgálja átalában a szoc...
Zsidóság egy ipari város társadalmában a második világháború előtt, alatt és után, az ózdi példa - és az antiszemitizmus hétköznapi gyakorlata
21 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ózd, magyarország egyik legfontosabb ipari településévé vált a 19. század végére, ahol az ipari munka társadalmának a kialakulásával pá...
Public Politics and Private Piety – Representations of Rulership in Late Medieval Bohemia
19 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this interview Grischa Vercamer, an interim professor for European regional history at Chemnitz University of Technology, discusses his on-going re...
The Right of Reprisal – a Customary Law of International Trade
18 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this interview Leslie Carr-Riegel discusses her research into inter-state mercantile trade in the medieval period and the ways in which the Right o...
Urban Demography, Migrants and Masters – a case study of Cluj in the late Middle Ages
18 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this interview Agnes Flora, an archivist at the Romanian National Archives in Cluj, discusses her research into the city archives in Cluj in Transy...
Medieval Liturgy and the Making of a Political Identity – A Case Study of Poland circa 1000
30 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this interview, Paweł Figurski, Assistant Professor at the Polish Academy of Sciences and a Humboldt Research Fellow at the University of Regen...
Scribal Additions; The Scribes, Their Humour, and their Nonsense
03 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this interview, Lucie Doležalová, professor of Medieval Latin at the Charles University in Prague, discusses her current research into the additi...
„Kommunista” merényletterv Horthy Miklós kormányzó és Bethlen István ellen
16 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Előadásom témája egy 1932 őszén Horthy Miklós kormányzó és Bethlen István miniszterelnök ellen kommunisták által tervezett merénylet kí...
Waqf villages – Ottoman pious foundations, and populating the conquered lands of the Balkans
02 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this interview, Grigor Boykov, an assistant professor at the University of Vienna (Institute for East European history) discusses his research into...
Lengyelország második világháborús szerepe a lengyel és a magyar historiográfiában
14 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Pillanatképek - nyitott akadémia a második világháború történetéről.Az MTA II. világháború története albizottság előadássorozata.A l...
Magyarországi németek a Waffen SS-ben
11 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Pillanatképek - nyitott akadémia a második világháború történetéről.Az MTA II. világháború története albizottság előadássorozata.A m...
A propaganda, mint a hatalom eszköze: tények, hamisítványok, stratégiák, plakátok a II. világháboróban
10 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Pillanatképek - nyitott akadémia a második világháború történetéről.Az MTA II. világháború története albizottság előadássorozata.Elő...
The Gothic Architect – an International, Professional Elite
04 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this interview Dr Jana Gajdosova talks about her research into the architects, their lives, their business practice, and their architecture during ...
When cities and communities collaborate
02 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The UrbanCommunity podcast normally elevates voices from community led initiaitves for sustainable and just cities.However, in this episode I am join...
A holokauszt és a népirtások globális története
15 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Pillanatképek - nyitott akadémia a második világháború történetéről.Az MTA II. világháború története albizottság előadássorozata.Elő...
Holokauszttörténetek
11 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Klacsmann Borbála Holokauszttörténetek című könyvéről a szerzővel Pető Andrea beszélget.https://www.libri.hu/konyv/klacsmann_borbala.holoka...
Experiences from OSUN Collaborative Seminar on Cultures of Hate and Oppression: Connecting the Conversations about Antisemitism, Holocaust, Gender and Colonialism
03 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The podcast shares the perspectives of faculty and students of OSUN Collaborative Network Course on Antisemitism, Holocaust, Colonialism, Gender. Th...
Kiüresedett szavak és fogalmak
20 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Hét séta a politikai eszmetörténet erdejébenHét séta, hét expedíció a politikai eszmetörténet 3000 éves őserdejébe. Erre vállalkozunk....
Nazi collaboration and Holocaust museums
14 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In recent years, there has been a significant increase in Holocaust museums established worldwide, prompting numerous studies examining how they portr...
Honvédzászlók a propagandában a II. világháború alatt és után
04 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Pillanatképek - nyitott akadémia a második világháború történetéről.Az MTA II. világháború története albizottság előadássorozata.A 1...
Demokratikus innovációk - avagy beleszólhatunk-e közvetlenül a politikába?
22 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Elképzelhetőnek tartod, hogy az önkormányzat arra kér, tölts le egy applikációt a telefonodra, és szavazz a közösségi költségvetésre? B...
Conflict, Collusion, and an Unholy Alliance – Diplomatic Relationships in 14th Century Balkans
22 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this interview Emir Filipovic, Associate Professor of Medieval History at Sarajevo University, discusses his research into conflict, collusion, and...
Filmek a második világháborúról
06 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Pillanatképek - nyitott akadémia a második világháború történetéről.Az MTA II. világháború története albizottság előadássorozata.Leg...
Just neighbourhood planning
01 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The UrbanCommunity podcast elevates voices from community led initiaitves for sustainable and just cities.In today's episode, Tatiana and Honorata fro...
Aquincum, the Town and its Legacy
21 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this interview, Orsolya Lang, the Director of the Aquincum Museum in Budapest, Hungary, talks about her work in the town of Aquincum on the Roman L...