CEU Podcasts

Queens and Queenship in Sixteenth-Century Hungary and the Netherlands

21 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Why was it important for the regent of the Netherlands to be unmarried? What is the connection between a Hungarian Queen and Luther? Why did Mary of A...

Renaissance Occultism and Its Perception in Modernity

13 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

What do Faust and John Dee, Queen Elizabeth I's official magician, have in common? How to speak the language of angels and use magic crystals? What di...

Clergy, Foreign Lands, and Apocalypse: Medieval Perception of the World

13 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Felicitas Schmieder, a professor of Medieval History in FernUniversität Hagen and visiting professor at CEU, speaks about medieval u...

Medieval Roads in Western Hungary

21 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

After the graduation from CEU, doctor Magdolna Szilágyi talks about her dissertation about road systems in Western Hungary during the Arpad period. W...

Rulers and Rulership in the Arc of Medieval Europe, 1000-1200

17 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Interview with Christian Raffensperger, Professor and Chair of the Department of History, Kenneth E. Wray Chair in the Humanities, Wittenberg Univers...

Regional Identity and Urban Development in the Eastern Roman Provinces

14 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Chris Mielke speaks with Rubina Raja, the professor of Classical Archaeology at Aarhus University in Denmark, about her research of r...

Citizens without Nations: Urban Citizenship in Europe and the World c. 1000-1789 - Interview with the author, Professor Maarten Prak

08 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This is an interview with Maarten Prak, Professor of Social and Economic History at the Department of History and Art History, Utrecht University, Ne...

King Sigismund of Hungary and Hungarian International Diplomacy in 14-15 centuries

08 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Sigismund of Luxembourg (1368-1437) was king of Hungary, king of Bohemia, and Holy Roman Emperor at the same time. However, he was popular neither in ...

Coalition Formation During the Laurentian Schism: Italy 498-514

01 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this interview, Dan Knox, (PhD student), talks about his research into coalitions, networks, and conflict around the double papal election in 498 a...

The Functions of the Eastern End of Cathedrals in Late Medieval Central Europe

01 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this interview, Anna (Ph.D student) talks about her research into the construction and function of late medieval cathedrals in Central Europe.  He...

World in Fragments: Glass Trade between the Middle East and Western Europe in the Late Middle Age

31 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

What can the fragments of glass bottles or beakers retell from their past? In this episode, Christopher Mielke speaks with Tanja Tolar about this very...

Justinian’s Conniving Bankers; Lobbying and the Imperial Bureaucracy in Sixth-Century Byzantium

28 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this interview, David Rockwell, Ph.D student with the Department of Medieval Studies, discusses his research into the lobbying practices of bankers...

Courtly Gossip, and Religious Reformation in 15th Century Central Europe

27 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this interview Antonin Kalous talks about his recent book ‘The Legation of Angelo Pecchinoli at the Court of King of Hungary, 1488- 1490’.  Th...

Needed vs. Stigmatized: Jewish people in Medieval and Early Modern Europe

25 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Why was Jewish the only non-Christian minority tolerated in Europe? How did the Jewish and Christians share their neighborhood? What was the tendency ...

A Military Analysis of the ‘Iron Gate’ Defence against the Ottoman Invasion of Hungary in the 14th century

25 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

A Military Analysis of the ‘Iron Gate’ Defence against the Ottoman Invasion of Hungary in the 14th century. In this interview, Jason Snider (Ph.D...

Anglo-Normans, Castles, and Trade in Medieval Ireland

22 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In the new episode of Past Perfect, professor Terence Barry from Trinity College, Dublin, speaks about the Norman conquest of Ireland, urban developme...

Last Pagans and Greek Mythology in the Christian World

14 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Chris Mielke speaks with Alan Cameron, Professor Emeritus at Columbia University, New York. The professor tells about his various boo...

Heroism of Jewish Women during the Holocaust

07 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Andrea Petö, Professor for Gender Studies at the Central European University, Vienna, talks with Lori Weintrob, Professor of History and founding dir...

Gender Equality and the City

01 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Urban Arena is a series of critical conversations with activists, entrepreneurs, intellectuals and policy-makers in different European cities who are ...

Hello! ... Do we know each other? | A talk about a platforming woman in North-Western Romania

29 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This Nightworkpod episode is based on a talk centred on the experiences of a platforming woman offering ‘alternative transport’ services with Bolt...

Night Owls I :: The 2021 Night Gallery and Exhibit Columbus Event :: Julius-Cezar MacQuarie talks about his film Nightshift Spitalfields

29 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This episode is based on a talk that I gave as part of a conversation moderated by Ann Lui, principal @futurefirm. I was delighted to join @cyruspenar...

City Politics

18 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Urban Arena is a series of critical conversations with activists, entrepreneurs, intellectuals and policy-makers in different European cities who are ...

FIT

31 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Introduction into law and politics behind facial recognition in the recent years (until 2021).Special guest of the episode: Jennifer Brody, U.S. Advoc...

A túlélők magánya

02 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Beszédes (el)hallgatás – szigorúan ellenőrzött megszólalások. Csöndes megemlékezés 2021. június 11-i beszélgetése.

Köztér és emlékezet: osztrák emlékezetpolitikai intervenciók

23 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

A beszélgetés németül zajlott / The conversation was in GermanA podcast elérhető magyar felirattal a Fővárosi levéltár YouTube csatornájá...

Aleida Assmann: Seven ways of forgetting

08 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In the interview with Andrea Pető they are discussing two topics: the importance of memory in transformative politics and the forms of forgetting in ...

50th episode!

31 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In the 50th podcast of the series Andrea Peto speaks about the achievements, fun facts and outreach of the previous 49 podcasts.

Hybrid Journalism

28 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In the closing episode of this series, we will talk about an increasingly popular funding strategy for small, independent media organizations: hybrid ...

Food Sharing

17 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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

Jurying Memorial Site Competitions

17 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

As an internationally recognized expert on public art and the memorial genre, James E. Young has served on juries for a number of prospective memorial...

When Journalists Organize and Take Back the Newsroom. The Story of Tiempo Argentino

13 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

On April 24, 2016, Tiempo Argentino published its first edition as a workers' cooperative. Before this, it was a printed newspaper, managed by a busin...

On How to Launch a Paywall in 2002 and Live to Tell the Story

29 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Guilt and/or Responsibility?

27 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Interview with Michael Rothberg conducted by Hedvig Turai.Michael Rothberg, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, 1939 Society Samuel Goetz...

Szádvár Castle - its Foes and its Friends

13 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

‘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, ...

Journalism Cooperatives and Subscription Newsletters. Power in the Hands of Journalists

12 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Can journalism cooperatives and subscription newsletters put power back in the hands of journalists?In the third episode of our series we explore this...

Venture Capital and Climate Tech

30 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Urban Arena is a podcast about creating just and sustainable cities. This month Kate speaks with Heidi Lindvall from seed stage ClimateTech VC company...

Holocaust Victimhood in Hungary: New Histories

27 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Pasts, Inc., Center of Historical Studies at CEU, CEU Department of Gender Studies, the Working Group of Democracy in History of CEU Democracy Institu...

Synthesizing Journalism and Art in Belarus and Jordan

18 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode we will talk about two media organizations that overcame geographical distances to report on their homes from abroad. They are also do...

Political Interference and Reader Solidarity: The Story of Index and Telex in Hungary

04 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Participation and the Distribution of Urban Space

01 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

The Night Shift

28 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 l...

Contrasens in conversation with the nocturnal anthropologist

28 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Original title: "24 - Nightwork: migrant labour and embodied precarity in the global city"By contrasens is licensed under a  Creative Commons Lice...

2020 E.A.S.A. Talk on the use of visual methods in capturing the hidden lives of migrant night workers

28 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 v...

A N.I.T.E. Talk on Embodied Precariousness by Julius-Cezar MacQuarie

28 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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). ...

Reflections from Researching Night Shift Workers in London

19 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

I close this series with the last episode called "Reflections from Researching the Nightshift". Here, I address the lessons learnt during my research...

In conversation with Emeritus Prof Marion Roberts, University of Westminster

19 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Episode: 04Time: 21’45”Date: Nov 2018Place: Interview recorded in Sofia, Bulgaria. Produced in London @anightworkshopGuest: Marion Roberts, Profes...

A "cigány problémától" a roma emancipációig

10 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Paradox módon, miközben felmérések és statisztikai adatok bizonyítják a romák esélytelenségét, generációs kirekesztettségét, a magyar t...

Drivers of Urban Injustice

03 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Urban Arena is a podcast about creating just and sustainable cities. This month we're joined by Panagiota Kotsila, Isabelle Anguelovski, and Jonathan ...

A holokauszt magyarországi filmes emlékezete / 75 év árnyéka

15 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Paksa Rudolf beszélget Gárdos Péterrel és Szántó T. Gáborral a holokauszt magyarországi filmes emlékezetéről és a történeti filmekről. ...

Ableism, Hetero-Patriarchy and Nationalism: Gendered Representations of Disability in the Turkish Cinema

10 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, I am hosting Zeynep Serinkaya Winter. We will discuss the gendered representations of disability in the Turkish cinema, focusing on m...

A II. világháború kulturális emlékezete / 75 év árnyéka

05 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Paksa Rudolf beszélget Fahidi Évával és Zoltán Gáborral a II. világháború kulturális emlékezetéről. Beszélünk Fahidi Éva: A dolgok lel...

A II. világháború utáni állami erőszak / 75 év árnyéka

21 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Paksa Rudolf beszélget Müller Rolffal és Takács Tiborral a II. világháború utáni állami erőszakszervezetekről. Beszélünk Almási Tamás: ...

75 éve ért véget a II. világháború / 75 év árnyéka

02 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Paksa Rudolf beszélget Kádár Zsuzsanna és Stark Tamás történészekkel a II. világháború végének 75. évfordulójáról. Megemlékezett-e a...

Racial and Environmental Justice

02 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Urban Arena is a podcast about creating just and sustainable cities. This month we're joined by  Meera Ghani, ECOLISE Policy Coordinator, and Tamara ...

The Apocalyptic Movement of the Taborites

26 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Martin tells us about his studies of the Taborites, a radical faction of the Hussite revolution, who transitioned from the passive escapist apocalypti...

A II. világháborús nemi erőszak emlékezete / 75 év árnyéka

25 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

A CEU Bibó István Szabadegyetem, MTA 2. világháború története albizottság A II. világháborús nemi erőszak emlékezete 75 ÉV ÁRNYÉKA. VI...

Erecting memorials in spaces of dark histories

19 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Veerle Vanden Daelen, deputy director of Kazerne Dossin and Andrea Pető, Professor at CEU are discussing problems of how to remember dark history, wh...

Kiútkeresés (ellenállás, embermentés) / 75 év árnyéka

16 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Kiútkeresés (ellenállás, embermentés)Vendégek: Bartha Ákos, Pécsi Tibor

On Relationship: The Guessing Game

06 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

No disputing the fact, the past few months have been quite tough and stressful for CEU students. I had hoped to earlier share the lots of beautiful co...

A háború valósága és propagandája / 75 év árnyéka

04 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Paksa Rudolf beszélget B. Stenge Csaba hadtörténésszel és Virányi Péter propagandakutatóval a II. világháborús magyar szerepvállalásról,...

Urban Design Processes

29 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Urban Arena is a podcast about creating just and sustainable cities. This month Kate talks with Florian Strenge - an urbanist fascinated by spaces, pe...

Networks for Sustainable and Just Cities

30 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Urban Arena is a podcast about creating just and sustainable cities. This month Kate and Ian get lost in the voices of people who have helped sustain,...

Mexikói párbaj Belaruszban? – A jelen és a közeljövő Fehéroroszországa

18 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

A CEU Bibó István Szabadegyetem egy online beszélgetéssel jelentkezett, amelynek középpontjában a fehérororszországi események álltak. Ezze...

'RC to the World' (On Matters Touching Home)

08 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This is the second part of the episode. Here, I converse with two amazing ladies from CEU, Burcu Kisac (POLS '21) and Tetiana Horban (IR '20) about un...

Residence Centre

07 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Over 25 years ago, Central European University chose to make a home in Budapest, creating a Hogwarts-without-magic haven of higher education within th...

Three Ways How Academics and Journalists Can Work Together

27 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

There are plenty of people who will be quick to tell you that journalism is broken. But we’re not here to wallow in negatives. As part of the Journa...

A Path to Sustainability for Digital Newsrooms in Latin America

16 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The second episode of the Journalism Breakthroughs podcast discusses how Velocidad, a media accelerator in Latin America, not only injects money but a...

Skin

11 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In this first episode of CEU Chatroom, Funmilayo Akinpelu (HIST '21) starts with a prologue in which she reflects on the thoroughly devastating chang...

Introduction to CEU Chatroom

11 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

An introductory opening to what I hope will subsequently be a hub of lively, practically relevant and gossipy conversations within the CEU community. ...

Az ››elmúlttízév‹‹: az Orbán-kormány politikája és teljesítménye

07 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

A CEU Bibó Szabadegyetem online szemináriumán a magyar lakosság Orbán-kormány elmúlt tíz évéről alkotott véleménye volt a fókuszban. A b...

Social Entrepreneurship

01 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Urban Arena is a podcast about creating just and sustainable cities. Kate is on interview duty and the moment and she caught up with Kemo Camara, foun...

FÉLELEM / A boldogság politikája

29 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

A szemináriumon Bakos Petra, Pető Andrea, Tompa Andrea mellett Gálffi László színész és Szvoren Edina író beszélget Balla Zsófia "Kiáltvá...

Topography of Shoah in Vienna / Topographie Der Shoah

29 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The podcasts discusses Topographie der Shoah: Gedächtnisorte an das zerstörte jüdische Wien, Lappin –Engel was directing. The places of the Holoc...

Studying Sermons of the Late Middle Ages

28 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, David Rockwell asks Pietro Delcorno, research fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study, about his research related to late medieval...

Media Innovation During a Pandemic

17 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The inaugural episode of the Journalism Breakthroughs podcast discusses how the media coped with the crisis triggered by the COVID-19 virus. Innovatio...

A boldogság politikája / Otthon

07 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

CEU Bibó István Szabadegyetem A boldogság politikája online eseménye május 27-én szerdán 17.30-19.00 között az OTTHON témában. Bakos Petra...

Exploring a Just Transition in the Jiu Valley of Romania

28 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This episode is about what a 'just energy transition' looks like in Romania. The EU is now putting a lot of money into it’s new Green Deal and other...

Integral Cities

25 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Urban Arena is a podcast about creating just and sustainable cities. This month we’re speaking with Marilyn Hamilton the founder of Integral City an...

A boldogság politikája / A második félév ígéretei

25 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

„Hétköznapjainkból az veszett el, ami talán a legfontosabb: a boldogság. Nem az indexekkel mért illetve kémiával létrehozott érzelmekre go...

Gendered Insecurities: (Im)possibilities for Solidarity against the Precarization of Academia

11 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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. Eli...

Száz év múltán: Trianon / Magyar kisebbségek és Magyarország a 20. században

05 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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

Patriarchal Bargains of a Woman Ethnographer: Researching Social Encounters between Syrian and Turkish Women

26 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, I am hosting Selin Altunkaynak Vodina. We will talk about the gendered and racialized discourses that are reproduced during the soci...

Nature Based Solutions

23 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Urban Arena is a podcast about creating just and sustainable cities. This month we're talking with Panagiota Kotsila, a political ecologist who works ...

Total Transition: Getting the human side of the energy transition

06 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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-aut...

Médiaszabadság Közép-Kelet-Európában - Nézőpontok / A mai magyar média összehasonlító perspektívában

29 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

A kurzus célja a mai magyar médiarendszer vizsgálata közép- és kelet-európai összehasonlító perspektívában. Fókuszában a politika és a ...

FabLabs

27 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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 speci...

A boldogság politikája / Az első félév tanulságai

23 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

„Hétköznapjainkból az veszett el, ami talán a legfontosabb: a boldogság. Nem az indexekkel mért illetve kémiával létrehozott érzelmekre go...

Shipping

29 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Urban Arena is a podcast about creating just and sustainable cities. In this fourth episode, we discuss shipping. We were lucky to speak with Elisabet...

Innovation in Romanian Journalism

20 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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...

"Dutiful Daughters" and Transnationalism: Return Migration as a Resistance to Turkish Diasporic Patriarchy in Germany

19 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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. ...

The Use of Technology

13 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Media and Legislation

13 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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 Rom...

Funding Media

10 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Textile Recycling

27 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Where to Call Home and Where to Return as a Second Generation Turkish-German?: Gendered Experiences of Return Migration

08 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, I am hosting Nilay Kılınç. We will discuss the transnational phenomenon of ‘return migration’ and further complicate it by add...

Transition Governance

18 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Urban Arena is a podcast about just and sustainable cities. In this second episode, we discuss transition management as a governance approach.  To he...

Neoliberal Reconstruction of Academia: Gendered Experiences of Precarization

06 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, I am hosting Elif Birced. We will talk about the neoliberal restructuring of higher education in Turkey. By drawing upon her intervie...

Sustainable Food and Transport

22 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Urban Arena is a podcast about just and sustainable cities. In this first episode, we discuss sustainability and justice in food and transport.  To h...

Introduction to Medieval Studies and Archaeology

12 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

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 in...

Biopolitics Meets Neoconservatism: Resisting the Silence over Gynaecological Violence in Turkey

04 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, I am hosting three guests; Didem Şalgam, Balacan Ayar and Zeynep Serinkaya-Winter.We will talk about the effects of neo-conservativi...