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 of foreign aid in interwar Romania, and how to approach publishing a first monograph.

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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 the Middle East bygone imperial projects are increasingly inseparable from contemporary political, social, and cultural life. In the podcast we discussed various aspects of imperial and post-imperial memory from a famous street corner in Sarajevo, to Croatian literature to a largely forgotten Arctic expedition, and also put the coloniality and post-coloniality of the three empires – Habsburg, Ottoman, Romanov – under the microscope.

To find out more about the Revenant project visit the website.

Jeremy ([email protected]), Kevin ([email protected]) and Matea ([email protected]) are also happy to hear from anyone interested in the project and in their own research topics.

If you are interested in the documentary based on the project, please email Jeremy for the link.

As part of the project, the 2024 Postcolonial, Decolonial, Postimperial, Deimperial conference was held in Rijeka. You can watch the keynotes by Maria Todorova here and by Madina Tlostanova here.

You can also follow the project on Bluesky and on Facebook.

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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 resettlements in the border regions of Czechia, Poland, and Slovakia. These objects include everyday items, such as bowls and pictures; and also objects left behind in the landscape, such as villas and orchards.

To find out more about their project, visit the project website: https://spectralrecycling.ispan.edu.pl

For the “Haunted Landscapes” click here: https://spectralrecycling.ispan.edu.pl/haunted-landscapes/ In the podcast we discuss some of the objects that can be seen here.

The team also regularly updates the project blog, where you can read more about their findings: https://spectralrecycling.ispan.edu.pl/category/blog-en/

For the publications of the team, click here: https://spectralrecycling.ispan.edu.pl/publications/

Follow their Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/spectralrecycling/

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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 politicization of coloniality and race in the region. 

Zoltán is a critical geographer and global historian contracted by the Ludovika University of Public Service. To learn more about his research you can visit his website. He is co-director of the Prime Minister Ferenc Nagy Research Group (Facebook), and member of the scientific advisory board of the MANIFEST artistic project on transatlantic slavery. Currently, he is working on a book for Cambridge University Press with James Mark and Péter Apor on the global histories of Hungarian race and coloniality.

Zoltán’s recent publications include: “’Hungarian Indians’: race and colonialism in Hungarian ‘Indian play’” in Off White: Central and Eastern Europe and the Global History of Race, edited by Catherine Baker, Bogdan C. Iacob, Anikó Imre and James Mark, published by Manchester University Press; “Transcoloniality” in Decoloniality in Eastern Europe: A Lexicon of Reorientation, edited by Ana Vilenica with contributing editors Zoltán Ginelli and Olivera Jokić, published by New Media Center _kuda.org; and “The Travelogue: Imagining Spaces of Encounter—Travel Writing Between the Colonial and the Anti-Colonial in Socialist Eastern Europe, 1949–1989”, co-authored with Eric Burton, James Mark, and Nemanja Radonjić, in Socialist Internationalism and the Gritty Politics of the Particular: Second-Third World Spaces in the Cold War, edited by Kristin Roth-Ey and published by Bloomsbury.

 You can find Zoltán on X, Facebook and Instagram, and his social media group Decolonizing Eastern Europe (Facebook, X). 

Piotr is an Associate Professor of History at the University of the National Education Commission, Krakow. Piotr’s publications include his book: Poland in a Colonial World Order: Adjustments and Aspirations, 1918–1939 published by Routledge. His new research can be sampled in his most recent article: Directed by Moscow? Communist Poland’s Policies in Decolonial Africa, 1918/1945-1964.

Piotr can also be found on X.  

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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 Shapes Discourses and Decisions in and about Ukraine, Europe, and Beyond.

In the meantime, for further reading, this is a list of articles they mention in the episode:

Katarzyna Kaczmarska & Stefanie Ortmann, “IR theory and Area Studies: a plea for displaced knowledge about international politics” in Journal of International Relations and Development, Vol. 24, 2021, pp. 820-847

Olga Bertelsen, “Russian Front Organizations and Western Academia”, International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence, Vol. 36, No. 4, 2023, pp. 1184-1209

Mariia Shuvalova, "First Go Novels, Then Go Tanks. Contemporary Russian Military Fiction (2009-2022) and Ukrainian Literature About the War (2015-2022),” in Russia’s War in Ukraine 2022, edited by Tamara Martseniuk and Tetiana Kostiuchenko (ibidem Press/Columbia University Press, 2023).

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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 (CEU) was moderated by Shalini Randeria, President and Rector of CEU.

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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 history, Central Europe and the history of international law.

The Life and Death of States offers an exploration of the relationship between sovereignty and time and reveals how the Habsburg Empire became a laboratory of legal theories that also shaped our contemporary world order.

You can find the details of Natasha’s book’s on Princeton University Press’s site, click here: https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691244075/the-life-and-death-of-states

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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 lockdown impacted the Roma communities in the areas of education, healthcare, employment, housing and the increase in hate speech and racist incidents.

Andreea is Senior Researcher and Head of the Cluster Equality & Inclusion at the European Centre for Minority Issues (ECMI). Andreea is also a co-editor of the ECMI Minorities Blog.

Raul is Lecturer in Twentieth-Century European History at Maynooth University, Ireland, and an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Leicester.

To learn more about Andreea’s and Raul’s research you can read their blogpost on the ECMI blog: https://www.ecmi.de/infochannel/detail/the-impact-of-covid-19-on-roma-communities-in-non-eu-countries-in-eastern-europe

A special issue entitled “Marginality on the Margins of Europe – The Impact of COVID-19 on Roma Communities in Non-EU Countries in Eastern Europe” edited Andreea and Raul was published in the Journal on Ethnopolitics and Minority issues in Europe (Vol. 21, No 2), which is available Open Access here: https://www.ecmi.de/JEMIE/index.php/journal/issue/view/4

Andreea has also published an article entitled “Hygienic Boundaries: Roma Communities and the Racialisation of Public Health Discourses during the COVID-19 Pandemic”, which appeared as part of the special issue “Critical Perspectives on the Impacts of (Post) COVID-19 Pandemic on Roma” in the journal Social Sciences, which is available Open Access here: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/12/3/188

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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 explores the questions that affect us all through in-depth talks with researchers, policy makers, journalists, academics and others. We bring the most current research linked to Central Europe through these discussions.

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