Europast

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 the Gulag system? How can oral history help change our understanding about Central and Eastern Europe? What is the state of the relations between Russian scholars and scholars in the West?
 
In the EUROPAST Podcast, we explore Europe's most pressing challenges of public history. We investigate the complex and contested spaces of public memory, memory activism and best practices for engaging the public in a dialogue about the past.
 
Music: Istok Zapad, Whiteheads. ℗ Croatia Records, 2021.

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 the questions that will be answered in the podcast.

In the EUROPAST Podcast, we explore Europe's most pressing challenges of public history. It investigates the complex and contested spaces of public memory, memory activism and best practices for engaging the public in a dialogue about the past.

Music: Istok Zapad, Whiteheads. ℗ Croatia Records, 2021.

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 the EUROPAST Podcast, we explore Europe's most pressing challenges of public history. It investigates the complex and contested spaces of public memory, memory activism and best practices for engaging the public in a dialogue about the past.

Music: Istok Zapad, Whiteheads. ℗ Croatia Records, 2021.

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 much more.

In the pilot episode of the EUROPAST Podcast, hosted by Dr. Dora Komnenovic, the project team introduces itself and presents their joint project. Prof. Violeta Davoliūtė, Prof. Barbara Törnquist-Plewa, Dr. Thomas Cauvin, and Dr. Juliane Fürst discuss the creation of the research consortium, the preparation of the joint project proposal, the main goals of EUROPAST, and its plans for the future. Tune in and listen to a lively virtual coffee talk!

Music: Istok Zapad, Whiteheads. ℗ Croatia Records, 2021.