EPISODE 9 features an interview with Łukasz Stanek & Christina Schwenkel on their recent books, which examine Eastern European architects and planners who traveled the world in the Cold War, bringing with them ideologies about the proper conduct of dialy life, what cities should be like, and how economies should function. 

Łukasz Stanek will give the 2021 Wiles Memorial Lecture, for Indiana University's Polish Studies Center  on March 26th, 2021. 

Łukasz Stanek: https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/lukasz.stanek.html
Architecture in Global Socialism: Eastern Europe, West Africa, and the Middle East in the Cold War (Princeton University Press, 2020): https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691168708/architecture-in-global-socialism
Christina Schwenkel: https://ucriverside.academia.edu/ChristinaSchwenkel
Building Socialism: The Afterlife of East German Architecture in Urban Vietnam (Duke University Press, 2020): https://www.dukeupress.edu/building-socialism

EPISODE 8 features an interview with Marysia Galbraith, an anthropologist who found a family photograph in an envelope labelled "DO NOT OPEN" in 2011; the first in a series of fascinating discoveries about her grandmother's life in Poland. Galbraith has joint appointment in New College and the Department of Anthropology at the University of Alabama and has written extensively on nationalism in Poland.

More about her research into family history can be found at: uncoveringjewishheritage.com 
Her faculty page can be found here: https://anthropology.ua.edu/people/marysia-galbraith/

Hosted by the interim director of the Polish Studies Center, Dr. Elizabeth Cullen Dunn (Geography), i tak dalej... will bring you topical interviews with scholars, experts, activists, and more on all things Polish throughout the coming year. 

Hosted by the interim director of the Polish Studies Center, Dr. Elizabeth Cullen Dunn (Geography), i tak dalej... will bring you topical interviews with scholars, experts, activists, and more on all things Polish throughout the coming year. 

EPISODE 6 features an interview with Olga Drenda, an essayist and translator based in Warsaw. Since 2013, she has curated the Facebook page Duchologia, which focuses on artifacts from the period of social transformation in the 1990s.

Olga Drenda: https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olga_Drenda
Duchologia: https://www.facebook.com/Duchologia/

Hosted by the interim director of the Polish Studies Center, Dr. Elizabeth Cullen Dunn (Geography), i tak dalej... will bring you topical interviews with scholars, experts, activists, and more on all things Polish throughout the coming year. 

EPISODE 6 features an interview with Renata Hryciuk of the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology at Warsaw University to discuss urban foodways and the changing culture of food in Poland. 

Renata Hryciuk: https://etnologia.uw.edu.pl/instytut/ludzie/pracownicy/renata-hryciuk

Hosted by the interim director of the Polish Studies Center, Dr. Elizabeth Cullen Dunn (Geography), i tak dalej... will bring you topical interviews with scholars, experts, activists, and more on all things Polish throughout the coming year. 

EPISODE 3 features an interview with Elżbieta Korolczuk, a sociologist working at Södertörn University in Stockholm and at the American Studies Center at Warsaw University. They discuss the gendered nature of activism and protest in the ongoing protests in Poland this year. 

Hosted by the interim director of the Polish Studies Center, Dr. Elizabeth Cullen Dunn (Geography), i tak dalej... will bring you topical interviews with scholars, experts, activists, and more on all things Polish throughout the coming year. 

EPISODE 2 features an interview with Dr. Jessica Robbins, Assistant Professor at the Institute of Gerontology and Department of Anthropology at Wayne State University. As a medical and sociocultural anthropologist, she studies how individuals' experiences of aging--especially of health and illness--are part of broader social, cultural, political, economic, and historical processes. Elizabeth and Jessica discuss aging in contemporary Poland, where dramatic transformations have profoundly impacted the lives of the country's oldest generations.  

Jessica Robbins: https://iog.wayne.edu/profile/fs2544
 

Hosted by the interim director of the Polish Studies Center, Dr. Elizabeth Cullen Dunn (Geography), i tak dalej... will bring you topical interviews with scholars, experts, activists, and more on all things Polish throughout the coming year. 

EPISODE 3 features an interview with Janine Holc, a political scientist at Loyola University Maryland. In addition to her recent study of the Polish filmmaker Robert Gliński's post-communist film Cześć Tereska, Elizabeth and Janine discuss the recent protests in Poland over new legal restrictions to abortion, questions of gender in contemporary Polish political discourse, and the emergence of a 'procreative regime' in Poland. 

Janine Holc: https://www.loyola.edu/academics/political-science/faculty/holc 
"Polish Manhood in Transition: Anxieties of Neoliberal Masculinity in Robert Gliński’s Cześć Tereska," East European Politics and

Societies and Cultures, August 2020. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0888325419891207

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Hosted by the interim director of the Polish Studies Center, Dr. Elizabeth Cullen Dunn (Geography), i tak dalej... will bring you topical interviews with scholars, experts, activists, and more on all things Polish throughout the coming year. 

EPISODE 2 features an interview with Dr. David Ost, Professor of Political Science at Hobart and William Smith Colleges​ and ​2020-2021 Member of the Institute for Advanced Studies. Elizabeth and David discuss the recent protests over new restrictions to abortion in Poland, major issues and changes in Polish politics since 1989, and the changing role of the Catholic Church in Polish, particularly with regard to the perspective of younger generations. 
David Ost: https://www.hws.edu/academics/polisci/facultyProfile.aspx?facultyID=257​; https://www.ias.edu/scholars/david-ost​
For more information, visit:  https://polish.indiana.edu/Sound: Mixkit 

The first episode of the Hamilton Lugar School's Polish Studies Center's new podcast series, i tak dalej...

Hosted by the interim director of the Polish Studies Center, Dr. Elizabeth Cullen Dunn (Geography), i tak dalej... will bring you topical interviews with scholars, experts, activists, and more on all things Polish throughout the coming year. 



EPISODE 1 features an interview with Dr. Michał Murawski, an anthropologist of architecture and of cities based in the department of in Critical Area Studies at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London. Elizabeth and Michał discuss his new book, The Palace Complex:A Stalinist Skyscraper, Capitalist Warsaw, and a City Transfixed, published by Indiana University Press in 2019.

The Palace Complex: https://iupress.org/9780253039965/the-palace-complex/
Michał Murawski: https://www.michalmurawski.net/

For more information, visit:  https://polish.indiana.edu/

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