The Trans-Atlanticist

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The Trans-Atlanticist episodes

  • Gratitude, Guilt, and Greed: Understanding Germany’s Relationship with Russia
    with Andrew Sola and Christina Neuhaus

    In this episode, Andrew Sola and Christina Neuhaus, political correspondent for the Agence France-Press in Berlin, analyze the complexities of Germany’s relationship with Russia since World War II. They focus on the gratitude felt by many Germans for the Soviet Union’s approval of German reunification, the guilt felt for atrocities committed against Russia during the Second World War, as well as the greed that created an increasingly unbalanced economic relationship with Russia, driven by energy imports.

    55 min
  • Lady Fiction #13: Where Are the Men? Same-Sex Societies in American Literature
    with Stefanie Schaefer and Judith Rauscher

    In light of the pending rollback of abortion rights by the US Supreme

    Court's conservative majority, Stefanie Schäfer and her guest Judith
    Rauscher turn to a world without men--as imagined in literary texts from
    the turn of the 20th century. Reading feminist utopias such as Charlotte
    Perkins Gilman's Herland (1915) and Mary E. Bardley's Mizora. A Prohpecy
    (1880/9), they discuss literary representations of an ideal same-sex
    state, whiteness, beauty standards, and the interlacing of progressivism
    and conservative views of womanhood in the US at a time when women
    fought for suffrage and civic equality.

    1 hr 2 min
  • LadyFiction #12: Art, Science, and the Legacies of Slavery in Esi Edugyan's Washington Black
    with Stefanie Schaefer and Nele Sawallisch

    With her guest Nele Sawallisch, Stefanie discusses Esi Edugyan's 2018

    novel Washington Black. With Olaudah Equiano's 1789 autobiography as
    intertext, the novel entangles the adventure story with the slave
    narrative. As Washington Black travels from Barbados to the Arctic, from
    Virginia to London, his narrative asks about the (hi)stories that remain
    out of the light and the making of 19th century discoverer personas
    against the backdrop of gratuitous black labor.

    48 min
  • Ukraine, Russia, and the Future of Europe
    with Andrew Sola and Guenter Danner

    War has returned to Europe. Andrew Sola and Dr. Guenter Danner, our EU expert, unpack what the war means for Ukraine, Russia, and the future of the continent. Was the West delusional in believing that trade and economic relations would prevent Russian aggression? Is Putin a madman or a rational actor? How will the war end?

    55 min
  • LadyFiction #11: From Beyoncé to Sarah Baartman and Back: Celebrity Performance and Black Feminism
    with Stefanie Schaefer and Samantha Pinto
    In our first episode 2022, Lady Fiction takes a cue from Black History
    Month to ask about the legacies of black woman celebrities in the US
    cultural archive. Stefanie Schäfer's guest is Dr. Samantha Pinto
    (UTexas), author of Infamous Bodies. Early Black Women’s Celebrity and
    the Afterlives of Rights (Duke UP 2020), whose work on transantional
    feminism and black women's performance inquires into our understanding
    of the "popular" in popular culture. Fans of Beyoncé will find their
    Queen B all over and across this episode, as we read from Morgan
    Parker's 2017 poetry collection There are More Beuatiful Things than
    Beyoncé.
    55 min
  • LadyFiction #3: NoViolet Bulawayo's We Need New Names
    with Stefanie Schaefer and Oksana Marafioti

    This episode of LadyFiction discusses Zimbabwean author NoViolet

    Bulawayo’s “We Need New Names” (2013), a novel about a young girl who
    leaves behind her shantytown childhood to pursue her goals in America.
    The novel meditates on home, trauma, and childhood in a globalized
    world—and Stefanie Schäfer’s conversation partner is Oksana Marafioti,
    US-American writer of Armenian and Russian Romani descent and the author
    of “American Gypsy: A Memoir” (2012).

    46 min
  • The Politics Podcast: Europe in 2022
    with Andrew Sola and Guenter Danner

    In the final episode of 2021, Andrew Sola and our resident EU expert Dr. Guenter Danner discuss EU refugee policy, the Dublin Agreement, and Fortress Europe; challenges facing the new German coalition government in 2022; and the likely candidates in the French presidential election coming up in April.

    52 min
  • LadyFiction #10: (Re)reading Little Women for the Holiday Season
    with Stefanie Schaefer and Amanda Halter

    This episode features Stefanie Schäfer and her guest Amanda Halter discussing

    their experiences in reading Louisa May Alcott's 1868/9 classic. We talk
    about Jo's meanings as tomboy and archetype of white womenhood,
    domesticity and nostalgia, and female authorship, touching also on Great
    Gerwig's 2019 film version--and finally, we wonder why Little Women
    continues to gather, as Anne Boyd Rioux and others have contended, a
    predominantly female readership.

    53 min
  • Novel RomAntics #10: Yaa Gyasi's Transcendent Kingdom
    with Douglas Cowie and Gregory Miller

    In the final episode of the first series of Novel RomAntics, host Douglas Cowie and guest Gregory Miller, a Wisconsin-based educator, discuss Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi, a novel that, while telling a story of opiate addiction in the USA, contemplates matters of science, faith, race, immigration, and family.

    58 min

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Andrew Sola explores the past, present, and future of relations between Europe and the United States with scholars, artists, authors, politicians, journalists, and business leaders. Based at the…