Eastern Europe Archives - The Eurasian Knot

Eastern Europe

Guest: Christian Raffensperger on the place of Kyivan Rus’ in the wider European medieval world.

December 2, 2022

Guest: Tom Junes on Poland in the 1980s and its legacies.

February 11, 2022

Guest: Irina Erman on her article “Nation and Vampiric Narration in Aleksey Tolstoy’s “The Family of the Vourdalak” published in the January 2020 issue of The Russian Review.

October 8, 2021

Guest: Cristina Galmarini on international blind activism from the communist bloc during the Cold War.

April 30, 2021

Guests: Elana Resnick and Viktor Pal on waste, recycling, reuse, and race in (post-)Communist Eastern Europe.

April 9, 2021

Guests: Tracy McDonald and Marianna Szczygielska on zoos, non-humans, and Animal Studies in Eastern Europe and Russia

March 13, 2021

Presenting Geopolitics on the Move, a podcast series I recorded this summer with Fyodor Lukyanov, the editor of Russia in Global Affairs.

September 23, 2020

Guest: Aliide Naylor on The Shadow in the East: Vladimir Putin and the New Baltic Front published by Bloomsbury.

June 15, 2020

Guest: Martha Lampland on the commodification of labor in Socialist Hungary.

March 20, 2020

Guest: Johanna Bockman on neoliberalism, socialist globalization, and the Non-Aligned Movement.

March 6, 2020