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Welcome to the Transformative Podcast, which takes the year 1989 as a starting point to think about social, economic, and cultural transformations on a European and global scale. This podcast is produced by the Research Center for the History of Transformations (RECET) and its managing director Irena Remestwenski. Our patron is Philipp Ther, and we could not do it without Leonid Motz, Jannis Panagiotidis, Rosamund Johnston, Sheng Peng, and Jelena Dureinovic.
Episodes
Tuesday Apr 06, 2021
Globalism and Its Enemies (Quinn Slobodian)
Tuesday Apr 06, 2021
Tuesday Apr 06, 2021
Is the era of neoliberal globalism over? In this episode moderated by Prof. Dr. Jannis Panagiotidis (Scientific Director, RECET), our guest Assoc. Prof. Dr. Quinn Slobodian (Wellesley College) considers the history and current state of global capitalist governance and asks what directions it may take in the future.
Quinn Slobodian is a historian of modern German and international history with a focus on North-South politics, social movements, and the intellectual history of neoliberalism. His most recent book is "Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism" (Harvard University Press, 2018).
Wednesday May 05, 2021
Legacies of Dissidence (Michal Kopeček)
Wednesday May 05, 2021
Wednesday May 05, 2021
Wednesday May 26, 2021
Resilient Neoliberalism? (Dorothee Bohle)
Wednesday May 26, 2021
Wednesday May 26, 2021
Wednesday Jun 16, 2021
Deindustrializing Societies (Anne-Marie Jeannet)
Wednesday Jun 16, 2021
Wednesday Jun 16, 2021
Anne-Marie Jeannet is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Milan. She studies how changes in the social structure, such as deindustrialization or immigration, alter political life. She is the principal investigator of "Deindustrializing Societies and the Political Consequences" (DESPO), a project funded by an ERC Starting Grant (2020-2025).
Wednesday Jul 07, 2021
Modern Autocracies (Sergei Guriev)
Wednesday Jul 07, 2021
Wednesday Jul 07, 2021
Wednesday Jul 28, 2021
(Post-)Socialist Shakespeare (Eva Spišiaková)
Wednesday Jul 28, 2021
Wednesday Jul 28, 2021
Eva Spišiaková is a REWIRE postdoctoral fellow at the University of Vienna's Center for Translation Studies. She is the author of Queering Translation History: Shakespeare's Sonnets in Czech and Slovak Transformations (Routledge, 2021). Her current research explores how disability has historically been represented in translation.
Wednesday Aug 18, 2021
Transformation(s) of Sexual Education (Agnieszka Kościańska)
Wednesday Aug 18, 2021
Wednesday Aug 18, 2021
Agnieszka Kościańska is an anthropologist, an Associate Professor in the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Warsaw, and recently Leverhulme Visiting Professor, University of Oxford. Her latest book, published by Berghahn Books in 2021, is "To see a Moose! The History of Polish Sex Education".
Thursday Sep 09, 2021
Peripheral Liberalism (Tobias Rupprecht)
Thursday Sep 09, 2021
Thursday Sep 09, 2021
In this episode, RECET's Dr. Anna Calori talks with Tobias Rupprecht, Head of the Junior Research Group "Peripheral Liberalism", about Tobias's recent project on peripheral liberalism, economic reform debates in socialist countries, and the history of globalisation in the 1990s.
Dr. Tobias Rupprecht is a global historian with a particular interest in the history of (state) socialism and (neo)liberalism. His research has mostly addressed Soviet and Eastern European encounters with the Global South, and economic reform debates in socialist countries. He taught Russian history in Denmark and the UK before becoming head of the 'Peripheral Liberalism' research group at the cluster of excellence 'Contestations of the Liberal Script' in Berlin.
Wednesday Sep 29, 2021
Politics of Free Movement (Cecilia Bruzelius)
Wednesday Sep 29, 2021
Wednesday Sep 29, 2021
Prof. Dr. Cecilia Bruzelius is a Junior Professor of Political Science at Tübingen University. In her research, she focuses on free movement in history and the present, with a particular focus on the issues of citizenship and the welfare state.
Wednesday Oct 20, 2021
Transformation Through Architecture (Łukasz Stanek)
Wednesday Oct 20, 2021
Wednesday Oct 20, 2021