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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 Jannis Panagiotidis, Anastassiya Schacht, Rosamund Johnston, Sheng Peng, and Elias Neuburger.
Episodes

Thursday Mar 16, 2023
Past and Present: Migration, Crisis and Public History in Poland (Dariusz Stola)
Thursday Mar 16, 2023
Thursday Mar 16, 2023

Wednesday Feb 22, 2023
Sexologists in Socialist Czechoslovakia (Kateřina Lišková)
Wednesday Feb 22, 2023
Wednesday Feb 22, 2023

Wednesday Feb 01, 2023
Churches in Ukraine (Yuliya Yurchuk)
Wednesday Feb 01, 2023
Wednesday Feb 01, 2023

Thursday Jan 12, 2023
Thursday Jan 12, 2023

Wednesday Dec 14, 2022
Guns and Globalization (Ned Richardson-Little)
Wednesday Dec 14, 2022
Wednesday Dec 14, 2022

Wednesday Nov 23, 2022
Racism By and Against Eastern Europeans (Ivan Kalmar)
Wednesday Nov 23, 2022
Wednesday Nov 23, 2022

Thursday Nov 03, 2022
Ukrainian Refugees in Austria (Judith Kohlenberger)
Thursday Nov 03, 2022
Thursday Nov 03, 2022
The Russian military invasion of Ukraine that commenced on the February 24, 2022, led to the largest forced migration flows in Europe since WWII. In this episode, Irena Remestwenski (RECET) talks with Dr. Judith Kohlenberger about a rapid-response survey of Ukrainian refugees arriving in Austria. Dr. Kohlenberger sheds light on Ukrainian refugees' sociodemographic background, choice of host country, as well as their return and stay intentions and discusses implications for integration policies.
Judith Kohlenberger a post-doctoral researcher at the Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU) working on forced migration and integration. She was a contributor to the Persons in Austria Survey (DiPAS), one of the first European studies on the human capital of refugees in the fall of 2015, which was awarded the Kurt-Rothschild-Prize. She teaches in the WU masters’ program and at the University of Applied Sciences and is the author of two books, We (2021) and Refugee Paradox (2022).

Wednesday Sep 28, 2022
Development Assistance as a Transformation Force (Artemy Kalinovsky)
Wednesday Sep 28, 2022
Wednesday Sep 28, 2022
Artemy Kalinovsky is Professor at Temple University and a historian of Soviet Union, Cold War, Central Asia, foreign policy, and development. He is the author of two monographs: A Long Goodbye: The Soviet Withdrawal from Afghanistan (Harvard University Press, 2011) and in 2018 he published Laboratory of Socialist Development: Cold War Politics and Decolonization in Soviet Tajikistan which won the Davis and Hewett prizes from the Association of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. Currently, he is working on a project that studies the legacies of socialist development in contemporary Central Asia to examine entanglements between socialist and capitalist development approaches in the late 20th century.

Wednesday Sep 07, 2022
Ukraine’s Fight Against Corruption in the Sphere of Justice (Iryna Shyba)
Wednesday Sep 07, 2022
Wednesday Sep 07, 2022

Wednesday Jul 20, 2022
Anti-Globalism Between the World Wars (Tara Zahra)
Wednesday Jul 20, 2022
Wednesday Jul 20, 2022