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Talking Europe: The UCL European Institute podcast

Talking Europe: The UCL European Institute podcast•www.ucl.ac.uk
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The UCL European Institute, University College London's hub for research, engagement and teaching on Europe
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Talking Europe | Finding Europe on London’s Streets: understanding the enduring ties between London and the European Literary imagination

This episode of Talking Europe focuses on a unique literary project that underscores the enduring cultural ties between the UK and the rest of the European continent: the interactive, online European Literary Map of London devised by University College London's European Institute. Highlighting London’s relevance for European culture and in particular for European writers. Dr Uta Staiger Director of the UCL European Institute and curator of the project discusses the project and the wider relation...

Jul 03, 2025•21 min

European Literary London: Irish Writing, Language and Identity

In this episode of our podcast 'Talking Europe', Hayley Anderson, one of our 2024-25 Student Ambassadors, sits down with Ciara Broderick, the UCL 2025 European Literary Map of London Writer in Residence. Their conversation delves into Ciara’s journey as a writer, her experiences settling into London, and the creative process behind her upcoming short story for the Literary Map. Together, they explore themes of writing, language, and identity—examining how the Irish language shapes both Ciara’s w...

Jun 07, 2025•38 min

The Ukraine Shelf Episode 4: Writing War and Trauma

How can we speak and write about war? What role does silence play in this process? What does it mean for people and places to survive war? We discussed these questions and more with two brilliant writers, Maria Tumarkin and Yuliya Musakovska, whose works have interrogated war and trauma in uncompromisingly honest and perceptive ways. For more information, visit our webpage: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/european-institute/ukraine-shelf-episode-4-writing-war-and-trauma

May 15, 2025•1 hr 4 min

The Ukraine Shelf Episode 3: Eastern Ukraine with Olena Stiazhkina and Victoria Donovan

In this episode, we explore the industrial regions of Donetsk and Luhansk. From 2014 until 2022, this was where Russia focused its war of aggression against Ukraine, killing and uprooting thousands of people. Russia claimed these regions were culturally and historically Russian, but history, and the people of these regions themselves, tell a different story: the majority consider themselves Ukrainian, and they overwhelmingly voted for Ukrainian independence in 1991. To get a better understanding...

Apr 20, 2025•54 min

The Ukraine Shelf Episode 2: Identity and Culture under Attach with Sasha Dovzyk and Eugene Finkel

Russia has attempted to repress and destroy Ukrainian statehood and identity over two centuries. In this episode, we trace the historical roots of Russia’s current aggression to imperial myths from the early 19th century, and look at how these myths have resurfaced repeatedly over time. We explore the most recent wave of violence through the tragic story of Victoria Amelina, a Ukrainian writer who was killed in a Russian missile attack in 2023. The books under discussion are Eugene Finkel’s Inte...

Mar 25, 2025•59 min

The Ukraine Shelf Episode 1: Crimea with Elmaz Asan and Rory Finnin

Russia’s aggression against Ukraine began not in 2022, but in 2014, with the invasion and occupation of Crimea. This episode explores Crimea’s significance as a strategically important nexus between east and west, between Europe, Russia and the Middle East, and as an integral part of Ukraine historically, politically and culturally. The focus of our discussion is Rory Finnin’s book Blood of Others: Stalin’s Crimean Atrocity and the Poetics of Solidarity (University of Toronto Press, 2022). https...

Feb 25, 2025•54 min

Lost and Found soundscape FINAL

A soundscape commissioned as part of the UCL European Literary Map of London project, featuring voices reading texts about London written by European writers across the centuries in a variety of original languages and in English translation.

Jan 21, 2025•6 min

European Literary London: Journeys, Languages, Writing

In conversation with Olivia Scher, our European Literary Map of London Writer-in-Residence Joanna Elmy and writer, artist and director, Larisa Faber Larisa Faber talk about London: journeys, languages, writing and cultures. This episode explores central themes of identity, belonging, and how London shapes and is shaped by its rich tapestry of stories. European Literary Map of London: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/european-institute/lost-found-european-literary-map-london Bulgarian-born author and journa...

Jun 25, 2024•37 min

Party People: Candidates and Party Evolution

Allan Sikk, Associate Professor in Comparative Politics at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, and Philipp Köker, Lecturer Political Science at Leibniz University Hannover join ‘Talking Europe’ to discuss their new book on political parties, how they change, and what this has to do with the people who make them up. Party People: Candidates and Party Evolution is published with Oxford University Press, and available in hard cover, e-book and audiobook. In ...

Jun 24, 2024•33 min

African-American entertainers in pre-jazz Europe

In conversation with the UCL European Institute's Uta Staiger, the historian of modern Germany, Jeff Bowersox, discusses the arrival of Black American entertainers in Central Europe around 1900 - prior to the high modernist forms of American entertainment, including jazz. He also explores what the ambivalent responses of German-speaking audiences and critics tell us about the way Germans saw themselves - in a rapidly and radically changing global order.

Oct 13, 2021•34 min
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