New Books in Eastern European Studies
Hosted by Andrea Talabér and Miranda Melcher · New Books Network
4.4from 49 ratings
- 1,226
- Episodes
- 41
- Transcribed
- 49
- Ratings
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2008
- First episode
- 243
- YouTube views
About New Books in Eastern European Studies
This podcast is a channel on the New Books Network. The New Books Network is an academic audio library dedicated to public education. In each episode you will hear scholars discuss their recently published research with another expert in their field. Discover our 150+ channels and browse our 28,000+ episodes on our website: newbooksnetwork.com Subscribe to our free weekly Substack newsletter to get informative, engaging content straight to your inbox: https://newbooksnetwork.substack.com/ Follow us on Instagram and Bluesky to learn about more our latest interviews: @newbooksnetwork Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/eastern-european-studies
- Publisher
- New Books Network
- Category
- history · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 3 Jul 2008
- Latest episode
- 22 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
41 of 1,226 episodes have a transcript.
22 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
In Praise of Agnes Heller (1919-2019)
22 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Fascists of the World, Unite?: A History of Fascist Internationalism in the 1930s with Martin Kristoffer Hamre (de Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2025)
20 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Romania, the Little Entente and the Struggle for Europe with Owen Grey (Bloomsbury, 2026)
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In Praise of Agnes Heller (1919-2019)
Published 22 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] It is narrow-mindedness emerging from a purpose and serving a purpose. Neither simply condemnatory nor celebratory, Heller lays out the cost and benefits of membership so memorably because she herself knew schools from the inside and from the outside. Heller ends her essay by freely admitting the ambivalence that pervades her account of the Frankfurt School. Schools are no more If someone tried to establish one, she would look rather ridiculous. Still, I on my part, and perhaps not just I, look back, not in anger, but in a paradoxical nostalgia to a world where something that we do not now wish for ourselves was still possible. […]
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- Farid Hafez
- Jennifer Stark-Blumenthal
- Michal Frankl
- Doina Anca Cretu
- Lidia Zessin-Jurek
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- YouTube views
- 243
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.3 / 5
- 27 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.5 / 5
- 22 ratings
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- 95
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- 0
- YouTube
- 72
- Engagement
- 95
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