Podcasts from the UCLA Center for European and Russian Studies

The Theater: Courage and Survival in the Defining Atrocity of the Ukraine War

The Cybercene: The Othering of Europe’s Black and Brown Migrants and Pathways towards Ecocultural Healing

Crimes, Not Just Tragedies: Reporting War Against Ukraine

The Return of the Native: Can Liberalism Safeguard Us Against Nativism?

The Long Shadow of Assad's Gulag: Syrian Former Detainees in Europe

Drunk on Genocide: Alcohol and Mass Murder in Nazi Germany

The Fishing Net and the Spider Web: Mediterranean Imaginaries and the Making of Italians

Whites and Reds: A History of Wine in the Lands of Tsar and Commissar

The Fiume Crisis: Life in the Wake of the Habsburg Empire

Black Lives Matter in Belgium: Reckoning with Legacies of Colonialism, Violence, and Contemporary Racism

The History of Belarusian Vyzhyvanka

From Ethnography to Ethno-Graphic: Representing the Work of the Police

Animal Transport and Pandemics Across the Mediterranean

Contesting the National Beverage: Wine, Beer, and the Battle over ‘Foreign’ Tastes and Habits in Interwar Italy

Journalists Under Fire: An Independent Reporter's View from Chechnya, Iraq, and Afghanistan

This podcast episode explores the challenges faced by journalists covering wars, emphasizing the importance of independence in war reporting. The speaker, an independent war reporter, shares their firsthand experiences in conflict zones such as Chechnya, Iraq, and Afghanistan, highlighting the risks and complexities in...