In the EUROPAST Podcast, we explore Europe's most pressing challenges of public history. We investigate the complex and contested spaces of public memory, memory activism and best practices for engaging the public in a dialogue about the past.
You may listen to the EUROPAST podcast on YouTube or Spreaker.
Guest: Dr. Corinna Kuhr-Korolev
Host: Prof. Violeta Davoliūtė
The episode explores the role of cemeteries as sites of memory and education, focusing on the German War Cemetery in Kaunas. The participants discuss the challenges and ethical dilemmas of curating exhibitions on such sensitive locations, given their complex and controversial legacies. The talk also delves into the difficulties of representing the socialist past in Germany and the Soviet era in Lithuania, questioning whether current exhibitions and other public history initiatives are able to get to the core of those historical experiences.
Guest: Prof. Saulius Sužiedelis
Host: Dr. Indra Ekmanis
EUROPAST podcast brings you a bonus episode from our colleagues at Baltic Ways, a podcast by the Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies, produced in collaboration with the Baltic Initiative at the Foreign Policy Research Institute.
Guest: Prof. Michael Bernhard
Host: Prof. Violeta Davoliūtė
Is the past really alive in the present? How have different European countries dealt with their past, and what implications have these approaches had on the state of their societies in the present? How can the recent U.S. elections affect memory regimes and the state of democracy in Central and Eastern Europe?
Guest: Agnieška Avin.
Hosts: Rūta Vyšniauskaitė, Ignė Rasickaitė.
In the 6th episode of the EUROPAST Podcast, project researchers Rūta Vyšniauskaitė and Ignė Rasickaitė sat down with Agnieška Avin, a PhD candidate at the Institute Of Sociology At The Lithuanian Centre For Social Sciences. She is also an activist for Roma integration, working as an educator at the integrative children’s day-care centre “Padėk Pritapti”. The episode focuses on the Roma community in Lithuania, their linguistic diversity and cultural history.
Guests: Dr. Rasa Antanavičiūtė, Živilė Miežytė.
Hosts: Rūta Vyšniauskaitė, Ignė Rasickaitė.
In the fifth episode of the EUROPAST Podcast, project researchers Rūta Vyšniauskaitė and Ignė Rasickaitė sat down with Rasa Antanavičiūtė and Živilė Miežytė, the curators of Vilnius Musem, where an exhibition "Inconvenient Vilnius" takes place. How does one curate an exhibition on the unspoken stories of marginalized people, and why is it important to highlight the beliefs that make life in the city inconvenient?
Guest: Prof. Emilia Koustova.
Host: Prof. Violeta Davoliūtė.
In the fourth episode of the EUROPAST Podcast, Professor Violeta Davoliūtė talks with Emilia Koustova from the University of Strasbourg about the European Gulag Memories project and her experience learning about and researching Soviet repressions in Eastern Europe. What is the state of oral history research into Soviet repressions and the Gulag system? How can oral history help change our understanding about Central and Eastern Europe? What is the state of the relations between Russian scholars and scholars in the West?
Guest: Prof. Maria Mälksoo.
Host: Dr. Viktorija Rimaitė-Beržiūnienė.
In the third episode of EUROPAST Podcast, Viktorija Rimaitė-Beržiūnienė talks with Professor Maria Mälksoo from the University of Copenhagen about the intersection of war and memory. Why is memory so important for politics today? What is the autobiography of a state? How does it relate to practices of public history? These are the questions that will be answered in the podcast.
Guest: Prof. Jonathan Brent.
Host: Prof. Violeta Davoliūtė.
In the second episode of the EUROPAST Podcast, Violeta Davoliūtė talks with Jonathan Brent, CEO and executive director of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. They cover the relevance of the past to the present, ideologies of hate and hope in public history, and the critical role of archives in the historiography of the Cold War.
Guests: Prof. Violeta Davoliūtė, Prof. Barbara Törnquist-Plewa, Dr. Thomas Cauvin, Dr. Juliane Fürst.
Host: Dr. Dora Komnenovic.
In the pilot episode of the EUROPAST Podcast, hosted by Dr. Dora Komnenovic, the EUROPAST project team introduces itself and the project. Prof. Violeta Davoliūtė, Prof. Barbara Törnquist-Plewa, Dr. Thomas Cauvin, and Dr. Juliane Fürst discuss the creation of the research consortium, the preparation of the project proposal, the main goals of EUROPAST, and its plans for the future. Tune in and listen to a lively virtual coffee talk!
