Hungary

The inaugural episode of the Journalism Breakthroughs podcast discusses how the media coped with the crisis triggered by the COVID-19 virus. Innovation in journalism allowed media outlets to survive the pandemic. We talked to Robert Nemeth, who works as Outreach Coordinator for the Center for Media, Data and Society, walked us through a series of innovative ways of responding to the Covid crisis he collected in a series of four articles published on the CMDS website. Then, we discussed with John Masuku, a journalist from Zimbabwe, a CMDS fellow and an old friend of our Center, about the situation of journalists in his country and how much they have the energy and resources to deal with the effects of a pandemic. Finally, we approached some of the structural issues that made journalism even more vulnerable during the pandemic, with Kate Coyer a Research Affiliate with CMDS and an Affiliate of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University.Read John's article on how a media NGO in Zimbabwe changed the narrative on COVID-19 here.Original music for this episode was composed by András Simongáti-Farquhar.Photo credit: Kovid Bhushan Pathak.

In this forty minutes long interview, Christpher Mielke talks with Marianna Birnbaum of UCLA and visiting professor at CEU about Hungarian Renaissance literature, Jews in the Renaissance, studying women in history, and more broadly about how it is to deal with individual life stories as historians. What were the main currents of Renaissance literature? Who were the main figures of Hungarian Renaissance poetry? How does a historian approach literary figures? In the first part of this interview, Marianna Birnbaum talks about Humanist literature, how books circulated in Renaissance Europe, and how Humanists approached Hebrew language and culture. The second part concerns a 16th century Portugese woman called Gracia Mendes. Why is she interesting, and how was she related to the famous Fuggers, a Jewish banker family? How did she come to manage this vast economic enterprise and why did she emigrate to the Turkish Empire? The third part of the interview is related to 18th century figure Fromet Mendelssohn, wife of the great philospher Moses Mendelssohn. How did she contribute to the intellectual milieu of the Jewish Enlightenment? What are the sources that can tell us about her life? Past Perfect! is CEU Medieval Radio’s show on medieval and early modern history and culture, where Christopher Mielke casually discusses with his guests various issues from the crusades to archeo-zoology to medieval urine sampling. The discussions are made with the aim to popularize medieval and early modern studies with the help of experts such as early musicians, historians, philologists and archeologists.This episode was first recorded and broadcast in 2013.

How were bone tools made and used? Was there a specialized guild for boneworking? What are the cultural notions surrounding horsemeat? What is the Medieval Animal Database? What are the different kinds of data pertaining to animals? In this fifty minutes long interveiw, Chris Mielke talks with Alice Choyke of the Department of Medieval Studies at CEU about archaeozoology, medieval animals and the various things you can learn studying bones.Some of the topics covered include how medieval people thought about animals, what were the divisions between real and unreal animals, the role of butchers, the importance of animals in diets, the role of zooarcheology and archaeology in general related to history. Past Perfect! is CEU Medieval Radio’s show on medieval and early modern history and culture, where Christopher Mielke casually discusses with his guests various issues from the crusades to archeo-zoology to medieval urine sampling. The discussions are made with the aim to popularize medieval and early modern studies with the help of experts such as early musicians, historians, philologists and archeologists.This episode was first recorded and broadcast in 2012.

Since 2017, the Department for Modern and Contemporary History at LMU Munich and the Center for Holocaust Studies at the Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History co-host the colloquium »The Holocaust and its Context«. In this special session, recorded on 14 January 2019, Frank Bajohr and Kim Wünschmann discuss Holocaust research, memory and politics in Eastern Europe with Natalia Aleksiun (Touro College, New York), Ekaterina Makhotina (University of Bonn), Andrea Pető (CEU Budapest) and Svetlana Suveica (University of Regensburg). The panel focusses on developments in Moldova and Romania, Lithuania, Poland and Hungary. The podcast was prepared in a cooperation with CEU/ MTA WWII Podcast Series.

Laczó Ferenc a Maastrichti Egyetem adjunktusa beszél Pető Andreának Munkácsi Ernőről, a Zsidó Tanács prominens figurájáról, akinek most jelent meg How it Happened. Documenting the Tragedy of Hungarian Jewry, (McGill-Queen University Press, 2018) címmel angolul a naplója. Hogyan értékeli utólag írt naplójában saját és a Zsidó Tanács szerepét, mikor kezdődött az üldöztetés, és szerinte mi volt a magyar hatóságok szerepe a deportálásokban?

Pető Andrea, a CEU egyetemi tanárával Stefano Bottoni, MTA Bölcsészettudományi Kutatóközpont Történettudományi Intézet tudományos főmunkatárs, az MTA II. világháború történeti albizottság titkára beszélget Elmondani az elmondhatatlant. A nemi erőszak története a Magyarországon a II világháború alatt (Jaffa, 2018) kötetéről, hogy mit lehet tudni a nemi erőszakból megszületett gyerekekről, milyen tényezők járultak hozzá a háborús nemi erőszak elhallgatásához, és hogyan alakul a szovjet katonák által elkövetett nemi erőszak emlékezetének időbelisége Magyarországon és Oroszországban.

Walking around Budapest, we can see greater Hungary map stickers on car bumpers and people wearing T-shirts or sometimes tattoos that represent resentment over formerly lost territories. Marches are held to express nostalgia for the historical greater Hungary. A visitor who spends time in Hungary will soon discover that the word “Trianon” carries a complex, emotionally charged resonance among Hungarians.It has come to signify Hungary’s greatest injustice, the imposed dismemberment of Greater Hungary by Western powers to the advantage of surrounding nations. This podcast analyzes the background causes of the Trianon treaty, the way it is still politicized in Hungary fuelling nationalist emotions and the possibilities for reconciliation.Eszter Nagy, masters student of international relations at CEU, discusses the topic with Margaret McMillan (University of Oxford) and András Bozóki (Central European University).