Podcasts from the UCLA Center for European and Russian Studies

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

A talk by journalist James Verini on the single worst act of mass civilian killing of the war.

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

A faculty lecture by Vetri Nathan, Associate Professor in the Department of European Languages and Transcultural Studies (ELTS) at UCLA.

Will Russia Ever (Again) Be a Democracy?

A conversation with political scientist and commentator Ekaterina Shulmann and journalist Maksim Kurnikov, moderated by Daniel Treisman, Professor of Political Science at

Violence in the suburbs of France: a tragic cycle of déjà vus

Visiting Professor of the Dutch Studies Program, Luuk Slooter, discusses structural violence of a socially and spatially divided society in France.

Crimes, Not Just Tragedies: Reporting War Against Ukraine

Nataliya Gumenyuk, Ukrainian journalist, on how to reunite truth with justice amidst war against Ukraine.

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

A book talk by Jan Willem Duyvendak on how and why there has been a resurgence of nativist logic.

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

Recording of a lecture by Uğur Ümit Üngör, Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the University of Amsterdam

Drunk on Genocide: Alcohol and Mass Murder in Nazi Germany

A book talk with author Edward B. Westermann (Texas Aandamp;M University San Antonio, History).

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

A book talk with author Claudio Fogu (UCSB, French and Italian).

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

A book talk with author Stephen Bittner (Sonoma State University, History).

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

A book talk with author Dominique Kirchner Reill (University of Miami, History).

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

Black Lives Matter: Global Perspectives Webinar Series | Debora Silverman, Stef Craps, Sibo Kanobana

The History of Belarusian Vyzhyvanka

A keynote presentation and discussion featuring Rufina Bazlova, a multi-genre Belarusian artist based in Prague.

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

Black Lives Matter: Global Perspectives Webinar Series | Didier Fassin

Animal Transport and Pandemics Across the Mediterranean

A lecture by Sarah Green (University of Helsinki, Finland, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology) with discussant Bharat Venkat (UCLA Institute for Society and G

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

A lecture by Brian J Griffith (UCLA, History).

Big Food and Small Fisher in Sweden: Fighting the System with Direct Marketing?

A lecture by Maris Gillette (University of Gothenburg, School of Global Studies, Anthropology) with discussant Christopher Kelty (UCLA, Institute for Society and Genetics

Belarusian Voices in the Media

UCLA Department of Slavic, East European and Eurasian Languages and Cultures and Russian Flagship Program webinar by Sasha Razor and Lydia Roberts. Cosponsored by CERS.

Talking Trash: Cultural Uses of Waste

A book talk by Maite Zubiaurre (UCLA, Spanish andamp; Portuguese, Germanic Languages), with discussants Charlene Villaseñor Black (UCLA, Art History and Chicana Studies)

Cartographic Humanism: The Making of Early Modern Europe

A book talk by Katharina Piechocki (Harvard University, Comparative Literature).