PSC Podcast: i tak dalej...
i tak dalej.... EPISODE 1: Michał Murawski
EPISODE 1 features an interview with Dr. Michał Murawski, an anthropologist of architecture and of cities based in the department of in Critical Area Studies at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London. Elizabeth and Michał discuss his new book, The Palace Complex: A Stalinist Skyscraper, Capitalist Warsaw, and a City Transfixed, published by Indiana University Press in 2019.
i tak dalej.... EPISODE 2: David Ost
EPISODE 2 features an interview with Dr. David Ost, Professor of Political Science at Hobart and William Smith Colleges and 2020-2021 Member of the Institute for Advanced Studies. Elizabeth and David discuss the recent protests over new restrictions to abortion in Poland, major issues and changes in Polish politics since 1989, and the changing role of the Catholic Church in Polish, particularly with regard to the perspective of younger generations.
i tak dalej.... EPISODE 3: Elżbieta Korolczuk
EPISODE 3 features an interview with Elżbieta Korolczuk, a sociologist working at Södertörn University in Stockholm and at the American Studies Center at Warsaw University. Elizabeth andElżbieta discuss the gendered nature of activism and protest in the ongoing protests in Poland this year.
i tak dalej.... EPISODE 4: Janine Holc
EPISODE 4 features an interview with Janine Holc, a political scientist at Loyola University Maryland. In addition to her recent study of the Polish filmmaker Robert Gliński’s post-communist film Cześć Tereska, Elizabeth and Janine discuss the recent protests in Poland over new legal restrictions to abortion, questions of gender in contemporary Polish political discourse, and the emergence of a 'procreative regime' in Poland.
i tak dalej...EPISODE 5: Jessica Robbins
EPISODE 5 features an interview with Dr. Jessica Robbins, Assistant Professor at the Institute of Gerontology and Department of Anthropology at Wayne State University. As a medical and sociocultural anthropologist, she studies how individuals' experiences of aging--especially of health and illness--are part of broader social, cultural, political, economic, and historical processes. Elizabeth and Jessica discuss aging in contemporary Poland, where dramatic transformations have profoundly impacted the lives of the country's oldest generations.
i tak dalej...EPISODE 6: Renata Hryciuk
EPISODE 6 features an interview with Renata Hryciuk of the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology at Warsaw University to discuss urban foodways and the changing culture of food in Poland.
i tak dalej...EPISODE 7: Olga Drenda
EPISODE 7 features an interview with Olga Drenda, an essayist and translator based in Warsaw. Since 2013, she has curated the Facebook page Duchologia, which focuses on artifacts from the period of social transformation in the 1990s.
i tak dalej...EPISODE 8: Marysia Galbraith
EPISODE 8 features an interview with Marysia Galbraith, an anthropologist who found a family photograph in an envelope labelled “DO NOT OPEN” in 2011; the first in a series of fascinating discoveries about her grandmother's life in Poland. Galbraith has joint appointment in New College and the Department of Anthropology at the University of Alabama and has written extensively on nationalism in Poland.
i tak dalej...EPISODE 9: Łukasz Stanek & Christina Schwenkel
EPISODE 9 features an interview with Łukasz Stanek & Christina Schwenkel on their recent books, which examine Eastern European architects and planners who traveled the world in the Cold War, bringing with them ideologies about the proper conduct of daily life, what cities should be like, and how economies should function.
Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies