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.

In the EUROPAST Podcast, we explore Europe's most pressing challenges of public history. It investigates the complex and contested spaces of public memory, memory activism and best practices for engaging the public in a dialogue about the past.

Music: Istok Zapad, Whiteheads. ℗ Croatia Records, 2021.

Ep. 2: The Power of Archives and the Aims of Public History

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.

In the EUROPAST Podcast, we explore Europe's most pressing challenges of public history. It investigates the complex and contested spaces of public memory, memory activism and best practices for engaging the public in a dialogue about the past.

Music: Istok Zapad, Whiteheads. ℗ Croatia Records, 2021.

Ep. 3: Europe, War, Memory. How Is Memory Implicated in War in Europe Today?

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?
 
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.
 
Music: Istok Zapad, Whiteheads. ℗ Croatia Records, 2021.

Ep. 4: Oral History Research on Soviet Repressions: Understanding Eastern Europe and Russia Today

Guests: Dr. Rasa Antanavičiūtė, Živilė Miežytė.
Hosts: Rūta Vyšniauskaitė, Ignė Rasickaitė.

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?

Hear a conversation about it in in the 5th Episode of the EUROPAST podcast in which project esearchers Rūta Vyšniauskaitė and Ignė Rasickaitė are joined by Rasa Antanavičiūtė and Živilė Miežytė from Vilnius Museum where an exhibition titled "Inconvenient Vilnius" takes place.

Learn more about the exhibition: https://vilniausmuziejus.lt/uncomfortable-vilnius/?lang=en

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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. More: www.europast.vu.lt

Music: Istok Zapad, Whiteheads. ℗ Croatia Records, 2021.

Ep. 5: Inconvenient Past: Curating the Unspoken Stories of a City

This is a story about survival, and the Gloster Meteor crash that hit Helenbar Lake, Ontario. But it’s not the kind of meteor you might be thinking of…

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Muse:AM - The Missisagi Meteor

This song is a part of an album created for my graduate public history course entitled Voices from Time. This track is about a soldier preparing for the Battle of Lundy's Lane by writing a letter to his mother. Any names, places and dates are historically accurate. The melody was generated using AI to remain inline with the digital history guidelines.

Mama

Mama, for Chris.

This song is a part of an album created for my graduate public history course entitled Voices from Time. This track is a ballad prepared for a friend whose favourite moment in history is the discovery of Tutankhamen. Any names, places and dates are historically accurate. The melody was generated using AI to remain inline with the digital history guidelines.

Winds of Gold

Winds Of Gold, for Mac.

This song is a part of an album created for my graduate public history course entitled Voices from Time. This track is an imagining of Tom Thomson writing a farewell to his comrades in art. Any names, places and dates are historically accurate. The melody was generated using AI to remain inline with the digital history guidelines.

From Tom To Seven, for Georgian

This song is a part of an album created for my graduate public history course entitled Voices from Time. This track is an imagined warning from Katherine of Aragon, the first wife of Henry the Eighth, to Anne Boleyn. Any names, places and dates are historically accurate. The melody was generated using AI to remain inline with the digital history guidelines.

Voices from Time

Dear Anne

Dear Anne, for Sadie

This song is a part of an album created for my graduate public history course entitled Voices from Time. This track is about the incidident at Roseland Theatre when Viola Desmond was unjustly removed. Any names, places and dates are historically accurate. The melody was generated using AI to remain inline with the digital history guidelines.

Roseland

Roseland, for Neisa

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.

EUROPAST is an EU-funded network focused on producing valuable research on public history and building capacities in academic institutions (Grant Agreement No. 101079466). EUROPAST brings together four international academic partners: Vilnius University (Lithuania), the Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History in Potsdam (Germany), the Centre for European Studies at Lund University (Sweden), and the Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (Luxembourg).

Eight enthusiastic Grad Students & their unapolegetic love for all things history.

Public History grad student in love with music and history

New tracks tagged #publichistory