In the last episode of this EuroStorie Podcast season, we get to talk with Natasha Wheatley about the relationship between law, time, and the state. How do we understand a sovereign state as being both a ”timeless” as well as a ”historical” pol

What is biopolitics?

Nov 11th, 2022 33m 11s

In this episode of the EuroStorie Podcast, we get to know Marco Piasentier, the new team leader of Subproject 2, Discovering the Limits of Reason – Europe and the Crisis of Universalism, who helps us unpack the concept of biopolitics. Drawing f

Legal Imagination and the History of International Power

Oct 25th, 2022 32m 24s

In this episode of the EuroStorie Podcast we talk to Martti Koskenniemi about legal imagination and how it relates to the formation of international law as a discipline. Additionally, we discuss the different ways the basic structures of intern

Socialist Justice in the GDR

Oct 6th, 2022 28m 7s

In this first episode of the new EuroStorie Podcast season we dive into the history of East Germany, more specifically we tackle some of the narratives when trying to conceptualize “socialist justice” in the GDR. How did the judicial system of

What is Sustainability? An Anthropologist’s Guide to Culture and the Environment

Nov 2nd, 2021 42m 1s

Sustainability is a key goal in much contemporary social and political decision-making, from EU climate policy to the UN's Sustainable Development Goals. But the term has many different meanings and uses. In this episode of the EuroStorie Podca

Vaccine Hesitancy, Health, and Human Rights

Aug 10th, 2021 45m 21s

The development and distribution of several effective vaccinations for Covid-19 means managing and living with the virus might finally be a tangible possibility. But the politics of ‘vaccine nationalism’ means distribution of the vaccine around

Is This Building European? Architecture, Europe and Empire

Jun 8th, 2021 49m 57s

What can architecture teach us about contemporary debates about national identity, Europe, and empire? Is early Roman architecture part of the legacy of Europe’s ‘common heritage’ as much as Roman law and politics? What makes a building look ‘R

Visions of Europe! Politics and Identity at the Eurovision Song Contest

May 11th, 2021 58m 54s

The longest-running international televised event in the world, the Eurovision Song Contest is famous for dramatic key changes and fiercely competitive bloc-voting. But what does it have to do with European cooperation and identity? How do stor

Belonging, Community and Solidarity: Queer Experiences of Migration

Apr 13th, 2021 51m 19s

In this episode, Ali Ali talks to us about his research on the themes of belonging, community and solidarity in the lives of exiles and migrants who identify as queer or sexually non-normative. Critiquing dominant narratives of Europe as a plac

European Disintegration?

Mar 9th, 2021 52m 20s

Is Differentiated Integration the Answer to Euroscepticism?Differentiated integration is an important part of understanding how an ever-larger European Union copes (or fails to cope) with the diversity of interests and resources among its 27 M

Striving for whiteness

Nov 26th, 2020 40m 26s

The Finnish labor market is predominantly white and discrimination based on someone's ethnicity or skin color is not a new phenomenon. Having studied Russian-speaking migrants in Helsinki and Ukrainians in Warsaw, researcher Daria Krivonos talk

Populism through a philosophical lens

Oct 13th, 2020 37m 35s

There seem to be as many definitions of populism as there are researchers of it. As a concept it is widely used in the current European politics and therefore it deserves a thorough, even philosophical consideration of it. Helping us with that

Looking away from Europe

Sep 18th, 2020 35m 40s

What if we for a change did not focus on Europe as the center of attention? What comes after Europe, what kinds of other geographical powers affect global flows of movement? Researcher Samuli Schielke’s work in Egypt brings new perspectives to

Liberties versus restrictions

Aug 26th, 2020 41m 45s

In this episode, scholar Timo Miettinen offers some perspectives for understanding the balancing between individual liberties versus restrictions during the global pandemic. Going into discussions of liberalism and universalism, we talk about s

The many faces of migration

Aug 5th, 2020 43m 1s

In the second episode, we discuss migration, refugee knowledge and European border control with Dr. Magdalena Kmak, the team leader of subproject 3 in EuroStorie. How do we label and categorize refugees and migrants? Who is welcome to Europe an

Europe, its hopes and fears

Jun 26th, 2020 44m 52s

In the very first episode of the EuroStorie Podcast, we, together with Dr. Kaius Tuori, already tackle some big current questions: How can the previous European crises help us navigate the most recent one, the COVID-19 crisis? What kind of effe

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