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Episode: The Hublic Sphere | Looking East, Looking West: Should we change how we talk about Eastern Europe?
Description: 14th April 2022
In the final episode of season two, Conor Brennan speaks to Dr Kasia Szymanska and Dr Karolina Watroba about the connections between Eastern and Western Europe. They discuss the Polish response to the invasion of Ukraine, and the concept of ‘Central Europe’ as a way of pushing back against the homogenisation of former Eastern Bloc countries. This includes the idea of a Central European literature, championed by prominent writers such as Milan Kundera and, more recently, Olga Tokarczuk. They consider what is distinctively Central European about these and other writers, and whether such concepts help or hinder mutual unde...