"In the Storms of Transformation": History of Balkan Migration and Globalization with Ulf Brunnbauer

The Slavic Connexion

On this episode, Cullan sits down with lauded historian Ulf Brunnbauer, managing director of the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies in Regensburg, Germany, whose research on the social history and anthropology of Southeast Europe reveals that the Balkan region is in many ways more globalized than the rest of Europe.

ABOUT THE GUEST:
Ulf Brunnbauer, Academic Director of the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies in Regensburg, holds a PhD in history from the University of Graz, Austria (1999). In 2006, he was awarded a habilitation by the Free University of Berlin, and since 2008 he holds the Chair of Southeast and East European History at the University of Regensburg. His most recent books include In den Stürmen der Transformation (2022, with Philipp Ther and others) and The Routledge Handbook of Balkan and Southeastern European History (2021, ed. with John Lampe). He is also author of Globalizing Southeastern Europe. Emigrants, America and the State since the 19th Century (2016). Read an interview with him from ASEEES: https://www.aseees.org/membership/ulf-brunnbauer

PRODUCER'S NOTE: This episode was recorded on November 11th, 2022 at the Palmer House Hilton in Chicago, Illinois at the ASEEES 2023 Convention.

SlavX is hosting an in-person and virtual conference on global media in diplomacy and foreign policy at The University of Texas at Austin, April 9-12, 2023. The call for papers can be found here: https://slavx.org/connexions. We hope to receive submissions from graduate students especially in countries all over Europe, Asia, and Africa. If your institution is interested in participating, please reach out to [e-mail] with the subject line "#CONNEXIONS CONFERENCE PARTNERSHIP". Thank you!

CREDITS
Host/Associate Producer: Cullan Bendig (@cullanwithana)
Associate Producer: Lera Toropin (@earlportion)
Associate Producer: Taylor Ham
Assistant Producer: Sergio Glajar
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Supervising Producer: Katherine Birch
Recording, Editing, and Sound Design: Michelle Daniel

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Special Guest: Ulf Brunnbauer.