Going Against the Odds: How the Student Movement Ousted the Regime in Serbia
The Serbian student movement ousted the ruling Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) after 14 years in office. The SNS ruled with a clear majority and on almost every single level of government – from the president, Aleksandar Vučić, to local city councils. Still, it has lost the elections to a wide movement without clear leaders or clear ideological positions. How is that even possible?
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3.11.2026
Coming Into Decolonization: Fulfilling the Promise in the Maghreb
In his conclusion to The Wretched of the Earth, the philosopher-psychiatrist Frantz Fanon writes: “Come, then, comrades, the European game has finally ended; we must find [...]
27.10.2026
Musk Does Not Want to Challenge the State. He Wants to Own It.
Elon Musk makes headlines almost daily. Depending on the audience, people quote his statements and either repeat them as mantras or hold them up as symptoms of global issues. [...]
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All Interviews and Podcasts2.11.2026
Grieving the Countryside – Irina Velicu on Eco-grief, Peasant Dispossession and the Politics of Rural Loss
In this discussion with Irina Velicu, a political ecologist at the Centre for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra whose work brings critical theory into conversation with political [...]
29.10.2026
After 1989, Who Imagined the Future? – A Conversation with Dorine Schellens
During her Visegrad Fellowship at the Blinken OSA Archivum, Dorine Shellens worked on her book project “Beyond Post-Communism, Imagining the Future in Times of Transition”, where she examines [...]