Science and Technology Archives |

Guest: Siobhán Hearne on Policing Prostitution: Regulating the Lower Classes in Late Imperial Russia published by Oxford University Press.

May 7, 2021

Guest: Cristina Galmarini on international blind activism from the communist bloc during the Cold War.

April 30, 2021

Guests: Konstantin Fokin and Angelina Davydova on environmental activism in Russia.

April 23, 2021

Guest: Anne Lounsbery on Life Is Elsewhere: Symbolic Geography in the Russian Provinces, 1800–1917 published by Cornell University Press.

April 16, 2021

Guests: Elana Resnick and Viktor Pal on waste, recycling, reuse, and race in (post-)Communist Eastern Europe.

April 9, 2021

Science and Technology

Guests: Ekaterina Babintseva and Slava Gerovitch on cybernetics in the United States and Soviet Union.

December 4, 2020

April 10, 2020

Guest: Anya Bernstein on The Future of Immortality: Remaking Life and Death in Contemporary Russia published by Princeton University Press.

March 27, 2020

Magdalena Stawkowski on the rural Kazakh communities in the Semipalatinsk nuclear test site.

October 27, 2019

Guest: Sonja Schmid on Producing Power: The Pre-Chernobyl History of the Soviet Nuclear Industry published by MIT Press.

October 13, 2019

Guest: Paula Michaels on Lamaze: An International History published by Oxford University Press.

March 20, 2019

Partial transcript with my interview with Paula Michaels on the Soviet origins of Lamaze.

March 18, 2019

Guest: Yasha Levine on Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet published by Public Affairs Books.

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June 18, 2018

Guest: Olga Kuchinskaya on The Politics of Invisibility: Public Knowledge about Radiation Health Effects after Chernobyl published by MIT Press.

March 27, 2017

Guest: Ben Peters on How Not to Network a Nation: The Uneasy History of the Soviet Internet.

June 15, 2016