East-Central Europe Past and Present

This blog features interviews with scholars of East-Central and Southeastern Europe (including the Ottoman Empire and Turkey), Russia and the Soviet Union in which they offer their views on the past, present and future of the region. It also includes—under the heading "History in the Making"—original articles on the region and interviews with individuals there who are engaged in political activism or are otherwise living through events as they unfold.

Interview with Jeremy King--March 15, 2010

Interview with Jeremy King, Associate Professor of History at Mount Holyoke College. Interview conducted in Ithaca, NY on March 15, 2010.

Professor King is author of the book Budweisers into Czechs and Germans: A Local History of Bohemian Politics, 1848-1948, published by Princeton University Press in 2002.

Interview Themes

What brought King to the field and how his approach to it has changed over time (00:33)

On King's work as transition from national to post-national history (06:00)

Alternative loci of identity formation besides nationalism (11:17)
How we should teach the next generation about nationalism (18:12)

Territorialization of nationhood in the 20C (25:33)

How knowledge of langauges affects research and findings (37:20)

How to deal with the conceptual disappearance/invisibility of East-Central Europe (44:02)

What is yet to be done in this field (53:38)

To access interview, click here: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/17393

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Interview with Jeremy King--March 15, 2010