The Slavic Connexion

About the Team

About the Team

The Slavic Connexion is a member of the Texas Podcast Network brough to you by The University of Texas at Austin (visit podcasts.utexas.edu for more great content from UT member podcasters).

We are a bunch of Texas graduate students focusing on Slavic cultures, politics, and peoples and their connections with the rest of the world. We are all about outreach and this podcast is entirely born from our collective inspiration and teamwork. Podcasting is not easy, folks. It's cheap, perhaps, but not easy. And we couldn't do it without the support of the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies at The University of Texas at Austin and the talents of various individuals both on campus and in the Greater Austin area.

Basically, it started like this. In February 2019, one of the first-year grad students reached out to Tom and said, "Hey, what do you think about starting a podcast?" Tom was like, "Hell yeah." And then Matt got roped in. He was a bit more skeptical, cautiously optimistic let's say, but after the first few episodes were recorded, things started warming up. Podcasting. Sure. We can sustain this. At first, we tentatively reached out to professors and asked oh so politely if they wouldn't like to be on a new Slavic and Eurasian podcast. We really didn't expect people to say yes--especially not when they had PhDs attached to their names. But lo and behold, we were never turned down or ignored. Not once. And after the first ten professors who willingly agreed to come to our "studio" (figuratively dubbed the Fusion Room, or Fusion Chamber, however you prefer to think of it), we grew a lot bolder, and anyone and everyone on campus or visiting the university as a guest speaker/lecturer became fair game. And as our confidence grew so did our audience -- we have listeners in over 90 countries and counting!

If you feel like reaching out or leaving us a review, please do via our contact page or by emailing slavxradio@utexas.edu. We would love to hear from you!!

Thanks for listening to us wherever you are, all over the world!!

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