Charles King appears in the following:
'Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century'
Monday, August 19, 2019
Charles King joins us to discuss his new book, Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century.
Sex, Violence, Espionage and Drama in Istanbul
Wednesday, November 19, 2014
Charles King tells the story of how Istanbul entered the modern world and reshaped the meaning of cosmopolitanism.
An Inside Look at the History of Sochi
Thursday, February 06, 2014
On the eve of the Opening Ceremony, so much attention of the attention on the Winter Olympics has focused on security and internal domestic policies in Russia. Putting all that aside,...
Backstory: Post-Soviet Moldova
Thursday, January 06, 2011
The year 2011 marks the 20th anniversary of Moldova—a nation created after the break-up of the Soviet Union and the subsequent reshuffling of borders. On this week's Backstory, Charles King, Professor of Government and International Affairs at Georgetown University, discusses Moldova's struggle to define itself. He's the author of the book The Moldovans: Romania, Russia, and the Politics of Culture, and of Odessa: Genius and Death in a City of Dreams, to be published in February.
