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3: Geography and Ancient History

The Making of Modern Ukraine

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This podcast was recorded in the autumn of 2022, live in a classroom at Yale University. The subject today is going to be naming and placing - how the names in the places then affect how we understand events before our eyes. Hopefully as I get into the geography and then a little bit into the war, it will come clear how the deep notions that we have of place tend to suggest, trigger, push us in certain directions when we're confronted with events.

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