Thinking Global Podcast – Dean Vuletic

This week on the Thinking Global podcast, Dean Vuletic (University of Luxembourg) talks to the Thinking Global team about the Eurovision Song Contest and international politics. Dr. Vuletic chats with Kieran (⁠⁠⁠@kieranjomeara⁠⁠⁠) and Victoria (@vic_hhberg) on the history of the Eurovision Song Contest, the critical socio-political geography around the contest, how the contest itself becomes a site of international political contestation, and much more – all in the lead-up to the 68th Eurovision Song Contest the Song on Saturday 11.^th May 2024 in Malmö, Sweden.

Dean Vuletic (University of Luxembourg) is the world’s leading academic authority on the history of the Eurovision Song Contest. He is also a lecturer behind the world’s first university course on Eurovision, which he began teaching at New York University and has since taught at the University of Vienna and the Charles University in Prague. Nicknamed ‘Teacher’s Song Contest’, Dean is a prominent Eurovision commentator in the international media. His comments, interviews and opinion articles have been published in numerous media outlets. He is the author of Post-war Europe and the Eurovision Song Contest (Bloomsbury, 2019), Eurovision Song Contest: Una Storia Europea (Minimum Fax, 2022), and co-editor of The Eurovision Song Contest as a cultural phenomenon: from concert halls to university halls (Routledge, 2022).

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