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The European Spa as a transnational public space and a social metaphor

Podcast The European Spa Project - HERA

5 November 2020

The European Spa Project has launched the podcast 'A Virtual Journey Through European Spas'. This podcast, designed as a virtual journey through European spas in the broadest sense from Belgium all the way to the Caucasus, was prompted by our current coronavirus pandemic, so that we can pass the time with literary imaginations now that physical travel is not possible.

Even after the end of this pandemic, travel and health resorts will be different. Take the idea of the spa as a 'transnational meeting place', which the research project is particularly concerned with. How will it be shaped in the face of travel restrictions, closed or semi-open borders and norms of social distancing? 

You can now listen to the first episode of this podcast, 'Travel and Arrival':

Listen to the first episode on Soundcloud Listen to the first episode on Spotify

The next episode of the podcast will deal with spa society, its amusements, affairs, antagonisms and entanglements. Stay tuned!

About the European Spa Project

The European Spa Project is part of the HERA (Humanities in the European Research Area) funding initiative of the European Union devoted to the topic Public Spaces: Culture and Integration in Europe. It is connected with the UvA via ARTES (the Amsterdam School for Regional, Transnational and European Studies). Dr Christian Noack (Associate Professor East European Studies) functions as the main UvA representative.

To the ARTES website European Spa Project website