Conference Programme – Institute for Social Solidarity

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	(Provisional Programme)
THURSDAY 20 MAY, 2021	DAY 1
12-14 Bucharest timezone	KEYNOTE LECTURE: Dorothee Bohle (European University Institute, Italy) Capitalist Transformations in East Central Europe since the Great Recession: What Do We Know? What Have We Missed? (Discussants: Daniela Gabor, UWE Bristol, UK & Eniko Vincze, UBB, Romania)
14 – 16 Bucharest timezone	Break
16 – 18 Bucharest time zone	Panel A – European Union and the Central and Eastern European Dependent Economies	Panel B – Focus Ukraine: Neo-liberalism and the Collapse of the State	Panel C - Focus Romania: Social Movements and ‘Counter-Movements’ in Times of Crisis	Panel D - Critical Approaches to Educational and Social Services for Dependent Family Members in Transnational Spaces of Care and Labour
	A1. Still waiting for Polanyi in Brussels Laszlo Bruszt (Central European University, Austria) A2. Reinventing the local economy in dependent market economies: the role of developmental coalitions Gergő Medve-Bálint (Centre for Social Sciences, Budapest, Hungary) A3. In or out? Comparing the old (Southern) with the new (Central and Eastern European) peripheries of the European Union in the context of Eurozone participation: a comparative political economy approach Anastassios Chardas (Democritus University of Thrace, Greece) A4. Losing the global"? (Re)building Bosnian enterprises across transition Anna Calori (University of Leipzig, Germany)	B1. Temporalities of (re)production: Ukrainian garment workers in global supply chains Oksana Dutchak (Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, Ukraine) B2. Post-post-Soviet factory regime in Ukraine: decomposing embeddedness Denys Gorbach (Max Planck Sciences Po Center on Coping with Instability in Market Societies – MaxPo, France) B3 "We are cut off from everything": infrastructural vulnerability in frontline communities in Donetsk region Anastasiya Ryabchuk (National University of ‘Kyiv-Mohyla Academy’, Ukraine) B4. Migrants from Donbass in Belarus and Ukraine: a comparative history of crisis. Volodymyr Artiukh (University of Oxford, UK) Moderator: Alona Liasheva: (University of Bremen, Germany)	C1. Romanian social movement (2012-2019) – between a Polanyian counter movement and the reinforcement of the status quo Victoria Stoiciu (Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Romania) C2. Protests targeting the past vs. protests targeting the future: Recreative activism and the Fridays for Future mobilization in Romania Ruxandra Gubernat (Université Paris Nanterre, France) Henry P. Rammelt (National University of Political Studies and Public Administration, Bucharest, Romania) C3. Ways of Seeing/Ways of Protesting: Visuals in Transnational Protest Analysis Dana S. Trif (Babeș-Bolyai University, Romania) C4. Anticorruption as social fantasy and political instrument. A comparative approach Diana Mărgărit (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Romania) Conveners: Sergiu Mișcoiu (Babeș-Bolyai University, Romania) Diana Mărgărit (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Romania)	D1. The effects of transnational mobilities on children and their schooling: teacher narratives on return migrant children Zsuzsanna Árendás (Hungarian Academy of Science, Hungary) Vera Messing (Central European University, Austria) D2. Educational support services for children with labor mobile parents that stay behind: educational solutions for socio-economic problems? Leyla Safta-Zecheria (West University of Timișoara, Romania) D3. Re-migration of highly qualified people from Romania: a case study of migration and re-migration of Romanian doctors Simona Herczeg (West University of Timișoara, Romania Conveners: Zsuzsanna Arendas (Central European University, Austria) Leyla Safta-Zecheria (West University Timișoara, Romania) Discussant: Violetta Zentai (Central European University, Austria)
18 – 20 Bucharest time zone	Panel E – Varieties of Capitalism in Central and Eastern Europe	Panel F – Chinese Capital Investments in Central and Eastern Europe	Panel G – Focus Bulgaria: Capitalist relations and class politics	Panel H – Capitalist Transformations and Labour Migration from Central and Eastern Europe
	E1. The Making of the European Financial Periphery: The Uneven Effects of Banking Union and Capital Markets Union across the European Union Dora Piroska (Corvinus University, Hungary & CEU, Austria) Rachel Epstein (University of Denver, US) E2. Varieties of state capitalisms: historical experiences and current tendencies Judit Ricz (Institute of World Economy, Corvinus University Budapest, Hungary) István Benczes (Corvinus University Budapest, Hungary E3. The role of the IMF in CEE: shock therapy, the boom, and then the bust Lara Merling (International Trade Union Confederation, US, Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania) E4. Varieties of European Peripheries: A Comparison of Baltic, Southern and Visegrad Member States’ Economic Models Norbert Szijártó (Institute of World Economics, Hungary)	F1. State capitalism and illiberal neoliberalism: state development in Serbia Samuel Rogers (Open University & University of Bristol, UK) F2. The Flow of Chinese Capital into Eastern European Infrastructures: the Case of the Budapest-Belgrade Railway Line Linda Szabó (Periféria Policy and Research Center, Budapest, Hungary) Csaba Jelinek (Periféria Policy and Research Center, Budapest, Hungary) F3. Chinese investments in infrastructures of Eastern Europe: representations and absences Lela Rekhviashvili (Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography, Germany) F4. Nuclear Power Investments in Central and Eastern Europe: The Cases of Hungary and Romania Sergiu Novac (Independent Researcher, Romania) Moderator: Julia Langbein (Centre for East European and International Studies, ZOiS, Germany)	G1. Rent, wealth and worth: misconceptions from the middle-class Jana Tsoneva (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria) Veronika Stoyanova (University of Kent, UK) G2. The Political Economy of Bulgarian Post-socialist Authoritarianism Georgi Medarov (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria) G3. Victims of Communism and the “So Called” People’s Court: Anticommunist Hegemony and Rehabilitation of Fascism in Bulgarian History Textbooks Bojin Traykov (Independent Researcher, Bulgaria) G4. De/re-industrialization, risk and the “ungratefulness” of work Dimitra Kofti (Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Greece)	H1. Honour the asparagus! : Romanian Agricultural Labour in Germany during the COVID-19 Season Manuela Boatca (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany) H2. Social citizenship, fraud and the neoliberal subject: Bulgarian Muslim and Roma migrants and their relations with the state Neda Deneva (Babeș Bolyai University, Romania) H3. Migration infrastructures. The role of recruitment agencies in the European Union Andrea Abbati (University of Urbino, Italy) Claudio Morrison (Middlesex University, UK) Devi Sacchetto (University of Padova, Italy) H4. “The most hardworking people in the world”: exploring Romanian labour migration through the value of being ‘hardworking’ Ana-Maria Cîrstea (Durham University, UK) H5. A CEE of change: effects of technological change on CEE agricultural labor migrants in the Netherlands Andreea Ferenț (Babeș-Bolyai University, Romania) Tyler Williams (International Institute of Social Studies ISS, the Hague, Netherlands) Moderator: István Horváth (Babeș-Bolyai University, Romania)
FRIDAY 21 MAY, 2021	DAY 2
10 -12 Bucharest time zone	Panel i – Labor Markets Reforms and Unions in Central and Eastern Europe	Panel J - Focus Hungary: Collapsing Solidarity	Panel K – Capitalist Transformations and Racialized Inequalities	Panel L - Case studies from Central and Eastern Europe
	i1. Power resources and trade union actions to combat precarious work in Central and Eastern Europe Aurora Trif (Dublin City University, Ireland) Valentina Paolucci (University College Dublin, Ireland) i2. The European minimum wage between workers' solidarity and national interests Ruxandra Ivan (University of Bucharest, Romania) i3. The Consequences of the Decline of Neo-Corporatist Coordination in Slovenia Gorazd Kovačič (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia) i4. Why trade unions were not able to become engines of a Polányian countermovement in post-socialist Hungary? András Tóth-Eszter Bartha (Magyar Tudományos Akadémia, Hungary)	J1. Producing the nation through philanthropy: Legitimizing co-ethnic and pro refugee civic action in Hungary Margit Feischmidt (Research Centre for Social Sciences, Budapest, Hungary) Ildikó Zakariás (Research Centre for Social Sciences, Budapest, Hungary) J2. The emergence of global historical political blocks and migration Melegh, Attila (Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary) J3. Innovation in Capitalist Varietals Crosby, Michelle Orel (Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary) J4. “We Will Not Become Colonies”: Global History and the Semiperipheral Colonial Discourse of the Hungarian Authoritarian Turn Zoltán Ginelli (Independent Researcher, Hungary) Conveners: Karl Polanyi Research Centre for Global Social Studies	K1. Waste in the City: Racialized Inequalities of Solid Waste Management in Central and Eastern Europe Joanna Kostka (Lancaster University, UK) Jekatyerina Dunajeva (Pazmany Peter Catholic University, Hungary) K2. Between expulsions and political containment: The (un)stable spatialization of Roma poverty in Romania Filip Alexandrescu (ICCV, Romania) Anghel Ionuț-Marian (ICCV, Romania) K3. Informal and cooperative housing as forms of resistance Catalin Berescu (ICCV, Romanian) K4. Discoursive Power to Represent the Roma. Media Coverage and Independent Approaches of the 2008-2009 Roma Serial Killings in Hungary Zsusza Plainer (ISPMN, Romania)	L1. Constructing Utopia in the Carpathian Basin: A Semi-periphery Nationalist-Populist Imaginary Robert Imre (Tampere University, Finland) Attila Kustán Magyari (Tampere University, Finland) L2. State-led Cultural Production in Post-Socialist Hungary – The Case of the Hungarian Academy of Arts Kristóf Nagy (Central European University, Austria) L3. Infrastructuring Raspberries: Agronomists, Cold Chains and the Socialist Base of the ‘Red Gold of Serbia’ Andre Thiemann (Riga Stradins University, Latvia) L4. The LEADER rural development program – an exercise in reassembling territorial fragmentation under capitalist uneven development George Iulian Zamfir (Babeș-Bolyai University, Romania)
12-14 Bucharest time zone	Panel M – The Decline of Leftist Politics: Populist Industrial and Welfare Policies	Panel N – Economic growth and Debt in Central and Eastern Europe	Panel O - Uneven Urban Development, Subordinated Housing Financialization and Racialized Inequalities in The European Semi-Peripheries	Panel P - Work Relations and Gendered Division of Labour in Central and Eastern Europe
	M1. Thinking big or small: Populist parties, producer groups and SME upgrading in Poland and Hungary Edgars Eihmanis (European University Institute, Italy) Marek Naczyk (University of Oxford, UK) M2. Ghosts of Empire. The revival of the “natural order” and the extirpation of democracy Francesca Coin (Lancaster University, UK) M3. Welfare for the wealthy? Family policy change since the global crisis in Central and Eastern Europe Dorottya Szikra (CEU, Austria) Cristina Raț (Babeș-Bolay University, Romania) M4. Rise of the Authoritarian Post-Neoliberalism in Poland Ümit Akcay (Berlin School of Economics and Law, Germany)	N1. The FDI-led Growth Models of the East-Central and South-Eastern European Periphery Cornel Ban (Copenhagen Business School, Denmark) N2. The rise of the consolidation state: the case of Slovenia Marko Hočevar (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia) N3. Understanding (dis)integration: lessons from the Yugoslav debt crisis Ana Podvršič (University of Graz, Austria) N4. Debt pathways: an anthropological perspective on housing debt in Croatia Marek Mikuš (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Germany) Moderator: Dana Domșodi (Babeș-Bolyai University, Romania)	O1. Dependent housing financialization in Hungary through the case of household debt Zsuzsanna Pósfai, (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) Márton Czirfusz (Periféria Policy and Research Center, Budapest, Hungary) O2. Racialized housing unevenness and capital accumulation through real estate development. A case from Cluj-Napoca Enikő Vincze (Babeș-Bolyai University) George Zamfir (Babeș-Bolyai University) O3. Invisible tensions: specifics of FX housing loans in Romania in the context of housing financialization Ioana Florea (Frontul Comun pentru Dreptul la Locuire, Romania) Mihail Dumitriu (Frontul Comun pentru Dreptul la Locuire, Romania) O4. Eviction infrastructure in Serbia: coronavirus, infra-protecting and criminalisation of solidarity Ana Vilenica (independent researcher, Belgrade/Pančevo, Serbia) Vladimir Mentus (Institute of Social Science, Belgrade, Serbia) Conveners: Eniko Vinze (Babeș-Bolyai University, Romania) Michele Lancione (The University of Sheffield, UK)	P1. "The “whole house” in the factory and on the field: gender and generation inequalities in a Macedonian town" Miladina Monova (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences) P2. In the name of sexual emancipation: pressures of openness on women in the semi-periphery Ráhel Katalin Turai (CEU, Austria) P3. Engineering Succession: Mediated Relational Work of Arranging Wealth Transfers Among Poland's First Generation Capitalists Mateusz Halawa (Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland) Feliks Tuszko (Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland) P4. From text to film: narratives of Ukrainian solo female migrants in Italy Olena Fedyuk (University of Padua, Italy) Moderator: Mariya Ivancheva (University of Liverpool, Uk) Film screening: The panel will be followed by a film screening of the anthropological documentary Olha’s Italian Diary + Q&A with director Olena Fedyuk Moderator: Csilla Kató (Astra Film Fest, Sibiu, Romania)
14-16 Bucharest time zone	Break
16-18 Bucharest time zone	Panel Q - (Book symposium) From the crisis of liberalism to the rise of illiberalism in Hungary: Perspectives from political economy		Panel R - (Roundtable Discussion) Capitalist transformations and emerging food movements in Central and Eastern Europe
	Conveners: Gábor Scheiring (Bocconi University, Milan, Italy) Kristóf Szombati (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle - Saale, Germany) Moderator: Don Kalb (University of Bergen, Norway) Participants: Q1. Book: The Rise of Hungarian Populism: State Autocracy and the Orbán Regime (Emerald Publishing, Bingley, 2019) Attila Antal (Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary) Q2. Book: The Retreat of Liberal Democracy: Authoritarian Capitalism and the Accumulative State in Hungary (Forthcoming, Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2020). Gábor Scheiring (Bocconi University, Milan, Italy) Q3. Book: The Revolt of The Provinces: Anti-Gypsyism and Right-Wing Politics in Hungary (New York, Berghahn, 2018). Kristof Szombati (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle - Saale, Germany) Q4. Book: Movement of the People: Hungarian Folk Dance, Populism and Citizenship. (Indiana University Press, Bloomington, October 2021) Mary N. Taylor (City University of New York, US)		Convener: Christina Plank (University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria) Participants: Christina Plank (University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria) Natalia Mamonova (Swedish Institute of International Politics, Sweden) Irina Velicu (University of Coimbra, Portugal) Hestia Delibaș (University of Coimbra, Portugal)
18-20 Bucharest time zone	KEYNOTE LECTURE: Costas Lapavitsas – (SOAS University of London, UK) Subordinate Financialisation: Its Relevance for Central and Eastern Europe Discussants: Cornel Ban (Copenhagen Business School, Denmark) & Veronica Lazăr (Institute for Social Solidarity, Romania)
SATURDAY 22 MAY, 2021	DAY 3
10-12 Bucharest time zone	Panel S - The Afterlife of Nature Extraction Structures Following 1989 in Romania	Panel T - Institutionalizing Anticommunism. Representations of Capitalism in Romanian Film and Literature	Panel U – Creative industries and the Capitalist Commodification of Art	Panel V - Case Studies from Romana: Inequalities and Uneven Development
	S1. The “glorious”, communist past and the “green”, ecologic present: Anthropological perspectives over the Danube Delta fishing communities and their natural resource management Oana Ivan (Babeș-Bolyai University, Romania) S2. Forest change and timber flow in the infrastructural space of late capitalism. A case study ofthe Viseu River Valley in Maramures, Romania Iulia Hurducaș (Sheffield School of Architecture, UK) S3. Carpathian forest frontiers: households and fiefdoms, regional comparisons Monica Vasile (Maastricht University, Netherlands) S4. Barren fields of corn and wheat: On the ruination of the medicinal plant research and industry after 1989 in Romania Ágota Ábrán (History and Art Museum, Zalău, Romania) Conveners: Ágota Ábrán (History and Art Museum, Zalău, Romania) Andrei-Sorin Herța (History and Art Museum, Zalău, Romania)	T1. Anticommunist Anticapitalism: The `Good Capitalism` in Romanian Post-Communist Poetry Ștefan Baghiu (Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Romania) T2. Anticommunism was not enough. The Bankruptcy of Romanian Film Industry of the 1990s Claudiu Turcuș (Babeș-Bolyai University, Romania) T3. Deetatization of Culture, Privatization of Politics. The Case of the Publishing Houses in Post-Communist Romania Adriana Stan (Babeș-Bolyai University, Romania) Cosmin Borza (Sextil Puscariu Istitute of Linguistics and Literary History, Romania) T4. Anti-capitalism in Stalinist Films: What happens when `Gender` and `Communist Bodies` are at odds? Bogdan Popa (Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain) Conveners: Claudiu Turcuș, (Babeș-Bolyai University, Romania) Camil Ungureanu (Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain)	U1. Creative cities: commodification of art and cultural gentrification at the periphery of European capitalism Miki Braniște (Babeș-Bolay University, Romania) U2. Locality, Solidarity, Knowledge in the Freelance Virtual Community: the Case of Translators in Poland Kateryna Novikova (Expert at GUS - Statistics Poland) U3. Work, Pleasure and Pop-Culture: negations, interrelations and “bricolage” in Rompop Mihai Lukacs (Institute for Social Solidarity, Romania) U4. Identity Crisis and the Right in Liberal-Age Romanian Theatre Lucian Țion (University of Singapore, Singapore) Moderator: Oana Mateescu (University of Bergen, Norway)	V1. How a poor country becomes rich? Is “good governance” and in particular fighting corruption the pre-requisite for economic growth and welfare? Why anti-corruption policies failed to deliver? The Romanian case. Daniela Ionescu (University of Birmingham, UK) V2. Attitudes to social inequality, subjective social status and psychological wellbeing – an analysis of the Romanian context based on survey data Sorana Constantinescu (Babeș-Bolyai University) Daniela Angi (Babeș-Bolyai University, Romania) Gabriel Bădescu (Babeș-Bolyai University, Romania) V3. Participatory budgeting in CEE Countries: lessons from Romania, Poland and the Czech Republic, plus Moldavia Adrian Dohotaru (Romania) V4. Marketing Religion and Nationalism in a Post-Socialist Environment: Romania's Family Referendum and the Emergence of a New “Anti-System” Party (AUR) Raluca Ana Alecu (National University of Political Science and Public Administration (SNSPA), Romania) Moderator: Camil Pârvu (University of Bucharest, Romania)
12 – 14 Bucharest time zone	KEYNOTE LECTURE: Jonathan Hopkin (London School of Economics, UK) Great Transformations in 21st Century European Periphery: The View from Southern Europe Discussants: Melegh, Attila (Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary & Dana Domșodi (Babeș-Bolyai University, Romania)
14-16 Bucharest time zone	Panel W - The Commodification of Labour and the Global Supply Chains in CEE countries	Panel X - Anthropological Perspectives on Capitalist Relations in Central and Eastern Europe	Panel Y - The Capitalism’s New Clothes: Critical Theories in Central and Eastern Europe	Panel Z - Neo-Liberal Subjectivities in Central and Eastern Europe: Genealogies of Appropriation and Forms of Resistances
	W1. From prefix capitalism to neoliberal economism: Russian automotive industry as a laboratory in capitalist realism Jeremy Morris (Aarhus University, Denmark) W2. The workplace effects of global supply chain dependence: Romania’s automobile industry Zoltan Mihaly (Babeș-Bolyai University, Romania) W3. Commodifying labour in Eastern Germany: the triumph of neoliberal morality Katerina Ivanova (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Germany) W4. Work and Livelihood in Corna, Roșia Montană Imola Püsök (University of Pécs, Hungary) Moderator: Irina Culic (Babeș-Bolyai University, Romania)	X1. “Rivers to the people”: energy transition, water grabbing and ecopopulist unrest in the Balkan Mountains Ivan Rajković (University of Vienna, Austria) X2. “It Belongs to Someone on Paper, But It’s Nobody’s”: Small Shareholding and Its Discontents in a Croatian Worker-Owned Company Ognjen Kojanic (Independent Scholar, US) X3. Citadel of Fire: Spatialization of time in the post-industrial city of Hunedoara, Romania Vlad Gheorghiu (University of Aberdeen, Scotland) X4. Elevating the Standing of Vocational Education and Training in Romania Maria Pantea, (Babeș-Bolyai University, Romania) Moderator: Natalia Buier (Madrid Institute for Advanced Study, Spain)	Y1. Is there a way forward with the critical theory? Lorin Ghiman (University of Art and Design, Cluj-Napoca, Romania) Y2. The poverty of capitalism. Philosophical critiques of capitalism in post-Communist Romania Ciprian Bogdan (Babeș-Bolyai University, Romania) Y3. “Now or Never!”: notes on the life and times of the Romanian middle-class subject Alexandru-Vasile Sava (Babeș-Bolyai University, Romania) Y4. Critical theory and the crisis of socio-ecological reproduction Attila Szigeti (iASK, Hungary; Babeș-Bolyai University, Romania) Y5. The Poignancy and Relevance of Critical Theory Here and Now Gaspar Miklos Tamas (CEU, Austria) Y6. From the Local Critique of Ideology to Thinking the Next Transition Ovidiu Țichindeleanu (Institute for Social Solidarity, Romania) Conveners: Ciprian Bogdan (Babeș-Bolyai University, Romania) Gaspar Miklos Tamas (Central European University, Austria)	Z1. Beyond neo-liberalism: what is above happiness and well-being? Elena Trifan (Institute for Social Solidarity, Romania) Z2. Struggles for Professionalization: the Case of Romanian Providers of Personal and Spiritual Development Services Anca Simionca (Babeș-Bolyai University, Romania) A3. Psychology, work and the new capitalist therapeutic cultures in contemporary Romania Sorin Gog (Babeș-Bolyai University, Romania) Z4. Healing Capitalism. Forms of spiritual connection and community at a New Age Festival Raluca Moșescu-Bumbac (SNSPA, Bucharest, Romania) Z5. Vernacular Resistance: anarchist praxis against capitalism and oppression in contemporary Romania Alex Boguș (Colectivul Autonom Acasa, Romania) Z6. Lifestyle migration in a Slovenian ecovillage: performing resistance in times of constant economic growth Petya V. Dimitrova (Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, Bulgaria) Conveners: Elena Trifan (Institute for Social Solidarity, Romania) Raluca Moșescu-Bumbac (SNSPA, Bucharest, Romania))