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| 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) |
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| 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) | | | 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) |
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| | | 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) | |
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| 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) |
| 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)
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| 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) | | |
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)
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| | | 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)) |