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On 15 March, at 19:00, the sixth edition of the project "Revisiting State Socialism" took place with the title "Dance music as a metaphor for socialist acceleration in Romania in the 60s and 80s". The guests were Paul Breazu and Mihai Lukács, and the meeting was moderated by Ștefan Baghiu.
Socialist time was perceived in the late 1960s as accelerated, no longer corresponding to a linear flow, the sound of factory production being associated with new music that was beginning to incorporate electronic sound. In the following decades, Romanian pop, light and electronic music grew in parallel with the new industrialization and development at speed, becoming a soundtrack of the new material conditions of late socialism. Romanian pop ("light") music branched out in new directions in the early 1970s, and its social character gained momentum for creators and the general public. Composer and music historian Laurențiu Profeta noted in 1976 the emergence of militant light music songs in the later years, many of which became slams, reaching a much wider audience. Seen as a result of the party's ideological programme, which left no artistic sector untouched, social-political light music songs became imposed themselves authoritatively. Socialism was not just an economic project, but a complex that encompassed political, social, cultural and artistic dimensions, so the systemic projection onto a pop sub-genre like dance music was not left to chance.
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CALL for APPLICATIONS now open until April 12 / hu /
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CALL for APPLICATIONS now open until April 12 / ro /
The Fellowships for Curators and Artists at the International Summer Academy of Fine Arts in Salzburg are part of ERSTE Foundation’s educational program and its long-term endeavour to support and strengthen contemporary art especially in the region of Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe. The fellowship program is realized together with ERSTE Foundation’s long-time cooperation partners from tranzit, Igor Zabel Association and Kontakt Collection. Kontakt Collection collaborates with the Zagreb based WHW Akademija.
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CALL for APPLICATIONS now open until April 12 / sk /
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ro /
CALL for PARTICIPATION
open until the 30th of June 2024.
The summer school take place in the period:
29 July - 4 August 2024
hypha_etc, Câmpu Cetății, Mures county
The Green Line Summer School is aimed at students interested in the video essay as a form of argumentation and communication on the one hand, and the green transition as a subject on the other. The school is open to students regardless of field of study and previous experience.
We expect students from both STEM and socio-humanities backgrounds, as well as high school seniors, to attend the school. There is no registration fee. We offer free accommodation in 4-6 bedded rooms, up to a maximum of 24 beds, plus free camping space. Travel expenses (train or bus) can be covered up to 130 RON.
Those wishing to participate are asked to send a letter of motivation by 30 June to telefonulfarafir2023@gmail.com.
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Book Launch in Cluj Napoca / ro /
Thursday, 29th of February, 6 p.m.
Address: tranzit.ro/Cluj, Napoca str, no 16, 1st floor, Cluj Napoca
How do people address the housing crisis? András Vigvári's book deals with the grassroots responses to the housing crisis in Central and Eastern Europe, focusing on the settlement of suburban private agricultural areas. The book presents an ethnographic study of the settlement of a suburban garden area on the outskirts of a town near Budapest, once an agricultural and weekend housing area, and discusses the results of the fieldwork as part of global social and housing processes.
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Lectures, discussion forums, screenings / sk /
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Online talk by Sophie Lewis, moderated by Hana Janečková / sk /
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26th of February2024, 6 p.m
Address:tranzit. ro/Cluj,
Napoca str, no 16, 1st floor, Cluj Napoca
[The event is held in Hungarian]
„The desirable goal of politics can be defined in philosophical terms by reflecting on what is Evil, the root cause of human suffering.” (New Eastern European Left)
„Hippies, punks, antifas.
Feather merchants and shirkers.
Niggers. Lesbians. Anarchists. Jewish commies.”
(Dawn contemplation on communism and more)
There are many opinions about the thinking of Gáspár Miklós Tamás. Is there a political truth to be gleaned from his writings that goes beyond opinions? Once a month, we read a text from Gáspár Miklós Tamás' book „Antitézis” together, interpret it, discuss and debate it.
On the 26th of February, we will discuss a section of the text „Truth and Class”, entitled „Two kinds of socialism.”
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Brave New Worlds? / hu /
This year, in the second edition of the Survival Strategies seminar series, participants can take part in ‘thought experiments’ that go beyond our current world and they can create together in workshops led by contemporary artists.
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February 22th in Bucharest, 7 p.m
Grădina ArtHub,
General Constantin Budișteanu Street, no 10
We invite you to join our series of conferences by tranzit.ro/Cluj and Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj under the PNRR project Philosophy in Late Socialist Europe: Theoretical Practices in the Face of Polycrisis.
Our Bucharest meeting is moderated by Adela Hîncu.
Our podcast series here:
https://soundcloud.com/rev-state-socialism
Our HMCluj 2024 conference here:
https://hmcluj2024.conference.ubbcluj.ro/
Socialism, Alternative Globalization, and Human Rights
talk by Raluca Grosescu & Bogdan Iacob
State socialism had a crucial role in post-war globalization and the subsequent crafting of international law. During the Cold War, Eastern Europe produced trans-regional circulations, epistemic networks, and institutional projects alternative to but interconnected with those generated in the West. Decolonization was the catalyst for socialist globalism in international organizations, at the level of inter-governmental relations and in terms of reconceptualizing norms and hierarchies.
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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION now open until 1st of June / ro /
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The third edition of the Prague-based international exhibition organised by tranzit.cz / cz /
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