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Roma Feminist Practice: An annotated interview with Giuvlipen theatre artists Arhanghela, Mihaela Drăgan, Nicoleta Ghiță, and Zita Moldovan

Autor: Ilinca Tamara Todoruț
Email: ilinca.todorut@ubbcluj.ro

Abstract: Giuvlipen is the first Roma feminist theater group and multidisciplinary collective in Romania, where the institution of Roma slavery lasted almost 500 years. The discussion among its two founding members (Mihaela Drăgan and Zita Moldovan) and two collaborators (Arhanghela and Nicoleta Ghiță) lays out the historical and present context of racism, persecution, and discrimination, as well as Giuvlipen’s rationale for its Roma feminist approach inclusive of a variety of women. They explain how Giuvlipen employs an aesthetic of empathic dramaturgy, joyful music, and bold fashion as a tactic that reclaims their heritage to contest the present and reimagine the future. Giuvlipen’s Roma feminist theatre references feminist, queer, and BIPOC standpoints and artistic practices, adapts these international critical discourses and practices to resonate with the Roma context, and pioneers a unique type of intersectional feminist art.

Keywords: intersectionality, feminism, Roma theatre, Roma feminism, Giuvlipen.

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Iftene, Daniel. “National Minorities in the Contemporary Romanian Cinema: From Cheap Exotism to Self-Representation.” Transilvania, no. 9 (2024): 43–53.

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Oprea, Alexandra. “Re-envisioning Social Justice from the Ground Up: Including the Experiences of Romani Women.” Essex Human Rights Review 1, no. 1 (2004): 33–39.

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Protestele fermierilor în mass-media mainstream din România: teme, narațiuni și încadrari predominante

Autor: Minodora Sălcudean
Email: minodora.salcudean@ulbsibiu.ro

Farmers’ Protests in the Romanian Mainstream Media: Predominant Themes, Narratives and Framings 

Abstract: This article analyses how a significant part of the mainstream press in Romania framed the farmers’ protests in January 2024. A complex social phenomenon, with a tradition in Western European countries, especially in France, this transnational revolt movement attracts the attention of journalists only during the actual duration of the street events. The study aims to identify and correlate the preferred framing angles in the mainstream media, to highlight recurring themes, narratives and predominant patterns in the journalistic practice of covering the protests. The questions that formed the basis of the research are the following, namely: 1. How does the mainstream media in Romania frame the farmers’ protests? 2. What are the dominant themes and narratives and how are they correlated with certain ideological frames? 3. Is there an interest in the mainstream media for the intersectional approach of social and environmental justice issues, in the context of the farmers’ protests? The exploratory research was conducted manually on a corpus of 189 journalistic materials, predominantly news, collected from the news sites that covered the most, in quantitative terms, the farmers’ protests of January 2024.

Keywords: farmers, protests, mainstream media framing, themes, narratives, agribashing

Acknowledgement: Acest articol a fost realizat în cadrul proiectului de cercetare ECOJUST- Doing Environmental InJustice: A Theory in Praxis (ECOJUST). Contract de finanțare nr 760077/23.05.2023, cod CF 133/15.11.2022. [This project has received funding from the PNRR funds under the Grant agreement number 760077/23.05.2023, CF 133/15.11.2022].

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Elipsa temporală – între ideologie și auto-reflecție

Autor: Cecilia Ștefănescu
Email: cecilia.stefanescu@ubbcluj.ro

Temporal Ellipsis – Between Ideology and Self-Reflection

Abstract: This article explores the multifaceted relationship between cinema and time, examining how film both reflects and constructs temporal experience. Drawing on theoretical frameworks from Gilles Deleuze, Andrei Tarkovsky, and others, it distinguishes between operational time (linked to narrative chronology and ideology) and non-operational time (characterized by subjectivity, elision, and perception). Early cinema’s reliance on linear storytelling and montage served ideological ends, compressing time into a coherent sequence of events. In contrast, modern and post-war auteurs—such as Antonioni, Tati, Ozu, and Dumont—use time as a medium of introspection and existential presence, where duration, elision, and character perception redefine narrative flow. The article argues that cinema’s unique power lies in its capacity to render time palpable—through rhythm, framing, and absence—and to reveal truth not through representation, but through the lived temporality of characters and spectators alike. Ultimately, it questions how different cinematic approaches to time either serve ideology or liberate the viewer into reflection, positioning the image not merely as movement, but as thought.

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Educația ateistă și filmul de popularizare a științei în România socialistă (I): evoluția aparatului de propagandă științifică

Autor: Ana Szel
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Atheist education and popular science film in socialist Romania (I):

The Evolution of the scientific propaganda apparatus

 

Abstract: The present research aims to analyze the cinematographic production of science popularization from the perspective of its belonging to a broader configuration of practices and manifestations initiated and controlled by the propaganda apparatus. Drawing on archival documents, the article reconstructs the activities and operating principles of the Society for the Dissemination of Science and Culture, which until the 1960s was the main institution mandated by the state to popularize scientific knowledge and materialist-dialectical beliefs on a large scale, and whose infrastructure, thematic grid, and dissemination circuits circumscribe and prefigure the evolution of science popularization cinema. The transcripts of the meetings of the various sections of the SDSC or the Central Committee, the instructions, reports and field briefings that will be analyzed in this article, reflect the decision-making processes and internal resorts of the propaganda structures, but also the atmosphere on the ground and the measures mobilized by the bodies responsible for scientific education of the masses in general and the atheist issue in particular.

Keywords: popular science film, socialist useful cinema, atheist education

Acknowledgement: Această lucrare a fost susținută de proiectul „Philosophy in Late Socialist Europe: Theoretical Practices in the Face of Polycrisis” finanțat de Uniunea Europeană – NextgenerationEU și Guvernul României, în cadrul Planului Național de Redresare și Reziliență pentru România, contract nr. 760044//23.05.2023, cod PNRR-C9-I8-CF104/15.11.2022, prin Ministerul Cercetării, Inovării și Digitalizării, în cadrul Componentei 9, Investiția I8.

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Insuportabila istoricizare a lumii. REVIEW: Veronica Lazăr, Luminile revoluționează istoria: istoria filosofică franceză între critică și teologie, volumul I: Erudiții și teologii

Autor: Radu-Cristian Andreescu
Email: radu.andreescu@ubbcluj.ro

Abstract: This article reviews Veronica Lazăr’s recently published work, The Érudits and the Theologians (The Enlightenment Revolutionizes History, volume 1) in order to show that the book provides illuminating answers to at least two types of questions that concern both the scholarly approaches to the Enlightenment and the modern Western thought. First: in what ways and by what means is the discourse on history transformed so that the world is regarded as historical during the Enlightenment, without necessarily being subordinated to some supra-historical or theological essences? Which domains of life and society, such as morality, religion, art, law, or science, are affected most deeply and most rapidly by this particular process of historicization? Second: what if the sacred history is in fact earthly history and what do post-Reformation theologians have to say? How does the Church tackle the historicization of the sacred stories, the historical critique of the Holy Books and the modernization of the world? How can it adapt to the phenomenon that Veronica Lazăr describes as the “historicizing flow”, which inevitably entails the danger of relativism and the skepticism about the eternal and immutable truth of religion?

Keywords: Enlightenment, history, theology, 17th century, 18th century, French Revolution

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What I Learned from Andrei Gorzo: A Brief Commentary

Autor: Christene d’Anca
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Abstract: Andrei Gorzo, a leading Romanian film critic and academic, has long been known for his insightful analysis of cinema and literature, often interweaving personal history into his work. His latest book, Ce am învățat de la Graham Greene: O istorie de familie (What I Learned from Graham Greene: A Family History), diverges from expectations by blending memoir, literary criticism, and historical reflection. This paper explores how Gorzo’s engagement with Greene’s works, both as a reader and as a translator, shaped his approach to storytelling and analysis. Further, it examines Gorzo’s distinctive narrative techniques, such as his use of abrupt shifts, associative storytelling, and reflective interjections, which mirror Greene’s themes and style. Ultimately, the book navigates Gorzo’s family history, particularly his father’s entanglement in Romania’s communist and post-communist realities, through the moral and ideological lenses found in Greene’s fiction. By drawing parallels between Greene’s depictions of secrecy, betrayal, and survival and his own lived experiences, Gorzo constructs a deeply personal yet universally resonant narrative. Thus, Gorzo’s Ce am învățat de la Graham Greene is a memoir on the intellectual and emotional engagement with literature’s power to shape identity and understanding, through which Gorzo not only pays tribute to Greene but also crafts a poignant exploration of memory, history, and the role of storytelling in making sense of the past.

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The Contemporary Economic Novel: Hernan Díaz’s Trust

Autor: László B. Sári
Email: sari.laszlo@pte.hu

Abstract: Recent American fiction has seen a resurgence of historical topics, and significant attempts have been made to revisit moments perceived as defining an epoch in American history. The revitalized interest in history in the mainstream of contemporary American fiction can be described as reckoning with and commemorating traumas in the distant and the recent past, as historicist engagements with trying to locate possible pockets of personal experience against the grain of historical grand narratives, as engagements with a neoliberal reorganization of the economy and personal relations, of urban lifestyles and politics, or of the visual, popular and political media. This turn to history runs parallel to what is described as “the genre turn,” and the text of Hernan Díaz’s Pulitzer Prize-winning second novel of 2022, Trust demonstrates the dynamics of this turn to history in, and the influence of genre on, contemporary American literary fiction in the context Mark McGurl described as “the age of Amazon.” Accordingly, the paper argues that (1) Trust revisits the psychological dimensions of a subgenre of economic fiction, “the success story,” (2) it dramatizes the literary-genre divide within its narrative structure, (3) it provides insight into the understanding of the personal and the public in what is represented as an emerging neoliberal economic context in the time frame of the narrative, and (4) it does so by considering the economic novel and its entanglement in the history of gender relations and economic agency.

 Keywords: economic novel, the age of Amazon, genre and literary fiction, economic agency and gender, genres of the personal.

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Writing Queer Eastern European Worlds: Queer-feminist Literary and Activist Practices in Romania

Autor: Nóra Ugron
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Abstract: In this paper, I analyse the practices and writings of the queer-feminist literary circle Cenaclul X from Romania, arguing that they enact imaginations of possible transformative queer Eastern European worlds. In order to analyze these, I look at how hegemonic ideas of Eastern Europe were constructed by West(ern Europe) and trace possible directions to unsettle these imaginaries in literary-activist practices. I borrow the idea ‘queer as corrupt’ to present an Eastern European corrupt a/temporality that disturbs the hegemony of modern-colonial Time on imaginaries of Eastern Europe, and to present a corrupted version of Eastern European queerness, one that is not feeding into liberal respectability politics. To exemplify these, the paper engages in theory driven close reading on several fragments from the first two literary anthologies published by Cenaclul X: Adăposturi. Antologie queer [Shelters. Queer anthology, 2021] and Luminișuri. Antologie de literatură queer ecologică [Meadows/Clearings. Queer ecological anthology, 2022].

Keywords: Eastern Europe, queer-feminist activism, decolonial thought, post-socialism, queer literature, feminist literature

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Totul poate fi remixat: combinatorica textelor theory-fiction

Autor: Mihai Țapu
Email: mihai.tapu@ubbcluj.ro

Everything Can Be Remixed: The Combinatorics of Theory-fiction Texts

Abstract: This article explores the conceptual, thematic, and stylistic specificities of theory-fiction, a genre prominent in the 1990s that blends fiction with theory and philosophy to challenge traditional textual taxonomies. Focusing on the works of the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit (CCRU), a group of renegade academics from Warwick, the analysis highlights four key cultural influences: post-structuralist critiques of representation (Deleuze, Lyotard), cybernetics, William S. Burroughs’ cut-up technique, and jungle music. The article examines how these elements converge in theory-fiction to destabilize conventional narratives and create hybrid texts that resist categorization. Through a close reading of Nick Land’s works and CCRU’s collective writings, the article identifies recurring themes such as non-linear temporality, anti-humanism, and the critique of Kantian subjectivity. The final section contextualizes theory-fiction within the socio-cultural landscape of 1990s Britain, linking its emergence to the neoliberal academic environment and the broader ideological climate marked by Francis Fukuyama’s “end of history” thesis. Ultimately, this article argues that theory-fiction represents an attempt to disrupt the status quo and imagine alternatives to capitalist realism, blending experimental techniques with interdisciplinary conceptual frameworks.

Keywords: theory-fiction, CCRU, Nick Land, representation, cybernetics, jungle music, William S. Burroughs

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Gulliver’s Adventures on the Romanian Children’s Literature Shelf

Autor: Amelia Precup
Email: amelia.precup@ubbcluj.ro

Abstract: This paper complements previous research on the impact of Jonathan Swift’s work on the Romanian literary culture (Bogdan, 1958; Mudure, 2005). It documents and analyses the transition of Gulliver’s Travels to the Romanian children’s literature shelf by looking into the translations, translated adaptations, Romanian adaptations, rewritings, and sequels, published over the twentieth century. The results reveal that the best translations, rewritings, and adaptations were published in the decades following WWII, while the last decade of the century is marked by little to no editorial attention to the versions of the Swiftian novel that were published as children’s literature. 

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