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ANTIDOXA_6 – Reading Group GMT



18th of march 023, 6 p.m
Address:tranzit. ro/Cluj,
Napoca str, no 16, 1st floor, Cluj Napoca

[The event is held in Hungarian]

On the 18th of March, we will discuss two sections of „Truth and Class”, entitled „People, estate and class” and „The truth about class, or class and truth”.

This time the discussion is led by Erőss Réka and Bíró Noémi.

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András Vigvári: Zártkert-Magyarország

Book Launch in Cluj Napoca /


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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ANTIDOXA_5 – Reading group GMT



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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Revisiting State Socialism (V)



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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Darwin Day 2024 – Citizen Science and Biodiversity



Monday, 12 February 2024, 6-8 p.m

tranzit. ro/Cluj,
Napoca str, no 16, 1st floor, Cluj Napoca

tranzit.ro/Cluj invites you to Darwin Day 2024 – Citizen Science and Biodiversity, the first event of a program series developed in partnership with NECC - Nature Education Community Center, hypha_etc [education, theory, culture], Milvus Group and the Hungarian Department of Biology and Ecology, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj.

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POLYCRISES ACROSS DIVIDE

Open call for participation /


Open call for participation
1st of February - 1st of April 2024

Historical Materialism Cluj/Kolozsvár 2024

The first edition of Historical Materialism Cluj/Kolozsvár will take place between August 29-31, 2024, in Cluj-Napoca:
https://hmcluj2024.conference.ubbcluj.ro/

The conference is organized by the Babeș-Bolyai University in partnership with Historical Materialism: Research in Critical Marxist Theory and tranzit.ro/Cluj.

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Revisiting State Socialism (IV)



Friday, December 15, 2023, 6:00 p.m

"Lucian Blaga" University Library from Sibiu/ Str. Lucian Blaga, no. 2A

tranzit. ro/Cluj in partnership with UBB Cluj-Napoca and "Lucian Blaga" University Library from Sibiu invites you to a lecture and discussion within the project "Philosophy in Late Socialist Europe: Theoretical Practices in the Face of Polycrisis" on the topic of the polycrisis of the 1970s -1980 with the title

„Varieties of Polycrisis: Escalations, Doomsdays and Historical History from the Long 1970s to Today”.

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Situations and commitments



Specific Aspects of the Pedagogical Turn of the 1970s in Hungary / The work of Péter Forgács, István Sinkó & István Rév and the educational films of the Balázs Béla Studio


08 December 2023-14 January 2024
Opening: 7th of December 23, 7pm.

Curator: Virag Lődi

The exhibition focuses on specific creative engagements within public education by intellectuals of the late Kádár-era in Hungary, introducing democratic and critical attitudes and methods. The exploration of media artist Péter Forgács's complex experiment in aesthetic education between 1974 and 78 constitutes the axis of the exhibited material, but another semi-illegal school workshop led by economic historian István Rév and painter István Sinkó is also evoked. The political and social contexts of these pedagogical experiments are given more depth by the inclusion of a series of educational films made at the time in the Balázs Béla Studio, also highlighting the importance and educational aspects of the studio’s social film distribution program. The exhibition treats the above cultural practices within the intersection of pedagogy and art.

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REVISITING STATE SOCIALISM (II)



tranzit.ro/Cluj in partnership with UBB Cluj-Napoca on 16th November, 18:00, organized a lecture and discussion within the project "Philosophy in Late Socialist Europe: Theoretical Practices in the Face of Polycrisis" on the Romanian novel in late communism and early capitalism with the title "Communist Anticommunism: the Realist Novel in Late Communist Romania and the Transition to Capitalist Realism".

The guests of this edition were Ștefan Baghiu and Mihai Iovănel. The meeting was held in Romanian and was moderated by Alex Cistelecan.

Online event

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ANTIDOXA_4 – Reading group GMT



Monday, 6th of November 2023, 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.

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Revisiting State Socialism (I)



A new series of conferences at tranzit.ro/Cluj partnered by Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj under the PNRR project Philosophy in Late Socialist Europe: Theoretical Practices in the Face of Polycrisis.

Thursday, October 26th, 2023, 6 p.m

Address: tranzit.ro/Cluj
Street.Napoca no 16, 1st floor, Cluj-Napoca

Jan Mervart, "Genealogy of Czechoslovak Stalinism"

Czechoslovak Stalinism represents a unique case within the countries of East Central Europe, because of its long duration based on the continuous legality of the Czechoslovak Communist Party. The author's focus is primarily on capturing the genealogy of Stalinism as a Gesamtkunstwerk based on the interconnectedness of individual conceptualizations, representations, and modes of communication. In doing so, he considers the central logos of Stalinism to be the dynamic that emerged from the tension between the constant fluidity of Stalinist policy and strategy, and the desire to formulate a unity of basic premises and binding rules.

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What fits into the Infinite Jest?

Conversation with Lili Kemény, writer, one of the translators of The Infinite Jest /


Moderated by Zsuzsa Selyem, writer, Associate Professor at UBB Cluj, Faculty of Letters.

Wednesday, 25.10.2023, 7 p.m.
Address: tranzit.ro/Cluj,
Napoca str, no 16, 1st floor, Cluj-Napoca

Even if it was written long time ago, David Foster Wallace's cult novel is about the now: the spectacle of politics, the destructive effects of competition, addictions, deadly entertainment, and everything that distracts us from reality. Radical realism is what the après-garde filmmaker of the roman calls a style with no silent extras: everyone's voice is heard.

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POLYCRISES ACROSS DIVIDE

Open call for participation /

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