Zero Point Summer School – Turning points, spaces and utopias
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6-11th of August 2023,
Vármező/Câmpu Cetăţii, Mureş county, Romania
How do we imagine the collapse of our familiar world, the zero-point of social and personal life? What do we think about the built environment and power systems that seem unbreakable? What learned and inherited stereotypes is our social and creative imagination captive to? The idea for the Zero Point Summer School was born out of a critique of two radical endpoints - apathy and blind trust - with the stated ambition that participants in the program would formulate new responses, or even utopias, by examining the built environment and urban planning practices in the context of social crisis situations.
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“Telephone: Communication Technology & Communicating Technology” – Summer School
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
14-20th of September 2023
Câmpu Cetăţii, Mureş County
The school is intended for a mixed group of students from both STEM fields and the humanities who share an interest in the critical study of technology and in understanding how technology works. Our goal is to bring together different perspectives from these two spheres of intellectual life, usually separated by an artificial divide, viewing the technology through a philosophical, social, and cultural lens while maintaining a rigorous understanding of its workings.
To sign up, please send your letter of intent to telefonulfarafir@gmail.com until the 14th of August.
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ANTIDOXA_3 – Reading Group GMT
Friday, 7th of July, 2023, 6 pm.
tranzit.ro/Cluj, Napoca str, no 16, 1st floor, Cluj Napoca
On the third edition of ANTIDOXA, where each month we read a text from Gáspár Miklós Tamás’ book “Antitézis” together, we discussed the text “Postfascism, postscript: preliminary theses for a system of fear”. This time the discussion was led by Botond Szilágyi. The language of these events is Hungarian.
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GMT / The Other Pole / The End of the World I.
– Book Release /
14.06.2023, 6 pm.
tranzit.ro/Cluj, Napoca str, no 16, 1st floor, Cluj Napoca
tranzit.ro/Cluj is organizing a roundtable discussion on the occasion of the release of two new collected volumes by Gáspár Miklós Tamás. The books are published by Kijárat and Kalligram, and edited by Balázs Sipos.
Roundtable participants:
Árpád Kulcsár, bycicle messenger;
Boróka Parászka, journalist, Radio Târgu Mureş, HVG;
Attila Szigeti, philosopher, Hungarian Institute of Philosophy, UBB;
Botond Szilágyi, doctoral candidate, Hungarian Institute of Philosophy, UBB.
Moderator: Balázs Sipos, scholar, translator.
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ANTIDOXA_2 – Reading group GMT
09.06.2023, 6 pm.
tranzit.ro/Cluj, Napoca str, no 16, 1st floor, Cluj Napoca
On the second edition of ANTIDOXA, where each month we read a text from Gáspár Miklós Tamás’ book “Antitézis” together, we discussed the text “Dawn contemplation on communism and more”. This time the discussion was led by András Borbély. The language of these events is Hungarian.
The reading circle is a collaboration between tranzit.ro/Cluj, ujszem.org and Critical Theory and Multicultural Studies Master’s Program (UBB).
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ANTIDOXA 1– Reading group GMT
5th May 2023, 6 pm.
tranzit.ro/Cluj, Napoca,
str, no 16, 1st floor, Cluj Napoca
"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)
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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Questo Anonimato E’ Sovversivo/ (This Anonymity is subversive) - performance
– a project by Ruben Montini /
04th of April, 2023 – 6-8 pm.
05th of April, 2023 – 10-12 am.
tranzit. ro/Cluj, Napoca Street, no. 16, 1st. floor,
Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Questo Anonimato E’ Sovversivo (This Anonymity is subversive) is the project of Italian artist Ruben Montini. It consisted of a journey through countries of the European Union that the artist carried out together with photographer Ela Bialkowska. In Romania the project was hosted by tranzit. ro/Cluj.
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SZEMinárium – workshops organised by új szem magazine
31st of March 2023, 4-8 pm.
21st of April 2023, 4-8 pm.
tranzit.ro/Cluj, Napoca Street, no. 16, 1st. floor
Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Starting with March 2023, tranzit.ro/Cluj hosts SZEMinárium, the self-improvement group of új szem magazine for students in Cluj Napoca.
új szem is a social, cultural and critical platform, an online magazine that continues the work of szem magazine (2015-2021).
More information: https://ujszem.org/
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The appeal of hitting rock bottom: International Relations and the notion of a point zero
Lecture by Gergely Romsics /
Thursday, 30 March 2023, 7 PM.
Moderator: Tibor Toró
Thinking about various “point zero” moments in international history is rooted in a venerable and long-standing tradition. The traditional assumption, according to which a global point zero would constitute a return to the „state of nature”, a moment of anarchical self-help and violence, has been superseded in the 20th century by theorizing about the potential of such a point zero to overcome difficult legacies of power politics, opening a new vista for constructing an international utopia, a Cosmopolis or “world city” of universal rights and security. Such legacies and hopes clashed in 1918-1919, as World War I drew to a close and the Paris Peace Conference was preparing to convene, and again from 1943 onwards as planning began about a new Europe and a new world after the elimination of the Nazi, fascist and imperial Japanese threats. 1989 brought about a return to utopian thinking about „overcoming” anarchy and insecurity in the international system, a process conceptualized in surprisingly similar terms to patterns of thought familiar from 1918-1919.
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Ivett Szabó
new member joins tranzit. ro/Cluj team /
Ivett Szabó (born 2000) joins the tranzit.ro/cluj team from March as program coordinator. She is a MA student in Critical Theory and Multicultural Studies, Faculty of History and Philosophy, UBB. She got her BA degree in Hungarian Literature and Comparative Literature Studies, Faculty of Letters, UBB. Ivett is currently working on her Master’s thesis. In her academic work, she is mostly interested in environmental ethics, eco-criticism, and non-human narratives. She has been part of Echinox’s editorial team for 2 years and joined the organizing team of Hervay Literary Circle and Bajnokok Legalja Slam Poetry series shortly after they were founded. In this period she has also been volunteering in experiential education projects like Grund School Oradea. Since late 2019 she is a member of the Save As Pedagogy Action Group (Mentés másként pedagógia). With their annual conference and other events, they intend to connect the academic and civil sphere, teachers and specialists of caring professions, and work to create visibility for systemic issues and inadequately discussed topics of education. Education as a strong political act plays a key role in her work, as well as the analysis of literary language, which has the empowering ability to question the limits of collective imaginaries.
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SOCIETY OF SPECTACLES - public discussion
Monday, December 19th, 2022, 7 P.M.
Address:
tranzit. ro/Cluj, Napoca Street, no. 16, 1st. floor
Cluj-Napoca, Romania
[The event is held in Hungarian]
Society of the Spectacle - Discussion on the one of the most significant work of the European Leftist Tradition, the so called Second Communist Manifesto, The Capital of the new generation.
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ECOLOGIES OF EMANCIPATION
2nd edition: Science, State and Society /
31.08 – 04.09. 2022
Location: Câmpu Cetății, Mureș County
The second edition of the yearly summer school Ecologies of Emancipation, organized by tranzit.ro/Cluj at Câmpu Cetății, Mureș County, will take place between August 31 and September 4, 2022 and will have as guiding theme the contemporary relations, tensions and interdependences between Science, State, and Society. As usual, the school aims to provide a meeting space and a catalyst for friendly but also qualified discussions between some of the most promising and relevant current research projects and theoretical perspectives from the broad field of social sciences, as so many potential resources for critique and political positioning in today's world.
This year’s edition aims to question the many faceted relations between science, state and society, as a crucial issue whose actuality can be declined on (at least) three axes: in our recent and ongoing past, as the particular modern constellations of science, state and society articulated by the political regimes and social formations of our last century; in the immediate present, as evidenced and dramatized in our current pandemic context with its political instrumentation of science and its corresponding growing social mistrust in both official science and politics; and finally, in our already present future, as the great reshuffling of the relation between science, society and politics urgently demanded by the climate crisis.
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Marxism in the Sciences: Toward an International Critical Knowledge Network
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