Interregnum Here & Now: Post-Communist Collapse, Planetary Crisis, and Emancipatory Resolve
CALL FOR CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION
Interregnum Here & Now: Post-Communist Collapse, Planetary Crisis, and Emancipatory Resolve
April 16–18, 2026, Cluj- Napoca
Deadline for applications: February 8, 2026
Following the 2024 „Polycrisis across Divides” conference, the next edition of the Historical Materialism Cluj/Kolozsvár conference has released its call for participation.
„Interregnum Here & Now: Post-Communist Collapse, Planetary Crisis, and Emancipatory Resolve” will take place in Cluj-Napoca between April 16–18, 2026.
„Since the first Historical Materialism Cluj / Kolozsvár conference in 2024, the polycrisis which was its main theme has not subsided. Instead, it has stabilized and deepened into a thick interregnum. We still face multiple, overlapping crises—economic, social, ecological, and geopolitical—yet these crises neither move toward resolution nor de-escalate. They persist, consolidate, and sediment themselves as the new normal.” It is in this temporal deadlock, with a special focus on Easter Europe’s specific locality, that the conference seeks to bring together researchers from across the globe to analyse and discuss our current predicament and possible ways out.
The call for papers offers multiple streams to contribute to and can be read in its entirety here. Proposals for panels or papers should be submitted until February 8, 2026.
The conference is part of the PHILSE project ran by Janovics Center for Screen and Performing Arts Studies at BBU Cluj-Napoca, STRASYN project ran by Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, and partnered by tranzit. ro/Cluj.
