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Dissent in Romania Revisited: From Comparative to Transnational Approaches

Date 30 November 2020 @ 17:00

Faculty of Philosophy at Adam Mickiewicz University and Polish Philosophical Association, Poznań Division invite for online lecture delivered by 

Prof.  Cristina Petrescu (University of Bucharest, Faculty of Political Science)

Dissent in Romania Revisited: From Comparative to Transnational Approaches

The lecture will be given in English, on Monday, November 30, 2020 at 5 P.M.  (Central European Time). In order to receive link to the lecture, please write to: brzech@amu.edu.pl

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Dissent in Romania Revisited: From Comparative to Transnational Approaches. Abstract

According to conventional knowledge, Romania has always been a country with a feeble civil society, under communism, as well as after. However, some surprising and rather unexpected waves of mobilization against the attempts of corrupt governments to discontinue the democratic consolidation in this country have lately emerged. Cristina Petrescu looks back to the pre-1989 phenomenon of dissent and its post-1989 legacy, enlarging the existing canon from political to cultural activities and analyzing a wider range of such activities that conflicted at least obliquely with the system of ideas and values imposed by the former regime. This research highlighted an enduring sense of being European, as experienced by unknown individuals who created everyday meanings and cultural practices as if they lived in a free country while under a ruthless dictatorship. Transmitted to the next generation, this diffuse sense of Europeanness nurtured the “fear of being left behind” in an enlarged EU, where Romania ranks almost invariably last according to any criterion, and generated the recent waves of bottom-up mobilization.

 

Cristina Petrescu – is professor of Modern European History at the Faculty of Political Science, University of Bucharest. She received a PhD in 2004 from Central European University, Budapest. She authored From Robin Hood to Don Quixote: Resistance and Dissent in Communist Romania (Bucharest 2013) and has published over 30 papers on communism and the memory of this recent past in East-Central Europe. Between 2016 and 2019 she was National Task Manager in the Horizon 2020 “COURAGE – Cultural Opposition: Understanding the Cultural Heritage of Dissent in the Former Socialist Countries”.

 

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Date:
30 November 2020
Time:
17:00