Principal Investigator (PI) | Coordonator proiect: Florin POENARU (University of Bucharest, ROMANIA)
Senior researcher | Cercetător cu experiență: Alex CISTELECAN (University of Medicine, Pharmacy, Science and Technology of Târgu Mureș, ROMANIA)
Postdoctoral researchers | Cercetători postdoctorali: Diana DOMȘODI ( Babeș-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca, ROMANIA), Lorin GHIMAN (University of Art and Design Cluj Napoca, ROMANIA)
Doctoral researchers | Cercetători doctorali: Diana BULZAN (University of Art Linz, AUSTRIA) Emilia FAUR ((Babeș-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca, ROMANIA), Alexandru-Vasile SAVA (Babeș-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca, ROMANIA)
Florin POENARU is a lecturer in Sociology and Anthropology in the Department of Sociology and Social Work, University of Bucharest. He has a PhD in social anthropology from Central European University, Budapest and was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar to City University of New York. He works on issues related to class, post-socialism and global history of Eastern Europe and teaches classes on contemporary theories in sociology and anthropology. He is a co-editor of CriticAtac, founding member of LeftEast and regular contributor to Bilten. His latest book is Locuri comune: clasă, anti-comunism, stânga, Tact, 2017. He also took part in over a dozen of election monitoring missions across Eastern Europe, the Balkans and the Middle East.
Diana-Cristina BULZAN is currently a PhD student at the University of Art Linz, Austria writing a thesis on labour, cinema and artistic movements. She is developing her research in collaboration with the VALIE EXPORT Center Linz as a junior fellow.
Alex CISTELECAN is lecturer at the University of Medicine, Pharmacy, Science and Technology of Târgu Mureș "Emil Palade” (Tg. Mures, Romania), and editor at the cultural magazine Vatra. He has published De la stânga la stânga. Lecturi critice în câmpul progresist [From Left to Left: Critical Readings in the Progressive Camp], Tact, 2019; and edited Wronging Rights: Philosophical Challenges for Human Rights (Routledge, 2011, with Aakash Singh Rathore), Plante exotice. Teoria si practica marxistilor romani [Exotic Plants: The Theory and Practice of Romanian Marxists] (Tact, 2015, with Andrei State); Ce mai rămâne din mai 68? [Legacies of May 68] (Fractalia, 2018, with Alex Ciorogar, and Secolul XXI. Istorie recentă și futurologie [The 21st Century: Recent history and futurology] (Cartier, 2021).
Dana DOMȘODI studied philosophy at the Vest University of Timișoara (2003-2007), before moving to Cluj-Napoca, where she pursued an M.A. and Phd. In Philosophy (2012) at the Babeș-Bolyai University. In 2013 she enrolled in the Phd program Politics, Human Rights and Sustainability, at Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, in Pisa, Italy, from where in 2018 she obtained her second Phd with a thesis on economic migration focused on a historic-structuralist class based approach to labor migration and immigrant labor market dynamic. She was also enrolled in the Spiru Haret postdoctoral program at New Europe College (2017-2018) working on a research focused on the problem of caporalato. Currently she holds tenure (senior lecturer) in the Department of Sociology, Faculty of Sociology and Social Work at the Babeș-Bolyai University. Her research interests are social history of property and production relations, classical political economy, regimes and forms of property and modern political theory.
Emilia FAUR is a PhD Candidate at the Faculty of History and Philosophy, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca. She received an MA and BA in Philosophy from the same university. Her doctoral project focuses on Contimporanul’s political “ideology”. Her main field of interest is the socio-political dimension of the Romanian artistic and literary avant-gardes.
Lorin GHIMAN studied philosophy at Babeş-Bolyai-University in Cluj-Napoca (2000-2008), where he obtained his PhD with a thesis on Walter Benjamin’s concept of the political (2015). He worked as teaching assistant and research assistant on several projects at the same university (2006-2014) and in the ngo environment (2009-2012) before taking up teaching positions in the secondary education (2016-2020) and as associate lecturer at the University of Art and Design Cluj-Napoca (2018-2020). New Europe College alumnus (class 2017-2018). Also active as translator (philosophy, theology, psychology from German into Romanian), member of ARTLIT (Romanian Association of Literary Translators). Since 2020 holds tenure (senior lecturer) at the University of Art and Design in Cluj.
Alexandru-Vasile SAVA is a PhD candidate at the Philosophy department of Babeș-Bolyai University, where he is completing a thesis on the relationship between the ontology of time and the constitution of the subject in the philosophy of G. Deleuze. His published work covers a range of particular topics such as the formation of political identity, the ontology of contemporary forms of communication, and issues in class politics. His current research interests include, among others, the formation of the political subject, the ontology of time, French Nietzscheanism, the history of theoretical models of European integration, and Marxian political theory.