Facultatea de

Istorie i Filosofie

Beyond East and West. Decolonizing Modernization

Telciu Summer Conferences, 4th edition, 24-25 of July 2015
Telciu-Bistria, Bistria-Nsud County, Romania

Funded by Telciu City Hall and Telciu City Council

Partner George Cobuc Bistria-Nsud County Library

Accepted papers

1. Pavel Baloun, Faculty of Humanities, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic Civilizing the Gypsy Child: Gypsy School as a Colonial Practice in Interwar
Czechoslovakia (1918-1938).
2. Alina Branda, Faculty of European Studies, Babe-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania Beyond East and West. Anthropology as Intercultural Dialogue.
3. Alfredo Canavero/Lorenzo Meli, State University of Milan, Milano, Italy - European
Integration and Decolonization.
4. Remus Cmpeanu, Romanian Academy -George Bariiu Institute of History, Cluj,
Romania Colonization, Myths and the Glorious Story about United States.
5. Carole Chapin, Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, France - Perception in Western Europe
as an influence on education and cultural choices: the case of Russian nobility during the
second half of 18th century.
6. Emilio Cocco, University of Teramo, Italy - Modernizing a Maritime Frontier. Symbolic
Exchanges, Terrestrial Conversions and Nation-state building in the Eastern Adriatic.
7. Emanuel Copila, Faculty of Political Sciences, Philosophy and Communication Sciences,
West University, Timioara, Romania - National-communism for export: Ceauescus
Romania, the Third World and the new world order.
8. Fabiana Dimpflmeier, La Tuscia University, Viterbo, Italy - Maritime Perspective on
Otherness. Deconstructing Italian Modernization and Identity in Late Nineteenth
Century.
9. Iovan Drehe, Romanian Academy Iai, Romania - On philosophical colonialism.

10. Daniela Duca, Romanian Cultural Institute from Berlin, Germany - Eastern Words vs.
Western Words. The Redemption of Balcanisms in Romanian Literature.
11. Mauro Elli, Centre for Foreign Policy and Public Opinion Studies of State University of Milan,
Italy - Nuclear Modernity in Post-Colonial Pakistan. The Case of the Karachi Nuclear

Power Project, 1954-65.

12. Filip Herza, Faculty of Humanities, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic Orientalism and the Discourses of Modernization: Czech Anthropology in Subcarpathian
Ruthenia (1919-1938).
13. Redi Koobak, Linkping University, Sweden - Transversal Dialogues in Transnational
Feminist Theorizing: Intersections of Postcolonial and Postsocialist Analytics.
14. Sorin Mitulescu, South-East University The Light, Bucharest, Romania - Recapture of
north of the Danube Turkish cities : decolonization and violence.
15. Ali Abdelhafiz Moursi, Faculty of Arts, Assiut University, New Valley, Egypt New
Religion of Modernity. Muslims between Holy Privacy and necessities of times.
16. Rita Paolini, Centre for Foreign Policy and Public Opinion Studies of State University of Milan,
Italy - Flirting and fighting Indian princely states and the national movement. Modernity

and tradition, localism and centralism in 1930s India.

17. Dvid Petrut, Mure County Museum, Trgu-Mure, Romania - Dialogue of the empires.
Imperial thought and the research concerning Roman Dacia during the time of the
Austro-Hungarian monarchy (18671918).
18. Veda Popovici/Ovid Pop, National University of Art, Bucharest, Romania/
Berufsfrderungsinstitut, Vienna, Austria - The Postponed Belonging. A short history of
the awareness of the periphery and the desire for Europe in the national Romanian
construct.
19. David Schwartz, Faculty of Theatre and Television, Babe-Bolyai University, Cluj,
Romania - Depictions of the Socialist Past in Post-1989 Romanian Theatre: From How
to Explain the History of Communism to Mental Patients to Under Ground: The Jiu
Valley after 1989.
20. Marian Suciu, Faculty of Letters, Babe-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania

- New

Vietnam: About the long way of transformation from a colony into an independent
state.
21. Edit Szegedi, Faculty of European Studies, Babe-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania - The
forgotten city.
22. Alexander De Tey, Independent Researcher, Berlin, Germany Colonising and
decolonising tendencies in Rameau la Turque.
23. Alyosxa Tudor, Center for Gender Studies, SOAS, University of London, United Kingdom
- Transgender nationalism, diaspora nationalism:
transnationalism dis/entangled.

different dimensions of

24. Raoul Weiss, Independent Researcher, Strasbourg, France/Cluj, Romania - Symbolic

scapegoating of Gypsies as the dark side of R(r)oma(nian) reality.

Organizing Committee:
Valer Simion Cosma, Babe-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca (Romania)
Manuela Boatc, Freie University, Berlin (Germany)
Ali Abdelhafiz Moursi, Assiut University, New Valley (Egypt)