INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE Capitalist Transformations in Eastern and Central Europe
Conference Programme Deadline for abstract submission: 31 December 2024
| CAPITALIST TRANSFORMATIONS IN EASTERN AND CENTRAL EUROPE 19 – 22 MAY 2025 (The time zone of the conference is GMT+3 Romania) | ||||
| Monday 19 MAY, 2025 | DAY 1 | |||
| | Welcoming Remarks: Anca Simionca, Dean of Faculty of Sociology and Social Work (Babeș-Bolyai University) | |||
| Monday | Value and Worthlessness: The World and the Region Don Kalb(Bergen University) Moderator: Oana Mateescu (Babeș-Bolyai University) | |||
| Monday 14 – 16 | Panel 1 – The politics of capitalist accumulation 1A. Unraveling Liberalisms: Hungarian Insights into American IlliberalismGabor Scheiring(Georgetown University Qatar) Ábel Csathó(Tarki Social Research, Budapest) 1B. Rethinking the polycrisis in Central and Eastern Europe: labour and social reproduction in Poland Adam Mrozowicki(University of Wrocław) 1C. Two political failures of a Caesarist project: Ukraine and Belarus compared Volodymyr Artiukh (University of Oxford) 1D. The Devil’s Bargain and the Semi-Periphery’s Emulation of Western Socioeconomic Transformations Ada Kus(University of Lisbon) Moderator: André Thiemann (Czech Academy of Sciences and Charles University) | Panel 2 – Bricks, Bridges and Bureaucracy: Eastern Europe’s DIY Statecraft 2A. The Return of the Infrastructural State? The Geopolitics of Eastern Europe’s Economic Realignment 2B. Market-Making and/or State-Making at the Eastern Periphery of the EU: The Rediscovery of Developmental Statism in Hungary and Poland István Benczes(Institute of World Economics, HUN-REN and Corvinus University of Budapest), Joanna Orzechowska-Waclawska(Jagellonian University, Kraków), Judit Ricz(Institute of World Economics, HUN-REN and Corvinus University of Budapest) 2C. Sowing Startups, Reaping Unicorns: The Digital Industrial Policy of the EU in Central and Eastern Europe 2D. Zoning to the Bottom: Special Economic Zones and the Local Costs of the Electric Vehicle Investment Boom in Hungary and Serbia Moderator: Zoltán Mihály(Babeș-Bolyai University) | Panel 3 – Whose Theory? Which Marxism? 3A. Revisiting the theory of ‘state monopoly capitalism’ 3B. Variegated state capitalisms: East Germany and Yugoslavia in comparative perspective 3C Formal and Real Socialization: The History and Use of the Distinction in 1980s Poland 3D. Praxis as Reflection: Revisiting reflection theory in Marxist-Leninist Philosophy Moderator: Adrian Grama (Independent Researcher) | Panel 4 – Constructing institutions and identities of capitalist modernity in ECE 4A. The Role of Chambers of Trade and Commerce in the Economic and Political Transformation of the Habsburg Monarchy in the Second Half of the 19th Century 4B. Labor Money 4C. Making sense of capitalist transformations: Interwar Polish labour inspectors as knowledge producers 4D. Capitalism Versus “Oblomovism” in 19th Century Russia and Today’s Western World |
| Monday 16-18 | Panel 5 – Migration regimes and labor struggles 5A. ‘The trade union suddenly had a face.’ Capitalist transformations and the labor struggles of Romanian workers in the German meat industry 5B. Exploitation of Vietnamese Labor in Romania: Participant Observations and Case Study Research 5C. Transforming migration regime in Poland and its implications for workers organizing 5D. I came as a legal, and Romania made me illegal. The production of precarity and irregularity within the Romanian migration regime. Ioana Simina Popescu(University of Vienna) Moderator: Oana Mateescu (Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania) | Panel 6 – Debate: China, the global economy and the impact on Eastern and Central Europe Yingyao Wang(University of Virginia), author of ‘Markets with Bureaucratic Characteristics: How Economic Bureaucrats Make Policies and Remake the Chinese State’ Columbia University Press, 2024 Cornel Ban(Copenhagen Business School), author of ‘Guns, Money, Institutions: Decarbonization Technologies in China and Europe’, Forthcoming in 2026 Mathias Larsen(Brown University) author of An End to Ultimatums: How the Global South Can (and Will) Finance its Own Green Transition Forthcoming in 2026 Moderator: Vera Scepanovic(Leiden University) | Panel 7 – Genealogies of anticapitalist struggle: Anarchism in East-Central Europe
7A. Anarchism in East-Central Europe: Do different temporalities mean different experiences? 7B. Anticapitalist struggles and anarchist-syndicalist workers movement in Romania in the 20th Century 7C. Transnational Anarchism and Anticapitalist Modernity: Jewish Anarchist Migration from Romania to the United States in the Early 20th Century Moderator: Alexandra Ghiț(RECET Vienna University) | Panel 8 – Rethinking Socialist Investment, Ownership and Income 8A. Socialist entrepreneurs? Albanian private business owners in late-socialist Yugoslavia 8B. Creative property relations in the socialist economy: the case of state-regulated homeownership 8C. Social Remittances and the Political Economy of Privilege in Late Socialist Romania Moderator: Attila Melegh (Institute of Sociology, Corvinus University of Budapest) |
| Monday 18-20 | Panel 9 – The politics of infrastructures anddevelopment Acknowledgment: This panel is organized in the framework of theGrassTransitions project, funded by VolkswagenStiftung. 9A. Grassroots Relations to Infrastructures and Environmental Issues in Serbia: Towards a Green Commons? | Panel 10 – Pre-Capitalist Pathways: Reassessing the Late Socialist Economy 10A. Socialist Mixed Economies and the Quantity of Life in Global Comparison 10B. State Socialist Decoupling. Efforts for decoupling economic expansion from environmental harms in Czechoslovakia and the consequences of their failure for post-89 transformation 10C. Polish shipyards and the 1973 oil crisis: a study of development strategies in the context of global economic change Moderator: Attila Melegh (Institute of Sociology, Corvinus University of Budapest) | Panel 11 – Imperialism, colonialism, and passages from empire to nation 11A. Interconnected Complicity. Europe’s East in Coloniality and Inter-imperiality 11B. A Liberated Capitalism? Ivan Hadjiiski and Bulgaria’s Independence from the Ottoman Empire 11C. Socialist Movements and State Crafting in Successor States of the Russian Empire 11D. Divergences in Rural Development Between Romania and Bulgaria: An Overview of the Processes in the Interwar Period Moderator: Gareth Dale(Brunel University) | Panel 12 – Leftist collectives and right-wing appropriations in contemporary capitalism 12A. Challenging the Right-Wing Hegemony in Eastern and Central Europe 12B. From Revolutionary Praxis to Reactionary Rhetoric: The Appropriation of Leftist Discourse by the Far Right 12D. From Radical Roots to Reactionary Ends: Liberal Identity Politics and the Neoliberal –Far-right Convergence 12E. Academia from creating human capital to creating collectives Moderator: Enikő Vincze (Babeș-Bolyai University) |
| Tuesday 20 MAY, 2025 | DAY 2 | |||
| Tuesday 12-14 | Panel 13 – Manufacturing blues and re-industrialization 13C. Similar path, different present: how former garment manufacturing SOEs have managed 13D. Trends in Labour Utilisation Strategies within Central and Eastern European Automotive Sector Moderator: Csata Zsombor (Babeș-Bolyai University) | Panel 14 – Green Expectations: Decarbonising ECE Manufacturing and the Rise of China as a Green Superpower 14A. Driving the Shift: East-Central Europe’s Uneven Transition from German Dependence to Global EV Integration 14B. The Electrification Turn in ECE Automotive Industry: Examining the Extent of Dependency on China 14C. The Political Economy of Semi-Peripheral Connector Economies: Morocco and Hungary Amidst the De-/Re-composition of European Export-Led Growth | Panel 15 – Movements against varieties of capital accumulation 15A. Developing alternative practices in abandoned military barracks in Eastern Europe. The cases of urban squats in Ljubljana and Prague 15B.We Need to Socialise Reproductive Work, Now More Than Ever: Connecting Past, Present and Future into the Frame of Social Reproduction Feminism Theories and Practices 15C.Expropriation and exploitation of Roma as a mode of capital accumulation in Eastern Europe | Panel 16–Business histories between nations and empires 16A. From A Tsar to Some Leather Queens: On the Long-Term Perverse Permutations of ‘Finnish’ Cotton 16B. Bridging Continents: Eastern European Family Networks and the Birth of Global Capitalism 16C.From the Local Workshop to the Global Factory: Leather, Labor, Capitalism and Colonialism in the 19th Century ECE 16D. Foreign capital investment in Transylvania in the late 19th and early 20th century Moderator: Gareth Dale(Brunel University) |
| Tuesday 14-16 | Panel 17 – The precarity of digital, platform and logistics labor 17A. Virtual Sex Work under Postsocialist Neoliberalism: Labor in Camming in Russia 17C. Gender, Labour precarity and technological surveillance in logistic capitalism: The case of Romanian female truck drivers 17D. ‘I don’t know what awaits me.’ Understanding Uncertainty and Spatiotemporal Flexibility among Platform-based Food Delivery Couriers in Romania Moderator: Oana Mateescu (Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania) | Panel 18 – Breaking the Chains (and Maybe the Bank): The Perilous Politics of European Financial Dependency 18A. From Neoliberal Reform to Illiberal Populism: Historical Contingency and Path-Dependent Parallels in Post-Communist Europe and Latin America 18B. Firms and Economic Development in the Semi-Periphery 18C. Financialisation, West European Banking Groups, and Capitalist Transformation in East-Central Europe: The Case Study of Croatia 18D. Precarious Competitiveness: The Draghi Report and Its Implications for the European Semi-Periphery – A Case Study on Romania Moderator: Ioana Florea (Södertörn University, Stockholm) | Panel 19 – Social reproduction: class, care, welfare 19A. Transformations of Care: Family, Migration, and the Emerging Landscape of Elderly Support in Romania 19D. Tracing Paths of Mobility and Reproduction: Class and Capitals in Academic and the Artistic Fields in Post-1989 Poland | Panel 20 – Plural Margins: Race and Disability under State Socialism 20B.The pedagogical instrumentalization of disability as avoidable personal tragedy narrative in labor protection films in late socialist Romania Ana Szel(I.L. Caragiale” National University of Theatre and Film in Bucharest/Babeș-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca) 20C. Romani bodies, racialised behaviour and (non)socialist morality Moderator: Corina Doboș(National Institue for the Study of Totalitarianism, Romanian Academy) |
| Tuesday 16-18 | Panel 21 – Racialised labor and surplus populations 21A. The political economy of Roma surplusing in ECE 21B. From surplus population to reserve army of labor: expansion of the formal wage labor in rural Hungary 21D. Exploring environmental injustice through a Dehumanization lens – The case of a Roma community in the Western Carpathians Moderator: Mihail Sandu-Dumitriu(Babeș-Bolyai University) | Panel 22 – From Classroom to Workplace: Unpacking Eastern Europe’s Political Economy and Gender Dynamics 22A. Teaching Global Political Economy of Eastern Europe 22B. Gender Dynamics in Employment: A Comparative Analysis Across Romania and Its Neighbors Over Time 22C. Feminist Political Economy and the Pedagogy of Political Economy Moderator: Laura Sandu(Babeș-Bolyai University) | Panel 23 – Capitalism: moralities and fantasies
23B. Waiting for the Aliens: Spiritual Markets and Anti-Capitalist Fantasy in Present-Day Romania 23C. Unfolding Labour: Poetry, Politics, and Relations of Production in East-Central Europe 23D. Navigating Precarity: Young Adults and Future-Making in Post-Conflict Bosnia | Panel 24 – Socialist Regimes of Care-work
24C. Representations of care-work in the 1950’s Romanian magazine „Femeia” 24D. Social care institutions for children in Soviet Lithuania (1944-1956) Moderator: Adrian Grama (Independent Researcher) |
| Tuesday 18-20 | Silicon Valley Imperialism: Techno Fantasies and Frictions in Postsocialist Times Erin McElroy (University of Washington) | |||
| Wednesday 21 MAY, 2025 | DAY 3 | |||
| Wednesday 12-14 | Social Policy and New Authoritarianism. Ideas and Actions | |||
| Wednesday 14-16 | Panel 25 – Chinese investments and new industrial policies in ECE Acknowledgment: This panel is organized in the framework of theGrassTransitions project, funded by VolkswagenStiftung. 25A. Changing forms and transformative aspects of Chinese investments in Hungary 25C. Geopolitical games for autocratic dreams: new industrial policy to promote electric vehicle battery production in Hungary” | Panel 26 – Social reproduction in neoliberal times: welfare states, health and the family in Eastern Europe
26B. Health and Citizenship in Post-Socialist Romania 26C. Family: The Trojan Horse for Financialization in East-Central Europe? 26D. The Political-Economic Construction of Low Professional Standards in Home-based Senior Care in Hungary Noémi Katona(Corvinus University of Budapes) | Panel 27 – Trajectories of Class (Re)formation and Capital (Re)location 27A. Workers of the World, Solidify! Understanding the Polish “Solidarity” Movement through the Lens of Japanese Labor Union History 27B. Zambian Engineering and Construction Company (ZECCO): The Rise and Fall of a Non-Aligned Corporation 27C. The steady stream? De-industrialization and re-industrialization in the petro-chemical industry in Yugoslavia and Italy 27D. Workers’ Life Strategies under Communism in Hungary Moderator: Chiara Bonfiglioli (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice) | Panel 28 – Industrial development and dependency in East-Central Europe
28B. Estate-based Order and Capitalist Development in the Central Industrial Region of Imperial Russia in the Late 19th Century
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| Wednesday 16-18 | Panel 29 – Housing and peripheral financialization Acknowledgment: This panel is organized by Marek Mikuš (Max Planck 29A. Housing as Payment: Financialization in Construction at the European Periphery 29B. Household financialization in Slovakia: key tendencies and features 29C. Assessing Repayability: Market Classifications in Romania in the Context of Mortgage Lending 29D. How a geopolitical rent gap produces landscapes of financialization Moderator: Hadas Weiss (CRIA, Portugal) | Panel 30 – FDI-Led Growth and Frontier Semi-Core Dynamics in Comparative Perspective 30A. From the Socialist Second World to the Second World of Global Capitalism? 30B. (Neo-)Dependency in Global Comparative Perspective: Continuity and Change in East-Central Europe’s Dependent Capitalisms 30C. Capitalist Strategies in the Periphery of Europe: Case Studies from Central and Eastern Europe 30D. The FDI-Led Growth Model Politics and the EU State Aid Regime in Czechia and Slovakia | Panel 31 – The Social Origins of Socialist Expertise 31A. Reform Economists and Domestic Research Institutions: The Contested Origins of Neoliberalism in Socialist Hungary 31B. Domination, autonomy and post-feudalism in Hungarian social thought from late- to post-socialism 31C. Managing Old Housing in Socialist Romania: Demolition, Maintenance and Neglect 31D. The GDR beyond the Historiography of the FRG Moderator: Adela Hîncu(Institute of Contemporary History, Ljubljana) | Panel 32 – “The Left” – from critical knowledge to activism 32A. The Revival of the Left in the Balkans: Counter-Hegemonic Activism and Ideas that Fueled It 33C. Beyond criticisms of capitalism towards a critique of capital 33D. Students and capitalism in Serbia: for, against, or indifferent? Moderator: Vladimir Borțun (University of Oxford) |
| Wednesday 18-20 | Panel 33 – Energy transitions and contested green politics Acknowledgment: This panel is organized in the framework of theGrassTransitions project, funded by VolkswagenStiftung. 33A. Geopolitics, energy colonialism and renewable energy: A comparative analysis between Southern African and Balkan critical mineral-rich countries 33B. The East German electricity grid. Communal, socialist and neoliberal infrastructural politics 33C. The Contested Politics of the Green Transition: Lusatia, Germany’s Laboratory of Decarbonisation 33D. Green grabbing for green growth: the capitalist logic of energy transition in Bosnia and Herzegovina Moderator: Agnes Gagyi(Solidarity Economy Center) | Panel 34 – Urban labor: relocations and dislocations 34A. High-tech offices, malls, and the making of an urban “cybertariat” in post-socialist Sofia 34B. Outsourcing, Career Choices, and Regional Disparities in Romania 34C. Just-in-time social reproduction: worker dormitories and the contested temporalities of labour in Czechia’s globally-integrated electronics manufacturing sector. 34D. The Other Side of Development. Daily Work Commuting in Cluj-Napoca Metropolitan Area Moderator: Oana Mateescu (Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania) | Panel 35 – Culture and technology in anti-capitalist activism 35A. AI-driven tools as tools for anti-capitalist media activism – Potentialities and Limits 35B. Universal Worker – reflecting upon the transformation of working conditions through theater 35E. Performative Remembrance and Transitional Lives: Artistic Reevaluations of Neoliberal Subjectivities | Panel 36 – The political economy of anti-capitalist critique and activism 36A. Post-Soviet vicious circle: the crisis of hegemony and the crisis of revolution 36B. Through Wallerstein’s glasses. Anti-systemic movements in times of bifurcation 36C.Where is the tenants’ movement in Romania? 36E. Contemporary Reflections on the Yugoslav Interwar Left Art Front. The Question of Political Organizing of Artists Moderator: Enikő Vincze (Babeș-Bolyai University) |
| Thursday 22 MAY, 2025 | DAY 4 | |||
| Thursday 10-12 | Panel 37 – Environmental grey zones: violence, waste and injustice Acknowledgment: The authors acknowledge the support within the 37A. The Grey Zone of the Green Transition Environmental Injustice as Insidious Toxicity 37B. Wasted Workforce and the Environmentalism of Post-Industrial Cities
Ioana Savin (”Lucian Blaga” University of Sibiu), Irina Velicu (CES / ULBS), Hestia Delibas (CES / ULBS), Valer Simion Cosma (“Lucian Blaga” University Library in Sibiu), Romana Puiulet(“Lucian Blaga” University, RISE Project) | Panel 38 – Financial Regulation, Firm Strategies, and Transforming Dependency in ECE 38A. (Un)Expected Challenges to European Financial Regulation from the Eastern Periphery: Non-Resident Banking and Crypto Markets in Latvia and Estonia 38B. Emerging Firms’ Financial Motifs, Firms’ Demand for Liquidity, and Human Capital Asset Liquidation in Central and Eastern European Firms in 2002-2007 38C. What About the Eurozone? Rethinking Slovenia’s Exceptionalism 38D. Transformations of Neoliberalism and Dependency in Europe Moderator: Dragoș Adăscăliței(Eurofound) | Panel 39 – How can we organise against the structural silencing of anti-capitalism? 39A. The inexistent struggle: depoliticization, hierarchization and fragmentation of elderly care in Ukraine 39B. ‘In between Autonomy and False Self-Employment’: Transnational Political Mobilization of Live-in Migrant Care Workers against the ‘ Bounded Transport’ System 39D. Algorithmic Mystification: Depoliticization of Politics through Technology Post-Election in Romania Moderator: Emrah Irzik(Babeș-Bolyai University) | Panel 40 – The pathways of capitalist accumulation 40A. Capitalist transformations and accumulation through real estate development in Romania 40B. The unwilling accumulation: collectivities of renovation in “greening” Latvia 40C Labor relations in Romania: An Analysis of Discourse and State Politics |
| Thursday 12-14 | Panel 41 – Big Tech, Industry 4.0, and the Rewriting of the Peripheral Puzzle in ECE 42B. Diluting Digital Sovereignty: Czechia’s Quiet Selective Adaptation to EU Digital Politics 43C. Innovation and Transnational Collaboration: Exploring the Dynamics of Co-Authorship Networks in Patents | Panel 42 – Prospects of politicisation across movements in capitalism 42B. Climate justice and housing – the role of civil society and its interdisciplinary struggles in Berlin 42C. Autonomy without autopoiesis: Analysing the structure of Romanian spaces of anticapitalist resistance through Luhmann’s theory of system | Panel 43 –Women and feminism in early twentieth-century labour movements
43A. Communist Women’s Resistance to Capitalism and Fight for Women Workers’ Rights in Eastern Europe and Beyond during the 1920s 43B. Debating the “Woman Question” in the 1930s: Some Aspects of Communist Feminist Angela Vode’s Political Thought 43C. Beyond Trade Unions: Labour Activism Among Women Workers of the Újpest Jute Factory in the 1900s 43D. Women revolutionaries and the European council movements at the end of World War I Moderator:Oana Pop (Babeș-Bolyai University) | Panel 44 –Anti-capitalist lineages in theorising and political activism 44B. Toward Cinema of the Post-Yugoslav New Left: Filmmakers’ Commitment to Political Organizing 44C. From the Global South to Post-Yugoslav space: Political Ideas from Below and to the Left 44D. Postsocialist granddaughterhood: remembering lost commons in the post-enclosures era Moderator: Mihnea Bâlici(Babeș-Bolyai University) |
| Thursday 14-16 | 45. Roundtable – The Protests in Serbia: Building Social Front in Times of Crisis Round-table organisers: Ana Vilenica,(Södertörn University and University of Belgrade, Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory) and Dušanka Milosavljević,(University of Belgrade, Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory)
Round-table participants:Bogoljub Homšek (University of Belgrade, Institute for Sociological Research and Faculty of Philosophy), Ana Dimitrijević and Katarina Šćepanović, (Forum of Belgrade Gymnasiums), Ana Vilenica (Södertörn University and University of Belgrade, Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory), IsidoraAćimov (University of Belgrade, Faculty of Philosophy) Aimilianos Tsakiroglou, (University of Belgrade, Faculty of Philosophy) | 46. Roundtable: Women’s Political Thought during Socialism: A Discussion with the Authors ofTexts and Contexts from the History of Feminism and Women’s Rights Round-table organisers: Adela Hîncu(Institute of Contemporary History, Ljubljana) | 47. Roundtable: Precarity at the Semi-Periphery: Academic Labour in Central and Eastern Europe Round-table organiser: Elena Trifan(University of Erfurt) Round-table participants: Mariya Ivancheva(University of Strathclyde) Petra Ezzeddine (Charles University, Prague) Dana Solonean(Babeș Bolyai University) | 48. Roundtable: Housing in CEE: policies, struggles, challenges ahead Round-table organiser: Ioana Florea(Södertörn University, Stockholm and Common Front for Housing Rights – FCDL, Bucharest) Round-table participants: Sonja Dragović(DINÂMIA’CET – Centre for Socioeconomic and Territorial Studies) Ioana Florea (Södertörn University, Stockholm and Common Front for Housing Rights – FCDL, Bucharest) Lilia Nenescu and Vitalie Sprînceană (Center for Policies, Initiatives and Research ”Platforma”, Moldavia) Enikő Vincze (Social Housing NOW!) George Zamfir (European Action Coalition for the right to Housing and to the City) |
| Thursday 16-18 | Panel 49 –Stripping Democracy’s Assets: Navigating Dependency in Authoritarian ECE states 49A. Unsustainable Democracies: Authoritarian Populism in Newly Democratizing Dependent Economies at Europe’s Periphery 49B. Sovereign dependence: Hungarian capitalism in the European Union 49C.The Extraordinary Governance Measures in Hungary | Panel 50 – Artistic Transitions: The Cultural Life of Socialist Infrastructure 50A. From State to Market? Mixed Economies and the Transformation of Cultural Infrastructures in Hungary 50B. From People’s Art Back to Bourgeois Art 50C. Behind a Red Sign: Cultural Policy in the Late Polish People’s Republic as the Beginning of the Neoliberal Transformation Moderator: Tamara Todoruț(Babeș-Bolyai University) | Panel 51 –Negotiating and resisting capital on the ground: labour courts, co-ops, and labour struggles 51C. Arbitration, Mediation, and Mitigation of Labour Conflicts: Labour Courts and Workers Rights in Bulgaria, 1920s–1940s 51D. Unionizing at the End of Empire. Bucovina Representation within the early Association of Austrian Woodworkers
| Panel 52 – Shifting rural landscapes: land grabbing, agro-capitalism and gentrification 52A. Agro-capitalism, EU subsidies, and the political remaking of the Czech agricultural landscape 52C. Dwelling and (Capitalist) Transformations 52D. Gentrification of rural space in the metropolitan area of Cluj-Napoca, Romania Moderator: Bridget Kelly-Vincz (University of Michigan) |
| Thursday 18-20 | Rethinking East-Central Europe’s place in the first era of capitalist globalization Máté Rigó (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) Discussants: Gábor Egry (István Deák Visiting Professor, Columbia University), Cristina Florea (Cornell University) | |||
