Where and how to decolonize the revolutionary movements? A few insights from this year’s keynote speaker – Julie Klinger

JULIE KLINGER (b. 1983), PhD Geography, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography and Spatial Sciences at the University of Delaware, and the immediate past associate director of the Land Use and Livelihoods Initiative at the Global Development Policy Center at Boston University. Dr. Klinger’s research focuses on the dynamics of global resource …

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Deadline extended for the 7th Telciu Summer Conferences: New deadline: 1 June

The Telciu Summer Conferences are in their 7th edition this year of being organised in a village in Romania aiming at destabilising the status quo of academia occupying mainly urban spaces. Following the general scope of re-examining the role of the periphery from the point of view of the periphery, while bringing together an array …

Beyond East and West. Decolonizing Modernization

TELCIU SUMMER CONFERENCES 4TH EDITION, 24-25 OF JULY 2015 TELCIU-BISTRIȚA, BISTRIȚA-NĂSĂUD COUNTY, ROMANIA         The year 2015 started with a series of violent incidents such as the attack on Charlie Hebdo in Paris, the bombing of Sanaa, Yemen's capital, and the massacres committed in Nigeria by the Boko Haram group, which brought …

Call for Papers: Religion-Culture-Society. Interdisciplinary perspectives on religious life

”Telciu Summer Conferences” 2nd edition TELCIU SUMMER CONFERENCES 3rd EDITIONS 25-26 July 2014 TELCIU, BISTRIȚA-NĂSĂUD COUNTY, TRANSYLVANIA, ROMANIA       Knowing and understanding a society essentially involves the study of religious life, an enterprise which, if not undertaken, would leave us prisoners to simplistic and deformed images. In the study of religious life, the relationship between …