CriticFest Schedule
CriticAtac is organizing between May 15 and May 17 the first edition of CriticFest – a festival of politics, arts and criticism, with the support of Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung Southeast Europe. The aim of CriticFest is to bring critical leftist ideas into the public sphere and thus to contribute to the articulation of a stronger local and regional left.
This year, for its inaugural edition, CriticFest approaches two intertwined themes: on the one hand, theories and political strategies dealing with nature and ecology, and on the other hand, protest movements and the role of leftist forces in these movements in various countries of the region. These themes will be debated with 16 invited speakers from Romania and from countries across the region where significant protests have been taking place in the past year. A panel on politics and arts will bridge the gap between more theoretical aspects and practical strategies by inviting participants to reflect on new forms of protesting strategies that can incorporate art as a political and critical tool.
This event will be the first in a long series of events bringing together the Southeast European leftist and progressive forces together in a sustained political effort beyond the local fragmentation and the nation state.
Thursday, May 15
Panel 1 – Teorii ale naturii I
14:00 – 14:30 – Veronica Lazăr: Rousseau sauautocritica Luminilor
14:30 – 15:00 – Alexandru Cistelecan: Conceptul de natură la Marx
15:00 – 15:30 – Andrei State: Capitalism șidezvoltareîn modernitate. Vikek Chibberși critica postcolonialismului
15:30 – 15:45 Pauză de cafea
Panel 2 – Teorii ale naturii II
15:45 – 16:15 – Ovidiu Țichindeleanu: Modernitate, Colonialism, Natură
16:15 – 16:45 – Anca Simionca: Natură, exploatareși feminism
16:45 – 17:15 – Manuel Manu: Criminalizarea activismului de mediu
17:15 – 17:30 Pauză de cafea
Panel 3 – Ecologie în acțiune
Moderator: Costi Rogozanu
17:30 – 18:00 –Mihai Goțiu: Beneficiileeconomice ale ecologiei. Economielocală vs. corporatism.Studiu de caz Roșia Montana.
18:00 – 18:30 – Asociatia Vira: Campania Anti-Fracking
18:30 – 19:00 – Discuții
Friday, May 16
13:30 - 14:45 – Local struggles, global articulations I
Jana Tsoneva, Bulgaria
Emin Eminagic, Bosnia
Дмитрий Колесник, Ukraine
Andreja Zivkovic, Serbia
14:45 – 15:00 Coffee Break
15:00 – 16:15 – Local struggles, global articulations II
Andras Istvanffy, Hungary
Matjaž Pinter - Slovenia
AgonHamza, Kosovo
16:15 – 16:30: Coffee Break
16:30 – 17:45 – Roundtable discussion with all participants: Learning from Mistakes: Left strategies during “austerity” protests
17:45 – 18:00 - Coffee Break
18:00 – 19:15 Keynote Address: Richard Seymour
Saturday, May 17
12:00 – 14:00 – Artă și proteste. Prezentarea lucrărilor workshopului cu elevii
Veda Popovici
Mihaela Mihailov
Alice Monica Marinescu
Laurențiu Ridichie
Vasile Ernu
14:00 – 15:45 - Roundtable discussion with all participants: Anti-capitalism, anti-democracy and the extreme right
15:45 – 16:00 – Coffee break
16:00 - 17:45 - Roundtable discussion with all participants: Beyond the “crisis” paradigm
17:45 – 18:00 Coffee break
18:00 – 19:00 Film screening and discussion: 2013 protests in Romania by Vlad Petri