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10/06/2024

RIP Frank Schalow

EMAD, Parvis Edited by Frank Schalow

10/06/2024

https://www.uno.edu/news/2024-05-30/in-memoriam-philosophy-prof-frank-schalow?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR3ajmXBqJXslQFrmRht_HE_6gTY5wYp0D9a-XR7CohNGsjPyFdyAwyCOvI_aem_AVoRAJI9UsAIpcOj2n5iEf3gZwf6_NLr_j6frTpH7lir0SIjIK7zUcfXdiXtupCEpfkk4_4fIlqmRWIoNS40cTty

Frank Schalow, a University of New Orleans philosophy faculty member for nearly three decades and an internationally renowned authority on German philosopher Martin Heidegger, died on May 25 at the age of 68. Schalow started his career at UNO in 1995 as an adjunct faculty member. In 2001, he was pro...

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Reviews
JEAN-CÔME CHALAMON
Vincent Carraud, Pascal: de la certitude, Paris, PUF, « Épiméthée », 2023.

THOMAS BELLON
João F. N. B. Cortese, Infini et disproportion chez Pascal, Honoré Champion, Paris, « Lumière classique », 2023.

RUXANDRA VIȘAN
Laetitia Sansonetti and Rémi Vuillemin (eds.), Language Commonality and Literary Communities in Early Modern England: Translation, Transmission, Transfer, series Polyglot Encounters in Early Modern Britain, vol. 1, Turnhout: Brepols, 2022.

Ce livre propose, à partir du constat de difficultés importantes et de paradoxes dans la conception heideggérienne de la vérité comme décèlement (aletheia), une nouvelle interprétation du fameux « tournant » qui sera compris comme la nécessité d’une structure d’inversion réciproque ...

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JEAN DHOMBRES: Sur les interprétations de « tout un autre côté » de Pascal
Abstract: In 1696, in the Preface to the Analyse des infiniment petits pour l’intelligence des lignes courbes, L'Hôpital wrote, "As for Mr. Pascal, he turned his views completely to another side: he examined the curves themselves." Through the examination of this "completely different side," this article confronts the various possible meanings of a legacy that has been overlooked until today, notably during the Enlightenment era but also at the beginning of the 20th century, in the mathematical realm of infinity applied to the study of curves.

29/05/2024

YOEN QIAN-LAURENT: Walk the Line. Pascal on Meaning, Rules and Skepticism
Abstract: The relation of Pascal’s philosophy to language is well-known. Pascal’s rhetorical considerations, his reflections on the language of “honnêteté,” and the analysis of definition in De l’Esprit géométrique have been the focus of many commentaries. But these texts remain relatively undetermined in their epistemological dimension, and, especially, in the context of a more abstract reflection on the nature of meaning, truth, and language. In this article, I show how Pascal’s reflection is confronted with a particular challenge regarding the meaning of words and uncertainty. This problem can be restated with the help of the concept of rule and involves our ability to assess what it means to follow a rule. I trace Pascal’s evolution in the face of this problem, adopting successively a dogmatist position, a skeptical position and finally a contextualist position in three different texts where this challenge emerges. This development underlines the sense in which Pascal’s pragmatism is a fundamental principle of his thinking about human knowledge and how it should be addressed by philosophers.

29/05/2024

SYLVAIN JOSSET: Heart, Intelligence and Intuitus: Arnauld and Nicole, Cartesian Interpreters of Pascal
Abstract: In a famous fragment of the Pensées, Pascal explains that it is through the heart that we know first principles. But what is the meaning of this knowledge? The editors of Port-Royal took the radical decision to replace the occurrences of “heart” in this fragment with the expression “feeling and intelligence [sentiment et intelligence]”, thus marking the equivalence of these two notions. However, given that Pascal contrasts the heart with reason, and that intelligence is, for both Pascal and Descartes, synonymous with reason, how are we to understand this modification? Some commentators have seen it as an absurdity, proving that it could not have been made by interpreters like Arnauld and Nicole. In this article, I first show, on the contrary, that it is precisely a chapter of the second edition of The Logic of Port-Royal that offers the key to the difficulty. While Arnauld and Nicole are faithful to the Cartesian synonymy of intelligence and reason everywhere else, in this chapter they distinguish between these two notions, taking Descartes’ distinction between intuitus and reason from the Rules for the Direction of the Mind. Secondly, I contest this interpretation of the Pascalian heart: the heart, as an originally passive capacity of feeling, differs from the Cartesian intuitus.

29/05/2024

TAMÁS PAVLOVITS: Unitatis amatrix natura. Le problème de l’unité chez Pascal
Abstract: This study aims to clarify the relationship between nature and God in Pascalian thought. This relationship is based on the concept of unity. In a letter of 1648, Pascal wrote that God is present in nature through the ontological and formal unity of things which represents perfect divine unity. A few years later, through his mathematical research, Pascal discovered the principle of double infinity which he considered to be the essential attribute of nature. The unity of nature is defined as the omnipresence of double infinity in nature. However, these two interpretations of unity are mutually exclusive because double infinity destroys all ontological and formal unity in things. The question is how Pascal maintains the relationship between nature and God if the principle of double infinity destroys formal unity in nature. The paper argues that the presence of the double infinite in nature does not destroy the relationship of resemblance and representation between nature and God but makes it more complex. The double infinite does not represent God in nature directly but is inscribed in things as the image of the hidden God.

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ALBERTO FRIGO: Il faut savoir désespérer où il faut. Pascal et le désespoir de la philosophie
Abstract: Whether it’s a question of “human philosophy” or of the Christian understanding of action in a regime of efficacious grace, for Pascal despair is always the effect of an error of appreciation. We overestimate our misery and powerlessness, we make them the whole of our being and our action, and so we consider ourselves only miserable and totally powerless. Despair should therefore be prevented and neutralised when it takes hold of the soul, never advocated or fed. Never – except perhaps in one case, and it is this case that we would like to address in this paper. A case that is all the more paradoxical because it is precisely in its proper place, where it is opportune and necessary, that despair appears difficult if not almost impossible to produce.

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THOMAS BELLON: L’art de persuader et les règles de la méthode chez Pascal
Abstract: In this study, we attempt to show how the "art of persuasion" delivers a new conception of method, one that makes it possible to resolve the practical problems imposed by grounding truth in evidence alone. In this way, we show that the different determinations of the art of persuasion that run through the eponymous text, describe the various modalities of a single doctrine of persuasion that substitutes the precept of evidence – without denying it – for the need to define and demonstrate principles.

29/05/2024

VLAD ALEXANDRESCU: Les deux manuscrits de L’Art de persuader de Pascal
Abstract: This study analyses the manuscript tradition of Pascal’s work now known as De l’art de persuader and offers a historical, textual and conceptual criticism of the decisions that led to the privileging of one source (the P’ manuscript) over another (the M manuscript and the D printed version) in the editorial history of the text. On the basis of this critique, the author formulates new genetic hypotheses and justifies the probity of the M copy for the establishment of the text of De L’art de persuader that can lead towards a general interpretation of Pascalian epistemology.

29/05/2024

IULIANA CINDREA-NAGY
From Communists to Rebellious: Repressive Measures and Narratives of the State Against the Old Calendarist Communities in Romania (1924–1939)
Abstract: After the consultative synod at Constantinople in 1923, the Romanian Orthodox Church agreed to adopt a revised version of the Julian calendar. This meant a break with tradition that brought about a series of crises on a spiritual and political level. Dissent movements, known as Old Calendarist, started to emerge in the villages of Moldavia and Bessarabia; led by defrocked monks, these groups posed a threat for the Romanian Orthodox Church and for the newly formed state and its modernising goals. Accused of sympathising with the communist ideas, as well as of propagating them, the Old Calendarist leaders were labelled as dangerous Bolsheviks and aggressive measures were adopted by both state and church authorities in order to destroy the movements and disperse their members. Based on press articles of the time and archival documents, the present study analyses the development that the Old Calendarist movement underwent in Bessarabia, a region with a strong monastic tradition, as well as the discourse and politics of state authorities against this specific community.

29/05/2024

CRISTINA DIAC
Scapegoats or Agents of State Dissolution? The Comintern, the Romanian Communists, and the Grivița Strike in February 1933
Abstract: Romanian Prime Minister Al. Vaida‑Voevod aired the “communist danger” that “threatens the constitutional order and aims to dismantle the Greater Romania” when he asked for parliamentary support for the Law on state of siege (martial law) in February 1933. This article will investigate the role of the transnational communist networks in Romania in the Grivița strikes to verify the truthfulness of the Prime Minister’s discourse. The communists’ role in the Grivița strikes is part of the general performance of these transnational networks during the Great Depression. The political strength of the Romanian extreme‑left will be assessed by taking into consideration the main goals of the Comintern towards the transport sector during the Great Depression, the institutions that were supposed to achieve the goals, and their effectiveness from mid‑January until mid‑February 1933.

29/05/2024

COSMIN SEBASTIAN CERCEL
Unearthing the Dark Side of the Law. Narratives of Law and Authority in the Tatar Bunar Trials
Abstract: This article examines a series of events that are generally known in historiography as the “Tatarbunar Uprising” – an armed rebellion that took place over ten days in September 1924 in south‑eastern Bessarabia. I am also interested in the aftermath of those events as well as in their legal and memorial afterlife. My attempt is to reason through and to clarify the legal and historiographical construction of narratives of sovereign power as they emerge from the archives of the trial as well as that of the preceding and subsequent military and police operations. The reflection I will conduct here is indeed grounded in the historical context of 1923‑1925, but the jurisprudential and comparative legal and political analysis I will deploy here has more general reach insofar as it aims to grasp some more general points about the status of legality under the conditions of emergency.

29/05/2024

CORNELIU PINTILESCU
Social Turmoil, Anti-Communist Discourses and the Resort to the State of Siege in Interwar Romania (1918–1933)
Abstract: Similarly to other European countries, Romania faced multiple and intertwined crises during the interwar period, including successive moments of social turmoil, the activity of its hostile neighbours, the emergence of various far‑right groups contesting the liberal order, and the looming spectre of the revolution. Among these threats, the fears of revolution and the intense activity of the Comintern worked both as main causes and discursive tools when the state resorted to emergency powers, which took the form of the state of siege in interwar Romania. By drawing on the files created by the Romanian secret police of that time, I argue that the state‑of‑siege mechanisms targeted not only those “threats” the state institutions invoked as reasons to justify the resort to emergency powers, but much broader categories of citizens. Several leaders of the political opposition, such as Pantelimon Halippa, or intellectuals involved in defending the civil rights engaged in vivid debates on the risks lurking behind the abuse of emergency powers. Finally, the abusive use of the state of siege worked as a corrosive force against the liberal order of the 1923 Constitution and heavily contributed to the establishment of King Carol II’s dictatorship in 1938.

29/05/2024

PASCAL GIRARD
Italian and French Democracies’ Containment of Communist Unrest in the Early Cold War
Abstract: After a brief interlude of legality ending in 1947, France and Italy faced violence fuelled by Communist organisations; the most important took place from the autumn of 1947 to the autumn of 1948 and greatly impressed governments and public opinion, sustaining fear of a Communist uprising. Facing this challenge to public order were resolute Ministers of the Interior Mario Scelba and Jules Moch. Their policy gained them the reputation of resolute anti‑Communists going beyond the limits of democratic legality. This paper questions this simple picture. In fact, for centre‑right and centre‑left governments ruling these two countries, emergency powers were linked to the state of (civil) war and both ministries’ policies relied mainly on the application of the existing penal code and the mobilisation of existing forces. Moves to strengthen repressive laws depended on a long and uncertain parliamentary process and, without wide political consensus and solid parliamentary majorities, they often proved to be too little or too late. Judiciary repression was sometimes inefficient, leaving the Ministries infuriated by impunity. With the fear of world war peaking in 1950, there were legal efforts to thwart possible Communist support for a Soviet invasion; but those did not appear any more fruitful than prior attempts, and faded when internal matters seemed more urgent than the declining “Red Threat” in the 1950s. This study also highlights the fact that the repression by the Italian state, relying on former Fascist laws and sometimes infringing on civil liberties, was more violent than in France. Casualties caused by law enforcement persisted even after the decrease of Communist activism, underlying the historically higher level of social and political confrontation in Italy.

29/05/2024

RASTKO LOMPAR
The Emergence and Evolution of Anticommunist Legislation in Interwar Yugoslavia
Abstract: The aim of this paper is to outline the history of anticommunist legislation in interwar Yugoslavia and to bring to the fore its key phases. This approach is employed to re‑examine the effectiveness of the introduced laws, to pinpoint their shortcomings, but also their strong points. Virtually from its creation, the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (Yugoslavia) was hostile to communism. Anticommunist convictions of the ruling elites influenced many aspects of governance, not only internal affairs, as the outlawing of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia in December 1920, but also foreign policy, as postponing the recognition of the Soviet Union to 1940. There are three distinct phases of anticommunist legislation, each clearly marked by a key anticommunist law. During the first phase (1918‑1921), there were few legal instruments for combating left‑wing radicalism. The second phase (1921‑1929) was marked by the introduction of a highly controversial Law on the Protection of Public Security and State Order, which gave previous unprecedented powers to the prosecutors and police to crush the emerging communist movement. This legal framework was further expanded after the proclamation of the King`s dictatorship in 1929, and the overhaul of the Law, as well as the introduction of a special tribunal – The State Court for the Protection of the State.

29/05/2024

KRISTINA KRAKE
Taming, not Banning: Scandinavian Containment of the Communists
Abstract: This article examines the Scandinavian political responses to radical left‑wing activism in the interwar period. This is done by combining an analysis of legalistic aspects with rhetoric. Although the Scandinavian countries— Denmark, Sweden and Norway—did not embark on a path of emergency powers to fight a communist enemy, attempts to tame and ban communist parties certainly took place. The article argues that all three countries imposed restrictive legislation to inhibit any kinds of movements, hostile to the democratic system, but also that there were limits to the restrictions. Thus, the parliamentarians decided to criminalize tendencies to political violence, but to tolerate anti‑democratic sentiments to be voiced. By addressing the response to subversive movements, the article offers insights into Scandinavian efforts to safeguard democracy in a time of political and social crisis.

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CORNELIU PINTILESCU, COSMIN CERCEL
Editors’ Introduction: Left-Wing Radical Politics and Emergency Powers in Interwar Europe
Abstract: This argument aims to provide an overview of the historical context and main factors shaping the relation between left‑wing radical politics and emergency powers in interwar Europe. It also brings to the fore how left‑wing radical movements fuelled, reacted to and were connected with the multiple crises of the time span between the two world wars. The main argument is that emergency powers had the potential and were turned into a vehicle for an authoritarian drive, as several cases of that time illustrate. The abuse of emergency powers led to a normalisation of political violence and worked as a corrosive force against the liberal order in several European countries during the interwar period.

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Corneliu PINTILESCU & Cosmin CERCEL (Eds)
Left-Wing Radical Politics and Emergency Powers in Interwar Europe
History of Communism in Europe, vol. 14 / 2023

27/05/2024

forthcoming

Vlad Alexandrescu, Dana Jalobeanu, Sorana Corneanu

10/05/2024

Rolf KÜHN, Materie und Empfinden: Zur Grundgegebenheit von Hyletik, Aisthetik und Ästhetik in Natur und Kosmos

Seit der Antike besitzt die Hyle einen zweideutigen Status als Wesen und Individuum. Der ontologische Diskurs lässt sie sowohl als unbegrenzt wie unaussprechlich erscheinen, was sich in der Ideengeschichte fortsetzt. Bei Schelling tritt sie innerhalb einer dem Bewusstsein gleichwertigen Naturphilosophie als Prinzip der Scheidung im Ungrund auf, damit sich das Absolute offenbaren kann. Auch Husserls Hyletik bleibt der intentionalen Noetik untergeordnet, weil das Urimpressionale durch Zeit wie Teleologie bestimmt wird, um nur in der monadischen Triebgemeinschaft eine gewisse Eigenständigkeit zu erlangen. Letztere wird erst durch die materiale Phänomenologie Henrys eines pathischen Lebens als rein immanente Wirklichkeit allen Erscheinens analysiert und für Natur wie Kultur fruchtbar gemacht. Die Untersuchung berücksichtigt gleichfalls die Tradition von Empirismus, Sensualismus und Materialismus, die der Materie einen angemessenen Platz verleihen wollte, aber nur die neuzeitliche Verkürzung alles Kosmologischen auf messbare Daten vorbereitete, anstatt das hyletische Grundverhältnis im subjektiven Empfinden einer originär fleischlichen Materie zu sehen. Unter diesem Gesichtspunkt werden auch Aisthetik/Ästhetik aufgegriffen, so dass sich insgesamt ein kritischer Überblick zum abendländischen Materieverständnis ergibt.

ISBN: 978-606-697-167-6 (paperback)
ISBN: 978-606-697-168-3 (eBook)

30/04/2024

forthcoming

29/03/2024

EXTENDED DEADLINE: CfP Studia Phaenomenologica vol. XXV (2025) – Eco-Phenomenology

Argument: Eco-phenomenology is a recently emerged discipline that aims to constructively rearticulate the relationship of phenomenology with natural sciences based on the assumption of a situated and embodied subject. The concept of eco-phenomenology was introduced in 2001 by David Wood in connection to an approach that mediates between ecological phenomenology and phenomenological ecology. Shortly afterwards, it was adopted by Charles S. Brown and Ted Toadvine. Since then, the list of contributions to a more or less critical phenomenology of the environment has been substantially enriched, proving the fertility of phenomenological reflection and its potential to cope with pressing issues regarding the environmental crisis. However, already in the 20th century and despite the programmatic resistance of phenomenology to naturalism, its exponents had integrated theories of biology (von Uexküll) or environmental psychology (Gibson), to name just a few relevant scientific disciplines. The interdisciplinary dialogue is expected to gain in importance in the future and include the atmospheric sciences and Blue Humanities.

The field of eco-phenomenology is not confined, though, to attempts to engage in a dialogue with natural sciences (e.g., Böhme & Schiemann). Classical concepts of phenomenology, such as physis, Earth and sky, fourfold (Heidegger, Held), fūdo (Watsuji), and even “face” (Levinas), were reinterpreted in the light of present environmental issues. Maurice Merleau-Ponty was particularly influential on phenomenologists who were committed to environmental issues (Toadvine, Abram, Berleant), but other phenomenological approaches might be equally inspiring, as, for example, Gaston Bachelard’s theory of elements, Mikel Dufrenne’s ontology of a poetic nature, Eugen Fink’s cosmological philosophy, Heidegger’s phenomenology of care and concern, etc. Relevant in this context are also the phenomenology of place (Relph, Casey, Seamon) and the New Phenomenology of atmosphere (Schmitz, Böhme, Hasse, Griffero, etc.).

The present CfP conceives eco-phenomenology in the broad sense of the plethora of experiences that are related to dwelling on Earth (oikos) but specifically welcomes subjects related to the present environmental crisis and possible contributions of phenomenology to mitigate it. Beyond enriching the sphere of phenomenological approaches, we are interested in raising the question of how the phenomenological emphasis on experience can contribute to a critical environmental philosophy, ethics, and aesthetics.

Possible topics are:

Analyses of senses which are crucial for the experience of the environment and have hitherto benefitted from little attention (e.g., the sense of temperature, the experience of electricity, magnetism, echolocation, the place-making and place-disrupting capacity of odors, etc.).
Eco-sensitivity and the new everydayness in the Anthropocene. This includes negative experiences related to pollution and toxic atmospheres, as well as dysfunctions of sensitivity: abnormal place experience (Fletcher’s “dystoposthesia”), the general discomfort caused by exposure to chemical substances, etc.
The disenchantment of landscape. Experiences of landscape beyond contemplative constitution (Smuda), Romantic fusion (Schmitz), and topophilia (Tuan). What happens when the “lived landscape” (Waldenfels) becomes inhabitable? Experiences of deserted, haunted, devastated, nuclear, and in general uncanny (Trigg) “landscapes.”
The subject’s immersion in the atmosphere or being sky-bound. Experiences of weather phenomena and meteo-sensitivity have been occasionally described by human geographers (e.g., Craig) but have only seldom drawn the phenomenologists’ attention so far (Ogawa, Diaconu).
Environmental experiences in non-Euro-American contexts. How do environmental factors such as climate and vegetation, but also cultural traditions and beliefs, modulate the category of landscape? Does the understanding of landscape change in tropical forests or during the arctic winter? Are the “sentient landscapes” (Cruikshank) in the indigenous cultures compatible with the legacy of phenomenology? Can/should the sources of phenomenographies be extended to traditional ecological knowledge?
Phenomenology of crisis, threat, loss, and precariousness. Has the ecological crisis contributed to the recent shift of emphasis away from the subject’s intentionality? The “pathic” subject (Hasse) is responsive and vulnerable, subject to contingent encounters, being affected by the resonance with an environment that appears itself as fragile (Waldenfels, Wiesing, Böhme, Rosa). Analyses of moods that come to the fore in the present environmental context: anguish, nostalgia and mourning, shame, guilt, etc.
Poly-temporal structures and new experiences of temporality:
The value of ephemerality and the “celebration of finitude” (Wood).
Rhythmicity and periodicity. The “natural” resonance between body rhythms and natural rhythms, but also their increasing dissonance at present due to technology and climate change (light pollution, disturbances of seasonality, etc.).
Deep time and intergenerational experience. Traditionally, phenomenology focused on immediate individual experiences; however, climate change is a diffuse “hyperobject” (Morton). Slow decay, remote pollution, or invisible contamination transcend the experiential evidence and the horizon of hic et nunc perception, engaging the memory of losses and the fear of future destruction. How can phenomenology account for middle- and long-term developments that require comparisons between generations? Can it integrate collective memory and even the deep time that is crucial in geology and climatology? Can the experience of temporal sublime (Toadvine, Brady) motivate eco-friendly patterns of thinking and behavior?
Orientation towards future. Phenomenology has often been infused with hermeneutic analyses, while the environmental crisis requires visionary thinking and constructive alternatives. Can traditional phenomenological concepts (e.g., Heidegger’s “projection”) or phenomenological interpretations of imagination support a future-oriented environmental philosophy, ethics, and aesthetics?
Phenomenology of sustainability and care. How are material things experienced along the axis desire-use-discard? Can the category of “thinghood” be extended to raw materials (resources) and leftovers of consumption? How can waste challenge the phenomenological horizon of signification and value? Can the regeneration and restoration of environments become a subject of phenomenological analyses, and can phenomenology’s concern with everydayness integrate practices of care (maintenance, repair, recycling) (Saito)?
Stepping beyond anthropocentrism. Can phenomenology accommodate the nowadays widespread requirement to overcome an (if not epistemic, at least moral) anthropocentric perspective? How can its first-person account cope with the present tendency to extend agency beyond human subjects?
Eco-phenomenology, critical phenomenology, environmental activism. What is “Critical Ecophenomenology” (Toadvine)? Can phenomenology, understood as a praxis of critical reflection, be converted into a resource for action, resistance, and empowerment? Does its awareness-raising function have a transformative potential beyond academic circles? Can its emphasis on the subject’s unavoidable bodily emplacement enhance the general sense of interconnectedness?
Analyses of ecological art and environmental art, place-making practices in architecture, landscape/city planning and everyday life, etc.
EXTENDED DEADLINE: July 15, 2024.

26/03/2024

26/03/2024

Call for Papers: History of Communism in Europe nr.15/2024
"The Big Red Screen: Cinema behind the Iron Curtain"
In the attempt to create a new society, one that sought to make the old order permanently forgotten, the Communists found in cinema the ideal media communicator for their political goals.


In a classical study of political propaganda through movies, British historian Richard Taylor pointed out that for the Bolsheviks, cinema was best used to convey the revolutionary message to a largely illiterate population that spoke over a hundred different languages and had a varied cultural background. It is in this context that the famous statement attributed to Lenin should be deciphered: “Of all arts, Cinema is the most important for us.” Cinema was perceived by the Bolsheviks as a predominantly visual, dynamic, modern medium – in a word: revolutionary.



After the end of the Second World War, the USSR exported the Soviet model of revolutionary cinema to its satellites. The implementation of this model varied depending on specific local conditions. But regardless of the degree of freedom and control, all these film industries were a state monopoly and were oriented in the direction of transmitting the propaganda messages of the new communist regimes. At the same time, it is no less true that the socialist film production emulated the Western cinema beyond the “Curtain” in genres borrowed from the latter, such as historical epics, crime films, comedies and even westerns.



This issue of History of Communism in Europe aims to follow the organization, operation and products of cinemas in the Eastern European communist bloc from a comparative perspective. We are particularly interested in covering the political control and the limits of liberalization in the film industry, the statute of filmmakers and the interaction with Western cinemas, as well as the resulting cultural products. Cinema as a field of research is at the crossroads of several scientific fields. Hence, the editors welcome contributions from different fields of research: art history, cultural studies, philosophy, sociology, visual anthropology, political science or any other related areas of interest.



Topics may address (but are not limited to) the following aspects:

Institutional organization and exchanges
Biographies of filmmakers
Cinema & Propaganda
Cultural policies
Censorship
Dissent in Cinema
Film genres
Contributors are kindly asked to write abstracts (English or French) that do not exceed 500 words.

Deadline: April 30, 2024.

You may submit your proposals at: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected].

Selected authors will be notified by May 7th, 2024.

The deadline for the final draft of the paper is September 15th, 2024.

The academic journal History of Communism in Europe (hce.iiccmer.ro) is edited by The Institute for the Investigation of Communist Crimes and the Memory of the Romanian Exile. It is a journal open to all inquiries that have the objectivity, complexity and sophistication required by any research on the issue of communism, as well as on the different aspects of totalitarianisms of 20th Century Europe. These scholarly investigations must remain an interdisciplinary enterprise, in which raw data and refined concepts help us understand the subtle dynamics of any given phenomenon.