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FROM PROVINCIAL TO GLOCAL

FROM PROVINCIAL TO GLOCAL. Transylvania as a real and metaphysical site of cultural diversity Rita Sebestyén, PhD www.sebestyenrita.com. Topics:. spaces, places, real/physical, meta-/virtual, τόπος, χώρα, heterotopia, utopia, de /re / territorialization

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FROM PROVINCIAL TO GLOCAL

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  1. FROM PROVINCIAL TO GLOCAL Transylvania as a real and metaphysical site of cultural diversity Rita Sebestyén, PhD www.sebestyenrita.com

  2. Topics: • spaces, places, real/physical, meta-/virtual, τόπος, χώρα, heterotopia, utopia, de/re/territorialization • Transylvania as a real and imaginary space (subject to several cultural/political narratives) • rewritten narratives, redrawn maps in the right-wing political discourses • all your questions

  3. Spaces – and all those related • Ancient Greeks: τόπος, χώρα • Heidegger: space, place • Foucault: utopia, heterotopia • David Wiles: real and meta-spaces • Deleuze-Guattari: geophilosohpy – deterritorialization/reterritorialization • Péter György: Transylvania as an abusively rewritten imaginary space

  4. Trianon and the right-wing discourse

  5. Transylvania – main features Geographically: 103,000 km2 (in the Carpathian basin). Population: Romanian, Hungarian, German, Roma, Armenian, Serbian. Features: • Minorities • peripheral /province/ on the edge/ sub-culture • no economic, cultural and political representation (or weak) • tainted by extremist activities • multi-cultural • multi-lingual • multifaceted

  6. Transylvania – subject to disputes Hungarian minority in Romania: in 1990: ≈ 2 millions in 2012: ≈ 1,5 million /the rest:migrant Deterritorialization (take control over a space or land that is already established): historical, cultural, revisionist theories of right-wing discourse. Hungary (around 10 million inhabitants) Romania (around 20 million inhabitants)

  7. Péter György: A Zoo in Cluj – An Imaginary Transylvania • representation through writers, poets, philosophers – interdisciplinary approach • first complex discourse about the Hungarian minority • a Transylvanian castle in the heart of Budapest, Hungary • a pilgrimage to a small villageof Transylvania • „sacred” places

  8. Real / replica castle

  9. Pilgrimage

  10. Cluj/Cluj-Napoca/Kolozsvár/Klausenburg

  11. Issues Islands and the sea: Ancient Greeks and Deleuze – Guattari. Hungarian right-wing’s slogan: „once we had three seas – now we do not have any!” Geophilosophy – how do we understand our existence by reading and mapping the world we live in? From what perspective could we ever state that there any hierarchy among cultures or cultural phenomena?

  12. Hierarchical structure / Rhizomatic structure

  13. Representation through arts Theatre: do it, talk about it, get international Around 20 Hungarian theatres and theatre institutions in Romania: • state subsidized or supported by the local government • independent/ alternative/ private groups and companies • 2 universities Játéktér/Spatiu de joc/ Playing Area: www.jatekter.ro Periodical and site: around 50 contributors - from 19 to 75 years old: critics, researchers, theatre professionals (dramaturges, actors, stage directors), philosophers, sociologists, writers, and even a priest! Representations of the Other: Language, Body and Space in Cross-Cultural Performances Romania, Hungary, The USA, Sweden, The United Kingdom, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Malta, Germany, India and maybe Uganda http://representationsother.wordpress.com/

  14. Globalistaion / Networking

  15. Main conflicts Transylvania – re-drawing the counties in Romania and march for autonomy ROMANIA – Roşia Montana: gold an cyanide in the territory of the country HUNGARY – right-wing movements: Jewish and Roma people have no place in the imagined Great Hungary

  16. Transylvania- march for autonomy

  17. Romania: Roşia Montană

  18. Hungary - Roma people killed, marches of extremists and the Radnóti case

  19. Miklós Radnóti: How Others SeeJanuary 17 , 1944 – translation by Thomas Land How others see this region, I cannot understand: to me, this little country is menaced motherland with flames around, the world of my childhood swaying far, and I am grown from this land as tender branches are from trees. And may my body sink into this soil in the end. When plants reach out towards me, I greet them as a friend and know their names and flowers. I am at home here, knowing the people on the road and why and where they are going- and how I know the meaning when by a summer lane the sunset paints the walls with a liquid flame of pain!

  20. Thank you! Rita Sebestyén, PhD www.sebestyenrita.com

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