From the pandemic to a sea of ignorance

2 June 2021 The Barricade

From the pandemic to a sea of ignorance

On Bulgaria’s neoliberal educational reformThe Barricade

5 May 2021 Boyan Stanislavski

Poland: A student is expelled from school for opposing Catholic fundamentalism

Nothing like this has ever happened before. So far, the Polish authorities have used the police and a pro-government portion of the judiciary to repress young people who took part in protests against Poland’s near-total ban on abortion, rather than teachers.Boyan StanislavskiBulgarian and Polish activist, journalist, editor, publisher and translator.

1 April 2021 Thomas Klikauer - Norman Simms

Management Studies and Capitalism

Or why the study of business is bullshit?Thomas Klikauer – Norman SimmsThomas Klikauer is the author of Hegel’s Moral Corporation and Seven Management Moralities.

18 March 2021 Thomas Klikauer - Norman Simms

University Spiralists and Aca-Zombies

On onslaught of neoliberalism and managerialism in the higher educationThomas Klikauer – Norman SimmsThomas Klikauer is the author of Hegel’s Moral Corporation and Seven Management Moralities.

3 February 2021 Thomas Klikauer - Norman Simms

Master of Disaster

The story of a Germany’s Private UniversityThomas Klikauer – Norman SimmsThomas Klikauer is the author of Hegel’s Moral Corporation and Seven Management Moralities.

22 December 2020 Vladimir Mitev

The occidentosis and the modernization of Iran

The pre-revolutionary Iranian writer Jalal Al-e Ahmad looks for the creation of a new subject of the Iranian modernity – not in the blind Westernization, or in retreat to lifeless tradition, but in “a return forwad” to breaking the spell of machine and technology and putting them in service of

27 September 2020 Paul Jay

Covid and Conspiracy Rising in Romania

The decay of the Romanian education system has created a fertile ground for Covid conspiracy theories, many of which originate in right-wing America. Maria Cernat joins Paul Jay on theAnalysis.news podcast produced in collaboration with Other News.Paul JayPaul Jay (born 1951) is a journalist and a filmmaker. He is the founder and host of

14 July 2020 Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski

The conservative crusade against Gender Studies and Education: It is not “Sex sells”, it is “Fear sells”

Boyan Stanislavski and Maria Cernat take on the conservative Polish and Romanian resistance against the so-called Sexomarxism or liberal concepts on genderMaria Cernat – Boyan StanislasvskiBoyan Stanislavski (Poland) and Maria Cernat (Romania) make a regular video podcast, in which they discuss various developments in Poland, Romania and the region. The

19 April 2020 Małgorzata Kulbaczewska-Figat - Vladimir Mitev

David Bisset: Young and sophisticated Bulgarians offer hope, but are few in number

An interview with an expert on child development and social care, on hurdles to social change in Bulgaria and how Bulgarians could overcome themMałgorzata Kulbaczewska-Figat – Vladimir Mitev

11 July 2018 Telciu Summer School

Dear Summer School, please don’t die!

A crowdfunding call by the Telciu Summer SchoolTelciu Summer SchoolThe Telciu Summer School was founded in 2016. It is an educational innovative activity of the Center for the Study of Modernity and the Rural World, Telciu, Romania. It is a natural upgrade of the international conferences, which have been taking place in the Transilvanian village of Telciu