Contributori / Contributors:
EON, vol. 6, nr. 2 / 2025

LUIZA-MARIA FILIMON is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of History and Political Science, "Ovidius" University of Constanta, Romania. She holds a PhD in Political Science from the National University of Political and Administrative Studies, Bucharest, Romania.. Areas of interest: poststructuralism and terrorism readings; discriminatory coded narratives in the contemporary American conservative political discourse; right-wing radicalism and the mainstreaming of the radical right; the migration crisis and governance responses, re-borderisation, techno-solutionism and border security.

NICOLAE DRĂGUȘIN has been a Researcher at the Elie Wiesel National Institute for the Study of the Holocaust in Romania since 2017. He holds a PhD in Philosophy from the Romanian Academy (2013) and is currently pursuing a second doctorate in Political Science at the University of Bucharest with a focus on citizenship in Romania, 1918-1948. Dr. Drăgușin also holds degrees in Orthodox theology, law, religious studies, and political science, reflecting his interdisciplinary approach to historical research. His research focuses on political debate and legal regulation of the Romanian citizenship, the role of the Orthodox Church in antisemitic discourse and nationalist ideology during the Holocaust, religious conversion and legal status of the Jews during the Holocaust. Dr. Drăgușin hold several research and fellowship positions. Most recently, he has been a guest researcher at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna (April 2025), and a fellow at the Centre for Advanced Study in Sofia (October 2022-February 2023). He has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals, including Holocaust-studii și cercetări, Romanian Review of Political Sciences and International Relations, Studii teologice, Sfera politicii, Revista Polis, Revista de Filosofie, Mediteranean Journal of Human Rights, Review of Ecumenical Studies. Since 2022 he has been member of the Romanian delegation to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA).

VOLKAN DAVUT MENGI holds a Bachelor's degree in Graphic Design: Visual Communications from the University for the Creative Arts, followed by a Master's degree in Digital Film and Animation from London Metropolitan University. His doctoral studies, which commenced in 2017 under a Hungarian state scholarship at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts, culminated in 2023. Mengi has showcased his work in exhibitions across Austria, the Czech Republic, England, Germany, and Hungary. His academic and professional interests predominantly focus on the intersection of artificial intelligence in design, video games, and virtual reality. He is presently working at the Department of Cartoon and Animation at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University.

DRAGOȘ DRAGOMAN, born in 1977, is PhD in Sociology, with a thesis on social capital and democratization. He is Associate Professor with the Department of Political Science, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, where he teaches Political Anthropology and Political Sociology. His main research interests focus on the sociology of religion, Orientalism, Eastern philosophy, and the anthropological analysis of political power.

ALEXANDRU LAZĂR is a Romanian Orthodox scholar currently pursuing a PhD at the Faculty ofOrthodox Theology in Cluj-Napoca, under the mentorship of Professor Gabriel Viorel Gârdan.His doctoral research focuses on Christian Universalism, specifically exploring its ongoingtheological relevance, with a focus on American Christianity. Lazăr has received recognition forhis academic contributions, such as the Excellentia Award in 2018 and 2022 from Babeș-Bolyai University for outstanding research. He is member of the Romanian Orthodox Church, servingat the"Saints Constantine and Helen" Cathedral in Chicago, Illinois. He is actively involved inthe religious and educational life of the community, particularly with youth, offering catechismlessons at events like summer camps where children learn about the Orthodox faith, prayer, and the lives of saints. 

CRISTIAN PAȘCALĂU is a lecturer dr. at the Department of Romanian Language and General Linguistics, Faculty of Letters, University of Babeș-Bolyai, as well as a peer-review member at Herald Publishing House, Bucharest. He published several studies on cultural semiotics, the universes of discourse, prescriptive grammar of Romanian language, lexicology, and semantics. One of his latest work is entitled Dicționarul metaforelor rebusiste (The Crossword Puzzle Metaphors Dictionary), 2022. His academic interests include: linguistics and philosophy of language, cultural semiotics, lexicology, and semantics.

ADRIAN BADEA is a graduate of the Faculty of Letters of the University of Craiova and, currently, a master's student in Medieval Studies at the University of Bucharest. He published the studies Lucian Blaga and baroque aesthetics (Lucian Blaga și estetica barocului), for which he received the Adrian Marino prize offered by Aius Publishing House and the magazine Mozaicul and Reminiscences medievale in the work of Doina Ruști (Reminiscenț medievale în opera Doinei Ruști). He also collaborates in various cultural magazines, such as Mozaicul, Ficțiunea OPTm, Écritures de Jeunesse AUF, etc., where he publishes chronicles, reviews and prose.

ANCA-ELENA DAVID is lecturer in the Faculty of Socio-Human Sciences of the "Lucian Blaga" University of Sibiu (Romania), where I carry out teaching and research. Doctor in philology in 2008 at the Faculty of Letters, History and Journalism, of "Lucian Blaga" University, Sibiu (Romania) obtaining the "Very Good" rating and the "Magna cum laude" distinction. The main areas of interest, research, and specialization are the communication sciences, the genres of the press in information journalism, documentation in journalism, media criticism, linguistics, and press history, reflected in studies such as "Marginal Thinking. Knowledge and Communication in the Postmodern Era", "The powerful impact of the social media over the field of lifelong learning", "The unity and the unification of Language in the discussions of the Transylvanian press in the 19th century", "No need for the needle. A qualitative analysis of the antivax movement in Romania". A sociable, receptive, empathetic person, eager for continuous knowledge and perfection.

LUCIAN-VASILE SZABO is a Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Communication Sciences of the West University of Timişoara, Romania. In his research work, he touches upon subjects such as the relation between writers and journalists and political power, the involvement of mass-media in democratization, and changes in journalism in the age of digital media. He is the author of the following books: Libertate și comunicare în lumea presei, Un alt Slavici. O geografie publicistică după gratii, The Facts in the Case of E. A. Poe, Sindromul Timişoara 1989: Adevăr şi imaginar, and Revoluţia din 1989 în spitalele timişorene.

MARIA LAZĂR graduated from the University "1 Decembrie 1918" from Alba Iulia with a bachelor's degree in "Romanian language and literature - English language and literature". Her passion for literature and ethnology alike lead her to continue her studies with the master's programme "Romanian Literature and Culture within the European Context". Having a curious personality and a passion for learning and sharing knowledge, she recently began a teaching career, focused on Romanian and English.

FATIMA ABDERRAHMANE is the Head of the Department of Arabic Language and the Head of the Doctoral Project in Computational Linguistics and Arabic Language Sciences. She is also the former Deputy Head of the Arabic Language Department and currently responsible for the specializations in Arabic Linguistics as well as Phonology and Lexicology. She has authored several books on the Arabic language and heritage, and has participated in international and national conferences, study days, and training seminars. She has supervised numerous theses at the Bachelor's, Master's, and Doctoral levels.

KHADIDJA BENCHAHDA is a Lecturer Class A at Hassiba Benbouali University of Chlef, Algeria, and a member of the Scientific Council. She has published several scholarly articles and has actively participated in numerous international and national conferences. In addition, she has supervised a range of academic theses at the Bachelor's, Master's, and Doctoral levels.

NADJET HOCINE is a researcher and teacher at Hassiba Benbouali University of Chlef, Algeria. She focuses on linguistics most of which are in semantics related to syntax, morphology and phonology. Nadjet Hocine is actively taking part in national and international conferences and regularly presents papers on semantics and on topics in rhetoric and pedagogy. She also participates in publishing articles in Arabic and English and is presenting her research results to her peers in scientific journals that assess both the articles and journals.

LEILA BOUCHEBCHEB works as a teacher-researcher (Associate Professor, Class A) at the Assia-Djebar Higher Normal School in Constantine, where she provides high-level training for future educators. A specialist in didactics and the learning sciences of French, she has distinguished herself through the publication of numerous scientific works on key topics such as reading instruction and learning, teaching methodologies, and pedagogical approaches in didactics. Holding a UTICEF Pro diploma from the University of Paris in the field of Information and Communication Technologies for Education (ICTE), she is also interested in issues related to the integration of innovative technologies into teaching practices, as well as the contribution of digital tools to teaching French as a Foreign Language (FFL), areas in which she has also made significant contributions.

VASILE CĂTĂLIN BOBB is associated professor at Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, North University Center in Baia Mare, Faculty of Letters. His academic interests are philosophical hermeneutics and practical philosophy. He is the author of the following books: Hermeneutica şi problema răului în filosofia lui Paul Ricoeur (2015), Pharmakon. Frânturi de text (2019) and Pâlpâiri ale ființei. Mihai Șora și problema omului (2024).

MIHAI POSADA is a poet, essayist and publicist. Born in 1953, in Sibiu, graduated studies in Journalism and PhD (Doctor) in Philological Sciences of "Lucian Blaga" University of Sibiu, member of the International Association of Romanian Writers and Artists LiterArt XXI (Atlanta, Georgia, USA) – since 2003, also of Writers' Union of Romania, Sibiu Branch – since 2008, he is a member of the advisory board of the journal ORIGINS - ROMANIAN ROOTS (Lawrenceville, GA, USA) by one decade. Between 2001-2016, he was editorial secretary of Tribuna, the daily newspaper of Sibiu.

DARIUS AURELIAN DRAGOMIR COZMA is a graduate of the Faculty of Letters and History, in Spanish Language and History at the West University of Timisoara. He completed a master's degree at the School of Advanced European and Comparative Studies of the same university. He is a translator and professor of Spanish. He is currently continuing his doctoral studies in the field of translation studies where he is preparing a paper on Some Spanish Literary Translations into Romanian in the 19th Century, under the guidance of PhD university professor Georgiana Badea from the West University of Timișoara.