FERBOPO ERA ChairThe FERBOPO ERA Chair project continues its Sober Thought series with a session that tackled one of the most pressing and underexplored intersections in public life.
On 18 June 2026, Dr Radu Cinpoeș (Associate Professor of Politics and International Relations, University of Greenwich) delivered a talk titled “Church and Sexual Exploitation” to an online audience of faculty members, graduate students, and researchers from Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu and beyond.
The talk opened up rich discussion on how religious institutions navigate — and at times entrench — structural conditions that leave vulnerable populations without adequate protection.
Watch the full recording below:
About the Radu Cinpoes
Radu Cinpoes is Associate Professor of Politics and International Relations and Academic Portfolio Lead for Politics and International Relations. Radu joined the University of Greenwich in September 2023, having been Head of the Department of Politics and International Relations at Kingston University since 2014. Prior to that, he taught at Kingston University and the University of Westminster. Radu studied Language and Literature in Romania and was completed a postgraduate degree in Comparative Literature there, before he was awarded his PhD in Political Science at Kingston University in 2006.
Radu’s teaching and research interests include global political issues, right wing politics, human rights and social justice, and migration and refugee issues. Growing out of his interest in nationalism and the politics of exclusion, his research has recently focused on two complementary directions: issues concerning right-wing populism and extremism, discrimination and intolerance, on the one hand, and migration, mobility and refugee issues on the other. He has published on the extreme right, nationalism, European identity and Romanian politics. His current research project investigates agential reflexive mediation of structural conditionings and the role of social networks in the context of transnational mobility.
About the Series
A rich body of scholarship explores the interaction between state institutions, religious communities, and the politics of the body — in Romania, across Central and Eastern Europe, and beyond. Sober Thought invites well-known authors to present their work to the FERBOPO team and a broader audience of faculty members, graduate students, and interested participants from within and outside Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu.
The series reflects FERBOPO’s commitment to open science and public engagement with research — making high-quality academic scholarship freely accessible to all.
We welcome you to register and participate in the following sessions:
💻 Join online via Google Meet: https://meet.google.com/xvj-ogxd-woc
✅ Register here: https://forms.gle/JgtMY8w8vnEGSkgx7
Sober Thought: A FERBOPO Forum is part of the dissemination activities of the FERBOPO ERA Chair project (Grant Agreement No. 101184092), funded by the European Union’s Horizon Europe programme. Views expressed during the sessions are those of the speakers only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Research Executive Agency.
