Follow the Money. Networks, Influence, and Power in 1830s Wallachia

Constantin ARDELEANU
Member of the ERC project TransCorr
Senior Researcher, Institute for South-East European Studies / New Europe College, Bucharest

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on Monday, 4 May 2026, at 4 pm, at NEC & via Zoom

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War and Artistic Responses: Theories, Practices, Meanings

Convener:
Veronika ZINCHENKO
Sustaining Ukrainian Scholarship Fellow
Senior Lecturer, R. Glier Kyiv Municipal Academy of Music

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on Wednesday and Thursday, 20-21 May 2026, at NEC & via Zoom

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Economia morală a sacrificiului: muncă, migrație și proletarizare în România rurală

Valer Simion COSMA
Istoric și Antropolog
Cercetător, proiectul  ECOJUST – Doing Environmental InJustice: A Theory in Praxis

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Luni, 25 mai 2026, ora 17.00, la Colegiul Noua Europă

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The NEC Library will be closed on Friday, the 1st of May 2026.

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NEC Close-up Series (2025/2026)

filmed & edited by Alexandru Maftei (NEC Alumnus)

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More interviews will be added shortly.

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32years and counting

Since its beginnings, NEC has grown from a “chamber” into a “symphony” college. It started with five and then ten humanities scholarships for Romanians, and now it has reached almost forty (half-yearly or yearly) scholarships a year, awarded to young researchers from all over the world.

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Call for Applications: TANDEM “Author with Translator – Translator with Author” Fellowships at New Europe College (Bucharest)

Candidates shall email the application form and the documents requested (CVs, letter of commitment, etc.) in PDF format to tandem@nec.ro
The deadline for submitting applications is 15 March 2026. Incomplete or late applications will not be taken into consideration.

Selected candidates will be invited to an online interview at the end of April 2026.
Successful candidates will be announced by the end of April 2026.

3,5 % pentru Fundația Noua Europă

Vă reamintim că puteți sprijini programele Colegiului Noua Europă redirecționând 3,5% din impozitul pe veniturile pe care le-ați obținut în 2024.

Termenul de depunere este 25 mai 2025.

CfP: “Spaces of Negotiation in Post-imperial Orders”, 5 – 6 May 2025, at NEC, Bucharest

Please send your presentation proposals (title, abstract up to 300 words and a short biographical note) by 15th of February 2025 to the organizers Wiktor Marzec (wh.marzec@uw.edu.pl) or Daniela Stanciu-Păscărița (daniela.stanciu@ulbsibiu.ro). Please indicate if you require travel reimbursement (up to 200 EUR) and accommodation. Acceptance decisions will be communicated by 25th of February 2025.

The NEC library currently holds over 40 000 items

Our library includes reference works (dictionaries & encyclopedias), books, periodicals, and multimedia resources in English, French, German, Italian, and Romanian.
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Publications

Dan Dediu (NEC Alumnus), Acul urechii. Eseuri despre muzică și muzicieni (Editura Muzicală, 2026)

 

 

 

 

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Research Programs

Rocking under the Hammer and the Sickle: Popular Music in Socialist Romania between Ideology and Entertainment (1948-1989)
POPCOM

Colonial Anxieties, Corruption Scandals and Xenophobia in Nineteenth-Century Infrastructure Development in Romania
CanCor

Entangled Histories of the Danubian Quarantine System (1774–1914)
DaQuaS

Rule of Law at the European Periphery: (Dis)incentive Structures and Conceptual Shifts
ROLPERIPHERAL

The (Im)possible Alliance: Romania as Initiator and Beneficiary of the Humanitarian Aid (1970-1989)
RoHumAid