Events
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November 2026
Fourth-Century Egypt: Cultural Fluidity, Changing Identities and Eclectic Taste. A Multidisciplinary Overview
ConferenceDate:
2 November 2026, 17.00-19.00
Location: NEC conference room
Paola BUZI, Professor of Egyptology and Coptic Civilisation, Sapienza University of Rome
Beloved Foreigner: Live Monkeys as Symbolic Media in Early Modern Europe
NEC SeminarDate:
4 November 2026, 11.00-13.00 (Bucharest time)
Location: NEC conference room & Zoom
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Alan S. ROSS, NEC UEFISCDI Award Fellow; Associate Professor, University of Vienna
The “Ukrainian Question” in the Kyiv Theological Academy (1819–1919): Religion, Historical Knowledge, and Imperial Nation-Building
NEC SeminarDate:
11 November 2026, 11.00-13.00 (Bucharest time)
Location: NEC conference room & Zoom
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Pavlo YEREMIEIEV, Gerda Henkel Fellow; Associate Professor, V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University
An Analytical Deadlock in the Historiography of the Soviet Bloc?
ConferenceDate:
11 November 2026, 16.00-18.00 (Bucharest time)
Location: NEC conference room & Zoom
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A Philosopher’s Take on the Historians’ Converging Concerns with the Totalitarianism Framework
Manuela UNGUREANU, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of British Columbia-Okanagan, Canada
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https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82510604212?pwd=UXFdYuvJhaXapXsb22E7h1bW6PuSy2.1
Meeting ID: 825 1060 4212
Passcode: 300964
Beasts, Antichrists and the End of Times: Apocalypticism, Prophecy and Eschatological Imagery in South-Eastern Europe
International WorkshopDate:
17 November 2026, 9.30-16.30
Location: NEC conference room & Zoom
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Convener:
Octavian-Adrian NEGOIȚĂ (NEC Alumnus), Scientific Researcher, ICUB – Research Institute of the University of Bucharest
Participants:
Mihai-Cristian AMĂRIUȚEI, Vlad BEDROS, Cristina BOGDAN, archim. Policarp CHIȚULESCU, Lidia COTOVANU, Despoina LAMBADA, Octavian-Adrian NEGOIȚĂ, Elisabeta NEGRĂU, Ovidiu-Victor OLAR, Nikolas PISSIS, Andrei PROHIN, Marinos SARIYANNIS, Aleksandar Z. SAVIĆ, Yorgos TZEDOPOULOS
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https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81073968318?pwd=pVGTzEG8l5N4auQb4MW7d5C2bVHgQg.1
Meeting ID: 810 7396 8318
Passcode: 477305
A World of Vortices or Empty Space? Descartes, Newton, and the Making of Scientific Systems
NEC SeminarDate:
18 November 2026, 11.00-13.00 (Bucharest time)
Location: NEC conference room & Zoom
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Monica SOLOMON, Ștefan Odobleja Fellow; Assistant Professor, Bilkent University
Corruption, Patronage, and Imperial Control: Rethinking Late Phanariot Governance in the Danubian Principalities (1812–1821)
TransCorr SeminarDate:
19 November 2026, 16.00-18.00 (Bucharest time)
Location: NEC conference room & Zoom
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Constanța VINTILĂ, TransCorr team member; PhD. Senior researcher, Nicolae Iorga Institute of History of the Romanian Academy/ New Europe College, Bucharest
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https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86053564093?pwd=soarDcaeGTlulMIYP18BZtzjrtjKmj.1
Meeting ID: 860 5356 4093
Passcode: 197637
Romani Music in 20th Century Romania: Propaganda, Control, and Resistance
NEC SeminarDate:
25 November 2026, 11.00-13.00 (Bucharest time)
Location: NEC conference room & Zoom
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Shaun WILLIAMS, NEC Award Fellow; Independent Scholar
„Corupția” în spațiul românesc: continuitate istorică sau construcție discursivă?
Masă rotundăDate:
25 noiembrie 2026, 16.00-18.00 (București)
Location: NEC conference room & Zoom
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Participanți:
Constantin ARDELEANU, Silvia MARTON, Mária PAKUCS, Andrei-Dan SORESCU, Constanța VINTILĂ
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https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89537700866?pwd=3KnhaOItvIwvN8RBYD5UTs8Geue0PI.1
Meeting ID: 895 3770 0866
Passcode: 706618
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