Events
NEC fosters critical thinking through public lectures and debates.
November 2025
Corrupted Are Always the Others: Systemic Corruption in Eighteenth Century Spain
Research GroupDate:
3 November 2025, 16.00-18.00 (Bucharest time)
Location: NEC conference room & Zoom
Ricard TORRA-PRAT, Guest Researcher, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München; Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Performing Holocaust Memory: Repertoires of Song and Drawing
NEC SeminarDate:
5 November 2025, 11.00-13.00 (Bucharest time)
Location: NEC conference room & Zoom
Alexandru BAR, Ștefan Odobleja Fellow; Research Associate, University of York
TANDEM, Author with Translator – Translator with Author
NEC SeminarDate:
6 November 2025, 11.00-13.00 (Bucharest time)
Location: NEC conference room & Zoom
Translating Dan Coman’s collection of short stories “Ce preferi?” (What do you prefer?) from Romanian into Bulgarian
Dan COMAN, Tandem Fellow, Author
Stilyan DEYANOV, Tandem Fellow, Translator
Can Neuroscience Understand Memory without Input from Other Disciplines?
ConferenceDate:
10 November 2025, 17.00-19.00
Location: NEC conference room
Alex EASTON, Professor in the Department of Psychology, Durham University; Director, Institute of Advanced Study, Durham University
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The lecture has been postponed due to unforeseen circumstances.
If the lecture is rescheduled or delivered online, further information will be provided in due course.
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Science and Society in the High Roman Empire
NEC SeminarDate:
12 November 2025, 11.00-13.00 (Bucharest time)
Location: NEC conference room & Zoom
Michiel MEEUSEN, NEC Award Fellow; Experienced Researcher, Institute for Classical Philology, Humboldt University, Berlin
NEC-TECH
Research Group (in Romanian)Date:
13 November 2025, 18.00-20.00 (Bucharest time)
Location: NEC#403 & Zoom
Balancing innovation and integrity: the use of AI in research and scientific writing
Papers under discussion:
BaHammam AS. “Balancing Innovation and Integrity: The Role of AI in Research and Scientific Writing”. Nat Sci Sleep. 2023 Dec 29;15:1153-1156. doi: 10.2147/NSS.S455765. PMID: 38170140; PMCID: PMC10759812.
Gilles E. Gignac, “The AI attribution gap: Encouraging transparent acknowledgment in the age of AI”, Intelligence, 108, 2025, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intell.2024.101880
The Disciplinary City and the Disobedient Informal Practices
NEC SeminarDate:
19 November 2025, 11.00-13.00 (Bucharest time)
Location: NEC conference room & Zoom
Alexandru AXINTE, Ștefan Odobleja Fellow; Lecturer, Faculty of Horticulture, University of Agronomical Sciences and Veterinary Medicine, Bucharest
Polarizarea politică
Research Group (in Romanian)Date:
19 noiembrie 2025, 16.00-18.00
Location: NEC conference room & Zoom
Ne face o deosebită plăcerea să vă invităm la o dezbatere pe marginea cărții Uncivil Agreement: How Politics Became Our Identity (University of Chicago Press, 2018) de
Participanți: Camil PÂRVU, Alexandru VOLACU, Adelin DUMITRU
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TANDEM, Author with Translator – Translator with Author
NEC SeminarDate:
24 November 2025, 11.00-13.00 (Bucharest time)
Location: NEC conference room & Zoom
Translating Tea Topuria’s novel “Near the Jacob’s Well” from Georgian into Ukrainian
Tea TOPURIA, Tandem Fellow; Writer
Nataliia TROKHYM, Tandem Fellow; Translator
More details about the novel: euprizeliterature.eu
Being a Physician in Moldavia (1800-1850): Education, Transfer of Knowledge, and Medical Practice
NEC SeminarDate:
26 November 2025, 11.00-13.00 (Bucharest time)
Location: NEC conference room & Zoom
Sorin GRIGORUȚĂ, Ștefan Odobleja Fellow; Researcher, “A. D. Xenopol” Institute of History, Romanian Academy, Iași
Transnational Illiberalism in Regional Context: Romania and Bulgaria
RoundtableDate:
Thursday, 27 November 2025, 9.30-13.00 (Bucharest time)
Location: NEC conference room
Moderator: Camil PÂRVU
Participants: Alexandra IANCU, Ruzha SMILOVA, Balázs TRENCZENYI, Liviu ANDREESCU, Stilyan DEYANOV
NEC-TECH
Research Group (in Romanian)Date:
27 November 2025, 18.00-20.00 (Bucharest time)
Location: NEC#403 & Zoom
Paper under discussion:
Clare Birchall, “Just Because You’re Paranoid, Doesn’t Mean They’re Not Out to Get You”
chapter II from Knowledge goes pop. From Conspiracy Theory to Gossip (Berg Publishers, Oxford, 2006)
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