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February 2026

Challenges in Literary Translation: Conveying Cultural Nuances and Linguistic Differences between Romanian and Armenian

NEC Seminar
Date:

4 February 2026, 11.00-13.00 (Bucharest time)

 


Location: NEC conference room & Zoom

TANDEM, Author with Translator – Translator with Author: Translating Lavinia Braniște’s novel Interior zero (Polirom, 2016) from Romanian into Armenian

Lavinia BRANIȘTE, Tandem Fellow, Author
Arsen ARZUMANYAN, Tandem Fellow, Translator

Voices of the Past: Empowering Communities Through Oral History Workshops

International Workshop
Date:

4 February 2026, 18.00-19.30
5 February 2026, 9.00-16.00
6 February 2026, 9.00-12.00


Location: NEC conference room

Conveners:
Sandra KING-SAVIĆ and Daniel URSPRUNG

Participants: Aliya BOLATKHAN, Anna FERSZTAND, Hasan HASANOVIC, Tereza HENDL, Botakoz KASSYMBEKOVA, Sandra KING-SAVIĆ, Andreas MAERCKER, Nataša MIŠKOVIĆ, Amina SMAJLOVIC, Daniel URSPRUNG

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Housing in Suburban Areas: The Divide Between National Urban Planning Discourses and Local Planning Cultures in Romania

NEC Seminar
Date:

11 February 2026, 11.00-13.00 (Bucharest time)


Location: NEC conference room & Zoom

Radu-Matei COCHECI, Ștefan Odobleja Fellow; Lecturer, “Ion Mincu” University of Architecture and Urban Planning, Bucharest

Between Conviction, Rights, and Tool: Orthodoxy in EU Enlargement Talks after 2022

NEC Seminar
Date:

18 February 2026, 11.00-13.00 (Bucharest time)


Location: NEC conference room & Zoom

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Julia KORNIICHUK, GCE St. Gallen & IWM for Ukrainian Scholars Fellow

“de internis non nisi deus judicat”: Networks, Insiders, and the State in Transylvania, cca. 1750 – 1800

TransCorr Seminar
Date:

23 February 2026, 16.00-18.00 (Bucharest time)


Location: NEC conference room & Zoom

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Oana SORESCU-IUDEAN, TransCorr team member; Researcher at the Centre for Population Studies of the Babeș-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca

URBANITY IN FLUX. Informality and the Vernacular as Manifestations of a Persistent Historical Urban Culture within Bucharest

NEC Seminar
Date:

25 February 2026, 11.00-13.00 (Bucharest time)


Location: NEC conference room & Zoom

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Tudor ELIAN, Ștefan Odobleja Fellow; Teaching Assistant, “Ion Mincu” University of Architecture and Urban Planning; Curator, The National Museum of the Romanian Peasant

Politics, Legitimacy and Representation in Strained Societies (POLARIS)

Research Group (in Romanian)
Date:

25 February 2026, 17.00-19.00 (Bucharest time)


Location: NEC conference room & Zoom

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Conveners: Camil PÂRVU, Alexandru VOLACU and Adelin-Costin DUMITRU

Paper under discussion:
-Hanspeter Kriesi, “The rise of populism and the new cleavage“, in West European Politics, 2025

Technology – Culture – Humanities (NEC-TECH)

Research Group
Date:

26 February 2026, 18.00-20.00 (Bucharest time)


Location: NEC#403 & Zoom

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Paper under discussion:
Schwitzgebel, E., Sebo, J. The Emotional Alignment Design Policy. Topoi (2026). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11245-025-10363-5

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