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December 2025

The Hidden World of Quaternity: Jung, Brâncuși, and the Crimes of Despair

NEC Seminar
Date:

3 December 2025, 11.00-13.00 (Bucharest time)


Location: NEC conference room & Zoom

Maria RYBAKOVA, NEC Alumna; Assistant Professor of Literature, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan; Writer

Capital and Empire in Modern Southeastern Europe

International Workshop
Date:

4 December 2025, 9.30-18.30 (Bucharest time)


Location: NEC conference room & Zoom

Conveners:
Constantin ARDELEANU, NEC Academic Coordinator, Senior Researcher, Institute for South-East European History, Bucharest

Gábor EGRY, Lapedatu Fellow, Director, Institute of Political History, Budapest

Adrian GRAMA, Lapedatu Fellow; Fellow Researcher, Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge

Participants:
Klaus BUCHENAU, Gábor EGRY, Gabriel GODEFFROY, Adrian GRAMA, Gergely IZSÁK, Martin IVANOV, Silvia MARTON, Botond NAGY, Elati PONTIKOPOULOU-VENIERI, Oliver PEJIC, Lucy RIALL, Bianca SENDREA, Andreas WILD

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De la Schönberg la Thomas Mann. Sunetul literaturii cu ecou dodecafonic

Dialog & Concert
Date:

8 decembrie 2025, 19.00-21.00


Location: NEC conference room

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Thomas Mann – 150 de ani

Participă:
Ioana PÂRVULESCU (scriitoare) și Valentina SANDU-DEDIU (muzicolog)
împreună cu cvartetul Arsis (RO):
Mihaela MITROFAN – vioară
Andreea NISTOR – vioară
Mihai TODORAN – violă
Valentin SIMION – violoncel
Invitată: Daria BÂRZU – soprană

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The Bulgarian Community in Istanbul between Networks, Corruption, and Modernization

TransCorr Seminar
Date:

9 December 2025, 16.00-18.00 (Bucharest time)


Location: NEC conference room & Zoom

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Boriana ANTONOVA-GOLEVA, TransCorr team member; Assistant Professor at the Institute for Historical Studies of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia; Postdoctoral Researcher

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Archaeogenetics Deconstructed. A New Take on Neolithic Migrations in Southeast Europe

NEC Seminar
Date:

10 December 2025, 11.00-13.00 (Bucharest time)


Location: NEC conference room & Zoom

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Alexandra ION, Ștefan Odobleja Fellow

Artificial? Naturally!

Research Group
Date:

10 December 2025, 17.30-19.30 (Bucharest time)


Location: NEC conference room & Zoom

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Roundtable on a recently published book (with the author):
Alexandru Bălășescu, Climate Change in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. Nature, Culture and the Politics of Technology (Springer, 2025)

Participants: Andreea EȘANU and members of the NEC-TECH Research Group

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Clara Haskil. Muzica adevărului interior

Roundtable (in Romanian) & Concert
Date:

11 decembrie 2025, ora 17.00


Location: NEC conference room

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Moderator:
Valentina SANDU-DEDIU

Participanți:
Lena VIERU CONTA, Ștefan COSTACHE, Monica ISĂCESCU LUP, Irina NIȚU, Yvonne TOADER

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The Hydrothermal Landscapes of the Balkans in the Age of Geological Travel, ca. 1500-1900

NEC Seminar
Date:

17 December 2025, 11.00-13.00 (Bucharest time)


Location: NEC conference room & Zoom

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Stefan PEYCHEV, NEC Award Fellow

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