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May 2026

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

TransCorr Seminar
Date:

4 May 2026, 16.00-18.00 (Bucharest time)


Location: NEC conference room & Zoom

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

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Categorization, Loss and Displacement: Millet and Turkish Tinsmiths in Bucharest

NEC Seminar
Date:

6 May 2026, 11.00-13.00 (Bucharest time)


Location: NEC conference room & Zoom

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Adriana CUPCEA, Ștefan Odobleja Fellow; Researcher, Romanian Institute for Research on National Minorities, Cluj-Napoca

Digital Public Sphere(s) and the Future of Democratic Autonomy

Research Group
Date:

6 May 2026, 17.00-19.00 (Bucharest time)


Location: NEC conference room & Zoom

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Participants:
Members of the POLARIS and NEC-TECH research groups

Papers under discussion:

Törnberg, P., & Rogers, R. (2026, April 21). “Towards a Post-Social Media Studies”. Retrieved from OSF | Towards a Post-Social Media Studies

Aylsworth, T., Castro, C. (2024). “The Duty to Promote Digital Minimalism in Group Agents”. In: Kantian Ethics and the Attention Economy. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. The Duty to Promote Digital Minimalism in Group Agents | Springer Nature Link

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From Erosion to Restoration and Consolidation of Democracy in Ukraine during and after the War: Institutional, Political, Electoral and Eurointegration Dimensions

NEC Seminar
Date:

13 May 2026, 11.00-13.00 (Bucharest time)


Location: NEC conference room & Zoom

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Vitaliy LYTVYN, Sustaining Ukrainian Scholarship Fellow; Professor, Department of Political Science and Deputy Dean for International Relations, Faculty of Philosophy, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv

Venit hora. Prilej și proiect pentru științele Antichității

Roundtable (in Romanian)
Date:

14 May 2026, 17.00-19.00 (Bucharest time)


Location: NEC conference room & Zoom

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Participanți: Francisca BĂLTĂCEANU, Ioana COSTA, Emanuel CONȚAC, Ștefan COLCERIU, Theodor GEORGESCU, Bogdan MINCĂ, Cătălin PAVEL

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Meeting ID: 871 4636 2030
Passcode: 639859

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Science and Misinformation in the Digital Age: Challenging Expertise, Credibility, and Authenticity in the Virtual Sphere

International Workshop
Date:

19 May 2026, 9.45-17.35 (Bucharest time)


Location: NEC conference room & Zoom

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Convener: Alexandra BACALU, Trust Fellow

Participants: Alexandra BACALU, Cristian DUCU, Andreea EȘANU, Dragoș MANEA, Răzvan NICOLESCU, Elena TRIFAN, Stephanie A. BAKER, Dragoș MANEA, Adriana MIHAI, Mihai OMETIȚĂ, Mircea TOBOȘARU

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Meeting ID: 821 7130 1678
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War and Artistic Responses: Theories, Practices, Meanings

International Workshop
Date:

20 May 2026, 9.45-18.30
21 May 2026, 9.45-16.45


Location: NEC conference room & Zoom

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Convener: Veronika ZINCHENKO, SUS Fellow

Participants: Constantin ARDELEANU, Volodymyr BALABA, Viktoria BAVYKINA, Katharina BIEGGER, Yurii CHEKAN, Galyna DUB, Mykola HOMANYUK, Katrya HONCHARUK, Tetiana KHOROSHUN, Olha KOLOMYYETS, Oksana MAKSYMCHUK, Max ROSOCHINSKY, Viktor RUBAN, Valentina SANDU-DEDIU, Iryna TUKOVA, Daria VYSTAVKINA

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

Research Group (in Romanian)
Date:

25 May 2026, 17.00-19.00 (București)


Location: NEC conference room & Zoom

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Valer Simion COSMA, Istoric și Antropolog; Manager executiv al proiectului  ECOJUST – Doing Environmental InJustice: A Theory in Praxis

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Egypt as a Project: Dreamwork and Masculinity in President el-Sisi’s New Republic

NEC Seminar
Date:

27 May 2026, 11.00-13.00 (Bucharest time)


Location: NEC conference room & Zoom

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Carl ROMMEL, NEC Award Fellow; Researcher, Department of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology, Uppsala University

György Kurtág and Anatol Vieru – 100

Symposium
Date:

29 May 2026, 9.00-16.00


Location: NEC conference room

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Coordinator: Valentina SANDU-DEDIU

Participants: Arnaud ARBET, Laurențiu BELDEAN, Olguța LUPU, Iulia MOGOȘAN, Irina NIȚU, George PĂIȘ, Valentina SANDU-DEDIU, László TIHANYI, László VIKARIUS, Patrick ZUK

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