Events
NEC fosters critical thinking through public lectures and debates.
June 2026
Becoming Axolotl: Empathy, Simulation, and Embodiment in Medieval Narratives
NEC SeminarDate:
3 June 2026, 11.00-13.00 (Bucharest time)
Location: NEC conference room & Zoom
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Cătălin Țăranu (NEC Alumnus), Director of the project Becoming Axolotl
Alexandra Ilina (NEC Alumna), Lecturer, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Bucharest; Researcher, Becoming Axolotl
Masă rotundă pe marginea cărții: Dan Dediu, „Acul urechii. Eseuri despre muzică și muzicieni” (Editura Muzicală, 2026)
Roundtable (in Romanian)Date:
3 iunie 2026, 17.00-19.00
Location: NEC conference room
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Participanți: Dan Dediu, Nicolae Gheorghiță, Antigona Rădulescu, Valentina Sandu-Dediu, Ion Bogdan Ștefănescu
Artist Talk
NEC SeminarDate:
10 June 2026, 11.00-13.00 (Bucharest time)
Location: NEC conference room & Zoom
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Nicolle Bussien, Landis & Gyr Fellow
Screening of selected works (2021-2026) with Q&A Session
Despre revoluții științifice
Conference (in Romanian)Date:
10 June 2026, 17.00-19.00
Location: NEC conference room
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Mircea Flonta, Profesor emerit, Facultatea de Filozofie a Universității din București
Across Borders: Migration, Voting Rights and Democratic Inclusion
International WorkshopDate:
11 June 2026, 10.00-17.00 (Bucharest time)
Location: NEC conference room & Zoom
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Convener: Natalia C. Malancu, Ameropa Fellow
Participants: Camelia Beciu, Anatolie Coșciug, Adelin Dumitru, Natalia C. Malancu, Claudiu Tufiș, Daniela Vintilă, Bogdan Voicu, Alexandru Volacu
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Meeting ID: 820 4215 3606
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The Phanariot Past and its Afterlives: Historicizing “Corruption” in Central-South-East Europe (1750s-1920s)
International WorkshopDate:
15 June 2026, 9.30-17.00 (Bucharest time)
16 June 2026, 10.00-18.00 (Bucharest time)
Location: NEC conference room & Zoom
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Participants: Raluca Alexandrescu, Mihai-Cristian Amăriuței, Boriana Antonova-Goleva, Constantin Ardeleanu, Elif Bayraktar Tellan, Osman Safa Bursali, Aristide Chryssoulis, Raymond Detrez, Augusta Dimou, Lucien Frary, Simion-Alexandru Gavriș, Aristides N. Hatzis, Paul Karras, Dimitrios M. Kontogeorgis, Kalliope Leivadarou, Myrto Lamprou, Silvia Marton, Nicolas Nicolaides, Ovidiu Olar, Mária Pakucs, Silvana Rachieru, Leonidas Rados, Andrei-Dan Sorescu, Alex R. Tipei, Michał Wasiucionek
Understanding Egypt’s New Republic. Security, Infrastructure, Deserts, and Cultural Production
International WorkshopDate:
16 June 2026, 9.00-17.50 (Bucharest time)
Location: NEC#403
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Conveners: Carl Rommel and Marie Vannetzel
Participants: Florian Bonnefoi, Sixtine Deroure, Jeanne Gorin, Youssef El Chazli, Carl Rommel, Giedrė Šabasevičiūtė, Waleed Salem, Yahia Shawkat, Marie Vannetzel
Informal Empire and Unintended Nations: Global Interests and the Remaking of Nineteenth-Century Southeastern Europe
NEC SeminarDate:
17 June 2026, 11.00-13.00 (Bucharest time)
Location: NEC conference room & Zoom
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Alex R. Tipei, Assistant Professor, University of Montréal, member of the ERC TransCorr Project
Who Needs Trust Anymore? Some Thoughts on the Issue of Trust in Romania
Research GroupDate:
17 June 2026, 17.00-19.00 (Bucharest time)
Location: NEC conference room & Zoom
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Claudiu Tufiș, Associate Professor, University of Bucharest, Head of the Comparative European Politics Department
The Endangered Black Sea: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on a Religious and Cultural Heritage at Risk and Viable Solutions
International WorkshopDate:
18 June 2026, 10.00-15.30
19 June 2026, 10.00-15.30
Location: ZOOM ONLY
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Participants: Hakan Kırımlı, Metin Omer, Adriana Cupcea, Alena Bagro, Filiz Tutku Aydın, Yelis Erolova, Serhat Keskin, Constantin Ardeleanu, Özlem Şendeniz, Fatih Sami Özakyol, Nail Elhan, Melike Tepecik, Veysel Dinler, Octavian-Adrian Negoiță, Ediz Hazir, Vanessa R. de Obaldía, Olena Uvarova, Theodosios Kyriakidis, Silvana Rachieru, Tiberiu Vasilescu, David Neagu
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Zoom meeting:
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On Deep-learning AI Systems and Epistemic Trust
NEC SeminarDate:
24 June 2026, 11.00-13.00 (Bucharest time)
Location: NEC conference room & Zoom
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Andreea Eșanu, Researcher, New Europe College; Coordinator, NEC-TECH research group; Associate lecturer, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bucharest
Larisa Gogianu, Scientific Researcher, Institute for Microtechnologies, Bucharest; Member, NEC-TECH research group
Disidența epistemică
Conference (in Romanian)Date:
24 June 2026, 17.00-19.00 (Bucharest time)
Location: NEC conference room & Zoom
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Viorel Pâslaru, Universitatea din Dayton, SUA
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