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January 2026

Hidden Galleries, Silenced Communities: Homegrown Religious Communities and the Secret Police in 20th Century Romania

NEC Seminar
Date:

14 January 2026, 11.00-13.00 (Bucharest time)


Location: NEC conference room

Iuliana CINDREA-NAGY, Ștefan Odobleja Fellow

Are We Still Allowed to Laugh? Uses and Abuses of Humour in British Culture and Cultural Studies

Conference
Date:

19 January 2026, 9.30-18.00 (Bucharest time)


Location: NEC conference room & Zoom

Conveners:
Maria-Sabina DRAGA ALEXANDRU (NEC Alumna), Associate Professor habil. of American Studies and postcolonialism at the University of Bucharest
Andreea PARIS-POPA, Lecturer, University of Bucharest

The Rise of Stoic Self-Help Today and the Psychocentric Discourse of Human Resilience

NEC Seminar
Date:

21 January 2026, 11.00-13.00 (Bucharest time)


Location: NEC conference room & Zoom

Alexandra BACALU, Trust Fellow; Lecturer, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Bucharest

Entrepreneurship and Community-Building among Serbs in Bosnia and Herzegovina during the Habsburg Occupation. The Case of Gligorije M. Jeftanović

TransCorr Seminar
Date:

22 January 2026, 16.00-18.00 (Bucharest time)


Location: NEC conference room & Zoom

Augusta DIMOU (NEC Alumna), TransCorr team member; PhD. Privatdozentin, Institute of Cultural Studies, Chair of Comparative European History, University of Leipzig

Brokers of Change: Geological Experts in West Africa and Mapping of the Postcolonial Order in the 1960s-1970s

NEC Seminar
Date:

28 January 2026, 11.00-13.00 (Bucharest time)


Location: NEC conference room & Zoom

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Justyna Aniceta TURKOWSKA, NEC Award Fellow; Lecturer, University of Bielefeld

31 Years of NEC

NEC Anniversary Events