Events
NEC fosters critical thinking through public lectures and debates.
February 2026
Challenges in Literary Translation: Conveying Cultural Nuances and Linguistic Differences between Romanian and Armenian
NEC SeminarDate:
4 February 2026, 11.00-13.00 (Bucharest time)
Location: NEC conference room & Zoom
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TANDEM, Author with Translator – Translator with Author: Translating Lavinia Braniște’s novel Interior zero from Romanian into Armenian
Lavinia BRANIȘTE, Tandem Fellow, Author
Arsen ARZUMANYAN, Tandem Fellow, Translator
Housing in Suburban Areas: The Divide Between National Urban Planning Discourses and Local Planning Cultures in Romania
NEC SeminarDate:
11 February 2026, 11.00-13.00 (Bucharest time)
Location: NEC conference room & Zoom
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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 SeminarDate:
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 SeminarDate:
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 SeminarDate:
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
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