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June 2026

Becoming Axolotl: Empathy, Simulation, and Embodiment in Medieval Narratives

NEC Seminar
Date:

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

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Artist Talk

NEC Seminar
Date:

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

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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 Workshop
Date:

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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The Phanariot Past and its Afterlives: Historicizing “Corruption” in Central-South-East Europe (1750s-1920s)

International Workshop
Date:

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

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Understanding Egypt’s New Republic. Security, Infrastructure, Deserts, and Cultural Production

International Workshop
Date:

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

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Informal Empire and Unintended Nations: Global Interests and the Remaking of Nineteenth-Century Southeastern Europe

NEC Seminar
Date:

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 Group
Date:

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 Workshop
Date:

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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On Deep-learning AI Systems and Epistemic Trust

NEC Seminar
Date:

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

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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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