Events
NEC fosters critical thinking through public lectures and debates.
June 2023
Yiddish Culture in Greater Romania (1918-1940): in the Aftermath of the Empires and Challenged by the New National State
NEC SeminarDate:
7 June 2023, 11.00-13.00 (Bucharest time)
Location: NEC conference hall & Zoom
Project leader:
Camelia CRĂCIUN, Associate Professor in Jewish Studies, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Bucharest; Director of the research project Yiddish Culture in Greater Romania (1918-1940): in the Aftermath of the Empires and Challenged by the New National State, Exploratory Research (PN-III-P4-ID-PCE-2020-0317), financed by UEFISCDI
Experienced researchers:
Irina NASTASĂ-MATEI, PhD, Lecturer, Faculty of Political Science, University of Bucharest
Francisca SOLOMON, PhD, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Letters, “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University, Iaşi
Valentin SĂNDULESCU, PhD, Assistant Professor in Jewish Studies, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Bucharest
The Passport as Home
ConferenceDate:
7 June 2023, 18.00-20.00 (Bucharest time)
Location: NEC conference hall
Andrei S. MARKOVITS, Karl W. Deutsch Collegiate Professor of Comparative Politics and German Studies, University of Michigan
The conference will be followed by a discussion based on Andrei S. Markovits’s book, The Passport as Home: Comfort in Rootlessness (CEU Press, 2021), and on its Romanian translation, recently published under the title Casa din pașaport (Hasefer, 2023) in Iulia Singer’s translation.
Moderator: Cristian PREDA
Guests: Ileana BUCULEI, Camelia CRĂCIUN, Irina NASTASĂ-MATEI, Iulia SINGER
Shifty Muds. Land, Water and Life in a ‘Patchy Anthropocene’ (Day 1)
International WorkshopDate:
8 June 2023, 9.00-18.00 (Bucharest time)
Location: NEC conference hall & Zoom
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Convenors: Ștefan Dorondel, Adrian Deoancă and Stelu Șerban
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Meeting ID: 856 2653 2894
Passcode: 278019
Shifty Muds. Land, Water and Life in a ‘Patchy Anthropocene’ (Day 2)
International WorkshopDate:
9 June 2023, 9.00-16.00 (Bucharest time)
Location: NEC conference hall
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Convenors: Ștefan Dorondel, Adrian Deoancă and Stelu Șerban
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Meeting ID: 856 2653 2894
Passcode: 278019
Do Fascists Dream of Electric Trains? A Critical Periodisation of Conceptualising Infrastructure, Corruption, and Antisemitism in Romania
NEC SeminarDate:
14 June 2023, 11.00-13.00 (Bucharest time)
Location: NEC conference hall & Zoom
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Raul CÂRSTOCEA, PhD, Lecturer in Twentieth-Century European History, Department of History, Maynooth University, Ireland
Visual Emotions
Research groupDate:
19 June 2023, 18.15-20.00 (Bucharest time)
Location: NEC (#403 ground floor) & Zoom
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Cătălin ȚĂRANU, Director of the research project Grammars of Emotion: Shame and the Social Economy of Honour in Medieval Heroic Literatures (GRAMMOTION)
Simpozion „Profesorul Alexandru Mironescu și Rugul Aprins”
SimpozionDate:
20 iunie 2023, 11.00-16.30 (București)
Location: NEC conference hall & Zoom
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Cuvânt de deschidere:
Andrei PLEȘU
Participanți:
Vasile BĂNESCU, Virgil CIOMOȘ, Anca MANOLESCU, Vianu MUREȘAN, Dionisie PÎRVULOIU, Mihail SĂSĂUJAN, Bogdan TĂTARU-CAZABAN, Ioan Alexandru TOFAN, Marius VASILEANU, Sever VOINESCU
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Meeting ID: 881 4961 2741
Passcode: 759473
Disability Discourses in Romania before 1916
NEC SeminarDate:
21 June 2023, 11.00-13.00 (Bucharest time)
Location: NEC conference hall & Zoom
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Maria BUCUR, DigiHum Fellow, Professor in Gender Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington
Dacian Sanctuaries, Gods and Heroes in the Romanian Music of the 1960s and 1980s
Conference & piano concertDate:
22 June 2023, 18.00-20.00 (Bucharest time)
Location: NEC conference hall
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Valentina SANDU-DEDIU
Professor of Musicology, National University of Music Bucharest
Rector of New Europe College
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The conference will be followed by a short piano concert for four hands (Valentina Sandu-Dediu & Dan Dediu), in honour of His Excellency, the Swiss Ambassador to Bucharest, Arthur Mattli.
The Custody of the Holy Land and the “Globalization of Catholicism” (17th-18th centuries)
Research groupDate:
26 June 2023, 15.00-17.00 (Bucharest time)
Location: Zoom
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Felicita TRAMONTANA, PhD, Associate Professor of Early Modern History, University Roma Tre; Honorary fellow, Centre for the Study of the Renaissance (University of Warwick); Principal Investigator of the research project HOLYLAB, funded by the European Research Council
The Relevance of the Humanities in the Digital Age
NEC SeminarDate:
28 June 2023, 10.00-13.00 (Bucharest time)
Location: NEC conference hall & Zoom
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Roundtable with fellows in the Porticus research programs from NEC Bucharest and CAS Sofia
Normative and Conceptual Perspectives on Democratic Resilience
International WorkshopDate:
29 June 2023, 11.00-18.00 (Bucharest time)
Location: NEC conference hall & Zoom
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Conveners: Alexandru VOLACU and Andrei POAMA
To celebrate its 25th anniversary, NEC hosted several academic events throughout 2019.