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PROGRAM

Monday, 13 May 2024

Welcome remarks:
Valentina SANDU-DEDIU, Rector, New Europe College

9.50-10.00
Opening remarks

SESSION 1
Politics, Publicity, and Corruption Accusations
Chair and discussant: Ferdinand de JONG, New Europe College

10.00-11.00
Frédéric MONIER, Université d’Avignon
“A Huge Blur”: Agiotage, Corruption and the Railways in France (c. 1838- c. 1848)

11.00-11.15 Coffee break

11.15-13.30
Malte FUHRMANN, Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient / New Europe College
Infrastructural Shaming, Boasting, and Silencing. Challenging Officeholders over Infrastructure in late 19th C. Southeast Europe

Silvia MARTON, New Europe College / Universitatea din București
The Vitality of ‘Corruption’. Public Office, Conflict of Interest and Railways in Romania

Joan Pubill BRUGUES, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona / Université de Perpignan
Lighting Barcelona with Shadows. Corruption, Lobbying and Transparency in the City Council, 1900

Volker KÖHLER, Technische Universität Darmstadt
Parks and Recreation. Municipal Infrastructure and Micropolitics in Cologne after the First World War

13.30-15.00 Lunch at the NEC

SESSION 2
Corruption Narratives, (Post)Colonialism, Race
Chair and discussant: Cosmin KOSZOR-CODREA, New Europe College

15.00-17.30

Andrei-Dan SORESCU, New Europe College
The Infrastructures of Anxiety: Reflections on Anti-Colonial Nationalism and Xenophobia in Nineteenth Century Romania

Oliver SCHULZ, Université Clermont Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand
A Colonial Project? Railway Planning and Construction in Bosnia-Herzegovina under Austro-Hungarian Rule (1878-1918)

Raul CÂRSTOCEA, Maynooth University / New Europe College
Conduits of Violence: Railway Infrastructure and Student Antisemitism in Interwar Romania

Bogdan Cristian IACOB, “Nicolae Iorga” Institute of History, Romanian Academy
Socialist Degeneration: Romanian Medicine in Post-colonial Locales

Tuesday, 14 May 2024

SESSION 3
Local, National, Imperial Interests, and International Decision-Making
Chair and discussant: Bogdan POPA, ‘Nicolae Iorga’ Institute of History, Romanian Academy, Bucharest

10.00-12.00

Constantin ARDELEANU, New Europe College / Institute for South-East European Studies, Bucharest
Building and Operating Transportation Infrastructure in an Ottoman Periphery: the Port of Kustendjie/Constanța in the 1850s–1880s

Luminița GĂTEJEL, Leibniz-Institute for East and Southeast European Studies, Regensburg
Overlapping Imperial and National Interests at the Iron Gates, Late 19th Century

Toader POPESCU, Ion Mincu University of Architecture and Urbanism, Bucharest / New Europe College
Hoping and Coping. Local Anxieties and Railway Development in Romania before World War I

12.00-13.00
Conclusions and Final Discussions

13.00 Lunch at the NEC

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This conference is organized within the research project Colonial Anxieties, Corruption Scandals and Xenophobia in Nineteenth-Century Infrastructure Development in Romania (CanCor), funded by UEFISCDI, ‘Basic and frontier research’ scheme, PN-III-P4-PCE-2021-0399 (2022-2024).