Conveners:
Constantin ARDELEANU and Katharina BIEGGER

Participants:
Constantin ARDELEANU, Alexandra BARDAN, Katharina BIEGGER, Andrei EMILCIUC, Armen GRIGORIAN, Edgar HOVHANISSYAN, Rimantė JAUGAITĖ, Sergii PAKHOMENKO, Oleksandr SUKHOMLYN, Tsvetelina TSVETKOVA

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Program

12.00–12.10
Welcome remarks
Katharina BIEGGER & Constantin ARDELEANU

12.10–13.40
Section 1
Formal and Informal Relations During the Communist and Postcommunist Times

Chair: Katharina BIEGGER, Wissenchaftskolleg zu Berlin

Alexandra BARDAN, PhD, Lecturer, University of Bucharest, Faculty of Journalism and Communication Studies
The Alternative Media Market in Romania during the 1980s: The Informal Networks of the “Parcel Industry”

Edgar HOVHANISSYAN, PhD, Dean of the Faculty of History and Social Sciences of the ‘Khachatur Abovyan’ State Pedagogical University, Yerevan
The Last Years of the Soviet Union and the New Period of Armenia-Diaspora Relationships: From Formal Relationship to Informal Cooperation

Rimantė JAUGAITĖ, Researcher, GACY ’68 project, University of Bologna
(Not)Dealing with the War Crimes Topic in Post-Yugoslav Cinema: Film as a Method of Reconciliation and Peace-Building

Armen GRIGORIAN, Co-founder and Vice President, Centre for Policy Studies, Yerevan
On Criminality in the Soviet and Post-Soviet Union

13.40–14.00
Break

14.00–15.30
Section 2
Formality and Informality in a Historical Perspective

Chair: Constantin ARDELEANU, The ‘Lower Danube’ University of Galați / NEC Bucharest

Oleksandr SUKHOMLYN, PhD candidate, M.S. Hrushevski Institute of Ukrainian Archeography and Source Studies of National Academy of Science of Ukraine, Kyiv
The Elites of the Zaporizhian Host in the Age of the Pontic Steppe Frontier’s Closure: Formal and Informal Policies

Andrei EMILCIUC, Senior Researcher, Institute of History, Chișinău and NEC Fellow
Informal Commercial Practices in Bessarabia in the Process of Inclusion of the Province into the Russian Legal Framework (1812–1830)

Tsvetelina TSVETKOVA, PhD, Visiting Scholar, Centre for Balkan and Black Sea Studies, Yıldız Technical University, Istanbul
The “Shades” of Bulgarian-Turkish Informal Diplomacy 1919–1923: Defending National Interests in the Great Post-War Game

Sergii PAKHOMENKO, PhD, Associate Professor of International Relations and Foreign Policy Department of Mariupol State University
Politics of Memory and Informal Commemoration Practices: Cases of Ukraine and Latvia

15.30–15.40
Conclusions

The workshop is organized within the framework of the Pontica Magna Fellowship Programme in partnership with the Center for Governance and Culture in Europe (University of St. Gallen) and is supported by the VolkswagenStiftung.