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Maria ADAMOPOULOU

Greece

Independent Scholar

Tangled Antennas: A Cold War History of Radio for Greek Migrants

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Annette AMBERG

Switzerland

Director, Coalmine – Raum für Fotografie in Winterthur

Curatorial research

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Vadym ARISTOV

Ukraine

Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Ukrainian History, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

The Making of the Rurikids: Historical Writing and Dynastic Traditions in Early Medieval Eastern Europe

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Gabriela BADEA

Romania

Independent Scholar

Crafting the Poetic Self: The Art of Mimetic Self-Portraiture in Late Medieval Literature

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Alena BAGRO

Russia/Residency in Ukraine

Research Fellow, The German Historical Institute in Warsaw

The Podolian Fortifications in the Ukrainian Historical Narrative

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Raluca BUJOR

Romania

Associate Professor, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bucharest

Celebration and Leisure: Nonlinear Time in Plato’s Symposium

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Tatev CHAKHIAN

Armenia

Poet, Translator, Visual Artist

Translating Tatev Chakhian’s poetry collection "Migrant Point" from Armenian into Georgian

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Liliana COROBCA

Moldova/Romania

Expert Researcher, Institute for Investigation of Communist Crimes and the Memory of the Romanian Exile

Translating Liliana Corobca’s "Kinderland" from Romanian into Azerbaijani (2024/ 2025)

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Christian COSTAMAGNA

Italy

Postdoc Fellow, Leibniz ScienceCampus “Eastern Europe – Global Area” (EEGA), University of Leipzig, Germany

Understanding the NATO Intervention Against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

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Asya DARBINYAN

Armenia

Translator

Translating Tatev Chakhian’s poetry collection "Migrant Point" from Armenian into Georgian

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Vanessa de OBALDIA

Great Britain/Panama

Affiliated Scholar, ERC Starting Grant MAMEMS, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz

Simonopetra Monastery's Ottoman Archive: The Cataloguing and Prosopographical Contextualisation of the 17th Century Archival Documents of an Athonite Monastery

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Oleksandra DEMIANENKO

Ukraine

Associate Professor, Bohdan Khmelnytsky National University of Cherkasy

Social Protection in Ukraine under Martial Law and Decentralization of Power

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Adelin-Costin DUMITRU

Romania

Assistant Professor, “Politehnica” National University of Science and Technology, Bucharest

"Leave it to the People". Inheritance Taxation and Open Democracy

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Claudia EGGART

Germany

Researcher, Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS)

Lived Geopolitics. Re-scaling Market Infrastructures and Cross-Border Trade at Retail Hubs in Odesa and Bishkek

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Daniel FILIP-AFLOAREI

Romania

Expert Researcher, Institute for Investigation of Communist Crimes and the Memory of the Romanian Exile

The ‘Self-Limiting’ Revolution in Poland in the 80s: A Turning Point for the Romanian Communist Regime

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Andrea Umberto GRITTI

Italy

Associated Researcher, Center for Turkish, Ottoman, Balkan and Central Asian Studies (CETOBaC), EHESS, Paris

Economic Knowledge, Administrative Action and Social Change in the Ottoman Balkans, 1839-1878

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Györgyi HORVÁTH

Hungary

Independent Scholar

From Women's NGOs to Digitally Connected Women: The Transition from Sporadic to Broad-Based Networked Feminism Amidst Democratic Backsliding in Illiberal Hungary

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Binyamin HUNYADI

Hungary/Israel

Archivist and Research Assistant, The National Library of Israel

From a Major to a Minor Cultural Revolution: Yiddish Literature during the Ceaușescu Era (1965‒1989)

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Jale ISMAYIL

Azerbaijan

Translator

Translating Liliana Corobca’s "Kinderland" from Romanian into Azerbaijani

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Kato JAVAKHISHVILI

Georgia

Writer

Translating Kato Javakhishvili’s "With love, Elli" from Georgian into Ukrainian*

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Oksana KASHYNTSEVA

Ukraine

Head of the Department of Intellectual Property Rights and Human Rights in Healthcare, Scientific and Research Institute of Intellectual Property of the National Academy of Legal Sciences of Ukraine

Harmonisation of Ukrainian Intellectual Property Legislation with the Legislation of the European Union in the field of Compulsory Licensing and Government Use of Medical Products

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Dana KATZ

USA

Researcher, Institute of Archaeological Sciences, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main

Courtly Ecologies in an Earthly Paradise: The Royal Parklands and Palaces of the Norman Kingdom of Sicily

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James KORANYI

UK

Associate Professor of Modern European Cultural History, Durham University

Guides, Clubs, and Tourists: Rural Modernity in the Southern Carpathians, 1880s-1920s

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Roman KYSELOV

Ukraine

Senior Researcher, Shevchenko Institute of Literature of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

Views on Plagiarism in Europe on the Eve of the Age of Copyright (Late 17th – Early 18th Centuries)

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Serhiy LAZO

Ukraine

Poet, Translator, Composer

Translating Kato Javakhishvili’s "With love, Elli" from Georgian into Ukrainian

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Andrei-Tudor MAN

Romania

Associated Researcher, Center for Ancient and Medieval Philosophy of the “Babeș-Bolyai” University of Cluj-Napoca

The Dynamics of Sympathy in Late Antiquity: Philosophical and Christian Perspectives on the World, Society and the Individual

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Wiktor MARZEC

Poland

Project Leader, Institute for Social Studies, University of Warsaw

Patchwork Parliaments. Post-imperial Field of Power in the Second Republic of Poland and Greater Romania After the First World War

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Octavian-Adrian NEGOIȚĂ

Romania

Junior Researcher, Institute for the History of Religions, Romanian Academy

“Muhammad and His Book Called Qur’an”: Greek Anti-Islamic Works in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire

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Lora NENKOVSKA

Bulgaria

Translator

Translating Bogdan-Alexandru Stănescu’s "Abraxas" from Romanian into Bulgarian

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Constantin Claudiu OANCEA

Romania

Adjunct Lecturer, University of Bucharest

Get Your Rocks Off and Your Backpack On: Socialist Modernization, Rock Music, and Everyday Life at the Foot of the Carpathians – The Case Study of Zărnești (2024/2025)

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Metin OMER

Romania

Researcher, Black Sea Institute, Ovidius University, Constanța

Islamic institutions in Romania: From Religious to Secular-Political Actors (1878-1947) (2024/ 2025)

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Oleksii PLASTUN

Ukraine

Professor, Sumy State University

Sanctions Against Russia: Results vs Expectations and Myths vs Reality

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Octavian PURIC

Romania

Independent Scholar

Broken and Fulfilled Promises: A Study of Platonic Metaphysics Through the Lens of the Notion of Promise

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Noel SCHMIDLIN

Switzerland

Composer, Performer and Sound Artist

Composition Residency in Bucharest – A Search for Sounds

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Daniela STANCIU-PĂSCĂRIȚA

Romania

Assistant Professor, Lucian Blaga University, Sibiu

Making the State. Sociability of Old and New Networks in Post-Imperial Realities

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Bogdan-Alexandru STĂNESCU

Romania

Editorial Director at Pandora M Publishing House, Bucharest

Translating Bogdan-Alexandru Stănescu’s "Abraxas" from Romanian into Bulgarian

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Eszter SZABÓ-REZNEK

Romania

Independent Scholar

Control, Uniformity and Identity. The Hungarian Theatre of Cluj in the 1950s

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Peter TILLESSEN

Switzerland

Artist and Climate Activist

Against Nature

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Raluca-Maria TRIFA

Romania

Teaching Assistant, “Ion Mincu” University of Architecture and Urbanism, Bucharest

Bridging Histories: Unveiling the Industrial Evolution Across the Habsburg Empire's Periphery

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Olena UVAROVA

Ukraine

Associate Professor, Department of Social Sciences, Odesa National Medical University

Great Powers in the «Fight» for Ottoman Christians: Ideology and Implementation of Patronage Politics in 1774-1856

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Sabine Heidi WALTHER

Germany

Adjunct Lecturer, University of Bonn

Pre-Christian Germanic Religions in Greek Sources

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Paulo WIRZ

Switzerland

Artist

Memorial's Memory

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Iryna YAKOVENKO

Ukraine

Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics and Translation, Borys Grinchenko Kyiv Metropolitan University

Ukrainian History, Ethnicity and Cultural Memory in Contemporary American and Canadian Literatures

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Vladimir ZHBANKOV

Russia/Residency in Ukraine

Head of Legal Aid Programs, Free Russia Foundation

Investigating the Efficacy of International Humanitarian Law in Protecting POWs of War and Civilian Hostages in Russia's war against Ukraine

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