Svitlana ARABADZHY

Researcher, University of Oslo

Modernizing the Azov Sea Region: Transnational Networks and Local Dynamics in a Port-Industrial Space (ModASR)

Gruia BĂDESCU

Researcher, University of Konstanz

Haussmann’s Ghost? Roads, destruction, and modernity in three aspiring Parises: Bucharest, Beirut, Buenos Aires

Ștefan BAGHIU

Associate Professor, “Lucian Blaga” University of Sibiu

From Peasants to National Intelligentsia: A Distant Reading of The Social Origins and Status of Romanian Writers

Yordanka BELEVA

Writer

Translating Yordanka Beleva’s Кедер [Keder] from Bulgarian into Romanian

Alexandra BIVOLARU

Postdoctoral Researcher, Côte d’Azur University

The Romans in the Marshes. Deconstructing Wetlands Marginality in the Ancient Roman World

Aliona BIVOLARU

Lecturer, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Bucharest

Translating Lena Lagushonkova’s Мій прапор запісяв котик [My Flag Was Wet by a Cat] from Ukrainian into Romanian

Ana BLANDIANA

Writer

Translating Ana Blandiana’s “Ora de nisip” [The Hour of Sand] from Romanian into Crimean Tatar

Vasile-Alin BURLEC

Librarian, The Library of the “Lucian Blaga” University of Sibiu

The Romanian Corporatist Experiment at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century and the Rise of Working-Class Nationalism

Leyla CHEAMIL

Teaching Assistant, University of Bucharest, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures

Translating Ana Blandiana’s “Ora de nisip” [The Hour of Sand] from Romanian into Crimean Tatar

Alexandra CHIRIAC

Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Fellow, Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe (GWZO)

Sounds of Silence: Black Performance, Belonging, and Modernity in Romania

Ana DIACONU

Vice Dean, National University of Music Bucharest

The Dynamics of the Romanian Musical Diaspora during the Communist Period (1945–1989). Emigration, Institutional Mechanisms, and State Cultural Policies toward Musicians in Exile

Yavuz EKINCI

Writer

Translating Yavuz Ekinci’s “Aziz” from Turkish into Ukrainian

Claudia FIORITO

Research Assistant, University of Padua

Nuclear Anxiety and Technological Imaginaries in Cold War Romanian Science Fiction Cinema

Elvira IBRAGIMOVA

Research Affiliate, CEU Democracy Institute

Debates on Cremation and the Embodiment of Cremationist Ideas in East-Central Europe (1890s–1930s)

Alexandra IRIMIA

Postdoctoral Fellow (Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung), University of Bonn

The Administrative Imagination in the Digital Age: 21st-century Bureaucratic Fiction

Anna KESZEG

Assistant Professor, Babeș-Bolyai University

Tailoring as Cultural Technology

Uschi KLEIN

Senior Lecturer, University of Brighton

Bearing Witness or Expressing Dissent? Photography in Communist Romania

Alina KONDRATIUK

Senior Researcher, The Institute of Southeast European Studies, Romanian Academy

Rethinking the Berestove Murals: A Gateway to Eastern and Western Europe in the Making of Post-Byzantine Ukraine (1570–1650)

Julia KORNIICHUK

Independent Scholar

Orthodox Minorities in Orthodox-Majority States: Mechanisms of Ethno-linguistic Diversity and Their Role in Romanian–Ukrainian Relations (2026/2027)

Tetiana KOVALENKO

Associate Professor, V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University

Street Art in the Symbolic Landscape of Ukrainian Cities: Memorializing the Russo-Ukrainian War

Lena LAGUSHONKOVA

Translating Lena Lagushonkova’s Мій прапор запісяв котик [My Flag Was Wet by a Cat] from Ukrainian into Romanian

Serhiy LAZO

Poet, Translator, Composer

Translating Serhiy Lazo’s Цвяхи [Nails] from Ukrainian into Bulgarian (2026/2027)

Luka NAKHUTSRISHVILI

Associate Professor, Institute for Social and Cultural Research, Ilia State University Tbilisi

The Theatre-Caravanserai of Tiflis: Opera, Commerce, and Imperial Modernization in the Caucasus, 1846-1874

Ahmed NURI

Independent Scholar

Transnational Networks of Turkish and Armenian Communists in Cold War Europe: Turkish Press, Radio, and Literary Production in Sofia, Bucharest, and Leipzig

Daniela PETREA

Translator

Translating Yordanka Beleva’s Кедер [Keder] from Bulgarian into Romanian

Giorgia PIFFARETTI

Multimedia Artist

Tell Me They Were Erected to Change

Ioan Cosmin POPAN

Independent Scholar

Platform Migration Infrastructures in Bucharest. Intermediaries, Debt and Control in South Asian Platform Delivery

Dragana PRVULOVIĆ

Postdoctoral Fellow, Montreal Research Centre on Social Inequalities, Discrimination, and Alternative Practices of Citizenship (CREMIS)

Enemy Minority: The Everyday Life of Serbs in Post-War Vukovar

Anna RADIUKIEWICZ

Assistant Professor, Institute of Political Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences

Contesting Knowledge, Claiming Civicness: Epistemic Conflict in Pandemic Protests

Alan S. ROSS

Associated Professor, University of Vienna

Monkey Business: the Value of Simians in Early Modern Europe

Paul Gabriel SANDU

Assistant Professor, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bucharest

How Philosophy Gets Entangled with Ideology? Interwar “Destiny-Thinking” and the Heidegger Case as a Symptom

Tim SHAW

Researcher, Zurich University of the Arts

Sensing Atmospherics: Artistic Practices of Radio and Broadband Electromagnetic Listening

Monica SOLOMON

Assistant Professor, Bilkent University

Pluralism under Constraint: Newton and the Architecture of Scientific Explanation

Mykola SYMCHYCH

Researcher, H.S. Skovoroda Institute of Philosophy, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

Western Sources of Kyiv-Mohyla Philosophy in the First Half of the 17th Century

Natalia TALALAI

Translator

Translating Yavuz Ekinci’s “Aziz” from Turkish into Ukrainian

Liubov TSAI

Translating Serhiy Lazo’s Цвяхи [Nails] from Ukrainian into Bulgarian

Marius WAMSIEDEL

Assistant Professor, University of Bucharest

The Social History of Waiting: Queues, Appointments, and Temporal Inequality in the Romanian Healthcare since Late Socialism

Shaun WILLIAMS

Independent Scholar

Romani Music in 20th Century Romania: Propaganda, Control, and Resistance

Eugen WOHL

Lecturer, Faculty of Letters, Babeș-Bolyai University

In/Out of the Spotlight: How Dramatic Works Are Included, Excluded, and Ignored by the Literary Canon. A Focus on Romanian Drama

Panayiotis XENOPHONTOS

Max Hayward Research Fellow & Lecturer, University of Oxford

Greek Literature of Ukraine: from Catherine II to the Present

Pavlo YEREMIEIEV

Associate Professor, V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University

The «Ukrainian Question» in the Kyiv Theological Academy (1819–1919): Religion, Historical Knowledge, and Imperial Nation-Building