NEC Alumni’s publications and activity, grant applications in the field of the humanities
The prize, awarded annually by the Zbigniew Herbert Foundation to a living author for their entire body of work, will be presented on 27 May 2026, at the National Library of Poland in Warsaw. The award marks the second major recognition of Blandiana’s poetry in Poland, following the 2016 European Poet of Freedom Award, granted by the city of Gdańsk for her poetry volume, My Homeland A4.
The University of Bucharest, Romania, is launching the competition for 2 Postdoctoral research positions within the Interdisciplinary Research on Russia’s Geopolitics in the Black Sea and the Arctic Ocean project.
New Europe College invites applications for 2 positions of Associate Researchers to work within the interdisciplinary project TE 119 PN-III-P1-1.1-TE-2021-0778 The (im)possible alliance: Romania as Initiator and Beneficiary of the Humanitarian Aid (1970-2004), led by Dr. Luciana Jinga.
Interested candidates should send a short cover letter (no longer than three pages), the names and postmail, phone numbers, and e-mail addresses of two referees who have expressed their willingness to support this particular candidacy, and a resume, including a list of publications, to the PI, bogdan.iancu@unibuc.ro (cc- imanolache@nec.ro ) by the 15th of Nov. 2022.
NEC continuă și în anul 2022 programul „Burselor Lapedatu” oferite pentru a încuraja cercetările de istoria românilor în perioadele modernă și contemporană. În acest an academic, istoricii Roland Clark și Iuliana Cindrea Nagy vor organiza, cu sprijinul financiar al Fundației Lapedatu și al NEC, un colocviu dedicat ascultării „vocilor rurale” din România modernă și contemporană.
The Nicolae Iorga Institute of History of the Romanian Academy is kindly inviting us to the conference Common Misconceptions about the History of Eugenics in Romania, given by professor Marius Turda (Oxford Brookes University) on Wednesday, 4 May 2022, at 15.00 Bucharest time, via Zoom.
Online conference Tito, Yugoslavia, and the Doctrine of “Active Peaceful Coexistence” given by Marie-Janine Calic, professor for East and South East European History at the University of Munich on Thursday, 14 April 2022, at 12.00 Bucharest time, via Zoom
A series of supporting initiatives for artists and cultural practitioners from Ukraine
This lecture will be held online, via Zoom on Tuesday, 22 March 2022, at 16.00 Bucharest time.
Dr. James KORANYI is Associate Professor in Modern European Cultural at Durham University.
NEC Fellow Iulius-Cezar Macarie has recently launched the Nightworker Charter, an initiative that seeks to improve the life of night workers and to repair the problems associated with their work (exploitation, social isolation, financial precariousness, emotional distancing in their families, health issues etc.).