Special Events
In Tune with the World: New Europe College at 30
Location: The National Opera House (70-72 Mihail Kogălniceanu Boulevard, Bucharest)
Sustaining Ukrainian Scholarship
Location: NEC conference hall & Zoom
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Dacian Sanctuaries, Gods and Heroes in the Romanian Music of the 1960s and 1980s
Location: NEC conference hall & Zoom
Valentina SANDU-DEDIU
Professor of Musicology, National University of Music Bucharest
Rector of New Europe College
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The conference will be followed by a short piano concert for four hands (Valentina Sandu-Dediu & Dan Dediu), in honour of His Excellency, the Swiss Ambassador to Bucharest, Arthur Mattli.
The Passport as Home
Location: NEC conference hall
Andrei S. MARKOVITS, Karl W. Deutsch Collegiate Professor of Comparative Politics and German Studies, University of Michigan
The conference will be followed by a discussion based on Andrei S. Markovits’s book, The Passport as Home: Comfort in Rootlessness (CEU Press, 2021), and on its Romanian translation, recently published under the title Casa din pașaport (Hasefer, 2023) in Iulia Singer’s translation.
Moderator: Cristian PREDA
Guests: Ileana BUCULEI, Camelia CRĂCIUN, Irina NASTASĂ-MATEI, Iulia SINGER
International Symposium “Compositional bridges between Germany and Romania” | International Week of New Music, XXXII. Edition
Location: NEC conference hall
Ukraine Is Not What You Think It Is. Some Observations on (Mis-)Understanding Ukrainian History
Location: NEC conference hall
Andrii PORTNOV, Professor of Entangled History of Ukraine at the European University Viadrina (Frankfurt/Oder)
A Whirlwind Tour of Deep Learning. Learning, Meta-learning and Interaction in the Context of Deep Learning
Location: NEC conference hall & Zoom
Florin GOGIANU
Researcher at Bitdefender; currently enrolled in a PhD in Deep Reinforcement Learning at the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca
Q&A session moderated by Andreea EȘANU, NEC Alumna; Researcher, „Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University, Iași
Ce face muzica clasică cu mintea noastră? Ipoteze și demonstrații
Location: NEC conference hall & Zoom
Dan DEDIU, NEC Alumnus, Compozitor, Profesor, Universitatea Națională de Muzică, București
Transformationis Digitalis: Quo Vadis, Scientia?
Location: NEC conference hall & Zoom
Professor Roland S. KAMZELAK
Head of Development / Deputy Director, Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach (German Literature Archive)
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On horizontal and not-so-horizontal cuts
Location: NEC conference hall & Zoom
Magdalena RADOMSKA, Assistant Professor, Art History Institute, Adam Mickiewicz University, Founder and Head of the Piotr Piotrowski Center for Research on East-Central European Art
Whose Memory is Commemorated in the Newly Erected Memorial of National Alliance in Budapest?
Location: NEC conference hall & Zoom
Edit ANDRÁS, Senior Research Member at the Institute of Art History, Centre for the Humanities of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary, and Visiting Professor at the History Department, CEU
Does Realism Interfere with Periodization Schemas?
Location: NEC conference hall & Zoom
Christopher WOOD, Professor and Chair, Department of German, New York University (Affiliated Faculty, Department of Comparative Literature and Institute of Fine Arts)
Preposterous! Towards a Mutuality Between Thinking and Artmaking
Location: Zoom
Mieke BAL, Professor of Theory of Literature and founding director of the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA), University of Amsterdam
Affective Time (Socialist Futures and Post-socialist Pasts)
Location: NEC conference hall & Zoom
Cristian NAE, Associate Professor in the Department of Art History and Theory, Faculty of Visual Arts, George Enescu National University of Arts, Iași, Romania
Against the Canon. Contemporary Art in a World without a Center
Location: Zoom
Andrea GIUNTA, Principal Researcher at CONICET, Argentina; Professor of Art History at the Universidad de Buenos Aires
Filter Clashes and Democracy: The Dissemination of Information via Social Media and its Impact on Freedom
Location: Zoom
Nadine SUTMÖLLER
Postdoctoral Researcher, Center for Interdisciplinary Research, Bielefeld University
Coordinator, Research Group Economic and Legal Challenges in the Advent of Smart Products (2021/22)
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Common Rites and Different Liturgies at the Holy Sepulchre: a Historical Glimpse
Location: Zoom
Renata SALVARANI, Professor of History of Christianity, European University of Rome
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Addressing the Challenge of Human-Technology Partnership in the Digital Era: A Human-Centered Information Space Approach*
Location: Zoom
James D. HOLLAN
Distinguished Professor of Cognitive Science and Computer Science at the University of California, San Diego
2021/2022 Fellow at the Paris IAS
Evolution of the Radiology Profession due to Artificial Intelligence
Location: Zoom
Ruben PAUWELS
Associate Professor, Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies, Denmark
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Knowing the Earth in the Digital Era
Location: Zoom
Lino CAMPRUBÍ
Ramón y Cajal Researcher, University of Sevilla (Spain) and Principal Investigator of the ERC-CoG Project, Discovering the Deep Mediterranean Environment: A History of Science and Strategy (1860-2020) (DEEPMED)
Resident, Institut d’Etudes Avancées d’Aix-Marseille Université (France)
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Machine Learning Approaches for Debugging a Quantum Computer
Location: Zoom
Violeta IVANOVA-ROHLING
Postdoctoral Fellow, Zukunftskolleg, University of Konstanz (Germany)
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Cruising through Europe’s South-Eastern periphery in the nineteenth century: steamships, the transportation-communication revolution and ‘social media’
Location: Zoom
Constantin ARDELEANU
Professor of Modern History, The “Lower Danube” University of Galați
NEC Long-term fellow
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The Schools of Early Scholasticism and the Social History of Truth
Location: Zoom
Professor Frank REXROTH, Chair for Medieval and Modern History, University of Göttingen, Germany
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Chiara Lubich: teologie mistică și dialog interreligios
Location: Zoom
Prof. dr. Stefan TOBLER, Universitatea „Lucian Blaga”, Sibiu, Centrul de Cercetare Ecumenică – Institut für ökumenische Forschung Hermannstadt (IÖFH)
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Îngerii căzuți. De la literatura enohică la Cabala [Fallen Angels. From Enochic Literature to Kabbalah]
Location: Zoom
Moshe IDEL, Emeritus Professor, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Author’s page on the website of Polirom Publishing House
in Romanian
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My Boss Is an Algorithm? From Independence to Dependency of Uber Drivers
Location: Zoom
Sophie BERNARD
Professor of Sociology, Paris-Dauphine University, IRISSO
Fellow at the Wissenchafskolleg, Berlin
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Writers from around the Black Sea between Art and Academia
Location: Zoom
A Conversation with three Pontica Magna Alumni, writers Maria RYBAKOVA, PhD, Andriy LYUBKA and Tamta MELASHVILI, moderated by Markus BAUER, PhD (literary scholar, author and critic in Berlin)
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The Armenian Reception of Jacob of Serugh and His Writings
Location: Zoom
Andy HILKENS, PhD, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt-am-Main
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Le christianisme entre tradition et utopie: une enquête sur le temps monastique
Location: Zoom
Professeur Danièle HERVIEU-LÉGER
Directrice d’études honoraire à l’Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales (Paris)
Membre du Centre d’études en sciences sociales du religieux
La conférence aura lieu en français. Durant la discussion qui suivra, on pourra recourir aussi à l’anglais pour les questions et/ou les éventuels commentaires.
The Rise of Religious Populism and the Symbol of the Cross in Poland’s Contemporary Political Clashes
Location: Zoom
Magdalena WALIGÓRSKA, PhD
Humboldt University
2020/ 2021 Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Studies Berlin
Life’s Work. Wagner’s Tristan and the Critique of Biographism
Location: Zoom
Andreas DORSCHEL
Professor of Aesthetics, Head of the Institute for Music Aesthetics, University of Arts Graz
2020 / 2021 Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Studies Berlin
Max Weber et le capitalisme moderne
Location: Zoom
Hinnerk BRUHNS
Directeur de recherche émérite au CNRS, membre du Centre de recherches historiques (EHESS/CNRS)
La conférence aura lieu en français. Durant la discussion qui suivra, on pourra recourir aussi à l’anglais pour les questions et/ou les éventuels commentaires.
How God Became a Lawgiver: The Torah’s Place in Ancient Legal History
Location: Zoom
Konrad SCHMID
Professor of Hebrew Bible and Ancient Judaism, University of Zurich
2020 / 2021 Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Studies Berlin
Round Table: Die deutschen Universitäten und die Bildung der Intelligenz in Rumänien und den Ländern Südosteuropas im 19. Jahrhundert
Location: New Europe College
Ne face o deosebită plăcere să vă invităm la masa rotundă prilejuită de apariția cărții: Die deutschen Universitäten und die Bildung der Intelligenz in Rumänien und den Ländern Südosteuropas im 19. Jahrhundert, o publicație a Institutului de Studii Sud-Est Europene al Academiei Române, Editura Istros, colecția BIESEE, 6, 2019, de Elena SIUPIUR, în prezența autoarei.
Moderator: Andrei TIMOTIN
Invitați: Raluca ALEXANDRESCU, Daniel CAIN, Ovidiu CRISTEA, Andrei PIPPIDI
Eveniment organizat în colaborare cu Institutul de Studii Sud-Est Europene al Academiei Române
Liberal Democracy under Pressure. European and Domestic Issues
Location: NEC conference hall
Introduction by Valentina SANDU–DEDIU
Moderator: Andrei PLEȘU
A discussion with Dieter GRIMM, Former Rector of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (2001–2007), Professor (emer.) of Law, Humboldt University, Berlin and Dirk LEHMKUHL, Professor of Political Science, University of St Gallen
Shaping the modern body. Fashion, Food, Health and Manners across South Eastern Europe and the Ottoman Empire (17th-19th centuries)
Location: NEC conference hall
Conveners:
Giulia CALVI
Constanţa VINTILĂ-GHIŢULESCU
Participants: Constantin ARDELEANU, Giulia CALVI, Sandra CAVALLO, Ovidiu CRISTEA, Alex DRACE-FRANCIS, Anastasia FALIEROU, Rossitsa GRADEVA, Sorin GRIGORUŢĂ, Castilia MANEA-GRGIN, Graeme MURDOCK, Maria PAKUCS, Hedda REINDL-KIEL, Giorgio RIELLO, Nicoleta ROMAN, Ulinka RUBLACK, Miriam SHEFER-MOSSENSOHN, Barbara STOLLBERG-RILINGER, Mihai Răzvan UNGUREANU, Constanţa VINTILĂ-GHIŢULESCU, Michał WASIUCIONEK
The conference is organized in the frame of the European Research Council Consolidator Grant no. 646489 Luxury, Fashion and Social Status in Early Modern South-Eastern Europe (LuxFaSS) hosted by the New Europe College
Whose time is it anyway? The future is behind us, the past is ahead of us
Location: NEC conference hall
Edit ANDRÁS, independent scholar, living and working in Budapest as a senior member of the Institute of Art History of HAS Research Centre in the Humanities, and in Long Island, NY
This presentation aims to elaborate on space and time and on how they are articulated in various theories and what is out there for our region. The starting point is the “institution of the politics of time”, voiced by Rolando Vázquez, one of the advocates of decolonial option, a theory originating in Latin America. He argues that chronology and imposition of modern time are at the heart of the modern/colonial systems of oppression, and therefore, resistance against “hegemonic globalization” should question the universality of modern time.
Religion and Violence
Location: NEC conference hall
Ian BURUMA, historian and essayist, in dialogue with Andrei PLEȘU
Fatality of Politics, Seduction of Culture
Location: Romanian Athenaeum
a dialogue between Wolf LEPENIES and Andrei PLEȘU
Normative and Strategic Aspects of Transitional Justice. Facing the Past in the Serbian Context
Location: NEC conference hall
Marian STAN
Researcher, The Institute for the Investigation of Communist Crimes and the Memory of the Romanian Exile
Public Art and the Politics of Collective Memory
Location: NEC conference hall
Bojana PEJIĆ
Art historian, critic and curator
Ten Years of My Life: 1994-2004
Location: NEC conference hall
Timothy Garton ASH, Gerd Bucerius Senior Research Fellow in Contemporary History and Director of the European Studies Centre, St. Antony’s College, Oxford University
Wolf LEPENIES, Former Rector of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin; currently Professor of Sociology, Freie Universität, Berlin
The discussion was moderated by Andrei PLEŞU, Rector, New Europe College, Bucharest
The 10th anniversary of the NEC
Location: NEC conference hall
Andrei PLEȘU, Rector, New Europe College
Dieter GRIMM, Rector, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin
Wilhelm KRULL, General Secretary, Volkswagen Foundation
A Scholar in Precarious Times: Theodor Enescu
Location: NEC conference hall
Participants:
Radu Bercea, Codruţa Cruceanu, Mircea Dunca, Anca Oroveanu, Andrei Pleşu, Gheorghe Vida, Ioana Vlasiu
La sédimentation selon Husserl et la mémoire proustienne
Location: NEC conference hall
Prof. Jacques GARELLI
Université de Picardie “Jules Verne” Amiens, France
Europe’s New Frontiers
Location: NEC conference hall
Prof. Jacques RUPNIK
Centre d’Études et de Recherche Internationales, Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques, Paris, France
Reinventing Politics
Location: NEC conference hall
Prof. Vladimir TISMĂNEANU
University of Maryland at College Park, U.S.A.
Exhibiting Cultures
Location: NEC conference hall
Prof. Hans BELTING
Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung, Karlsruhe, Germany
Universalism vs. Relativism. The Beauties of Marginality
Location: NEC conference hall
Prof. Yehuda ELKANA
ETH Zurich, Switzerland;
Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Germany
Insights into Romanian and American life and poetry
Location: NEC conference hall
Nina CASSIAN
Writer, New York, U.S.A.
Die Universitätslage in der deutschen Gesellschaft
Location: NEC conference hall
Prof. Fritz WAGNER
Freie Universität, Berlin, Germany
Limits to Cultural Diversity
Location: NEC conference hall
Prof. Harlan CLEVELAND
President, World Academy of Arts and Science, U.S.A.
Choosing a philosophy of life: Skepticism, Stoicism or Epicureanism
Location: NEC conference hall
Prof. Anthony LONG
University of California at Berkeley, U.S.A.
Stoic philosophers on private property and community
Location: NEC conference hall
Prof. Anthony LONG
University of California at Berkeley, U.S.A.
Who are the Jews? Jews and Textuality
Location: NEC conference hall
Prof. Jeremy SCHONFIELD
Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, U.K.
From the interior to the generalized dialogue; the political philosophy of Mihai Şora
Location: NEC conference hall
Aurelian CRĂIUŢU
Ph.D. Candidate at Princeton University, U.S.A.
La querelle postmoderne dans la philosophie française contemporaine
Location: NEC conference hall
Prof. Pierre AUBENQUE
Université de la Sorbonne Paris, France IV;
General Secretary of the Institut International de Philosophie, Paris, France
Cultural Legacies or State Collapse: Probing the Postcommunist Dilemma
Location: NEC conference hall
Prof. Stephen HOLMES
Center for Study of Constitutionalism in Eastern Europe, University of Chicago, U.S.A.
Birth and Early Socialization – Cultural Experiments and Evolutionary Dimensions
Location: NEC conference hall
Prof. Wulf SCHIEFENHÖVEL
Forschungsstelle für Humanethologie, Max Planck Institut, Andechs, Germany
Marginalité aujourd’hui
Location: NEC conference hall
Prof. Iso CAMARTIN
ETH Zurich, Switzerland
New History – Renewal of History
Location: NEC conference hall
Dr. Ştefan GOROVEI
A.D. Xenopol Institute for History, Iaşi, Romania
Why is a history of Romanian philosophy not possible?
Location: NEC conference hall
Prof. Gabriel LIICEANU
University of Bucharest, Romania
Humanities and the Challenge of Contemporary Academic Policies
Location: NEC conference hall
Prof. Jacques DERRIDA
Ecole des Hautes Études en Science Sociales, Paris, France;
University of California at Irvine, U.S.A.
A barometer of the decay phase of the great empires. The phenomenon of the retreat of the center and the rise of the peripheries
Location: NEC conference hall
Prof. Neagu DJUVARA, University of Bucharest
Reflections on the Fall of Communism
Location: NEC conference hall
Claude KARNOOUH, Professor, C.N.R.S.-I.N.A.L.C.O., Paris; Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca
Identity and Person. Comments on Paul Ricoeur
Location: NEC conference hall
Sorin ALEXANDRESCU, Professor, University of Amsterdam
Hollow Forms in the Contemporary History of Romania
Location: NEC conference hall
Alexandru GEORGE, PhD, Writer, Bucharest
Neoplatonism and Romanian Culture
Location: NEC conference hall
Prof. Virgil NEMOIANU, University of Baltimore
Another Romanian Transition: 1945-1947 – From Capitalism to Communism
Location: NEC conference hall
Prof. Dinu GIURESCU, University of Bucharest
Humans – Defective Creatures or Big Hit of Evolution
Location: NEC conference hall
Prof. Wulf SCHIEFENHÖVEL, Max Planck Institut, Andechs, Germany
Social Institutions
Location: NEC conference hall
Prof. Wolfgang BALZER, University of Munich, Germany
Open Society and Transition
Location: NEC conference hall
Mircea FLONTA, Professor, University of Bucharest