28.05.2025 / News Făgăraș, May 28, 2025 – The Făgăraș Research Institute had the pleasure of hosting a group of students from the University of Pittsburgh, participants in the Pitt in Romania & Belgium 2025 study abroad program, led by Dr. Horia M. Dijmărescu, Teaching Assistant Professor in the Department...
21.01.2025 / News The decisions we make today can prevent the return to power of ideologies that have left a bloody mark on our collective past for several decades. Healing these traumas is a theme we will continue to explore together. At the last performance of the documentary theatre performance...
17.09.2024 / News We are preparing for the first meeting within the School for Sustainable Development project. On Friday and Saturday, we are hosting representatives from local and foreign non-governmental organizations in Calbor for a series of debates on community development. The meeting concludes on Saturday evening with an event...
05.11.2024 / News How do we learn from the past to better understand the present? The “Țara Bunicilor” (Grandparents’ Land) workshop gave children and young people the opportunity to explore recent history through interactive experiences and role-playing games. Starting with the rigged elections of 1946 and continuing with experiments on...
15.10.2024 / News End of project: Share Location – The Făgăraș Resistance reached six counties this year. The documentary-theater show brought the powerful stories of women in the anti-communist resistance to the public, transforming each performance into a community dialogue about memory, suffering and collective healing. Between June and August...
28.10.2024 / News On October 20th 2024, the “Messages from the Future” exhibition, the last event in the Share Location: Făgăraș Resistance project, was opened in the Dungeon Tower of the Țara Făgărașului Museum. The exhibition brought to the forefront the works made by children and young people who participated...
15.06.2024 / News On Heroes’ Day (June 13), during a special event organized at the Valer Literat Museum in Țara Făgărașului, the documentary-theatre performance “Share Location: the Făgăraș Resistance” premiered. The production, dedicated to women who fought against the communist regime, offered the audience a powerful artistic and emotional experience....
01.03.2024 March marks the start of the most important project of 2024 for CRAI – FRI Center for Anti-Communist Resistance and History. Share Location: The Făgăraș Resistance is a documentary-theater performance based on the theme of communist resistance and the case study of the resistance in Țara Făgărașului – one...
15.08.2022 Graveyards, irrespective of their religious belonging, represent important research sources for studying various phenomena unfolding in the community where respective graveyards are located. Also, a funeral monument is in itself a historical source and can be often considered artistic and cultural heritage. Therefore, by researching such monuments we can...
23.03.2022 The Last(ing) Signs Archival Collection is creating the context for collecting deteriorating artefacts in public spaces which keep stories and symbolical meanings from XX century Romania. All images show objects that were once useful or carried certain meanings, but today they are rather useless and remain present in the...