18 July, online, ora 17.00 – 18.30 (Romanian time, online, in English) 27 July, online, ora 18.00 – 19.30 (Romanian time, online, in English) 1 August, online, ora 17.00 – 18.30 (Romanian time, online, in English) 13 August, CALBOR – ora 12.00 (Romanian time, in person, in English) The course...
Hybrid (in person and on Zoom), August 31, 2021, 10.30-13.30 (Romanian time, in English) The workshop is focused on historical thinking and the art of storytelling. Few days before the workshop all participants will receive access to a set of textual, visual, and audio archival sources created in Romania, Bulgaria,...
Online (Zoom), August 12, 2020, 16.00-18.00 (Romanian time, in English) Looking back at controversial historical episodes has become a widely spread reference point in nowadays public debates and politics. Recently, monuments of figures like Christopher Columbus were targeted and destroyed during protests against racism in the US. Another example is...
Online (Zoom), August 10, 2020, 18.00-19.30 (Romanian time, in English) The webinar is an invitation to explore differences and similarities between the lived experiences of colonialism & postcolonialism, as well as totalitarianism and the transition to democratic regimes in Africa and Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). In more specific terms,...
Online (Zoom), August 8, 2020, 18.00-19.30 (Romanian time, in English) In Romania and Eastern-Europe the Z generation started with kids born in and after 2000. The first cohorts are already entering university and the whole public education system is filled by this active generation, born in the online world, Instagram...
Turkey – European Union (EU) relations are at an all times low. The transformation of the Turkish political regime in the aftermath of the failed coup against President Erdogan puts significant pressure on the vision for a common future. Essentially, Turkey’s EU integration process is stalled. The importance of trade...
Africa – Central and Eastern Europe relations are more complex than one would recognize at first. The two regions have much more in common than is apparent today. First, during the Cold War, CEE countries have supported in various ways the liberation movements of African countries, their development, and benefited...
Author: Dr. Stefan Cibian The ACP-EU Inter-Parliamentary Assembly takes place in Bucharest this month. A rare occasion where a significant Africa-EU event takes place in a New EU Member State. CEE-Africa relations are one of the recent nuances of the EU and global politics that is likely become more relevant...
România Educată – un raport bine-venit, dar extrem de timid în raport cu disfuncționalitatea sistemului educațional Author: Dr. Ștefan Cibian Sistemul educațional din România distruge continuu o parte semnificativă a capitalului uman al acestei țări, în loc să îl dezvolte. Rata de analfabetism funcțional, de abandon școlar și mulți alți...
Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) is leaving democracy behind, once again. Three decades of ‘endeavored’ democracy generated an institutional setup that is instrumentalized for its destruction. The Governments and leading parties of most New Member States of the European Union (EU) are following the Russian model of playing democracy while...