Blood, Sweat and Tears (US band) visited Romania in 1970, which was an impressive event for those times. The project allows us to follow the experiences of the band and of some of the participants at the 1970 concerts. The results of our research will be used for a documentary...
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 11, 2021, 18.00-20.30 (Romanian time, in English) The round table aims to provide a space for reflection on the role and practice of carceral systems in different types of political regimes, aiming to generate interdisciplinary perspectives on the way prisons are instrumentalized for political aims. INSTRUCTORS Bhakti...
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,...
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...
The expansion of the modern state at a global level started with the Peace of Westphalia and is still being consolidated. While states encompass the entire territory of the Globe, the way they work varies substantially across space and time. A subset of statehood experiences is related to the emergence...
The event The Europe of the Post-89ers took place in Berlin on November 6-7, 2019, being organized by Prof. Timothy Garton Ash of the European Studies Center, University of Oxford and by Stiftung Mercator. The event is part of the Dahrendorf Programme for the Study of Freedom, bringing together young researchers...
The first edition of the Făgăraș Summer School was launched on June 24 in Făgăraș. The Summer School started with two courses in philosophy held by Prof. Octavian Gabor, Ph.D. from Methodist College in the US and Research Fellow at FRI. The event brought together students from the community and...