Questioni demografiche a est del Mediterraneo: il caso Moldavo

“L’identità Mediterranea e l’Europa Orientale. Scambi di uomini e culture”

Aula seminari ISSM

10 dicembre 2012 ore 9:30

via Pietro Castellino 111, Napoli

Programma

Europeanization and Globalization: Romanians in their Region and the World

Lucian Blaga University, Sibiu, 2-4 July 2012

In partnership with the Romanian Cultural Institute (ICR)
Europeanization and Globalization: Romanians in Their Region and the World

More than two decades after the fall of communism and several years after Romania’s accession to the European Union, Romanians, whether at home, in a growing diaspora around the world, or by virtue of international economic and cultural networks, are continuing to find themselves integrated into increasingly interconnected European and global institutions and practices. This gradual process of integration into international networks and interaction with foreign powers has been underway for centuries. States that occupied the territory of contemporary Romania and Moldova came under the influence of more powerful neighbors, and stood at the crossroads of both warlike and peaceful migrations. At one point most Romanian boyars spoke Greek, and in the 19th century Romanian students often studied abroad as they are again doing today. In the 1920s and 30s, ethnic and religious diversity contributed both to Europeanization and to domestic and international tensions. Then, the Soviet model played a major role in the imposition of communism. The proposed focus of the 2012 SRS conference encourages historical, cultural and contemporary inquiries into the place of Romanians and Moldovans in European and global structures, while pondering the implications of these trends for the future.

Keynote Speakers:

Dr. Tom Gallagher, Professor of the Study of Ethnic Conflict and Peace in the Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford, UK
Dr. Bogdan Murgescu, Professor in the Faculty of History, University of Bucharest, Romania
Dr. Igor Caşu, Director, the Center for the Study of Totalitarianism, Moldova State University, Moldova

Program

Second Joint PhD Symposium on South East Europe

London, Jun. 18, 2012

Program

Following the success of the First Joint PhD Symposium on South East Europe, held at LSE in June 2010, the Centre for the Study of the Balkan at Goldsmiths, University of London, will host the Second Joint PhD Symposium in June 2012.

The aim of the symposium is to facilitate the exchange of knowledge and ideas between scholars currently undertaking doctoral research on the region. The event will try to help research students to overcome the academic isolation associated with PhD research, to ‘try’ their ideas and findings on wider audiences, and to establish new collaborative links across disciplines. Researchers will also be able to ‘engage’ with a wider academic community, including academic members of staff at the three institutions, and also a number of other distinguished scholars who will be involved with the symposium.
The Second Joint PhD Symposium on South East Europe will address several issues related to the abovementioned region with a multi-disciplinary approach touching upon political studies, sociology, anthropology, economy, history, law and cultural studies.
How to participate to the Symposium

Participants will be expected to pay for their own travel, accommodation and subsistence. There will also be a registration fee of £15 for all participants, payable upon registration. General participants are welcome to attend.
Organizer and Partners

Centre for the Study of the Balkans, Goldsmiths
Centre for South East European Studies, SSEES, UCL
LSEE-Research on South East Europe, European Institute, LSE

Information & contacts

e-mail: phdsymposiumgold2012@gmail.com

 Archives, history and politics in Romania during the XIX-XXI centuries

September, 21st -22nd, 2012, Bucharest

The dead line for receipt of abstracts: 10th of June, 2012.

On 21st -22nd of September, 2012, the National Archives of Romania will organize a Conference dedicated to the relationship between archives, history and politics in Romania during the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
In the first half of the nineteenth century Leopold von Ranke proposed writing history “as it really was”, advocating a constant referencing of documents. In time this kind of vision proved its limits as it became obvious that the document (and, by extension, the archives), is not exactly an objective element of analysis, rather its creation is determined by a number of interests, including the political ones. As a result the idea emerged that the political sphere is, to a large extent, what dictates the content of a document. Furthermore, the archives await processing by a historian: a new set of factors makes itself felt, this time more intellectual than political, as the document is harnessed to the interest historian who uses it to confirm his own theories. The risk increases when the history itself becomes subject to interpretation by the political element, and the raison d’être of the historical approach, namely the search for truth, gets lost from view. And the political sphere continues to produce documents, the cycle seems to continue indefinitely.
But the intended sceptical tone of the above written lines should not be generalized nor taken stricto sensu. It is intended to be only a challenge. One that would lead to debates around the above mentioned triangle of concepts: Archives-History-Politics.
As institutional actor of one of the triangle’s elements and in an attempt to fulfil its mission, the National Archives of Romania organize this conference in order to provide interested parties the opportunity to present the outcome of their researches.

Suggested topics:
- The Organic Regulations and the beginning of the archival institutions in Wallachia and Moldavia;
- The establishment of the General Directorate of the State Archives and the issue of institutional centralism;
- Archives in Transylvania, Banat, Bukovina and Bessarabia before 1918;
- The interwar period and the re-organization of the State Archives;
- The evolution of archival legislation;
- The issue of access to documents;
- Cases of “secret archives”;
- Cases of specific archives (military, secret services, National Council for the Study of the Security’s Archives, Romanian Academy, etc);
- Cases of destruction and/or evacuation and/or restitution of archives;
- Specific publications in the field of archives;
- Digitalization of the archives;
- Archival study as a science;
- Epistemologies of the archival document.
The conference is dedicated to the evolution and the problems of the Romanian Archives, but also welcomes contributions which refer to other archival institutions.

Terms of participation:
Those interested are requested to send the title of the paper, their full name and institutional affiliation, as well as an abstract of the paper at publicatii.an@mai.gov.ro. The abstracts should not contain more than 400 words (MS Word, Times New Roman, 12 p, line spacing 1,5).
The dead line for receipt of abstracts: 10th of June, 2012.
The decision of acceptance or rejection of your paper will be announced by electronic mail no later than 10th of July, 2012.
The conference will be organized on panels according to topics. Papers will be presented in Romanian or English. Presentation should not exceed 20 minutes.
Expenses for transportation (on Romanian territory), accommodation and meals will be covered by the organizers. The conference’s materials will also be provided by the organizers.
The papers presented within the conference will be published in a book form. This is meant to serve a double purpose: first to provide, as accurately as possible an overview of the activity and the place of the archival institutions in the Romanian society, and secondly, to stimulate the debate among historians and archivists in the first instance, but also among a wider interested audience .

International Forum 2012 on “Transnistria—The Forgotten Holocaust, 1941 to 1944”

Chișinău (Moldova), Odessa (Ukraine)
Period: Sep. 23-29, 2012
Deadline for application: Jun. 24, 2012

Description of the Event

The International Forum is part of the programme GESCHICHTSWERKSTATT EUROPA initiated by the German Federal Foundation ”Remembrance, Responsibility and Future“ (EVZ). The Forum looks at the conflicting recollections of the contemporary history of Europe and at recent debates and research on the collective and cultural memory of the Europeans. It will be led by the Leipzig historians Matthias Middell and Stefan Troebst.
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Transnistria, the region between rivers Dniester (Nistru) and Bug, is still a white spot on the map of the Holocaust. Today mostly part of Ukraine with a small strip belonging to Moldova’s separatist eastern edge, the self-proclaimed ‘Dniester Moldovan Republic’, it was from the summer of 1941 to the spring of 1944 under Romanian civilian administration. In the Treaty of Tighina of 30 August 1941, the German Reich had handed over this formerly Soviet territory to its Romanian ally while still maintaining a military presence there. Between September 1941 and October 1942, some 100,000 Jews from Romania including the regained provinces of Northern Bukovina and Bessarabia were deported beyond river Dniester. In the regional capital Odessa and in concentration camps like Bogdanovka, Domanovka, Akmetchetka or Vapniarka mass shootings of Jews took place, while others were put to death by hunger or diseases.

An estimated number of up to 300,000 Romanian and Ukrainian Jews fell victim to the Holocaust in Transnistria. Perpetrators were Romanian officials, military personnel and civilians as well as German military units and administrative staff, also members of the regional German community, i.e., Schwarzmeerdeutsche. Probably only 100,000 Jews survived. There is, however, also an additional dimension to the Holocaust in Transnistria: In the summer and fall of 1942, also some 25.000 Romanian Roma were deported to the region. Here approximately 11.000 died of cold, hunger or illness and some were shot, while the others could return to Romania in 1944.

During this one-week event seminars and lectures will be delivered. Furthermore, visits to museums like the Museum of the History of the Jews of Odessa and excursions to the site of the concentration camp Bogdanovka will take place. Scholars from various fields of study and different parts of Europe will lecture on the events of 1941 to 1944 and on their place in Moldovan, Romanian and Ukrainian cultures of remembrance.

Guidelines for applying

Please send your applications by e-mail together with a letter of motivation and a curriculum vitae to the coordination office of the International Forum. Closing date for applications will be June 24, 2012. Applications will be reviewed by June 30, 2012, and applicants will be notified immediately thereafter.
Organizers

Global and European Studies Institute of the University of Leipzig
German Federal Foundation ”Remembrance, Responsibility and Future”

Information & contacts

Coordinator Ulrike Breitsprecher
International Forum | GESCHICHTSWERKSTATT EUROPA
address: Universität Leipzig Global and European Studies Institute
Emil-Fuchs-Strasse 1
04105 Leipzig, Germany
tel.: 0049.(0)341.973.34.93
e-mail: ifgwe@uni-leipzig.de

LA REPUBBLICA DI MOLDOVA AL 20° ANNIVERSARIO DELLA PROCLAMAZIONE DELL’ INDIPENDENZA: CULTURA, TRADIZIONI, FOLCLORE ED ARTE CONTEMPORANEA

Sabato 26 maggio 2012 alle 10.30 presso il Museo della Civiltà Romana sarà inaugurato il mese della cultura Moldava, iniziativa che rientra  nell’ambito del progetto “Arte e cultura dell’Europa dell’Est a Roma” promosso dall’Assessorato alle Politiche Culturali e Centro Storico di Roma Capitale e dalla Consigliera Assembleare Aggiunta per l’Europa Tetyana Kuzyk.

Per celebrare un anno così importante, la comunità Moldava presente a Roma con l’Ambasciata della Repubblica di Moldavia presenta un percorso d’arte e cultura per far conoscere la ricchezza del proprio patrimonio artistico-culturale, delle tradizioni e del folklore. A partire dal 26 maggio fino al 17 giugno,  nelle sale espositive del Museo della Civiltà Romana, si potrà assistere ad  eventi e apprezzare mostre di quadri, sculture, fotografie e artigianato che appartengono alla tradizione e alla storia moldava. Inoltre gli eventi vedranno la partecipazione  di rappresentanti del mondo delle istituzioni, dell’arte contemporanea e della cultura, nonché della diplomazia e dell’associazionismo del mondo dell’immigrazione.

Sabato 26 maggio ore 10.30-13.45

Inaugurazione alla presenza delle autorità moldave ed italiane.  Intervengono: On. Tetyana KUZYK, Consigliera Aggiunta Europa dell’Est – Assemblea Capitolina, S.E. Aurel BĂIEŞU, Ambasciatore della Repubblica di Moldova nella Repubblica Italiana, Dott. Antonio INSALACO, Direzione Museo della Civiltà Romana;
Apertura della mostra d’arte contemporanea degli artisti moldavi: Tudor ZBÂRNEA, pittore; Simion ZAMŞA, pittore; Elena KARACHENTSEVA, pittrice; Valeriu PALADI, pittore; Ion ZDERCIUC, scultore. Intervengono: Tudor ZBÂRNEA, direttore del Museo Nazionale d’Arte di Moldova e Valeriu PALADI, pittore;
Apertura della mostra fotografica di affreschi della chiesa ortodossa “Assunzione della Vergine” (lingua originale – “Adormirea Maicii Domnului”) di Cauşeni, monumento storico del sec. XVI – XVII, a cura di Tudor ZBÂRNEA, direttore del Museo Nazionale d’Arte di Moldova;
Apertura della mostra “Casa Mare” con la presentazione dell’artigianato tradizionale moldavo – a cura della professoressa di lingua e letteratura romena Liuba MARIAN;
Presentazione dei costumi nazionali moldavi del XIX° secolo – a cura della professoressa Lidia BOLFOSU;
Esibizione del gruppo folcloristico moldavo “Arţaraş” – direttore artistico Lidia BOLFOSU;
Rinfresco con degustazione di prodotti tipici moldavi.

Sabato 2 giugno ore 10.00-13.45

Visita guidata del Museo della Civiltà Romana (inizio alle 10.00);
“Immigrazione dei moldavi in Italia: difficoltà e prospettive” a cura di Olga COPTU, presidente dell’associazione “Gazeta Basarabiei” (inizio alle 11.00);
Proiezione del film “Nunta in Basarabia” (“Matrimonio in Bessarabia”) di Nap Toader – interviene Liliana VERLAN, Primo Segretario dell’Ambasciata della Repubblica di Moldova a Roma (inizio alle 11.30).

Giovedì 7 giugno ore 10.30-13.45

Intervento di On. Prof. Riccardo MIGLIORI, Vice Presidente OSCE PA, Presidente Delegazione Italiana OSCE PA – “Rapporti interparlamentari fra Repubblica di Moldova e Italia”;
Intervento di On. Franco FRATTINI, Presidente Società Italiana per l’Organizzazione Internazionale – “Il 20° anniversario della proclamazione dell’indipendenza della Repubblica di Moldova e dello stabilimento delle relazioni diplomatiche fra Italia e Moldova”;
Conferenza dell’Avv. Enrico Silverio “Da Roma alla Moldova attraverso cinque imperi”;
Proiezione del documentario prodotto nel 2011 “Chişinău – una capitale europea”;
Rinfresco.

  Domenica 17 giugno ore 10.30-13.45
Giornata di chiusura:

Letteratura romena tradotta in italiano – lettura di poesie in italiano, esposizione di libri dei grandi classici della letteratura romena e degli scrittori contemporanei (Mihai Eminescu, George Bacovia, Grigore Vieru, Mircea Cartarescu) tradotti in italiano, a cura di Tatiana CIOBANU, vicepresidente dell’associazione “Dacia”;
Presentazione del libro “Storia della filosofia del linguaggio”, a cura di Donatella di Cesare, ispirato dagli scritti del linguista moldavo Eugen Coşeriu;
Proiezione del film “Aria” di Vlad DRUC – interviene Liliana VERLAN, Primo Segretario dell’Ambasciata della Repubblica di Moldova a Roma;
Concerto con la partecipazione dell’gruppo folcloristico “Arţaraş” di Roma;
Rinfresco con specialità culinarie moldave.

Conference of the Society for Romanian Studies

Venue: Sibiu (Romania)
Period: Jul. 2 – 4, 2012
Program

Europeanization and Globalization: Romanians in Their Region and the World

More than two decades after the fall of communism and several years after Romania’s accession to the European Union, Romanians, whether at home, in a growing diaspora around the world, or by virtue of international economic and cultural networks, are continuing to find themselves integrated into increasingly interconnected European and global institutions and practices. This gradual process of integration into international networks and interaction with foreign powers has been underway for centuries. States that occupied the territory of contemporary Romania and Moldova came under the influence of more powerful neighbors, and stood at the crossroads of both warlike and peaceful migrations. At one point most Romanian boyars spoke Greek, and in the 19th century Romanian students often studied abroad as they are again doing today. In the 1920s and 30s, ethnic and religious diversity contributed both to Europeanization and to domestic and international tensions. Then, the Soviet model played a major role in the imposition of communism. The proposed focus of the 2012 SRS conference encourages historical, cultural and contemporary inquiries into the place of Romanians and Moldovans in European and global
structures, while pondering the implications of these trends for the future.

Keynote Speakers:
Dr. Tom Gallagher, Professor of the Study of Ethnic Conflict and Peace in the Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford, UK
Dr. Bogdan Murgescu, Professor in the Faculty of History, University of Bucharest, Romania

Final program of speakers and panels TBD.

How to participate to the Conference

In order to assure that the conference is accessible to scholars from across the Atlantic region and to those from Romania and the Republic of Moldova, the conference fees will be quite modest. For scholars from North America, the fee will be 40 USD; for those from the Eurozone and other world regions, 40 Euros, and from Romania, Moldova, and post-Communist realms, 40 Romanian Lei. Graduate students will be exempt from this fee. SRS membership will also be required and additional for those paying in USD and Euros, but included for those paying in Lei.
Organizer and Partners

Society for Romanian Studies

Information & contacts

Matthew Ciscel
e-mail: CiscelM@ccsu.edu

Second Annual Conference of the Balkan Sociological Forum

Close but Unknown Neighbors : Balkan Sociological Perspectives

9-10 November 2012 Sofia, Bulgaria

Deadline: 30th of June 201

The Conference is organized by the Balkan Sociological Forum and Bulgarian Sociological Association and supported by the International Sociological Association. It will be held parallel with the XIII Congress of the Bulgarian Sociological Association on November 9-10, 2012 in Sofia.

Place of the topic in relation to state-of-the-art in sociology The Balkans have been systematically studied by historians, anthropologists, cultural studies experts, art historians, but have rarely been placed in a general sociological perspective. Comparative studies on separate social problems have rarely included more than three or four countries. In fact, from a sociological perspective, Balkan countries pose a double challenge: social and cognitive. There is the social aspect, for even though they have a shared past of authoritarian and totalitarian regimes in different periods of the 20th century, their social and political development in post WW2 Europe has not been the same for all countries. Their common present situation of transition to a market economy and democratic structures like those of Western Europe, does not cancel the specific ordeals of economic, political, and social development that each national society of the Balkans is going through. Engrossed as we are in the supra-national structures of the EU and of Transatlantic cooperation, we hardly notice our neighbours; moreover, we fail to realize that the position of each country on the international scene depends on its relations with, and the support of, its closest environment. In competing for international recognition, our interest in neighbouring countries is all too often limited to what can be advantageous though detrimental to them. Thus we miss the chance of working together to overcome our common weaknesses and achieve mutual consolidation of our separate advantages. In scrutinizing our own problems, we fail to look around us and see that, within the proximate region – so close to us by its historical destiny and present state of civilization, some country may have already found a solution to some of our own problems. What are our Balkan neighbours like as economic and political players, as stratified societies and united communities, as educational and cultural structures, as ways of living together and recognizing the other? What is happening here and now in each Balkan country? How does the past impact on the present in each country and in the relations between them? What part of the contemporary experience of each country could be useful for its neighbours, so that our presence in united Europe and in the world might be constructive, mutually enriching, and stimulating? These are all questions to which sociology, with its rich variety of paradigms and approaches, can provide well-argued and thoughtful answers. As concerns the Balkans as a cognitive challenge, this aspect consists foremost in the problems that the current processes of internationalization and interdisciplinary scientific knowledge pose for sociology. The national communities of sociologists in Balkan countries compete to win a place in the European production of interdisciplinary and policy-oriented knowledge, but we are also partners playing non-hegemonic roles in the international research area. These combined features provide a suitable starting point for analysis, and our integration in the European Research Area clarifies a number of problems, such as:

· the marginalization of national sociological traditions;

· the neutralization of local issues by presenting them as Eastern equivalents of problems formulated with reference to the West European social and research context;

· the irrelevance of applying a theoretical framework to social situations in separate national contexts;

· the replacement of scientific argumentation as to the validity of knowledge by imperatives of immediate applicability;

· the tension between local vocation vs. international involvement; the growing dependence of the research structure and the type of knowledge produced relative to the forms of funding and the supra-national management of scientific production, etc.

Objectives and topics The main objective of the Second Annual Conference of BSF is by identifying the common and specific problems in the contemporary development of Balkan countries, to contribute to a better understanding of our own society, and to the development of sociology as a cognitive solution to the contextual problems, a solution based on adequate theoretical and methodological tools.

The discussions will be organized around the following thematic centers: · The Contemporary Economic Crisis: Political Solutions, Technological Answers, Individual Strategies; · Mobility and Social Inequalities; · Global Social Order, States, Citizens; · Transformations of Identities and Social Relationships in the Balkans; · National Sociological Traditions and the Sociologist’s Vocation Today.

Organization and deadlines Balkan Sociological Forum and Bulgarian Sociological Association invite scholars and students of sociology and other social sciences from all Balkan countries and colleagues outside the Balkans working jointly with sociologists from this region to take part in the Second Conference of BSF.

Please, send your proposals until June 30th 2012 to the following addresses: bsa @ sociology . bas . bg and diana @ sociology . bas . bg .

Conference languages: Bulgarian and English

Deadlines: · 30th of June 2012: Abstract submission · 15th of July 2012: Confirmation of abstract acceptance · 30th of September 2012: Participants registration · 25th of October 2012: Conference programme

Abstracts should be contained the following items: · Name · Professional status (student, Ph.D. student, professor, research fellow, experts, etc.) · Institution · Title and abstract up to 20 lines/or 200 words/or 1500 sings in English Accommodation and other details will be announced before 10th of October 2012.

Organizers and Organizing Committee Bulgarian Sociological Association (www.bsa-bg.org) Balkan Sociological Forum Organizing Committee Lekë SOKOLI – president of the Balkan Sociological Forum, University Martin Barleti, Tirana, Albania Svetla KOLEVA – vice-president of the Balkan Sociological Forum, president of the Bulgarian Sociological Association, Institute for the Study of Societies and Knowledge, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria Gjon BORIÇI – Albanian University, Tirana, Albania Ognjen ČALDAROVIĆ – president of Croatian Sociological Association Todor GALEV – Institute for the Study of Societies and Knowledge, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria Maya GREKOVA – Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, Bulgaria Ivo HRISTOV – Plovdiv University Paisii Hilendarski, Bulgaria Martin KANOUSHEV – New Bulgarian University, Sofia, Bulgaria Jonida LAMAJ – Balkan Sociological Forum Secretary, Albanian Institute of Sociology Svetla MARINOVA – Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, Bulgaria Mihail MIRCHEV – University of National and World Economy, Sofia, Bulgaria Diana NENKOVA – Institute for the Study of Societies and Knowledge, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria Andrei NONCHEV – University of National and World Economy, Sofia, Bulgaria Ali PAJAZITI – South East European University, Tetovo, Macedonia Miroslava RADEVA – Plovdiv University Paisii Hilendarski and MBMD Ltd., Bulgaria Sunai RAIMI – State University of Tetovo, Macedonia Rumiana STOILOVA – Institute for the Study of Societies and Knowledge, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria Gorgi TONOVSKI – FON University, Skopje, Macedonia

În şirul acţiunilor preconizate în cadrul consemnării a 200 de ani de la anexarea Basarabiei la Imperiul Rus se înscrie şi Conferinţa ştiinţifică internaţională „Basarabia – 1812.

Problemă naţională, implicaţii internaţionale”, care va avea loc sub egida Academiei de Ştiinţe a Moldovei şi Academiei Române. Scopul acestui simpozion rezidă, înainte de toate, în reconstituirea şi aprecierea academică, în baza surselor documentare, a împrejurărilor istorice, militare, politice, juridice, diplomatice, regionale şi internaţionale, sociale, culturale, demografice şi confesionale ale anexării Basarabiei la Imperiul Rus la 1812, precum şi în urmărirea şi interpretarea de o manieră convingătoare a evoluţiei istorice a acestui spaţiu, din perspectiva sec. XIX – începutul sec. XXI.

Aula 3 della Facoltà di Scienze della Formazione, ore 17:30
via Tigor 22, Trieste

presentazione del libro Dopo la pioggia. Gli stati dell’ex Jugoslavia e l’Albania (1991-2011),  a cura di Antonio D’Alessandri e Armando Pitassio

sarenno presenti Giuseppe Battelli ( DiSU), Marco Dogo (DiSU), Mila Orlić (Irsml FVG / Dipartimento di Storia, Università di Rijeka-Fiume), Raoul Pupo (DSPS)