Le recul démocratique en Europe Centrale et Orientale

13-14 mai 2013
Faculté d’Etudes Européennes, dans la Salle Robert Schuman (2 e ét.)

Un colloque international sur des questions d’actualité en Roumanie et dans la région : la cohabitation politique, la duplicité du discours politique sur les valeurs européennes, le déclin de participation dans les élections pour le Parlement Européen, les difficultés de laïcisation, la présence féminine dans la politique, l’anatomie de la crise financière, le populisme… Les interventions seront assurés par des universitaire et spécialistes de Roumanie, Canada, Hongrie, Bulgarie, et Belgique.
Program

mercoledì 15 maggio alle 17.30

(Aula 3B) al Dipartimento di Sc. Politiche di Roma tre

“Ştefan Delureanu è nato nel 1926 a Mangalia una località affacciata sulla costa romena del Mar Nero. Suo padre, Vasile, era un albergatore e ristoratore che seppe fare del suo ristorante un punto di incontro di alcuni degli intellettuali romeni più noti degli anni Venti e Trenta. In un clima di spensieratezza Ştefan crebbe tra artisti, scrittori, filosofi e storici e proprio la diretta conoscenza di uno dei maggiori storici romeni di tutti i tempi, Nicolae Iorga, lo portò alla decisione di studiare storia”

“Questo libro dell’eminente studioso Georges Castellan sicuramente contribuisce a colmare una lacuna, in Italia, riguardo il maggior gruppo di genti parlanti una lingua neolatina in Europa centro-orientale: i rumeni.
Il problema principale di questo libro voluminoso, molto curato e dettagliato, è che è vecchio di un quarto di secolo e, purtroppo, in alcune parti, potrebbe risentire dello scarto cronologico.”

“Romania e Italia: relazioni, scambi e percorsi comuni verso lo spazio europeo”

Conferenza presentata in occasione della Festa dell’Europa

 Venerdì, 10 maggio 2013, ore 18.00
A ccademia di Romania, Sala Conferenze
Piazza José de San Martin, 1,00197 Roma

In occasione della Festa dell’Europa, il prof. Francesco Guida, preside della Facoltà di Scienze Politiche dell’Università Roma Tre presenta la conferenza “Romania e Italia: relazioni, scambi e percorsi comuni verso lo spazio europeo”. Illustrerà queste tematiche una mostra di documenti d’archivio sulla storia delle relazioni politiche e diplomatiche romeno-italiane.
La manifestazione è organizzata dall’Ambasciata di Romania in Italia con la collaborazione dell’Accademia di Romania in Roma.

E-mail: secretariat.ambasada@roembit.org

Tuesday, 14 May 2013, 09:00-18:30

Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for European History and Public Spheres, Nussdorfer Strasse 64, 5th floor, 1090 Wien

Participants:

Muriel Blaive (LBI-EHP)
Benita Blessing (University of Vienna )
Katalin Fabian (Department of Government & Law, Lafayette College)
Ema Hresanova (University of West Bohemia, Department of Sociology, Pilsen)
Katherine Lebow (Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna)
Sarah Lemmen (Institute for Eastern European History, Vienna)
Jill Massino (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Department of History)
Jana Matischok (LBI EHP, Vienna)
Libora Oates-Indruchová (LBI EHP, Vienna)
Cynthia Paces (The College of New Jersey, Department of History)
Petr Roubal (Academy of Sciences, Prague)
Nancy Wingfield (Northern Illinois University, Department of History)

Programm

edited by

Romanian and European Diplomacy
From Cabinet Diplomacy to the 21st Century Challenges

Studies and making of diplomacy. A Methodological and Historiographical Approach GHEORGHE CLIVETI Historical Study of International Relations: Concepts, Methodologies SILVIU MILOIU Diplomatic History/History of Diplomacy versus History of International Relations? A Comparative Analysis of the Romanian and Finnish Histo¬rio¬graphical Traditions GHEORGHE IACOB From “Old Diplomacy” to New Diplomacy LAURENŢIU CONSTANTINIU The Russian Historiography Regarding the Romanian-Soviet Relations during 1939-1948 GÁBOR BÚR Splendid Isolation – Never Existed? The British Diplomacy on the Horns of a Dilemma Cultural and Social Perspectives CRISTIAN PLOSCARU France, Russia and the Romanian Principalities in Early 19th Century. Political Vocabulary and Imagological Representations TUDOR DAN DUZINSCHI An Interaction of Diplomacy and Public Opinion: Great Britain’s position towards the Romanian Principalities during the Year of Revolutions ALEXANDRU ISTRATE Romanian Diplomats: an Intellectual Profile. A Portrait from Memoirs SILVANA RACHIERU A Social Perspective on the History of Modern Romanian Diplomacy: the Case of the Royal Legation of Romania to Istanbul IONUŢ NISTOR History, Propaganda and Cultural Diplomacy in the Programs of “Radio Romania” (1940-1944) JOES SEGAL Cultural Propaganda and the Use of Art in East and West Diplomacy prior to the First World War ION VARTA Russian Diplomacy in the Service of the Russian Geopolitical Interests at the Lower Danube DANIEL CAIN Diplomacy and Diplomats in South-Eastern Europe before First World War SORIN LIVIU DAMEAN The Romanian Diplomacy during the Reign of Carol I – a Cabinet Diplomacy? TATIANA VARTA The Russian Diplomacy and the Lands of the Dedicated Abbeys of the Romanian Principalities (1856-1858) RUDOLF DINU Romanian Foreign Policy from Berlin to Sarajevo, 1878-1914. Some Characteristics ADRIAN-BOGDAN CEOBANU Reflections on Romanian Old Diplomacy: Romanian Diplomats in Sankt Petersburg (1878-1918) BARANYI TAMÁS Possibility of a Hungarian Way: Count Tisza and His Foreign Policy Concept (1903-1914) GREGORY SHKUNDIN The Foreign Policy of Ionel Ion C. Brătianu in the Vision of the Foreign Diplomats (January – February 1914) Wartime Diplomacy VASILY KASHIRIN The Objectives and Methods of Romanian Diplomacy at the Start of the First World War in the Assessments of the Russian Civil and Military Experts CLAUDIU-LUCIAN TOPOR The Last Days of Peace, the First Night of War – on the Interruption of Diplomatic Relations Between Romania and Germany (1916) DORIN-DEMOSTENE IANCU The German Occupation of Romania 1916-1918: the Impact in the Collective Mentality of the Defeated EMANUEL PLOPEANU Balkans Entangled. Allied Perception Concerning Romania and Bulgaria and the Turkish Connection (1941-1943) Contemporary Challenges ADRIAN VIŢALARU Old Bounds in the “New Europe”: Aspects Concerning Romanian-Swiss Relations in the First Interwar Decade PAUL NISTOR The Relations Between Communist Romania and United Nations in the Early Cold War (1945-1955) ALEXANDR STYKALIN Iurii Andropov – the Ambassador in Hungary in 1950es. The Beginning of the Career of the Future Party Leader LAURIEN CRUMP The Warsaw Pact under Pressure. An Analysis of the Dynamics of Power in an Alliance in Crisis (1961-1964) OCTAVIAN ŢÎCU Territorial Integrity in the Republic of Moldova: A Perspective on the Implication of the Russian Federation

Beit casa editrice – Editura Universităţii Al.I. Cuza din Iaşi

Revolts and uprisings in the era of nationalism (1804-1908)

International conference, November 2013 at Panteion University,
Athens

Deadline:1 April 2013

Description
The chronological frame of the conference extends from the first Serbian uprising (1804) to the Young Turk Revolution (1908). During these hundred years, the map of Southeastern Europe was reshaped through a series of revolutionary movements, mainly national and liberal. Besides, this part of Europe, mostly under Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman rule, experienced the echo of the European revolutions in 1830 and 1848, and of the unification of Italy and of Germany. We may claim that the “Age of Revolutions” in the Balkans expanded until the early twentieth century. Starting from the main thematic axis of revolutionary movements in the Balkans, our objective is to revisit the existing literature in order to put new questions in a comparative and multiperspective way. We are interested in new empirical data that will support comparative thinking about various Balkan cases but also with reference to the Western paradigm. Fields of study could be the personnel involved in different ways in these movements (focusing particularly on the role of women), the diverse ways Europe and the West responded to these movements and how these movements mirrored European developments, the varied identities (pre-existing or under construction) and the ways these movements were commemorated in different national contexts during the nineteenth and the twentieth century. A specific emphasis is placed on the economic and social parameters of revolts as well as on reforms initiated in order to prevent social upheavals or as a result of the modernization project. Experiencing the Revolution at the local and everyday life level by ordinary people will also be an important field of study.

The main aim of the conference is to convey a multi-disciplinary analysis of the question what a “Revolution” in the Balkans was during the long nineteenth century in a broader semantic and social context: Is it possible to build a typology of revolutionary movements in the Balkans? What is the relation of these movements with the ones in Western Europe of that time? Is there a kind of “revolutionary recipe” travelling around Europe via cultural transfers? What are the local characteristics of revolts in different parts of South-East Europe? Who were the revolutionaries? Which is the relation between Revolution and Reform? Which is the historiography and which is the memory of these movements? It is also important to investigate the instances of what was opposite to Revolution, its conceptual ‘other’ under different faces: counter-revolution; reform; evolutionism/traditionalism; alternative loyalties etc.
Conference overview
In particular the conference will be organized around the following themes:
a. Nationalism and the creation of nation-states: different cases and processes of nation-building expressed through revolts and uprisings. Alternative forms of political loyalty and group identity that were competitors to nationalism.
b. People: Intellectuals, Military, Politicians, Women. We are particularly interested in “hybrid” cases and fluid identities -personalities participating in other than their national revolutionary movement or changing identity during their life.
c. Counter-revolutions: the fear of revolution; reactions to revolutions from the old political and social order.
d. Revolts and Violence: violence as part of traditional societies; violence as catalyst in historical change; revolutionary violence; the stereotype of a “Balkan” violence.
e. The everyday life during a revolution: City and country; how ordinary people experience a revolutionary movement; changes in people’s lives as long as a revolt lasts; the everyday life of revolutionaries.
f. Symbols and rituals of a revolution: Flags, songs, all forms of symbolic expression.
g. Europe and the Balkans: Responses to the Balkan revolutionary movements in the West and how the West perceived these events; cultural transfers between Western and Southeastern Europe (ideas, people, vocabulary); transfer of western ideologies in a Balkan context; the role of the “Great Powers”.
h. Tradition, Modernization and Reform: Traditional and modernizing elements in revolutionary movements; reforms as a result of revolutionary movements; reforms without revolts; reforms in order to avoid revolts.4
i. Historiography: National historiography on revolutionary movements; western historiography; alternative and revisionist approaches.
j. Art and Memory: Commemoration of revolts, uprisings and revolutions. How art represents these events then and how memory deals with them over time.
Scientific Committee
Prof. Halil Berktay, Sabanci University, Istanbul
Prof. Hannes Grandits, Humboldt University, Berlin
Assoc. Prof. Alexander Kitroeff, Haverford College, USA
Prof. Christina Koulouri, Panteion University, Athens
Prof. Diana Mishkova, Centre for Advanced Study, Sofia
Prof. Stefanos Papageorgiou, Panteion University, Athens
Dr Dubravka Stojanovic, University of Belgrade
Organizing Committee
Christina Koulouri (Panteion University)
Kostas Katsapis (KENI, Panteion University)
Alexandra Patrikiou (KENI, Panteion University) Evdoxia Papadopoulou (KENI, Panteion University) Chrissa Tzagaroulaki (KENI, Panteion University)
Secretariat: Alexandra Patrikiou (KENI, Panteion University)
We welcome proposals for papers of 15-20 minutes from established scholars, postdoctoral researchers, postgraduate students, independent researchers and educators from various backgrounds. Submission of 300-word proposals in English (abstract only; no full papers) along with short bios should be sent to keni.panteionuniversity@gmail.com by 1 April 2013. Since funding to cover the entire conference is not certified yet, guests are encouraged, if indeed they have this possibility, to acquire individual funding from their home Institution. We will notify for the approved papers by 15 May 2013.

StoricaMente Numero 9 – 2013

 L’Italia e il blocco sovietico fra antagonismo politico e cooperazione economica

I saggi del dossier presentano quattro ricerche, sviluppatesi autonomamente negli ultimi anni ma legate da un intreccio di tematiche e visioni interpretative comuni, il cui obiettivo è di contribuire al rinnovamento tematico e metodologico della ricerca sulla guerra fredda e la posizione dell’Italia nel sistema internazionale postbellico, che rappresenta una tematica centrale per lo studio dell’Italia contemporanea, un paese profondamente diviso che si trovò dopo il 1948 in prima linea nel confronto ideologico Est-Ovest, del quale ebbe a soffrire ma anche a beneficiare per decenni. I saggi che sottoponiamo all’attenzione del lettore spaziano dall’indagine delle relazioni internazionali alla storia politica ed economica e si concentrano sulle strategie italiane di adattamento agli equilibri della guerra fredda.

Indice

Stefano Bottoni
Premessa

Stefano Santoro
Partito comunista italiano e “socialismo reale”
I casi romeno e polacco

Stefano Bottoni
I rapporti commerciali italo-ungheresi durante la guerra fredda
Convergenze parallele?

Valentina Fava
La Fiat e la AutoVAZ di Togliatti
Alla ricerca del fordismo perduto

Alessandro Salacone
Le relazioni italo-sovietiche nel decennio 1958-1968
Uno sguardo da Mosca

STORIA, LETTERATURA, CULTURA DEI POPOLI DEL REGNO D’UNGHERIA ALL’EPOCA DELLA MONARCHIA AUSTRO-UNGARICA (1867-1918)

Roma, 30-31 gennaio – 1 febbraio 2013

Programma

organizzato dal
Centro Interuniversitario di Studi Ungheresi e sull’Europa Centro-Orientale (CISUECO)
in collaborazione con
l’ Accademia d’Ungheria in Roma e con il Dipartimento di Scienze politiche, Roma Tre

Sedi del Convegno:
Le sedute mattutine, con inizio alle ore 9,30, si svolgeranno nel Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche dell’Università degli Studi Roma TRE
(sede nazionale del CISUECO), via Gabriello Chiabrera 199, Sala del Consiglio (IV piano).
Le sedute pomeridiane, con inizio alle ore 15,30, si svolgeranno nell’Accademia d’Ungheria in Roma, via Giulia 1, Salone d’onore (I piano).
Collegamento con mezzi pubblici:
Le due sedi sono collegate dal bus 23 (diretto) e dai bus 280, 30 express, 87 (fino Piramide, da qui metro B, fermata San Paolo) e viceversa
(tempo medio di percorrenza: 30-40 minuti).

Con l’apporto di importanti studiosi, il Convegno organizzato dal Centro Interuniversitario di Studi Ungheresi e sull’Europa Centro-Orientale – CISUECO, in collaborazione con l’Accademia d’Ungheria in Roma e con il Dipartimento
di Scienze Politiche, Roma Tre, si propone di far conoscere, analizzare e approfondire la storia, la letteratura, la cultura – intesa questa nel senso più ampio del termine (linguistica, filosofia, arti visive, architettura, storia
del costume, geografia, pubblicistica, ecc.) – dei vari popoli che vissero insieme nella cornice statale del Regno d’Ungheria all’epoca dell’Impero austro-ungarico (1867- 1918): croati, ebrei, italiani, romeni, ruteni, serbi, slovacchi,
sloveni, tedeschi, ungheresi, ucraini.
Il Convegno multidisciplinare aspira a dare un quadro, il più ampio possibile e privo di luoghi comuni spesso cristallizzatisi nel tempo, dello sviluppo socio-economicoculturale e delle idee che, seppure fra luci e ombre, si ebbe
in Ungheria con l’apporto determinante dei vari popoli inseriti nei territori della Corona di Santo Stefano nei cinquanta anni che furono gli ultimi dell’Impero retto dagli Absburgo e della stessa Ungheria storica.

Organizzazione:
Roberto Ruspanti, Vicedirettore del CISUECO roberto.ruspanti@uniud.it
Cinzia Franchi (CISUECO) cinzia.franchi@gmail.com
Alberto Basciani (CISUECO) alberto.basciani@gmail.com
Andrea Moravcsik (Accademia d’Ungheria in Roma andrea.moravcsik@libero.it
András Fejérdy (Accademia d’Ungheria in Roma) andras.fejerdy@bbi.hu

Proiectul „Liderii Partidului Comunist din România, 1921-1944. Analiză prosopografică“, este o lucrare de cercetare postdoctorală, finanțat de Consiliul Național al Cercetării Științifice prin Programul Resurse Umane și derulat în cadrul Institutului Național pentru Studiul Totalitarismului.

În continuarea unor cercetări mai vechi, finalizate cu teza de doctorat „Partidul comunist din România în anii celui de-al doilea război mondial. Cazul Ștefan Foriș (1940-1944)“, proiectul propune o incursiune în lumea „ilegaliștilor“ – lideri și membri ai Partidului Comunist din România dintre cele două războaie mondiale, realizată cu ajutorul metodei biografiei de grup.

Grație impresionantului material de arhivă pus în circuitul științific în ultimii ani, comunismul românesc interbelic poate fi cercetat în prezent și din perspectiva „resurselor umane“ atrase de mirajul utopiei comuniste.