Romanian and Moldovan Research Group Study Day

9.30 - 9.45 Welcome by the Director of SSEES, Dr Robin Aizlewood

9.45 - 11.15: Session One - 'Minorities in Romania in Historical Perspective'

Chair: Professor Martyn Rady

Tudor Georgescu (Oxford Brookes University) Saxon Fascist 'National Neighbourhoods' Between 1933 and 1940

Andreea Udrea (UCL School of Public Policy) Border Change and Hungarian Kin-Minorities in Romania

11.15 - 11.30 Coffee Break

11.30 - 13.00 Session Two - 'Issues in Contemporary Romanian and Moldovan Society'

Chair: Dr Richard Mole

Andreea Gavriliu (SSEES) Ethno-Business - A Case of Failed Minority Policies?

James Koranyi (University of Exeter) German Culture in Present-Day Romania

Eugeniu Burdelnii (SSEES-UCL) In Search of New Guidelines for East-West Migration in the Light of EU Extension: The Case of the Republic of Moldova

13.00 - 14.15 Lunch

14.15 - 15.45 Session Three - 'The Politics of Archeology in Romania and Moldova'

Chair: Professor Dennis Deletant

Jonathan Eagles (UCL Archeology) The Holy Bones of Putna - Observations on the Cult of Stephen the Great and Saint

Irina Marin (SSEES) Digging for Trouble: The Trials and Tribulations of Feldmarschalleutnant Nikolai Cena

15.45 - 16.00 Tea Break

16.00 - 17.30 Session Four - 'Literature in Contemporary Romania'

Chair: Dr Daniel Abondolo

Zsuzsa Sütő-Egeressy (University of Szeged) Contemporary Hungarian authors in Transylvania

Alex Boican (SSEES) Between the Eternal and the Impossible Return: Romanian Post-Communist Literature and the Sublime Subject of Transition

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