Conference

Europe as viewed from the margins.

From World War I to Present

December 12-14, 2007

’Grigore Gafencu’ Study Centre for the History of International Relations

“Valahia” University of Târgoviste, Romania

1^st Annual Grigore Gafencu Centre Conference

Organizing Committee:

Professor Ion Stanciu, Chair of Organizing Committee, Director, Grigore Gafencu Research Centre for the History of International Relations

Lecturer Dr. Silviu Miloiu, Coordinator of the Conference, Grigore Gafencu Research Centre for the History of International Relations

Lecturer Dr. Iulian Oncescu, Coordinator of the Conference, Grigore Gafencu Research Centre for the History of International Relations

Elena Dragomir, Helsinki University

Tapani Kaakkuriniemi, Helsinki University

Laura Scurtescu Oncescu, Valahia University of Targoviste

Cezar Stanciu, Grigore Gafencu Research Centre for the History of International Relations

Cigden Ustun, Middle East University of Ankara

Advisory Council:

Professor Ion Calafeteanu, Valahia University of Targoviste

Professor Gheorghe Sbarna, Valahia University of Targoviste

Program Chairs:

Lecturer Dr. Silviu Miloiu, Grigore Gafencu Research Centre for the History of International Relations

Lecturer Dr. Iulian Oncescu, Grigore Gafencu Research Centre for the History of International Relations

Publication Chairs:

Professor Ion Stanciu, Grigore Gafencu Research Centre for the History of International Relations

Lecturer Dr. Silviu Miloiu, Grigore Gafencu Research Centre for the History of International Relations

Lecturer Dr. Iulian Oncescu, Grigore Gafencu Research Centre for the History of International Relations

Reception Committee:

Sergiu Baroian                                   

Marius Grigoriu

Roxana Vasile

Wednesday 12 December

11.00 – 15.30 Registration of the participants - Grigore Gafencu Centre Conference Room, Building D, Ground Floor (Address: Lt. Stancu Ion Street, No. 33/35)

12.00 – 14.00

Lunch

14.00 - 14.15 Amphitheatre J 2 (Address: Lt. Stancu Ion Street, No. 33/35)

Opening Speech

Professor Ion Stanciu

Chair of Organizing Committee

14.15 - 15.30 Amphitheatre J 2 (Address: Lt. Stancu Ion Street, No. 33/35)

Keynote Session I

Chair:

Catalin Turliuc

Silviu Miloiu

Europe as seen from the margins: An East-Central European Perspective. The curriculum of a project

Ion Calafeteanu

Grigore Gafencu and the Hague European Congress (1948)

Tapani Kaakkuriniemi

The idea of the Northern Dimension in EU-Russian relations

Alina Timoasca

Rethinking EU frontiers: Romania's contribution to the European Neighborhood Policy

15.30 – 16.00

Coffee break

16.00 – 17.30 Amphitheatre J 2 (Address: Lt. Stancu Ion Street, No. 33/35)

Session 1

Chair:

Tapani Kaakkuriniemi

Cezar Stanciu

With or without the Western Allies? Romanian policy towards Great Britain in the aftermath of World War II

Mioara Anton

From East to West. Romania’s way out of the Soviet sphere of influence: 1960-1965

Cosmin Popa

The Communist Camp. The USSR’s failure in Eastern Europe

Vlad Alexandru Puscasu

Main Political Differences between East and West Europe: The Communism

16.00 – 17.30 Grigore Gafencu Centre Conference Room, Building D, Ground Floor (Address: Lt. Stancu Ion Street, No. 33/35)

Session 2

Chair:

Ion Ciuperca, Iulian Oncescu

Florin Anghel

About strangers and unknowns. Romanian political elites towards Lithuania in the first years of Independence after 1918

Silviu Miloiu

New wine in old bottles. The League of Nations from hopes to disillusion: Baltic perspectives

Oana Laculiceanu

A glance towards the North. The "Danish model" in Romanian social and economic organization in the interwar period

17.30 Excursion in Targoviste

20.00 Reception

Thursday 13 December

8.30 – 9.15 Registration of the participants - Grigore Gafencu Centre Conference Room, Building D, Ground Floor (Address: Lt. Stancu Ion Street, No. 33/35)

9.15 – 11.00 Amphitheatre J 2 (Address: Lt. Stancu Ion Street, No. 33/35)

Session 3

Chair:

Florin Anghel

Dinu Balan

Romania - a periphery of Europe? Confession and Nation in the period from the First World War to the Second World War

Raul MichaelCarstocea

A Marginal Group on Europe’s Margin: Anti-Semitism in Romania from the Congress of Berlin to „The Legion of the Archangel Michael”

Radu Bruja

Romanian Minorities in the National Renaissance Front

Nicolae Razvan Mitu

National Political Programs in Central and South-Eastern Europe. Myth and reality

9.15 – 11.00 Grigore Gafencu Centre Conference Room, Building D, Ground Floor (Address: Lt. Stancu Ion Street, No. 33/35)

Session 4

Chair

Ustun Cigdem

Bogdan Schipor

A British Initiative in Peace and War. The Balkan Bloc of Neutrals in 1939

Emanuel Plopeanu

Looking to West: Considerations about the significance of Turkey’s adhesion to NATO

Elena Dragomir

Preparing the CSCE: Romanian definitions and perceptions on European security

11.00-11.30

Coffee break

11.30 – 13.00 Amphitheatre J 2 (Address: Lt. Stancu Ion Street, No. 33/35)

Session 5

Chair

Mioara Anton

Ion Stanciu

The perception of Western Capital Investment as a Sharing Reality up to 1916

Catalin Turliuc

Mirror’s Distorsion. Nationalism, Modernisation and Borderlands in Central Eastern Europe

Tuomas Hovi

Romania as seen through Dracula tourism

Ana-Maria Iuliana Oteanu

Are we there yet? Socio-Cultural Aspects of Romanian International Labour Migration after 1990

11.30 – 13.00 Grigore Gafencu Centre Conference Room, Building D, Ground Floor (Address: Lt. Stancu Ion Street, No. 33/35)

Session 6

Chair:

Dinu Balan

Iulian Oncescu               

Opinion Publique et Opinion Politique Roumaine pendant la Guerre Franco-Prussienne (1870-1871)

Nicoleta Ciachir

A Bulgarian vision of Western Europe

Gheorghe Sbarna

The Bucharest Interparliamentary Conference (1931). New social and political perspectives in constructing Europe of tomorrow

Ovidiu Basceanu

Considerazioni, guardando lo sviluppo industriale d’Italia e Romania nella seconda mezzo di ottocento fino a prima guerra mondiale; convergenze e differenze

13.00-15.00

Lunch

Keynote Session II Amphitheatre J 2 (Address: Lt. Stancu Ion Street, No. 33/35)

15.00 – 17.00

Chair

Alina Timoasca

Ustun Cigdem

Love and Hate relationship between Turkey and Europe: A historical analysis of Turkey’s relations with Europe

Simona Stefanescu

Europe as Social Representations

Sergiu Miscoiu

Radicalism, Contestation, Rebellion: An Incursion into the Other Europe through a Research Project

Constantin Viorel Mihai

Retrouver l’Europe - une approche des bénéficiaires roumains des programmes communautaires pendant la période postcommuniste

17.30 Excursion in Targoviste

20.00 Reception

Friday 14 December

Roundtable Session

9.30 – 11.00 Grigore Gafencu Centre Conference Room, Building D, Ground Floor (Address: Lt. Stancu Ion Street, No. 33/35)

Romania and Bulgaria as new EU members: European and Regional Perspectives

11.00-11.30

Coffee break

11.30 – 12.00

Book Presentation: Europe as viewed from the margins (1918-1945), eds. Ion Stanciu, Silviu Miloiu, Iulian Oncescu

Closing Session

12.00 – 12.30 Amphitheatre J 2 (Address: Lt. Stancu Ion Street, No. 33/35)

Silviu Miloiu

Grigore Gafencu Research Centre for the History of International Relations

Coordinator of the Conference