Centrul pentru Cercetarea Istoriei Relatiilor Internationale si Studii Culturale "Grigore Gafencu"

Associates and PhDs Iulia Cornelia Anania Sergiu Baroian Ioan Bodnar Ana-Maria Despa Mihaela Diaconu Elena Dragomir Daniela Enescu Carauleanu Alexandru Grigoriu Iulia Hasnas Adrian Alexandru Herta Magdalena Ionescu Daniela Nica Elena Dragan Popescu Flori Lacramioara Puscasu Florina Sorescu Alexandru Radu Georgeta Soare Razvan Stancut Bogdan Talmaciu

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April 25, 2012

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Ioan Bodnar

Ph.D. Candidate

Contact: Târgoviste, Roumania; tel. (004) 0727 153 735, e-mail: ioanbodnar@yahoo.com .

Research fields: Contemporary History, Romania in World War II (Ph.D. work :Administration of Bessarabia and Bukovina during Antonescu Regime).

Language skills: Romanian (mother tongue), Italian (fluent), English (good), French (poor).

Higher Education:

Since October 2009 – doctoral studies at “Valahia” University of Târgoviste (Roumania);

2008 - 2009: MA in “Tourism and leisure activities”graduated at “Valahia” University of Târgoviste, MA work: The social, psychological and behavioral profile of the turist from Padina Depression;

Jean Monnet course on Construction and enlargement of the European Union. Case Study: Community policies, “Valahia" University of Târgoviste;

June 2008: BA in History and Geography graduated at “Valahia” University of Târgoviste, Faculty of Humanities.

Stipends:

University “Ca’Foscari” of Venice, History and Philosophy Faculty, Italy: October 2007 - February 2008 - Socrates/Erasmus scholarship.

Papers presented:

Antonescu Regime – between intentions and materializations, at the „Modernization, Reform and Totalitarianism in the Europe of 20th Century” Studies and Communications Session, Târgoviste, December 2009 ;
Dictatorship and nationalism in the Antonescu Regime. Theoretical approaches at TheNational Symposium„Bucovina – history file”, Suceava, 11th Edition, November 2009 ;
Antonescu Regime and the national issue: a theoretical approach at The Conference “Unity and independence in Romanian and European history”, Târgoviste, May 2008

What We Do

The research center bearing Grigore Gafencu`s name is focusing on research and study of the history of the European international relations, an area of investigation covered with specialists and young researchers for the period starting with the mid-19th century and focused on the 20th century. The center has already been involved in a number of national research grants founded by the Romanian Ministry of Education and in international grants. The center is also issuing its own review, Valahian Journal of Historical Studies, which has been opened ever since its inception to the voluntary contributions of fellow researchers from all around Europe and beyond.

Additionally, the center has been engaged from the very beginning in developing connections with other European institutions of research. Thus far, the center and its members are involved in academic exchanges with such universities from Finland (University of Helsinki and University of Turku), France (Universite de Poitiers, Universite de Savoie), Greece (University Democritus of Komotini), Italy (Universite ca Foscari di Venezia) and Spain (Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha). The center is aiming at maintaining and developing these fruitful contacts and to promote new ones with other prestigious institutions of research at academic level whose scopes are similar and bordering its purposes.

About Us

"Grigore Gafencu" Research Center for the the History of International Relations and Cultural Studies, although young, is in terms of staff members and young researchers one of the best represented such research center in the Valahia University of Targoviste. The purpose of the center is to pay a quality tribute to the memory and activity of the prestigious Romanian diplomat and analyst Grigore Gafencu (1892-1957). A former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Romania (1938-1940) and his country`s envoy to Soviet Union in the fateful years of 1940-1941, Gafencu has moved to Switzerland since 1941. In exile, Gafencu wrote one of the earliest books approaching the causes of the World War II (Preliminaires de la Guerre a l'est. De l'accord de Moscou (23 Aout 1939) aux hostilites en Russie (22 Juin 1941), Egloff, Friburg, 1944), providing an exceptional insight on those troubling European events. The conclusion Gafencu drew from the developments leading to World War II has played their part in making him an active supporter of the ideas of European unity.

News and Events

Sedinta

Membrii grantului "Utopia versus realism în politica externa a României de la Primul Razboi Mondial pâna în 1975" sunt invitati la o sedinta de proiect pe data de 26 aprilie, orele 16.

Call for papers

Valahian Journal of Historical Studies, Call for papers,

No. 18 (2012) The Balkans in a time of economic and ideological crisis Deadline: 1 August 2012

Centrul "Grigore Gafencu" va invita joi, 22 martie 2012, orele 16, la conferinta lunara intitulata Relatiile economice romano-britanice (1945-1948), sustinuta de drd. Mihaela Diaconu.

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Procedura de selectie a unui candidat pentru pozitia de asistent de cercetare s-a incheiat, iar persoana aleasa dintre cei 11 aplicanti este Costel Coroban de la Universitatea "Ovidius" din Constanta

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