Programme

9.30 – 10.00 Opening speeches

• Prof. Dr. Nicolae Păun (Faculty of European Studies, Babeș-Bolyai University) – La Faculté d’études européennes et ses recherches sur l’Europe centrale-orientale
• Dr. Beata Górka Winter (Centre for Europe University of Warsaw) – The Centre for Europe: European development within an interdisciplinary framework
• Mihaela Bidilică (Rațiu Centre for Democracy) – Rațiu Centre for Democracy: Relevance for Post-communist Romania

 10.00 – 10.30 Keynote Speech

• Prof. em. Dr. Dr. h. c. mult. Reinhard Meyers (University of Münster) – Totalitarianism: antinomies and contradictions of a concept

 11.00 – 11.30 – Coffee break

 11.30 – 13.00 – Narratives, Histories and Memories of Central and Eastern European Totalitarian Regimes

Moderator: Laura Herța (Faculty of European Studies, Babeș-Bolyai University)

• Cristian Manolachi (Faculty of History and Philosophy, Babeș-Bolyai University and City Hall, Cluj-Napoca) – Social and economic discrepancies in Romanian interwar society – a Perfect Storm for the Rise of the Far Right
• Roxana Stoenescu (Faculty of European Studies, Babeș-Bolyai University) – From Dictatorship to National Communism
• Antonela Gyongy (Faculty of European Studies, Babeș-Bolyai University) – Representations of the Communist Resistance in the Romanian Cinema
• Iulia Ghidiu (Faculty of European Studies, Babeș-Bolyai University) – Communist and Post-communist Mythology of Salvation. Case study: Romania

 13.00 – 15.00 Lunch – Pyramid Restaurant

15.00 – 16.30 – Contemporary Radicalism, Populism and Extremism in East-Central Europe

Moderator: Valentin Naumescu (Faculty of European Studies, Babeș-Bolyai University)

• Vincent Henry (Université Paris-Est), Sergiu Mișcoiu, (Professeur des universités, Université Babeș-Bolyai) –  La gouvernance européenne et ses aléas
• Martin Brusis (Faculty of European Studies, Babeș-Bolyai University and Ludwig-Maximilian University Munich) – Can Responsiveness Substitute Accountability? Lessons from the Central and East European Laboratory of Populist Democracy
• Mihnea Stoica (Faculty of Political, Administrative and Communication Sciences, Babeș-Bolyai University) – Voting for the Populist Radical Right in Eastern Europe. A Comparative Analysis
• Raluca Moldovan (Faculty of European Studies, Babeș-Bolyai University) – The Rise of Contemporary Extreme Right in Europe and the Future of the EU

 16.30 – 17.00 – Coffee break

 17.00 – 18.30 – Post-communist Transition in East-Central Europe

Moderator: Oana Poiană (Faculty of European Studies, Babeș-Bolyai University)

• Valentin Naumescu (Faculty of European Studies, Babeș-Bolyai University) – The Illiberal and “sovereigntist” Approaches in East-Central Europe and the Risk of the EU division
• Paula Mureșan (Faculty of European Studies, Babeș-Bolyai University) – Le discours de l’extrême droite en Roumanie après 1989. La Nouvelle Droite
• Ovidiu Vaida (Faculty of European Studies, Babeș-Bolyai University) – From Democracy to Illiberalism: The Case of Central and Eastern European Countries two Decades after the Dissolution of Communism
• Liviu Țîrău (Faculty of European Studies, Babeș-Bolyai University) – Why Romania is European or not in the post-communist era
• Alina Andreica (Faculty of European Studies, Babeș-Bolyai University) – Civic Organizations in New Media. Case Study on Rațiu Center for Democracy 

10.00 – 13.00 Room Robert Schuman – From exile to European integration

Moderators: Adrian Corpădean, Ana Pantea (Faculty of European Studies, Babeș-Bolyai University)

• Răzvan Samir Avram (Faculty of European Studies, Babeș-Bolyai University) – Populism in Western Europe post-Lisbon. Study cases: United Kingdom and France
• Sandu Zsolt-Szilveszter (Faculty of European Studies, Babeș-Bolyai University) – European Union between Unilateralism and Multilateralism. A Glance over the Rise of European Populist Extremism
• Assel Zholbaryssova (Faculty of European Studies, Babeș-Bolyai University) – US policy in Central Asia: opportunities and prospects
• Andreea Stretea (Faculty of European Studies, Babeș-Bolyai University) – Between Communism and Europeanization. Romania and its White Collar Division face the EU
• Maria Ioana Rus (Faculty of European Studies, Babeș-Bolyai University) – Romania’s process of development and modernization on the agenda of high-level Romanian-Italian meetings (The XX-XXI centuries)
• Kimberly Sok (Université Paris Est Créteil) – L’épuration de la Libération en France
• Xuejia Che, Xinyu Xu, Qian Liu (Zhejiang University of Science and Technology) – Four New Inventions of China
• Xueqi Zhao, Yuhan Zhang, Chu Liu (Zhejiang University of Science and Technology) – Alipay
• Yuan Shen, Xuechun Liu, Yiting Wang (Zhejiang University of Science and Technology) – Double Festival
• Gaudenzio Falcone, Ferdinando Cecere (Università degli Studi della Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”), The Reasons why the Extremists won in Italy
• Julie Sperduto (Université Paris Est Créteil) – Les périodiques français comme héritage des violences dans l’entre-deux-guerres
• Ștefan Martinescu (“Lucian Blaga” Central University Library) – Le système pénitencier en Roumanie durant la période communiste
• Andreea Bianca Urs (Faculty of European Studies, Babeș-Bolyai University) – La perception de l’UE en Europe centrale-orientale

 10.00 – 13.00 Room ICE (European Research Institute) – From totalitarianism to democracy

Moderators: Raluca Moldovan and Ovidiu Vaida (Faculty of European Studies, Babeș-Bolyai University)

• Kristina Heckel (Faculty of European Studies, Babeș-Bolyai University) – Europe’s Illiberal States: Hungary and Poland turning away from democratic values
• Anda Ghilescu (Faculty of European Studies, Babeș-Bolyai University) – Populism and the Psychological Crowd: Understanding the Appeal of the Populist Discourse in a Post-Communist Society
• Simona Sîrbu (Faculty of European Studies, Babeș-Bolyai University) – Stages of Euroscepticism in the European Union
• Cristian Mureșan (Faculty of European Studies, Babeș-Bolyai University) – Kosovo’s Status from Tito to Milošević
• Cristina Zgureanu (Faculty of European Studies, Babeș-Bolyai University) – Totalitarian Societies in Dystopian Literature
• Ștefania Cozma, (Faculty of European Studies, Babeș-Bolyai University) – The Rise of Populism: Romania, Hungary, and the Republic of Moldova
• Dorina Vasilache (Faculty of European Studies, Babeș-Bolyai University) –  L’héritage de Staline après la chute de l’Union soviétique en Russie
• Raisa Tofan (Faculty of European Studies, Babeș-Bolyai University) – The influence of the Ukrainian conflict on public opinion in the Republic of Moldova through the local mass media
• Mihai Cotorobai (Faculty of European Studies, Babeș-Bolyai University) – The Just War: development of the concept and its relevance today
• Oana Călățean (Faculty of European Studies, Babeș-Bolyai University) – The Kurdish Issue: a Milestone for the Democratisation of Iraq
• Constantin Plămădeală (Faculty of European Studies, Babeș-Bolyai University) – The industrialization under the soviet regime
• Balog Zsuzsanna (Faculty of European Studies, Babeș-Bolyai University) – Minorities in the European Union
• Nagy-Tamás Norbert (Faculty of European Studies, Babeș-Bolyai University) – Hungary’s Position within the European Union regarding the Immigration Issue 

11.00 – 14.00 – Guided tour to Rațiu Centre for Democracy (Turda) and to the Museum of History (Turda)

Closing session: Indrei Rațiu (Rațiu Centre for Democracy) – Ion Rațiu’s Exile Experience and the Struggle against Romanian Communism