*** On
May 4 and 5, 2017, Valentin Maier attended the Conference
The Social History of the Romanian Communism. Sources, methodologies, approaches, perspectives (
Istoria socială a comunismului românesc. Surse, metodologii, abordări, perspective) that took place in Cluj-Napoca, where he presented:
A Tricky Planning: The Training of Artists Through Higher Education during the Communist Period (
O planificare cu probleme: formarea artiștilor prin intermediul învățământului superior în perioada comunistă).
*** The International Conference
History of Higher Education: Student Movements, Human Capital and Expert Culture was held at Bucharest (at the University of Bucharest, Faculty of History) in
18th and 19th November, 2016. There were
two full days of many interesting presentations of participants from Italy, Poland and Romania, regarding the history of higher education and accumulation of human capital, student movements and their aims and also of the activities of socialist experts during Cold War. The research team presented three papers:
Patterns of professionalizing history teachers & historians at the University of Bucharest, 1960-1989 (Bogdan Murgescu and Matei Gheboianu),
Expert knowledge and political decision in designing the fields of study in communist Romania in the 1970s (Andrei Florin Sora) and
The Contribution of Higher Education to the Development of High-End Industries in Romania in the 1980s (Valentin Maier).
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| Vice-Dean
of Faculty of History prof. Ioan Opriș, prof. Jan Sadlak and prof.
Bogdan Murgescu at the opening of the international conference |
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| Prof. Jan Sadlak President of IREG Observatory on Academic Ranking and Excellence and also honoris causa of University of Bucharest, presenting his opening lecture: Universities in Central and Eastern Europe: Background of Inherited Systems and Its Present Characteristics |
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| Participants at the international conference |
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| During the presentations from the Panel 3 of the international conference: Higher Education Graduates and Academic Careers |
*** On
9th September, 2016, Andrei Florin Sora (
Învăţământ superior şi planificare economică în România comunistă – specializările din învăţământul superior) and Matei Gheboianu presented their papers at the Autumn School
Social Policies in the Communist Regime (
Politici sociale în regimul comunist), second edition, Memorialul Victimelor Anticomuniste şi al Rezistenţiei, organized at Sighetu Marmaţiei, during 5-10 September 2016.
*** During
August 25-28, 2016, the research team participated at the activities of the first
National Congress of the Romanian Historians in Cluj-Napoca. Under the title
Public Policies and Decision-Making Processes Relating to Higher Education in Romania (1948-2015), the research team presented the following papers:
Recruitment of Graduates from Secondary Education to Higher Education during the Communist Period (Marius Traian Cazan),
Nicolae Ceaușescu and the Dynamics of the Romanian Higher Education Between 1965 and 1989 (Andrei Florin Sora),
Planning in the Communist Agricultural Higher Education: Attempts and Successes (Valentin Maier). Also, two other presentation were made by Remus Iustin Nică,
”History” in the Romanian Education, Between Necesity and Public Policies (1948-2015) and Gabriel Asandului,
Polytechnization of the Romanian Higher Education (1948-1989). The panel was organized by Matei Gheboianu. Also, Andrei Florin Sora and Marius Cazan have organized the Round Table:
Anii 1970 sub lupa istoricului. Bilanţ şi deschideri istoriografice.
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| Matei Gheboianu and Andrei Florin Sora |
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| Remus Iustin Nică |
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| Marius Traian Cazan |
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| Valentin Maier and Matei Gheboianu |
*** July 22, 2016, Andrei Florin Sora and Valentin Maier attended the Summer School of
SSIR and
APIN under the title
Modernitatea românească în secolele XIX-XXI. Proiecte de țară – Patrimoniu – Istorie – Educaţie (
Romanian Modernity in the XIX-XXI Centuries. Country Projects - Heritage - History - Education), and presented
Formarea intelectualităţii comuniste: învăţământul superior în perioada comunistă (
The Formation of Communist Intellectuals: the Higher Education in the Communist Period). Also, prof. Bogdan Murgescu presented
Reuşite şi eşecul unui proiect de ţară: dezvoltarea economică în România comunistă (
Successes and the Failure of a Country project: Economic Development in Communist Romania).
***
November 25 and 26, 2015, Valentin Maier participated at the Symposium
The University ,,Alexandru Ioan Cuza” Iași Museum Days (director of the University of Iași Museum is prof. Bogdan Maleon) presenting Între promovare și repetenție: învățământul superior românesc în perioada 1974-1988. O abordare statistică (
Between promotion and repeating: Romanian higher education during 1974-1988. A statistical approach). Also, the Museum Magazine ,,Historia Universitatis Iassiensis
” and its new number V/2014 was presented. Among other interesting papers presented, we mention the contribution of prof. Florentina Nițu (University of Bucharest),
Istoria învățământului superior bucureștean ilustrată în noua formă expozițională a Muzeului Universității din București (The history of the Romanian higher education illustrated in the new exhibitional form of the University of Bucharest Museum).
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| The University ,,Alexandru Ioan Cuza” Iași Museum
Days 2015 |
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| The program of The University ,,Alexandru Ioan Cuza” Iași Museum
Days 2015 |
*** October 29, 2015, Mirela
Rotaru was granted the PhD title from the Doctoral School of the Faculty of
History (University of Bucharest) for the Thesis Istoria Universității din București în anii 1980 (The
History of the University of Bucharest during the 1980s), coordinated by
prof. Bogdan Murgescu.
*** On August 3-7, 2015, the XVIIth World Economic History Congress
was held at Kyoto, in Japan. A part of the research team attended this event
and on August 7th, during one of the many parallel sessions, Costs and Economic Returns to Higher
Education: Competing Models in Historical Perspective (chair Bogdan
Murgescu), the following papers were
presented: Bogdan Murgescu, Gabriela Elena Jitaru, Who paid for Romanian higher education? Private and public expenditure
in historical perspective; Robert Reisz, Planning higher education to achieve economic growth? An econometric
model for Romania 1948-1989; Matei Gheboianu, Higher Education between political planning and economic needs. Case
study: Romania and Poland (1980-2010).
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| Gabriela Elena Jitaru |
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| Bogdan Murgescu |
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| Robert D. Reisz |
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| Matei Gheboianu |
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| EPHE |
*** Between 17th and 19th of June 2015, Society for Romanian Studies has organized at Bucharest the International Conference
Linking Past, Present and Future.
On June the 18th, at the Panel Human Capital and Stock of High Education
Graduates in Romania (1948-2010), chair prof. Bogdan Murgescu, discussant
Andrei Florin Sora, there were presented the following papers: Higher education and the economy – between
liberal expansion and central planning (Viorel Proteasa and Mihai Păunescu),
Higher education planning and the GDP in
Romania (1948-1990) (prof. Robert D. Reisz), Higher education graduates in Romanian socialist agriculture: between political
claims and practical problems (Valentin Maier) and Qualitative analysis of selected cases of professional conversion in
postcommunist Romania (Matei Gheboianu).
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| Viorel Proteasa and Mihai Păunescu |
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| prof. Robert D. Reisz |
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| Valentin Maier |
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| Matei Gheboianu |
Later in the same day, the research team took
part at the Roundtable Romanian Universities across 1989. From State-Planned
Contraction to Market-Driven Expansion, moderator Bogdan Murgescu, with the important participations of
professors: Adrian Miroiu, Bogdan Murgescu, Lazăr Vlăsceanu and Jan
Sadlak.
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| The main participants at the roundtable (in the far plan, from left to right): Adrian Miroiu, Jan
Sadlak, Lazăr Vlăsceanu and Bogdan Murgescu. |
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| Professors Adrian Miroiu, Jan
Sadlak and Lazăr Vlăsceanu |
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| Professors Jan
Sadlak, Lazăr Vlăsceanu and Bogdan Murgescu |
*** On
November 26th and 27th, 2014, Mirela Rotaru and Valentin Maier participated at the
Symposium of History of Higher Education, Museology and Library Science (Simpozion
de istorie universitară, muzeologie și biblioteconomie) held at the Museum
of ,,Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iași during The University Museum Days. At the symposium, Mirela Rotaru
presented Concurența la admitere la
Universitatea din București în anii 1980 (Competition for Admission at the
University of Bucharest during 1980s), while Valentin Maier presented Dezvoltarea învățământului superior
medico-farmaceutic în perioada comunistă (Development of Medicine
and Pharmacy Higher Education in the Communist Period).
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| Program of the University of Iasi Museum Days |
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| Valentin Maier at the Symposium of History of Higher Education, Museology and Library Science in Iași |
*** On
November 21st, 2014 the University of Warsaw organized the International Conference
Crisis and Resistance in Central and Eastern Europe. At this conference, Matei Gheboianu presented his paper on
The Accumulation of Human Capital in Communist Romania and the Transformations of the 1990s.
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| Program of the International Conference Crisis and Resistance in Central and Eastern Europe (University of Warsaw) |
*** On November 20th and
21st, 2014 the University of Bucharest was the host for the national conference
History and Historians at the University
of Bucharest. Institutional Dimensions-Intellectual Projects (Istorie și
istorici la Universitatea din București. Dimensiuni instituționale-proiecte
intelectuale). Two members of
the research team followed the call for paper of this conference. Professor Bogdan Murgescu, also the project manager,
presented his paper on The Faculty of
History from the University of Bucharest and History Teachers from School
Education, while Valentin Maier presented Evolution of History Higher Education in Communism – Structures and Statistics.
The conference also included Round Table discussions focused on Who and How will wrote History in the 2020s Romania.
Formation and Intellectual Profile of the Young Historians.
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| Poster of the conference held at the University of Bucharest |
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Valentin Maier presenting his paper at the conference
History and Historians at the University
of Bucharest. Institutional Dimensions-Intellectual Projects |
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| At the Round Table Who and How will wrote History in the 2020s Romania.
Formation and Intellectual Profile of the Young Historians |
*** The
research team organized on March 28th, 2014 the workshop Current debates and controversies related to human capital development
in communist systems with the participations of professor Mihai Korka
(Bucharest University of Economic Studies), professor Valentina Vasile
(,,Nicolae Titulescu” University from Bucharest) and professor Robert D.
Reisz (West University of Timişoara). The workshop held at the Faculty of
History (University of Bucharest) was focused on two issues: the concept of
human capital and methods to measure it, along with implications of this
concept in a communist system; the review of existing research on human capital
development in socialist Romania and the analytical perspectives for the
future.
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| Participants at the workshop Current
debates and controversies related to human capital development in communist
systems |
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| Professor Valentina Vasile during her presentation |
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| Professor Mihai Korka presenting his paper on the concept of human capital and the methods to measure it |
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| From left to right: professor Valentina Vasile, drd. Marius Cazan, professor Bogdan Murgescu |
***
During the Symposium Current Historical Issues, held at Bucharest on
February 28, 2014, the project team presented the following papers: Absolvenţii
învăţământului superior în România în anii 1950. Organizarea sistemului de
repartizare centralizată a forţei de muncă (Marius Cazan), Repartizarea
şi integrarea în producţie a absolvenţilor Universităţii Bucureşti în anii 1980
(Mirela Rotaru), Formarea subinginerilor în România comunistă (1968-1989)
(Andrei Florin Sora) and Învăţământul superior de educaţie fizică şi sport
(1948-1989) (Valentin Maier). The Symposium held at University of Bucharest
was organized by the Societatea de Ştiinţe Istorice din
România-Filiala Bucureşti (Romanian Society for Historical
Sciences-Bucharest branch), led by Nicu Pohoaţă.
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| Mirela Rotaru during her presentation at the Symposium Current Historical Issues |
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| Andrei Florin Sora presenting his paper on sub-engineers |
*** On December 12, 2013, the project team, prof. Bogdan Murgescu and prof. Robert D. Reisz organized in Bucharest the workshop The Analysis and Consolidation of Series of Statistical Data Regarding the Admission to Higher Education in the Communist Romania.
*** In
November 15-16, 2013, at Bucharest, the project team led by
Professor Ph.D. Bogdan Murgescu has organized the International Conference
Higher Education in Socialist East-Central Europe. Economic Planning, Fields of Study, Human Capital Formation (Bucharest, November 15-16, 2013).
The international conference was organized in the framework of
the project Economic Planning, Higher Education,
and the Accumulation of Human Capital in Romania during Communism (1948-1989) supported by grant number
PN-II-ID-PCE-2011-3-0476 of the Romanian National Authority for Scientific Research,
CNCS – UEFISCDI, and by the University of Bucharest.
At the international conference have participated 18 specialists from Croatia, Polonia, Romania and Ukraine. The program can be viewed here.
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| The Rector of the Universitatea din București, Mircea Dumitru, presented a welcome speech to the participants at the international conference |
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Project Manager, Professor Ph.D. Bogdan Murgescu, presenting his paper
Demography
and politics in the allocation of study places for higher education in
communist Romania in the 1980’s
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| Professor Ph.D. Jan Sadlak |
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| Professor Ph.D. Lazăr Vlăsceanu |
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| Professor Ph.D. Robert Reisz |
*** During the
week 21-28 July 2013, documentation
activities were carried out by the research team at B.C.U. ,,Lucian Blaga”
Cluj-Napoca and also at Direcţia Judeţeană Cluj a Arhivelor Naţionale.The
research team (Professor Ph.D. Bogdan Murgescu, Ph.D. Candidate Mirela Rotaru,
Ph.D. Candidate Marius Cazan, Ph.D. Candidate Vlad Pașca, Ph.D. Candidate
Valentin Maier) participated at a workshop in Cluj-Napoca, on July 25th, with
the subject Academic Experiences in Romania during 1980s. Apart from the
research team, the workshop, held at Institutul de Istorie ,,George Bariţiu”,
was attended by Ph.D. Lucian Nastasă and several Ph.D. Candidates. The main
topics discussed were related to economic planning, admission and allocation
issues in higher education in the last years of communist regime in
Romania.
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| Prof. Ph.D. Bogdan Murgescu, Ph.D. Lucian Nastasă and other participants taking part at the workshop Academic
Experiences in Romania during 1980s |
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| Prof. Ph.D. Bogdan Murgescu, project manager, speaking at the workshop |
*** On May 30th
and 31st 2013 the project manager, Professor Ph.D. Bogdan Murgescu,
attended the International Conference
Regionalism
and Regionalization in Romania. Historical Interpretations and contemporary
challenges held at Iaşi. At this conference Professor Ph.D. Bogdan Murgescu
presented his study
Regionalization and
the Issue of the National Network of Institutions of Higher Education.
Historical Milestones, constraints, possible solutions. The study follows
the spread of the institutions of higher education in Romania with a focus on
the periods of the communist regime and afterwards (the causes of the
institutional multiplication after World War II, the recession of the 1980s,
the new expansion of institutions of higher education after 1989 and the issues raised in this background).
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| The flyer of the international conference held at Iaşi |
*** On
16th and 17th of May 2013 at the Universitatea din Bucureşti (University of Bucharest) took place the Annual Scientific Conference of the Doctoral School of Faculty of History. At this conference, Mirela Rotaru, member of the research team, has presented her paper on the topic
Istoria Universităţii Bucureşti în anii 1980 – admiterea la Universitatea Bucureşti în anii 1980 (
The History of the University of Bucharest during 1980s – The Admission at the University of Bucharest during 1980s). The main focus of the presentation was the identification of the most wanted faculties, profiles and specializations in the 1980s, based on relevant statistics and on the analysis of the relation between the candidates presented at the exams and those admitted.
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| The flyer of the conference |
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| Ph.D. Candidate Mirela Rotaru during her presentation |
*** During April 25-28, 2013,
Ph.D. Matei Gheboianu, member of the research team, participated at The 6th
International Conference on Media in Central and Eastern Europe (CEECOM 2013)
held in Kaunas (Lithuania) and has presented his paper Liquidity,
Fragmentation, and Individualization in the Mediascape.
*** Between 25th and 27th of
April 2013, Department of History,
Archaeology and Museology of the University ,,1 Decembrie 1918" Alba Iulia
organized the international conference Economy
and Society in Central and Eastern Europe. Territory, population, consumption.
This international conference, was attended by two of the members of the
research team which have sustained scientific communications: Professor Ph.D. Bogdan
Murgescu, Patterns of Spatial Mobility, Human Capital Accumulation
and Economic Growth in East-Central Europe in the 20th century and Ph.D. Candidate Vlad Paşca, Territorial Expansion of Higher
Education in Communist Romania (1948-1989). An Outline of Patterns and Factors.
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| Flyer of the International Conference Economy and Society in Central and Eastern Europe. Territory, population, consumption |
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| During the conference #1 |
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| During the conference #2 |
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| Conference's panel and the scientific communication of Professor Ph.D. Bogdan Murgescu |
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| Conference's panel and the scientific communication of Ph.D. Candidate Vlad Paşca |
*** On April 5th, 2013, Histoire &
Mesure - Centre de Recherches Historiques (Université Paris 13) and École des
Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales have organized at Paris the conference Histoire et quantification de l'Éducation et
de la Formation (Journée
d’Études). At this conference, Andrei Florin Sora, member of the
research team, presented his paper Les «
spécialités » de l’enseignement supérieur dans la Roumanie communiste
(1948-1989).
*** During the period between
22nd to 24th
of March 2013, Professor Ph.D. Bogdan Murgescu
attended the workshop held in the
Republic of Ireland (St. Andrews)
on the topic The Routledge History of East Central Europe
since 1700.
*** O
n November 27th, 2012, Professor Ph.D. Bogdan Murgescu,
project coordinator, sustained a conference
in Cluj-Napoca
with the title Economic Performance and Higher Education in Communist Romania.
***
On October 17, 2012, Professor Ph.D. Bogdan Murgescu participated at the Summer School Current Theoretical and Methodological Approaches in the political and social sciences were he lectured on the Historical research on the development of human capital in the postwar Eastern Europe.
*** During the period
August 26th to
September 8th, 2012, the project team carried out research and documentation
activities at the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin (State Library of Berlin) and also
at the Institut für Hochschulforschung of Wittenberg, were Professor Ph.D. Peer
Pasternack was our kindly host. At the library of the Institut für
Hochschulforschung of Wittenberg, the project team had access to several
publications related to higher education from postwar period, to the situation
of higher education systems in various former socialist countries (especially
in G.D.R.) and to conferences of the Ministers of Educations from different ex-socialist
countries.
Also at Wittenberg, on August 30th, 2012 the project team
has organized the workshop Problems of
Researching the History of Higher Education in the Former Socialist Countries
with the participation of Professor Ph.D. Peer Pasternack and Ph.D. Daniel Hechler. The
project team conducted a visit to the headquarters of the Bundesstiftung zur
Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur from Berlin, where it found out about the
activities and documentation funds of this institution and have laid the
foundation for future collaboration on the comparative history of higher
education in socialist countries. Contacts were established for future
cooperation with the Department
of History of Southeast Europe
at the Humboldt University (Professor Ph.D. Hannes Grandits).
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| Professor Ph.D. Peer Pasternack and the research team in the courtyard of the Institut für Hochschulforschung of Wittenberg |
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| At the library of the Institut für Hochschulforschung of Wittenberg |
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| Professor Ph.D. Bogdan Murgescu, project coordinator |
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| PhD. Candidate Vlad Pasca, member in the research team |
*** Between
July 9-13, 2012,
project coordinator, Professor Ph.D. Bogdan Murgescu, participated at the XVIth World Economic History Congress held in Stellenbosch (South Africa).
*** Following the activities of the international conference
held at Sibiu, on
July the 6th, 2012 the research team organized a
workshop at Bucharest called
Current debates and controversies about the
development of human capital in communist systems, with the important participation
of Professor Ph.D. Jan Sadlak.
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| Professor Ph.D. Jan Sadlak discussing with the project team at the Faculty of History, Universitatea din Bucureşti (University of Bucharest) |
*** In the period between
2nd and 4th
of July 2012, The Society for Romanian Studies has organized at Sibiu an
international conference:
Europeanization and Globalization: Romanians in
their Region and the World. Tuesday,
July the 3rd , 2012, a round table was organized by Professor Ph.D. Bogdan
Murgescu and moderated by Professor Ph.D. Jan Sadlak on the subject: Romanian
Universities during Communism: European Patterns vs. National Imperatives in
Planning Higher Education. At discussions that took place, have
participated a series of historians, economists, sociologists and philologists,
from Romania and abroad. The following day, Professor Ph.D. Bogdan
Murgescu held the keynote Historians and the Study of Romanian Communism.
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| Flyer of the Sibiu International Conference |
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| Professor Ph.D. Jan Sadlak |
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| Ph.D. Lucian Nastasă |
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| Professor Ph.D. Robert Reisz speaking at the round table: Romanian Universities during Communism :
European Patterns vs. National Imperatives in Planning Higher Education |
*** Ph.D. Candidate Matei Gheboianu took part at the International Congress of Press History which was held at Chișinău,
April 27-28, 2012.
*** On
February the 16th, 2012, Professor Ph.D.
Robert D. Reisz (Universitatea de Vest din Timi
şoara & Institut fur Hochschulforschung an der Martin Luther, Universität
Halle-Wittenberg) sustain the conference
Relation between Higher Education and Labor Market in Germany between
1950 and 2000. PhD Robert D. Reisz is a specialist in social and
educational statistics, and has a rich international experience. His most
recent book is Enrique Fernandez Darraz, Gero Lenhardt, Robert D. Reisz,
Manfred Stock,
Hochschulprivatisierung
und akademische Freiheit. Jenseits von Markt und Staat: Hochschulen in der
Weltgesellschaft (Privatisation of Higher Education and Academic Freedom.
Beyond Market and State: Universities in the Global Society), transcript
Verlag, Science Studies Reihe, Bielefeld, 2010, 197 p).
The conference was organized by the Center of
Administrative, Cultural and Economical Studies of Universitatea din Bucureşti
(University of Bucharest) as part of the research project
PN-II-ID-PCE-2011-3-0476 Economic Planning, Higher Education, and the
Accumulation of Human Capital in Romania during Communism (1948-1989), in cooperation with the project POSDRU/89/1.5/S/62259
Ştiinţe socio-umane şi politice aplicative. Program de pregătire
postdoctorală şi burse postdoctorale de cercetare în domeniul ştiinţelor
socio-umane şi politice.
Also, together with Professor Ph.D. Robert D. Reisz, the
research team has organized the workshop Statistical methods for the social
sciences and the humanities, and their implications for collecting and
organizing historical data, held
at Bucharest on February the 15th and 16th 2012, in which
some of the theoretical and methodological issues, relevant for the success of research
project were clarified.
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| Flyer of the conference held at Bucharest |
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| Professor Ph.D. Robert D. Reisz |
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| During the conference |
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| Part of the audience |
