New Europe College

Wednesday 17 June, at 17.00, at NEC and online.

"Who Needs Trust Anymore? Some Thoughts on the Issue of Trust in Romania", a talk by Claudiu Tufiș, Associate Professor, University of Bucharest, Head of the Comparative European Politics Department

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This event is organized within the research group Politics, Legitimacy and Representation in Strained Societies (POLARIS), hosted by NEC.

https://nec.ro/events/who-needs-trust-anymore-some-thoughts-on-the-issue-of-trust-in-romania/

Pictures from day 1 of the workshop "The Phanariot Past and its Afterlives: Historicizing “Corruption” in Central-South-East Europe (1750s-1920s)"

Participants: Raluca Alexandrescu, Mihai-Cristian Amăriuței, Boriana Antonova-Goleva, Constantin Ardeleanu, Elif Bayraktar Tellan, Osman Safa Bursali, Raymond Detrez, Augusta Dimou, Lucien Frary, Simion-Alexandru Gavriș, Aristides N. Hatzis, Paul Karras, Dimitrios M. Kontogeorgis, Kalliope Leivadarou, Myrto Lamprou, Silvia Marton, Nicolas Nicolaides, Ovidiu Olar, Mária Pakucs, Silvana Rachieru, Leonidas Rados, Andrei-Dan Sorescu, Alex R. Tipei, Michał Wasiucionek

This conference is organized within the framework of “Transnational histories of ‘corruption’ in Central-South-East Europe (1750-1850)”, funded by the European Union (ERC, TransCorr, ERC-2022-ADG no. 101098095) and hosted by the New Europe College.

NEC hosted yesterday the workshop "Across Borders: Migration, Voting Rights and Democratic Inclusion" convened by Natalia C. Malancu.

Participants: Anatolie Coșciug, Adelin Dumitru, Natalia C. Malancu, Claudiu Tufiș, Daniela Vintilă, Bogdan Voicu, Alexandru Volacu

Recent decades have transformed migration into one of the central political and social questions shaping democratic societies. Debates surrounding migration have long focused on its demographic, socio-economic, and cultural dimensions. Increasingly, however, migration also raises broader political questions concerning democratic inclusion, political belonging, political participation, and political representation. Questions concerning who should be allowed to vote, who is perceived as legitimately belonging to the political community, or how migration becomes framed as a public problem are now deeply connected to wider tensions surrounding democracy, nationalism, social cohesion, and political conflict.

These questions are particularly relevant in the Romanian context. Romania remains one of Europe’s largest emigration countries, with millions of citizens living abroad and actively participating in homeland politics. At the same time, Romania is increasingly becoming a destination country for immigration, including growing numbers of third-country nationals employed in precarious and low-paid sectors of the economy, such as construction and platform work. This dual position creates an important setting for examining how migration reshapes social relations, public attitudes, political participation, and broader democratic boundaries.

The workshop is intended as an interdisciplinary exchange among scholars of migration, bringing together perspectives from sociology, political science, political theory, migration studies, and communication studies. It engages with research on youth attitudes toward immigrant and emigrant enfranchisement, comparative public attitudes toward immigration, diaspora representation and emigrant voting, homeland politics, attitudes toward return migrants, transnational parenthood and anti-system resentment, as well as public discourse and anti-immigration backlash. Bringing together both empirical and theoretical perspectives, the workshop explores how migration-related tensions are perceived, framed, politicized, and contested, particularly in Romania and within broader European debates surrounding migration and democratic inclusion.

The event is open to all those interested in contemporary debates on migration, social cohesion, and democratic inclusion. We welcome questions, discussion, and critical perspectives.

This workshop is organized within the framework of the AMEROPA Fellowships program at New Europe College, supported by Ameropa Switzerland.

https://nec.ro/events/across-borders-migration-voting-rights-and-democratic-inclusion/