Publications
Emil Hilton Saggau, Wawrzyniec Kowalski, Mihai Dragnea (eds.), Saints in the Slavic Christian World: Assessing Power, Religion and Language in Religious Literature (New York: Peter Lang, 2025)
Viacheslav V. Lytvynenko, Malgorzata Skowronek, Achim Rabus, Dimiter Peev, Boban Petrovski (eds.), Cyrillic Manuscripts: From Medieval to Digital (New York: Peter Lang, 2025)
Antoaneta Granberg, Georgi R. Parpulov, Andrea Radošević (eds.), Cyrillic Manuscripts: Script and Language, Scribes and Collections (New York: Peter Lang, 2025)
Mihai Dragnea, Miloš Marek, Grzegorz Jawor, John Polemikos (eds.), Wallachian Mobility and Settlement along the Carpathian Arc (New York and London: Routledge, 2025)
Hiperboreea, Vol. 12, No. 1 (2025)
Conferences, workshops
Mihai Dragnea, Dorina Dragnea, Ana-Maria Lepăr, “The Power of Language and the Memory of Culture: Common Values in the Turkic World”, organized in Baku on 15 December 2025 (hybrid mode) by the Ebu’l-Hasan Harakânî Research and Application Center and the Department of Turkish Language and Literature of Kafkas University in Kars, Turkey, the Nizami Ganjavi Institute of Literature of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences in Baku, and Bukhara International University in Uzbekistan
Mihai Dragnea, Timothy French, “The Second Bulgarian Tsardom and Its Role in the Historical Development of Medieval South Eastern Europe. The Balkans and Lower Danube River Basin in XII – XV C”, organized on 24-26 October 2025 by the Faculty of History at “St. Cyril and St. Methodius” University of Veliko Tarnovo and its Centre for Medieval Studies, in collaboration with the University of Bucharest and the Balkan History Association
Dorina Dragnea, “Intangible Cultural Heritage without Borders”, organized in Iași on 24–25 October 2025 by the “Alexandru Philippide” Institute of Romanian Philology (Department of Ethnology) of the Romanian Academy
Timothy French, “Politics and Security”, organized in Sibiu on 24 October 2025 by the Department of International Relations, Political Science and Security Studies (DRISPSS), “Lucian Blaga” University of Sibiu, in cooperation with the Center for Research in Political Science, International Relations and European Studies (CCSPRISE). BHA was a partner of the conference
Iulia Alexandra Oprea, “The Fifth European Convention on Turkic, Ottoman and Turkish Studies (Turkologentag 2025)”, organized in Mainz, 18-20 September by Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz in collaboration with the Society for Turkic, Ottoman and Turkish Studies
Mihai Dragnea, “Identity and Territory: Regionalism, Nationalism and Modernity in Central and South-Eastern Europe”, organized in Iași on September 10-12, 2025 by the Center for the History of International Relations (CIRI), along with the Faculty of History, the Society for Historical Studies in Romania, the Laboratory for Historical and Prosopographic Research on the Romanian Elite, within the Department of Social Sciences and Humanities from Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iaşi, and the Balkan History Association
Mihai Dragnea, “Premodern Economic Sanctions”, organized in Basel on 3-5 September 2025 by the Department of History of the University of Basel and funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation
Mihai Dragnea, “Between East and West: Table, Ceremony, and Prestige at Court and in the Lives of Elites in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times”, organized in Toruń on 17-19 June 2025 by the Department of History of Scandinavia and East-Central Europe of the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń and the Polish Historical Association
Ioana Apostol, “Voices and Silences: 50 Years of the Society for Romanian Studies”, organized in Cluj-Napoca on 29-31 May 2025, in collaboration with Babeș-Bolyai University (Faculty of European Studies)
Mihai Dragnea, “Political, Cultural, Religious and Economic Transformations in the 15th-16th Centuries”, organized in Debrecen on 27-28 February 2025 by the Department of Medieval and Early Modern Hungarian History (Hungary in Medieval Research Group) within the Institute of History at the University of Debrecen, in collaboration with the Institute of History and Archival Studies, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, and the Institute of History of the Julius-Maximilians-University of Würzburg
Webinars
“Václav Vratislav of Mitrovice (Bohemia) travelogue to Ottoman Empire through Balkans and his captive narrative” by Petra Košťálová (Department of East European Studies, Charles University, Prague), moderator Christene d’Anca (University of California, Santa Barbara)
“Beyond the state: Nation-building and violence from the ground up in 20th century South-Eastern Europe” by Spyros Tsoutsoumpis (University of Manchester), moderator Ana-Maria Lepăr (BHA)
Cooperation agreements
School of Law, University of Nicosia, Cyprus
Center for Historical Research (CeHiS), Faculty of Philosophy, University of Sarajevo
American University of Central Asia, Bishkek
Chokan Valikhanov Institute of History and Ethnology in Almaty, National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Almaty
Bukovina Society of Librarians, Chernivtsi
Visits
Scientific Research Center of the Historical and Cultural Heritage, Yerevan
Faculty of History and Social Science, Armenian State Pedagogical University, Yerevan
Museum of Sarajevo (Brusa Bezistan)
Association for the Study and Promotion of Illyrian Heritage and Ancient and Classical Civilizations “BATHINVS”, Sarajevo
Department of History of Ukraine, Faculty of History and Philosophy, Odesa I. I. Mechnykov National University
Department of Archeology, Ethnology and Museology, Faculty of History, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Almaty
Abu Rayhan Biruni Institute of Oriental Studies, Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Uzbekistan, Tashkent
Museum of the Moravian Wallachia Region, Vsetín
Center of Traditional Technologies in Příbor, Museum of the Nový Jičín District, Moravian-Silesian Region
Prizes and grants
“Serban Papacostea Dissertation Prize” (2025)