Following the conference Old Cities, Former Capitals and Nation-State Building in Europe (18th-20th Centuries): Regional and National Identities (Iași, November 19-21, 2024), which provided an opportunity for interdisciplinary debate on the forms of regional and national identities in the cultural and political discourse of modernity, as well as in the political geography of nation states, we propose to organize in 2025 a new debate focusing on the relation between collective identity and territory. The international conference Identity and Territory: Regionalism, Nationalism and Modernity in Central and South-Eastern Europe aims to provide a platform for dialogue regarding the identity genealogy and geography of the Central and Southeastern Europe, focusing on concepts and terms such as parochialism, localism, and fragmented identities in the context of nation-state building in the 19th and 20th centuries.
The conference is organized by the Center for the History of International Relations (CIRI), within 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 Iasi, and the Balkan History Association.
Each participant will have 20 minutes for the presentation and 10 minutes for questions and discussions. The presentations can be delivered in English or French, only in person.
Please send the title of your paper, a summary of maximum 300 words, and the information regarding your institutional affiliation by August 10, 2025, at the email address mihut.cosmin@yahoo.com and cploscaru@yahoo.com. The organizers will provide, at your request, half board (breakfast and dinner) accommodation for three nights. The scientific papers presented will be included in a conference volume, to be published by a prestigious publisher abroad, with a submission deadline of 15 December 2025.
Organizing Committee
PhD. Professor Cristian Ploscaru – Faculty of History, “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iaşi
PhD. Associate Professor Ana Victoria Sima – Faculty of Philosophy and History, “Babeș-Bolyai” University of Cluj-Napoca
PhD. Lecturer Cosmin Mihuț – Faculty of History, “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iaşi
PhD. Associate Researcher Mihai Dragnea – Department of Business, History and Social Sciences, University of South-Eastern Norway; President of the Balkan History Association
PhD. Senior Researcher Mihai-Bogdan Atanasiu – Institute of Interdisciplinary Research, Department of Social Sciences and Humanities, “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iaşi
PhD. Associate Professor Mircea-Cristian Ghenghea – Faculty of History, “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iaşi