Balkan History Association Activity Report (2022–2024)

Publications

• Hiperboreea, Vol. 9, No. 1 (2022)
  
  
• Hiperboreea, Vol. 9, No. 2 (2022)
  
  
• Hiperboreea, Vol. 10, No. 1 (2023)
  
  
• Hiperboreea, Vol. 10, No. 2 (2023)
  
  
• Hiperboreea, Vol. 11, No. 1 (2024)
  
  
• Hiperboreea, Vol. 11, No. 2 (2024)
  
  
• Old and New Insights on the History of Intelligence and Diplomacy in the Balkans, eds. B. Teodor, J. Baev, M. Crosston, M. Teodor (Peter Lang, 2023)
  
  
• Pilgrimage in the Christian Balkan World: The Path to Touch the Sacred and Holy, eds. Dorina Dragnea, Emmanouil Varvounis, Evelyn Reuter, Petko Hristov, Susan Sorek (Brepols, 2023)
  
  
• Aspects of Islamic Radicalization in the Balkans After the Fall of Communism, eds. Mihai Dragnea, Joseph Fitsanakis, Darko Trifunović, John M. Nomikos, Vasko Stamevski, Adriana Cupcea (Peter Lang, 2023)
  
  
• The Armed Conflict of the Dniester: Three Decades Later, eds. Eugen Străuțiu, Steven D. Roper, William E. Crowther, Dareg Zabarah-Chulak, Victor Juc, Robert E. Hamilton (Peter Lang, 2023)
  
  
• New Cultural and Political Perspectives on Serbian-Romanian Relations, eds. A. D. Milovanović, J. Kolundžija, M. Măran, O. Hedeșan, C. D’Anca (Peter Lang, 2023)
  
  
• Football in the Balkans I: Internal Views, External Perceptions, eds. D. Wojtaszyn, Maroš Melichárek (Peter Lang, 2023)
  
  
• The Balkan Wars: Ottoman Perspectives, eds. Ercan Karakoç, Ali Serdar Mete (Peter Lang, 2024)
  
  
• Islamic Culture and Pre-Islamic Beliefs in Central Asia, eds. Mihai Dragnea, Dorina Dragnea, Antonio Alonso Marcos (Lexington, 2024)
  
  
• Deportation in East Central Europe in the 20th Century: Snapshots of Invisible Incarceration, eds. Mihaela Martin, Dallas Michelbacher, Michael D. Sagatis (Peter Lang, 2024)
  
  
• Football in the Balkans II: A Social and Political Phenomenon, eds. Dariusz Wojtaszyn, Teodor Borisov, Maroš Melichárek (Peter Lang, 2024)

Conferences and Workshops

• Cristina Ioniță, Anamaria Tudorie, Youth Exchange World Heritage: Göbeklitepe, organized by Cultural Heritage Guards, Şanlıurfa (Edessa), Turkey, December 2022.
  
  
• Mihai Dragnea, international conference Ethnographies of Orthodox Christianity: Holism, Comparison, and Exploration, London (16–17 February 2023).
  
  
• Mihai Dragnea at the 8th Zagreb Security Forum 2023 (Transatlantic Cooperation and New Security Architecture), organized 20–21 October by the Hybrid Warfare Research Institute (Croatia) and St. George Association (Croatia), in partnership with the University of Defense and Security “Franjo Tuđman” (Croatia), Bar-Ilan University (Israel), Konrad Adenauer Foundation (Office for Croatia and Slovenia), Research Institute for European and American Studies (Greece), and the International Intelligence History Association (Germany), supported by NATO Science for Peace and Security Programme.
  
  
• Cristina Ioniță, Angeliki Mouzakiti, international conference on Greek-Romanian Relations from the Decline of the Ottoman Empire to the End of the Cold War Era (1821–1989), Thessaloniki, Greece, 22–24 November 2023, co-organized with the University of Macedonia and Ștefan cel Mare University of Suceava.
  
  
• Mihai Dragnea, Maria Alexandra Pantea, Sebastian-Dragoș Bunghez, Piotr Kręzel, international conference Old Cities, Former Capitals, and Nation-State Building in Europe (18th–20th Centuries): Regional and National Identities, Iași, 19–21 November 2024.
  
  
• Mihai Dragnea, Dorina Dragnea, Wojciech Szczepański, Galina Yakova, Alexandros Solomos Balatsoukas, Iulia-Alexandra Oprea, international conference Common Past—Divided Memories, Thessaloniki, 29 November–1 December 2024.

Cooperation Agreements

• May 2022. Institute of History, University of Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina).
• November 2022. Department of History of Ukraine, Archeology and Special Branches of Historical Science, National Pedagogical University in Ternopil.
• November 2022. Eastern European Scientific Studies Center, Lviv.
• November 2022. International Slavic University in North Macedonia.
• April 2024. Ellikqala Pedagogical Faculty, Nukus State Pedagogical Institute named after Ajiniyaz, Nukus, Uzbekistan.
• April 2024. Archaeological Institute named after Y. Gulyamov, Samarkand.
• April 2024. Agency of Cultural Heritage, University of Business and Science, Tashkent.
• April 2024. Department of Archaeology, Ethnology and Museology, Faculty of History, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Almaty, Kazakhstan.
  
  
• July 2024. Institute of Cultural Heritage, Chișinău, Moldova.
  
  
• October 2024. Institute of History “George Barițiu”, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
  
  
• November 2024. Faculty of History and Social Science, Armenian State Pedagogical University, Yerevan.
  
  

Visits

• January 2024: President Mihai Dragnea met with Tomáš Vitásek, Director of the Museum of Moravian Wallachia, Czech Republic, to establish collaboration on Wallachian history and heritage.
  
  
• December 2024: President Mihai Dragnea and Vice-President Dorina Dragnea met with Tatiana Bužeková and Marta Botiková, Comenius University, Bratislava, to prepare a volume on the cultures and heritage of communities along the Carpathian arc.
  

Prizes and Grants

• 2023. The inaugural “Șerban Papacostea Dissertation Prize” (€200, one-year association membership, publication of dissertation with Peter Lang, and copies of Hiperboreea).