The event will be an opportunity to discuss new approaches in the Romanian historiography of the communist regime. The insights about the Romanian case will be situated in the broader context of histories of state socialism and Cold War in Southeastern Europe.

The workshop will consist of two panels:

I. Daily Life and Memory 
Mioara Anton (Nicolae Iorga Institute of History-NIIH) 
"The Masks of Daily Communism. Compliance and Adaptation in the times of Nicolae Ceaușescu”
Claudia-Florentina Dobre (NIIH)
"New Approaches in Dealing with the Memory of Communist Repression in Post-comunist Romania”
Discussant: Oliver Jens Schmitt (Institute for Habsburg and Balkan Studies)

II. Institutions and Biographies
Cristian Vasile (NIIH)
"Romania's Cultural Cold War”
Cosmin Popa (NIIH)
"Beyond the Paradigm of Romanian National-Communism”
Discussant: Constantin Iordachi (Central European University)

The workshop is organized by the Institute for Habsburg and Balkan Studies (Austrian Academy of Sciences) in collaboration with the "Nicolae Iorga" Institute of History (Romanian Academy). This event takes place in the context of the research project “Foreign policy thinking in communist Albania and Romania, Grant-DOI: 10.55776/PAT6757023” funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF).