The long 20th century in Eastern and South-Eastern Europe witnessed an accelerated expansion of the national state, its bureaucracies and repressive apparatuses. This workshop tackles state encounters with ethnic minorities and religious groups perceived as different from the majority population. Based on new archival sources and interdisciplinary approaches, we aim to discuss the dynamic and multifaceted state encounters in Eastern and particularly South Eastern Europe. The workshop will focus on Romania but will not be restricted to it. It will address enduring issues such as transnational connections, socio-economic transformation processes, and the legacies of various regimes.

This event is jointly organized by: The Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (IOS) and die ORTHPOL Project.

IOS is one of the largest and longest established research institutions of its kind in Germany. Since 2017, it has been a member of the Leibniz Association and thus part of a leading network of scientific institutions. Among others, historians, economists and political scientists work at the IOS. The institute investigates the history as well as the economic and political development of Eastern and Southeast Europe, with a focus on the period since around 1800. Its multidisciplinary research focuses on transnational and comparative issues.

The “ORTHPOL – Orthodoxies and Politics: The Religious Reforms of Mid-17th Century in Eastern and South-Eastern Europe” project, funded by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (Grant agreement No. 950287). ORTHPOL is hosted by the Institute for Habsburg and Balkan Studies of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (Vienna) and explores the mid-seventeenth-century East and South-East European religious reforms from an interconnected perspective.

Registration is not required.