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Historicizing “Corruption” in Central-South-East Europe: Phanariot and Post-Phanariot Networks and Regional Power Reconfigurations (1750s-1900s)
ANAMED, the Koç University Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations
Istanbul, 26-27 October 2026
PARTICIPANTS: Boriana ANTONOVA-GOLEVA, Constantin ARDELEANU, Gențiana AVRIGEANU, Augusta DIMOU, Lucien FRARY, Silvia MARTON, Mária PAKUCS, Oana SORESCU-IUDEAN, Constanța VINTILĂ, Michał WASIUCIONEK
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phanariots
This research is conducted within “Transnational histories of ‘corruption’ in Central-South-East Europe (1750-1850) (TransCorr)”, funded by the European Union (ERC-2022-ADG no. 101098095) and hosted by the New Europe College, Bucharest.
Co-organized and hosted by ANAMED, with our sincere appreciation for their generous hospitality and support.
Monday, 26 October 2026
17h00–19h00
Keynote lecture by Constanța VINTILĂ, ‘Nicolae Iorga’ Institute of History, Bucharest / New Europe College
Women and the Making of Phanariot Power: Networks, Material Culture, and Influence,
followed by discussions
Tuesday, 27 October 2026
Conference presentations held by TransCorr team
10h00–10h15
Opening Remarks
Namık Günay ERKAL, curator of the exhibition „All Phanar Is Here: Household, Neighborhood, Court, and the City”
Silvia MARTON, University of Bucharest / New Europe College
SESSION 1
The Phanariots and Their Legacies: Imperial Entanglements and State Formation
10h15–11h35
Chair: Oana SORESCU-IUDEAN, Centre for Population Studies, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca / New Europe College
Mária PAKUCS, ‘Nicolae Iorga’ Institute of History, Bucharest / New Europe College
The consular agents in Bucharest and their views on the Phanariot princes at the turn of the 19th century
Lucien FRARY, Rider University / New Europe College
The Traveling Balkan Orthodox Middlemen: Russian Impressions of the Phanariots (1701–1821)
Michał WASIUCIONEK, ‘Nicolae Iorga’ Institute of History, Bucharest / New Europe College
Between Phanariot Legacy and Serbian State Formation: The Political and Ecclesiastic Dynamic at the Margin of the Phanariot World
Q&A – discussions
11h35–11h50 Coffee break
SESSION 2
Phanariot Past and Post-Phanariot Present: Corruption, Political Polemics, and Nation-Building
11h50–13h10
Chair: Silvia MARTON, University of Bucharest / New Europe College
Constantin ARDELEANU, New Europe College / Institute for South-East European Studies, Bucharest
A Neo-Phanariot Fixer in Ottoman Istanbul: Kapıkahya Nicholas Aristarchi and the Wallachian princes
Boriana ANTONOVA-GOLEVA, Institute for Historical Studies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences / New Europe College
The ‘Phanariotism’ in the Bulgarian public discourse after the Crimean War: texts, contexts, and concepts
Augusta DIMOU, Institute of Cultural Studies, Chair of Comparative European History, University of Leipzig / New Europe College
Competing Allegiances: Identities, Politics and Positionalities in the Autonomy Movements of Bosnia and Herzegovina during the Transition from Ottoman to Habsburg Rule
Q&A – discussions