June 2026
Participation of Constantin Ardeleanu, TransCorr team member, at the Annual Conference of the “A.D. Xenopol” History Institute in Iași with a paper that examines the rule of Gheorghe Bibescu in Wallachia, specifically analyzing the allegations of “corruption” leveled against him in both contemporary and historiographical contexts, alongside the subsequent efforts by his descendants to contest these narratives.
March 2026
Silvia Marton, PI, presented the paper “In the Hands of a Camarilla”: Accusations of Corruption and Despotism against Rulers in Romania at the international conference “The Royal Coffers. European Monarchies and their Financial Behavior between 1650 and 1950”, Darmstadt, 5-6 March 2026.
January 2026
Silvia Marton, PI, presented the paper “Voting and Electoral Fraud in Nineteenth Century Romania. A Contribution to the History of Corruption” at the international conference “Electoral Fraud and Political Distrust: Entanglements and New Perspectives of Study in Modern Europe (c. 1750 – c. 1950)”
June 2025
Constantin Ardeleanu, TransCorr team member, presented the paper “International Shipping, Russian Control, and Allegations of “Corruption” in Sulina (1830s–1850s)” at the international conference Transnational Trade Networks and the Development of the Black Sea Port Cities during the Modern Age: a Comparative Analysis, organised at the New Europe College in Bucharest on June 19, 2025.
January 2025
Silvia Marton, PI, gave a keynote lecture at the conference “Residues and Innovations within Imperial Orders. Political Assemblies in Continental Europe, 1800–1850”, held at the German Historical Institute in Warsaw on 23 January 2025.