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All team members except for Andrei Sorescu who was travelling to Romania were present either physically or online. Gábor Egry, Head of the Research Department and Senior Research Fellow at Institute of Political History in Budapest, was also present.
Silvia Marton led the meeting and began by announcing that two more events were proposed to be introduced in the TransCorr agenda for 2026.
The Workshop on July 2nd, 2026 to take place at NEC, Bucharest will focus on the status of the volume Old Practices, New Interactions? Favoritism, Interests, Patronage in Central-South-East Europe (1750-1850), Silvia Marton and Constantin Ardeleanu (eds.).
The June 7-8, 2027 international conference will allow for the final peer review of the chapters. Besides team members, 2-3 contributors will also be invited. By then, all its chapters will be finalized.
In parallel, the work on Phanariots will focus on the Romanian principalities. An intermediate working group on principalities will be organized within the larger group on the phanariotism.
The volume on the phanariotism – The Phanariot Past and its Multiple Afterlives: Historicizing “Corruption” in Central-South-East Europe (1750s-1920s), Silvia Marton, Andrei Sorescu and Alex Tipei (eds.) – will be the third one produced by the TransCorr team and will be finalized by mid-2027.
It will be presented at the International Workshop organized by the team at NEC Conference Hall, during June 15-16, 2026.Contributors and guests will be soon invited, the organization work is in progress. The deadline for submitting the abstracts is set for Feb. 15, 2026.
