Strategic Meetings

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During strategic meetings, TransCorr members discuss their conceptual and methodological approach, their empirical/archive-based research, and identify case-studies relevant to the project. These state-of-the-project gatherings ensure the coordination of workflow across the team as well as the organization of the publications and scientific events.

    Strategic Meeting on 9 December 2025

    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.

    Strategic Meeting on 28 May 2025

    All team members met for the TransCorr recurrent strategic meeting on the premises of the Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, prior to the Society for Romanian Studies 2025 International Conference they also attended.

    Strategic Meeting on 19 June 2024

    Team members, along with Gábor Egry, member of the International Advisory Board, were all present at the New Europe College. This strategic meeting took place in the aftermath of the first International Conference organized within the framework of the project.

    Strategic Meeting on 21 March 2024

    Discussions focused on historical semantics, one of TransCorr’s main methodological approaches. Team members examined how the meanings and uses of specific concepts linked to “corruption” changed over time and space. They highlighted how for “corruption” to have meaning it has to be situated within a set of political…

    Strategic Meeting on 18 January 2024

    Team members discussed the constructivist approach to ‘corruption’ in a transnational context, one of the major contributions of TransCorr to existing scholarship on Central-South-East Europe.

    Strategic Meeting on 24 October 2023

    Team members discussed the organization of research (TransCorr’s two investigative directions and sub-groups), identified research goals, and began planning a 2024-2028 calendar for conferences and publications. They also reviewed administrative and logistic matters related to research mobilities.