Our guest is Prof. Adam Burakowski, researcher at the Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw and author of several landmark volumes on the history and politics of Romania and Central Europe:

• Dictatura lui Nicolae Ceaușescu 1965-1989. Geniul Carpaților (transl. Vasile Moga, Polirom, 2011, 2016)
• System polityczny współczesnej Rumunii (The Political System of Contemporary Romania, ISP PAN, Kraków, 2014)

He is also co-author of the following works:

• 1989. Toamna națiunilor (co-authors: Aleksander Gubrynowicz, Paweł Ukielski; transl. V. Moga, Polirom, 2013)
• Kraj smutny, pełen humoru. Dzieje Rumunii po 1989 roku (A Sad Country, Full of Humour. The History of Romania after 1989, co-author: Marius Stan, Warszawa, 2012).

🗣 Lecture title: „Poland and Romania. What Does the World Know About Us and What Would We Like It to Know?”

📅 Friday, 6 March

🕒 17:30

 Sala Negulescu, Spiru Haret 8

A conversation of perceptions, narratives, and cultural diplomacy in Central Europe – we look forward to welcoming you!

Admission is free.

The event is organised with the support of the Polish Institute in Bucharest, to whom we extend our warm thanks.

It is part of the NARDIV – United in Narrative Diversity? project,a Horizon Europe-funded research programme exploring transnational narrative relations between Eastern and Western Europe.

It is also worth mentioning that Prof. Adam Burakowski will deliver another lecture at FSPUB on 4 March, at 17:30, entitled: “Crises in Poland and Central Europe: An Analysis of Political and Social Transformations in Poland in the Second Half of the 20^th Century.”