LAURENȚIU VLAD

LAURENȚIU VLAD

Academic title: Professor

CV | Prof. univ. dr. Laurențiu Vlad holds a PhD in History (specializing in the History of Mentalities) from the Institute of South-East European Studies of the Romanian Academy since 1999 and professor at the University of Bucharest since 2004. He has had several study and research internships, including as a French government scholarship holder or as a holder of Fernand Braudel, Copernicus, Tempus, Leventis, Vasile Pârvan grants in Paris, Athens, Brussels, Strasbourg, Rome. His research followed / follows topics such as Imagology and national identity imaginary at the World’s Fairs; Cultural diplomacy (French-Romanian relations, Belgo-Romanian relations, elite formation – Romanian students at the Belgian and French universities); History of mentalities, political ideas and ideologies (Conservatism, European idea, Image of the other).

From 1991-2016 he was a scientific researcher at the Institute of South-East European Studies of the Romanian Academy and at the Romanian Diplomatic Institute (2006-2011). He is a member of some national professional scientific associations (e.g. the Romanian Society of Historical Sciences) and coordinator of some editorial collections, among which we mention the one of the European Institute Publishing House (Iași), entitled “Mentalities, Historical Anthropology, Cultural History”. He was/is also a member of the editorial committees of the journals Analele Universității din București – Științe Politice, Anuarul Institutului de Cercetări Socio-Umane “Gheorghe Șincai”, Arhivele Olteniei, Caiete de Antropologie Istorică, Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai. Historia, Xenopoliana etc.

He has published, in his fields of specialization, on various themes of Romanian and European history of the 19th and 20th centuries, more than 20 books, either as sole author or in collaboration, edited/coordinated volumes or anthologies (sole editor/co-editor) with prestigious national and international publishers, respectively more than 70 articles/ studies in collective volumes or in specialized/academic journals in the country and abroad – Bulgaria, France, Germany, United States of America – (not counting reprints). For some of his volumes he received the awards “Nicolae Iorga” and “A.D. Xenopol” of the Romanian Society of Historical Sciences (2017, 2024), “Book of the Year in Historical Anthropology” of the scientific journal Caiete de Antropologie Istorică (2019), “Nicolae Bălcescu” of the Romanian Academy (2023), respectively “A.D. Xenopol” of the Magazin Istoric Cultural Foundation (2024). He has also participated in more than 25 conferences / colloquia / international scientific meetings organized in France, Greece, Romania, Hungary or Turkey.

He was Head of the Department of International Relations and European Studies at the Faculty of Political Science of the University of Bucharest (2000-2010), Dean of the same faculty (2010-2015) and Vice-Rector of the University (2016-2019). From July 20, 2016 to January 5, 2017, he held the position of Secretary of State responsible for Higher Education at the Ministry of National Education and Scientific Research.

Research fields: History of Romanians and European history, 19th-20th centuries (imagology and national identity imaginary; cultural diplomacy; history of mentalities, political ideas and ideologies (conservatism, nationalism); European idea; image of the other; formation of elites; biographies)

Courses:

  • Politică și societate în Europa, 1789-1918 / Politique et société en Europe, 1789-1918 / Politics and Society in Europe, 1789-1918, SPR, SSL (anul I, semestrul 1)
  • Istoria ideii și construcției europene / Histoire de l’idée et de la construction européenne / History of the European Ideea and of the European Integration, MSE (anul I, semestrul 1)
  • Politica externă a României, 1878-1989 / Politique extérieure de la Roumanie, 1878-1989 / Romania’s Foreign Policy, 1878-1989, MRI (anul I, semestrul 1)

Recent publications

Books:

  1. Images de l’identité nationale. La Roumanie aux expositions universelles et internationales de Paris (1867-1937), Paris, L’Harmattan, 2016, 282 pp.
  2. Istorii românești ale ideii de Europa, secolele XVII-XXI (imagini, note reflecții), Iași, Ed. Institutul European, 2021, 340 pp.
  3. Constantin N. Brăiloiu (1809-1889). Fragmente biografice, Iași, Ed. Universității „Alexandru Ioan Cuza”, 2023, 224 pp.
  4. Percepții ale „Europei” și europenității în spațiul public românesc al secolelor XVIII-XXI, coord.: Laurențiu Vlad, Târgoviște, Ed. Cetatea de Scaun / Iași, Ed. Institutul European, 2024, 434 pp.

Studies and articles:

  1. « Aux portes de l’Orient ». Quelques notes sur les images orientales de la Roumanie et des Roumains aux expositions universelles de Paris, 1867-1937, în „Südost-Forschungen” (Internationale Zetschrift für Geschicte, Kultur und Landeskunde Südosteuropas), 77, 2018, pp. 176-197.
  2. Studenți români la Universitatea din Liège în anii de după Primul Război Mondial. Câteva reflecții preliminare, în Spre pământul făgăduinței, între Balcani și Bugeac. Omagiu doamnei profesoare Elena Siupiur la împlinirea vârstei de 80 de ani, coord.: Daniel Cain, Aneta Mihaylova, Roumiana T. Stantcheva, Andrei Timotin, Brăila, Ed. Istros a Muzeului Brăilei „Carol I”, 2020, pp. 231-256.
  3. Brief notes on the education of a young Wallachian boyar. Constantin N. Brăiloiu and his studies in Sibiu, Geneva and Paris (1822-1832), în Social and Administrative Elite in the Romanian Space 15th-19th centuries, edited by Mihai-Bogdan Atanasiu and Cristian Ploscaru, Konstanz, Hartung – Gorre Verlag, 2021, pp. 141-154.
  4. Ce citea principele Nicolae Suțu? Scurte note despre lecturile sale „politice”, în Istoria ca pasiune. In honorem. Studii oferite profesorului Alexandru-Florin PLATON la împlinirea a 65 de ani, editori: Petronel Zahariuc, Laurențiu Rădvan, Dinu Pillat, Iași, Ed. Universității „Alexandru Ioan Cuza”, 2022, pp. 505-520.
  5. The Project of Romania’s Participation in the Chicago World’s Fair in 1933: Some Unpublished Documents from the Archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, în Sonia D. Andraș and Roxana Mihaly (editors), Creative Negotiations. Romania – America 1920-1940, Cluj-Napoca, Presa Universitară Clujeană, 2023, pp. 55-80.
  6. Câteva note preliminare cu privire la imaginea străinilor în răspunsurile la chestionarul „juridic” al lui B.P. Hasdeu (1878), în Gabriel Moisa, Florina Ciure, Sorin Șipoș, Ioan Goman (coordonatori), Studia Interdisciplinaria. In Memoriam Magistri Barbu Ștefănescu, Oradea – Ed. Muzeului Țării Crișurilor / Cluj-Napoca – Centrul de Studii Transilvane, 2023, pp. 496-515.
  7. Ideea de Europa în cultura română. Note bibliografice pentru un inventar sintetic al unei teme istoriografice, în Istoriografia română recentă: curente, tendințe, aspecte instituționale, coord.: Bogdan Murgescu, Alexandru-Florin Platon, București, Ed. Universității din București, 2024, pp. 179-200.
  8. “The enlightened Europe” and “The Turkish Europe”: The West and East of the Old Continent in the Perception of Romanian Scholars (late 18th century – early 19th century), in Tudor Vladimirescu and the Emancipation Movements in the Balkans: Cultural and Political Approach, edited by Cristian Ploscaru and Cosmin Mihuț, Peter Lang, 2024, in print.

Topics for BA/MA coordination:  (1) Political imaginary in Romania, XIX-XX c., (2) Romanian conservatism, XIX-XX c., (3) The idea of Europe in Romanian culture, XIX-XX c., (4) Romania at universal and international exhibitions, XIX-XX c.

Office hours: Monday, 10,00-11,00 online, by appointment by e-mail

E-mail address: laurentiu.vlad @fspub.unibuc.ro și laurentiu.vlad@unibuc.ro