International Workshop 21 October 2021 10.00–18.30 Online, on zoom Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85616658858?pwd=YTZPeVlTZXZUUlNNbFV5MEtwc2tUZz09 Meeting ID: 856 1665 8858 Passcode: 528241 Conveners: Alberto BASCIANI and Cristina–Elena BRĂGEA Participants: Florin ANGHEL, Constantin ARDELEANU, Alberto BASCIANI, Cristina BRĂGEA, Paul BRUSANOWSKI, Antonela CAPELLE-POGĂCEAN, Roland CLARK, Francesco GUIDA, Lucian LEUȘTEAN, Francesco MAGNO, Hans-Christian MANER, Vojislav PAVLOVIĆ, Svetlana SUVEICĂ This workshop is organized in connection with the Lapedatu Fellowships at NEC, sponsored by the Lapedatu Foundation (www.lapedatu.com) PROGRAM 10.00–10.15 Opening Remarks 10.15–12.15 Panel 1 Chair: Constantin ARDELEANU (Galați/Bucharest) Alberto BASCIANI (Rome) The End of the Great War. Romania, South-Eastern Europe and the Challenges of Modernity Francesco GUIDA (Rome) Could the ‘Revolutionary Upsurge’Have Been Successful in the Early Post-War Period? Vojislav PAVLOVIĆ (Belgrade) The Impossible Unification. The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes Paul BRUSANOWSKI (Sibiu) Brief Coverage of the Events in the Autumn of 1918 and the Spring of 1919 in the German-Language ‘Pester Lloyd’ Newspaper (Budapest) 12.15–14.00 Lunch break 14.00–16.00 Panel 2 Chair: Cristina BRĂGEA (Bucharest/Paris) Lucian LEUȘTEAN (Iași) Romania and the League of Nations System for the Protection of Minorities of ‘Race, Language and Religion’ during the First Interwar Decade Svetlana SUVEICĂ (Regensburg) Nationalizing the Bessarabian Railways: ‘The Anglo-Bessarabian Commercial Syndicate’ Confronting the Romanian State Florin ANGHEL (Constanța) A Border Country – Southern Dobrogea. Imperial Nostalgia at the Fringes of the National Ideal Antonela CAPELLE-POGĂCEAN (Paris) Entangled Citizenship on a Hungarian–Romanian Contested Border City: Nagyvárad/Oradea, 1918–1921 16.00–16.15 Break ——————————- 16.15–18.15 PANEL 3 Chair: Alberto BASCIANI (Rome) Roland CLARK (Liverpool) Creating a Romanian Patriarchate:...