deadline: ​1 luglio 2018 Regional, National, and Local Identities in Central Europe and the Black Sea Region in the last 100 years – An International Workshop October 11-12, 2018, Bucharest Venue: ”Nicolae Iorga” History Institute, Bd. Aviatorilor, no. 1, Bucharest. Deadline for submission of abstracts: July 1, 2018 International workshop organized by „Nicolae Iorga” History Institute and Centre for Memory and Identity Studies (CSMI) in the framework of the project „Knowledge Exchange and Academic Cultures in the Humanities: Europe and the Black Sea Region, late 18th century-21st century”. Convenor: Claudia-Florentina Dobre (Nicolae Iorga History Institute/CSMI) Scientific Committee: Ovidiu Cristea, Liliana Deyanova, Keith Hitchins, Karl Kaser, Sergiu Musteață, Maria Pakucs, Kristina Popova, Izabela Skórzyńska, Cristian Vasile Organising Committee: Claudia-Florentina Dobre, Maria Mateoniu, Cristian Emilian Ghiță, Valeriu Antonovici, Dominik Gutmeyr 100 years ago, at the end of the First World War, the world system changed. The European medieval multi-ethnic empires vanished for good. New nations emerged on the world scene. Within the new nations, new and old minorities tried to perserve and/or develop/transmit their local/regional/national identities. A Ligue of Nations was created in order to help the new nations develop and to protect theirs interests. However, this did not hinder the Second World War and the genocide it brought along. Yet, the world system of nations survived the attrocities of WWII being only recently challenged by globalisation, enviromental issues, migrations, new technologies as well as by the establishment and developement of trans-national entities such as the European Union. Our conference aims at finding answers to the question of identities in Central Europe and the Black Sea Region (BSR) from different perspectives: national, regional, local, and cultural. Its purpose is twofold: on the one hand, to describe and analyse the construction, adaptation, evolution and transmission of the national/local/cultural identities in Central and Eastern Europe and the Caucasus seen as processes under Western influences but bearing local meanings and acquiring special shapes and contents, and, on the other, to see what is at stake in building an European identity and its influence on the national/regional/local/ cultural identities of Central and Eastern Europe as well as the Caucasus. The conference will give a special attention to the impact of the Western ideas, discourse and practices on building/rebuilding national, regional and local identities in the Black Sea Region. The region is set as a case...