Cantemir Institute

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The Cantemir Institute (CI) is a recently established centre of research at the Faculty of History, University of Oxford, which focuses on the interdisciplinary study of Central and Eastern Europe in its wider European, Eurasian, Mediterranean, and global contexts. The creation of the institute has been made possible through a generous donation from the Berendel Foundation, London.

The Cantemir Institute aims to reflect critically on the legacy of intercultural humanism bestowed by two humanist princes: Demetrius Cantemir (1673-1723), the ruling prince of Moldavia (1693; 1710-11), and his son Antiochus (1709-1744), Russia's ambassador to London and Paris (1731-1744). These distinguished polymaths were steeped in the intellectual culture of both Eastern and Western Europe and knowledgeable about the Ottoman and the Russian empires.

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Episode	Description	People	Date
Two opposed catholic nationalisms: Ukrainian Galicians in the Second Polish Republic (1923-1939)	Dr Alessandro Milani (EHESS, Paris) gives a talk for the Cantemir Institute East and East-Central Europe seminar series.	Alessandro Milani	13 March, 2013
Family systems in historic Poland-Lithuania: Demographic perspectives on civilisational divide in Eastern Europe	Mikolaj Szoltysek (Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock) gives a talk for the Cantemir Institute on 12th February 2013.	Mikolaj Szoltysek	6 March, 2013
Encountering and Appropriating Cityscapes: Lviv and Wroclaw after 1944/45	Sofia Dyak (Center for Urban History, Lviv) gives a talk for the Cantemir Institute.	Sofia Dyak	6 March, 2013
Abbasid Culture and the Universal History of Freethinking	Professor Al-Azmeh, Professor in the School of Historical and Interdisciplinary Studies, Central European University, Budapest, gives a talk for the Cantemir Institute.	Aziz Al-Azmeh	6 March, 2013
Utopia and Terror: How interdisciplinary methodologies can help us understand violent societies. The example of Croatian Ustasha regime	Part of the Cantemir Institute seminar series. Rory Yeomans, senior research analyst at the Ministry of Justice, gives a talk on how interdisciplinary methodologies help us understand violent societies.	Rory Yeomans	12 February, 2013
Bygone Glories and Frivolous Pleasures: The Rococo Revival and National Identity in Austrian and Hungarian Art, 1840-1860	Part of the East and Est-Central Europe Seminar series. Dr Nóra Veszprémi (Cantemir Fellow, Budapest) gives a talk on art and identity in Austria and Hungary in the mid 19th Century.	Nóra Veszprémi	24 January, 2013
Majorities and Minorities in Interwar Timişoara: Between Fictive and Ethnicity and Ideal Nation	Professor Victor Neumann (West University of Timisoara) delivers a lecture as part of the East and East-Central Europe Seminar Series at the Cantemir Institute.	Victor Neumann	19 October, 2012
Marxism and the Kemalist 'Sonderweg' (through the eyes of the Turkish Communist poet Nazim Hikmet)	Professor Halil Berktay delivers the final lecture in the Trinity term East and East Central Europe Seminar Series.	Halil Berktay	28 June, 2012
Transformational Leap as the basic Metaphor of Russian Sonderweg Theories	Professor Andrei Zorin presents the third East and East Central Europe seminar lecture for the Cantemir Institute on Thursday 7 June.	Andrei Zorin	28 June, 2012
Modernist Writing and Modernist Events: Fictions of Holocaust	Often described as one of the most important historical theorists of our times, Hayden White discusses the ethical and aesthetic implications for discourses dealing with the Holocaust, genocide and industrialized death.	Hayden White	27 June, 2012
Institutional hypocrisy: the Imperial Diet in the 18th century - a German Sonderweg?	Professor Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger (University of Münster) delivers a lecture as part of the "East and East-Central Europe: Special Paths (Sonderwege) in European Perspective" seminar series.	Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger	25 May, 2012

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