International Conference: ”Romania and the Entente”

Romania entered WWI in August 1916, at a time of strong crisis for the Entente coalition, drawing upon itself numerous Central Powers forces and fighting in the next four months, on a very large battlefront.

In spite of this, the Central Powers failed to knock Romania out of the war. In the summer of 1917, with the support of Entente, especially France, in difficult circumstances produced by the Russian Revolution, the Romanian army stopped the enemy offensive and obtained big victories at Mărăşti, Mărăşeşti and Oituz. This allowed Romania to exercises its attributes as an independent and sovereign State, whilst fighting together with its Entente allies, to achieve its national unity in 1918.

The Conference is dedicated to these complex events and their interconnections with the policy of the Coalition, the position and links with the other national movements for peace and a new post-war architecture of international relations.

Guest speakers and interventions:

Prof. Dr Hugues TERTRAIS, Université Paris 1 – Sorbonne

• Professeur émérite à l’Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne (France)
• Président de la Commission Internationale d’Histoire des Relations Internationales (2010-)
• Président de la Société française d’histoire des Outre Mers (SFHOM, 2010-)

Intervention: LA FRANCE ET LA ROUMANIE PENDANT ET À LA FIN DE LA GRANDE GUERRE

• Professeur agrégé puis maître de Conférences à l’Université Paris I Panthéon – Sorbonne (1995-2008);
• Professeur des universités à l’Université Paris I Panthéon – Sorbonne (2008-2015);
• Fondateur du Centre d’histoire de l’Asie contemporaine (CHAC, 2008);
• Membre-partenaire de SIRICE : Sorbonne-Identités, relations internationales et civilisations de l’Europe (UMR CNRS 8138, Paris I, Paris IV) – Histoire contemporaine;
• Président de l’Association des Amis de la BDIC (Bibliothèque de documentation internationale contemporaine) et directeur de publication de la revue Matériaux pour l’histoire de notre temps – BDIC (2010 à 2017);
• Président de la SFHOM (Société française d’histoire des Outre Mers) et directeur de publication de Outre-Mer. Revue d’histoire (2010-);
• Membre de nombreux conseils scientifiques et comités de rédaction et de lecture;
• Auteur, co-auteur et coordinateur de plus de 20 ouvrages et plus de 150 études et articles publiés en France et à l’étranger.

Prof. Dr. Massimo DE LEONARDIS, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore – Milano

• Professor at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart – Milan (Italy)
• President of the International Commission of Military History (ICMH) (2015-2020)

Intervention: ITALY AND ROMANIA: PARALLELISM IN COALITION WARFARE

• Since 2002 Professor of History of International Relations and Institutions and of History of Treaties and International Politics at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan, where he was Director of the Department of Political Sciences (2005-2017).
• Coordinator of the History Department at the Master in Diplomacy of the Istituto per gli Studi di Politica Internazionale (ISPI), sponsored by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
• Member of the Faculty of the School of Doctorate in Institutions and Politics and of the Executive and Scientific Boards of the Centre of Researches on the Southern System and the Wider Mediterranean at the Catholic University.
• Scientific Advisor of the Italian Navy for the Humanities, Member of the Historical Advisory Committee of the Naval General Staff and of the Boards of Directors of the Inter-Universities Centre of Studies and Researches on Military History.
• Editor of the Quaderni di Scienze Politiche, and member of the editorial board of several collections of books, journals and centres of studies, among them: Nuova Storia Contemporanea, Discussion Papers of the Unidad de Investigación sobre Seguridad y Cooperación Internacional (UNISCI) at the Universidad Complutense of Madrid, Historical Advisory Committee of Liberation Route Europe, Storia & Diplomazia. Rassegna dell’Archivio Storico del Ministero degli Affari Esteri, Processi Storici e Politiche di Pace, Res Publica. Rivista di studi storico-politici internazionali, Storia Libera, InterPolis, Collection of political and international studies of the Edizioni Nuova Cultura, the Jury of the Premio Acqui Storia (scientific section).
• He taught in the past at the Università Europea di Roma, at the University of Trieste and at the University of Genoa. He was in 1979 Wolfson Fellow of the British Academy, in 1985 Visiting Fellow of the United Kingdom Program of the University of Southern California, in 1993-94 NATO Individual Research Fellow, in 1999 Fellow of the Salzburg Seminar, in 1999, 2007 and 2009 Director of Research at the Centro Militare di Studi Strategici (Military Centre of Strategic Studies).
  Vice-President ICMH (2010-2015).
• Secretary General of the Italian Commission of Military History (2004-2015), Vice- President of the Italian Society of Military History (2009-2012) of which is now Member of Honour, co-founder and Vice-President of the Italian Society of International History (2012-2014).
• Lecturer at the Diplomatic Institute of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, at the Centre of High Studies for Defence (CASD), at the Joint Staff College (ISSMI) in Rome, at the Naval War College (ISMM) in Venice and at the Institute of Studies, Research and Information on Defence (ISTRID), also in various countries of three continents (Africa, America and Europe).
• He has published 25 books and more than 230 other scholarly essays in Italian, English, French, German, Spanish, Bulgarian and Romanian.

Prof. Dr Alfredo CANAVERO, Università degli Studi di Milano

• Secrétaire général de la Commission Internationale d’Histoire des Relations Internationales CIHRI/Secretary General of the International Commission for the History of International Relations (ICHIR)

Intervention: L’ITALIE ET LA ROUMANIE PENDANT LA NEUTRALITÉ

• 1970 Docteur en Sciences Politiques, Université Catholique du Sacré-Cœur, Milan.
• 1971 Bourse ministériel, Faculté de Sciences Politiques, Université Catholique du Sacré-Cœur, Milan.
• 1975 Contrat ministériel, Faculté de Sciences Politiques, Université de Pavie.
• 1976 Assistant d’Historie des Relations Internationales, Université Catholique du Sacré-Cœur, Milan.
• 1977 Chargé du course d’Histoire Contemporaine, Université de Milan.
• 1983 Professeur associé d’Histoire Contemporaine, Université de Milan.
• 2001-2018 Professeur titulaire d’Histoire Contemporaine, Université de Milan;
• Directeur du Centro per gli Studi di Politica Estera e Opinione Pubblica, Université de Milan;
• Membre du comité de rédaction du « Bollettino dell’Archivio per la Storia del Movimento Sociale Cattolico in Italia »;
• Membre du Comité scientifique du Centro Studi “Tommaso Gallarati Scotti”;
• Membre du Comité scientifique de « Geopolitica »;
• Membre du Comité scientifique de l’Institute “Luigi Sturzo” de Rome pour les études de l’archive Giulio Andreotti;
• Membre de Editorial Board du « International Journal of the History of Sport »;
• Membre du Conseil Scientifique de “ Nuova Secondaria ”, Editrice La Scuola, Brescia;

Entre ses publications les plus récentes:
– Alcide De Gasperi. Chrétien, Démocrate, Européen, Bruxelles-Rome, 2010;
– Aux origines de la Commission d’Histoire des Relations Internationales, dans Mémoires et émotions. Au cœur de l’histoire des relations internationales, Paris, 2014;
– Between the Cold War and the Third World. The Christian Democratic International, dans Christian Democrat Internationalism. Its Action in Europe and Worldwide from post-World War II until the 1990s, vol. III: The European People’s Party Continental and Social Cooperation, Bruxelles, 2015;
– Peace in the Magisterium of Twentieth Century Popes, in World Views and Worldly Wisdom/ Visions et expériences du monde, Leuven, 2016;
– Japan and Asia in the eyes of European people, dans The Emergence of “Asia-Pacific” in the International Relations. The First World War and Japan, Tokyo, 2016;
– La Nota del 1917: le proposte su armamenti, arbitrati, sanzioni, danni, dans Benedetto XV. Papa Giacomo Della Chiesa nel mondo dell’«inutile strage», Bologna, 2017;
Il a également édité la version italienne de Antony BEST, Jussi M. HANNIMÄKI, Joseph A. MAIOLO, Kirsten E. SCHULZE, Storia delle relazioni internazionali. Il mondo nel XX secolo e oltre, Torino, 2014.

Prof. Dr Roman HOLEC, University “Comenius” – Bratislava

• Professor of History at Faculty of Art of University “Comenius”, BratislavaIntervention: THE RISE OF CZECHOSLOVAKIA, ITS ALLIES AND ENEMIES

• Research Fellow, Institute of History of Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava (1997-)
• Expert in Economic, Social and Political History of Central Europe XIX-XX c.;
• Magister, Faculty of Philosophy, University “Comenius”, Bratislava (1984);
• Docent, Faculty of Philosophy, University “Comenius”, Bratislava (1995);
• Participating to many academic study visits in Europe and in an important number of international projects (European Science Foundation, Kommission für die Geschichte der Habsburgermonarchie, Volkswagen-Stiftung, etc.);
• More than 240 conferences and lectures as invited professor (150 abroad in 25 countries);
• Membership in editorial boards: “Czech-Slovak Historical Yearbook”; “East Bohemian Historical Sheets” (Hradec Kralove); “Modern History” (Prague); “Central European Studies Center” (Prague); “Annales historici Presovienses” (Prešov); the Internet review “Historia Nova” (Bratislava);
• Historica” (Bratislava), “Studien zur Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte Osteuropas” (Berlin-Leipzig)
• Author of 17 books, co-author of other 22 works and author of nearly 200 scientific studies that have been published in 12 countries;
• Double winner of the “Egon Erwin Kisch Prize” (2002, 2014) and other national and international awards.

Prof. Dr Ioan BOLOVAN, University “Babeş-Bolyai” – Cluj-Napoca

• Vice-Rector, “Babes-Bolyai” University of Cluj-Napoca (Romania)
• President of the International Commission for Historical Demography (2015-2020)

Intervention: ROMANIANS AND ROMANIA DURING WWI: DEMOGRAPHIC ASPECTS

• Scientific researcher (1989-1993) and Senior researcher and Scientific Secretary of the Institute of History “George Bariţ”, Cluj-Napoca (1993-2001); Editorial secretary of the Institute of History Yearbook (1990-2001);
• Senior Researcher (1992-) and Director a.i. (2003-2007) of the Center for Transylvanian Studies, Cluj-Napoca (Romanian Academy);
• Associate Professor (2001-2008) and since 2008 Professor at “Babes-Bolyai” University, Cluj-Napoca;
• Vice-rector of Babes-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca (2012-);
• November 2005 – currently, member of the National Commission for Population and Development;
• Director of the Center for Population Studies, “Babes-Bolyai” University, Cluj-Napoca (2016-);
• Vice-president (2010-2015) and since 2015 president of the International Commission of Historical Demography;
• May 2003 – present, expert-assessor of scientific research projects, Ministry of Education and Research;

Prof. Dr. Sorin Liviu DAMEAN, University of Craiova 

• Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Craiova
• Associate member of the Academy of Romanian Scientists
• Vice-President of the Romanian Society of Historical Sciences

Intervention: ROMANIANS AND RUSSIANS ON THE EASTERN FRONT (1916-1918)

• Vice-President of the Senate of the University of Craiova (2012-2016);
• Director of the Center for Studies of International Relations, University of Craiova (since 2008);
• Director of the Doctoral School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Faculty of Social Sciences (since 2015);
• Head of the History Department (2008-2012, Director of the Department of History and International Relations, 2012-2013 at the Faculty of Law and Administrative Sciences);
• Scientific Researcher at the Center for European History and Civilization-Iaşi (Romanian Academy 1997-2000);
• Member of the Editorial Board of the magazine „Europa XXI”; Modern history (1997-2000);
• Associate member of the Romanian Committee for History and Philosophy of Science and Technology – Romanian Academy;
• Editor-in-Chief of the Journal „Annals of the University of Craiova. History „(since 2008);
• Member of the Association of Christian Teachers;
• Member of the International Committee for the Parliamentary History;
• Author, co-author and coordinator of more 15 books and about 100 studies and articles; many national Prizes for History.

Ambassador Prof. Dr Dumitru PREDA – Bucharest

• Member of the Board of the International Commission for the History of International Relations – ICHIR
• Member of the Bibliographical Committee of the International Commission of Military History-BC ICMH

Intervention: LES LEÇONS DE L’HISTOIRE: LA ROUMANIE ET SES ALLIÉS DANS LA GRANDE GUERRE, CENT ANS APRÈS/ THE LESSONS OF HISTORY: ROMANIA AND ITS ALLIES IN THE GREAT WAR, A HUNDRED YEARS LATER

• Professor of universities (2001-);
• Former professor to the Romanian Military Academy, University of Bucharest, University of Timişoara and University “Ovidius”-Constanţa;
• Main Archivist, Scientific Researcher and Senior Scientific Researcher to the Center (Institute) of Military History and Theory-Bucharest (1974-1997);
• Career Diplomat (from 1997) went through all the ranks; Deputy Permanent Delegate and Chargé d’affaires UNESCO-Paris (2002-2007);
• Director for Romanians Abroad (2008-2009) and Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Havana (2011-2016);
• Chief of Historical Diplomatic Archives (1997-1998) and Director of the Romanian Diplomatic Archives (1999-2002); Observer to EU Diplomatic Archives (1998-2004);
• Member of the Board of the ICHIR (since 2006) and treasurer (2011-) ; Member of the BC-ICMH (since 1990), and founding member (1990-1991) of the Archives Committee – ICMH;