CEPOS NEW CALL FOR PAPERS 2025

15TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
AFTER COMMUNISM. EAST AND WEST UNDER SCRUTINY
Craiova (Romania), 14-15 March 2025

Don't forget to register now! Using our editable registration forms available for download in WORD  or PDF  format.
Dear Colleagues,
We are delighted to invite you to participate in the 15th International Conference AFTER COMMUNISM. EAST AND WEST UNDER SCRUTINY in Craiova, Romania, 14-15 March 2025. More than three decades after, an event is both history and present.
The conference will be hosted for two intense and exciting days, participants all over the world (professors, professionals, doctoral and post-doctoral researchers and students) are invited to raise the issue of the study of the recent history of the former Eastern space in connection with the Western world. We are confident that all of us will focus during these two days on what is important to move the research in the field forward.
We dear to state that we even bear the moral obligation to do that.

Best regards,
The Board of Directors of CEPOS 2025 Conferences and Events Series


PROPOSED PANELS for CEPOS CONFERENCE 2025
  • -Administration, legal issues and social justice
  • -Administration, social inclusion and urban planning
  • -Administrative history and governance within South-Eastern Europe
  • -AI, Finances & digital developments
  • -Bioethics and transition challenges
  • -History, politics and ideologies in modern and contemporary Europe
  • -Comparative policies, financial reforms and competitiveness
  • -Comparative policies, sustainable growth and urban planning
  • -Constitution(s), legality & political reforms
  • -Discourse, language and social encounters
  • -Economics, financial law and policy mechanisms
  • -Education, media & social communication;
  • -Education, political culture and language skills
  • -Education, social inclusion and regional policies
  • -E-government and social development
  • -E-government, comparative policies and strategic approaches
  • -Elections, social innovation and public policies
  • -Environment, biodiversity and climate change
  • -EU policy cooperation and resilience facilities in (post)pandemic context
  • -Global environment and cultural heritage
  • -Historicaĺ narratives and political history (XIX-XX centuries)
  • -Historiography, history studies and policy mechanisms
  • -Human development and social action
  • -Integration, identity, and human rights in European systems
  • -Judicial encounters and public policies
  • -Knowledge transfer and competitiveness in regional economies
  • -Law panel on legal, economic and social patterns of the democratization process
  • -Law, administration and transitional justice
  • -Law, legal studies and justice reform;
  • -Law, transitional justice, democratization
  • -Legal and constitutional patterns of the democratization process
  • -Legal and social patterns of the democratization process
  • -Media analysis and transition
  • -Media analysis, public discourse and democracy
  • -Media, online communication and politics
  • -Political culture and citizen participation
  • -Political culture and language skills
  • -Political culture, civil society and citizen participation
  • -Political culture, rights and civil society
  • -Political culture, values and language skills
  • -Political events, resilience and social action
  • -Political history, collective memory and cultural heritage
  • -Political leadership, democratization and regional security
  • -Political parties, electoral systems and electoral campaigns
  • -Political sciences panel on politics, governance and social culture
  • -Politics, governance and social change
  • -Politics, governance and social change
  • -Post-communism and collective memory
  • -Public policies, social behavior and education
  • -Religion, cultural history and education
  • -Rights, identities, policies & participation
  • -Security and diplomacy in national and Euro-Atlantic environment
  • -Security encounters in the pandemic context
  • -Security, foreign policy, social movements and citizenship
  • -Security, social movements and citizenship
  • -Social economy, climate change and sustainable development
  • -Social economy, knowledge transfer and sustainable development.
ABSTRACT SUBMITTING (SEE CEPOS CONFERENCE 2025 -REGISTRATION FORM-on cepos.eu/ or cepos.org) The proposals must be sent in English and must contain the title of the paper, the abstract (no more than 300 words) and a short presentation of the author(s) (statute, institutional affiliation, short list of relevant scientific contributions).

CEPOS CONFERENCE PAST EDITIONS
More information, photos and other details about the previous editions of the Conference and CEPOS Workshops, Internships, and other official events organized in 2012-2024 are available on CEPOS official website sections.

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REGISTRATION FEES
CEPOS CONFERENCE 2025 Registration fees will be paid exclusively ONLINE.
100€ euros / first paper and 30€ euros / second paper (same author(s)) (payment by March 7, 2025)

Details for online payment:
Registration fees can be paid directly via bank transfer on CEPOS Bank account as follows:

Bank Name: Banca Romana pentru Dezvoltare (BRD)
Owner: ASOCIATIA CENTRUL DE STUDII POLITICE POSTCOMUNISTE
Reference to be mentioned: CV taxa participare si publicare CEPOS
Account Number: RO64BRDE170SV96030911700 (RON)

Very important !
The registration WILL NOT be confirmed until the payment of the registration fees is received. The participant has to bear all bank charges due to the transfer of money (local, foreign etc.).


ORGANIZING DETAILS (Conference location/ organizing details e.g. meals, coffee breaks/ mode of presentation of the papers to be announced in due time)

The registration fee covers: Main topics of the panel: * 15 minutes Oral presentation / Poster Presentation for every author and presenter
* Publication of the Conference Papers in the International Indexed Journal Revista de Stiinte Politice. Revue des Sciences Politiques.
Previous publication of the 2012-2024 Conference papers is available at: archive.

CERTIFICATES OF ATTENDANCE
Certificates of attendance will be offered at the end of the conference.