Laura Borgese


Aleksandra Komornicka wins the Saki Ruth Dockrill Memorial Prize

Ph.D. researcher Aleksandra Komornicka wins the Saki Ruth Dockrill Memorial Prize at the International Graduate Students Conference on the Cold War, with her paper “The Unity of Europe is inevitable: Poland and the European Economic Community in the 1970s”. The Prize consists in the publication of the paper in the Cold War History journal. The 2019 edition of […]

The PanEur1970s team at the Baltic Connections conference in Helsinki

The PanEur190s team participates to the “Baltic Connections: Conference in Social Science History”, taking place from 21 to 23 March 2019 at the University of Helsinki. In the framework of the “Transportation and Internationalization” panel, Adelina Stefan gives a presentation titled  “East-West Business Entanglements in the Cold War: Pan Am and International Tourism in Socialist Romania […]

Benedetto Zaccaria gives a presentation in Jena

Research Associate Benedetto Zaccaria gives a presentation titled “Yugoslavia’s road to Western European Integration: Actors, Questions, Limits” at the Imre Kertész Kolleg, Jena on 13 December 2018. Programme

The PanEur1970s team at the ASEEES convention 2018

Three PanEur1970s team members participate to the 50th Annual ASEEES Convention on 6-9 December 2018 in Boston, US. In the framework of the panel “Decision-making Practises in Late Socialism”, Elitza Stanoeva gives a presentation titled “Capitalist Entrepreneurship vs. Socialist Bureaucracy: Bulgarian Foreign Trade Operatives in the West”. In the framework of the panel “Revisiting the […]

Second Public Workshop of ERC Project PanEur1970s – 26-27 November 2018

The second public workshop of the ERC Project PanEur1970s is designed to assess the work in progress of both the individual team members and the team as a whole, while they are at a crucial stage in their research. The project is nearing the completion of its analytical work and the team members are drafting […]

Federico Romero and Angela Romano at Spazio Europa in Rome

At the conference “The European Construction in the 1980s-1990s and the Present Crisis”, Project Director Federico Romero delivers the keynote speech “Europe beyond the Cold War”, while Senior Research Fellow Angela Romano gives a talk titled “The all-continent EU: ‘the who, why, and how’ of the eastward enlargement”. The event takes place at Spazio Europa in […]

Conference “Reforming Socialism: Aims and Efforts before and after 1968”

PanEur1970s team member Aleksandra Komornicka and EUI Ph.D. researcher Saša Vejzagić convened the conference “Reforming Socialism: Aims and Efforts before and after 1968”, which took place on 25–27 October 2018 at the EUI, Florence. They selected an academic cohort of seventeen presenters, whose papers spanned a broad chronological, geographic, and thematic approach to economic reforms in […]

Angela Romano gives an invited lecture in Ghilarza (Sardinia)

Senior Research Fellow Angela Romano gives an invited lecture titled “L’Unione Europea: genesi, istituzioni, organismi. Anatomia di una creatura polimorfica, imponente…e giovane” at the Scuola Popolare Antonio Gramsci Ghilarza (Sardinia, Italy) on 19 October 2018. The lecture opens the 3rd year of the School, which in 2018 focuses on Europe. The event is organised by […]