Day 1 – Thursday 5 December
Section 1: Feasts of Power/Banks of Power
10:00 – 11:30 Moderator: Mioara ANTON (Director of the Institute of History “N. Iorga")
Ovidiu CRISTEA, Introduction
Ecaterina LUNG (Faculty of History, University of Bucharest), Sharing Food and Spilling Blood - Feasts in Paul the Deacon’s Historia Longobardorum.
Giorgio ROTA (OAW, Vienna), "Sostegno e gloria d'umanità remarks": some on the Royal banquet in Persia during the Safavid period (1501-1736)
Coffee break: 11:30 – 11:45
Section 2: Diplomats at the table/Diplomatic banquets
11:45 – 13:45
Moderator: Marian COMAN
David NEAGU (ISSEE), The Banquet as a Political Tool in Cilician Armenia
Alexandru SIMON (Transylvanian Studies Center, Cluj-Napoca), Me sono abochato con..: communication and information exchange in the Peninsula in the second half of the 15th century
Dana CACIUR-ANDREESCU (Institute of History “N. Iorga”), Venetian – Ottoman diplomacy at the table: customs, expenses and during the Sixteenth century (case study: the border of Dalmatia)
Michał WASIUCIONEK (Institute of History “N. Iorga"), Diplomatic Foods: Banqueting and Status in Polish-Moldavian Diplomacy in the Seventeenth Century
Lunch break: 13:45 – 14:45
Section 3: Royal Banquets/Royal Banquets
14:45 – 16:15
Moderator: Bogdan POPA
Radu TUDORANCEA (Institute of History “N. Iorga"), Solemnity and Enough. Royal breakfasts during the Coronation ceremonies in Alba Iulia (15 October 1922)
Florin ANGHEL (Faculty of History and Political Science, “Ovidius” University, Constanta), La Peles and Bran with Regina Maria and Carol II. The visit of Tsar Boris III of Bulgaria to Romania (25-28 January 1934) and perceptions of image from an incomplete protocol.
Daniel Citiurga (Faculty of History and Political Science, "Ovidius" University, Constanta) Receptions in honor of the monarch: politics and diplomacy during the visits of King Charles II to Czechoslovakia and Poland
Coffee break:16:15 – 16:30
Section 4: Publicities and banquets/ Personalities and banquets
16:30 – 18:00
Moderator: Radu TUDORANCEA
Gabriela DRISTARU (Institute of History “N. Iga), The reception that never took place. On Kerensky's visit to Iași (1917)
Dana COSTIN (Institute of History “N. Iorga"), Gustian feasts: Festings that shaped ideas and social relationships
Georgiana ŢĂRANU (Faculty of History and Political Science, “Ovidius” University, Constanta), At the table of politics: N. Iorga at the banquets
Day 2
Section 5: Romanian Banquets abroad 10:00 – 11:00
Moderator: Maria PAKUCS (Director adj. of the Institute of History “N. Iorga")
Cornel SIGMIREAN (Institute “Gh. Sincai”, Targu Mures), The Romanians’ Balls from Vienna at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century
Lucian LEUŞTEAN (Faculty of History, “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University, Iasi), “Working Tables” of the Romanian delegation at the Paris Peace Conference (1919-1920)
Coffee break: 11:00 – 11:15
Section 6: Wallachian and Moldavian Banquets/ Wallachian and Moldavian banquets 11:15 – 12:45
Moderator: Ovidiu CRISTEA
Minodora CÂRCIUMARU (National Museum Complex “Curtea Domnească” – Târgoviște), From word to fragment – from idea to object. For an archaeological imaginary of medieval feasts
Marian COMAN (Institute of History “N. Iorga”/Faculty of History, University of Bucharest), Art of political communication through the rise (and emptying) of the go. Medieval Wallachia
Petronel ZAHARIUC (Faculty of History, “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University, Iasi), Talks at the table, an opportunity to trouble! The wedding at Bacani and the tragic end of Miron Costin
Lunch break 12:45 – 13:45
Section 7: Transylvanian Banquets/ Transilvanian Banquets 13:45 – 15:15
Moderator: Dana CACIUR-ANDREESCU
Doru ŢUINEA (Institute of History “N. Iorga"), La Meal with Michael the Brave
Adrian MAGINA (Western University, Timisoara), How the peasants had fun: feast and celebration in the rural area of Banat (sec. XV-XVII)
Livia MAGINA (Museum of Banat Mountain, Reșița), Witness at the princely table. The Flat and Luxury of the Banquets of Transylvania XVI-XVII
Coffee break: 15:15 – 15:30
Session 8: Feasts in Communism/ Banquets in Communism 15:30 – 17:00
Moderator: Cristian Vasile (Institute of History “N. Iorga")
Alina ILINCA (CNSAS) & Liviu Marius Bejenaru (CNSAS), Banquets, soirees, diplomatic receptions and Stalin’s late dinners: from “time of friendship” to “men’s friendship”
Claudia-Florentina DOBRE (Institute of History “N. Iorga"), Outside of history: the feasts of the persecuted. The exemplary case of the deportees in Bărăgan.
Simion GHEORGHIU (Institute of History “N. Iorga”), Toasts and Politics: from the History of Soviet Protocol