Nicolae Drăgușin (Advanced Academia Fellow, Oct ’22 – Feb ’23) will talk about his research at CAS:
Romania and the Concordat with the Holy See: Churches, Nation-Building and Legal Controversies (1921-1948)
on 17 November, 2022 (Thursday) at 16:30 h.
Moderated by Abdulhamit Kırmızı.
Short abstract: The Concordat that the post-1918 Romanian state signed and ratified with the Holy See was a highly controversial document that had enormous consequences. There is apparently no other international document in the history of modern Romania to demand almost one decade to be enacted. Nevertheless, the research on this affair is almost non-existent after 1989. The project proposal focuses on the Concordat during its first draft (1921) until the unilateral denunciation (1948). Working on a diversity of unexplored primary sources, the project aims at documenting the legal, political, religious debates that the Concordat generated and analyzing the effects it produced upon the nation-building and the society. The project will employ an interdisciplinary approach and it will make some comparative references to the other states from the Eastern Europe.