Party Members and Their Importance in Non-EU Countries. A Comparative Analysis
Edited by: Sergiu Gherghina, Alexandra Iancu, Sorina Soare
Routledge Studies on Political Parties and Party Systems, Routledge, London, 2018.

Although party membership has been extensively analysed in the EU Members States from Western and Eastern Europe, there is a gap in systematic data collection and analyses for the other countries in the Balkans and post-Soviet region.
This book provides new and innovative insights in the area of party membership research to analyse the evolution of membership organizations in political parties from under-investigated countries. Specifically, it seeks to understand the way in which political parties and the national legislation conceptualize the notion of membership within and across countries. It provides original data and affords a first comprehensive, comparative study of party members in the EU neighbouring countries, which resonate particular interest because some of them occupy the "precarious middle ground between a full-fledge democracy and outright dictatorship". In light of these relevant observations, this systematic analysis of membership evolutions in democratizing countries brings valuable insights for the study of party politics in general.
This text will be of key interest to scholars and students of political parties and party systems, party organisation and elections, post-Soviet and East European politics and more broadly to democratization studies and comparative politics.

https://www.routledge.com/Party-Members-and-Their-Importance-in-Non-EU-Countries-A-Comparative-Analysis/Gherghina-Iancu-Soare/p/book/9781138708631

Echipa de management al cercetării din cadrul Facultăţii de Ştiinţe Politice a Universităţii din Bucureşti semnalează apariția următoarelor publicații:

Capitole de cărţi :

Radu CARP, „Un proiect care transcede Centenarului: Catedrala", în Valentin Naumescu (coord.), România, Marile Puteri şi ordinea europeană, 1918 – 2018, Polirom, Iaşi, 2018, pp. 314 – 317;

Radu CARP, „ ,Will of the faithful' criterion of the ECHR: autonomy of religions vs. the right to property in the disputes between Orthodox and Greek - Catholics communities in Romania", în Alin Albu, Andrei Dîrlău, Oliviu Botoi (ed.), Centenarul Unirii românilor şi Europa de azi, Presa Universitară Clujeană, Cluj - Napoca/ Reîntregirea, Alba Iulia, 2018, pp. 205 – 214.

Articole:

Radu CARP,  Recunoaşterea Unirii Basarabiei cu România – aspecte istorice şi de drept internaţional, Polis, vol. VI, nr. 1 (19)/2018, pp. 5 - 19.

Prof. univ. dr. Radu Carp a participat în perioada 14 -15 mai la conferinţa internaţională Centenarul Unirii şi Europa de astăzi. Religie şi geopolitică, organizată de Universitatea 1 decembrie 1918 din Alba Iulia.

Comunicare prezentată: „Will of the faithful” criterion of the ECHR: autonomy of religions vs. the right to property in the disputes between Orthodox and Greek-catholics communities in Romania.

Bogdan Iancu, cadru didactic FSPUB va participa în perioada 3-4 mai 2018 la conferința internațională Constitutional Identity and Social Memories in Central and Eastern Europe, Timișoara, Universitatea de Vest, Facultatea de drept.

Titlul comunicării: "Constitutional identity - the ‘dead hand of the past’ in constitutionalism and constitutional law".

http://clest.pl/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/10thCEE.pdf

Damiana OȚOIU, cadru didactic FSPUB, va participa la a 7a sesiune a seminarului "Réécrire le passé colonial : enjeux contemporains des collections de musée" (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales de Paris, Ecole normale supérieure). Seminarul va avea loc pe 14 mai 2018 la ENS, 45 rue d'Ulm, Paris, Salle des Actes, între orele 15 si 18.

Damiana OȚOIU, cadru didactic FSPUB, a participat la a 6a sesiune a seminarului "Réécrire le passé colonial : enjeux contemporains des collections de musée" (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales de Paris, Ecole normale supérieure). Seminarul a avut loc pe 9 aprilie 2018 la Musée de l’Homme, 17 place du Trocadéro 75016 Paris, între orele 15h30 si 18h30. 

Seminarul a constat intr-o interventie a lui Tony Bennett (Western Sydney University) pe tema «Museums, Power, Knowledge», precedata o alocutiune introductiva a lui Dominique Poulot (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne).

Discuția care a urmat interventiei a fost moderată de către membrii echipei seminarului: Felicity Bodenstein, Technische Universität, Berlin, Benoît de L'Estoile,CNRS/ ENS, Damiana Oțoiu, FSPUB, Dominique Poulot, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Laurella Rincon, ENS, Anna Seiderer, Université Paris 8, Margareta Von Oswald, EHESS.

Bibliografie:

- Bennett T. et al., Collecting, ordering, governing: Anthropology, museums and liberal government, Duke University Press, 2017

- Bennett T, Making culture, changing society, Routledge, London & New York, 2013

- Bennett T, Savage, M, Silva, E, Warde, A, Gayo-Cal, M & Wright, D, Culture, class, distinction, Routledge, London & New York, 2009

- Bennett T, Critical trajectories: culture, society, intellectuals, Blackwell, Malden, US & Oxford, 2007

- Bennett T, Culture and society: collected essays, Guangxi Normal University Press, Beijing, 2007

- Bennett T, Pasts beyond memories: evolution, museums, colonialism, Routledge, London & New York, 2004

- Bennett T, The birth of the museum: history, theory, politics, Routledge, London & New York, 1995

Scurta prezentare a invitatului aceste sesiuni:

Tony Bennett joined Western Sydney University as Research Professor in Social and Cultural Theory at the Institute for Culture and Society in 2009. His previous positions included a period as Professor of Sociology at the Open University where he was also a Director of the ESRC Centre for Research on Socio-cultural Change, and as Professor of Cultural Studies at Griffith University where he was also Dean of Humanities and Director of the ARC Key Centre for Cultural and Media Policy. He is a member of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and of the UK Academy of the Social Sciences.

Professor Bennett's interests span a number of areas across the social sciences and humanities, with significant contributions to the fields of literary theory, cultural studies, cultural sociology, and museum studies. His work in museum studies has contributed to the development of the 'new museology' particularly in the light it has thrown on the role of museums as instruments of social governance. The common thread running through his interests across these areas concerns the ways in which culture is tangled up in the exercise of power. This has informed his recent research focused on the ways in which the knowledge practices of aesthetics and anthropology have informed modern processes of cultural governance from the 19th century through to the present. This work includes a significant focus on the part played by the early fieldwork phase in Australian, British, French and American anthropology in the development of new practices of colonial governance.

Professor Bennett is currently the lead Chief Investigator on two Australian Research Council Discovery Projects : Australian Cultural Fields : National and Transnational Dynamics and Assembling and Governing Habits. .He has worked in a consulting or advisory capacity for a range of governmentorganisations, including UNESCO and the Council of Europe, and has conducted research collaborations with a wide range of cultural sector and government organisations in Australia and Britain.
Mai multe informații despre seminar:

Ce séminaire examine les formes de réécriture, de renégociation et de réappropriation contemporaines des collections constituées entre la fin du XIXe et la première moitié du XXe siècle, sur le continent africain, et qui sont depuis lors conservées dans des institutions muséales. Ces collections, souvent perçues comme des butins de guerre et comme le reflet de pratiques savantes remises en cause depuis, génèrent aujourd’hui de vives tensions et suscitent des questionnements d’ordre épistémologique, politique et social. Il s’agit d’examiner les enjeux dont le passé colonial est investi aujourd’hui dans le champ des pratiques sociales, scientifiques, muséales et artistiques. L’invitation de chercheurs et de praticiens (commissaires d’expositions, professionnels des musées, artistes) permet d’aborder ces pratiques et ces processus dans une perspective pluridisciplinaire, ouvrant le dialogue sur les défis et les potentialités que ces objets et ces documents offrent à la recherche aujourd’hui.


Pagina web: https://enseignements-2017.ehess.fr/2017/ue/1729//

Caterina Preda, cadru didactic FSPUB va participa în perioada 11- 12 aprilie 2018 la conferința Socialist Realism around the Bloc organizată de China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China.

Titlul comunicării: "Creating for the state: the Romanian Artists' Union (UAP) and the 'state artists'".

Radu CARP, "Mai are politica vreun sens? Instrumentele democraţiei şi povara populismului", Humanitas, Bucuresti, 2018, 264 p.