Annual session of ”Nicolae Iorga” Institute of History

International conference Between Empires: Circulation, Communication and Interaction (15th–21st centuries)

Keynote lecture: Global Courts. Medical Practice and Political Information between Italy and the Ottoman Empire (17th century)

New Europe College–Institute for Advanced Study, Bucharest

International conference Shaping the Modern Body. Fashion, Food, Health and Manners across South-Eastern Europe and the Ottoman Empire (17th–19th centuries)

Paper: The Body of Nature. Travelling Scientists across the Ottoman Empire (XVI-XVII)

Paper: Clothing the World. Early Modern Costume Books in a Global Perspective

Nürnberg, Germany

Transottomanica Meeting

Landau in der Pfalz, Germany

International symposium ”Dar Fürstentum Siebenbürgen im 17. Jahrhundert im Kontext des Transottomanica-Bezienhungsgeflechts”

Paper: Ottoman Goods in Transylvania in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century: Trade, Demand and Consumption

Budapest History Museum

International conference ”Economic Functions of Urban Spaces from the Middle Ages to the Present”

Paper: Trade Routes and Commercial Networks in South-Eastern Europe

Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris

International Conference Rural History 2020

Paper: Rural consumption of foreign goods in early modern Transylvania

Association Internationale d’Etudes du Sud-Est Européen & Institut d’Etudes du Sud-Est Européen (Academie Roumaine), Bucharest

The 12th Congress of South- East European Studies

Paper: Consumption of foreign goods in Transylvania: the role of Greek merchants in retail distribution during the 16th and 17th centuries

Lecture, summer school of Romanian Society for Historical Studies, Sibiu

Title: Mirodenii, fructe exotice și „habarnicza”: importul de produse alimentare la Sibiu (secolele XVI-XVII)

New Europe College–Institute for Advanced Study, Bucharest

International conference Shaping the Modern Body. Fashion, Food, Health and Manners across South-Eastern Europe and the Ottoman Empire (17th–19th centuries)

Paper: ’They Steal it From the Sultan’s Pharmacy’’: Pharmaceuticals and Medicines in Early Modern Transylvania

Paper: Social Status and Material Culture in the Danubian Principalities (18th – 19th Centuries)

People, Objects and Languages across the Empires. Interference and Circulation of Words and Images in Premodern Societies

Paper: ”Le Coquin Grec” vs. ”le Véritable François”. Being a Foreigner in the Danubian Principalities, 18th – Early 19th Centuries

Lecture on The history, psychology and jurisprudence of love from 18th century on in Romania FotoCabinet. Cabinet de Perspektive. Joc, conversații, dumiriri

For more information see https://www.hotnews.ro/stiri-perspektiva-22283707-sfantul-valentindragobete-poezia-muzica-amorromaneasca-dintotdeauna.htm

Paper: An Ottoman Bey or a Christian King? Jacob Heraclid’s Multiple Coronations and the Ottoman-Habsburg Conflict in the Mid-16th Century

People, Objects and Languages across the Empires. Interference and Circulation of Words and Images in Premodern Societies

New Europe College, Bucharest

Paper: Piskesh, Rushfet, and the Economy of Power in Sixteenth- Century Moldavia

European Social Science History Conference 2018

Belfast, Ireland

Moldavian Elites and Ottoman Lifestyle in the Sixteenth Century

For more information see https://esshc.socialhistory.org/esshc-user/programme?textsearch=liviu+pilat

Paper: Luxury, Trade and Politics between the Sublime Porte and Transylvania

People, Objects and Languages across the Empires. Interference and Circulation of Words and Images in Premodern Societies

Paper: Being a Greek in 17th century Transylvania: Business Ties and Linguistic Integration

People, Objects and Languages across the Empires. Interference and Circulation of Words and Images in Premodern Societies

Paper: Ottoman Women’s Press as Agent of Cultural Transfers

People, Objects and Languages across the Empires. Interference and Circulation of Words and Images in Premodern Societies

Paper: Ottomans and French in late 18th Century Crete. Trade, Diplomacy, and Personal Encounters

LuxFaSS seminar, New Europe College

Of Kaftans and Men: The Politics of Garment in Early Modern Ottoman Europe

Migration and Gender: relationships, economic resources and institutions in historical perspective (15th – 20th centuries)

University of Cambridge

Paper: A luxury to one’s health. Midwives and medical care in 19th century Wallachia

Movable Goods, Immovable Property. Gender, Law and Material Culture in Early Modern Europe (1450-1850)

German Historical Institute London

Paper: Starting a Married Life. Women, Goods and Households in the mid-19th Century Wallachian Town of Pitești

People, Objects and Languages across the Empires. Interference and Circulation of Words and Images in Premodern Societies

Paper: Memorabilia - Mapping Resources on Luxury and Fashion in (Pre)modern Southeastern Europe

National Debate History and national culinary identity

(with Andrei Pleșu, Anda Becuț Marinescu, Cornel Ilie, Nico Contraș, Cosmin Dragomir)

National History Museum, Bucharest

International conference Clothes Make the (Wo)man. Dress and Cultural Difference in Early Modern Europe

Leibniz Institute of European History, Mainz

Paper: Shawls and sable furs: How to be a boyar under the Phanariote Regime (1710-1821)

International workshop Luxury, Fashion and Social Status in Early Modern South-Eastern Europe

New Europe College, Bucharest

Paper: Using Luxury and Fashion for constructing a Self-Identity: Ienăchiță Văcărescu’s Case

For more details see the programme [link]

International colloquium Le marriage dans l’Europe Méditerranéenne de la fin du Moyen Age a nos jours

Athens, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

Paper: Mobilité et Mariage mixte dans l’Europe du Sud-Est (XVIIIe et XIXe siècle)

For more details see the programme [link]

Lecture on A Wallachian Boyar in Emperor Joseph II’s Court

University of Münster - Forschungskolloquium Frühe Neuzeit

For more information see https://www.uni-muenster.de/Geschichte/histsem/veranstaltungen/kolloquien/fruehe_neuzeit.html

Lecture Living in the Phanariothe Bucharest

CERC, Bucharest

https://cerc.ly/

Lecture From Bucharest to Constantinople, with Love and Commerce: An Artisan’s Journey from 1817

European Studies, University of Amsterdam – within the EAST and European Travel Cultures Seminar

For more information see http://www.uva.nl/disciplines/shared/faculteiten/en/faculteit-der-geesteswetenschappen/events/lectures/2017/04/travel-cultures-research-nd-east-seminar.html

Lecture Leisure and Pleasure in Phanariot Bucharest (18th – 19th centuries)

National Theatre Bucharest

For more information see http://www.tnb.ro/ro/constanta-vintila-ghitulescu-desfatare-si-petrecere-in-bucurestiul-fanariot

Conference " Amber and Turkish delight: travels through Ottoman Empire (18th-19th centuries)", New Europe College, Bucharest

International conference Clothes Make the (Wo)man. Dress and Cultural Difference in Early Modern Europe

Leibniz Institute of European History, Mainz

Paper: Imperial Fashions. Cashmere shawls between Istanbul, Paris and Milan (XVIII-XIX centuries)

International workshop Luxury, Fashion and Social Status in Early Modern South-Eastern Europe

New Europe College, Bucharest

Paper: Healing, translating, collecting. Doctor Michelangelo Tilli in the Ottoman Empire (1682-1688)

For more details see the programme [link]

International workshop Luxury, Fashion and Social Status in Early Modern South-Eastern Europe

New Europe College, Bucharest

Paper: Material culture in early modern Southeastern Europe

For more details see the programme [link]

International conference Connections in Commerce and Consumption: Production, Distribution and Consumption in Britain and Europe, 1500-1800

University of Sheffield, Sheffield Centre for Early Modern Studies – Humanities Research Institute

Paper: Popular Luxury Between East and West: A Case Study of Italian Ceramics and Ottoman Greeks in the long 18th century

International workshop Luxury, Fashion and Social Status in Early Modern South-Eastern Europe

New Europe College, Bucharest

Paper: A new episode of the diplomatic conflict of Moscovite fur and Moldavian-Polish-Ottoman relations in mid-16th Century

For more details see the programme [link]

International conference History & Society. Dialogue of the Deaf

University of Warsaw, Warsaw

Paper: A New Approach to Luxury in Pre-Modern Society: Positional Goods and Cultural Habitus of Power

International conference Mercantilisms, relationships and practices. Active trade, merchants and State at the age of Maria Teresa of Habsburg

University of Trieste, Trieste

Paper: Competition for imperial trading privileges in Transylvania during the reign of Maria Theresia

International workshop Luxury, Fashion and Social Status in Early Modern South-Eastern Europe

New Europe College, Bucharest

Paper: The concept of luxury in Transylvania sumptuary laws (16th-18th centuries)

For more details see the programme [link]

International workshop Luxury, Fashion and Social Status in Early Modern South-Eastern Europe

New Europe College, Bucharest

Paper: Bourgeoisification and new ”modus vivendi” in Mytilene during the 19th century: the case of Kourtzis family

For more details see the programme [link]

International workshop Luxury, Fashion and Social Status in Early Modern South-Eastern Europe

New Europe College, Bucharest

Paper: Frenchs, Venetians and Ottomans in the Echelles du Levant. Trade, daily life and cultural transfers

For more details see the programme [link]

Lecture at "Nicolae Iorga" Institute of History

"The Signatures of Power": Romanian countries, identity and Ottomanization in 17th Century

International workshop Luxury, Fashion and Social Status in Early Modern South-Eastern Europe

New Europe College, Bucharest

Paper: Silks and Stones: Luxury Consumption, Identity, and Architectural Patronage in the Early Modern Moldavia and Wallachia

For more details see the programme [link]

International workshop Luxury, Fashion and Social Status in Early Modern South-Eastern Europe

New Europe College, Bucharest

Paper: Iordache Filipescu, the ”last great boyar” of Wallachia and his heritage: a world of power, influence and goods

For more details see the programme [link]

Romanian Cultural Institute – Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin

Paper: Mode und Soziale Identität Zu Beginn Der Neuzeit (Rumänische Fürstentümer, 18-19 J.H)

Freie Universität Berlin – Friedrich Meineche Institut

Paper: Luxury and Social Status of the Romanian Boyars during the Ottoman Domination (18th–19th centuries)

Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin – Tuesday Colloquim

Paper: Going to the Courts: Romanian People and the Meaning of Justice (18th–19th centuries)

International Conference Luxury and Consumption in South-Eastern Europe (15th–19th centuries). Methodological Approaches, New Europe College, Bucharest

Paper: “What do sumptuary laws say about luxury and consumption? The Romanian Principalities in the Premodern Era”

University of Vienna, International Conference: Governing Inter-Imperial Areas Between te Adriatic and the Black Seas

Paper: “Making a law, observing a rule: Codification and Practice in the Romanian Principalities: 1780–1834”

International Workshop People, Trade, Gifts and Beyond: the Circulation of Goods and Practices between the Ottoman Empire and Europe (16th–19th Centuries), Centre March Bloch, Berlin

Paper: “On the road: commodities and travellers in the Ottoman Lands”

European Social Science History Conference (ESSHC), Valencia

Organized-panel Women, Consumption and the Circulation of Ideas in South-Eastern Europe, 17th–20th Centuries

Paper: “‘Curls and Forelocks’: Romanian Women Emancipation towards Luxury and Fashion, 1780-1850”

European Social Science History Conference (ESSHC), Valencia

Paper: “Gender and Crime in Archival Research” in the session Crime, Gender and Violence in a Historical Perspective

Law-making and Law-interpreting: Russia, 17th to 21st centuries, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin

Paper: “Count Pavel Dmitrievich Kiselyov and judicial reform in the Romanian Principalities”

Luxury and Consumption in South-Eastern Europe (15th–19th centuries). Methodological Approaches, New Europe College, Bucharest

Paper: “Is fashion a European phenomenon ?”

International Workshop People, Trade, Gifts and Beyond: the Circulation of Goods and Practices between the Ottoman Empire and Europe (16th-19th Centuries), Centre March Bloch, Berlin

Paper: “Luxury comes from the East. Fashioning ‘à l’indienne’ between the Ottoman Empire and Italy (18th–19th centuries)”

International Conference Luxury and Consumption in South-Eastern Europe (15th–19th centuries). Methodological Approaches, New Europe College, Bucharest

Paper: ”The comb and the book. Some findings of object-based research on Greek women in 18th century Ottoman Empire”

Second European Convention on Turkic, Ottoman and Turkish Studies (Turkologentag), Hamburg

Organized Panel ’Non-Muslims in the Ottoman Empire’

Paper: "Luxury and Greek Women in the Ottoman Empire in the 18th Century: Developing a Research Agenda"

European Social Science History Conference (ESSHC), Valencia

Paper: “Images of Greek Women (17th–18th centuries) in the Collection of the von Parish Kostümbibliothek in Munich”

International Conference Luxury and Consumption in South-Eastern Europe (15th–19th centuries). Methodological Approaches, New Europe College, Bucharest

Paper: ”The concept of luxury between the history of consumption and political thought and its implications for the history of South-Eastern Europe”

Second European Convention on Turkic, Ottoman and Turkish Studies (Turkologentag), Hamburg

Paper: ”The Ottoman influence on Physical Appearance and Political Thought in Moldavia (16th Century)”

International Conference Cluj-Napoca / 700 Kolozsvar/ Klausenburg

Paper: ”Turkish goods in Sibiu/Hermannstadt”

International Conference Luxury and Consumption in South-Eastern Europe (15th–19th centuries). Methodological Approaches, New Europe College, Bucharest

Paper: ”Ottoman cotton and silk in 17th century Transylvania: Luxury or everyday items?”

European Social Science History Conference (ESSHC), Valencia

Paper: ”’Turkish’ Textiles in South-Eastern Europe: Circulation and Distribution in the Early Modern Period”

International Workshop People, Trade, Gifts and Beyond: the Circulation of Goods and Practices between the Ottoman Empire and Europe (16th-19th Centuries), Centre March Bloch, Berlin

Paper: ”Long-distance and local trade in the customs accounts of Sibiu/Hermannstadt in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries”

International Conference Luxury and Consumption in South Eastern Europe (15th–19th centuries). Methodological Approaches, New Europe College, Bucharest

Paper: ”Fashionable dresses and luxurious consumption in the island of Lesvos: an evil for female virtue?”

Second European Convention on Turkic, Ottoman and Turkish Studies (Turkologentag), Hamburg

Paper: ”Non-Muslims as Agents of Westernization in the Ottoman Empire”

International Conference Luxury and Consumption in South Eastern Europe (15th–19th centuries). Methodological Approaches, New Europe College, Bucharest

Paper: ”Western Luxury Goods in the Ottoman Empire. Methodological Approaches for Studying Consumption and Trade in Eastern Mediterranean”

International Conference Flux Réels versus Flux Immatériels, University of Clermont-Ferrand – Maison des Sciences de l’Homme Clermont-Ferrand.

Paper: ”Le commerce de luxe et la construction d’espaces immatériels. France et Empire Ottoman entre les 17e et 18e siècles”

30th International Comeniological Colloquium, J. A. Comenius Museum, Unie Comenius, Institut of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Uherský Brod, Czech Republic

Paper: "Frontiers within a city–state. The case of the Venetian Fondaci in Early Modern International Trade Networks”

International Conference Balkian Worlds III: Power Networks in the Imperial and Post-Imperial Balkans (18th–20th centuries), University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki

Paper: ”French Luxury Exports in 18th Century Ottoman Empire: Business, Diplomacy and Cultural Interchange”

Second European Convention on Turkic, Ottoman and Turkish Studies (Turkologentag), Hamburg

Paper: ”French Communities in 18th Century Ottoman Empire: Diplomacy, Daily Life, Trade and Cultural Interchange”

International Conference La diffusion des produits ultra-marin en Europe (XVI–XVIIIe siècle), Université Paris 1–Panthéon-Sorbonne and Université de Nantes, Nantes

Paper: ”La Cochenille à Venise. La création d’un colorant de luxe entre XVIe et XVIIe siècles”

International Conference Luxury and Consumption in South Eastern Europe (15th–19th centuries). Methodological Approaches, New Europe College, Bucharest

Paper: ”Ottomanizing Moldavian-Wallachian elites: luxury, consumption and elite identity in the 17th century imperial periphery”

INOCTE: International New Tendencies Congress in Ottoman Researches conference organized by Selcuk University, Sarajevo

Paper: ”Researching Ottoman Political Households: Where do we go now?”

Comité International des Études Pré-Ottomanes et Ottomanes (CIÉPO) 22nd Congress organized by Karadeniz Teknik University, Trabzon

Panel co-organized with Erica Mezzoli (University of Trieste) and Mukaram Hhana (Smith College, Northampton)

Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) – International Association for the Humanities (MAG) Summer Convention ‘’Images of the Other’’, L’viv, Ukraine

Paper: ”Constructing the Other: ‘Greeks’ and ‘Turks-at-heart’ in the Seventeenth-Century Moldavia and Wallachia”

International Conference Luxury and Consumption in South Eastern Europe (15th–19th centuries). Methodological Approaches, New Europe College, Bucharest

Paper: ”Women and luxury goods in 19th century Wallachia”

13rd International Conference on Urban History, co-organized by University of Helsinki and European Association for Urban History, Helsinki

Paper: ”Luxury goods, consumption and social life through the lens of a Mid-19th Century Romanian urban household”

International Workshop ’Mobilities’ in the Black Sea Region

Co-organized by New Europe College and University of St. Gallen

New Europe College, Bucharest

Paper: ”Women Travellers and (Pre)Modern Romania: Profiles, Interests and Expectations”