The Romanian Cultural Institute in Bucharest and the Center for the Study of Post-Communist Societies at the University of Maryland, College Park (under the directorship of Prof. Vladimir Tismăneanu) presents an academic event that will discuss and revisit the complex implications of shocks and transformations brought about by the 1989 revolutions. The conference is organized in collaboration with History and Public Policy Program (Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars), the Embassy of Romania to United States of America, and Edmund Walsh School of Foreign Service (Georgetown University), and is part of a multi-year project (started in 2007). 

The conference aims to create a discussion framework that situates the 1989 phenomena both regionally and globally. Rather than pursuing a case study approach, the debates intends to achieve an interdisciplinary, multi-angled big-picture of this turning point in contemporary history. The disappearance of the communist regimes in this region and the political experiments ingrained to those years reopened the conversation on the meaning of democracy, liberalism, civil society, egalitarianism, nationalism, and indeed revolution.

More details about this event are available on the website of the Romanian Cultural Institute in Bucharest.