2022

The final scientific report for the entire duration of the project implementation can be found here.

Papers in periodicals:

Edina Gál, “Investing in Infants: Child Protection and Nationalism in Transylvania during Dualism and the Interwar Period.” Under review at Nationalities Papers (Social Sciences Citation Index, IBSS, Scopus)

Imelga Friderika Földi, “”The task of the institute is to accept orphaned children, raise them there and prepare them for life”. Jewish Orphan Care in Arad during the Dual Monarchy”, under review at Banatica (ERIH+)

Luminița Dumănescu, “Children under tutelage in 19th Century Paternity Suits”, under review at Acta Poloniae Historica.

Scientific events attended:

Oana Sorescu-Iudean, Reckoning Parenthood: Parents, Children, and Debt in Eighteenth-Century Transylvania, Mothers and Fathers in the Pre-modern World, c. 1000-1800 – A hybrid conference at the Faculty of History, University of Cambridge, and online, 22-23 April 2022

Luminița Dumănescu, Nicoleta Hegedüs, Orphanhood and Guardianship in Transylvania in the Second Half of the 19th Century. Case studies: Tutelage files from Alba de Jos County, 4th Conference Of The European Society Of Historical Demography, 2-5 March 2022, Madrid, Spain.

Ovidiu-Emil Iudean, The Clergy’s Children: Greek-Catholic Priests’ Orphans in the Blaj Diocese in the Early Twentieth Century, „Borders and Transfers”. Society for Romanian Studies Conference, 15-17 June 2022, Timișoara, Romania.

Oana Sorescu-Iudean, Angela Lumezeanu, Orphans and Numbers in Early Modern Transylvania: What Historical Databases Can Add to the Narrative, Orphans and Orphanhood between the 18th and 20th centuries: Expanding and Re-interrogating the History of Welfare, 25-26 July 2022, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

Edina Gál, Infant Welfare and Nationalism in Dualist Transylvania, Orphans and Orphanhood between the 18th and 20th centuries: Expanding and Re-interrogating the History of Welfare, 25-26 July 2022, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

2021

The scientific report for January – December 2021 can be found here

Papers in periodicals:

Edina Gál, „Raised by Strangers: A Childhood in State Care in Dualist Transylvania” in Romanian Journal of Population Studies, vol. XV (2021), Issue 1, p. 9-26.

Luminița Dumănescu, Nicoleta Hegedűs, „Orphanhood and Guardianship in Transylvania at the Turn of the Twentieth Century. Case Study: Tutelage Files from Alba de Jos County”, in Romanian Journal of Population Studies, vol. XV (2021), Issue 1, p. 67-88.

Edina Gál, „The abandoned children of the Banat in the early twentieth century”, in Banatica, vol. 31 (2021) (accepted for publication).

Oana Sorescu-Iudean, „The Cause of the Fatherless: Spiritual and Material Guardianship in Eighteenth Century Transylvania” in Romanian Journal of Population Studies, vol. XV (2021), Issue 2 (accepted for publication).

Ovidiu-Emil Iudean, Nicoleta Hegedűs, „Overseeing Orphans’ Care: The Presidents of the Orphan Courts in Transylvania during Dualism” in Romanian Journal of Population Studies, vol. XV (2021), Issue 2 (accepted for publication).

Scientific events attended:

Ovidiu-Emil Iudean, “Each Orphan Raised into a Romanian of Integrity Is Worth More than Thousands of Crowns in the Bank!” Supporting the Secondary Education of Romanian Orphans in Dualist Hungary, 25th Annual World Convention of the Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN), online, 5-8 May 2021, New-York, USA.

Edina Gál, Healthy Babies for the Nation: The Evolution of State Child Welfare System in Interwar Banat and Transylvania, 25th Annual World Convention of the Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN), online, 5-8 May 2021, New-York, USA.

Edina Gál, Orphan care and child protection in interwar Transylvania, Administrative cultures in transition in the Habsburg successor states, online, 10-11 May 2021, Vienna, Austria.

Edina Gál, Raising the Orphans of Transylvania. Child Protection and Nationalism after 1918, Ethnicising Europe: Hate and Violence in Post-Versailles Europe, online, 6-8 July 2021, Vienna, Austria.

2020

The scientfic report for September- December 2020 can be found here

Scientific events attended:

Edina Gál, „A kolozsvári állami gyermekmenhely átvétele az első világháború után” [The Takeover of The Cluj Children’s Asylum after the First World War], conference Változó világ – változó Erdély. V. Erdélyi Történelemtudományi Doktorandusz Konferencia [Changing World – Changing Transylvania: The 5th Transylvanian PhD Conference in History]. Oradea, 18−19 September 2020

Edina Gál, „Orphaned, abandoned, denationalized: The takeover of the State Children’s Asylums after 1918”, conference Beyond Trianon? Exit from the War in Danubian Europe 1918−1924. Budapest, 29−31 October 2020