About Us

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Who are we?

The „ISTROS” Society for Historical Sciences represents a group of scholars preoccupied with promoting the study and research in the fields of History and Archaeology.

Initially, the idea of forming such a Society took root in 2018, with three founding members. However, “ISTROS” was officially born on 7 July 2020, by the efforts of then four founding members, the Society being located in Bucharest.

Since then, “ISTROS” grew, both in regular and board members, all based in Romania and having common goals in promoting the research of History and Archaeology. Nevertheless, an equally important priority for us is to create connections between scholars from the same academic fields, so that they have the opportunity to make their research known in Romania as well as abroad.

Moreover, we are focused also on the general public, passionate with History, Archaeology and the connected sciences, in an effort to take these fields of research out of their ivory tower.

Lately, our Society has become the Romanian representative for the American Institute for Southeast European Studies (AISEES).

AISEES is a research institute which reunites as members important American universities and academic institutions: Penn Museum, University of Cincinnati, the University of Michigan’s Museum of Anthropological Archaeology, University of Tennessee, University of Texas (Austin), University of Virginia and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.

AISEES is dedicated to facilitating academic research in Southeastern Europe and the collaboration between scholars from North America and those from the South-East European area (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Kosovo, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, and Slovenia) in the field of humanities and social sciences.

So, ISTROS and AISEES have common goals, we both are preoccupied firstly to facilitate research in the area, to promote dialogues between Southeastern European scholars and to offer opportunities for making their research known. We wish to create together with AISEES a forum for advocating local histories and to promote knowledge of the rich cultural heritage of Southeastern Europe within North America.