«Reversed Migration»
The Walloon Settlers in Medieval Transylvania and their Cultural Identity (12th – 14th century)
PN-III-CEI-BIM-PBE-2020-0024
MIGRATION 1.0 Project Partners Partner Teams Activities and Objectives Outputs
Activities: The mobility project entitled “MIGRATION 1.0” is planned as a 24 months-project (2021-2022), involving 6 short visits (of up to 14 days each) of the members of the Romanian team in Belgium, 1 joint workshop (or webinar) (2021), public lectures to be held at UBB’s History Department, University of Namur and the University of Louvain, minimum 2 co-authored publications in international peer-reviewed journals (2022) and 4 short visits of the Belgian team in Romania. It relies upon scholarly interpretations of historical primary and secondary sources, following the good practices on academic writing with anti-plagiarism approaches. The project stands firmly for the respect concerning intellectual property, favours ethnical diversity, gender equality and open, democratic, and unbiased dissemination of knowledge.
The activities during the envisaged visits will involve, for both parties, the following stages:
1. identification of the parallel historiographical output related to the subject
2. revision and update of the historiographical output, with a French/English translation of the title and a short abstract of the contents;
3. discussion around the existing hypotheses regarding Walloon settlement in medieval Transylvania and their validation/invalidation according to the most recent developments in international historiography;
4. comparative assessment of the research themes;
5. visiting relevant depositories (museums, libraries, archives, archaeological sites and monuments, etc.) for the corroboration of existing data and identification of new pieces of documentary information or material culture;
6. elaboration of co-authored research reports.
Objectives:
1. To engage the partners into a dialogue focusing on the motivations that drove Walloon (and Flemish) settlers eastwards during the 12th century (a subject missing altogether in Romanian historiography).
2. To attain an updated correlation of Belgian and Romanian academic inquiries into the subject.
3. To promote new research perspectives on the eastern migration phenomenon from the Walloon/Flemish lands and the features of the settlers’ cultural identity in their new Transylvanian homeland.
4. To publish the results in peer-reviewed journals in form of co-authored papers.
5. To establish a solid scholarly basis for future collaboration and joint submissions of research projects (COST-Actions, ERC, etc.).