Art and Humanities Research Student Seminars: Visions of Agency- Imagining Individual and Collective Action in Nineteenth Century Romania

Andrei Sorescu (UCL SSEES)

This talk will outline the problems of identifying relevant cultural contexts in which historical actors negotiated their perceptions of each other's capacity to act.

The paper will argue that the tension between nationalism and restricted suffrage peculiar to establishment discourse in nineteenth-century Romania provide a case-study with a broader relevance for the given period.