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77th Conference of the International Commission for the History of Representative and Parliamentary Institutions

September 2nd-5th 2025, Sibiu, Romania

On behalf of the Romanian Section of ICHRPI, Secretary General Mikel Urquijo invites all ICHRPI members and other interested scholars to attend the 77th Conference of the ICHRPI to be held in Sibiu, Romania, from Wednesday 2 September to Friday 5 September 2025. The conference will be hosted by the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu.

Main conference theme

Parliament and parliamentary life in historical perspective

Other conference themes:

  • Parliaments and the rural world
  • Authoritarianism, democracy and totalitarianism: parliamentary institutions in Central and South-Eastern Europe in the first half of the twentieth century
  • Parliamentary elites: education, recruitment, social trajectories
  • Local government and representative institutions
  • Political mobilization during parliamentary elections

Submission deadline for presenting papers to the conference:

  • Abstracts of no more than 200 words, referring to one of the themes proposed, should be submitted to conferinta.ichrpi2025@ulbsibiu.ro by 15 May 2025.
  • Notification of the acceptance of papers will be made by 30 May 2025.
  • The conference programme will be circulated by 4 June 2025
  • Payment must be made by 30 June 2025

Members of the ICHRPI

Other scholars

Graduate and postgraduate students

Accompanying partners

Consortium