New Europe College Yearbook 2010-2011 IONUŢ FLORIN BILIUŢĂ DUNYA DENIZ CAKIR ANA-MARIA GOILAV MARIANA GOINA SILVIU-RADIAN HARITON SUSAN MBULA KILONZO CRISTIAN NAE THEODOR-CRISTIAN POPESCU COSMIN GABRIEL RADU KONRAD SIEKIERSKI ANDREEA ŞTEFAN Editor: Irina Vainovski-Mihai Copyright – New Europe College ISSN 1584-0298 New Europe College Str. Plantelor 21 023971 Bucharest Romania www.nec.ro; e-mail:
[email protected] Tel. (+4) 021.307.99.10, Fax (+4) 021. 327.07.74 SILVIU-RADIAN HARITON Born 1979, in Brăila, Romania Ph.D. Candidate, Central European University, Budapest Thesis: War commemorations in inter-war Romania Teaching fellow (Historiography) at the University of Bucharest, Faculty of History (2006-2010) Member of the International Society for Cultural History (since 2008) CEU Doctoral Research Support Grant, Russian, East European and Eurasian Center, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (September-November 2010) CEU Doctoral Research Grant, Paris (July 2009) Participation in international conferences held in Sofia (Bulgaria), Paris (France), Hamburg and Berlin (Germany), Budapest and Köszeg (Hungary), Florence (Italy), Chişinău (Moldavia), Romania, Portorose (Slovenia), Stockholm (Sweden), Fort Leavenworth and Bloomington, Indiana (USA) and Southampton (UK) Publications in academic journals and edited volumes published in Bulgaria, Germany, Romania, USA and UK NATIONALISM, HEROISM AND WAR MONUMENTS IN ROMANIA, 1900s‑1930s1 On May 16, 1923 a train carrying the coffin with the remains of the Unknown Soldier arrived in Bucharest. It was selected during a ceremony taken place at Mărăşeşti out of nine other unidentified bodies of soldiers fallen on ten most important battlegrounds the Romanian army fought in the Great War. The Unknown Soldier was brought to Mihai Vodă monastery for public mourning and it was buried on the next day in his specially designed Tomb in the Carol Park, the site of the June 1848 popular gathering and of the 1906 General Exhibition.