{"id":367,"date":"2019-09-16T20:25:34","date_gmt":"2019-09-16T20:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geo.uaic.ro\/cantemirtest\/?page_id=367"},"modified":"2026-09-14T09:48:53","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T07:48:53","slug":"special-sessions","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.geo.uaic.ro\/cantemir\/en\/special-sessions\/","title":{"rendered":"Special sessions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>SS 01: Behind the Gender Gap. Economic and Social Costs of Inequality<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Organisers:<\/strong> Marinela ISTRATE, Raluca Ioana HOREA \u0218ERBAN, Haralambie ATHES<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In June 2026, Directive (EU) 2023\/970 will come into force in Romania, a piece of legislation that addresses, among other things, pay transparency. It requires companies to ensure equal pay, publish pay criteria, and allow employees to compare salaries in order to eliminate discrimination. The main objective is to eliminate the gender pay gap between women and men performing work of equal value. The lack of pay transparency has been identified as one of the main obstacles to closing the gender pay gap, which remains at approximately 11%. This means that women earn, on average per hour, 11% less than men for the same work or for work of equal value (Eurostat data 2025), which has a long-term impact on women\u2019s quality of life, their risk of poverty, and the persistent pension gap, which stands at approximately 25% in the EU.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is undeniable that significant progress has been made in recent decades regarding gender equality. However, Romania still has a long way to go. Progress has been uneven; Romanian society has faced numerous challenges, and in some areas has taken a step backward, highlighting just how deeply rooted the issue of gender inequality is in both public and private life. Although the National Strategy on Promoting Equal Opportunities and Treatment Between Women and Men for the period 2022\u20132027 was adopted three years ago\u2014aligning Romania with European and international policies and enabling it to access European funds for projects in this area\u2014results have been slow to materialize. We can say that, at the pace at which Romanian society is advancing in eliminating gender gaps, women in Romania will continue to face numerous aspects of inequality in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The special session aims to examine some of the most pressing challenges in this field, from local, regional, national, and European perspectives. We will have the opportunity to engage in debates and discussions about wage disparities in the labor market, about women\u2019s presence in Romania\u2019s political, academic, and cultural life, and about poverty, which disproportionately affects women; we will approach familiar topics from new perspectives, sharing our own experiences and contributing to advancing the conversation on gender equality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>SS 02: Hazard, vulnerability \u0219i disaster risk at the intersection of Physical and Human Geography<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Organisers: <\/strong>Cosmina ALBULESCU, Adrian GROZAVU, Ionu\u021b MINEA, Marinela ISTRATE<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Natural and anthropogenic risks are gaining traction across the scientific community, the media, and civil society alike. This prominence is not incidental: the frequency and impact of hazardous events have increased considerably over recent decades, adversely affecting human communities, infrastructure, and ecosystems. Risk arises from the interaction of three fundamental components: hazard, vulnerability, and exposure. Understanding this conceptual triad requires a transdisciplinary approach, integrating analytical perspectives from both Physical Geography and Human Geography.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Disaster Risk Reduction has emerged as a scientific and operational field at the interface of Physical Geography and Human Geography, drawing on the conceptual and methodological complementarity of these two research traditions. In risk research, the analysis of physical processes and factors influencing hazard occurrence is inherently complementary to the analysis of the physical, socio-economic, cultural, and institutional dimensions of vulnerability. This convergence reflects a genuine epistemological necessity: disaster risk cannot be understood, quantified, or addressed in the absence of an integrated analytical framework that encompasses both the physical and social dimensions of exposed systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This special session aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from Geography and related disciplines to explore, discuss, and advance this disciplinary interface. The session will be conducted in Romanian, English, and French. Contributions may address, but are not limited to, the following thematic areas:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Dynamics and characteristics of natural or anthropogenic hazards<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Multi-hazard investigations with a focus on hazard interactions<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The multidimensionality of vulnerability<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Vulnerability dynamics in single-hazard and multi-hazard contexts<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Risk analyses<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Multi-risk investigations<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The impact of natural or anthropogenic hazards<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Forensic analyses of past disasters<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Disaster scenarios and prospective modelling tools<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>SS 03: Les transitions \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique et num\u00e9rique peuvent-elles sauver les territoires non m\u00e9tropolitains ou p\u00e9riph\u00e9riques ?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Organizatori \/ Organisers \/ Organisateurs: <\/strong>Jean-Paul CARRI\u00c8RE, Mario CARRIER, Abdelillah HAMDOUCH, Corneliu IATU<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sous l\u2019effet combin\u00e9 de la concurrence mondialis\u00e9e depuis les ann\u00e9es 1970, dans de nombreuses r\u00e9gions en Europe comme en Am\u00e9rique du Nord et ailleurs, les territoires non m\u00e9tropolitains ou p\u00e9riph\u00e9riques ont subi des vagues continues de d\u00e9sindustrialisation et d\u2019effritement des bases de leur d\u00e9veloppement \u00e9conomique, voire de leur capacit\u00e9 \u00e0 continuer de \u00ab faire territoire \u00bb. Alors que cette dynamique de d\u00e9clin semblait, il y a quelques ann\u00e9es encore, in\u00e9luctable, de nouvelles perspectives de redynamisation potentielle apparaissent d\u00e9sormais de plus en plus tangibles, notamment \u00e0 la faveur des opportunit\u00e9s de r\u00e9industrialisation ouvertes par les transitions \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique et num\u00e9rique en cours. Elles offrent en effet \u00e0 ces territoires des voies de \u00ab nouveau d\u00e9part \u00bb via une diversification de leurs activit\u00e9s \u00e9conomiques se d\u00e9marquant de leurs sp\u00e9cialisations initiales (diversification au moins en partie non li\u00e9e). Que ce soit sous l\u2019impulsion de politiques nationales ou r\u00e9gionales cibl\u00e9es sur ces territoires, de l\u2019action d\u2019acteurs priv\u00e9s de ces secteurs souhaitant reconfigurer la localisation de leurs activit\u00e9s, ou plus vraisemblable d\u2019une conjugaison de ces deux dynamiques, il semblerait qu\u2019un mouvement plus favorable aux territoires p\u00e9riph\u00e9riques ou d\u2019\u00e9chelle non m\u00e9tropolitaine se dessine aujourd\u2019hui de plus en plus clairement dans certaines r\u00e9gions. L\u2019une des explications pourrait \u00eatre li\u00e9e \u00e0 la capacit\u00e9 de ces territoires \u00e0 offrir des avantages de localisation bas\u00e9s sur des facteurs relativement traditionnels tels que la disponibilit\u00e9 de foncier en quantit\u00e9 et peu on\u00e9reux, malgr\u00e9 les exigences de sobri\u00e9t\u00e9 fonci\u00e8re qui s\u2019expriment \u00e0 travers des restrictions r\u00e9glementaires ou l\u00e9gislatives ; ou encore la pr\u00e9sence de maind\u2019oeuvre qualifi\u00e9e ou de ressources mini\u00e8res ou naturelles sp\u00e9cifiques, recherch\u00e9es par les industries num\u00e9riques et \u00e9nerg\u00e9tiques.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Les communications attendues pour cette session sp\u00e9ciale pourraient autant contribuer \u00e0 mieux conceptualiser ces dynamiques de diversification non li\u00e9e qu\u2019\u00e0 illustrer par des cas empiriques des trajectoires territoriales permettant de mieux documenter ces processus de r\u00e9industrialisation \u00ab par le haut \u00bb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>SS 04: Onomastics, Historical Geography and Political Geography<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Organiser:<\/strong> Ionel BOAMF\u0102<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The session includes papers related to the analysis of the geographical significance of place names (toponyms) and person names (anthroponyms). It also addresses a varied theme, regarding historical geography (tracing the succession of different &#8222;geographies of the past&#8221;), in close relation to political-geographical phenomena (including those related to the geography of voting). The included topics address not only elements, processes and\/or phenomena of this kind in the Romanian space, but also at the international level (continental\/European and\/or global).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>SS 05: Explaining Uneven Local Development: the Role of Accessibility, Local Agency, and Collaboration Networks<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Organizatori: Mihail EVA, Alexandra CEHAN, Ema CORODESCU-RO\u0218CA<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rural and urban areas in Central-Eastern Europe have undergone extensive transformations over the last decades, triggered both by private investments, including foreign direct investments, and by public programs aimed at building new infrastructure, improving accessibility to services of general interest, and strengthening administrative capacity. Consequently, a new geography of local development is emerging, with new centralities and lagging areas, and accompanied by changing patterns of inequality. At the same time, the meaning of development has gradually changed, undergoing a gradual shift from a predominantly material and economic understanding to a multidimensional one, that integrates inequality, quality of life and well-being.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the other hand, the gradual implementation of neoliberal policies, EU integration, and the accelerating technological transformations are considerably changing the relative importance of factors of development. Traditional top-down interventions have been gradually complemented by an increasing importance of bottom-up approaches. National and EU stakeholders that decide investment priorities are still highly important in shaping the geography of local development, but the role of local stakeholders and collaboration networks has become critical in competing for funding, seizing development opportunities and adapting to new threats and external shosks. These transformations, among others, call for a constant rethinking of investment programmes and local development interventions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This session welcomes contributions aimed at enriching the debates around drivers of local development, including, but not limited to the role of geography and accessibility, the role of agency and collaboration networks, and the impact of external shocks such as economic crisis, health crisis, or climate change. Theoretical, methodological and empirical papers are equally welcome around the following research questions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>How are local development trajectories and spatial inequality changing? How do these trajectories differ across dimensions of development? Which are the new emerging and the new lagging areas?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Which drivers of local development are losing importance and which ones are gaining traction? How do explanatory patterns vary from one territorial context to another?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Which are the main stakeholders shaping development trajectories at local level?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>How are local governance networks structured and how do they vary from one type of community to another?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>How do stakeholders adapt to new opportunities and emerging threats?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>* This session is organized as part of the research project &#8222;Advancing knowledge on spatial inequality and local development determinants: Theory vs Empirical evidence vs Public Stakeholders\u2019 perception&#8221;, financed by the Romanian Ministry of Research, Innovation and Digitization, CNCS\u2014UEFISCDI, Project number: PN-IV-P2-2.1-TE-2023-2070<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SS 01: Behind the Gender Gap. Economic and Social Costs of Inequality Organisers: Marinela ISTRATE, Raluca Ioana HOREA \u0218ERBAN, Haralambie ATHES In June 2026, Directive (EU) 2023\/970 will come into force in Romania, a piece of legislation that addresses, among other things, pay transparency. It requires companies to ensure equal&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.geo.uaic.ro\/cantemir\/en\/special-sessions\/\">Continue reading<i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-367","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geo.uaic.ro\/cantemir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geo.uaic.ro\/cantemir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geo.uaic.ro\/cantemir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geo.uaic.ro\/cantemir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geo.uaic.ro\/cantemir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367"}],"version-history":[{"count":44,"href":"https:\/\/www.geo.uaic.ro\/cantemir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2561,"href":"https:\/\/www.geo.uaic.ro\/cantemir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/367\/revisions\/2561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geo.uaic.ro\/cantemir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}