31/05/2026
The students have left Bucharest, and their route through Transylvania is already bringing them face to face with the questions they came here to study.
Over the past days, the group has been traveling through places like Brașov, Sighișoara, Râșnov, Sinaia, Alma Vii, Viscri, Făgăraș, and many more other stops along the way.
At Hărman Fortified Church, a preserved Saxon kitchen opened a conversation about German communities in Transylvania, legal privilege, language, and what remains when a once powerful minority becomes very small.
In Brașov, they met members of Asociația 15 Noiembrie, the organization that keeps alive the memory of the anti-communist workers’ revolt of November 15, 1987. Some of the people in the room had joined the protest as teenagers and young workers. They spoke about the march, the Communist Party headquarters, the interrogations, and the price paid for speaking out.
At the Făgăraș Research Institute, an old milk separator opened a discussion about how communism reached into kitchens, tools, production, and family practices.
For a program about politics, identity, and public life, Romania becomes easier to understand when the questions are carried into places where people still live with their consequences.
We hope you’re as curious as we are to see where their journey through Romania takes them next. Stay tuned for more. 🤍
