 The First International Congress was held at the Sorbonne in Paris in 1986 with the help of Asociatia Internationala de Studii Romanesti.It was decided to organize these international meetings in Romania.Subsequent congresses were then held in Iași in 1993, Cluj in 1997, Suceava in 2001, Constanța in 2007 and Sibiu in 2012.