Conferences
Acad. Ioan Aurel Pop: Romanian Culture - between the Latin West and the Byzantine East
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On Sunday, 26th November 2017, from 11.00, the Small Hall of NTB shall host the conference Romanian Culture - between the Latin West and the Byzantine East given by Acad. Ioan Aurel Pop.
About the Conference
The Romanians are the only European people who, through the Romanian origin, through their name originating from Rome, through the Neolatin language and the christening form, are on the one hand, Westerners, and through the Slavic component, through the Slavonic language of the cult, of the chancelleries and medieval culture, through the Cyrillic alphabet (used until the 19th century), through their Byzantine church they are, on the other hand, Easterners. Romanian culture has vacillated between these two extremes before achieving the synchronisation with the Western success model, in a sui generis synthesis. From here originate also the two great cultural orientations – the Latinist, modernist and pro-Western one and the protochronistic, vernacular and traditional one – which have marked our existence and conferred the specificities of an interference culture upon us. Ioan-Aurel Pop
About Acad. Ioan-Aurel Pop
Ioan-Aurel Pop is a university professor and rector of the Babeș-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, author and co-author of over seventy books, treatises and manuals and over five hundred studies and articles, Honorary Doctor of the universities of Alba Iulia, Timișoara, Oradea, Cahul, Galați, Sibiu, Târgu Mureș, The Kishinev State University, the „Ion Creangă” Pedagogic University of Kishinev. He is a full member of the Romanian Academy, of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts of Salzburg, of the National Academy of Virgil of Mantova (Italy) and corresponding member of the European Academy for Sciences, Arts and Letters of Paris. He acted as a director of the Romanian Cultural Institute of New York (USA) and of the Romanian Institute of Culture and Humanistic Research of Venice (Italy). He is the manager of the Centre for Transylvanian Studies within the Romanian Academy.
Translated by Simona Nichiteanu
