Conferences
Acad. Dimitrie Vatamaniuc: Eminescu among us
Sunday, 15th January, at 11:00, at the National Theatre's Black Box, will take place a conference with the title Eminescu among us, held by Acad. Dimitrie Vatamaniuc. Ticket prices: 23 and 10 lei.
About the conference
Held on the same day on which the national poet was born, the conference will mark the most important events from Romanian culture: the existence of the definitive Mihai Eminescu edition (11 volumes), and the publication of Eminescu's facsimiled manuscripts, under the coordination of the Acad. Eugen Simion.
About the Acad. Dimitrie Vatamaniuc
Literary historian, specialist on Eminescu, member of the Romanian Academy, Dimitrie Vatamaniuc was born on the 25th September 1920, in Suceviţa, Suceava county. He graduated the Letters and Philosophy University from Cluj in 1947, writing his diploma paper on literature and history. During his studies at the university he was a member in the board committee of the student society 'Junimea' from Bucovina. We works as a teacher at the 'Andrei Mureşanu' high school from Dej (1947 - 1953), in the summer of 1952 he works as an editor at the Literary Almanac from Cluj, and in 1956 he is an employed researcher at the Literary History and Folklore Institute from Bucharest. He held his doctorate in 1957 with a thesis about I. Popovici - The Man from Banat.
From 1957 he is a reader at the Bucharest University's Philology Faculty, but his career ends because of political reasons. He must work as a librarian at the Central University Library (1961-1964) and as an editor at the Scientific Centre of Information and Documentation (1964-1974). He becomes a philologist again at the 'G. Călinescu' History and Literary Theory Institute, but, purged again in 1975, he starts to work at the Romanian Literature Museum from Bucharest (until 2001). He participates at the integral publication of Mihai Eminescu's work, finishing the project started by Perpessicius in the inter-war period.
From 1992 he is the director of the Romanian Academy's Centre of Studies Bucovina, from Rădăuţi, editor-in-chief at Bucovina's Annals and founder of the program Bucovina's Encyclopaedia in studies and monographies. He is part of the editorial boards of the magazines Septentrion (director from 1995), body of the Society for Romanian Culture and Literature in Bucovina (Rădăuţi), and The Voice of Bucovina (Cernăuţi).
In 2001 he was elected as a member in the Romanian Academy.
Literary work (selections): I. Popovici - The Man from Banat, 1959; G. Coşbuc - A glance upon the literary work, 1967; Ioan Slavici and the world he has been through, 1968; Ioan Slavici. The literary work, 1970; Ioan Slavici (1948 - 1925). Biobibliography (in colaboration with Teofil Bugnariu and Ioan Domşa), 1973; Ion Agârbiceanu. Biobliography, 1974; Lucian Blaga. Biobliography, 1977; Eminescu's Publishing, I-II, 1985-1996; Eminescu. The Manuscripts - journal of intelectual becoming and of broadening of the scientific horizon, creative workshop, work tool, 1988; Eminescu. Documentary contribution, 1993; Eminescu and Transylvania, 1995; Lucian Blaga. Documentary contribution at his biography and work, 1998; Eminescu's Notebooks. Mythology and Document, 1998.
Translated by: Izabella Feher
MTTLC, Bucharest University
