Conferences
Adrian Majuru: A day of your life during Carol Ist's era
On Sunday, November 6th, 2011, starting with 11:00, at The Amphitheatre Hall from The National Theatre of Bucharest there will be held the conference A day of your life on the time of King Carol I, by Adrian Majuru. Tickets can be found at the price of 23 lei or 10 lei.
About Adrian Majuru
Adrian Majuru is a researcher at the Municipal Museum of Bucharest and the author of multiple books about Bucharest, like: Bucharest the city of outskirts or the suburb as a way of living (Bucureştiul mahalalelor sau periferia ca mod de existenţă, Compania 2003), Bucharest. The story of a human geography (Bucureşti. Povestea unei geografii umane, Institutul Cultural Român, 2008) or Bucharest. Diurnal and Nocturnal (Bucureşti. Diurn şi Nocturn, Curtea Veche, 2009). He is also interested in the urban underground area. Among other publications we can mention: Childhood for the Romanians (Copilăria la români Compania, 2006), The Minovici Family - spiritual universe (Familia Minovici - univers spiritual, Institul Cultural Român 2007), Wallachian destiny in pictures and 101 texts (Destin valah în ilustraţii şi 101 texticuleţe, Paralela 45, 2009). At the present he is coordinating the series: "Urban anthropology" and "The fantastic library" at the Oscar Print Publishing house.
About the conference
"Destiny is the place and moment of your birth". Some call this chance. Let us descend into this free will maze and imagine what it would have been like a day of our life a hundred years ago, during the reign of King Carol I. Of course that there can be many details regarding our position in this story: high society or middle class; guest of honor or master of ceremonies. However we suggest the position of a random onlooker who enjoys the privilege of living beside a family a hundred years ago. We are left with the traces of this lost world that we can follow and the atmosphere where we can get into. We have the pictures but mostly we have the ability to travel, to understand and accept the reality of a comparison.
Our meeting offers you the opportunity to step across such a threshold, not at all imaginary even though the appearances say something else. I invite you to join me into the story of a question: "what it would have been like to live a day in 1900?"
A possible answer was given by the German writer Ernst Junger: "Know the boundaries where illusion and reality can replace each other!"
The journey will be accompanied by the music of cellist Adrian Naidin.
Author: Adrian Majuru
Translated by: Oana Marina Silişte
MA Student, MTTLC, University of Bucharest
