NTB Conferences

Video-streaming   On Sunday, 17 April 2016, as of 11.00 a.m., at the Black Box Hall of the National Theatre of Bucharest, Mr. Cătălin Ștefănescu shall hold the conference on the topic Exclamation Mark! About the Conference “A journey through various ways of understanding the idea of culture, from linguistic paradigms to ideological manipulations, from Eskimos and pygmies to the party secretary and Old Vasile from Vadul Moților to Ridley Scott.” About Cătălin Ştefănescu A UNITER member, Cătălin Ştefănescu has been, ever since 1999, producer and host of the 100% Guaranteed programme from TVR 1 (Romanian National Television). Cătălin Ştefănescu has received countless prizes for the coverages and documentary films produced under this label: from 2003 to 2006 – APTR Prize for cultural show and cultural magazine, in 2002 – Award for Best Romanian Documentary Film – Penitentiary (presented, among others, at the International Festival of Anthropological Film - Sibiu). Still in 2002, he received the Great TELEVEST Award (in Timişoara) – for The Director... and the CNA Prize for best local television show - 100% Guaranteed. In 2010, he was awarded the Flacăra Prize for Journalism. 100% Guaranteed represents one of the longest-lived and appreciated cultural broadcasts in Romania. The list of guests invited over time on the set of 100% Guaranteedcomprises world-class personalities like the famous actress Vanessa Redgrave, the soprano Sarah Brightman, the writer-philospher Pascal Bruckner or director Andrei Şerban. Born on 29 December 1968 in Râmnicu Vâlcea, Cătălin Ştefănescu has graduated in 1995 from the Faculty of Letters of the Babeş Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, whereas the Bachelor’s thesis he defended was about the Ancient Greek drama. From 1991 to 1998, he published a series of articles in Contemporanul, Steaua, Cotidianul (the supplement Litere, arte, idei ), Canava Odeon, Direcţia 9. He was head of the broadcast and image department at TVR Cluj, then secretary general editor at TVR Cluj, but also producer and host of the show Saturday Meeting (TVR 1 and TVR2).   Translated by Simona Nichiteanu 

Video-streaming  On Sunday, March 4th, 2007, within the NTBB Conferences programme, Univ. Prof. Sorin Alexandrescu held the conference entitled Visual Culture, Pros and Cons. "We live nowadays in a visual age, in which art or religion, which dominated other periods, have declined in presence, in the sense that it influences much less what happens in the world, and the main interest stems from what is visual." Sorin Alexandrescu About Univ. Prof. Sorin Alexandrescu Professor at the University of Amsterdam, professor at the University of Bucharest and, since 2001, founder and director of the Centre of Excellence in Image Studies (CESI) of the University of Bucharest and the "Ion Mincu" University of Architecture. He first worked as teaching assistant and lecturer at the University of Bucharest in the field of comparative literature and stylistics and published several books, including "William Faulkner". He migrated in 1974 to the Netherlands, where he worked as a professor at one of the largest Romanian language departments in the West, at the University of Amsterdam. Returning, partially, to Romania, since 1989, he taught at several universities in the country and published several books, including "The Romanian Paradox" or "Mircea Eliade, from Portugal".   Translated by Simona Nichiteanu 

Video-streamig The National Theatre I.L.Caragiale has the pleasure to invite you to discover Adina Nanu’s spectacular collection of costumes and hats in the lobby of the Atelier Hall for two weeks (between 8th – 22nd of February). Adina Nanu is a critic and art historian, the author of the only book about Romania’s costumes history. The exhibition opens on the occasion of the conference held by Adina Nanu at the Atelier Hall from 11:00 a.m. on February 8th. Adina Nanu’s collection comprises some hundreds of costumes which belonged to her family or donor friends, ranging from casual dresses to evening ones, from hats, men’s costumes, accesories, decorative objects or furniture articles from ladies’ boudoir from La Belle Epoque, from the inter-war period to present costumes. Both the conference and the exhibition are a plea for style and beauty and promote the aesthetic refinement, the fashion and ellegance of times gone by. Stressing the importance of hats in ladies’ apparel, Adina Nanu will show that a hat isn’t a simple accesory, but it is also a definite indicator for the bearer’s social, psychological and cultural profile. The conference and the exhibition addresses not only those interested in the costume  history, but also art directors, fashion designers and all art lovers. We hope that after attending the conference and the exhibition the NTB audience will cry out:”Chapeau – bas!”   About Adina Nanu Critic and art historian. Between 1945-1950 she attended the Institute of Fine Arts in Bucharest and the Faculty of Letters simultaneously. Between 1947-1950 she attended the Medicine School to bone at anatomy. In 1977 she got her Ph. D in History of Arts with a thesis on 19th century costumes in Bucharest. Assigned as an assistant to the National Arts Museum in Bucharest, she worked at the World and Romanian Art Galleries. Since 1950 she has been asked to work at the Arts History Department within the Institute of Fine Arts where she has remained until retirement, first as Assistant, then as Lecturer since 1954 and as Reader since 1968. As her colleagues, Eugen Schileru and Ion Frunzetti, she retired having this degree in 1987, since the Professor degree was awarded by the Ministry of Education only to those politically priviledged during the years before 1989. She taught World Art History classes, special classes of History of Painting, Sculpture and Decorative Arts and the first classes of History and Theory of the Costume in Romania at the Scenography section and then at the Fashion Design section whose foundation she took part in. Consequently, she published the first history of world costumes in Romanian, Art, Style, Costume in 1976. Since 1994 she has been teaching Visual Education and Styles in Costumes and Decoration classes at UNATC Bucharest, for the Staging Department during the first years, then for the newly founded Scenography section, but also for the Choreography section.  For the UNATC students she published Arts on humans (2001) and Can you see?Communication through Imaging (2002), she rewrote and augmented Art, Style, Costume ( second edition,2008). Since 1975 she has been an INSEA member - International Society for Education through Art (UNESCO) and after 1990 founder and president of its branch in Romania. She has been a member of the Union of Artists in Romania since its foundation in 1950. She exhibited drawings and sculptures in five UAP collective exhibitions and in a personal exhibition at Galateea Gallery in 2008. Books published (selection): Gh. Tattarescu – The Painter (1955), Albrecht Dürer (1957), Theodor Pallady (1963), About Sculpture in Brief (1966), Octav Angheluţă – The Painter (1967), Sabin Popp – The painter (1968), Antonello da Messina (1969), A. Bourdelle – The Carver (1971), Lucas Cranach the Old (1972), On Dürer’s footsteps (1976), Art, Style, Costume (1976, the English version in 1981), Donatello- The Carver (1980), I. Gr. Popovici – The Carver (1984), Ion Lucian Murnu (in collaboration with Doina Mândru – 1986), Men and Fashion (2009). Awards: The „Loyal Service” Order – commander, Union of Artists (2000), Honour Diploma by the Staging and Production University (2002), Professor Honoris Causa by the National University of Arts (2008). „The collection formed itself as a consequence of my interest and respect for the object made with talent and skillfulness which I found in my house and kept them, I didn’t throw them away, as young people do nowadays. At first I played together with my parents, then with my children, using grandparents’ hats and clothes, then I used them as didactic material for the Arts History and Costume Art classes that I held. Relatives and friends also found in their wardrobes hats and dresses which were out of fashion, tailcoats and tuxedos which were useless, but they were filling the space and they gave them to us. I only bought the manikins and a few disparate pieces, links which were missing in the chain of some demonstrations. Even nowadays, my friends’ friends come to complete the exhibition with precious memories. I only like studying each hat or collarette to discover its origin, style and fashion it belonged to and to find its place in the exhibition so as to match the general geometry of the room, which has to recompose the atmosphere and perfume of every age. Among other things, I placed perfume bottles here and there, ranging from XIX th century pachouli to Coco Chanel’s Chanel no.5 and following. Due to these continuous changes, none of the fifteen exhibitions I have organized so far was similar to the others, starting with the first one from the Collection Museum in 1997, to the following ones from the National Arts Museum, History Museum, from Cotroceni Palace, Peles or the Costumes Museum in Venice”.   Translation made by Niculae Cristine MTTLC, University of Bucharest

Video-streaming  Mihai Răzvan Ungureanu (b. September 22, 1968, Iași) is a Romanian historian and diplomat, who held the positions of Minister of Foreign Affairs of Romania between 2004-2007 and director of the Romanian Foreign Intelligence Service between 2007-2012. He was Prime Minister of the Romanian Government between February 9th, 2012 and April 2012. In a conference that aspired to be a Sunday story, the historian Mihai Răzvan Ungureanu reviewed the delicious characters that made up the Romanian society two centuries ago, seen through the eyes of foreign travelers, but also of domestic chroniclers. "Morals in this country are completely peculiar, or rather there are no morals. There are only bad habits, there are only prejudices. Among the significant ones, a lot of pride and a lot of turpitude, a lot of fanaticism, even superstition, but also more debauchery, and also more immorality ”. (Vice-Consul of France in Iasi).   Translated by Simona Nichiteanu

Video--streaming  On Sunday, January 19th, 2020, from 11:00 am, at the NTB Small Hall, Prof. Dr. Dinu Antonescu will hold the conference The Impact of Communism on Romanian Medicine. About the conference In order to assess the impact of communism on Romanian medicine, an analysis of the medical situation from the years leading up to the Second World War is made initially. It is shown that in 80 years, from 1859 to 1940, Romanian medicine experienced an impetuous development, which placed it in the context of European medicine. This meant not only that its teachers and some of the doctors were fully or at least specialized in prestigious European centres, that the healthcare and university were similar to the West, but that its performances were at European level, that they were appreciated abroad and that there was a permanent connection, a fruitful exchange of ideas between Romanian and Western medicine. Communism has brought in medicine, as in all other aspects of social life, a complete reversal of values! Only one ideology, the Marxist one, was allowed and any other view on social, historical, political phenomena was forbidden. All medical disciplines were ideologized, especially those that were prone to interpretations, such as biology for example, introducing pseudo-scientific notions and theories. It was almost obligatory for any Western scientist to be placed after a Russian name, as was the aggrandizement of Soviet medical science obligatory. The selection was replaced on the basis of the value with the political criterion and of the social origin, reaching in the medical management positions persons imposed by the communist forums, without the proper training and without moral and professional authority. Lies, dementia, blackmail, terror were used to intimidate and force teachers and physicians to join the communist doctrine and to annihilate their personality and remove those who did not accept the compromise. A complete isolation was imposed behind the "iron curtain", contacts with the Western medical world being allowed only to the communist elites. The gap between Romanian and Western medicine has progressively increased throughout the communist period. Numerous examples are given. Communism destroyed Romanian medicine and the consequences are felt to the present day! Prof. Dr. Dinu Antonescu          About Dinu Antonescu Primary physician, orthopaedics - traumatology Born in 1935, in Ploieşti. Graduated from the Medical Faculty of the "Iuliu Haţieganu" University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Cluj (1952 - 1958), as valedictorian. Activity: Medical assistance: primary doctor since 1971 (Brâncoveanu Clinical Hospital for Orthopaedics); head of the Orthopaedic section at Foisor Hospital 1991 - 2001; Education: UMF Carol Davila: Teacher 1992 - 2001; consulting professor since 2001. Research: PhD in medical sciences 1970; Main scientific researcher first degree since 2001. Publications: first author in the volumes: Semiology of the locomotor system in the Medical Semiology monograph, edited by I. Bruckner, Medical Publishing House, 2002; Fractures generalities in the Treatise of Surgical Pathology, edited by N. Anghelescu, Medical Publishing House, 2001; Tumors of the Locomotor System, and Surgical Treatment of Inflammatory Rheumatism in the Treatise of Internal Medicine, Rheumatology under the editors R. Paun, Medical Publishing House 1999; News in Orthopaedics and Traumatology in Surgical News, edited by E. Constantinescu, Medical Publishing House 1989;  Elements of Osteo-Articular Pathology, Teora Publishing House 2000; Diseases of the Foot in Dečja Ortopedija edited by Zoran Vukašinović, Belgrad 1999; Correction of SpineDeviations, Medical Publishing House, the collection Medicine for all, 1993; Calculation Methods and Experimental Techniques for Stress Analysis in Biomechanics, TechnicalPublishing House, 1986; Orthopaedic and Traumatology Elements for Students, Publisar Publishing House 1999. Distinctions: The "Romanian Star" National Order to the rank of High Officer 2000, the Order "The Crown of Romania to the rank of Officer", 2014. Translated by Simona Nichiteanu 

Video-streaming  On Sunday, 1st April 2018, from 11.00 a.m., the NTB Painting Hall shall host the conference The Discomfort of Psychologists: Uncertainties and Hesitations given by Aurora Liiceanu. About the conference „It seems that one cannot really talk about the future, as long as the major topic of the present in all aspects of life is change. Sociologists ascertain that there are social tendencies to worry about, psychologists are more restricted because the individual has a single life and he must know what to do with it. The civilization of the present has obvious features, the system of values is shifting, we are living in individualism, in the culture of the ego, in a world of casualness and pleasure, of frivolous life, entertainment takes up our time, everything is a show, the world of emotions leaves reason behind, to gasp for regaining its increasingly lost importance. What can psychologists do if society urges us through seduction and marketing to hedonism, narcissism and heroisation, to the refusal of the anonymity of the past, when the generation gap rises rapidly and when fluid identity becomes something natural once the dizzying evolution of technology and sexuality shows us ever so new possibilities of expression? The individual faces the horror of unemployment, loneliness and incurable diseases, poverty and the break-up of traditional family, as it used to be, a paradise, but also an inferno, torn between options, because he/she must assume choices, be responsible, manage. The inflation of information and the multiple lifestyle alternatives face the individual with difficult choices. The theme of psychologists is the pressure towards change and fluidity of identity. Technology, even beyond communication, and sexuality are topics currently challenging the individual, but also the main causes of the generation gap.” About Aurora Liiceanu PhD in Psychology and senior researcher at the „Constantin Rădulescu-Motru” Institute for Philosophy and Psychology of the Romanian Academy. Founding member of the Romanian Academic Society (SAR) and of the Journal of Loss and Trauma (USA), she taught and collaborated with various universities from Bucharest and abroad (UQAM- Canada and EHESS – France), he was a member of international doctoral juries (EHESS –France and Laval University – Canada) and of the Civil Society jury of our country. She published numerous books, the majority thereof at Polirom Publishing. She collaborated extensively with the written press and participated in TV shows on issues related to the psychology of interpersonal relations, criminology etc. She took part as an expert and consultant in many social campaigns organized by NGOs and multinational companies regarding health, civic attitude, personality building and development. In the time frame 2002-2004, she was a national correspondent in Strasbourg for the European study on daily violence, and from 2004-2005 she was a national coordinator of the AGIS European project regarding juvenile violence. In 2005 and 2006, she received awards for cultural merits bestowed by the Bucharest Municipality and the Romanian Peasant Museum, and in 2011, she received the Romanian Academy award for publishing a tome on social violence. In 2008, she received the BBW Community Leadership Award for research and counselling in the field of human and community relations. Since 1999 to the present day, she worked on educational programmes („The Decision is Mine”, „My Life: A Serious ‘Game’”, “Among Us, Parents”), supported by the Ministry of Education, and in 2007, together with UNICEF, she participated in a national study, drafted in a collective, regarding school violence in Romania.   Translated by Simona Nichiteanu 

Video-streaming  On Sunday, 10th December 2017, from 11.00 a.m., the Small Hall of NTB shall host the conference given by Mircea Mihăieș - On Success. About the Conference The intent of this conference is to offer a description of the way success can be achieved, enhanced and lost nowadays. As success is not synonymous with value, its origins mobilise complex mechanisms, pertaining to social opportunities, institutional reflexes or deeply rooted and often unconscious customs. For the sake of illustration, we propose an evocation of the circumstances under which a novel, unanimously considered „difficult”, Ulysses by James Joyce, has ended up achieving, under utterly special circumstances, tremendous success. Mircea Mihăieș   About Mircea Mihăieș Born in 1954 in Arad county, he is a literary critic, essayist and publicist. After graduating from high-school in Arad, he followed the faculty of philology of the Timișoara University, English-French department. He is a university professor at the chair for English language and literature of the Timișoara University, where he teaches English and American literature courses. He holds a PhD of Letters at the Bucharest University. He is editor-in-chief of the Orizont magazine and editorialist at România literară and Evenimentul zilei. He makes his debut at Orizont magazine in 1979 and in volume in the year 1989. In 1991, he worked for several months in the editorship of The New Republic magazine. Since 1993, he has been holding the weekly column Contrafort in the România literară magazine. Study scholarships at Woodrow Wilson Center, National Forum Foundation, Washington, D.C., New York University etc. He acted as vice-president of the Romanian Cultural Institute. Published volumes (selection): Waking in the Mirror (1989, second edition 2005), The Book of Failures. Essays on Rewriting (1989), The Woman in Red (1990, second edition, 1997, third edition, 2003, fourth edition, 2007, novel written in collaboration with Mircea Nedelciu and Adriana Babeți), Cruel Books. The Intimate Journal and Suicide (1995, ed. a II-a, 2005), Victorian Fiction (1998), The Gall Mask (2000), Perseus’ Shield. Nicolae Manolescu between Parallel Mirrors (2003), The Life, Passions and Songs of Leonard Cohen, with 32 poems translated by Mircea Cărtărescu, Polirom Publishing, (2005), The Metaphysics of Detective Marlowe (2008) (translated in the United States in 2013), What Remains. William Faulkner and the Mysteries of the Yoknapatawpha County (2012), Ulysses, 732. Novel of the Novel (2016) Awards: Prose Award of the Romanian Writers’ Union (1990), Award for Criticism of the Romanian Writers’ Union (1995), Award for Literary Criticism for 2008 of the Romanian Writers’ Union – Timișoara Branch, Award for Literary Criticism / Essay / Literary History for 2009 of the Romanian Writers’ Union; Writer of the Year 2016 for the volume Ulysses, 732. Novel of the Novel, an impressive volume of literary criticism and exegesis, in which he analyses James Joyce’s masterpiece. Translated by Simona Nichiteanu

Video-streaming  On Sunday, October 26th, 2009, Octavian Paler held at NTB the conference entitled With Melancholy, about the Barbarians. About Octavian Paler Octavian Paler (1926-2007), Romanian writer and publicist. "I’m afraid I am a monologue man. I am afraid that I was born barricaded in myself and that I did not manage, during my existence, to get out of this intimate prison, apart, to communicate with the world ", said Octavian Paler, in the show" Professionals ", made by Eugenia Vodă on TVR 1. His books and public appearances may have contradicted him. Octavian Paler always knew how to leave strong phrases behind, like crumbs for those who believed in reason. "I am a misanthrope. That's right, a defensive misanthrope, not an offensive one. I lack faith in man. Divinity seems to me necessary as existence. Because if God does not exist, many things are inexplicable in this world. Probably for the comfort of our reason we need to believe in God ", Octavian Paler added. He has published many books. These include "Shadow of Words," "Life on a Platform," "Galileo’s Defense," "Subjective Mythologies," "Self-Portrait in a Broken Mirror," "Cordial Polemics," and more. In the book "Octavian Paler - Conversations with Daniel Cristea-Enache" (Polirom Publishing House), the essayist answered many questions, outlining a self-portrait that remained as a landmark of integrity. Here is what Octavian Paler replied to the literary critic Daniel Cristea Enache: "You ask me if I recognize myself in the 'figure and behavior of the knight of La Mancha.' The first impulse would be to say "Yes." And I would have an argument. To get out of the crying tone of my last books, not to gloss over old age and my illnesses, I started working on a book (it's about "Mythological Slander") where I rely on an inclination of mine, (a bit masochistic, maybe) to discredit myself, on the border between "game" and those "truths" that are too serious to be told on a serious tone: I hold (I told you, I have the impression) "conferences" of moths who make their ballet numbers through my room whenever they get bored of hiding. Sounds like fighting windmills, right? Even if I miss a squire. " "What drew me to Don Quixote on first reading? Since I want to respect the bet of sincerity, I will not tell you anything about possible "aesthetic emotions". What I know for sure is something else. I was undergoing a crisis then: I was trying to overcome my complexes, shyness and introverted inhibitions, doing great. I was trying to hide the night from me (I suspect that all introverts have an inner night, through which they grope and hide from others, because they do not know what it hides) through childish bravado. Remember, I broke glasses at the student balls! And that I was a virtuoso in the "art" of throwing a knife, like the Indians, at a distant target, thrusting it into something: a tree or a board! "" Doesn't my ridiculous zeal prove that I still have certain affinities with Don Quixote? I had the horror of ridicule in public, but in intimacy I did not hesitate to embark on funny dreams. Since I have been meditating, I assure you, with much application to the idea of ​​retracing Don Quixote's path! I'm almost moved by the thought that I could take myself seriously. I was just careful not to expose myself to anyone. ” Between 1949 and 1961, he was an editor of cultural programmes at the Romanian Broadcasting. In 1964, he was Agerpres' correspondent in Rome for three months. After the events of December '89, he founded together with Ana Blandiana, Gabriel Liiceanu and others The Social Dialogue Group, which stands out through its anti-communist positions. He became honorary director and editorialist of the newspaper România liberă, then editorialist at Cotidianul and Ziua. He remains an acclaimed journalist and commentator. Participates in talk shows, on topics of politics, morality, etc., on various television stations. In the last years of his life, he became a fierce critic of the Romanian political class. He made a television movie dedicated to his native village, Lisa. He passed away at the age of 80, following a cardio-respiratory arrest. He was buried, with military honors, in the Holy Friday Cemetery. Quotes Octavian Paler * Hindu sages claim that there are four seasons in life. One to study and discover the world. The second to establish a home. The third to reflect. And finally, the fourth, in which, freed from inhibitions and obsessions, you become a kind of traveler without luggage. * We today are a country of lonely people. So lonely that even the unhappy are not in solidarity with each other. * What we do not live in time, we never live again. * Do not despise small things. A candle can do at any time what the sun can never do: shine in the dark. * Whoever rose up against silence always risked silence around him. People forgive you a lot, but they do not forgive you when you point the finger at cowardice. They want to look noble even when they do nothing about it or especially when they do nothing. * I learned that it takes years to gain confidence and that in just a few seconds you can lose it. * There is no happiness to remember without sadness. * You never had enough imagination to imagine the world without you. Even if you did not go with the vanity to the paranoia of believing that the world revolves around you, that it is eager to hear what you say, you lacked the intelligence or the power to accept that you meant nothing more than the yellowed photos that someone, after you, will throw in the trash. * A mediocre life can be justified. Especially in a mediocre world. But the mediocrity of illusions has no excuse. Nothing stops us from dreaming without measure. * The goals we have set ourselves are essential. No one could stop Don Quixote from storming the windmills. Neither the laughter nor the realism of the others. I do not know a clearer example that you can be a loser without being a mediocre one, that a life can be fulfilled not only by a success, but also by a failure. * I think love lifts us into our own eyes. And how much you want to be the way the other person sees you! You would like, and even try, to close the gap between what you know you really are and what you intuit the person you love sees in you. * I think I could list a few hundred smells of grass, depending on the time of day, rain, sun, season, earth, shade, height, humidity or dryness. I could distinguish now, I suspect, with my eyes closed, the wild blackberries from the blackberries grown in the bushes, the rustle of a beech from the rustle of a fir tree. Instead, many of the lived ones faded, leaving gaps behind, like in a half-burned forest. This discovery forces me to admit that my memory now resembles a broken mirror, which restores fragments of my life. * To die means to move to a star. Octavian Paler - Self-Portrait in a Broken Mirror   Translated by Simona Nichiteanu 

Video-streaming   On Sunday, March 24th, 2019, from 11.00 at the NTB Black Box Hall, Professor Viorel Barbu shall hold a conference on Mathematics and Arts. About the Conference The conferenceaims at answering the following questions: Is maths beautiful? Are there mathematical approaches to poetry? How did mathematical theories influence the techniques and ideas of artists? What is the relevance of mathematics in classical and modern art? Is there a mathematical poetics, in fact? Prof. Viorel Barbu About Viorel Barbu Born on June 14th, 1941 in Deleni, Vaslui. High school studies at "Mihail Kogălniceanu" High School in Vaslui and "Costache Negruzzi" High School in Iaşi (1954-1959). University studies at "Al. I. Cuza" University of Iasi, Faculty of Mathematics (1959-1964). Professor at "Al. I. Cuza "University of Iasi (1980-2011). Guest professor at the Universities of Rome (1970), Superior Normal School of Pisa (1980, 1990, 1995), University of Cincinnati (USA) (1991-1993), Ohio University (USA) (1995, 2000), University of West Virginia (1970), University of West Virginia USA) (2005) and Visiting Scholar at the Universities of Bonn (2006), Bielefeld (Germany), Paris VI (France), Trento (Italy). Member of the Romanian Academy (holder since 1993); Member of the European Academy of Sciences (since 2007); President of the Mathematics Department of the Romanian Academy (since 2010) and President of the Iasi Branch of the Romanian Academy. Author of 10 mathematical monographs at the publishing houses Springer-Verlag, Academic Press, Birkhäuser, Kluwer, Pitman (London), Noordhoff (Leyden).   Translated by Simona Nichiteanu 

Video-streaming On Sunday, January 19, 2014, at 11:00, at the Small Hall of the TNB, will take place a conference entitled Disclosure- cui prodest? held by Germina Nagâț, the director of investigations at CNSAS. About Conference         A part of the secret chronicle about Romanians who lived under the yoke of the communism for more than half of a century, is written in the 3 million archive files of CNSAS. In a huge library, with 24 km of shelves, you can read today the saddest real stories, with heroes who remained unknown, but also with monsters. Who are the characters and which is the moral of the secret stories when we tell them to other people?The National Theatre invites you to a free and unprejudiced discussion about disclosure, its riks and benefits, viewed from the perspective of the recent experience. A debate in which clichés will be replaced by the examples, and „good" and the „truth" will get substance from the lives of people who have lived one of the worst eras from history. About Germina NagâțShe was born in 1967, in Oradea. In 1989 she graduated the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bucharest, where she obtained her Ph. D. (in 1999), with a thesis of analytic aesthetics. She was a scientific researcher at the Institute of Pholosophy of the Romanian Academy (1991-2000), assistant professor at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bucharest (1991-1993), editor at Revista Secolului 20 (1996-1997), lecturer at the University of Architecture „Ion Mincu", Bucharest (1999-2000).Germina Nagâț is the author of several translations of the works of contemporary philosophers, like John Dewey, Thomas Nagel and Leszek Kolakowski, and also of numerous studies, articles and interviews, which appeared in Romanian and foreign publications, on the topic of revealing the police policy actions, undertaken by the communist repressive apparatus.In 2006, she took part, as an expert, at the Presidential Comission for the Analysis of the Communist Dictatorship in Romania. Since 2001 she leads the Investigation Department of the National Council for Security Archives Study. Translated by : Lucia ProhnițchiMTTLC, The University of Bucharest