NTB Conferences

Brîndușa Armanca will be holding the conference What has become of television in the Internet Age onSunday, April, 27th, 11 a.m., in the Small Hall of the National Theatre. Ticket cost: 16 lei. About the conference A survey recently conducted by the IRES has corroborated Eurostat's previously released figures: Television feeds information to over 80 % of Romanians. What makes them sit in front of TV, which at present preserves its upper hand in the Internet age? First of all, it is both reachable everywhere and user-friendly: one can find television in every house and it is the easiest thing, short of special technical knowledge or skills, to press a button and zapping through your favourite programmes to choose one. Furthermore, watching TV is an idle process which does not require interaction with other people and the televised illusion makes up for the everyday weariness. The most important thing, though, about television boils down to the delight people take in watching TV which comes with a wide range of entertainment shows and visual information that is much more sophisticated than that of virtual media. The entertainment which video games afford, though not to downplay its importance, has not yet been able to dwarf the big TV shows watched by millions of viewers. Has the Internet not yet gained the upper hand over the classical media of entertainment? There is no straight answer to the question. Journalism, in printing format, is on its last legs; however, online journalism lives on. Television has also been transferred to other interfaces and means of communication, furthermore, interactivity has shifted the viewer's stance from the idle way in front of the TV to the viewer who has become more involved, especially if one is part and parcel of the “Y generation”, interacts on Facebook, Twitter or becomes he himself a “producer” on YouTube. New developments in technology have brought to life outstanding shifts in communication and “the small screen” becomes smaller and smaller in the digital Age: laptop, tablet, smartphone. Besides the latest developments in technology, there are issues that have to be addressed, namely, journalism boundaries, substantiation and ethics. A profession that has undergone radical shifts. Internet surfers have radically changed as well. Whoever delays, even for a second, to deliver the news loses 18 % of the audience. We are talking here about internet traffic and the number of visitors, but the television struggle for public audience is now more than ever effective and at times, merciless. The conference will start the debate from these talking points to shape an era of sweeping media shifts, which have a bearing on journalism, on the type of audience and the way information has been brought home to the viewer by the media and most likely, on the ethics and philosophical fabric of society. If there is competition or overlapping between television and Internet it will be shown in the video slides, photos or statistics which have been lumped together for a more cogent substantiation.               About Brîndușa Armanca Brîndușa Armanca is a journalist and a university professor. Brîndușa was a member of the esteemed editorial staff of Radio Europa Liberă, Expres or Ziua and headed for many years the television studio branch of TVR in Timișoara. Between 2006 and 2012, Brîndușa Armanca was the director of the Romanian Cultural Institute in Budapest. Currently, Brîndușa works as the editor-in-chief of TVR Timișoara and has a weekly column of press criticism “Media culpa” in the magazine “22”. Member of the Writers Association in Romania and of numerous other media organisations such as International Communication Association or ECREA, Brîndușa is also the author of numerous books on journalism such as “Televiziunea regională în România” (2002), “Media culpa” (2006), “Învață să învingi” (2006) and “Istoria recentă în mass-media. Frontieriștii” (2009), translated in hungarian in 2011. Also, books on communication such as “Ghid de comunicare pentru jurnaliști și purtători de cuvânt” (2002), or on literary history such as “Mesajul lui Crypto. Comunicare, cod, metaforă magică în poezia românească modernă” (2005). Brîndușa's TV movies have been awarded both at domestic festivals and international contests and Brînsușa's activity has been rewarded with the Romanian Academy Cultural Distinction, as well as with the Hungarian Ministry of Culture Distinction for cultural diplomacy. Translated by: Coșoianu Mircea MTTLC, University of Bucharest

The National Theatre of Bucharest and the French Institute invite you to the conference Personal Paris - Places and Theatres held by George Banu on Sunday, 6th April 2014, at 11 a.m., at the Small Hall of NTB. Tickets price is 16 lei. About the conference   George Banu arrived in Paris on the last day of the year 1973. While spending 40 long years in the capital of France he created a Personal Paris for himself, a city he bears in his heart and he now reveals its private map. The map allows us to discover hidden places, personal spaces, visit theatres and secret squares. Cioran's street and Peter Brook's Hall, the court of a palace, which is very dear to Oana Pellea and the house near the river Seine whose front side has Camille Claudel's words engraved on it: "There is always something missing." The places and the theatres, reunited, are landmarks in this urban autobiography, that both George Banu and his friend Mihaela Marin reveal through her photos of "his" Paris, photographs  she took with talent and affection. During George Banu's conference, the audience will be shown images of his personal path created along 40 years. The actor Marius Manole will read excerpts from  Banu's book, Personal Paris. The launch of the book will take place in the same day and the book will be published by Nemira Publishing House. There will also be a signing session. It is a book about the life of an emigrant who became a French citizen, but he never forgot where he came from. About George Banu He  teaches  at Sorbonne University in Paris as well as at other universities, he is the Honorary President of the International Association of Theatre Critics and President of the Europe Theatre Award Gala. George Banu has recently been elected Honorary Member of the Romanian Academy. He is also Senior-editor in chief of the well-known magazine Alternatives théâtrales and Managing Editor at Actes Sud Publishing House. He published an important number of famous volumes on the modern theatre world and its main characters, Peter Brook, Patrice Chéreau and Luc Bondy. Among his latest books released in romanian are The Cherry Orchad, Our Theatre, Shakespeare, The World As A Theatre, The Changes in Theatre, all published by Nemira Publishing House, Loving and Hating Theatre published by Polirom Publishing House and Close to the Stage, published by Curtea Veche Publishing House.   George Banu has been awarded honorary degrees by many universities. He has also received the UNITER prize for Theatre Critique. NTB, The Hungarian State Theatre of Cluj and  the Art Museum Of Cluj-Napoca have recently organized a series of events in his honour in Cluj. The University of Sorbonne dedicated the book The Travels or the Horizons of Theatre to George Banu. The book has been published and translated into romanian by Nemira Publishing House. Peter Brook, Andrei Șerban, Eugenio Barba, Radu Penciulescu and Niky Wolcz signed the book.   Translated by: Diana Apetroaei MTTLC, University of Bucharest Cumpără Bilete Online

Sunday, 23rd March 2014, at 11 o'clock, at the Small Hall of the National Theatre of Bucharest, Professor Ioan Lascăr, MD will hold a conference entitled "Past, Present and Future in Plastic Surgery". Ticket fee: 16 lei. About the conference Although Plastic Surgery has been recently defined as a stand-alone specialty, its beginnings are more distant, closely linked with those of medicine and surgery. It started and developed out of the necessity to correct apparent morphological deficiencies and later on, the possibility of also correcting the functional deficiencies associated with them, a fact that can be considered one of the oldest ideals in the art of healing. Much closer to the present day, the necessity of improving the image of the body in relation with today's ideal shapes and standards also surfaced. Plastic Surgery is the most recent monospeciality in surgery. Despite this, in the last decades, "traditional" Plastic Surgery changed. Many techniques and types of surgical interventions which were part of the plastic surgeon's arsenal had been taken over and used by other specialties. In many cases, plastic surgeons became specialized in other, more restricted areas, or combined them with other clinical areas more or less related to one-another. An increasing number of plastic surgeons become incapable of covering the entire area of classical Plastic Surgery. As it is the case with General Surgery, Plastic Surgery as we know it is no more; thus, by presenting the past, we try to provide some information regarding the beginnings of our society. In so doing, we will come to the conclusion that there are some surgical procedures that had been in use for thousands of years and that are still appreciated at the present time in the day-to-day practice. Although the term "plastic" within "Plastic Surgery" comes from the Greek "plastikos" meaning "to model", the true origins of Plastic Surgery precede its linguistic roots by a long time. The origins of this specialty are documented in old Egyptian papyruses and in Sanskrit texts from Ancient India. The true date of birth for plastic and reconstructive surgery is still debated by historians. The Egyptian doctors are credited as the first performers of surgical interventions that belong to the current assembly of the specialty. The two World Wars of the twentieth century propelled Plastic Surgery into the sphere of public interest due to the extremely large number of both the traumas and their extreme complexity caused by weapons of mass destruction. During the conference at the National Theatre, Professor Ioan Lascăr, MD will hold a brief introduction about the history of Plastic Surgery both world-wide and in Romania, the factors that determined the split of this specialty from the body of general surgery, the factors that determined the rapid development of techniques within the specialty (conditioned by the two World Wars) and the development of plastic surgery in the 70's, especially the moment when reconstructive microsurgical techniques were introduced. The conference will end with the presentation of two cases that generated large interest in the media. About Professor Ioan Lascăr, MD He is the founder, administrator and head of the top Plastic Surgery and Reconstructive Microsurgery Ward at the Bucharest Emergency Hospital. Presently, the Ward tackles an extremely complex range of social problems, having more than 60 fully qualified plastic surgeons and surgeons undergoing training from a total of approximately 250 attending physicians and residents from across the country. The volume of activity and the complexity of the surgical interventions performed, its accessibility, doubled by the educational and scientific activity and its research, as well as the quality of the results make this Ward a successor of the Romanian School for plastic surgery. He is a permanent delegate for Romania in the European Board of Plastic Reconstruction and Aesthetic Surgery, permanently and actively involved in issues that regard international activity. Professor Ioan Lascăr, MD initiated and coordinated a number of educational, scientific and professional activities in the area of Plastic Surgery, as well as several national and international congresses. He trained residents and students from Romania, the United States of America, Ukraine, Albania, Greece, Italy, Germany, China, Syria, Iran, Lebanon, Qatar, Jordan, the Republic of Moldova, Yemen, Morocco, Serbia and the Mauritius Islands. He was the president of the Romanian Association of Plastic Surgeons between 2003 and 2010. Translated by: Tudor Alexandru-Ionuţ MTTLC, The University of Bucharest

Adriana Babeți will be holding the conference titled Amazons for Everyone on Sunday, the 2nd of March, at 11:00 a.m. The price of a ticket is 16 lei. About the Conference A conference on the subject of amazons cannot betray the spirit of the heroines who are presented to the audience. Hence, the conference was conceived as a battle, at the end of which both the topic and the audience need to be conquered. The book upon which this conference is based, titled Amazons: A Story and recently published at Polirom Publishing House, was designed in the same vein. Having this double target before her, Ms. Babeți will gradually besiege the most important themes regarding the story of the amazons. The amazonic myth, created by the ancient Greeks, will be encircled concentrically: starting with the origin of their name, moving on to their genealogy (who were their ancestors and protectors, what was the ancestry of the female fighters) and continuing with the lands bordering myth and reality where they supposedly lived. The notion of amazonstyle, describing their manner, their way of fighting, of loving and of dying, will be defined likewise. A veritable amazonsaga will be outlined, based on all of their actions (wars, hand-to-hand combat both on dry land and on sea, physical endurance trials, horseback riding and hunting). A detailed description of their physical aspect, their weaponry, their clothing, their hairstyle and even their diet will be provided. Last, but not least, a collection of the love and death stories of these strange women will be recounted. How will the amazons emerge from such a siege? Will they become stronger or will they be completely exhausted? Even if the last part of the conference will remain under the sign of a retreat, it will nevertheless not represent a defeat. After all, any retreat is just another way of fighting. At the end of the conference, when the question Amazons: A Story? will be raised, there will be no sign of surrender, but, on the contrary, the beginning of a new battle. About Ms. Adriana Babeți She is a professor at the West University of Timişoara, where she teaches comparative literature. She is also an editor for Horizon magazine. She curated the volumes In Favour of a Theory of the Text: A „Tel Quel" Anthology (1980) and Roland Barthes - The Novel on Writing (1987) together with Ms. Delia Şepeţean-Vasiliu. She coordinated, together with Mr. Cornel Ungureanu, the anthologies Central Europe: Neuroses, Dilemmas, Utopias (Polirom Publishing House, 1997) and Central Europe: Memory, Paradise, Apocalipse (Polirom Publishing House, 1998). She also selected and translated the texts for the Barbey d'Aurevilly anthology, titled Dandyism (Polirom Publishing House, 1st edition, 1995; 2nd revised edition, 2013).  She published the following volumes: Lost Battles: Dimitrie Cantemir, Reading Strategies (1997, The Writers' Union of Romania Award for criticism and literary history), The Dilemmas of Central Europe (1998), Arachne and the Web (2002), Dandyism: A History (Polirom Publishing House, 2004; The Writers' Union of Romania Award for criticism and literary history, the Romanian Association of General and Comparative Literature Award), Last Soufflé in Paris: 69 Culinary Recipes (Polirom Publishing House, 2006), The Banat Region: An Eldorado in Confines (coord., Cultures d'Europe Centrale, CIRCE, Université de Paris IV - Sorbonne, 2007), Prozac: 101 Pills for Happiness (Polirom Publishing House, 2009) and The Woman in Red (together with Mr. Mircea Mihăieş and Mr. Mircea Nedelciu, 1990, 1997, 1998; Polirom Publishing House, 2003, 2008, 2011; The Writers' Union of Romania Award for novel).   Translated by: Diana-Crezante Raicev MTTLC, The University of Bucharest

Sunday, 9th of February, 2014, at 11:00 a.m., in the Small Hall of the NTB will take place the conference with the theme Figaro's Myth. How can politics be likable? held by Sever Voinescu. Price ticket: 20 lei About the conference Figaro is one of the most famous and most charming characters from the world's history of theatre and opera. Alongside with Count Almaviva, Figaro is the hero of a trilogy written by Beaumarchais in the last quarter of the 18th century. Many show producers (directors, actors, etc.) and many critics saw, especially in the first two plays of the trilogy, The Barber of Seville and The Marriage of Figaro, an attractive personification of the political unrest of the French Revolution. Also, many literary historians saw direct connections between Figaro and the fabulous biography, full of the unbelievable political and commercial adventures and affairs of the author Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais. The fact that Figaro is suited for many readings isn't just the main argument of his everlasting, but also the proof of his relevance throughout centuries. Figaro still has a lot to say to today's Romania. But above all, Figaro can make our daily life more bearable, if not even pleasant. Because there is a lot of crowd ignorance, irritation and exasperation in the Romanian atmosphere in the past few years, we think it's better to look closer at Figaro and discover his therapeutic qualities in times like these. Examining Beaumarchais' plays, the two well-known operas by Mozart and Rossini, and also Beaumarchias' amazing biography, our conference will try to identify Figaro's 'art' and apply it to today's Romania. How could he have been efficient in antagonistic situations, in the name of the values he acted, and most of all how could he have been so sympathetic among so many antipathetic? Our argument is that Figaro made out of politics a likable and efficient occupation without making fun of it, without minimizing it, and especially without compromising it as an art of the possible. Can his 'recipe' be applied even today? About Sever Voinescu Sever Voinescu was born in 1969, in Ploiești. In 1992 he has graduated from the Faculty of Law at the University of Bucharest. In the same year he was called as a trainee lawyer at the bar from his hometown, and in 1994 he was called a permanent lawyer at the bar from Bucharest. Between 1994 and 1996 he was an Assistant Professor at the Academy of Economic Studies Law Faculty in Bucharest. Between 1998 and 2000 he was the General Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From March 2000 until December 2003 he was the General Consul of Romania in Chicago. From 2004 until 2008 he was the Coordinator of the External Politics Programme at the Institute for Public Politics. Between 2008 and 2012 he was a Member of the Romanian Parliament. From 2013 he came back to the Bar, within the law firm Trăilă & Voinescu. Beginning with October 2013 he writes every day an article dedicated exclusively to culture in the newspaper Evenimentul Zilei, continuing also his weekly collaboration at the newspaper Dilema Veche, where his column will turn 19 this year. He published over 3000 articles, comments and essays in cultural or daily publications such as Dilema/Dilema Veche, 22, Observator cultural, Cotidianul, Evenimentul Zilei, and also in specialized magazines from the domains of law, philosophy and political science. He held conferences on different subjects specific to international relations in public institutes or in the universities from United States, Great Britain, Belgium and France. He contributed at the content of many cultural themed books. His last book is dedicated to opera, entitled Canta che ti passa – conversations with Virginia Zeani, released in 2011. Translated by: Dumitrescu Ioana-Alexandra MTTLC, The University of Bucharest

Irina Margareta Nistor will hold a conference entitled "Cinema, the Only Certain Immortality", on Sunday, the 24th of November, at 11AM, in The Small Hall of the National Theatre of Bucharest. Entry fee: 16 lei About the Conference The first great actress who realized that the seventh form of art is the only way through which they can escape the dreadful spectrum of forgetfulness was Sarah Bernhardt: the divine lady took on the assumed risk of ridicule which this fascinating, but yet uncertain, invention faced in the beginning, and agreed to be a staggering, moving shadow in 1900 for Hamlet; to top it off, she was cross-dressing for the part. She shows up on the cinema canvas a few more times until 1923, where she ends her career - and life - as a fortune-teller, a psychic, as her brave decision to star on the big screen has proven. A few years later, our compatriot, Elvira Popescu - later known as Elvire Popesco - followed in her footsteps with a bright career in theatre, on the greatest scenes in Paris. Born on the 10th of May, 1894, one year before the Lumière Brothers' great discovery, she was to live for almost a century. Her debut took place in 1912 in The War for Independence, and she moved on to play in the films of the famous Carmine Gallone, Julien Duvivier, Sacha Guitry, Abel Gance, and René Clement - the latter offering her a part in Purple Noon(1960), where she co-starred with the charming Alain Delon, who would hold eternal gratitude towards her, confessing his utmost respect for the woman who showed him the ropes of theatre. We've recently rediscovered Alain Delon this year in Cannes, and you can see him at the NTB on Sunday, the 24th of November, in a recently restored copy of a cult classic. Sir Laurence Olivier himself "takes advantage" of the solution through which he would hold on to his memorable Shakespearian performances, which he also directs, to some extent. Times change, however, and now famous actors are craving for the thrill of meeting their audience, with its gaze and especially its applause. A notable, melodic and charming example is Woody Allen and his Jazz concerts. About Irina Margareta Nistor Born on the 26th of March 1957 in Bucharest, Irina Margareta Nistor graduated from the French-English section of the University of Bucharest in 1980, with a thesis on Cocteau and Cinematographic Poetry. She started translating for the Romanian Cinema in the same year, while working as an editor for the National Television, where she wrote subtitles for over 500 films. She later on became a host for shows such as Video-Ghid, Serialul Serialelor şi Ecranul, Perpetuum Mobile (For RomSat, where she is a programme director for an American company), Film Puzzle (TVR2) and Lexicon cinematografic, Universul Desenului Animat, De la Benzi Desenate la Fotograme Animate for TVR. She dubbed over 5000 English, French and Italian films between 1958 and 1996 (about which a documentary is currently in the works by a team in London, with a Romanian co-producer: Chuck Norris versus Communism.) She produced a series of cine-documentaries, Istoria se Repetă, concerning the years 1957, 1958 and 1959, made a portrait of Toma Caragiu and a study film about the impact that the Dallas series had over Romanians. She also attended seminars in Salzburg and participated at 8 editions of the European Forum of Cinema and Television. In 1993 she produced the program Romanian Cinematography after 1989 for the international channel TV5. She has interviewed famous figures such as Giuliano Gemma, Bernard Pivot, Alan J. Pakula, Frédéric Mitterrand, Rutger Hauer, Sam Karmann, Park Chan Wook, Anthony Minghella, Yann Tiersen, Jean-Claude Carrière, Julie Délpy, Grace Zabriskie, Pim Van Hoeve, Michael Nyman, Bruce Beresford, Peter Greenaway, Charles Aznavour, Francis Ford Coppola, the Dardenne brothers, Carole Bouquet, Isabelle Huppert, K. Zanussi, Ken Loach, and Istvan Szabo, as well as numerous ambassadors in Bucharest. She does the running commentaries for the César, Oscars, BAFTA, EMMY, and Cannes awards- where she announced Cristian Mungiu's winning the Palme d'Or - as well as for Tribute to the Heroes (a memorial show for the 9/11 victims), live from the studio. She personally films festivals in Karlovy-Vary, Reims, Stockholm, and Montreux, and does running commentaries from Cannes, Berlin, Namur, Tokyo, San Sebastian, Chișinău, Montreal, London, Rome and Venice for the radio, television and written press. She was editor-in-chief for the magazines Cinema paradis and Avanpremiera. She collaborated with various newspapers and magazines, such as Evenimentul Zilei, TV Mania, România Literară, Observator Cultural, Cotidianul, Almanahul Caţavencu, Privirea, România Liberă, Gazeta Teatrului, Ciao, and currently with LiterNet, Adevărul.ro, Timpul de la Iași, Ralix, and Pagini Românești, of New Zealand. She translated over 90 books, including dictionaries, plays and novels. She participated as an expert in communication at the Audio-Visual Translator's Congress, held by UNESCO in Strasbourg, in 1995. She prepared a lexicon of Romanian cinematographers who were born beyond the border, and wrote the introduction for a collection of Romanian film posters, which she then translated into French. She was an HBO adviser and a member of multiple Cinematography National Centre committees. In 1995 she was a member of the Dakino Festival jury, and in 1996 she served as Artistic Director for the Costineşti Festival. Since 2002 she's been a member of the preliminary jury of the Dakino International Film Festival, and joined the jury for Anonimul in 2007. She co-organises Romanian film festivals in Bordeaux, and, for the past 6 years, in Montreal. She's a member of multiple juries for local and international festivals, where she presents films and holds Q&A sessions. She was a member of the director committee of the SOROS Foundation in Romania, and is an honorific member of the Vodafone Foundation. For the past nine years and a half she's been moderating the show Vocea Filmelor, at first on Radio Total and later on Radio Guerilla. She started hosting a cinema blurb on Antena 1 in January 2013, twice a week - on Tuesdays and Thursdays - with Neața cu Răzvan și Dani. In 2006 she published a book about her mentor, a well-known Romanian cinema critic, called Magistrul - Povestea Bis a Maestrului D. I. Suchianu. She's been holding a master-class on the history of Romanian cinema, in English, during summer courses organized by ICR in Braşov which are aimed at expats, future diplomats and translators. She taught English for the Bucharest Conservatory between 1991 and 1996. She's a member of UCIN and chooses which films which are to be projected at Studio Cinema, while also participating annually at the Europe Cinema meetings in Cannes. She's been a director of the International Psychoanalysis and Film Festival in Bucharest - a replica of the London festival - since 2012. Translated by Ioana Fotache MTTLC, The University of Bucharest

The conference Medicine and the Art of Painting, held by professor Mircea Beuran, MD, will take place on Sunday, 10th November 2013, at 11 o'clock, at Sala Mică of The Bucharest National Theatre. Ticket fee: 16 lei. The conference will be followed by a recital held by Duo Sanda and Aurelian Octav Popa.   About the conference: Man has passions. As far as I am concerned, ‘medicine and painting' are my passions. For both of them, one must have a gift. The gift comes from God. Through the minds and hands of the doctor and of the painter, God purifies our everyday life. I invite you all to see my view regarding this subject at the sanctuary of our spirituality, The Bucharest National Theatre. Professor Mircea Beuran, MD   About Professor Mircea Beuran, MD Professor Mircea Beuran, MD is attending surgeon, university professor at the Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Bucharest, head of the Surgery Ward of the Bucharest Emergency Hospital, President of the Bucharest office of the Romanian Society for Trauma and Emergency Surgery and Doctor in Medicine since 1999. Since September 2007, he has been professor of surgical studies at the International School of Surgical Oncology affiliated to IASGO. In 2003 he was Ministry of Health. He is competent in trauma surgery, oncological surgery and laparoscopic surgery. Published books Manual of Surgery - Mircea Beuran (edited) - Carol Davila University Press, Bucharest, 2003. Practical Works - Mircea Beuran (edited), Carola Davila University Press, Bucharest, 2005. Co-author of several manuals, treaties and surgical studies. He was appointed Knight of the National Order Star of Romania in 2002.   Translated by: Tudor Ionuț and Leaua Doris MTTLC, The University of Bucharest

Sunday, May 26, at 11.00, at the NTB's Small Hall, Mihail Gălățanu will hold a conference on Our everyday wine. Ticket price: 16 lei. About the Conference Wine is life. And it is life in itself. Life broken out of passion, moreover, a meeting of all the arts, and a synthesis at the same time: symphony, logos, perfume, a palette of colours. Mihail Gălățanu About Mihail Gălățanu He was born on 11 September 1963, in Galaţi. He graduated the Faculty of Physics-Mechanics, 1988. He worked in research at the Polytechnics Bucharest. He is a graduate at a postgraduate school from Paris, majoring in International Relations from 1994 to 1995. Twice a Fellow of the French Government (1994) and the European Community (1995). He worked for the bilingual magazine Europe/Europ, published by the European Union. Editor in chief at Flacăra, Playboy, Flagrant etc. Cornel Nistorescu's deputy at Express and, later, at Evenimentul Zilei, where he works until 2004. He is director of the magazine Flacăra. Member of the Board of Directors, Editorial Board of the press trust S.C. Publicaţiile Flacăra S.A. Member of the Romanian Press Club, the Romanian Wine Club, the PEN Club and he is in the Board of Directors of the Writers' Union of Romania, the Bucharest branch of the Writers Association. In May 2012, his company, Rabbit Media, publishes a group of magazines on drink & food: Top Wines, Top Drink & Food etc. Books published: Poetry: News about Me, 1987; Gnashing in Fists, Gracefully, 1993; Grandfather Kennedy, 1996; The Gospel of Barabas, 1996; Everybody's Bride, 1997; Poetus Captivus, 1998; The Memorial of Pleasure, 2000; A night with Patria and Romania with Fooleries, 2001; The Bored Diapason, 2002; My Grave Digs Itself, 2003; Apocalypse through the Mouth of a Man, 2004; The Starry Belly, 2005; Diamond Heart, 2006; Amniotic Poems, 2008; Dead Person in Love 2009. Prose: The Craftsmen of Bells, novel, 1999, awarded with the "Liviu Rebreanu" National Prize for Prose; The Plant Street, short stories, 2001; The Bride without a Body, novel, 2006. The Plant Street and Other Stories, 2007, Stradivarius, 2008; French Cancan, 2009. ESSAY: Ghetto literature, vol. 1 - The Blinding of Tiresias/A Possible Manifesto of the 90's Generation; About Art, Mysticism and Madness. Other literary awards: the "Morning Star" Award at the Nicolae Labiş Festival; the Bucharest Writers Association Award; the National Award for Cinematographic Commentaries, the "Astra" Award; the "Branches" Award etc.   Translated by: Izabella Feher   Cumpără Bilete Online

Sunday, May 12, at 11.00, at the National Theatre's Small Hall, Prof. Dr. Florin Tudose will hold a conference on The Dream - from Divination and Dream Interpretation to the Dream Reading Machine. Ticket price: 16 lei. About the conference At the suggestion of the participants from the conference held on April 7, entitled The 21st Century Psychiatry, between Psychoanalysis and Cybernetics, the famous psychiatrist Florin Tudose returns to the Bucharest National Theatre with a new conference. On May 12, Prof. Dr. Florin Tudose will initiate us in the mysteries of the dream, but he will also try to answer to as many of the public's questions as possible, because he owes them explanations regarding the depths of the human soul. About Prof.Dr. Florin Tudose He is a Ph.D. University Professor, at the Faculty of Sociology - Psychology of the "Spiru Haret" University, Bucharest; the Head of the Liaison Psychiatry Department from the Emergency University Hospital, Bucharest. He founded and organized in 1980, together with Prof. Dr. C. Gorgos, the first mental health centre in Romania. He founded in 1995 the first service of Liaison Psychiatry, which became the centre of reference for psychiatric reform in Romania. He was named dean of the Faculty of Sociology - Psychology of the "Spiru Haret" University from December 2009 to May 2012. Significant works: He wrote many books and scientific papers, communicated or published in journals of clinical psychiatry, liaison psychiatry, correlation of the somatic disease -psychological aetiology, adolescent disorders, quality of life, interpersonal communication: The Family Doctor's Psychiatry (2013), Treaty of psychopathology and psychiatry for psychologists (2011), Psychiatry in medical practice (2007), Psychopathology and therapeutic guidelines in psychiatry (2007), Fundamentals in medical psychology - medical and clinical psychology in the psychologist's practice (first edition - 2003; second edition - 2006), Psychiatry in medical practice (2007), Wandering syndromes (2005), Horizons of the Medical Psychology (2003), The approach to the patient in psychiatry - practical guide (first edition - 2002, second edition - 2004), Sexology letter box (2004), Psychopathology and psychiatry for psychologists (2002). Other works: Treaty of psychiatry (Vol. II) The Reform without anaesthesia; Erotica in everyday life; Communication - prevention and therapy in cervical pathology; A modern approach to medical psychology. A special place holds the work Psychopolitics - a fake treaty on social psychopathology (1996), reprinted and completed in 2004 under the title Relapse psychopolitics, which is a comprehensive analysis of the phenomena occurring in the last two decades in the Romanian socio-political area, offering a gallery of portraits with those who are on the first stage of local politics. Between 2004 and 2009 he was the producer of over 200 TVR Medicina shows at the television station TVRM. He is a member in the editorial boards of the magazines: Infomedica, Psihiatru.Ro, Revista Medicală Română, Medicina Sexualităţii, Practica Medicală, and the Annals of the "Spiru Haret" University. He holds a tenured membership in the Disciplinary Committee of the Bucharest College of Physicians since 2005. He is an advisor of the National Programme "Health Education in Romanian Schools" since 2003. He is a consultant at the Romanian League for Mental Health since 2003. He was awarded the Romanian Psychiatric Association's prize for excellence in psychiatry in 2008. He was or still is a collaborator at the following publications: Viaţa Studenţească, Amfiteatru, Curierul Românesc, Expres, Evenimentul Zilei, Ochiul Soacrei, Libertatea, Formula AS, Privirea, Dilema, Banii Noştri, Almanahurile Academiei Caţavencu, Adevărul, România Liberă, Click, Psihologia. He has a permanent collaboration with the following radio and television stations: PRO TV, TVR 1, Realitatea TV, România TV, Antena 1, Prima TV, Speranța TV, Radio România Actualităţi, Radio Bucureşti, Radio Europa FM, Radio France International, BBC - the medical department, Radio Guerilla. Translated by: Izabella Feher

Sunday, April 7, at 11.00, at the NTB's Small Hall, Prof. Dr. Florin Tudose will hold a conference on The 21st Century Psychiatry, between Psychoanalysis and Cybernetics. Ticket price: 16 lei.   About the conference The twentieth century was certainly marked, not only in medicine, psychiatry, but also at the level of the whole European culture, and, reflexively, at the level of the American culture, by the Freudian psychoanalytic theory. This happened especially because this theory's derivative is a therapeutic method about which any literate has probably heard, at least once in their lifetime: psychoanalysis. Psychoanalysis penetrates into the depths of the human soul revealing the fantasies, frustrations, insecurities of each individual and the fact that they generate, in many cases, some of the diseases of the mind. From its beginnings, psychoanalysis has helped psychiatrists, and not only them, to discover the evil in man and to avoid, by using psychotherapy, its turning into disease and chaos. But no other century since the creation of the World was shaken by larger social cataclysms, caused by the evil spirit and the power fantasies of men, than the 21st century. Therefore, it can be rightly said that everyone who lived in the 21st century can be considered a survivor. The twentieth century was also the century of the limitless technological explosion and the birth of information technologies that have opened up a new world - one that includes in a global network everyone on the planet, who can communicate without boundaries - the Worldwide Web, the famous www. Under the effect of this network, in just two decades, culture, economy, education, medicine, and pathology have changed dramatically, the individual virtualizing its identity until near dissolution. If Freud discovered that in each of us functions a world of fantasy in completion to reality, the Internet transformed the real world into a deeply virtualized world, haunted by collective fantasies which travel at the speed of thought, and psychiatry can only wonder, as the apostle Peter did two millennia ago, "Quo vadis?" Prof. Dr. Florin Tudose   About Prof. Florin Tudose He is a Ph.D. University Professor, at the Faculty of Sociology - Psychology of the "Spiru Haret" University, Bucharest; the Head of the Liaison Psychiatry Department from the Emergency University Hospital, Bucharest. He founded and organized in 1980, together with Prof. Dr. C. Gorgos, the first mental health centre in Romania. He founded in 1995 the first service of Liaison Psychiatry, which became the centre of reference for psychiatric reform in Romania. He was named dean of the Faculty of Sociology - Psychology of the "Spiru Haret" University from December 2009 to May 2012. Significant works: He wrote many books and scientific papers, communicated or published in journals of clinical psychiatry, liaison psychiatry, correlation of the somatic disease -psychological aetiology, adolescent disorders, quality of life, interpersonal communication: The Family Doctor's Psychiatry (2013), Treaty of psychopathology and psychiatry for psychologists (2011), Psychiatry in medical practice (2007), Psychopathology and therapeutic guidelines in psychiatry (2007), Fundamentals in medical psychology - medical and clinical psychology in the psychologist's practice (first edition - 2003; second edition - 2006), Psychiatry in medical practice (2007), Wandering syndromes (2005), Horizons of the Medical Psychology (2003), The approach to the patient in psychiatry - practical guide (first edition - 2002, second edition - 2004), Sexology letter box (2004), Psychopathology and psychiatry for psychologists (2002). Other works: Treaty of psychiatry (Vol. II) The Reform without anaesthesia; Erotica in everyday life; Communication - prevention and therapy in cervical pathology; A modern approach to medical psychology. A special place holds the work Psychopolitics - a fake treaty on social psychopathology (1996), reprinted and completed in 2004 under the title Relapse psychopolitics, which is a comprehensive analysis of the phenomena occurring in the last two decades in the Romanian socio-political area, offering a gallery of portraits with those who are on the first stage of local politics. Between 2004 and 2009 he was the producer of over 200 TVR Medicina shows at the television station TVRM. He is a member in the editorial boards of the magazines: Infomedica, Psihiatru.Ro, Revista Medicală Română, Medicina Sexualităţii, Practica Medicală, and the Annals of the "Spiru Haret" University. He holds a tenured membership in the Disciplinary Committee of the Bucharest College of Physicians since 2005. He is an advisor of the National Programme "Health Education in Romanian Schools" since 2003. He is a consultant at the Romanian League for Mental Health since 2003. He was awarded the Romanian Psychiatric Association's prize for excellence in psychiatry in 2008. He was or still is a collaborator at the following publications: Viaţa Studenţească, Amfiteatru, Curierul Românesc, Expres, Evenimentul Zilei, Ochiul Soacrei, Libertatea, Formula AS, Privirea, Dilema, Banii Noştri, Almanahurile Academiei Caţavencu, Adevărul, România Liberă, Click, Psihologia. He has a permanent collaboration with the following radio and television stations: PRO TV, TVR 1, Realitatea TV, România TV, Antena 1, Prima TV, Speranța TV, Radio România Actualităţi, Radio Bucureşti, Radio Europa FM, Radio France International, BBC - the medical department, Radio Guerilla.   Translated by: Izabella Feher Cumpara Bilete Online