NTB Conferences

Sunday, 22nd April, at 11:00, at the National Theatre's Black Box, Acad. Marius Sala will hold a conference on the theme How I became a linguist. Ticket prices: 23 and 10 lei.                    About Acad. Marius Sala He was born in Vaşcău, Bihor County. He graduated from the ‘Samuil Vulcan' High School from Beiuş (1943 - 1951) and the Faculty of Philology, Bucharest University (1951 - 1955). From 1953 he works at the Romanian Academy's Institute of Linguistics from Bucharest, at present the ‘Iorgu Iordan - Al. Rosetti' Institute of Linguistics: researcher (1955 - 1962), principal researcher (1962 - 1967), principal researcher I (from 1981), chief of the Romance languages department (1967 - 1995), scientific secretary (1968 - 1990), deputy president (1990 - 1994), president (from 1994). He received his PhD. in Philology in 1967 with the thesis The Phonetics and Phonology of Judeo-Spanish in Bucharest, coordinator acad. Iorgu Iordan.    Titular member of the Romanian Academy (2001), corresponding member of the Real Academia Española (1978), of the Instituto Mexicano de Cultura (1981), of the Romanian Academy (1993), of the Academia Nacional de Letras from Uruguay (1994), and of the Academia Peruana de la Lengua (2004).  He is Doctor Honoris Causa of the universities from Arad (‘Aurel Vlaicu'), Craiova, Oradea and Timişoara. University professor at the Christian University ‘Dimitrie Cantemir' from Bucharest, he holds classes and seminars at the University from Bucharest (1963-65, 1967-68, 1970, 1972-73, 1995-96), master degree classes at the West University and at the ‘Tibiscus' Institute from Timişoara (1992 - 2004). He was a guest professor at the universities from Heidelberg (1971), Mexico (1981), Cologne (1984), Frankfurt (1992-93), Oviedo (1994), Málaga (1968, 1970, 1978, 1979), Madrid (1978, 1981), Udine (2002).   Editor-in-chief of the Romanian Language Dictionary (= the Academy's dictionary), The Romanian Language Etymology Dictionary, The History of the Romanian Language, the Small Dictionary of the Academy 4 vol. Scientific consultant, the initiator and the coordinator of the series Etymologica and The Romanian Language at the Encyclopedic Universe Publishing House from Bucharest.     President of the Romanian Academy's Committee for Cultivating the Romanian Language. President of the Latin Union's Bureau from Romania (from 1990). Member in the Project of the Mediterranean Linguistic Atlas (1960), the International Council of Onomastic Sciences (1969), Junta Directiva of the International Hispanic Association (1974 - 1980), The Romance Linguistics Association's Bureau (1974-1980, 1989-2001), Permanent International Committee of Linguists (1987 - 1992), the ALFAL Committee (1985), member of honor in The Romance Linguistics Association's Bureau (2004). Member in the editorial boards of the magazines Linguistic Studies and Researches (secretary of the editorial office (1957 - 1971), adjunct editor-in-chief (from 1971), at present editor-in-chief), Revue roumaine de linguistique (1957-1971 secretary of the editorial office, from 2005 editor-in-chief), The Romanian Language (from 1971, at present editor-in-chief), Bulletin de la Société roumaine de linguistique romane (1971, editor-in-chief). Member in the editorial board of the international magazines Revue de linguistique romane (1974-1980, 1989-2001), Iberoromanica (Tübingen, 1980), Anuario de lingüística hispánica (Valladolid, 1985), Beiträge zur romanischen Philologie (Berlin, 1988), Lexis (Peru, 2002), of the series Patronymica Románica (Trier). Secretary of the executive committee of the 12th International Congress of Linguists (Bucharest, 1967) and of the 12th  International Congress of Linguists and Romance Philology (Bucharest, 1968). PhD. coordinator from 1969 (including foreign post-graduate students). He held conferences about linguistics at the universities from Aachen, Berlin, Bochum, Bonn, Erlangen, Freiburg, Giessen, Halle, Heidelberg, Jena, Kiel, Köln, Konstanz, Leipzig, Mainz, Marburg, Munich, Münster, Regensburg, Siegen, Stuttgart, Tübingen (Germany); Alcalá de Henares, Barcelona, Cáceres, Granada, Léon, Madrid, Málaga, Oviedo, Salamanca, Santiago de Compostela, Seville, Valencia, Valladolid, Zaragoza (Spain); Strasbourg, Nancy (France); Zürich (Switzerland); Anvers, Gand, Louvain (Belgium); Lund, Uppsala (Sweden); Helsinki, Turku (Finland); Vienna (Austria); Edinburgh, Manchester, St. Andrews (England); Ann Arbor, Austin, Bloomington, Boston, Chicago, Houston, Ithaca, Madison, New Orleans, New York, Philadelphia, Providence, Urbana (USA); Ottawa, Québec, Toronto (Canada); Mexico; Caracas, Maracaibo, Mérida (Venezuela); Bogotá (Columbia); Quito (Ecuador), Arequipa, Cuzco, Lima, Trujillo (Peru); Montevideo (Uruguay); Havana (Cuba); Jerusalem (Israel); Luxemburg; Braga, Coimbra, Lisboan, Porto (Portugal), Athens, Thessaloniki (Greece), Vršec (Serbia-Montenegro), Roma, Lecce, Cagliari, Napoli, Pisa, L'Aquila, Padua, Venice, Masserata, Florence, Milano.   The Romanian Academy's Prize (1971, 1981, 1989), The Prize of the Mexican Academy's Centennial (1975). Organizer of the Romanian Academy's bimonthly conferences The Romanian Language and its Relations with the History and Culture of the Romanians, from 1995 two cycles per year. Communications at several international linguistic congresses: Amsterdam, Montevideo, Nijmegen, Mexico, Bucharest, La Valetta, Santiago de Compostella, Strasbourg, Zürich, Trier, Neuchâtel, Rio de Janeiro, Palermo, Anvers, Jerusalem, Namur, Nancy, Athens, Thessaloniki, Salamanca.   Plenum reporter at: I International Congress of American Spanish, San Juan, Puerto Rico (1983); the AEPE Congress - Cambridge (1984); the International Congress of Hispanic Studies, Birmingham (1995). Romanian's coordinator for the PATROM Project. President of the Romanian Pavilion at the EXPO '92 from Seville; general commissar of the Romanian Pavilion at EXPO '98 Lisbon. Books: Contributions to the historic phonetics of the Romanian language, Bucharest, 1970; Estudios sobre el judeo-español de Bucarest, Mexico, 1970; Phonétique et phonologie du judéo-espagnol de Bucarest, Haga, 1971; Contributions à la phonétique historique du roumain, Paris 1976; Le judéo-espagnol, Haga, 1976; El léxico indígena del español de América. Apreciaciones sobre su vitalidad* , Mexico 1977; A small compendium of the world's languages*, Bucharest 1981; El Español de América. I. Léxico*, Bogotá, 1982; Les langues du monde. Petite encyclopédie*, Paris, 1984; Etymology and the Romanian language*, Bucharest 1987; Representative Vocabulary of the Romance Languages*, Bucharest, 1988; El problema de las lenguas en contacto, Mexico, 1988; The encyclopedia of Romance languages, Bucharest, 1989; L'unité des langues romanes, Bucharest, 1996; Languages in contact, Bucharest, 1997; Lenguas en contacto, Madrid, 1998 ; From Latin to Romanian, Bucharest, 1998 ; Introduction in the etymology of the Romanian language, Bucharest, 1999; Du latin au roumain, Bucharest-Paris, 1999; May we introduce the Romanian Language to you ?*, Bucharest 2000; Ratengo kara rumaniago he-rumania goshi, Osaka, 2001; Europe's languages*, Bucharest, 2001; Să facem cunoştinţă cu limba română*, Cluj, 2001; Connaissez-vous le roumain?*, Bucharest, 2001; The encyclopedia of the Romanian language*, Bucharest, 2001; Del latín al rumano, Paris- Bucharest, 2002; Dal latino al romeno, Torino, 2004, From Latin to Romanian, Mississippi, 2005. He published over 400 articles on linguistics in the country and abroad. He collaborated at the Encyclopaedia Britannica and Micropaedia (Britannica) - 27 articles.      Translated by: Izabella Feher MTTLC, Bucharest University.

Sunday, 25th March, at 11:00, at the National Theatre's Black Box, Prof. Dr. Dorin Sarafolenu will hold a conference with the theme Voice, Language, Communication. Ticket prices: 23 and 10 lei.   About the conference The voice is the essential element of interpersonal communication. Four-fifths of communication is made through voice and speaking. Communication stands at the cradle of human and social evolution, from Homo Erectus to the modern societies. The development of the arts, sciences, thought and philosophy is a result of the interpersonal communication. Therefore, humans need communication. "I feel the need to share with others what I know in order not to be lonely" (Octavian Paler)   About Prof. Dr. Sarafoleanu University professor, tenured member of the Academy of Medical Sciences. He is the author of 12 specialty monographies, which were published in Romania and abroad, and of a large number of articles, papers and scientific communications held at national and international conventions and conferences. President of some prestigious international societies - Conventus ORL Latina, SFORL (the French Society of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology) - and vice-president of EUFOS (European Federation of Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Societies).       He founded the 'Sfânta Maria' ENT Clinique more than 40 years ago and holds several priorities in the modernization of Romanian Otolaryngology: LASER surgery, immunology in the ENT pathology - a prediction agent for laryngeal cancer. His activity was appreciated and awarded with Romanian and international prizes and distinctions.   Translated by: Izabella Feher MTTLC, Bucharest University    

Sunday, 11th March, at 11:00, at the National Theatre's Black Box, Mircea Vasilescu will hold a conference on the theme Reading in the Internet Era. What is Lost and what is Gained. Ticket prices: 23 and 10 lei.   About the conference For some years, we hear and read that ‘culture is dying' or that ‘people do not read as much as they used to', and the Internet is considered to be one of the culprits. In fact, people read a lot on the Internet. The Internet also makes it possible for us to access books and libraries of which we did not even dream about. What and how do people read? In what way are our reading habits influenced and changed by the new technology?    Maybe the problem is not that ‘people read less', but that ‘people read different'.   About Mircea Vasilescu Reader and PhD. at the  Faculty of Letters from the University of Bucharest, where he teaches cultural journalism and the history of Romanian literature, he is also editor-in-chief at the Dilema veche magazine. He taught at the ‘La Sapienza' University from Rome, at the University from Antwerp and at the University from Vienna. He published, among others, the volumes Dear Reader...Reading, Public and Communication in the Old Romanian Culture (Paralela 45 Publishing house, 2001), Mass-Comedy. Situations and Manners of the Transition Press (Curtea Veche Publishing house, 2001), Your Europe. Round Trip between ‘us' and ‘them' (Polirom Publishing house, 2007), Eurotextes. Le continent qui nous sépare (MetisPresses, Geneva, 2010). He translated Michel Foucault (The History of Madness in the Classical Age, Humanitas Publishing house), François Furet (Interpreting the French Revolution, Humanitas Publishing house), Sergio Romano (Fifty Years of World History, The Publishing house of the Romanian Cultural Foundation). At the Dilema magazine (from 2004, Dilema veche) he had, for a few years, a column about mass-media (‘The global village'), and from 2004 he is in charge of the column ‘Your Europe', dedicated to the problems concerning the European integration. He is a member in Eurozine's editorial board (the European network of cultural magazines, www.eurozine.com).   Translated by: Izabella Feher MTTLC, Bucharest University               

Sunday February 26th, at 11:00, at the National Theatre's Black Box, Lucian Boia will hold a conference on the theme The intellectual elite of the 30's. A new perspective Ticket prices: 23 and 10 lei. About the conference ‘We would assume that the intellectual is most of all, a free man. That does not mean that he actually is. He is submitted, like everybody else, to the historical conjunctures and the ideological pressures. In a way or another, his career is independent of the ruling Power (even more in an authoritarian regime and, without a doubt, in a totalitarian one). Not few intellectuals, for that matter, have the fascination of Power; they feel stronger, sheltered in its shade. In any case, the intellectual has an ability: to find at any time arguments to justify everything and himself. Especially when he thinks that history has given its verdict. For the intellectual, the voice of history is irresistible.' Lucian Boia   About Lucian Boia Born in Bucharest on February 1st 1944, he is a professor at the Bucharest University's Faculty of History. His work, vast and various, is composed of numerous titles published in Romania and France, as well as translations in English, German and other languages. Mainly preoccupied by the history of ideas and the imaginary, he stands out because of his theoretical papers regarding history (Playing with the past. History between truth and fiction) and the imaginary (For a history of the imaginary), as well as because of his consequent investigation of a large range of mythologies (from extraterrestrial life and the end of the world to communism, nationalism and democracy). He also came up with new interpretations regarding the history of the Occident and of France. In 1997, his work, History and myth in Romanian consciousness, caused a great stir and remained since then a check point in redefining national history.   (data taken from  www.humanitas.ro) Translated by: Izabella Feher MTTLC, Bucharest University

Sunday February 12th, at 11.00, at the National Theatre's Black Box, Ion Bulei will hold a conference on the theme: The Modern Romanian Political Elite. Ticket prices: 23 and 10 lei. About the conference What is political elite? Is history a succession of elites or just a succession of generations? What was the geopolitical frame of the Romanian political elite's emergence and what was the evolution of this elite from 1848 to the present day? Who are the people that form the elite? In what circumstances becomes P.P. Carp's affirmation from 1918 real, according to which ‘Romania is so lucky that it does not need authorities? And what about the nowadays protesters' affirmation from the National Theatre's square: Lost political class. I declare it void? Ion Bulei About Ion Bulei He was born on March 30th 1941 in Comarnic, Prahova County. In 1965 he graduated from the Bucharest University's Faculty of History and in 1968 postgraduate International Relation courses. He has a PhD in history from 1976. He was an editor at the Encyclopedical Publishing House (1968 - 1969), a researcher at the Institute of History and Social Politics studies (1971 - 1989). He was a cultural attaché in Rome (1990 - 1993). Director at the Romanian Institute of Culture from Venice (1997 - 2003). From 1992 he is a university professor at the Bucharest University's Faculty of History. Between 1998 and 2003 he taught at the Ca' Foscari University from Venice (1998 - 2003). He was the head of the Romanian History Department (2004 - 2008). He is a supervisor for diploma and PhD papers (from 1996). He was the director of the Romanian Academy's Political Science and International Relations Institute (2003 - 2011). He is a member in the Association Internationale d'Histoire de l'Europe Bureau, elected in 2010, at the World History Congress from Amsterdam. He was awarded with the Romanian Academy's Nicolae Iorga prize in 1990 (for the study The Political System of Modern Romania. The Conservatory Party, published in 1987). The History Magazine's Ion Ghica Prize, for the short study A Short Romanian History, published in 1997. The Writers Union's prize, 2003, for the studies Breve storia dei romeni, published in 2000, in Italy, and 35 anni di relazioni italo-romene, 1879-1914. Documenti diplomatici italiani (together with Rudolf Dinu). He was decorated with the Romanian Star order, the officer title (2000). Doctor Honoris Causa of the Ovidius University from Constanţa, 2009.                       Translated by: Izabella Feher MTTLC, Bucharest University         

Sunday January 29th, at 11:00, at the National Theatre's Black Box, the conference on the theme Europe's Destiny will be held by Andrei Marga. Ticket prices: 23 and 10 lei.           About the conference The conference resumes the question about the destiny of Europe and its rationalities. The distance is taken from Spengler and Keyserling. Nowadays, the destiny is being split in a batch of alternatives - arguments Andrei Marga. The conference clears up, as a premise for their establishment, the European identity (proposing the ‘generative concept'), ‘the sources' (Europe's major ‘inheritances'), it evokes Europe's present difficulties and the current diagnostics (‘the postmodern society', ‘the society of void', ‘the civic society', ‘the society of risk', ‘the society of communication', ‘the society of knowledge', ‘the invisible society', ‘the post secular society', ‘the infantile society', ‘the society of indifference', ‘the uncertain society'). Andrei Marga explains Europe's destiny as a result of the intermingling of alternatives in 5 crucial points: the reassuming of democracy not only as an election technique, but also as a ‘life style', the reconstruction of the social state, the reassuming of Europe's characteristic values, understanding of sciences in the context of genesis and application and theming of senses. Europe's destiny depends on a cultural anamnesis and intellectual innovations, fit for a profoundly changed world.   About Andrei Marga Rector of the Babeş-Bolyai  University (1993-2004, 2008-2012), he was the Romanian Minister of National Education, member in academies and managing boards from several international organizations, Andrei Marga is one of the most outstanding personalities in the Romanian field of philosophy.                  Andrei Marga published numerous philosophy volumes (Rationality, Communication, Argumentation, 1991; Introduction in the Philosophical Methodology and Argumentation, 1992; Introduction in the Contemporary Philosophy, 2002; The Philosophy of European Unification, 2003; Religion in the Globalization Era, 2003; Die kulturelle Wende. Philosophische Konsequenzen der Transformation, 2004; Habermas' Philosophy, 2006; Relativism and Its Consequences, 2007; Philosophia et Theologia Hodie, 2008; The Big Brothers. Meetings with Judaism, 2009; The Absolute in the Present Day. Joseph Ratzinger's Theology and Philosophy, 2010; Argumentation, 2010; Riflessioni italiane, 2011; The Destiny of Europe, 2011). The writings are well known in the country and abroad. He was distinguished with Ordine della Stella della Solidarietà Italiana (Italy, 2009), Medaglia Pontificia. Anno I. BenedictusXVI (Vatican, 2006), Medaglia Pontificia. Anno XXVI. Joannes Paulus II (Vatican, 2005), Das Grosse Verdienstkreuz (Germany, 2003), Gra-Cruz da Ordem National do Merito (Portugal, 2000), Ordinul Naţional Pentru Merit, the rank Mare Cruce (Romania, 2000), Grand Officier de l'Ordre National du Mérit (France, 1999), as well as with prizes, honorific titles and medals in Slovenia, Hungary, Israel, U.S.A., France, Moldavia, Germany, Azerbaijan. He was awarded the Prize of the Sara and Haim Ianculovici Foundation (Israel, 2008), the Herder Prize (Germany - Austria, 2005) and other international prizes.   Translated by: Izabella Feher MTTLC, Bucharest University   

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

Sunday, the 18th December, at 11:00, in the National Theatre's Black Box, a conference will take place on the theme: The Heartbeats' Story held by Prof. Dr. Eduard Apetrei. Ticket prices: 23 and 10 lei. About the conference "The heart, through its beats, applauds our existence, said Lucian Blaga. The heartbeats represent the heart's way to communicate with the entire body, through a certain language which is being decoded nowadays. The first rhythm we hear is produced in our intrauterine life and it is the rhythm of the mother's heart. This rhythm is retained in our subconsciousness and is deposited in a certain part of the brain, this is the rhythm that will later on influence in some way or another our evolution. Along the history, the heartbeats were interpreted in various ways. Today it is known that the number of heartbeats, in our entire lifetime, is genetically determined. If the heart beats slower (55 - 65 beats/minute) we have the chance to live longer". Prof.Dr. Eduard Apetrei   About Prof. Dr. Eduard Apetrei University Professor of Cardiology Cardiologist at the "C.C. Iliescu" Cardiology Institute Bucharest Doctor Honoris Causa at the University of Medicine Iaşi Vice-president at the Academy of Medical Sciences. Born on the 11th October 1937, Blăgeşti, Bacău county. Education: Ferdinand High School from Bacău, The Faculty of Medicine from Iaşi (1954-1960), courses and practical internships on cardiology in the country (1965-1966) and in various cardiology areas in France (1972), Finland (1972), Belgium (1972), England (1993), USA (1994). Activity: Intern: Oneşti (1960-1964), secondary cardiologist (1965). From the year 1965 he activates in the Carol Davila University of Medicine, Bucharest: tutor, assistant, lecturer, reader (1991), professor (1993). He was the head of the cardiology clinic (1992-2003), PhD in Medicine (1973) cardiologist (1974), Visiting Professor at the Bowman Gray University, North Carolina (America) for three months (1994). Member in the European Committee specialized in cardiology (1995-2010), member in the European Committee for accreditation in echocardiography (2000-2005). Coordinating editor of the Romanian Cardiology Magazine (1991-2004), editor-in-chief of the Romanian Cardiology Magazine (from 2004). Member in the editorial office committee of some medical magazines from our country and abroad. Competency area: cardiology, echocardiography, vascular Doppler. Research: He studied cardiomyopathy, arterial hypertension, congenital diseases, valvulopathies and particularly echocardiographic changes in various cardiology areas. He has a substantial contribution in introducing echocardiography in Romania, organizing courses in the area before many other European countries, he wrote the first treatise on echocardiography from the country. The Cardiology Clinic received the title of Center of Excellence in the time he was the head of the clinic. He contributed to the development of the modern cardiology in Romania, continuing the work of his predecessors. From the year 1982 he is an in board member of the Romanian Society of Cardiology, secretary (1990-1994), and president (1994-1998) of this Society. Her organized and conducted innumerable European cardiology and echocardiography congresses with papers or conferences, moderating sessions. Member in the scientific committee of some European or global congresses, lector or moderator at international courses. National coordinator of seven multinational research contracts. Publications: Author of 16 cardiology books. Among them we mention: Mechanophonocardiography (1977), Periferic Arteriopathies (1979), Ischemic cardiomyopathy (1981), Echocardiography (1990), Cardiologic News Reel (1998), Congenital Diseases (2001), Electrocardiography (2002), Echocardiography in images (2002), Cardiology - commented and illustrated cases vol. I - IV (2002-2005), Romanian Medical Encyclopedia from its origins to the present (2008). He wrote 32 chapters in treaties and monographies, more than 280 published papers.  Affiliations: Member of the Medical Science Academy (vice-president from 2007), Fellow of the European Cardiology Society, member of numerous cardiology and echocardiography international scientific societies. Presence in Who's who. Distinctions: The National Order - The Faithful Service with the Commander title; the Iuliu Haţieganu Award of the Romanian Academy, Honoured Citizen of the commune Blăgeşti, Honoured Citizen of the city Bacău.     Translated by: Izabella Feher MTTLC, Bucharest University

On Sunday, December 4th, Daniel Cristea-Enache, will hold a conference called "A lecturer ends to be a haulier: the Ion D. Sîrbu case" at the National Theatre of Bucharest in the The Black Box. The conference will also have a video projection made by the artist Ion Barbu. Tickets can be found at the price of 23 lei and 10 lei. About the conference "Ion D. Sîrbu is the Romanian post war writer with the most spectacular posthumous career. He died in 1989, two months before the revolution. As opposed to other Romanian writers, his drawer was full of manuscripts, among which The journal of a journalist without a journal (Jurnalul unui jurnalist fără jurnal) and Farwell, Europe! (Adio, Europa!) Ion D. Sîrbu was the model of Victor Petrini, the protagonist from Marin Preda's The Most Beloved of Earthling. The two characters have a similar destiny: they start from a carrer in university, they are kept prisoners for political beliefs and then they return to working on lower positions Petrini starts working with the team clearing of rats and Sîrbu becomes a haulier. For the vigilant eyes of the political activists, political instructors and informers back then, Ion D. Sîrbu was a case. They were right" Daniel Cristea-Enache About Daniel Cristea-Enache He was born on February 19th 1974 in Bucharest and he graduated the Faculty of Letters from University of Bucharest, in 1996 as a valedictorian. In 2005 he gets his summa cum laude PhD in Philology at the University of Bucharest with a thesis about Ion D. Sîrbu. He was a reviser at Contemporanul - ideea europeană (1994-1996), where he made his debut, than an editor at Caiete critice (1996-1999), an assistant at The G. Călinescu Institute (1997-2002) and at the Romanian literature department within the Faculty of Letters from the University of Bucharest. He was a general secretary of the editorial board of the Romanian Cultural Foundation's Publishing house (since 1999), than he became the director of the Romanian Cultural Institute's Publishing house, associate editor for the newspaper Adevărul literar şi artistic (2003-2005) and director of photography for the Corint Editorial Publishing house (2005-2007). At the moment he is an associate Professor and editorial counselor for the Polirom Publishing house. He wrote the literary chronicle for the newspaper Adevărul literar şi artistic (1997-2005) than for România literară (2005-2009) and Observator cultural (2009-2011), where he publisherd studies, essays, interviews. He collaborated with Ziarul de duminică, Suplimentul de cultură, Cultura, Idei în dialog, Bucureştiul cultural, Convorbiri literare, Caiete critice, and with the newspapers: Evenimentul zilei, Gândul educaţional and Adevărul. He hosts a radio show at Radio Romania Culture and one on LiterNet and he also moderates a TV show on TVR Cultural. He was a co-author for the Romanian Writers' Essential Dictionary (Dicţionarul esenţial al scriitorilor români) and the Romainan Wrtiters' Dictionary, 4th edition (Dicţionarul scriitorilor români, IV, coordinators: Mircea Zaciu, Marian Papahagi, Aurel Sasu; 2001, 2002), Romanian literature. Dictionary of literary works (Literatura română. Dicţionar de opere coordinator: Mircea Anghelescu; 2003), The General Dictionary of the Romanian Literature (Dicţionarul General al Literaturii Române, coordinator: Eugen Simion; 2004-2009). Published volumes: Opening Concert (Concert de deschidere), Romanian Cultural Foundation's Publishing house, 2001 (Debut Award of România literara, Debut Award of the Romanian Writer's Union and The Titu Maiorescu Award of the Romanian Academy); second edition, electronic format, LiterNet Publishing house, 2004 Ileana Mălăncioiu, An appeal to memory. Conversations with Daniel Cristea-Enache, ( Recursul la memorie. Convorbiri cu Daniel Cristea-Enache), Polirom Publishing house, 2003 Romanian Writer's drawer. Dialogues on paper (Sertarul Scriitorului Român. Dialoguri pe hârtie), Polirom Publishing house, 2005 Bucharest Far West. Sequences of Romanian Literature (Bucureşti Far West. Secvenţe de literatură română), Albatros Publishing house, 2005 Eastern Man (Un om din Est), Curtea Veche Publishing house, 2006 ( an award for critique and literary history from the Romanian Writer's Union) Conversations with Octavian Paler (Convorbiri cu Octavian Paler), Corint Publishing house, 2007 New era. Sequences of Romanian Literature (Timpuri noi. Secvenţe de literatură română), Cartea Românească Publishing house, 2009 Lyrica magna. Essay on Nichita Stănescu‘s poetry (Lyrica magna. Eseu despre poezia lui Nichita Stănescu), Curtea Veche Publishing house, 2010 Empty cinematograph (Cinematograful gol), Polirom Publishing house, 2011 Translated by: Oana Marina Silişte MTTLC, University of Bucharest

Sunday 20th November, at 11:00, at the National Theatre's Black Box, a conference will take place with the theme: A lifetime together with Romanian literature held by Georgeta Dimisianu. Ticket prices: 23 and 10 lei. About the conference I will not hold a conference, in the common sense of the word. Too many conferences, too many symposiums in the last 20 years. I would like to bring some evidence about an epoch which risks to be more and more misunderstood, about a world in that I lived - the literary world -, about the writers that I have met and that I have edited, about their books that made us, as one of them said, understand that no dictatorship is perfect. Georgeta Dimisianu About Georgeta Dimisianu Famous editor and an important witness of the Romanian literary life of the last five decades, Georgeta Dimisianu was, from 1963 to 1970, editor at the State Publishing House for Literature and Art (ESPLA) and afterwards, between 1970 and 1984, editor at the Cartea Românească (the Romanian Book) Publishing House. In 1984 she was moved, in just 24 hours, because of a scandal with the censorship, to the Scientific and Encyclopedic Publishing House, where she was an editor until March 1990. Also in 1984, more than 70 writers signed a protest defending Georgeta Dimiseanu, protest that was forwarded to the Writer's Union and the Council of Culture. In 1990 she was named by the Minister of Culture, Andrei Pleşu, editor-in-chief and afterwards director at the Albatros Publishing House, where she activated until 2006. From 2006 to 2009 she was in charge of the Publishing House and the magazine Historia. From September 2009 she is the editor-in-chief at the History and Civilization  magazine. Translated by: Izabella Feher MTTLC, Bucharest University