NTB Conferences

Video-streaming On Sunday, June 16th, 2019, from 11.00 a.m., the TNB Small Hall shall host Marian Voicu’s conference on the topic of The Romanian Treasure in Moscow - a Historical, Political or International Law Issue? About the Conference It is Romania's oldest litigation. 100 years, two world wars, revolutions, coups, waves of famine and deportations have passed since. The world has undergone tremendous transformations, but the matter of the Treasure has remained the axis on which the Romanian-Russian vane still pivots. For most of the Romanians, the Treasure means the gold of the National Bank of Romania. Yet it represented less than one-tenth of the value of the goods evicted to Russia in 1916 and 1917. The Romanians then dispatched the treasures of the National Bank and of the Deposits and Consignments Office, private banks and public institutions, Crown jewels, the most important art objects from museums and private collections, monasteries, numismatic collections, state archives, diplomatic archives, manuscripts, rare books, and finally, as a heritage, the identity of the Romanian nation since the 14th century. However, inventories are, with the exception of the NBR gold, incomplete and never centralized. After more than 100 years, the fundamental questions remain the same: what have we sent and what have we received? Is there still a topical Treasure issue? Does it pertain to political, historical or international law? What is the Romanian-Russian legal department? How important are the new documents that continue to appear? There is no similar dispute in the world. If for 100 years, Romanians have been talking about the Romanian Treasure, the Russians prefer to talk about the history of the Romanian Treasure. For Romanians, solving the Treasure issue would improve the bilateral relationship. For the Russians, improving bilateral relations would lead to the Treasure's problem solving. Is this an inextricable situation? Marian Voicu About Marian Voicu Marian Voicu is a journalist and documentary filmmaker. He has worked for over 20 years on television and radio as a moderator and producer of various journalistic formats. For ten years, he has documented for the Romanian National Television the Romanian communities - from Istroromans and Aromanians to Romanians over the Bug and those from the Russian Federation. He was a project manager at Radio Romania Kishinev, a broadcaster released in 2011. The most recent documentary films include Breaking Fake News: The war after the Cold War? (2017) and Torna, torna, fratre: The Aromanian story told by themselves (2015). He has published the Matrioshka of Liars: Fake news, manipulation, populism (Humanitas, 2018), Cotovschi's Dream, in the collective volume The Russians are coming! (Humanitas, 2018) and the Romanian Treasure of Moscow: The Inventory of a Century-Old History (Humanitas, 2016). He has received several national and international awards, most recently the Gold Medal of the United Nations Correspondents' Association for the documentary film Exodus: A Syrian Tragedy (2015). He was decorated with the Faithful Service National Order to the rank of Knight (2014).     Translated by Simona Nichiteanu  

Video-streaming On Sunday, June 2nd, 2019, from 11.00 a.m., the NTB Black Box Hall shall host Dan Dungaciu’s conference entitled Europe after the Storm. What Do Europeans Really Want? About the conference The conference looks at developments in the EU after the "perfect storm" it faced about five years ago. The "perfect storm" meant the synchronicity of phenomena such as the economic crisis, migration waves, a succession of terrorist attacks and Russia's threats. The effect of this genuine "Molotov cocktail", which includes Brexit or Donald Trump's election in the United States, is the almost radical change in the political configuration of the continent. The disappearance of the political "centre" and so-called populist parties have become everyday reality. Nothing has remained unaffected, if not in form (traditional "mainstream" parties), then in content (their political discourse). What's next? Where does Europe head to? What are the values ​​that hold us together? How muchis misinformation or fake news and how much natural evolution? What is the international relevance of our continent? How does the world of America and the world of Europe look like? Anti-Americanism is Westernism or Anti-Westernism? Are we witnessing the "decline of the West" or the break-up of Euro-Atlantic relations? What is the price paid by European civilization? All of this in a conference that, even if it does not have all the answers, will ask, at least, the right questions. Dan Dungaciu About Dan Dungaciu Dan Dungaciu is a Ph.D. Coordinator at the Faculty of Sociology and Social Work of the University of Bucharest (Department of Sociology) since 2009. He is the coordinator of the Master of Security Studies and Information Analysis at the University of Bucharest (Faculty of Sociology and Social Work), the oldest profile master in Romania. Since 2011, he is the Director of the Institute for Political Science and International Relations of the Romanian Academy "Ion IC Bratianu". Since 2013, he has been President of the Black Sea University Foundation, under the aegis of the Romanian Academy. In 2006-2007, he served as Deputy State Secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Department for Romanians Abroad) and during 2009-2010 he was Counselor on European Integration Issues to the President of the Republic of Moldova. He is a member of several international and national associations. He has been involved and has coordinated countless national and international projects. He is the author of dozens of specialized studies, specialized reports and over 25 volumes of the profile, counting among the most recent: Is Bessarabia Romania? Identity and (geo) political dilemmas in Moldova (2011), Elements for a theory of nation and nationalism (2012), Seven fundamental themes for Romania (2014), Encyclopedia of International Relations (2015), etc. In 2015 he was co-opted at the level of the Romanian Academy in the team of developers / coordinators of Romania's Development Strategy for the next 20 years (2015-2035), under the general coordination of the President of the Romanian Academy. Among the most recent published / coordinated volumes, we mention: Romania: 100 Years since the Great Union (Editor), Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018; The Perfect Storm of the European Crisis (Editor), Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017; Encyclopedia of Diplomacy (coordinator and author), Bucharest, RAO Publishing House, 2018; Encyclopedia of Romanians Abroad (coordinator and author), Bucharest, RAO Publishing House, 2018; Encyclopedia of International Relations (coordinator and author), vol. I and 2, Bucharest, RAO Publishing House, 2017; Nihil Obstat. Elements for a Theory of Nation and Nationalism, revised and ammended edition, Libris Publishing House, 2018; The Reunification (co-author Petrişor Peiu), Bucharest, Litera Publishing House, 2017.   Translated by Simona Nichiteanu 

Video-streaming On Sunday, April 21st, 2019, at 11.00 at NTB’s Black Box Hall, Adrian Cioroianu shall hold the conference The Future Is No Longer What It Used to Be. About the Conference The characteristic of our time is that we all have the feeling of imminent changes that are foreshadowing globally. The open and peaceful world that came to an end with the fall of communism in Europe in 1990 did only materialize in part. Today, borders seem to close again and unexpected conflicts occur even in the hearts of Western societies. In parallel, for the first time in the history of civilization, technological progress is so rapid that human understanding can no longer keep pace with it. In other words, we are progressing so fast that the very idea of progress seems rather a threat than a promise. Engineers, physicians and philosophers, together, tell us that we are about to enter the "transhuman" age - that is, the creature that we are, of the flesh, brain and joints, can be improved even before it is born, so that we shall be immune to diseases and we can all be, why not, as intelligent as geniuses. However, beyond these pink scenarios, there is also a fear that one day the machines we are creating might get out of hand - or even control us. I suggest that we meditate together on some of the directions of these changes: we shall talk about family and school, about politics and about possible future wars, about the search we are trapped in, and about what we might find at the end of the road. Adrian Cioroianu About Adrian CioroianuBorn in 1967 in Craiova, he is a historian, journalist, essayist, politician (he served as Foreign Affairs Minister within the Tariceanu Cabinet from 5 April 2007 to 15 April 2008).Professor at the Faculty of History at the University of Bucharest, he is the author of several Romanian history books (and especially of the history of Communist Romania). He is also known as co-author of high school textbooks. Member of the Social Dialogue Group, he joined the National Liberal Party and was elected to the Romanian Senate for Timis County in 2004. After Romania's accession to the European Union on 1 January 2007, he served as MEP, member of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE) and vice-chair of the ALDE Group in the European Parliament. On April 5th, 2007, Cioroianu became Minister of Foreign Affairs in the reshuffled Tariceanu government. Since 2012, he is a dean of the Faculty of History of the University of Bucharest.Starting from 2015, Adrian Cioroianu is the Ambassador of Romania to UNESCO.   Translated by Simona Nichiteanu 

Video-streaming On Sunday, 22nd of February 2015, at 11:00 a.m., at Sala Atelier of The National Theatre, Cristian Pîrvulescu will deliver a conference on the topic Politics - Does It Still Have a Meaning?. Ticket price: 16 lei. About the conference In a time when the daily political scandal seems to have irreversibly compromised politics does this still have a meaning? Can justice be a substitute of politics in a time when the rule of law has become a daily leit-motif? What is left of the separation of powers in the State and how can the rule of law function today? It is not quite clear who and when first used the expression "Fiat justitia, pereat mundus", but the idea that justice should prevail over ethics, mores, feelings and especially politics is well-known since ancient times. Hence the question: how can the act of justice be ethically justified and what is its role in society? Should justice be independent? This philosophical dilemma is expressed by the conflict between the utilitarian vision (justice should provide maximum of utility, namely, to maximize hapiness and to minimize suffering, in the way John Stuart Mill understood this) and the absolute vision -as we could call it - (justice should be eternal, universal, immutable, implacable, impersonal etc.) Consequently, what type of ethics is procedural justice - the one that in common parlance we call justice - subject to? To the utilitarian one, namely to the idea that justice is a function of the State and it has a practical utility, or to the one against or non-utilitarian, namely to the idea that justice is the embodiment of supreme Justice. But who can decide what and how is supreme Justice? Returning on the banks of the Dâmboviţa river to the Romanian society, we might say, paraphrasing Caragiale: "Let there be justice, but let us know it, too." "We ", that is they, the politicians obsessed with polls, who are in a permanent election campaign, living in a permanent today. Let there be justice? Of course! To achieve what? About Cristian Pîrvulescu Cristian Pîrvulescu is a politologist, a political commentator and an activist for democracy and human rights. As a professor at the Faculty of Political Science of the National School of Political Science and Public Administration, where he has been working since 1992, he teaches Political Science (Fundamental Concepts in Political Science, Political Institutions, Comparative Politics). Since 2005 he is the Dean of the faculty. He actively takes part in civic and political debates in mass-media and he also publishes political commentaries in the written media. He is the honorary president of the Pro Democracy Association whose president he was from 1999 to 2013. Since 2007 he is a member of the European Economic and Social Committee .                                                         Translated by Toma (Grama) Aureliana MTTLC, University of Bucharest

Video-streaming About Sever Voinescu Sever Voinescu was born in 1969 in Ploiesti. In 1992 he graduated from the Faculty of Law of the Bucharest University. The same year, he became a trainee attorney at the Bar of his hometown, and since 1994 he has become a full-time lawyer at the Bucharest Bar. Between 1994 and 1996, he was assistant professor at the Law Department of the Academy of Economic Studies in Bucharest. Between 1998 and 2000, he was Secretary General to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From March 2000 to December 2003, he was General Consul of Romania in Chicago. From 2004 to 2008, he was Coordinator of the Foreign Policy Programme at the Institute for Public Policy. Between 2008 and 2012, he was deputy in the Romanian Parliament and for the duration of this mandate, he led the Parliament Delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly. Since January 1st, 2016, he is editor-in-chief of the Cultural Weekly Newspaper Dilemma, and, since the same year, he makes the weekly show "Europa Christiana" on the television channel Trinitas. Since 1993, he has published over 3,000 articles, commentaries and essays in cultural publications or in daily newspapers such as the Old Dilemma / Dilemma, 22, Cultural Observatory, Cotidianul, Evenimentul Zilei, as well as specialized journals in the fields of law, philosophy and political sciences . He has lectured on various subjects specific to international relations in public or private institutions or universities in the United States, Great Britain, Belgium, France and Romania. He contributed to the content of several volumes, wrote prefaces, and enjoyed the few occasions when he was invited to speak at the opening of exhibitions. He especially boasts a book dedicated to opera, entitled Canta che ti passa - talks with Virginia Zeani. Currently, he is working on completing a doctoral thesis in law, about property. He has no Facebook page and is therefore happier than others. "Contrary to the general belief that it is impossible to find a place and a precise time for her birth, I believe that Europe, the one we know, was born on a certain day and in a particular place when a man of the great faith pursued a dream and met other people willing to listen to new things. Almost 2000 years later, someone else had an extraordinary insight into how Europe's history is flowing. Putting the two moments side by side, we will get something like a mysterious code whereby we shall explore our present, the everyday. And we'll try to guess our past and discover the future. I said well...". Sever Voinescu   Translated by Simona Nichiteanu 

Video-streaming The first conference of 2015 will open its doors on Sunday, January 25th, at 11:00 am, in The Black Box Hall, and will be held by Mr. Emil Hurezeanu. The theme of the conference is "Europe, between growth and terminal crisis". Ticket price - 16 lei. About the conference "Europe is at the center of unusual crises: a war in the East, between Ukraine and Russia triggered by the desire for rapprochement of Ukraine with Europe and by Russia's desire of separation from Europe. It puts into question the ability of the West to overcome the global economic and social crises, its political and moral inability to manage democracy in the age of dying capitalism. We are witnessing the commotion caused by the terrorist attacks in the capital of France, against a background of escalating phenomena of anti-Semitism, Islam phobia and xenophobia in the founding countries of the Enlightenment and of the Euro-Atlantic civilization. We can no longer speak about Christianity or about Islam, but about the anger of the religions' sunset. We are witnessing a wider crisis of globalization, which homogenizes without connecting, but by separating and exacerbating identities. A crisis of religion, of collective and inclusive ideologies, defied by the excesses of confused, autistic and aggressive individualism. Europe's crises are installed between center and periphery too, at the level of EU member states as well as between the hard core of developed Europe in relation to the peripheral countries of the continent. Are these signs and signals of a temporary syndrome, in the logic of a problematic increase, or of a terminal one, in the logic of the Western irreversible decrease?" (Emil Hurezeanu)   About Emil Hurezeanu Born in 1955 in Sibiu. One of the best-known journalists and political analysts of the moment. Between 1975 and 1979 he attends the School of Law in Cluj- Napoca. Starting with 1976 he is an editor of the "Equinox" (Echinox) Magazine and beginning with 1978 he becomes an editorial secretary, publishing poetry and literary criticism. After graduating in 1979, he gathers his poems in Lecţia de anatomie (The Anatomy Lesson) volume that was awarded the Debut Prize of the Writers Union a year later. In 1981, Ana Blandiana, as a Herder Prize winner, offers her grant to the Equinox editorial staff and Emil Hurezeanu, who will leave for Vienna in 1982, is nominated for it. After completing the two exchange semesters of the Herder Grant, he reaches Munich where he works as an  editor for Radio Free Europe from 1983 to 1995. In October 1983 he gets political asylum in Germany. In the same period he starts writing political articles and producing the Romanian News section. He also works as an expert consultant for various radio and television channels in Europe. In 1985 he gets a scholarship for the Charlottesville University of Virginia, USA, where he studies political science. Back in Germany, he continues his studies at various American universities from Europe until  he gets his Master's Degree in International and Strategic Political Relations, in Boston. In 1990 he returns to Romania, still working for Radio Free Europe (RFE). In 1995, the radio station is relocated in Prague and Emil Hurezeanu is a director there, for a short period of time. In the same year, he goes to Cologne to work as head of the Romanian section of Deutsche Welle, where he writes political leading articles. He stays there until 2002, when he returns to Romania for good. For five seasons, he is the broadcast producer of the show România mea (My Romania) on Antena 1. The show was awarded the APTR 2003 Prize, the talk-show section. Since 2005 he produces the Cap şi pajură(Heads and tails) reality TV show, together with Cristian Tudor Popescu. He continues his career in radio with The Interviews of  Europa FM, produced at the  broadcast station of the same name. In March 2003 he becomes personal advisor in policy analysis on issues of external affairs to Adrian Năstase, who was prime-minister at the time. He resigns from this position six months later. He published two volumes of political essays in Romania, Între câine şi lup (Between Dog and Wolf) - 1996 and Cutia Neagră (The Black Box) -1997, the latter receiving The Journalism Award of the Writers Union of Romania.   Translated by: Aureliana Grama MTTLC, University of Bucharest

Video-streaming Sunday, on November 9th, 11.00, at The Small Hall of NTB, Alexandru Andries will hold the conference - Self - Portrait. Ticket price: 16 lei. About Alexandru Andries His friends call him “Alexe”. Born in Brașov on October 13th 1954 (therefore, a Libra) he loves his native town with all his heart. In 1980, he graduated the “Ion Mincu” Institute of Architecture in the city where he was to settle. He has been a member of the Union of Architects of Romania (since 1980), of the Writers’ Union of Romania (since 1994), of the Union of Composers and Musicologists of Romania (since 1994), of the Journalists’ Association of Romania and of many other commissions and committees. He is a Lecturer Doctor at the “Ion Mincu” Institute of Architecture. Debut: as a soloist, in 1974 – Club A, on stage in 1979, The Jazz & Rock Festival in Brașov, with the Bas-relief Band and only in 1984 in discography at Electrecord (“Interiors”). He has performed in over 3100 concerts. Throughout his long list of albums he “played” with: his voice, the guitar, the piano, the harmonica, electronic percussion etc. As you can see on his site (alexandies.free.fr) he draws a lot. He hisses in a charming way. He is very grateful to Florian Lungu, due to whom everything started. “Last but not least”, he is a special musician and lyricist with complex harmonies and intelligent lyrics. Andrieș has recorded extremely many songs, but there are even more which haven’t been recorded yet. On his site, you can find in alphabetical order, all those from his records, all those for which he has written only the lyrics, and all those that do not belong to him but that he has sung (such as, the two songs on the “From the Gift of Kings” album in the memory of Vali Sterian). Moreover, you can find the lyrics of some songs which have never been recorded (from “Waiting for Maria”, from concerts, shows…) A huge number. “I was born in Brașov when the town was called Stalin, and the exact date, in case you want to know, is October 13th, 1954. If 30 years ago you had spoken to anyone who knew me, including my mom and dad, my sister, my grandma and grandpa, my aunt, auntie Lice, uncle Mitică, my great-grandma and her next-door friends, you couldn’t have guessed that I was to become a public figure, somebody good at having interviews, at being on TV (rarely, it’s true, but still), at expressing his opinion on this and that. On the contrary, you would have learned that I was squeamish, that I was eating the heart out of them with my utterly unexplainable stubbornness, that you could hardly take a word out of my mouth and that it was only at night time that I was giving up that bloody pencil which I had used to doodle everything all over our house and even the neighbours’… Luckily, 30 years ago, nobody wanted to know anything about me, did they? Well, now you would probably like to know what happened next, who helped me, how much it cost, why this and not that, if I really don’t have a phone or… If you like it, then it’s fine… If you don’t… well, what can I say? Try again tomorrow, and who knows…” Alexandru Andrieș (information taken from http://alexandries.free.fr)   Translated by Aureliana Toma (Grama ) MTTLC, University of Bucharest

Video-streaming Sunday, December 8th 2013, at 11 a.m., at the National Theatre, Small Hall, PhD Irinel Popescu will hold a conference on Organ transplantation - an adventure of the human spirit. Ticket price: 16 lei. About the conference "Although it may seem unusual to use the term "adventure" when referring to a medical procedure, this term is very suitable when talking about the history of organ transplantation." Brave surgeons, who were ahead of their time, tried to rescue their patients. Sick people, who had no other chance and had lost all their hope, put their lives into the hands of the doctors, hoping they would be saved. However, most of these surgeries were performed before the surgeons had acquired enough knowledge for the surgeries to be successful. This is why the history of organ transplantation is filled with failure and tragedies. Nevertheless, it is due to these surgeries that, nowadays, over 150,000 lives are saved every year with the help of transplantation procedures. If it hadn't been for those brave doctors who wanted to be ahead of their time, today we wouldn't know so much about transplantation and we couldn't save so many lives." PhD Irinel Popescu   About PhD Irinel Popescu He was born on April 22nd 1953 in Filiași (Dolj). Studies: 1997 - graduate - Faculty of General Medicine "Carol Davila" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest; Award of the Foundation "Elena Dimitriu" for the highest mark (faculty and internship exam) Doctor in medicine: 1990 - "Acute haemorrhagic gastric ulcerations" (Thesis guidance: PhD Dan Setlacec) Postdoctoral studies: January - June 1992 - Research Fellow at Pittsburgh University July 1992-December 1994-Research Fellow at Mount Sinai Hospital New York Medical and University titles: 1980-1983 - Tutor at the faculty of General Medicine, Bucharest 1983 - 1992 - University Assistant 1992 - 1995 - Lecturer 1995 - 1999 - Associate 1999 - present - Professor at the Fundeni Clinic Institute for General Surgery, at the Faculty of General Medicine "Carol Davila", Bucharest Professional Membership: 2006 - 2008 - President of the Romanian Society of Surgery 1998 - present: President of the Romanian Transplant Association ("Romtransplant") 2002 - 2006: President of the Romanian Association of Endoscopic Surgery and other surgical techniques 2006 - present: President of the Romanian Association of Liver-Billiary-Pancreatic Surgery and Liver Transplant 2002 - present: Member of the Executive Committee of  "International Association of Surgeons and Gastroenterologists" (IASG) Fellow of the American College of Surgeons Member of the European Surgical Association Member of European Board Surgery. Specialization: Surgery. Sub-specialization:           Transplantation. Member of the Transplantation Society Member of the European Society of Organ Transplantation Doctor Honoris Causa: 2006: University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Craiova 2007: University "Ovidius", Constanța 2010: University "Nicolae Testemitanu", Chișinău 2012:  University of Medicine and Pharmacy "Iuliu Hațieganu",Cluj-Napoca Honorary Member: 2007: Academy of Sciences in Moldavian Republic 2006: Bulgarian Surgical Society 2006: Serbian Medical Association, Surgical Section 2008: Hungary Society of Surgery 2007: Chinese Society of Surgery 2008: Association Francaixe de Chirurgie Academies Membership: 2013: Corresponding member of the Romanian Academy 2011: President of the Academy for Medical Sciences (member since 1999) 2006: Full member of the Academy of Scientists, President of the Medicine section 2002: Member of the National Academy of Surgery in France 2006: Honorary Member of the Academy of Sciences in Moldavian republic 2012: Academy of Medicine in Malaysia 2013: Corresponding member of the French Academy of Medicine Distinctions and medals: 2000: Decorated by the President of Romania with the National Order  "Star of Romania" in the rank of Grand Officer 2011: Decorated by the President of France with the "Ordre national du merite" in the rank of Officer Awards, diplomas and other titles: 2000: "Iuliu Hatieganu" Award of the Romanian Academy 2012: "Eugen Proca" Award of the Academy of Scientists 2006: "Ten for Romania - The best surgeon for the year 2006", following sociologic research performed by CURS, TNS-CSOP, IMAS and ISOMAR and representing the opinion of Romanian surgeons 2001: The Award of the Doctor's College in Romania for the year 2001 for special achievement in the year 2001 in the scientific activity for surgical specialities 2007: 1st Place granted by MECT - ANCS for Complex Projects of Research-Development, thematic area - Health Administrative and public functions 1998-1999: Director of the Institute for Postgraduate Training of Doctors and Pharmacists 1999-2000: Secretary of State in the Ministry of Health 2004-2008: Senator - President of the Romanian Committee for Education, Research, Youth and Sport 2006-2011: Vice-President of the National Awarding Committee of Titles, Diplomas and Certificates 2009 (January - December): President of the National Authority for Health Insurance Member of the editorial board of national publications: 2004 - present: Editor of "Chirurgia" magazine 1996 - present: Editor of "Annals of Fundeni Hospital" Timișoara Medical Journal-member The Romanian Journal of Surgery -member Archives of the Balkan Medical Union - Co Editor-in-chief Member of the editorial board of international publications: Hepatogastroenterology- Editor-in-chief (2011-2012), Senior Honorary Editor- 2013 Telemedicine and E-Health - member Langenbecks's Archives of Surgery - member Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology- member Scientific Interests: Liver transplantation - the first to perform liver transplantation in Romania (he achieved 500 transplantations) Digestive oncology - genomic studies of digestive cancers Robotic surgery - 825 robotic surgery interventions Cellular therapies - pancreatic islets, stem cells Telemedicine The surgeon Irinel Popescu is an exemplary man, who achieved in Romania something nobody had ever achieved before and which many believed to be impossible: the first liver transplantation and the founding of a true Romanian school for liver transplantation. The famous Romanian surgeon will talk about his surgical performance, considered a „challenge of the human spirit", on Sunday. „The talent and the vocation are very important values of a person, regardless of his job. In my profession, which has been considered humanistic par excellance for centuries, we could use a little more vocation. Everything else is attained through endless hours of hard work and through sacrifices which pave the way for somebody who feels that being a doctor is the right profession for him." Translated by: Diaconescu Alina MTTLC, The University of Bucharest  

Video-streaming On Sunday, May 31st, starting from 11 o'clock, the Black Box Hall of the National Theatre will host a unique meeting - Neagu Djuvara: Actor and poetry performer. For the third time on the NTB stage, Neagu Djuvara, a refined man of culture, career diplomat, with a tumultuous life, spent mostly in Africa and Paris, head of the Western intelligence services during the Second World War, will surprise us with a hypostasis unknown to the general public, that of performer of some verses from French and Romanian lyric poetry. The selection of poems belongs to the lecturer and proves his great lightness in traversing the vast territories of poetry. About Neagu Djuvara: Neagu Djuvara was born in Bucharest in 1916. He holds a degree in Letters from the Sorbonne (history, 1937) and a PhD in Law (Paris, 1940). In 1972, he obtained his state PhD at the Sorbonne with a thesis on the philosophy of history. Entered by competition at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in May 1943, he was sent a diplomatic courier to Stockholm on the morning of August 23, 1944, in connection with the peace negotiations with the Soviet Union. He is appointed legation secretary in Stockholm, by the Sănătescu government. He remained in Sweden until 1947, when the Communists took over the Foreign Ministry. He decided to remain in exile, militating, until 1961, in various organizations of the Romanian diaspora (general secretary of the Romanian Refugee Assistance Committee, in Paris; journalism; Radio Free Europe; general secretary of the "Carol I" University Foundation, etc.) . In 1961, he went to Africa, to Niger, where he remained for 23 years as diplomatic and legal advisor to the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and concurrently professor of International Law and Economic History. Since 1984, he has been a Secretary General of the Romanian House in Paris, until after the Revolution of December 1989, when he returned to his country. Since 1991, he has been an associate professor at the University of Bucharest and an honorary member of the "A.D. Xenopol" History Institute of Iasi and the "Nicolae Iorga" History Institute of Bucharest. Among his many works we mention: Le droit roumain en matière de nationalité, Paris, 1940 (doctoral thesis); Civilizations and Historical Patterns: A Comparative Study of Civilizations, Humanitas, 1999; Between East and West. The Romanian Countries at the Beginning of the Modern Era, Humanitas, sixth ed., 2008; The Aromanians - History, Language, Destiny, Romanian Cultural Foundation Publishing House, Bucharest, 1996; A Brief History of Romanians Told to Young People, Humanitas, ninth ed., 2008; Memories from Exile, Albatross, 2002; Humanitas, fourth ed., 2008; French version: Bucharest-Paris-Niamey et retour ou Souvenirs de 42 ans d'exil (1948-1990), L'Harmattan, Paris, 2004; Is There True History ?, Humanitas, third ed., 2008.   Press "In a discussion in which he confessed to me, Mr. Djuvara told me that he often concealed in himself a potential actor and a lover of beautiful words, especially poetry, and wants to make them public" (Ion Caramitru)   Translated by Simona Nichiteanu

Video-streaming The Seventy-Seven Years’ War is, according to the brilliant plea of Professor Neagu Djuvara, a phrase that has real chances to impose itself on historians of future centuries. As we speak today of the Thirty Years', Hundred Years' War of the last centuries, the period between the first world conflagration (1914) and the collapse of the Soviet Union (1991) has all the chances to retain the attention of public opinion as an epoch on which the great war for the revelation of American power, which continues to play the role of dominating the last phase of Western civilization, has left its mark, relentlessly and ultimately. Only the time of the "kingdom" of the United States will be short-lived, to give way to a long period of general disorder and chaotic unrest. Translated by Simona Nichiteanu