NTB Conferences

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

Sunday, March 24, at 11.00, at the NTB's Media Room, Dr. Ilinca Dumitrescu will hold a conference on Classics of Romanian Music - Ion Dumitrescu Centenary (1913 - 1996). Ticket price: 16 lei.    Composer and conductor Ion Dumitrescu at the National Theatre from Bucharest (1940 - 1947) Lectures Dr. Ilinca Dumitrescu, pianist, soloist, musicologist Live musical moment - pieces by Ion Dumitrescu Participates Dr. Vasile Macovei - bassoonist   About the conference Major national and international personality of the Romanian culture, a classic of our music, Ion Dumitrescu (1913 - 1996), composer, teacher, musicologist, conductor, writer, correspondent member of the Institute of France - Academie des Beaux-Arts - and the Academy " Tiberina "from Rome, is commemorated this year at the centenary of his birth. The conference at the National Theatre from Bucharest is included among the various events that will bring to foreground the creator's luminous figure, an innovative and welcomed moment. Ion Dumitrescu was, between 1940 and 1947, composer and conductor of the Orchestra of the National Theatre from Bucharest. He composed the music for over 60 pieces from the national and international repertoire and he collaborated with famous personalities from the theatre of the inter war period, such as directors Ion Sava, Soare Z. Soare and others.   About Ilinca Dumitrescu "An artistic personality of international value, possessing a high-class technique which allows her to approach all styles, genres, schools and sound languages, not knowing boundaries between classical and romantic, modern and contemporary, Ilinca Dumitrescu is a complete artist." ( Viorel Cosma, the Lexicon "Artists from Romania"). The pianist Ilinca Dumitrescu has performed in cities across 5 continents, 40 countries, 33 world capitals, in major concert halls. She studied with famous teachers: Cell Delavrancea and Mihail Jora in Romania, Stanislav Neuhaus and Yakov Flier at the State Conservatory "PI Tchaikovsky "in Moscow, graduating in 1978 with the highest distinction" Certificate of Merit ". She received the most important awards in her home country (the Award of the Romanian Academy - 1995, the Award of the Romanian Cultural Institute - 2003 and so on), but also many international awards (including Commendatore dell'Ordine della Stella della Solidarietà Italiana, 2005, awarded by the President of the Italian Republic. Her artistic activity is carried out in various fields: besides being a soloist pianist (in 1980 she became a state concert soloist), she is also a musicologist (she received the Doctor title at the National University of Music from Bucharest with the highest grade summa cum laude), an educator (she taught master classes in the Czech Republic, USA, Brazil, India, China, Vietnam, Japan, Malaysia), a musicologist (between 1994 and 2006 she was the director of the National Museum "George Enescu" from Bucharest), creator and TV producer of the show "Ilinca Dumitrescu and her guests" (the TV channel TvH 2.0 - the former Tv "Romania of Tomorrow"). She has a significant discography, in Romania and the U.S., with works by Scarlatti (the 14 Sonatas were considered in 1986 by the International Record Critics Award, meeting in New York, one of the best albums of the year, standing alongside with those of Emil Gilels, Radu Lupu, Murray Perahia, Bernard Haitink, Claudio Abbado, Riccardo Muti, Mstislav Rostropovici, Placido Domingo, cf. the article "The best records of the year" in the Journal de Genève, July 19, 1986), Mozart, Beethoven, Schumann, Liszt, Enescu, etc. Her extremely large repertoire includes performances with an orchestra (great opuses from the classical and romantic creation), pieces of solo recitals (including author programs - Bach, Scarlatti, Mozart, Beethoven, Schumann, Chopin, Schubert, Albeniz, Messiaen, Enescu, Jora), chamber music, lieder, with a particular concern in promoting classical and contemporary Romanian music, but also the international works of the 20th and 21st centuries. Recently, Ilinca Dumitrescu received from the French government the high distinction Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et Lettres, and, in the last days, the Award of the Romanian Musical Forum for her entire activity, after a prestigious artistic career over five decades.   Translated by: Izabella Feher

Sunday, March 10, at 11.00, at the NTB's Small Hall, Acad. Maya Simionescu will hold a conference with the theme A journey in the Land of Science and the World of Cells. Ticket price: 16 lei. About the conference I invite you to get away from everyday life for a while and to travel together to the Land of Science, in which the curious researchers are trying to understand the world around and within us, but also to the World of Cells, a world of small proportions, which you cannot see with the naked eye, but which is as complex and great as the universe. I invite you on a journey into our own universe, populated by 10 -50 trillion cells that work, cooperate, keep us alive and make us what we are. I invite you to be your tour guide in a trip inside a cell, where the miracle of life lies hidden. We chose the itinerary, we only need to pack our bags, to take a map and to go in this fascinating journey. About Acad. Maya Simionescu She is the director of the Institute of Cellular Biology and Pathology "Nicolae Simionescu", member of the Romanian Academy and other Academies and international organizations. She founded in 1979, together with Professor Nicolae Simionescu, the first and only institute of this kind in the country, selected, in the year 2000, as a Centre of Excellence in the European Community. Maya Simionescu worked for 10 years with Prof. George Palade in the U.S. She was a Professor (Visiting Professor) for 20 years at the Yale University and Columbia University in the U.S. She is supervising a small group of talented researchers and is one of the most prominent figures in biomedical research in Romania. Currently, based on the knowledge gained in the country and abroad, Maya Simionescu and her team are trying to figure out how, when and in what way the functions of a normal cell become aberrant and lead to cardiovascular disease - the main cause of death in developed countries, including Romania. She has published over 500 scientific articles in prestigious journals in the world, which have been cited over 6500 times by other researchers. She was awarded with the international prize "Louis and Arthur Lucian for research in circulatory diseases", McGill University, Montreal, Canada; the Sanofi Thrombosis Prize - for research in Atherosclerosis and Thrombosis; the Brazilian Presidency's Order of "Rio Branco - Comendador"; the special UNESCO Award - L'Oreal for Women in Science; the Romanian Presidency's Order of "Faithful Service" - Grand Cross; the National Order "Star of Romania" - in the rank of Grand Officer of the Romanian Presidency; the "Opera Omnia" Prize of the Ministry of Education and Research from Romania and other national and international awards. She is a corresponding member of the Reial Acadèmia de Doctors of Catalonia, Spain, a honorary member of the Academy of Sciences from the Republic of Moldavia, Doctor Honoris Causa of the "Ovidius" University, Constanța, of the University of Medicine "Gr T. Popa", Iași and of the West University, Timişoara.    Translated by: Izabella Feher

Sunday, February 24, at 11.00, at the NTB's Small Hall, Eugen Istodor will hold a conference on Lipscani - Travel & Party Guide. Ticket price: 16 lei. About the conference The world of conquests, legends and the horrific world of disaster. Three worlds in one: Lipscani, the historic centre, Bucharest's old centre. Come with me to my Lipscani! I will tell you about it as I know it best. I wrote the only book about the human part of Lipscani. Today, not even the disasters of the past that have terrified Lipscani, do not hold a great significance; they can only be gentle reprimands and pale rummages of our consciousness. But they talk about the issue and irresponsibility of those who have conquered the nowadays Lipscani with beaneries and music. Come and hear what brings luck in Lipscani. Ascensions and decays, pride and bankruptcy standing wall to wall and so they grew together: the Royal Court and the shops from Lipscani. Traces of that world still exist. We can revive this bustle for worldliness by listening to the history of Lipscani and the royalty. Because the Lipscani area gives birth to so many passions, we will revive its legends. From the cafes prohibited by Phanariots because they were breeding grounds for gossip and rumours there is only one left on Covaci Street. From the prostitution and bohemia on Șelari Street the story of Zaraza and Cristian Vasile is still vivid in our memories. The easiness of being was a delight during the interwar period: sirloins on the grill, the troubling wine and the easy women that could be found at every corner. This gaiety is prolonged even nowadays. Today and always the Lipscani area has its own law: the legend. Together we will see who and how the legendary Lipscani was spun. About Eugene Istodor Born in 1965, he graduated the Faculty of Letters at the University of Bucharest. He permanently writes columns in weekly magazines like Caţavencii and Dilema Veche. He taught interview, reportage and blogging classes at the Centre for Independent Journalism (1997-2002), he was a collaborator at Cotidianul (2004-2009) and he had his own TV shows at Realitatea TV and TVR, as well as shows at various radio stations. He published the following volumes: Interviews against Nature (interviews with politicians), Nemira Publishing House, 1997; People I would Gladly Die With (interviews with ordinary people), Nemira Publishing House, 2000; The Lifers from Rahova (interviews with prisoners serving a life sentence at the Rahova prison), Polirom Publishing House, 2005 (nominated at the Union of Writers's awards); The Book of my Life. Şulea 31, N3, sc. 2. During Communism (oral histories from the Ceauşescu regime, gathered from the staircase of my childhood), Polirom Publishing House, 2007; Dictionary of Fixed Ideas. After 20 Years (analysis and synthesis of the facts and ideas that have animated the Romanian society from the revolution to the present), Polirom Publishing House, 2009; Lipscani. Travel & Party Guide (a peek into the past and the nowadays life of Bucharest's old centre), Art Publishing House, 2011, 101 Romanian Books to Read in a Lifetime (the history of Romanian literature in an unbiased and current selection), Polirom Publishing House, 2012.   Translated by: Izabella Feher