Conferences
Constanța Vintilă-Ghițulescu: Amusement and Banqueting in Phanariot Bucharest (18th-19th Centuries)
On Sunday, 2 April 2017, 11.00, the NTB Small Hall shall host the conference Amusement and Banqueting in Phanariot Bucharest (18th-19th Centuries) held by Mrs. Constanța Vintilă-Ghițulescu.
About the Conference
„Phanariot Bucharest is still shrouded in mystery, built on legends and myths, often thrown to the bin of history as part of a „dark” period of the past. Travelling through the documents of the epoch, most of them unusual, I invite you to discover together the busybodies on the Bucharest alleys in a fascinating century, itself fascinated with Oriental civilisation. In goatskin shoes, with fine fabric attire and fur-lined short coat, we shall meander among cafes, pubs and benches, we shall rest on garden paths, sipping sorbet and coffee in the shadow of a gazebo, we shall serenade at the windows of damsels, we shall banquet at the tables of the aristocrats, bothered by the smoke of hookahs, for the morning to find us at Babicul’s furnace, waiting for the warm and fluffy white bread to come out.” Constanța Vintilă-Ghițulescu
About Constanța Vintilă – Ghițulescu
She holds a PhD in „History and Civilisation“ at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris (2004) and a PhD in Sociology at the Faculty of Sociology of the Bucharest University (2012). Researcher at the „Nicolae Iorga“ Historical Institute. She taught at the Faculty of Sociology, Faculty of Letters, Faculty of Political Sciences within the Bucharest University. Collaborator at the weekly cultural newspaper Dilema Veche.
Writings: Eugenites, Upstarts, Churls. About the Faces of the First Romanian Modernity (1780-1860), Humanitas, 2013; In baggy trousers and with işlic. Church, sexuality, marriage and divorce in Wallachia in the 18th century, Humanitas, 2004, republished in 2011. The book received several prizes: Prometeus debut award of the România Literară magazine (2004), the Nicolae Bălcescu Award of the Romanian Academy, Prize of the National Foundation for Science and Art of the Romanian Academy (2005), Debut Award of the Romanian Writers’ Guild (2005). The book has been translated in Germany.
Other writings: The Fire of Love: on Love and Sexuality in Romanian Society (1750–1830), Humanitas (2006), translated into German; The Eugenites, Humanitas (2006); Mode et luxe aux Portes de l’Orient. Tradition et modernité dans la société roumaine, Iniciativa Mercurio, Valadolid, 2011; From işlic to top hat: fashion and luxury at the gate of the Orient, Iniciativa Mercurio, Valadolid, 2011; From işlic to top hat: fashion and luxury at the gate of the Orient, Peter Pan, Bucharest, 2013 (with photos taken by Cătălin D. Constantin).
Coordinator of the following volumes: Penser le XIXe siècle: nouveaux chantiers de recherche, with Silvia Marton, Iaşi, 2013; From Traditional Attire to Modern Dress: Modes of Identification, Modes of Recognition in the Balkans (XVIth-XXth Centuries), Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011; Le corps et ses hypostases en Europe et dans la société roumaine du Moyen Âge à l’époque contemporaine, alongside Alexandru-Florin Platon, NEC, 2010; Social Behaviour and Family Strategies in the Balkans (16th–20th Centuries)/ Comportements sociaux et stratégies familiales dans les Balkans (XVIe-XXe siècles) with Ionela Băluţă and Mihai-Răzvan Ungureanu, NEC, 2008; The Public Performance between Tradition and Modernity: Celebrations, Ceremonies, Pilgrimages and Tortures (14th-19th Centuries), with Mária Pakucs Willcocks, Romanian Cultural Institute, 2007; Les bonnes et les mauvaises mœurs dans la société roumaine d’hier et d’aujourd’hui, EDR, NEC, Bucharest, 2005, with Ionela Băluţă.
Manager of the European Project (ERC): Luxury, Fashion and Social Status in Early Modern South-Eastern Europe.
Data gathered from humanitas.ro
Translated by Simona Nichiteanu
