Conferences

On Sunday, 4 June 2017, from 11.00 a.m., in the Black Box Hall of NTB, Mr. Cristian Bădiliță shall hold the conference on the topic Mircea Eliade’s Glasses. Rescued Pages from the Journal of the Great Scholar.

About the Conference

On the occasion of the 110th anniversary since the birth of Mircea Eliade (1907-1986), Cristian Bădiliţă shall recount the story of the rescue of a major fragment from the Journal of the scholar-writer. Everything started from a call received over twenty years ago from Paul Barbăneagră, the director who left us the only film-testimonial with and about Mircea Eliade. The rescued pages were recently published at the Tracus Arte Publishing House of Bucharest, accompanied by an Introduction and over three hundred explanatory notes. The story shall be accompanied by images and lectures from the saved Journal.

About Cristian Bădiliţă

Born in 1968, Cristian Bădiliță is a historian of early Christianity, poet, essayist. He teaches a course on patristic tradition at the San Bernardino Institute of Oecumenical Studies from Venice. He holds a PhD of the Paris IV-Sorbonne University with the thesis Métamorphoses de l’Antichrist chez les Pères de l’Eglise (Paris, 2005, Salomon Reinach Prize of the Hellenistic Association of France; Romanian translation, Nemira, 2015). Fellow of the Institute of Religious Studies of Trento; of the Normal Superior School of Pisa; of WIKO, Berlin. He coordinated the commented translation of the Septuagint within the framework of New Europe College (Polirom, 2002-2011). He is the author of a commented translation of the New Testament (Vremea Publishing, Bucharest).

Among the publications: Sacred and Melancholy; The Monk and Death; Guide of Antichristology; Arcimboldo’s Sunday; Temptation of Misanthropy. Stromateis; Platonopolis or Reconciliation with Philosophy; King with Harp in Hand; Gordian Knot; Pocket Apocalypse; The Loneliness of a Migratory Bird; Glaphyra. Nine Biblical and Patristic studies; God of Mancha sleeping with his cracked temple on my shoulder; Kordian Gnot. Clandestine Notes; Jean Cassien entre l’Orient et l’Occident (avec Attila Jakab); Les Pères de l’Église dans le monde d’aujourd’hui (avec Charles Kannengiesser); Patristique et oecuménisme. Thèmes, contextes, personnages; The Fruit of Absence. Smiles and Exorcisms; The Angel on the Highway and Other Novels of Uncle Serenus.

Commented translations from Greek and Latin: Apocryphal Gospels; Evagrius of Pontus, Practical Treaty. Gnostic; Patericon; Three Mystical Novels of Antiquity.

Further information on the website www.cristianbadilita.ro

Translated by Simona Nichiteanu