Conferences

Sunday February 26^th, 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 1^st 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