Conferences
Mircea Vasilescu: Reading in the Internet Era. What is Lost and what is Gained
Sunday, 11th March, at 11:00, at the National Theatre's Black Box, Mircea Vasilescu will hold a conference on the theme Reading in the Internet Era. What is Lost and what is Gained. Ticket prices: 23 and 10 lei.
About the conference
For some years, we hear and read that ‘culture is dying' or that ‘people do not read as much as they used to', and the Internet is considered to be one of the culprits. In fact, people read a lot on the Internet. The Internet also makes it possible for us to access books and libraries of which we did not even dream about. What and how do people read? In what way are our reading habits influenced and changed by the new technology?
Maybe the problem is not that ‘people read less', but that ‘people read different'.
About Mircea Vasilescu
Reader and PhD. at the Faculty of Letters from the University of Bucharest, where he teaches cultural journalism and the history of Romanian literature, he is also editor-in-chief at the Dilema veche magazine. He taught at the ‘La Sapienza' University from Rome, at the University from Antwerp and at the University from Vienna. He published, among others, the volumes Dear Reader...Reading, Public and Communication in the Old Romanian Culture (Paralela 45 Publishing house, 2001), Mass-Comedy. Situations and Manners of the Transition Press (Curtea Veche Publishing house, 2001), Your Europe. Round Trip between ‘us' and ‘them' (Polirom Publishing house, 2007), Eurotextes. Le continent qui nous sépare (MetisPresses, Geneva, 2010). He translated Michel Foucault (The History of Madness in the Classical Age, Humanitas Publishing house), François Furet (Interpreting the French Revolution, Humanitas Publishing house), Sergio Romano (Fifty Years of World History, The Publishing house of the Romanian Cultural Foundation). At the Dilema magazine (from 2004, Dilema veche) he had, for a few years, a column about mass-media (‘The global village'), and from 2004 he is in charge of the column ‘Your Europe', dedicated to the problems concerning the European integration. He is a member in Eurozine's editorial board (the European network of cultural magazines, www.eurozine.com).
Translated by: Izabella Feher
MTTLC, Bucharest University
