Conferences
Sorin Alexandrescu: Visual Culture, Pros and Cons
On Sunday, March 4th, 2007, within the NTBB Conferences programme, Univ. Prof. Sorin Alexandrescu held the conference entitled Visual Culture, Pros and Cons.
"We live nowadays in a visual age, in which art or religion, which dominated other periods, have declined in presence, in the sense that it influences much less what happens in the world, and the main interest stems from what is visual." Sorin Alexandrescu
About Univ. Prof. Sorin Alexandrescu
Professor at the University of Amsterdam, professor at the University of Bucharest and, since 2001, founder and director of the Centre of Excellence in Image Studies (CESI) of the University of Bucharest and the "Ion Mincu" University of Architecture. He first worked as teaching assistant and lecturer at the University of Bucharest in the field of comparative literature and stylistics and published several books, including "William Faulkner". He migrated in 1974 to the Netherlands, where he worked as a professor at one of the largest Romanian language departments in the West, at the University of Amsterdam. Returning, partially, to Romania, since 1989, he taught at several universities in the country and published several books, including "The Romanian Paradox" or "Mircea Eliade, from Portugal".
Translated by Simona Nichiteanu
