Conferences

Launched almost eight decades ago by Ion Marin Sadoveanu, the National Theatre Conferences have returned to the stage of the Black Box Hall since 2006 with the lectures of prominent personalities of Romanian culture on the most diverse and exciting topics.

Gathered in a collection of DVDs aiming at keeping these testimonials of wisdom, culture and civilisation, 59 of the conferences from the previous seasons can be purchased at the box office or in the lobbies of the halls before or after the shows.

The collection of DVDs, accompanied by brochures containing the texts of the conferences, comprise the following titles:

New titles
Bogdan Aurescu – The National Interest and the Topicality of Sovereignty. Romania’s Foreign Policy and the Paradigm of the Winner
Cristian Badilita - Mircea Eliade’s Glasses
Vladimir Belis - Half a Century of Serving Forensic Medicine
Gigi Caciuleanu - L'Om Gigi: Lines_Tracks_Signs_Meanings
Dorin Chirtoaca – The Romanian People. Past, Present and Future
Neagu Djuvara - Actor and Poetry Performer
Nora Iuga – Mister Beligan Is to Blame for My Becoming a Poet
Radu Penciulescu – The Long Path of the Text towards the Stage
Gheorghe Piperea – About Judicial Talibanism
Irinel Popescu – The Organ Transplantation – an Adventure of the Human Spirit
Alexander Rodewald – The Genetic Origin of the Romanian People
Alex Stefanescu – Who Needs Literature Today?
Matei Visniec – Theatre and Journalism. Mutual Influences
Dan Voinea – The Legal Truth about the Miner Strike of 13-15 June 1990
Dan Voinea – The Legal Truth about December 1989

N. C. Munteanu – Me and My Dog, the Securitate
Basarab Nicolescu – Does the Universe Make Sense? The Contemporary Dialogue Between Science and Religion
Ion Pop – From the Avangarde to the Rearguard
Cristian Badilita – Why We Need a New Translation of the Septuagint and of the New Testament
Ilina Gregori – When Was the 19th Century? Eminescu and Modernity
Teodor Maries – In Search of the Truth
Alex Leo Serban – And Yet, Why Do We Watch Movies?
Andrei Serban – About Chekhov or Who else wants to go to Moscow?
Alexandru Tocilescu – About Theatre and Its Matters
Dorana Cosoveanu - At that time when the paintings were shot
Bujor Nedelcovici – Writers and the Exile
His Royal Excellency Prince Radu – The Wise Ruling
Neagu Djuvara – The 77 Years War (1914-1991)
Mircea Dinescu – The Curse of Being a Parody Writer
Nicolae Manolescu – Do We Not Have Playwrights?
Lucia Hossu Longin – The Exercise of Memory
Dan C. Mihailescu – Who Is the Neo-Interwar Generation and What Does It Want
Octavian Paler – With Melancholy, about the Barbarians
Stelian Tanase – The Panait Istrati Case
Theodor Baconsky – Orthodoxy and United Europe
Adrian Cioroianu – Romanian Communism between Hope and Traps
Ileana Malancioiu – The Tragic Guilt
Ion Caramitru – The Limits of Waiting
Radu Beligan – My Professors 
Cristian Tudor Popescu – The Sticker Man
Robert Turcescu – The Burial of a Myth: Farewell, Free Press!
Ion Vianu - Antigone, a Dissident 
Andrei Plesu – About the Heart
Doina Jela – Deceptive Memory
Neagu Djuvara – A Brief Experience with Western Intelligence Services
Constantin Ticu Dumitrescu – The Securitate Leaking, an Imperative for Democracy
Vladimir Tismaneanu – The Revolutionary Year 1956
Mihai Razvan Ungureanu – Romanian Ethics and Public Sense 200 Years Ago
Adrian Vasilescu – Religion and the Star
Varujan Vosganian – Elites and Counter-Elites in Transitional Romania
Radu Beligan - Radu Beligan 90
Emil Hurezeanu - Romania in Europe and Europe in Romania
Ana Blandiana – The Romanian Fun Making, from Defense to Suicide
Herta Müller – Always the Same Snow and Always the Same Uncle
Theodor Paleologu – The Topicality of Political Theology
Sorin Alexandrescu – Visual Culture, Pros and Cons
Solomon Marcus – A Peak of Romanian Culture: Traian Lalescu
Horia-Roman Patapievici – About Wasted Opportunities in History
Cristian Badilita – Judas and Mary Magdalene Between Damnation and Exoneration 

The series of conferences shall continue in this season as well, on each Sunday, once every two weeks, with new spiritual challenges, discussion topics and lectures.
The price of a DVD is 25 RON!

Translated by Simona Nichiteanu