H.-R. Patapievici – born March 18, 1957 (Bucharest). Physics studies (1977-1981; specialization degree 1982), researcher (1986-1994), assistant professor (1990-1994), director of studies (1994-1996), member of the National Council for the Study of the Securitate Archives (2000-2005), president of the Romanian Cultural Institute (since 2005). Private researcher in the history of ideas. Writer. TV host. Director of the magazine Idei în dialog (Ideas in Dialogue). Taught courses in the history of science and the history of ideas (University of Bucharest). Member of the Group for Social Dialogue, the Romanian Writers’ Union, and the PEN Club. Founding member of the Romanian Academic Society and the Research Group on the Foundations of European Modernism (University of Bucharest and New Europe College). Honorary member of the Ludwig von Mises Institute - Romania.
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Vice President of the Romanian Cultural Institute since February 2005.
Literary columnist for 22 magazine and correspondent for Radio Free Europe (since 1993).
Editor of the “Letters, Arts & Ideas” suppliment of Cotidianul magazine (2001-2004); researcher at the G. Calinescu Institute of History and Literary Theory of the Romanian Academy (1989-2000); cultural editor of Flacăra magazine (1982-1988).
Published over 1,000 articles in the cultural press, as well as several translations from French, including Emil Cioran, Letters for Those Back Home, Ed. Humanitas, 1995 & 2004; Salvador Dali, Journal of a Genius, Ed. Humanitas, 1993 & 1996.
University studies in Romanian and French philology (1976, Bucharest). [...]
Literary columnist for 22 magazine and correspondent for Radio Free Europe (since 1993).
Editor of the “Letters, Arts & Ideas” suppliment of Cotidianul magazine (2001-2004); researcher at the G. Calinescu Institute of History and Literary Theory of the Romanian Academy (1989-2000); cultural editor of Flacăra magazine (1982-1988).
Published over 1,000 articles in the cultural press, as well as several translations from French, including Emil Cioran, Letters for Those Back Home, Ed. Humanitas, 1995 & 2004; Salvador Dali, Journal of a Genius, Ed. Humanitas, 1993 & 1996.
University studies in Romanian and French philology (1976, Bucharest). [...]
Mircea Mihăieş is a professor of English and American literature at the University of Timişoara and the editor-in-chief of Orizont magazine.
Books published: De veghe în oglindă (Wide Awake in the Mirror, 1989), Cartea eşecurilor. Eseu despre rescriere (The Book of Failures. An Essay About Rewriting, 1990), Femeia în roşu (The Woman in Red, in collaboration with Mircea Nedelciu and Adriana Babeţi, 2003), Cărţile crude. Jurnalul intim şi sinuciderea (The Cruel Books. The Private Journal and the Suicide, 1995), Victorian Fiction (1998), Arhivele paradisului (The Archives of Paradise, 1999), Masca de fiere (The Mask of Bile, 2000), Atlanticul imaginar. Studii de literatură britanică şi americană (The Imaginary Atlantic. Studies of British and American Literature, 2002), Scutul lui Perseu. Nicolae Manolescu între oglinzi paralele (Perseus’ Shield. Nicolae Manolescu Between Parallel Mirrors, 2003), Viaţa, cântecele şi patimile lui Leonard Cohen (The Life, Songs, and Passions of Leonard Cohen, 2005), Metafizica detectivului Marlowe (Detective Marlowe’s Metaphysics, 2008) as well as five books written in collaboration with Vladimir Tismăneanu, Vecinii lui Franz Kafka (Franz Kafka’s Neighbours), Balul mascat (The Masked Ball), Încet, spre Europa (Slowly, Toward Europe), Schelete în dulap (Skeletons in the Closet), and Cortina de ceaţă (The Fog Curtain).
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Books published: De veghe în oglindă (Wide Awake in the Mirror, 1989), Cartea eşecurilor. Eseu despre rescriere (The Book of Failures. An Essay About Rewriting, 1990), Femeia în roşu (The Woman in Red, in collaboration with Mircea Nedelciu and Adriana Babeţi, 2003), Cărţile crude. Jurnalul intim şi sinuciderea (The Cruel Books. The Private Journal and the Suicide, 1995), Victorian Fiction (1998), Arhivele paradisului (The Archives of Paradise, 1999), Masca de fiere (The Mask of Bile, 2000), Atlanticul imaginar. Studii de literatură britanică şi americană (The Imaginary Atlantic. Studies of British and American Literature, 2002), Scutul lui Perseu. Nicolae Manolescu între oglinzi paralele (Perseus’ Shield. Nicolae Manolescu Between Parallel Mirrors, 2003), Viaţa, cântecele şi patimile lui Leonard Cohen (The Life, Songs, and Passions of Leonard Cohen, 2005), Metafizica detectivului Marlowe (Detective Marlowe’s Metaphysics, 2008) as well as five books written in collaboration with Vladimir Tismăneanu, Vecinii lui Franz Kafka (Franz Kafka’s Neighbours), Balul mascat (The Masked Ball), Încet, spre Europa (Slowly, Toward Europe), Schelete în dulap (Skeletons in the Closet), and Cortina de ceaţă (The Fog Curtain).
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Valentin Săndulescu holds a Ph.D. in History from the Central European University (Budapest, Hungary), and an M.A. degree in Central European History from the same university. He received a B.A. in History from the University of Bucharest.In the academic year 2008–2009 he was a fellow at the Centre for Advanced Study in Sofia (Bulgaria) and during the 2009–2010 academic year he was the recipient of a research fellowship at the New Europe College (Institute for Advanced Study) in Bucharest. Between April 25 and May 24, 2010 he was Junior Visiting Research Associate at the Modern European History Research Centre, Faculty of History, University of Oxford.
Between 2006 and 2007 he worked as an expert at the Romanian Cultural Institute in Bucharest.
He has published articles and reviews in collective volumes from Romania, UK, and France and journals such as Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions, Studia Hebraica, Historical Yearbook, Revista Istorică, Studia Universitatis Petru Maior (Historia), Anuarul Institutului de Cercetări Socio-Umane “Gheorghe Şincai” al Academiei Române, and Erasmus.
He has presented papers at conferences and workshops held at University of Cambridge, Columbia University (New York), European University Institute (Florence), Oxford Brookes University, University of Southampton, University of Bielefeld, Central European University (Budapest), Center for Advanced Study (Sofia), New Europe College, Babeş-Bolyai University (Cluj), University of Craiova, “Gheorghe Şincai” Institute of the Romanian Academy (Târgu-Mureş). [...]
Between 2006 and 2007 he worked as an expert at the Romanian Cultural Institute in Bucharest.
He has published articles and reviews in collective volumes from Romania, UK, and France and journals such as Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions, Studia Hebraica, Historical Yearbook, Revista Istorică, Studia Universitatis Petru Maior (Historia), Anuarul Institutului de Cercetări Socio-Umane “Gheorghe Şincai” al Academiei Române, and Erasmus.
He has presented papers at conferences and workshops held at University of Cambridge, Columbia University (New York), European University Institute (Florence), Oxford Brookes University, University of Southampton, University of Bielefeld, Central European University (Budapest), Center for Advanced Study (Sofia), New Europe College, Babeş-Bolyai University (Cluj), University of Craiova, “Gheorghe Şincai” Institute of the Romanian Academy (Târgu-Mureş). [...]
