Monday, 14 November 2011 - Tuesday, 15 November 2011
The Romanian Cultural Institute in cooperation with the Center for the Study of Post-Communist Societies (under the directorship of Professor Vladimir Tismaneanu) at the University of Maryland (College Park), the Cold War International History Project (Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars), Georgetown University (CERES), and the Embassy of Romania in the US are organizing the conference Ideological Storms: Intellectuals and the Totalitarian Temptation, which will take place on November, 14-15, 2011, in Washington D.C. [...]
Thursday, 31 March 2011 - Sunday, 04 December 2011
The Romanian Cultural Institute will organize in the following period, March-December 2011, a series of musical encounters gathered underneath the banner “When we were the Byzantium”, with the announced participation of various artists coming from abroad alongside very talented Romanian artists committed to promoting the authentic old Romanian music. Such assemblies and bands will illustrate Dimitrie Cantemir’s music. Among our announced guests we can name the Romanian Old Music Ensemble Anton Pann, conducted by Constatin Răileanu, who will also be the host of the events, En Chordais (Greece), Anatolia and Bezmârâ (Turkey) and Constantinople (Iran). In order to reconstruct the atmosphere of those precious times, we shall have performances based upon old musical instruments, accompanied by interventions of different story-tellers that will entertain us with anecdotes and brief fragments of history related to particular songs. [...]
Friday, 18 March 2011 - Monday, 21 March 2011
Between the 18th and the 21st of March 2011, more than twenty Romanian publishers will be present at the 12th edition of Salon du Livre / The Paris Book Fair. This year, the Romanian stand, organised by The Romanian Cultural Institute will also include a commercial space, dedicated to selling Romanian books, with the support of Cărturești Bookshop. The publishers present at the fair are: All, Art, Brumar, Cartier, Cartea Românească, Corint, Curtea Veche, The Publishing House of the Romanian Cultural Institute, Hasefer, House of Guides, Humanitas, Ideea, Igloo Media, Junimea, Minerva, Nemira, Paralala 45, Polirom, Rao, Trei, Vellant and Vremea. As in previous years, the translation programmes run by the National Book Centre will be presented; through these programmes 249 volumes have been printed so far.[...]
Thursday, 11 November 2010 - Friday, 12 November 2010
The Center for the Study of Post-Communist Societies (under the directorship of Professor Vladimir Tismăneanu) at the University of Maryland (College Park) and the Romanian Cultural Institute in collaboration with the Cold War International History Project (Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars), Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service (Georgetown University), Comparative Politics and Political Theory Fields (Department of Government and Politics U-MD) and the Embassy of Romanian in the US organize the conference "Remembrance, History, and Justice: Coming to Terms with Traumatic Pasts in Democratic Societies" (Washington D.C., November 11-12, 2010). This is the fourth such event in a series that began in 2007 focused on providing, by means of reflection on watershed moments of post-1945 history, an overview of the global dynamics characteristic for the 20th century and its lessons for and impact upon the 21st. [...]
