Sciences

The new season of the Feraru Conferences Online, our platform of intellectual exchanges on ineluctable topics with transatlantic relevance, debuts with a dialogue with Sir Martin Davidson, celebrated cultural diplomat and public service reformer, who as CEO of the British

We are proud to welcome Professor KATHERINE VERDERY, one of the most influential contemporary anthropologists and the author of several seminal studies about life in socialist Romania and the post-communist transition in Eastern Europe, as the next guest in our FERARU CONFERENCES

We are marking the Universal Day of the Romanian Blouse, celebrated throughout the world on June 24, with a conversation about harnessing the power of the internet for essential causes with cultural promoter and communication specialist ANDREEA TĂNĂSESCU, the founder of

The following talk in our Feraru Conferences Online series deals with the turbulent prospects of the economic arena and their impact on the transatlantic cooperation, including the cultural sectors, in the company of one of the most brilliant American minds in financial

This week’s interlocutor in the Leon Feraru Conferences Online is bestselling author, screenwriter and film-maker PETRU POPESCU, one of the best-known Romanian names on the American and international literary scene. A Hollywood insider who has worked with A-lister directors

Our interlocutor in the FERARU CONFERENCES this week is one of the most influential feminist academics, Professor MARIA BUCUR of Indiana University, the author of the ambitiously revisionist and original The Century of Women: How Women Have Transformed the World Since 1900

Our first guest in the new season of the Leon Feraru Conferences Online is DR. THEO TRANDAFIRESCU, one of the most respected medical specialists in New York and a true hero on the most dangerous front: the fight against the devastating effects of COVID-19. Working day and

On May 13, 2020 director, producer and TIFF creator TUDOR GIURGIU talked to the RCINY director Dorian Branea about the impact of American pop culture on Romanian film and his own formation and career, the lure of Hollywood and commercial cinema, the disruptions and opportunities

On May 6, 2020 we had as interlocutor in our LEON FERARU CONFERENCES ONLINE series Romanian-British historian and academic MARIUS TURDA, one of the world’s leading experts in racism, eugenism, and medical history. Professor Turda discussed,in dialogue with the RCINY director,racist

Our LEON FERARU CONFERENCES ONLINE continued with an exploration of the role played by religion and religious affairs in the Romanian-American diplomatic relations during the Cold War, in the company of historian and academic, Dr. ANCA ȘINCAN, one of the principal Romanian

After a great start exploring the multi-faceted reality of pro- and anti-Americanism in the company of PEN Romania President, Radu Vancu, our LEON FERARU CONFERENCES ONLINE continued with a conversation with Professor DENNIS DELETANT, one of the biggest names of Romanian

The first event in the LEON FERARU CONFERENCES online series, one of our permanent programs that provides a voice to the rich and diverse Romanian expertise of all things American, took place on April 15, 2020. We began these weekly virtual exchanges with an exploration