Research Seminars on Periodization in the History of Art
A program supported by the Getty Foundation as part of its Connecting Art Histories Initiative
Read moreNetworks of Devotion: the Selection of Saints as Marker of Religious Identity in Post-Byzantine Moldavian Representations (Wall-paintings and Texts)
The project proposed a case study of a delimited corpus: the iconic portrait of saints in Moldavian monuments, cca. 1490-cca. 1530, with a view at elaborating a methodology for the study of South-Eastern European cultural transfers.
Read moreThe Pluralization of the Public Sphere. Art Exhibitions in Romania between 1968 and 1989
The project analyzed unofficial, alternative, subversive or, generically, experimental art in Romania during the Ceaușescu regime, from the vantage point of the institutional frameworks, representation politics and micro-communities of artistic production.
Read moreTurning Global: Socialist Experts during the Cold War (1960s - 1980s)
The project’s general objective was to identify, during three decades of development (1960s-1980s), within five fields (economy, law, demography, theater and historical studies), socialist experts’ contributions to international debates and institution building.
Read moreMuseums and Controversial Collections. Politics and Policies of Heritage-Making in Post-colonial and Post-socialist Contexts
The project’s main premise was to consider museums as loci of memory and heritage, but also as fundamentally political places, where the relationships between the past, the present, and the future of a society were forged.
Read moreMircea Eliade between Indology and History of Religions. From Yoga to Shamanism and Archaic Religiosity
The project aimed to reconstruct Mircea Eliade’s Indological formation, to evaluate his work on India against the background of Sanskrit texts and of the Indological state of the art, and to study their influence on his later work on History of Religions.
Read moreModels of Producing and Disseminating Knowledge in Early Modern Europe: The Cartesian Framework
The project aimed to conduct a research from an interdisciplinary standpoint on Descartes correspondence, which constituted a true fountain of theories, ideas and representations, one of the milestones of the intellectual networking of the early modernity.
Read moreCritical Foundations of Contemporary Cosmopolitanism
The starting premise of the project was that in contemporary world of differences and points of view a global, overarching cosmopolitan vision and a global consensus should be avoided.
Read moreThe Political Radicalization of the Kantian Idea of Philosophy in a Cosmopolitan Sense
The Political Radicalization of the Kantian Idea of Philosophy in a Cosmopolitan Sense
Read moreLinked European Archives for Ethno-musicological Research
The goal of the project was to contribute to the preservation, accessibility, connectedness and exploitation of some of the most prestigious ethno-musicological archives in Europe.
Read moreThe Excellency Network Germany - South Eastern Europe
The aim of this program, financed by the Hertie Foundation, was to establish and foster contacts between scholars and academics, as well as higher education entities from Germany and South Eastern Europe.
Read moreBusiness Elites in Romania: Their Social and Educational Determinants and their Impact on Economic Performances
The project represented the Romanian contribution to a joint program with the University of Sankt Gallen, entitled Markets for Executives and Non-Executives in Western and eastern Europe, and financed by the National Swiss Fund for the Development of Scientific Research (SCOPES).
Read moreThe Septuagint Translation
This project aimed at achieving a scientifically reliable translation of the Septuagint into Romanian by a group of very gifted, young Romanian scholars.
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