Events

14 Apr 2021

Cristina Chevereșan: Dreaming and Teaching the Americana

One of the innovative leaders of Romanian academic life, researcher and professor Cristina Chevereșan, the Vice Rector of the University of the West in Timișoara and an internationally accomplished reference author of American Studies, is the next protagonist of the Feraru

12 Apr 2021

The Secession Lamp / The History of Romania in One Object

Our kaleidoscopic descent into Romania's past through vestiges and objects endowed with powerful evocative force brings us to the modernist tradition of Timișoara, the country's most western city. In this week’s episode of “The History of Romania in One Object”

9 Apr 2021 - 9 Apr 2021

Art Fridays: Studio Conversations with Ciprian Paleologu

Today's guest in our “Studio Conversations” series is Ciprian Paleologu (b. 1976), a “Romanian visionary artist” (as he jokingly likes to recommend himself) and the founder of Laborna Gallery, a creative space in Bucharest. He studied painting at the University

7 Apr 2021

Cezar Ioan on Wine as History, Culture, and Soft Power

With the noblest elixir about to take center stage at the great celebrations of springtime, wine guru Cezar Ioan, publisher of influential vinul. ro and co-founder of Romania’s National Day of Gastronomy and Wines, comes to the Feraru Conferences for a conversation about

6 Apr 2021

Stella Vinițchi Rădulescu / Romanian Women Voices in North America II

This week’s woman literary voice belongs to Romanian-American veteran poet and academic Stella Vinițchi Rădulescu. The poet's daughter, Domnica Rădulescu, herself an acclaimed author and professor, reads excerpts from Stella's forthcoming volume with Orison

2 Apr 2021 - 2 Apr 2021

Art Fridays: Studio Conversations with Lea Rasovszky

The week’s encounter in our Arts Friday’s Studio Conversations features Lea Rasovszky (b. 1986), a young yet prolific female artist, graduate of The University of the Arts in Bucharest, whose work is characterized by a fresh message: fierce, brazen, and amused. Enjoying

1 Apr 2021

A Guitar Bravado for the Coming of Spring

The coming of spring is welcome at the Enescu Soirees Online with a guitar recital offered, with youthful energy, by the promising ARTissimo Guitar Duo made up of Ana Maria Bibescu and Raisa Mihai. The exciting program, a comfort for heart and soul in uncertain times, features

30 Mar 2021 - 30 Mar 2021

Transatlantic Rites of the New Beginnings / Geographies of Tradition

No matter how different we are from each other, no matter how different the cultures we come from are, our emotions and feelings spring from the same “groundwater”. And just as through a smile we all understand openness, human warmth or joy, so we associate the coming

28 Mar 2021

Magda Cârneci on Her New Book in English

Distinguished author, art historian and cultural promoter Magda Cârneci discusses her new novel in English, the experimental FEM (Deep Vellum Publishing),with translator Sean Cotter and radio host Andrew Singer in a podcast to be aired on the Trafika Europe Radio online

26 Mar 2021 - 26 Mar 2021

Studio Conversations with Sculptor Cătălin Bădărău

Today'sStudio Conversationwithin our Art Fridays series brings us into the creative laboratory of sculptor Cătălin Bădărău, whose haunting creations examine contemporary forms of violence, sufferance, and alienation as unescapable features of our existence. Cătălin

24 Mar 2021

Legendary Director Andrei Șerban on the Perilous Wisdom of Art and Life

We are thrilled to welcome, to the Feraru Conferences, director and educator ANDREI ȘERBAN, the wizz kid of the New York avantgarde theater of the 1970s and one of the most celebrated Romanians in contemporary arts, for a conversation about the arduous path to artistic

22 Mar 2021

The Diploma of the Royal Free City of Timișoara / The History of Romania in One Object

Our exploration of Romania’s history through vestiges and objects of outstanding symbolism and beauty brings forth an artifact that symbolizes a major turning point in the history of the Banat region and its capital, Timișoara: The Royal Free City Diploma, granted in