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România va fi prezentă la Târgul Internaţional de Carte de la Londra, desfăşurat în perioada 19-21 aprilie 2010, cu un stand naţional organizat, pentru a treia oară consecutiv, de Institutul Cultural Român. Sloganul prezenţei româneşti de la ediţia din acest

Ediție în limba engleză, apărută la Editura ICR în cadrul festivalului EUROPALIA ROMÂNIARomanian Cinema Inside Out: Insights on film culture, industry and politics (1912-2019), coord. Irina TrocanCuprins/ ContentsIntroduction - Irina TrocanVideograms of a NationRomanian Independence:

„Să uităm de clişee!, propune Sezonul România-Franţa, care va începe pe Calea Victoriei din București, odată cu Spotlight - Festivalul Internațional al Luminii, în cadrul căruia Franța este țară invitată de onoare. Institutul Cultural Român (ICR) este partenerul

An ancient symbol of war, because of its reddish color, Mars started with a low profile in the gallery of inhabited worlds. Up till the 19th century, it could bear no comparison with the Moon. In his Itinerarium exstaticum (1656), Athanasius Kircher (1601-1680) proposed

You do not need a passport to travel to Egypt or to any other English colony. A visit card will do. In Alexandria, I made friends with the tropical flora: date trees that bear almost 100 kg of fruit each year, bananas or the cursed fruits because they grow without any effort

How much does a museum represent in contemporary cultural life? Is it still a necessity today? Is the support provided to museology, or to be more precise, to acquisitions, specific research, conservation and restoration a good investment? All in all, is there any future

excerpt The second time I went to Alina's parents', the neighborhood seemed too familiar not to imagine that my memory was playing a prank on me, and not a nice one. I had got off the tram a few steps away from the barber's called The Merry Whiskers, which

Mosilor Street, the modern thoroughfare of a Bucharest that struggles so hard to appear occidentalized and yet doesn't quite manage to: something Balkan, Levantine lingers in the atmosphere of the streets, in spite of the concrete ten-floor blocks, of the road with

The historiographical approach is one of the fundamental elements of the political system which propaganda may serve. The legitimation of a political regime and its leader through the national historical pantheon represents a necessary action for the dynamism of the propagandistic

A white fur cap walks its way boldly above the fences, turns left all of a sudden and appears in front of me, before the gate of the church. The churchyard is full of people but the old man walks determined, bold, with his chest pushed out front, straight to the target: