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SOLIDARITY WITH UKRAINE
AT THE OSLO FREEDOM FORUM, AN EVENT ORGANIZED BY RUSSIAN DISSIDENT GARRY KASPAROV AND THE HUMAN RIGHTS FOUNDATION,
Emil Constantinescu awards the “Václav Havel” International Prize for Creative Dissent to journalist Marina Ovsyannikova
Russian journalist Marina Ovsyannikova, one of this year’s laureates, protested against the war in Ukraine on a live newscast of state-run television station Channel 1.
”I supported Ms. Ovsianikova’s bid through the judge panel debates precisely because I know how hard it really is to speak the truth when facing an oppressive regime. During the Romanian Revolution of 1989, the first detainees released were the imprisoned journalists, sentenced to rot for having protested against the Ceausescu dictatorship. And to those that might still be asking themselves: “What did Marina ultimately change through her symbolic gesture live on Russian State television in Moscow?”, I will answer in Vaclav Havel’s own words: “Hope is not the conviction that things will take a turn for the better, but rather the conviction that what you are doing makes sense regardless of the turn things take, for better or worse””, president Constantinescu stated during the ceremony.
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SOLIDARITY WITH UKRAINIAN ACADEMIA
The Institute for Advanced Studies in Levant Culture and Civilization condemns the invasion of Ukraine, calls for an increase in the support offered refugees, and stands in solidarity with those within the Russian Federation protesting the ongoing war
Romania shares the longest border with Ukraine among the countries of Central and Eastern Europe. Romanians have lived through their own historical suffering, and we cannot remain indifferent to the plight now experienced by the Ukrainian people. It is time to show solidarity with the refugees arriving in our country and support those continuing to fight in Ukraine. We salute the decision of the Romanian authorities of harbouring students and professors from Ukraine, and we are launching an appeal to intensify cooperation with the academic environment in our neighbouring country. At the same time, we stand in solidarity with those that are currently facing repression in Russia, by protesting the ongoing war.
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Scientific Research Programmes
RECENT HISTORY AND THE ANTICIPATION OF THE FUTURE
Projects
The World Post-COVID-19. A Humanist Vision for a Sustainable Development
The Levant – Recent History. From the Revolutions of Eastern Europe to the Arab Spring
The European Union between hope and anxiety. The Europe of the Future: a political, economic or spiritual union?
CULTURAL DIPLOMACY AND THE CULTURE OF PEACE
Projects
The Levant Initiative for Global Peace
Cultural diplomacy and the challenges of the 21st century
Cultural diplomacy – historical approaches, current trends, future perspectives
REDISCOVERING LEVANTINE SOURCES – AN OPPORTUNITY FOR 21ST CENTURY WESTERN CIVILIZATION
Projects
The Levant – cradle of Abrahamic religions
The cultural history of the Balkans
Peace, governance and society in Levantine public and private law: from the Code of Hammurabi to Justinian and law treatises in the modern period
The civilization of the Lower Danube from prehistory to modernity
Jews in Romanian culture
The Levant in cartography
The ‘Levant’ bibliographic platform
DOBROGEA – WITNESS TO THE MILLENNIAL CIVILIZATIONS OF THE LEVANT
Projects
Natural and cultural heritage – a source of the sustainable development of the Dobrogean regions
The multiculturalism of Dobrogean ethnicities
THE ACADEMIC ENVIRONMENT AND SUSTAINABLE REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Projects
The relationship between minerals and biology in a holistic approach to natural research
Fundamentals for the creation of a UNESCO geopark in Dobrogea
Educational Programmes
THE ANNUAL SCHOOL OF BYZANTINE AND POST-BYZANTINE STUDIES
THE ANNUAL INTERDISCIPLINARY SCHOOL OF CLASSICAL LANGUAGES AND LITERATURE, ORIENTAL STUDIES AND EGYPTOLOGY
THE ANNUAL SCHOOL OF ARABIC LANGUAGE AND CULTURE
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In Budapest, the capital of the Republic of Hungary, the President of the Scientific Council of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Levantine Culture and Civilization, Professor Emil Constantinescu, took part in the Proceedings of the ”UN’80” International Conference, organized by the ”Women4Diplomacy International” Association, the Hungarian Association to the United Nations, and the Institute for Cultural Diplomacy in Berlin.
October 8th, 2025
The Institute for Advanced Studies for Levantine Culture and Civilization, in partnership with the Institute for Cultural Diplomacy in Berlin and the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures of the University of Bucharest, organizes the fifth edition of the Annual Interdisciplinary School of Ancient Greek, Egyptology and Oriental Languages from September 16-21, 2025.
The scientific director of the event is Associate Professor Dr. Maria Luiza Oancea (Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Bucharest), and the coordinators are Dr. Cătălin-Ștefan Popa and Dr. Ana-Maria Răducan (ISACCL).
September 16-21, 2025
On September 12, 2025, the President of the Istanbul-based Marmara Group Foundation for Strategic and Social Research, Dr. Akkan Suver, accompanied by the president of the Romania-Turkey Bilateral Chamber of, Dr. Tamer Atalay, and by the Secretary General of the Marmara Foundation, Sezgin Bilgiç, visited the headquarters of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Levant Culture and Civilization.
The discussions covered a wide range of topics such as public policy, evolutions in geopolitics and the edification of a culture of peace through education.
September 12, 2025
Teresa M. Bejan is Professor of Political Theory and a Fellow of Oriel College at the University of Oxford. Her research brings historical perspectives to bear on contemporary political questions. She is the author of Mere Civility: Disagreement and the Limits of Toleration (Harvard, 2017) and First Among Equals: Ideas of Equality and the Demand for Standing (Harvard, forthcoming), as well as many peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on themes of toleration, equality, civility, and free speech. In addition to her academic publications, Professor Bejan also writes regularly for popular venues, including The New York Times, The Atlantic, Boston Review, and New Statesman. To date, her work has been recognized by numerous international awards and fellowships, including the American Political Science Association's Leo Strauss Award (2015), the Britain and Ireland Association for Political Thought's Early Career Prize (2020), and the Philip Leverhulme Prize for Politics (2022).
August 29th, 2025
The Institute for Advanced Studies in Levant Culture and Civilization, in partnership with the Romanian Diplomatic Institute, has launched a series of conferences titled 'Dialogues in Cultural Diplomacy: Debates with Ambassadors from the Levant' with a high-level meeting dedicated to Lebanese culture and civilization, as part of the broader institutional project 'Cultural Diplomacy and the Challenges of the 21st Century'.
The special guest of this event, held at the Levant Institute's headquarters, Her Excellency Rana Mokaddem, Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the Republic of Lebanon to Romania, took part in a debate moderated by Dr. Cătălin-Ștefan Popa (Levant Institute) and Mihai Constantinescu (Romanian Diplomatic Institute).
July 1st, 2025
Today, the headquarters of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Levant Culture and Civilization hosted H. E. Kathleen Ann Kavalec, Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the United States of America to Romania between 2023 and 2025, who was invited to attend a meeting with the Institute’s President, Professor Emil Constantinescu, and its Director-general, Dr Cătălin-Ștefan Popa, with a view to establishing possible avenues of future collaboration.
May 23rd, 2025
As a member of the organizing committee of the event, between May 13th and 16th, 2025 Professor Dan Grigorescu took part in the International Congress on “Romance Languages in the Study of Dinosaurs: A Revolution in Science” (Las languas romances y los dinosaurios: una revolucion en la ciencia) held in San Millán de la Cogolla in the province of La Rioja (Spain) and organized by the Government and University of La Rioja in collaboration with the Rioja Institute of Studies and the San Millán de la Cogolla Foundation. The event was attended by palaeontologists specializing in the study of dinosaurs from countries with Romance languages: Spanish, Catalan, French, Swiss French (Romansh), Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Italian, Argentine, and Romanian. During the event’s plenary sessions, Professor Grigorescu presented a research paper titled Dinosaurs and their world – supporting the development of communities in the ‘Țara Hațegului’ region, Transylvania, Romania.
May 13th-16th, 2025
The Institute for Advanced Studies in Levant Culture and Civilization, in partnership with the French Institute in Romania, organized a lecture titled “French Culture, Travel, and Diplomacy in the Orient (17th–19th centuries), given by Professor Irini Apostolou of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.
The event is part of a series of lectures launched by the Institute for Advanced Studies in Levant Culture and Civilization dedicated to the study of the French language as a major vector of diplomacy and scientific exchange in the Levantine space.
May 13th, 2025
The President of the Scientific Council of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Levant Culture and Civilization, Professor Emil Constantinescu, took part in the twenty-eighth Eurasian Economic Summit organized in Istanbul by the Marmara Group Foundation for Strategic and Social Research.
May 7th– 8th, 2025
„The International Journal of Levant Studies” No. 1 (2019)
„The International Journal of Levant Studies” No. 2 (2020)
„The International Journal of Levant Studies” No. 3 (2021)
„The International Journal of Levant Studies” No. 4 (2022)
Edited by Liviu Mihail Iancu and Francesco Meo
Textiles and War in Europe and the Mediterranean from Prehistory to Late Antiquity
Politica de confidențialitate
THE ”UN'80” INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE: ANNIVERSARY OF THE UNITED NATIONS, THROUGH ART IN THE SERVICE OF PEACE
THE ANNUAL INTERDISCIPLINARY SCHOOL OF ANCIENT GREEK, EGYPTOLOGY AND ORIENTAL LANGUAGES. 5TH EDITION 
THE PRESIDENT OF THE MARMARA GROUP FOUNDATION FOR STRATEGIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH, DR. AKKAN SUVER, VISITS THE LEVANT INSTITUTE
DIALOGUES IN CULTURAL DIPLOMACY: THE STRATEGIC ROLE OF LEBANON IN THE LEVANT
HIGH-LEVEL MEETING WITH H. E. KATHLEEN ANN KAVALEC, EXTRAORDINARY AND PLENIPOTENTIARY AMBASSADOR OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA TO ROMANIA (2023-2025)
INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON “ROMANCE LANGUAGES IN THE STUDY OF DINOSAURS: A REVOLUTION IN SCIENCE”
FRENCH CULTURE, TRAVEL, AND DIPLOMACY IN THE ORIENT (17TH–19TH CENTURIES)
