Laura Ganea, Maxim Onofrei (eds.)
Romania in the Global Academic Elite 2017-2023
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
ARGUMENT
INSTITUTES OF ADVANCED STUDY – INVESTMENTS IN THE FUTURE • Laura Ganea
CONCEPTS
THE RATIONALE AND MISSION OF AN INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES IN LEVANT CULTURE AND CIVILIZATION IN ROMANIA • Emil Constantinescu
Levantine roots
Levantine academic genealogy in the modern period
Premises for a new approach: from difference and indifference to understanding the Other
Rediscovering The Levant: An opportunity for 21st century Western civilization
CONCEPTS
THE UNIVERSITY BEYOND ITS WALLS • Dan Grigorescu
Protecting and preserving natural and cultural heritage in the Levant
The expectation and reality of universities’ social commitment
Pathways for university engagement in regional issues
European Commission policies for regional development
Romanian universities in their relationship with the regions
The mission of an Institute of Advanced Studies: the promotion of holistic approaches, innovation and interdisciplinarity
A UNESCO geopark in Dobrogea
CONCEPTS
THEMES AND PRINCIPLES OF CULTURAL DIPLOMACY AND INTERFAITH DIALOGUE IN THE 21ST CENTURY • Cătălin-Ștefan Popa
Fundamental principles of cultural diplomacy and interreligious dialogue
The vision of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Levant Culture and Civilization
A pilgrimage in which we travel “side by side”
Harmonizing divergent approaches between ethnic and religious groups
TIMELINE
THE LEVANT INITIATIVE FOR GLOBAL PEACE – AN INITIATIVE TRANSFORMED INTO AN INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED STUDIES FOR THE CULTURE OF PEACE • Alice Boboc
The Levant, a laboratory for the culture of peace
The Bucharest Forum: Rediscovering the Mediterranean
“The Levant Initiative for Global Peace” in the Romanian Parliament
“The Levant Initiative for Global Peace” in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
The Institute for Advanced Studies in Levant Culture and Civilization. Towards peace through education
The Levant Initiative for Global Peace in the Council of Europe
Case studies of sensitive areas of the Levant
TIMELINE
THE WORLD ACADEMY OF ART & SCIENCE. SCHOLARS IN SERVICE TO PEACE • Maxim Onofrei
WAAS@60. Retrospective and reflections
Global leadership and global governance
Science and human values: The integration of knowledge
Towards a person-centred education 0
A network of networks
ORGANIZATION
THE INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES IN LEVANT CULTURE AND CIVILIZATION: SIX YEARS OF EXCELLENCE IN AN ACADEMIC AND INSTITUTIONAL ‘NETWORK OF NETWORKS’ • Luiza-Elena Popa, Director-general 2019-2024
A plea in favour of a culture of peace through education
The Scientific Council
The Advisory Board
The inaugural conference of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Levant Culture and Civilization: International Conference on “The Levant Initiative for Global Peace: Through Cultural Diplomacy Towards a Lasting Peace”
Part of a “network of networks” in service of human security
RESEARCH PROGRAMMES
DOBROGEA, WITNESS TO THE MILLENNIAL CIVILIZATIONS OF THE LEVANT • Dan Grigorescu (coordinator), Constantin Haită, Ioan Scutelnicu, Daniel Iosif, Ștefan Marincea
A flagship programme of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Levant Culture and Civilization • Dan Grigorescu
Scientific and cultural routes in the Dobrogea region
Ideas begin to take shape. National and international conferences, round tables and discussions
Researching the relationship between the geological and the biological – MA theses at the „Ovidius” University of
Constanța
A holistic approach to natural and cultural heritage – a source of sustainable regional development
The Dobrogea Geopark has its architect, but still awaits its builders
Geographical information system mapping the natural and cultural heritage in Dobrogea • Constantin Haită, Daniel Iosif, Ștefan Marincea
RESEARCH PROGRAMMES
THE CULTURAL HISTORY OF THE BALKANS • Antoaneta Olteanu, Mihaela Iacob, Daniela Mihai, Liviu Iancu, Mihai-Bogdan Marian, Constantin Haită, Daniel Iosif
The Balkans, an area of circulation for Levantine culture
Aspects of Balkan mythology • Antoaneta Olteanu
The Danubian-Pontic region, from the Palaeolithic to Graeco-Roman colonization and Byzantine rule • Mihai-Bogdan Marian, Constantin Haită, Daniel Iosif
Research of monuments and artefacts from Histria: from investigating the past to reflecting upon the present • Liviu Iancu
Moesia/Moesia Inferior/Scythia – a peripheral province of the Roman and Roman-Byzantine world • Mihaela Iacob
The Summer School at the Carsium Citadel: history, archaeology, cultural and natural heritage • Daniela Mihai
From the Ottoman hegemony to globalization • Mihai-Bogdan Marian, Constantin Haită, Daniel Iosif
RESEARCH PROGRAMMES
RECENT HISTORY FROM THE REVOLUTIONS OF EASTERN EUROPE TO THE ARAB SPRINGS. FROM THE END OF THE COLD WAR TO THE WAR IN UKRAINE • Emil Constantinescu, Laura Ganea, Alexandru Florea
History and Myth. Anti-Communist revolutions in Eastern Europe • Emil Constantinescu
Romania: a particular case • Laura Ganea
30 years on: echoes of the past in every step towards the future • Emil Constantinescu
The Arab Springs. A Khaldunian appraisal • Alexandru Florea
25 years from the launch of the Strategic Partnership between Romania and the United States: A model for South-Eastern Europe • Laura Ganea
The global consequences of the war in Ukraine • Emil Constantinescu
THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE ACADEMIC MILIEU
THE POST-PANDEMIC WORLD BETWEEN WAR AND PEACE • Oana-Elena Brânda
Crisis situations
Anticipating the future: Romanian thought and international multidisciplinary perspectives
Global approaches to the post-pandemic world
The Black Sea area: A regional approach to post-pandemic sustainable development
Young people discuss the world of the future
Between pandemic and war: International initiatives joined by the Institute for Advanced Studies in Levant Culture and Civilization
The “Brave New World,” an equation with many unknowns
The shocks of war
THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE ACADEMIC MILIEU
THE EUROPEAN UNION BETWEEN HOPE AND ANXIETY • Emil Constantinescu
A Europe of the future: A political, economic, or spiritual Union?
The future of EU foreign policy
The political and cultural borders of Europe
The challenges of multiculturalism inside and outside the European Union
Towards a Europe of citizens
NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES
CULTURAL DIPLOMACY IN SUPPORT OF PARLIAMENTARY DEMOCRACY • Emil Constantinescu, Cătălin-Ștefan Popa, Oana-Elena Brânda
A new concept for the world of the future under the aegis of a new humanism • Emil Constantinescu
Historical, current and future approaches • Cătălin-Ștefan Popa
Cultural diplomacy and the challenges of the 21st century • Oana-Elena Brânda
NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES
THE LEVANT, CRADLE OF ABRAHAMIC RELIGIONS • Cătălin-Ștefan Popa
A global platform for cooperation between religious leaders, the academic milieu and civil society
From Bucharest to Auckland, Kottayam to Cambridge and Jerusalem to Nashville: scholarly dedication to the Levant, and historical milestones for its religious communities
NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES
THE HISTORY OF THE CULTURES AND CIVILIZATIONS OF THE LEVANT • Emil Constantinescu, Marius Oprea, Liviu Iancu, Daniela Mihai, Ana-Maria Răducan, Simona Deleanu-Mareș
Precursors • Emil Constantinescu
Knowing the past, understanding the present • Daniela Mihai, Ana-Maria Răducan, Simona Deleanu-Mareș
Textiles and war in prehistory and Antiquity. Establishing a new research direction through an international conference organized in Bucharest • Liviu Iancu
The archaeology of the victims of Communism • Marius Oprea
NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES
NATURAL AND CULTURAL HERITAGE BETWEEN UNFAMILIARITY AND IGNORANCE • Dan Grigorescu
Natural and cultural heritage, a source of sustainable regional development
Cultural heritage, an undervalued national treasure
Natural heritage in a state of crisis
INTERNATIONAL SCHOOLS
THE ANNUAL SCHOOL OF BYZANTINE AND POST-BYZANTINE STUDIES • Ana-Maria Răducan
Representations of Byzantium in history, literature and art
Stability and change at the borders of the Byzantine Empire and of post-Byzantine civilization
Byzantine and post-Byzantine culture and spirituality in Moldavia, Wallachia and the Balkans
Knowledge networks and the transmission of wisdom in the Byzantine and post-Byzantine era
Memory and Oblivion in Byzantium
INTERNATIONAL SCHOOLS
THE ANNUAL INTERDISCIPLINARY SCHOOL OF ANCIENT GREEK, EGYPTOLOGY AND ORIENTAL LANGUAGES • Ana-Maria Răducan
An inestimable cultural heritage
Life and Death in Antiquity
Cosmogony or the myth about the act of making the world in Classical and Oriental literatures
Time and Space in Antiquity
INSTITUTIONAL LIBRARY
THE BOOKS OF THE LEVANT • Emil Constantinescu, Liviu Iancu
The Power of the Book • Emil Constantinescu
An immense bibliophile value • Liviu Iancu
PUBLICATIONS
COLLECTIONS AND PERIODICALS. FROM KNOWLEDGE OF THE PAST TO ANTICIPATING THE FUTURE • Simona Deleanu-Mareș
Six years of activity transposed into a diverse editorial catalogue
Collections
ROMANIAN SCHOLARS IN LEVANTINE RESEARCH
Emil Condurachi: Pars Orientis. Studies in European Cultural History • Alexandru Suceveanu
Mihai Berza: De la Méditeranée à la Mer Noire • Andrei Pippidi
Zoe Petre: De la Mer Égée au Pont Euxin. Études d’histoire politique et culturelle antique • Florica (Bohîlțea) Mihuț
STUDIES IN LEVANTINE HISTORY
Interculturality and Social Dynamism in Contemporary Dobrogea • Florica (Bohîlțea) Mihuț
Romanian-Turkish Relations in Modern Times • Tasin Gemil
The History of Georgia, from earliest times until the 21st century • Nikoloz Nikolozishvili
Byzantium – An Unending Civilization • Athanasios Semoglou
THE LEVANT, CRADLE OF ABRAHAMIC RELIGIONS
Pope John Paul II in Romania. Catholic-Orthodox Dialogue Nine Centuries after the Great Schism • Cătălin-Ștefan Popa
The Levant, Cradle of Abrahamic Religions • Cătălin-Ștefan Popa
RECENT HISTORY AND FUTURE ANTICIPATION
The Romania-US Strategic Partnership: 25. A Security Guarantee for Romania in the 3rd Millennium • Constantin Hlihor
The Post-Pandemic World between War and Peace • Oana-Elena Brânda
Periodicals
The International Journal of Levant Studies • Emil Constantinescu
Natur-Culturalia • Dan Grigorescu
Palaeontological heritage and geoconservation in UNESCO European Geoparks • Ioan Scutelnicu
EXHIBITIONS
TESTIMONIES OF THE CULTURE AND CIVILIZATION OF THE LEVANTINE SPACE • Raluca Velicu, Alice Boboc, Dinu Dinulescu, Maxim Onofrei, Ioan Scutelnicu
From minerals to art objects from the Levant • Maxim Onofrei, Ioan Scutelnicu
Tradition and identity. The Muslim community in Dobrogea • Raluca Velicu, Dinu Dinulescu
Artefacts from the Balkans, Caucasus, the Middle East and Northern Africa • Raluca Velicu, Dinu Dinulescu
Recent history in confession. On the 25th anniversary of its launch, testimonial exhibitions on the Strategic Partnership between Romania and the United States • Alice Boboc, Ioan Scutelnicu
In confession, a brief testimony about the launch of the Romania-US Strategic Partnership • Emil Constantinescu
PARTNERSHIPS
ACADEMIC COLLABORATION IN A NATIONAL, REGIONAL AND GLOBAL CONTEXT • Maxim Onofrei
A pluriform dialogue between prestigious institutions
THE TEAM
ESTABLISHED SCHOLARS AND YOUNG RESEARCHERS WITH A MULTIDISCIPLINARY FORMATION ● Daniela Mihai, Liviu Iancu, Adrian Bărbieru
From history, political science and diplomacy to nature, culture and society