Activities

RESEARCH WORKSHOPS

• A1: The Body as Sign in Contemporary Dance Performances, March 4^th 2016, Center of Excellence in Image Studies (CESI), University of Bucharest
Research workshop organized by the members of the project. The two guest presenters were Andrea Gavriliu (actress and choreographer) and Cristina Modreanu (theater critic and performing arts specialist). The workshop was attended by the members of the project, CESI students and faculty.

• A2: Mapping Spaces. From Cartographic Configurations to Geographies of Resistance, April 15^th 2016, Center of Excellence in Image Studies (CESI), University of Bucharest
Research workshop organized by the members of the project. The two presenters were guest lecturer Petruța Năiduț (from the Faculty of Foreign Languages, University of Bucharest) and project team member Anca Băicoianu. The workshop was attended by the members of the project, CESI students and faculty, and students from the Faculty of Letters (University of Bucharest).

• A3: Painting the Figure. Figurative and Figural Regimes of Representation, November 14^th 2016, Center of Excellence in Image Studies (CESI), University of Bucharest
Research workshop organized by the members of the project. The two presenters were guest lecturer Kamini Vellodi (from the Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh) and project team member Vlad Ionescu. The workshop was attended by the members of the project, CESI students and faculty.

• A4: The figures of language, the language of figures, May 8^th 2017, Center of Excellence in Image Studies (CESI), University of Bucharest.
Research workshop organized by the members of the project. The two presenters were guest researcher Adrian Tudurachi (literary critic and historian, Deputy Director of the „Sextil Pușcariu” Institute of Linguistics and Literary History, Cluj-Napoca) and Chris Tănăsescu (poet, performer, critic, translator and researcher at the University of Ottawa). The workshop was attended by the project team, CESI students and faculty, and students from the Faculty of Letters (University of Bucharest).

THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ORGANIZED AS PART OF THE PROJECT

• CI: New Treatments of the Figure in Literature and Visual Arts/ Nouveaux régimes de la figure. Littérature et arts visuels, November 11^th-12^th 2016, Center of Excellence in Image Studies (CESI), University of Bucharest
International conference organized by the project team, with the participation of the team members and more than 20 researchers from Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Romania, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

RESEARCH VISITS

• Laura Marin, Centre d’études et de recherches interdisciplinaires en Lettres, Arts, Cinéma (CERILAC), Université Paris 7 Denis Diderot, France, January 24^th–February 8^th 2016, June 13^th–23^rd 2016, and July 25^th–August 23^rd 2016 (invited by Prof. Eric Marty).

• Anca Băicoianu, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris, France, March 2^nd–April 3^rd 2016 (invited by Prof. Patricia Falguières).

• Alexandra Irimia, Boston College Library in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, April 15^th–23^rd 2016 (invited by Mr. Steve Runge, Learning Commons Manager, O’Neill Library).

• Andrei Lazăr, University of Geneva, Switzerland, September 13^th–27^th 2016 (invited by Prof. Sylviane Dupuis).

• Laura Marin, Centre d’études et de recherches interdisciplinaires en Lettres, Arts, Cinéma (CERILAC), Université Paris 7 Denis-Diderot, France, May 30^th– June 14^th 2017 (invited by Prof. Eric Marty).

• Vlad Ionescu, Academia Belgica, Rome, Italy, July 6^th– July 26^th 2017.

• Alina Mihai, Cinematek, The Royal archive of Belgium, Brussels, April 20^th-April 30^th 2017 (invited by Jean-Paul Dorchain, Head of Non-film Collection).

PARTICIPATION IN NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES

• Laura Marin, „Un nou regim al figurii”, National Conference Estetică și teorii ale artelor (ETA), September 23^rd–24^th 2016, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca.

• Laura Marin, „Granițe conceptuale, concepte de graniță. Studiu de caz: figura”, International Conference Teritorii, granițe, comunități. Reconfigurări identitare într-o lume (dis)continuă/ Places, Boundaries, Communities. Mapping Identities in a (Dis)connected World/ Territoires, Frontières, Communautés. Reconfigurations Identitaires dans un Monde (Dis)continu, November 4^th–5^th 2016, University of Bucharest.

• Laura Marin, „Figurabilité, plasticité : penser la différence”, International Conference New Treatments of the Figure in Literature and Visual Arts/ Nouveaux régimes de la figure. Littérature et arts visuels, November 11^th –12^th 2016, University of Bucharest.

• Anca Băicoianu, „Translating Nabokov: Romanian Perspectives on World Literature”, ICLA International Congress, The Many Languages of Comparative Literature, July 21^st–27^th 2016, University of Vienna.

• Anca Băicoianu, „Grounds for Comparison: The Postcolonial and the Post-Soviet”, International Conference Central Europe and Colonialism: Migrations, Knowledges, Perspectives, Commodities, September 21^st–23^rd 2016, Academia Europaea Wrocław (Poland).

• Anca Băicoianu, „The Archive as Figure”, International Conference New Treatments of the Figure in Literature and Visual Arts/ Nouveaux régimes de la figure. Littérature et arts visuels, November 11^th –12^th 2016, University of Bucharest.

• Vlad Ionescu, „Re-Modelling the Past: The Atlas as a Figure of History”, International Conference New Treatments of the Figure in Literature and Visual Arts/ Nouveaux régimes de la figure. Littérature et arts visuels, November 11^th–12^th 2016, University of Bucharest.

• Andrei Lazăr, „Figurer le passé dans le récit autobiographique filmé : Marguerite Yourcenar, Hervé Guibert, Jacques Derrida”, International Conference Auto/biografia, telescopia, temporalità/ Auto/biography: its telescopic and temporal dimensions/ Auto/biographie, téléscopie, temporalité, June 20^th–22^nd 2016, Observatoire Scientifique de la mémoire écrite, orale, filmique et du patrimoine autobiographique in collaboration with Biblioteca di storia moderna e contemporanea and Istituto centrale per i beni sonori e audiovisivi, Rome (Italy).

• Andrei Lazăr, „Intermittences du visuel et percée du figural dans l’autobiographie filmique”, International Conference New Treatments of the Figure in Literature and Visual Arts/ Nouveaux régimes de la figure. Littérature et arts visuels, November 11^th–12^th 2016, University of Bucharest.

• Alexandra Irimia, „Henri Michaux et René Magritte: tours et détours du visible et du lisible”, International Conference Intermediality, Equinoxes April 8^th–9^th 2016, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA.

• Alexandra Irimia, „Depicting Absence: Thematic and Stylistic Paradoxes of Representation in Visual and Literary Imagery”, ICLA International Congress, The Many Languages of Comparative Literature, July 21^st–27^th 2016, University of Vienna.

• Alexandra Irimia, „Paper-cut: Figural Theatricality and Archival Practices in Geoffrey Farmer’s Sculptural Photo-Collages”, International Conference New Treatments of the Figure in Literature and Visual Arts/ Nouveaux régimes de la figure. Littérature et arts visuels, November 11^th–12^th 2016, University of Bucharest.

• Alina Mihai, „From Macro to Micro and from Global to Local – a Shifting Perspective of Hos(ti)pitality”, International Conference Globalization, Intercultural Dialogue and National Identity (GIDNI – 3), May 19^th–20^th 2016, Multicultural Studies Institute Alpha in collaboration with “Petru Maior” University in Târgu-Mureș and “Gheorghe Şincai” Institute for the Social Sciences and the Humanities, The Romanian Academy.

• Alina Mihai, „The Cinematic Portrayal of Childhood Interrupted by Hos(ti)pitality and Violence”, CINECRI ’16” – 3^rd International Film Studies and  Cinematic Arts Conference, June 11^th–12^th 2016, Eastern Mediterranean Academic Research Center, Istanbul (Turkey).

• Alina Mihai, „Figures of Trauma Recollected in War Films”, International Conference Arts of Healing: Cultural Narratives of Trauma”, November 3^rd–5^th 2016, Petroleum-Gas University in Ploiești in collaboration with the University of Cyprus.

• Alina Mihai, „The Figural Representation of the Hos(ti)pitable Threshold as a Cinematic Signifier”, International Conference New Treatments of the Figure in Literature and Visual Arts/ Nouveaux régimes de la figure. Littérature et arts visuels, November 11^th–12^th 2016, University of Bucharest.

• Laura Marin, „Figurabilité du portrait chez Adrian Ghenie”, International Conference Le portrait dans la littérature et les arts visuels, March 15^th-17^th 2017, University of Agadir (Morocco).

• Laura Marin, „Dincolo de figurativ. Regim vizual, regim politic”, Internal Conference, Studii culturale contemporane, May 11^th, 12^th and 16^th 2017, CESI, University of Bucharest.

• Laura Marin, „Quelle figure pour le sujet interprétant? Derrida lecteur de Blanchot”, Auto/biographie, polyphonie, plurivocalitaté, International Conference, June 19^th-21^th 2017, Mediapolis Europa, Rome (Italy).

• Laura Marin, „Forme de viață, practici de montaj”, International Conference Zilele Sextil Pușcariu, September 14^th -15^th 2017, „Sextil Pușcariu” Institute of the Romanian Academy, Cluj-Napoca.

• Anca Diaconu (Băicoianu), „Figures of Displacement: Dubravka Ugrešić’s Nomadic Archives”, Annual International Conference of the British Association for Slavonic and East-European Studies, March 30^th-April 2^nd 2017, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge.

• Anca Diaconu (Băicoianu), „Translating the Self: Challenges and Prospects of Intracultural Translation”, Seminar at the International Conference of the American Comparative Literature Association, July 6^th-9^th 2017, Utrecht University (Netherlands).

• Vlad Ionescu, „Wind, Breath and Air in Modern and Contemporary Arts”, Theory of Aesthetics, Research Seminar of Professor Volkmar Mühleis, May 10^th 2017, St. Lukas School of Arts, Gent (Belgium).

• Vlad Ionescu, „Craftmanship or the Pedagogies of Making”, A Grid Without A Cat, Annual National Deleuze Conference, May 17^th-18^th 2017, Artez Academie voor Art & Design, Enschede (Netherlands).

• Andrei Lazăr, „Polyphonie visuelle dans l’autobiographie filmique d’Alain Cavalier”, Auto/biographie, polyphonie, plurivocalitaté, International Conference, June 19^th-211^st 2017, Mediapolis Europa, Rome (Italy).

• Alina Mihai, „Figuring Out the New Image of Hos(ti)pitality”, Globalization, Intercultural Dialogue and National Identity, International Conference, May 18^th-19^th 2017, „Dimitrie Cantemir” University of Tîrgu-Mureș (Romania).

• Alexandra Irimia, „Figural Voids: Empty Signifiers and Other Figures of Absence”, Imagine, Imaginar, Limbaj, CESI PhD Students’ Conference, June 27^th-28^th 2017, University of Bucharest.

• Alexandra Irimia, „Museums of the Void: The Exhibitional Space as Empty Signifier”, The Limits of the Art in the Museum, International Conference, November 28^th-30^th 2017, Complutense University, Madrid (Spain).