April 2013 Newsletter FFLL Dimitrie Cantemir Christian University Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures W E L C O M E I N T H I S I S S U E Cultural Sessions 2-3 The Monthly Mentor Meetings 4 Our Professors Activities 5-6 Our Students Abroad 7 The Alternative Education Week 8-10 About Us 11
P a g e 2 C u l t u r a l S e s s i o n s Universitatea Creștină Dimitrie Cantemir Facultatea de Limbi și Literaturi Străine Facultatea de Limbi și Literaturi Străine are placerea să vă invite la intalnirea cu criticul literar Dan C. Mihăilescu. (Premiul pentru educaţie - Dascălul românilor", acordat la gala Mediafax 2013) Întîlnirea va avea loc joi, 28 martie, orele 12.00, Amfiteatrul B. Vă așteptăm cu mult drag. Meeting with Dan C. Mihăilescu, recipient of the Romanians Mentor Education Award, columnist and anchor at The Books Show on ProTV.
p a g e 3 C u l t u r a l S e s s i o n s On Monday, April 1 st 2013, the students of the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures had the special chance to meet Professor Angelo Manitta, President of the International Academy Il Convivio Castiglione di Sicilia, who talked about the activity of this important cultural center and about the aesthetic contacts and influences between Romanian and Italian poetry and prose. The Conference was chaired by Assoc. Professor Dr. Otilia Borcia who introduced Prof. Manitta.
p a g e 4 T h e M o n t h l y M e n t o r M e e t i n g s In seria intalnirilor lunare Mentor Facultatea de Limbi si Literaturi Straine din UCDC va Invita la prelegerea CREATIVITATE SI GANDIRE ACCELERATA Invitat: Felix Nicolau Conferentiar universitar, scriitor si critic literar Amf. B, joi, 18 aprilie, ora 12.00 Contact: O21.330.87.20 lls@ucdc.ro Facultatea de Limbi si Literaturi Straine, UCDC Splaiul Unirii, 176, sect.4, Bucuresti Within the series of monthly Mentor meetings the Faculty invites you to the lecture CREATIVITY AND ACCELERATED THINKING Guest speaker: Felix Nicolau, Assoc. Professor, writer and literary critic
p a g e 5 O u r P r o f e s s o r s A c t i v i t i e s This year marks the 50 th anniversary of Rayuela ( Hopscotch ), the seminal novel of Julio Cortazar (1914-1984), who belongs, with Jorge Luis Borges and Adolfo Bioy Casares, to the Golden Pleiades of Argentinian prose. The Modern Art Center in Madrid marked the event with a series of activities in February exhibitions, movies and a symposium on the theme of Cortazar s translation in foreign languages, where our Assoc. Professor Tudora Şandru Mehedinţi was invited to participate, as the translator of seven of his novels. It is worthy to note that her 1998 translation of Hopscotch into Romanian (reprinted at Polirom in 2005 and 2008) won the Prize for the Best Translation awarded by the Romanian Writer s Union, in 1998. The moderator of the Symposium held on the 19 th of February was a famous specialist of Julio Cortazar s literature, Mariángeles Fernández. The Iraqi essayist and translator Abdul Hadi Sadoum had an equally interesting contribution. The Symposium was honored by the presence of important cultural personalities and an enthusiastic audience from Madrid.
p a g e 6 O u r P r o f e s s o r s A c t i v i t i e s 17 th of April 2013 The Symposium of the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures presenting the scientific research papers of our professors The Lecture on Rewriting the Literary Canon in the Key of Gender Studies: Mapping the Romanian Cultural Modernity (1866-1918) in the Feminine Mode was held by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Carmen Beatrice Duţu TRANSDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH IN HUMANITIES AT DIMITRIE CANTEMIR UNIVERSITY, BUCHAREST Associate Professor Carmen Beatrice Dutu, PhD Dean Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures Presentation held by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Carmen Beatrice Duţu in Paris
p a g e 7 O u r S t u d e n t s A b r o a d We congratulate our students Biţună Ana Maria Dorina (2nd year) Bădescu Ştefan Alexandru (1st year) who were selected for a one-year scholarship to study in China.
p a g e 8 T h e A l t e r n a t i v e E d u c a t i o n W e e k T o K n o w M o r e, t o B e B e t t e r At the event held in our Faculty the students had the opportunity to talk with HR specialists, in order to understand what possibilities they have to get employment during and after college.
p a g e 9 T h e A l t e r n a t i v e E d u c a t i o n W e e k T o K n o w M o r e, t o B e B e t t e r
p a g e 10 T h e A l t e r n a t i v e E d u c a t i o n W e e k T o K n o w M o r e, t o B e B e t t e r During the event the students from the Japanese Language Department showed their highschool student guests the cultural activities of their Department and some aspects of contemporary Japanese life. They offered demonstrations on making kanzashi (hair ornaments) and origami (art of paper folding), as well as presentations on street fashion and Harajuku fashion in today s Japan.
http://limbi-straine.ucdc.ro About us Dimitrie Cantemir Christian University Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures The Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures promotes quality, diversity, complexity of the educational system as well as the engagement to fulfil the expectations of our students regarding their professional accomplishment. Our Bachelor Degree Programs offer a broad opening towards the Romanian and international cultural spaces, Address: Splaiul Unirii, nr. 176 sector 4 Bucharest Telephone: Direct: 021 330 87 20 UCDC operator: 021 330 79 00; 021 330 79 11; 021 330 79 14 E-mail: flls@ucdc.ro through a course system that ensures for our students a thorough yet flexible tuition, adaptable to the Romanian, European and international socio-economic conditions.