Lectures

20|11|07 // ROMANIA, MORE THAN DRACULA AND WALLACHIA
M.A. Hilke Gerdes, lecturer and author, Berlin

27|11|07 // VPAST AS A MODEL FOR THE 21st CENTURY? MADE-UP TRADITIONS AN THE WEIGHT OF HISTORY
Lic. phil. Daniel Ursprung, historian, Universität Zürich

04|12|07 // ROMANIAN FOLK: PRESERVE OR LIVING OBJECT OF CULTURAL VALUE?
Dr. Katharina Biegger, literature scholar, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin

Rumania has been a member of the European Union since the beginning of theyear. And yet this country, at the mouth of the Danube, still seems far away– both geographically and emotionally. Hilke Gerdes, who lived for three yearsin Bucharest, recounts her observations both of rural and urban Rumania, of itshistory, politics, culture and daily life. Daniel Ursprung investigates the questionas to whether Rumania's past can be interpreted as a model for the 21stcentury. And Katharina Biegger offers a profound cultural insight drawn fromher work of cataloguing Rumanian folk music.