"Homeland for others. Diplomacy, identity, international promotion"
Culture is of fundamental importance at UVT. In order to respond to this principle of value, the Western University of Timișoara is organizing a new series of conferences this year, under the title "At UVT, culture is capital”, coming up with the proposal of a new online event, whose guest was Mr. Dorian Branea, a personality in the field of diplomacy and culture.
"Homeland for others. Diplomacy, identity, international promotion" is the title of the conference that took place on Thursday, 17.12.2020, from 18:00 and was moderated by Prof. Univ. dr. Cristina Chevereșan, writer in turn and teaching staff of UVT.
Graduate of the Faculty of Letters, Philosophy and History of the West University in Timișoara and PhD student in English-American Studies at the same university, Dorian Branea pursued a series of postgraduate specializations in international relations (Georgetown University) and management (Oxford University).
Dorian Branea he was editor of the magazine "Orizont" (since 1995) and member of the Comparative Studies Group "Third Europe" (since 1998), fellow of the Central European University in Budapest (2003-2004), associate professor in the Master's American Studies of the Western University in Timișoara, between 2003-2005 and founding director of the Romanian Cultural Institute in Warsaw (2006-2010) and the Romanian Cultural Institute in London (2010-2018). Also, since December 2020, he is the President of EUNIC New York.
The event was broadcast LIVE on Facebook page of UVT.
"Happy and sad fake news"
Also under the already well-known logo "At UVT, Culture is the Capital", another LIVE event took place within the "UVT Conferences" series, an engaging dialogue with a personality from the field of culture. "Happy and sad fake news" is the theme of the dialogue moderated by Mr. Mircea Mihăieș on Thursday, December 10, 2020 and which had as its guest the writer and journalist Ioan T. Morar, member of the Romanian Writers' Union, founding member of the "Cațavencu Academy" and senior editor at "Cotidianul".
Activist and diplomat (being appointed in 2010 to the post of Romanian Consul General in Marseille, France, a position in which he remained for a year), Mr. Morar is a graduate, as head of promotion, of the Faculty of Philology of Timișoara University, Romanian-French section. In the period 1981-1986 he was a Romanian language teacher at the "Textila" Industrial High School in Lugoj, and from 1987 he became the editor of the magazines "Viata studențeasca" and "Amphiteatrul".
