Keywords: Romanian language and culture in Spain; Romanian language for foreigners; University of Granada
Our paper deals with the study of Romanian Language and Culture in the Spanish universities with a special interest in following the presence of the courses on Romanian Culture, Language and Literature in the University of Granada. In spite of the direct relation between the cultures of these two countries, the many years of different political orientation limited the access of the Spanish scholars to the great Romanian cultural achievements. Therefore the few exceptions are more important and deserve a close analysis. Among these exceptions the University of Granada has an important part.
More...Keywords: giftedness; talent; technical talent; educational policy; technical universities.
In this paper we are concerned about the educational policies and strategies conceived in order to support the talented youth, through the way how the main technical universities in Romania involved in this topic. The research methodology was based on the analysis made to the official documents of six of the most prestigious technical universities in Romania (Military Technical Academy, Polytechnic University and Technical University of Civil Engineering, all from Bucharest, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Technical University “Gheorghe Asachi” from Iasi and “Politehnica” University of Timisoara). We have researched the educational policies and strategies undertaken by these universities, objectified in documents such as “University Charta”, “Institutional Development Strategy” and “Regulations for scholarships”. Our effort in analysis directed us to the possibility of concluding some positive aspects, but some inadequacies also, in what concerns supporting young talent in the technical through policies and educational strategies. For example, there is a large number of performance development programs implemented in the academic field, formally and non-formally, designed, developed through the staff of the universities.
More...The Involvement of the Romanian Orthodox Church in the Social – National Problems. General Aspects. The author presents some general aspects related to the involvement of the Romanian Orthodox clergy in the life of the community, the priest becoming for his believers a model of morality. Due to the historical difficult circumstances, the clergymen were obliged to earn their existence through their own efforts, together with their faithful, but they also had to work as: carpenters, shoemakers, blacksmiths, church and monastery painters, manuscript copyists etc. When the difficulties imposed by the state authorities of the time could not be bared any more, they began to fight together with their believers and some of them died for social justice and national freedom.
More...Keywords: Modernity; avant-garde; postmodernity; mythopoetic fantasy; innovation; norm breaking; the technique of the palinode; rereading; intercultural comparison; expatriation; agonic perception of time; censorship; cultural drama.
When “Five Faces of Modernity: Modernism Avant-Garde Decadence Kitsch Postmodernism”, was published in 1987, critics identified in it an effort of imaginative “revision," expanding an earlier version of the book, “Faces of Modernity” (1977). In turn this 1977 book drew on Matei Călinescu’s Romanian publications before his emigration to the United States, including a book-length essay on the modern concept of poetry as it developed from Romanticism to the Avant-Garde (1972). By including a new section on postmodernism, his 1987 book submitted the previous sections on modernism, decadence, avant-garde and kitsch, to a critical rereading that revised and amplified the arguments in the previous chapters. I argue in this article that the same recreative impulse underlies Călinescu’s own intellectual career as a Romanian expatriate who had to reinvent himself successively as an analyst of modernity, a literary and cultural comparativist, a theorist of rereading, a poet and a novelist. In his “adventure” and “drama” of reinvention, that retraces for us the ethos of modernism, Călinescu’s faithful ally was his own prodigious imagination.
More...Keywords: Role of marketing; marketing manager; internal organizational relationships; business environment.
The setting of this paper is provided by a certain confusion regarding the delimitation of the responsibilities of managers from those of marketers. Many companies consider the marketing manager to solely be a link with their advertising and public relations agencies. In addition, marketers are quite commonly accused of spending too much and of being inefficient, of unlawful association with others’ merits, or of intrusion in other positions’ responsibilities. Despite these aspects met in various companies, marketing literature is clear in defining the marketers’ tasks, pointing out that marketing supports managerial strategies and activities. Marketing has lost its influence on business strategies in the last decade, but it seems that new developments happen. The current paper investigates the discussions taking place around the relationships between marketers and corporate governance. The results are useful by identifying communication barriers, as well as ways to improve the cooperation between the marketing department and the rest of the company.
More...Keywords: Spiritual formation; Holy Unction; healing; practice
In this study we intend to accomplish an insight into the Holy Unction as a healing Sacrament for man and into its contents and importance. For these purposes, we take as a reference basis the words of our confessors as well as the education of the Holy Fathers of the Church and especially the words of the Holy Scripture. The church service of the Holy Unction is a theophany, which means an apparition and manifestation of the divine grace and a gate towards the health of the body and of the soul, as it heals their body and brings forgiveness onto their soul (Euchologion).
More...Keywords: memoirs; folklore; the mythical village; stories; Ioan Slavici;
Ioan Slavici’s memoirs underline the impact the folklore had on his childhood (as for all the great Romanian classics in general). The environment described is the one of the fair, whose type of organization was beginning to follow other rules and principles than those of the village, without giving up the influences of rural civilization though. Even if he got in touch with cities as Vienna, Sibiu or Bucharest, Slavici continued to create a cultural symbiosis between the city and the village. This paper’s goal is to underline some of these aspects with a stress on the conscious or unconscious reception of the folklore vectors in his work. DOI: 10.29302/InImag.2015.6.9
More...Keywords: academic publishing; higher education policy; Romania;Babeș-Bolyai University;
This paper aims at answering the following question: “What has been the impact of the global ISI trend on the Romanian higher education, and how have Romanian universities understood and implemented it?” Furthermore, we analyse whether the ISI fever has led to an increase in the global visibility of published Romanian research. To this aim, we address both the system as a whole (at national level) and one individual university (Babeş-Bolyai University, BBU, selected because it is one of the biggest universities in the country as well as one of the top performing ones and also because of the availability of data). We will use a mixed-method approach based on a dialectic stance, as this framework will allow us to tackle our research question from three distinct perspectives (global, national and institutional).
More...Keywords: body; representation; control; authority; power; sacred; desacralisation;
This text assumes a socio-anthropological perspective on human trafficking. Thus, the trafficking phenomenon proves to be at the heart of an entire set of symbols and social representations that have as their subject the human body. In order to prove this, we believe that studying the ways the body is assigned value in religious societies makes it possible to understand certain current deviant phenomena, such as human trafficking. Moreover, placing the body in a dual discourse of the "religious/secular" type allows the cultural dimension of the body to be understood, irrespective of the social circumstances the latter operates in. Obviously, the paradigm ¬– inspired by Michel Foucault's writings – we have applied in this work allows us to descend into the universe of the body, thus letting us focus on a whole range of body-related modalities and practices. They form a veritable code or mark of inter-human relations, as well as being a mirror for our positioning within the world and in relation to our own bodies. In our perspective, the assumption of the body's sacred and symbolic dimensions may become an essential key for improving control and for increasing the authorities' effectiveness in preventing, fighting and reducing human trafficking.
More...Keywords: Romanian exile; Spain; resistance; anti-communist propaganda; journals;
Following the installation of the Communist regime in Romania, intellectuals, politicians of the old regime, members or sympathizers of the Iron Guard were chased by the new power. To avoid the harsh punishments, they had to leave their homes and to go in exile. Franco's Spain, due it's anticommunist policy, was chosen by an important number of Romanian exiled, especially by the members of the Iron Guard. Once settled, the Romanians stared an intense activity of founding and publishing journals and newspapers. Its main aim was to maintain the unity, the identity and the culture among the exiled. But above all, the papers were used as a mean of the resistance through culture and anti-communist propaganda. This article proposes to introduce the reader in the their world via a few representative journals of the Romanian exile in Spain: „Libertatea Românească", „Libertatea", „Carpații", „Destinŗ and „FAPTA".
More...Keywords: autonomy; morality; ethics; biomedical ethics
This article examines the development of the definition of autonomy in the context of contemporary bioethics without claiming to be covering all of the concepts. Its principal goal is to stress on the difficulties which follow from the breach in the connection between autonomy and moral. The enrichment of the knowledge of this particular problem and the questions that follow from it, will undoubtedly give publicity to problems connected to the solution of contemporary medical conflicts which ought not to be treated simply as formal procedures but to be considered in the context of interpersonal relations.
More...Keywords: foreign powers; empires; national unity; large blood sacrifices; the national army; Romanian Orthodox Church; reforms; deported; atrocities corresponding to the Middle Ages;
Romanian territories, recently reunited after a large blood tribute, became a battlefield for foreign powers’ interests, such as the Habsburg, Russian and Turkish Empires, as well as Great Britain and France. The French and British observers described the anti-Romanian virulent campaign from Budapest regarding the atrocities done in the Romanian occupied territories to discredit the Romanian administration. Romania was the only country from the Axis that had the international legislation on its side in the offensive against the USSR.
More...Keywords: commercial activity; commercial agreements; air fares; contract of carriage; price policy;
The relevance of the study is due to the fact that not a single sovereign country agrees to allow uncontrolled commercial activity of foreign airlines on its territory. Hence the need for a clear international legal regulation of the rights to carry out such commercial activities. In this context, the article aims to analyze the main forms and methods of commercial activity. Leading approach to the study of this problem is the descriptive method that has afforded revealing peculiarities of terms of commercial agreements and proposed air fares. The materials of the paper imply the practical significance for the university teachers of the economic and legal specializations.
More...Keywords: religious music; stylistic variety; spiritual music; choral creation;
A review of the studies of V. Ciolac's creation is reflected in the pages of the aricle, in order to highlight the most important genres approached in his compositional record, emphasis is made on the tendency to revive the spiritual music in the Republic of Moldova and the directions outlined during the 1990s within the native musical culture. The current issue regarding the continuity of the traditions and the innovations made in the local religious music is presented, as well as a succint summary of V. Ciolac's compositional activity.
More...Keywords: decisional ability; decisional model; normativity; principle;
This article aims to provide an overview of the normativity applied in the process of developing the decisional competence in pupils, assured by utilising and respecting the principles specific to the individual and social decisional process, from the perspective of philosophy, of decisional logic and pedagogy. The analysis starts from the platonic principles which the philosopher proposed for the ancient decisional model, continuing with an examination of the principles of decisional logic, and ending with the educational and didactic principles used in the current educational system.
More...Keywords: literature; cultural paradigm; translation; diplomacy;
The paper undertakes a thorough analysis of recent paradigm shifts in the areas of cultural, literary and translation studies, in view of highlighting their interdependence as well as their power to facilitate the construction of and shape the concept of world literature. Literature and translation are inescapably related to globalization, whereas comparative literature provides an all-encompassing view of the world spanning time, space and culture. The paper argues that language and culture are intrinsically connected in the translation process. We also point out similarities and differences between the concepts of world literature and comparative literature.
More...Keywords: limba română;lat. ipse;evoluția formelor;evoluția uzului;intensificator;particulă focală;
Lat. ipse a evoluat diferit în limbile romanice, limba română fiind cea care a conservat cel mai bine uzurile, îmbogățindu-le cu unele noi. Scopul cercetării este de a pune în evidență evoluția reflexelor formal-funcționale ale lui ipse pe teren românesc: îns1, îns2/ins, îns(ă)3, însul, nusul, dînsul, adins, însuși, posibil și focalizatorul legat –și. Analiza este o dezvoltare a unor cercetări anterioare pe un corpus extins de limbă veche, completat acum cu un corpus amplu de română contemporană non-standard, vorbită subdialectal. Fenomenele semnificative din româna veche comparativ cu latina sînt proliferarea formelor, conservarea uzurilor paralel cu apariția unora noi, îmbogățiri semantice și constituirea unor sinonimii lexico-funcționale relativ numeroase. Româna veche a reorganizat cuplurile formă-funcție, a introdus variante poziționale condiționate sintactic și marcarea diferențială a obiectului prepozițional, a lărgit sensurile ca efecte contextuale ale prototipului focalizator, a limitat ambiguitatea cu reflexivul și reciprocul, a gramaticalizat deicticul textual demonstrativ în conjuncție adversativă. Pentru româna modernă sînt semnificative constituirea unor omonimii lexico-gramaticale care elimină ambiguitățile, precum și apariția unor diferențe de registru. Evoluția lat. ipse pe teren românesc ilustrează un caz de poligramaticalizare și polimorfism, care nu e singular în istoria idiomurilor neo-latine.
More...Keywords: geocriticism; literary geography; spatial studies; transnational studies; World Literature;
The present introduction aims to outline the major theoretical approaches of spatial studies, together with their most relevant inquiries and pursuing their many methodological ramifications. Our main goal is to deliver a panoramic study engaging both traditional geocritical perspectives and contemporary transnational, quantitative, or digital studies that shaped the way in which we understand the notion of space and its literary functions. The present introduction targets national, transnational, and global projects, aiming to integrate Romanian debates in a broader, international dialogue. Our thematic issue gathers a diverse body of studies, each one of them advancing original approaches that employ comprehensive theoretical frameworks and different tools and perspectives, from symbolic geography and migrations studies to distant-reading and World Literature.
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