The lunchtime seminar is the current research seminar of the Humanities Division of the ICUB, in which fellows and affiliated researchers of the are presenting work-in-progress. It takes place every Thursday during term-time (October-June). The seminar begins at 1.30 pm with an informal brown-bag lunch. From 2 pm, the speaker has one hour to present his/her work in progress, followed by 1 hour of discussions. The purpose of the seminar is to provide a collegial, interdisciplinary and competitive environment in which scholars can try and test their ideas and sharpen their arguments. The seminar is open to fellows of the Institute and associate researchers and their guests. If you wish to participate, please send an email at humanities@icub.unibuc.ro.

21 March 2019 – Ștefan Firică (UB), Interwar Political Fiction: Possible Readings

Ștefan Firică has a Ph.D. from the University of Bucharest, with the thesis ”Authenticity”. Theories and Applications in the Interwar Romanian Literature (2014). He is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Bucharest, Faculty of Letters, Department of Literary Studies. He was a postdoctoral researcher (2014-2015), with the project Strategies of (De-)Constructing Identities in the Interwar Romanian Prose, as a beneficiary of the European Project SOP HRD /159/1.5/S/136077 ”Romanian Culture and European Cultural Models: Research, Synchronization, Sustainability”, Romanian Academy, Philology – Literature. He also worked as a Research Assistant (2011-2014) in the PN-II-ID-PCE-2011-3-0913 Project MARIS – Migration and Reshaping Identities in Romanian Travel Writings (1960-2010), University of Bucharest, “Tudor Vianu” Centre of Interdisciplinary Research in European and Romanian Cultural Studies (CISCER), project manager: Liviu Papadima. He authored a book, Strategii ale (de)construcției identitare în proza românească interbelică, and dozens of articles in scientific reviews, collective volumes, and cultural magazines.