Dimitrie Cantemir – History, Culture, Heritage

Head of Office, Medieval Archives Bureau, Personal Collections and Funds, National Archives of Romania. He graduated from the Faculty of Archives (1997) and has a Master in History (1998) at the Bucharest University. He has benefited from a scholarship offered by the Leventis Foundation at the Asia Minor Studies Center in Athens in the field of scientific writing and writing Karamanli. Currently he is a PhD student at the Faculty of Law of the Department of Political Sciences and Public Administration of the University of Athens. He has a professional experience in the archiving of Turkish-Ottoman, Greek and Cyrillic documents, acquired as an archivist at the Department of Medieval Archives, within the National Archives of Romania, which he is currently coordinating. Since 1996, he has been a member of the Center for Ottoman Studies at the Faculty of History, Bucharest University, and since 2005 is a member of the Romanian-Neo-Hellenic Studies Society. Claudiu Turcitu is part of the editorial board of the Revue des archives and Studia et Documenta Turcologica.

Doctor of Music at the National University of Music in Bucharest and a Ph.D. student at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Department of Musicology; graduate of the National Music University of Bucharest, Byzantine Music and Academic Choir Conductor, researcher of the ancient Romanian music of Oriental origin. He is also a perfomer, founder and coordinator of the old chamber music ensemble Anton Pann.

Ph.D., is a university professor and Dean of the Faculty of History, University of Bucharest. She is the author of numerous articles, studies and volumes and participated in various national and international projects, being heavily involved in the didactic activity, but also in the implementation of some important projects among which Turkey & Romania. A History of Partnership and Collaboration in the Balkans, eds. Florentina Niţu, Cosmin Ionita, Metin Ünver, Özgür Kolçak, Hacer Topaktaş, Istanbul, 2006, 604 p. She is the author of numerous scientific studies, initiator and coordinator of exhibitions of great importance and impact for both professionals and young students or the general public. In Bucharest, she will discuss about Elements of Costume and Ceremonial in Dimitrie Cantemir’s Moldavia.

Head of the Heritage and Scientific Evidence Department of the Romanian Peasant's National Museum; he completed his studies in United States of America, with a PhD thesis on Balkan cuisine. Title of presentation: Food customs in Dimitrie Cantemir’s Moldavia.

Lecturer, PhD and Dean of the Faculty of Archival Studies, with studies of archival history, History, modern Turkish and Persian languages, old languages ​​and paleography: Turkish-Ottoman, Cyrillic. She was a beneficiary of a scholarship granted by the French government in 2004 (a graduate of the International Technical Courses of Archives, Paris, France), as well as of a scholarship granted by the Turkish Embassy in Bucharest in 2011 for studying Turkish language at the Tömer Center in Ankara. Her main research directions are in the modern history of the Romanians and the modern Romanian institutions, of the Romanian-Ottoman / Turkish relations. She has a rich professional experience of archivist at the National Archives of Romania, being also a professor at the Faculty of Archives.

Ph.D. and Lecturer at the Music Conservatory of the State Conservatory of Istanbul and a founding member of the Department of Ethno-Musicology and Folklore. Mehtap Demir is the only female artist in Turkey who introduced the instrument known as kemane into Anatolian folk music. For nearly a decade, she has been performing both in Turkey and around the world, along with her traditional music group, receiving great appreciation. Abroad, she delighted the audience with harmonies from the folk-traditional music Zeybek - Gazel (Amane). She attended and held conferences on Eastern Musical Culture, Traditions and Music in Anatolia, and the music of love at the Ottomans. She has lectured at numerous foreign universities and was an active part of the German, US, Israeli and Greek research groups on Ottoman cultural life, peoples' music and their mutual influences, as well as the traditional "Amane" music performed in Ottoman cafes. She recorded four solo albums and contributed to an impressive number of mixed, vocal and "kemane" albums. In 2016 she released the album titled "Le Parfume d'Asia Mineur", a collection of popular songs by anonymous Muslim authors from 1910-1940. She published numerous academic articles and a volume on the ethnographic study of Turkish music. He represented Turkey in numerous international music festivals. As a lecturer, she teaches introductory courses in social sciences, musical anthropology, migration and music, identity and music. She is currently a member of the Istanbul State Conservatoire's Board of Management and member of the Board of Directors of the Women's Research Center at Istanbul University. Title of presentation: Dimitrie Cantemir's contribution to turkish musicology.

Ph.D., currently a counselor minister in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She is a graduate of the Faculty of Letters, University of Bucharest (1990) and of the Faculty of International Relations of the National School of Political and Administrative Studies of Bucharest (1995). Since 2000, she has Magna Cum Laude PhD in Philology at the Faculty of Letters, University of Bucharest, with the thesis Time and History in Dimitrie Cantemir's work: sources, resources, echoes (an essay on the history of mentalities), coordinator prof. Dr. Dan Horia Mazilu. From 2012 she is has a Ph.D in the Sciences of Education, with the thesis Influence of the Italian universities on the development of higher education in the Romanian Principalities. The Padovan Neoaristotelism, the curricular model of the Princely Academies in Iasi and Bucharest (17th-18th centuries), coordinator prof. dr. Romiţă Iucu. Among the publications: Italian-Roman Cultural Relations (1927-1956) - Italian diplomatic papers (volume I), Clusium Publishing House, Cluj-Napoca, 2007; Preface to "Annuario dell'Istituto Romano di Cultura e Ricerca Humanistica di Venezia", ​​IX, 2007, Romanian Academy Publishing, 2008; Una giornata della nostra storia, Preface to the novel Tè al samovar. Voices gave gulag sovietico by Ingrid Beatrice Coman, L'Harmattan Italia Publishing House, Torino, 2008; Postface to the Italian edition of the novel Paradise of the hens (false roman of rumors and mysteries) by Dan Lungu, Manni Publishing House, Lecce, 2010. She participated in over 20 congresses, round tables and colloquia in Romania, Italy, France, Republic of Moldova, Israel, Russia, and Hungary. She was awarded the "Nicolae Iorga" Prize for works in the socio-human sciences. She is currently Minister Counselor at the Diplomatic Archives Unit. Between November 30, 2005 and September 1, 2007, deputy director, and from September 1, 2007 to December 31, 2012, interim director of the Romanian Institute of Culture and Humanistic Research in Venice.

Ph.D., writer, archivist and researcher, deputy director of Istanbul County Culture and Tourism Directorate, author of scientific research works in the field of History and Politics, being concerned especially with the Balkans. Among the published books: Yaralı Payitaht İstanbul'un İşgali (The Conquest of the Wounded Capital of Istanbul), 2009, İpsiz Recep Emice, Istanbul, 2010 and Osmanlı Kayıtlarında Gürcistan ve Gürcüler (About Georgia and Georgians in Ottoman Archives), bilingual volume, Istanbul, 2012. Tltle of the presentation in Bucharest: Cantemir and his times in the documents of the Ottoman archives.

Renowned Academician and Folklorist, Director of the "Constantin Brăiloiu" Institute of Ethnography and Folklore of the Romanian Academy. Her fields of research and activity include the role and place of oral cultures in local, national and regional cultures; categories, genres and species of the popular text: heroic epic, ballad, legend, fantastic fairy tale, lyrical poetry, carol; studying the mechanisms of folk creation and redefining concepts: motif, nucleus-narrative syntax; principles of typology for the systematization of lyrical poetic text according to the historical-geographic method; contextualizing folklore research. She is the author of various studies, books, articles, and a member of national and international associations, leading research and publication activity as a scientist, being nationally and internationally involved in large programs, projects and strategies and also an active participant in international debates, conferences and scientific sessions on issues in the field of intangible patrimony, both for Europe's Southeast Region and globally. She was awarded for her work and studies in the field of intangible cultural heritage. Among her works: Motivational and typological index (in collaboration with Doina Truţă). I. (A-C), 1985; II (D-H) 1986; III (I-R), 1988; IV (S-Z-), 1989, Bucharest, Academiei R.S. Romania. [National Folklore Collection]. - The popular love poem. Edition, bibliography and index by Sabina Ispas and Doina Truţă. Foreword by Sabina Ispas, Bucharest, Minerva Publishing House, 1985. - Apple flowers. From the poetry of winter customs, Bucharest, Editura Academiei R.S. Romania, 1987. - The Epic-Heroic Romanian Song in the Southeast European Context, Bucharest, Minerva Publishing House, Universitas Collection, 1995. - Under the wing of the sky, Ethnological Comments on Carols and Carols. - Oral Culture and Transcultural Information, Bucharest, Romanian Academy Publishing House, 2003. - Traditional Romanian Carols. Sense and Symbol, Bucharest, Saeculum I. O, 2007