15/09/2011 :: My
contribution to Dilema Veche (September 8-14) here.
A little text about death and medicine. (in Romanian).
14/09/2011 ::
DDD
conference has been an amazing experience. A motivating mix of old
friends, new faces, exciting discussions, insightful presentations and
Dutch food. Looking forward to my ASDS membership!
10/09/2011 ::
On
September 12, as part of the 10th DDD conference in Nijmegen, we
will have a panel discussion moderated by Professor Tony Walter
"Comparing European Ways"; it will be held in De Vereeniging concert
hall, 9 am. Later that day, I will also have my individual contribution
concerning the sacred death under secular circumstances. Same place,
venue 4.
09/09/2011 :: The
collective volume on contemporary death and dying has been printed and
the flyer looks great. On the shelves in October. Everyone did a great
job!
20/05/2011 :: The
study ("How Sacred Is Secular Death?") for Cambridge Scholars
Publishing is finally done. I can hardly wait to see it printed.
20/04/2011 :: Next
stop: The 10th Death, Dying and Disposal International Conference in
Nijmegen (The Netherlands):: Changing European Death Ways: New
Perspective in Death Studies. Should be fun!
13/01/2011 :: Portfolio
updated. Finally. Good things always come way too slow :)
11/08/2010 ::
Reminder:
my art exhibition "Mind Games" in Århus (Denmark) stays open until
August 31. If you're into Danish, some bits of press here and here
and here.
09/08/2010 :: Next
stop: the IIIrd edition of Death and Dying in 18th-21st century
Europe: Refiguring Death Rites in Europe - International
Conference, Alba Iulia, Ramet, September 3 - 5. Should be fun!
02/08/2010 ::
If
all goes well, big solo show in Rome will happen soon.
02/07/2010 ::
The
art show in Århus at Gallery Florence is actually open for
visit until AUGUST 31.
The vernissage was superb, Danish press was unexpectedly favorable AND
intrigued, the most expensive painting sold from Day 2 and well, I
guess you'll miss it when it's gone... 08/06/2010 ::
Vernissage
at Gallery Florence, in the loveliest Dannish city, Århus,
on July 3, 13:
00. Meet me there (Janus La Cours Gade 2,
Århus C). The art show is
called "Mind Games". Drop by and take a look at my bucks
until July 31. Ask
for details at the gallery (+ 45
606 606 00). Welcome!
Download
PDF catalog (right-click
"save link as...")
20/05/2010 ::
Le
XIVème Congrès International d'Études
sur les
Danses Macabres et l'Art Macabre en général is
happening
this year in the loveliest city we have around: Sibiu. I'll give my
speech on Friday, May 21.
04/02/2010 ::
The
New York based gallery I mentioned last year renewed the offer. They
are willing to show my art under better financial conditions.
But
I can hardly keep up with painting for this summer's exhibition in
Århus!!... In my world, Denmark always comes first.
04/02/2010 ::
New
book on death and dying waiting
to be published. Although
- they say - the book is scholarly in nature, it is as
atypical as
it gets. Waiting patiently for the financial difficulties of the
publishing business to be solved...
11/01/2010::Phonecall
from a 90 year old member of the Romanian Academy. He read my book from
2006, liked it a lot, and now wants me to write a book with him. We
discussed the matter over coffee and cookies in a prewar cozy milieu.
20/12/2010::
A
study on death and secular sacred is being translated into German as I
type this. Will come out early next year in German publication called Gnostika.
03/10/2009::Art
exhibition in Århus (Denmark) set for July 2010 at
Gallery
Florence. Go there in the summer and meet my bucks, they don't bite!
(If you wonder what
happened with the NYC art show I can only tell you it got canceled for
financial reasons.)
28/04/2009::
My book discussed at "Filantropia Club", Carturesti bookstore
(Museum of the Romanian Peasant) , Bucharest, within 6 p.m. I'll sign
books!
02/05/2008::
New
Europe College scholarship. Thank God.
13/03/2008::New
York Gallery in sight at the end of this year? It seems so. I'll keep
you posted on this.
11/01/2007::Riksbankens
Jubileumsfond (The Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation) has
approved
the money (well, at least a part of it) for helping the
Swedish research
network concerned with death and dying to develop a two-year
project
Rutiner, Riter och
minnesarbete ( forskarnätverk
för humanistisk och samhällsvetenskaplig forskning om
döende, död, begravning
och sorg). Eva Reimers (Linköpings universitet)
has applied for the
whole team. Fortunatelly, I am part of the team. Unfortunatelly, I am
still
unsure whether I will be participating in the whole thing.
10/23/2007:: A
new issue of Svensk
Teologisk Kvartalskrift (Swedish Theological Quarterly)
årgång 83, 2007
is out; one can find my article "On Personal Ways of Dying: Old
Troubles,
New Means" in there.
04/04/2007
::The
publishing house has just let me know that a German publishing
house requested the book to be translated into German.
Stunned...
02/10/2007::
CONFERENCE.
My
lecture is called "Att klara av att vara dödlig i
vår tid" ( "Coping with a Mortal Destiny in
Modernity" ) at
Regionsmuseet
Kristianstad, during the series of lectures TRO
MÖTER
TRO, Kristianstad (Sweden), 27 February. The whole
program
"Våren
2007" here
(in PDF and in
Swedish).
01/23/2007 ::Several
press
QUOTES gathered by Polirom publishing house on their website
here
(in
Romanian).
01/05/2007 ::
REVIEW:
"Cei trei care au convins juriul" in the newspaper Timpul (The
Time) (in PDF here,
page 3) by
Liviu Antonesei, January 1, 2007, (in Romanian).
10/10/2006:: WORKSHOP
at Gamla Biskopshuset in Lund, Sweden, October 26-27 on
“rites in connection to
death and disposal of the dead body".
04/23/2006::The
book is out.
11/22/2005::One
of the articles about the event: "O FJSCista face cariera" by George Popescu, Nov. 21, 2005 (here,
in
Romanian).
11/15/2005::
I
just won the
"I. P. Couliano" prize awarded by Romanian Publishing House
"Polirom" for the best debut with the manuscript "The Threshold
and the Void. Attempts to Circumscribe Death". That's good.
12/02/2004::
REVIEW
of my study from Annals
of Historical
Anthropology: People
and Death in Romanian Society. by
Catalin Vasile Bobb (in PDF here,
page 149) in Journal for
the Study of
Religion and Ideologies,
winter 2004 (in Romanian).