Prof. Sorin ALEXANDRESCU

University of Amsterdam

"Identity and Person. Comments on Paul Ricoeur"

June 1995

Dragos Paul ALIGICĂ

Ph.D. candidate, Indiana University at Bloomington

"Recent Developments in the Theory of Economic Policies and Their Impact on Political Doctrines and Ideologies"

May 1999

Prof. Douglas ALLEN

Chair, Department of Philosophy, The Maples University of Maine, Orono, U.S.A

"Borders, Violence, Terror, and Terrorism"

"The Contributions of Philosophical Phenomenology

and Hermeneutics to the Study of Religion"

June 2002

Oct. 2003

Prof. Urs ALTERMATT

Departement für Zeitgeschichte, Politikwissenschaften und Sozio-Kulturelle Anthropologie, Universität Freiburg

"Die Schweiz – ein Modell für ein vereintes Europa?"

May 2002

Prof. Pierre AUBENQUE

Université de la Sorbonne Paris IV;

General Secretary of the Institut International de Philosophie, Paris

"La querelle postmoderne dans la philosophie

française contemporaine"

May 1996

Prof. Wolfgang BALZER

University of Munich

"Social Institutions"

Mar. 1995

Prof. Bedanna BAPULY

Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna

"The Application of EC Law"

Dec. 2003

André BARTETZKI

Composer, Associate Professor, Bauhaus-University, Weimar

"Sound Synthesis and Csound (I) – Lecture and workshop"

"Sound Synthesis and Csound (II) – Lecture and workshop"

"Composition Projects"

"Sound Synthesis and Csound (III) – Lecture and workshop"

"Sound Synthesis and Csound (IV) – Lecture and workshop"

"Contemporary German Eletronic Music"

Mar. 2004

Prof. Laurent BAZIN

Institut Français de Leipzig

"Homo emblematicus: voyages au pays du signe"

May 1998

Prof. Hans BELTING

Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung, Karlsruhe

"Exhibiting Cultures"

Nov. 1996

Prof. Michael BENEDIKT

Institute of Philosophy, University of Vienna

"Between Existentialism and Neopositivism: Against Popper's Method"

June 1997

Prof. Peter BERGER

College of Arts and Sciences and School of Theology, University of Boston;

Director, Institute for the Study of Economic Culture, Boston

"Globalization and Culture"

May 2003

Prof. Jeff BERNARD

Institut für Soziosemiotische Studien, Vienna

"Drugs, Media and the Public"

Feb. 1998

Patrice BOLLON

Writer, Paris

"Cioran l’hérétique"

Oct. 1997

Prof. Françoise BONARDEL

Université Panthéon-Sorbonne Paris I

"Tradition et transmission"

Nov. 2000

Olivier BOULNOIS

Directeur d’études Religions et philosophies dans le christianisme au Moyen Âge, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes – Sciences Religieuses, Paris

"Quoi de neuf? Le Moyen Âge. Une conférence sur l'actualité de la philosophie médiévale"

March 2004

Prof. James BRADLEY

Memorial University, St. John’s, Newfoundland

"The Nature of Existence: Strong and Weak"

"Transformations in Speculative Philosophy: 1870-1945"

"Whitehead’s Generalization of the Function"

Nov. 1999

Dr. Emil BRIX

Director, Cultural Department, Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Vienna;

Deputy Director of the Institute for Danubian Space and Central Europe, Vienna

"Central European Perspectives in European Culture and Politics"

Feb. 2001

Dr. Hinnerk BRUHNS

Directeur de recherche au Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique;

Adjoint à l'Administrateur de la Maison des Sciences de l’Homme - Programmes européens, Paris

"La ville dans l’oeuvre de Max Weber: histoire universelle et analyse culturelle comparative"

"L’historien face à la sociologie weberienne: l’exemple de la domination charismatique. (Le cas de César et Hitler)"

Apr. 1998

Mar. 1999

Prof. Ann BUCKLEY

University of Cambridge

"The Self-conscious Revival of Folk Art in Ireland – Continuities, Identity and Renewal in a Small Country"

May 1997

Prof. Iso CAMARTIN

ETH Zurich

"Marginalité aujourd’hui"

Apr. 1996

Nina CASSIAN

Writer, New York

"Insights into Romanian and American life and poetry"

Oct. 1996

Dr. Matei CAZACU

Chargé de recherche, CNRS, Paris

"The Wake of St Andrew’s Night"

"Informers in Romanian Past. Methodological Considerations and Case Studies"

Nov. 2002

Oct. 2003

Prof. Matei CĂLINESCU

Department of Comparative Literature, Indiana University, U.S.A.

"Modernity and Religion (starting from the book Omul recent by H.-R. Patapievici)"

June 2002

Prof. Em. Françoise CHOAY

Historian and theoretician of architecture, Paris

"La question du temps chez Alberti et Haussmann"

Oct. 1999

Prof. Harlan CLEVELAND

President, World Academy of Arts and Science

"Limits to Cultural Diversity"

Oct. 1996

Dr. Christopher COKER

London School of Economics and Political Sciences

"The Post-Modern War"

"NATO, Kosovo and the Policing of Human Rights"

June 1999

June 2001

Prof. Catherine COLLIOT-THÉLÈNE

Professeur des Universités, Directrice du Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin

"La controverse expliquer/comprendre: un paradigme pour les sciences sociales?"

Feb. 2004

Prof. Kevin COPE

Louisiana State University

"Of Silurian Cider and Antediluvian Caterpillars: Fragments of Form and Interstices of Enlightenment in the English Eighteenth Century"

"Ending as Perpetual Beginning: Permutations of Postness and Post-Correctness in American Culture, American Academics, and American Post Offices"

June 1998

Prof. Marcel CORNIS-POPE

Virginia Commonwealth University

"The Culture of Transition and the «End of History» Syndrome"

Feb. 2000

Aurelian CRĂIUŢU

Ph.D. candidate at Princeton

University

Assistant Prof., Princeton University

"From the interior to the generalized dialogue; the political philosophy of Mihai Şora"

"The Solution of Pessimism: Notes on the Rhetoric of the Academic Discourse about Eastern Europe"

"On Patriotism or the Charm of Things Outdated"

June 1996

June 1997

June 1999

Prof. Adam CZARNOTA

Macquarie University of Sydney

"Transitional Justice, Rule of Law and Dealing with the Past"

June 1998

Lord Ralf DAHRENDORF

House of Lords, London, United Kingdom

"New Challages to Democracy"

Oct. 2001

Prof. Timothy DARVILL

Bournemouth University

"Four Rivers and a Seaway: the Development of the Neolithic in Europe"

Apr. 2000

Prof. Jacques DERRIDA

Ecole des Hautes Études en Science Sociales, Paris;

University of California at Irvine

"Humanities and the Challenge of Contemporary Academic Policies"

Jan. 1996

Prof. Robert DESCIMON

Centre de Recherches Historiques, E.H.E.S.S.-C.N.R.S., Paris

"La noblesse de robe au XVIIe siècle: le cas français"

Jan. 1999

Prof. Neagu DJUVARA

University of Bucharest

"A barometer of the decay phase of the great empires. The phenomenon of the retreat of the center and the rise of the peripheries"

Jan. 1996

Prof. Yehuda ELKANA

ETH Zurich;

Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin

"Universalism vs. Relativism. The Beauties of Marginality"

Nov. 1996

Prof. Richard EPSTEIN

University of New Mexico

"Arguments and Explanations"

Jul. 2000

Prof. Kit FINE

New York University

"The Question of Realism"

"Some Reflections on Reduction"

Jun. 2000

Prof. Melvin FITTING

City University of New York

"Gödel and His Ontological Argument"

"Quantifiers and Modal Logic"

"Modal Theorem Proving"

Jan. 2000

Prof. Aleksander FIUT

Jagiellonian University, Krakow

"The Polish Model – Cultural Identity and Civic Action"

Mar. 2001

Prof. Mircea FLONTA

University of Bucharest

"Open Society and Transition"

Feb. 1995

Prof. Bernard FLUSIN

Université Paris IV Sorbonne;

Chair of Byzantine Christian Studies, École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris

"L’empreur hagiographe"

Mar. 2000

Prof. Jacques GARELLI

Université de Picardie “Jules Verne”

"La sédimentation selon Husserl et la mémoire proustienne"

Apr. 1997

Dr. Timothy GARTON-ASH

University of Oxford

"Discussion on the occasion of the publication of the Romanian translation of “The Uses of Adversity” and “The Magic Lantern”"

Sep. 1997

Prof. Alexander GAVRILOV

Director of the Bibliotheca Classica Petropolitana, St. Petersburg

"Silent Reading in Antiquity. A Cross-cultural Controversy"

Dec. 1997

Dr. Alexandru GEORGE

Writer, Bucharest

"Hollow Forms in the Contemporary History of

Romania"

May 1995

Prof. Dinu GIURESCU

University of Bucharest

"Another Romanian Transition: 1945-1947 –

From Capitalism to Communism"

May 1995

Dr. Ştefan GOROVEI

Institute for History “A.D. Xenopol”, Iasi

"New History - Renewal of History"

Apr. 1996

Prof. Peter GÖHLER

Department of German Studies, Humboldt University, Berlin

"History of Literature and History of Art in the High Middle Ages: Aspects of Interdisciplinary Relations"

Nov. 2002

Prof. John GRAY

European Institute, The London School of Economics

"Liberal Toleration Reconsidered"

May 2000

Prof. Stephen J. GREENBLATT

Harvard University, Cambridge

"Hamlet in Purgatory"

Oct. 1999

Prof. Alan GROSS

University of Minnesota, St. Paul

"Do Disputes Over Priority Tell Us Anything About Science? A Socio-pragmatics of Scientific Discovery"

Oct. 1999

Prof. Alain GUERY

Centre de Recherches Historiques, E.H.E.S.S.-C.N.R.S., Paris

"La metaphoré des deux corps du roi: fondements philosophiques et limites historiographiques"

Feb. 1999

Prof. Remo GUIDIERI

Université Nanterre, Paris;

Ecoles des Beaux-Arts, Paris;

Cooper Union (School of Architecture), New York

"Chapelle périlleuse. Remarques sur deux lieux de culte, la chapelle de St. Dominique à Vence et la Rothko chapelle à Houston"

"Suite aux deux paganismes"

Mar. 2002

Jan. 2004

Jean-Noël GUINOT

Professeur agrégé de Lettres classiques; Directeur de recherche au CNRS;

Directeur de l’Institut des Sources Chrétiennes, Université Catholique de Lyon;

"La collection « Sources Chrétiennes » et le renouveau des études patristiques en France au XXe siècle"

Apr. 2002

Prof. Anthony HARDING

University of Durham

"A View of the Landscape Archeology from the far West"

Oct. 1998

Prof. Zeev HARVEY

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

"Avicenna, Maimonides, and Spinoza on Amor Dei Intellectualis"

Dec. 2001

Prof. Michael Henry HEIM

Head of Dept. of Slavonic Languages, University of California at Los Angeles

"East-Central Authors in America. A Translator’s Perspective"

May 2000

Prof. John Christopher HENRY

University of Edinburgh

"Isaac Newton and the Problem of Action at a Distance"

Apr. 1999

Prof. Stephen HOLMES

Center for Study of Constitutionalism in Eastern Europe, University of Chicago

"Cultural Legacies or State Collapse: Probing the Postcommunist Dilemma"

Apr. 1996

Prof. Moshe IDEL

Hebrew University, Jerusalem

"Entwined Worlds: Cabalistic Versions of the Great Chain of Being"

Oct. 2002

Dr. Augustin IOAN

NEC & RELINK Alumnus;

“I. Mincu” University of Architecture and Urban Planning, Bucharest

"Sacred Space – Public Space – Private Space"

May 2001

Dr. Jean-Claude JOSEPH

Ambassador of the Swiss Confederation in Romania

"La Suisse"

Nov. 2000

Prof. Tony JUDT

Director, Remarque Institute, New York University

"The Lesser Evil? Reflections on the Nazism-Communism Comparison"

Mar. 2001

Prof. Jacques JULLIARD

École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris

"La politique et le sacré"

Oct. 1998

Prof. Claude KARNOOUH

C.N.R.S.-I.N.A.L.C.O., Paris;

University Babeş-Bolyai, Cluj-Napoca

"Reflections on the Fall of Communism"

"Communisme/Postcommunisme. Conflits d'interpretation"

June 1995

May 1999

Prof. Sunil KHILNANI

Birkbeck College, University of London

"Democracy in India"

May 2001

Prof. Gábor KLANICZAY

Central European University, Budapest;

Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest;

Permanent Fellow, Collegium Budapest

"Late Medieval Canonization Trials and Early Modern Witch-Trials. A Comparison"

May 2003

Prof. Gail KLIGMAN

University of California at Los Angeles

"The Politics of Duplicity: Reproduction, Social Control, and Power in Ceausescu’s Romania"

Mar. 1998

Prof. Neil LEACH

School of Architecture and Building Technology, University of Notingham

"Millennium Britain: Diana, the Spice Girls and the Millennium Dome"

May 1999

Prof. Philippe LEJEUNE

Université Paris-Nord

"Le journal intime - histoire d'une pratique"

Feb. 2004

Dr. Dr. h.c. Wolf LEPENIES

Rector of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin;Freie Universität Berlin

"The State of Social Sciences after 1989"

May 1997

Prof. Gabriel LIICEANU

University of Bucharest

"Why is a history of Romanian philosophy not possible?"

Feb. 1996

Prof. Bruce LINCOLN

Divinity School, University of Chicago

"Georges Dumézil: Continuing Legacy and Continuing Questions"

"Death by Water: Strange Events at the Strymon (persae 492-507) and Categorical Opposition of East and West"

Jun. 2000

Prof. Anthony LONG

University of California at Berkeley

"Stoic philosophers on private property and community"

"Choosing a philosophy of life: Skepticism, Stoicism or Epicureanism"

Jun. 1996

Prof. Bernard LORTAT-JACOB

Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris

&

Prof. Jacques BOUËT

Université Paul Valéry de Montpellier

"La ballade roumaine et les musiques de tradition

orale européennes"

June 1998

Prof. Andrew LOUTH

University of Durham

"Mysticism – Name and Thing"

Oct. 1997

Prof. Pierre MANENT

Centre Raymond Aron, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris

"Démocratie et nation"

Jun. 2000

Dr. Steven MANSBACH

Center for Advanced Study, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

"On Eastern European Classical Modern Art"

Dec. 1998

Prof. Andrei MARGA

Minister of Education, Bucharest

"The Reform of Education and the Challenges of the New Century"

Jun. 1999

Prof. Mircea MARTIN

Department of Theory of Literature, Faculty of Letters, University of Bucharest

"The “Discontinuous Time of Marxism” and the “Continuities of the Romanian People"

Nov. 2002

Prof. Rex MARTIN

University of Wales at Swansea;

University of Kansas

"Rawls and Rights"

"Rawls: Pluralism in the Democratic State and Overlapping Consensus"

Jun. 2000

Adam MICHNIK

Chief-editor of Gazeta Wiborcza, Warsaw

"The Specific Role of the Intellectuals in the Emerging Democracies of Central and Eastern Europe"

May 1997

Dr. Laurent MILESI

University of Wales, Cardiff

"Promnesia (Remembering Forward) in "Midnight's Children": Rushdie's chutney versus Proust's madeleine"

"Is there a Place (for Post-modernism) in Deconstruction?"

Oct. 1998

Prof. Diana MISHKOVA

University of Sofia

"Legitimacy through Populism: The ‘Janus’ Quality of Balkan Modernity"

May 1999

Dr. Olivier MONGIN

Director of the review ESPRIT, Paris

"L’apprentissage de la tolérance en Europe"

Mar. 2002

Dr. Joshua MURAVCHIK

American Entreprise Institute for Public Policy Research, Washington D.C

"The Rise and Fall of Socialism"

Mar. 2004

Prof. Rainer MÜNZ

Humboldt-Universität, Berlin

"European Migration Patterns since 1945: From a Continent of Emigration to Fortress Europe?"

Oct. 1998

Prof. Virgil NEMOIANU

University of Baltimore

"Neoplatonism and Romanian Culture"

May 1995

Prof. Basarab NICOLESCU

Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris

"A New Way of Knowledge: Transdisciplinarity"

Nov. 1998

Prof. Paul NIXON

University of Cambridge

"Contribution to Social Science Made by D. Gusti"

"Controlling the Past. Revolutionary Dreams and Dark Fears: George Orwell"

May 1997

Jul. 1998

Dr. Rainer OHLIGER

Humboldt-Universität, Berlin

"Populations, Nations and the Conquest of Public Space in 20th Century Eastern and Central Europe"

Oct. 1998

Prof. Thomas PAVEL

Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Chicago

"Ethics and Beauty"

Oct. 2002

Prof. Thomas W. POGGE

Columbia University, New York

"A Critique of Anglo-American Conceptions of Social Justice"

Jun. 2001

Dr. Cristian PREDA

NEC & RELINK Alumnus;

University of Bucharest

"Ten Years – Ten Illusions"

"Why Did the Interwar Democracy Fail? An Electoral Explanation"

Dec. 1999

Nov. 2001

PD Dr. Joachim von PUTTKAMER

“Friedrich Schiller” University of Jena

"Stratégies nationales et systèmes scolaires en Transylvanie, 1867-1914"

Mar. 2001

Bryan RENNIE

Associate Professor, Department of Religion, History, Philosophy and Classics, Westminster College

"Toward a Philosophical Anthropology of Religion: Reconciling a Naturalistic Approach to the Study of Religion with the Belief of the Believer"

Jun. 2002

Prof. Istvan REV

Central European University, Budapest;

Director, Open Society Archives, Budapest

"The Necronym"

Feb. 1999

Prof. Thomas ROBINSON

University of Toronto;

President of the International Society of Greek Philosophy

"The Defining Features of Mind-Body Dualism in the Writings of Plato"

May 1999

Philippe ROGER

Directeur d’études, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales;

Directeur de recherche, CNRS

"L'invention des minorités dans la philosophie des Lumières"

Jun. 2002

Prof. Sergio ROMANO

Università di Bocconi, Milano;

Columnist at the “Corriere della Sera”

"Ten Years After the End of the Cold War"

Oct. 1999

Prof. Jacques RUPNIK

Centre d’Études et de Recherche Internationales, Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques, Paris

"Europe's New Frontiers"

Jan. 1997

Prof. Jörn RÜSEN

President, Kulturwissenschatliches Institut, Wissenschaftszentrum Nordrhein-Westfalen

"What is the Meaning of History"

Jun. 1998

Prof. Joseph RYKWERT

University of Pennsylvania

"The Seduction of Place"

May 2000

Prof. Andrew SANDERS

University of Durham

"What Is Englishness?"

Feb. 1998

Prof. Gabriel SANDU

University of Helsinki

"Analytical Philosophy and Relativism"

Jan. 1999

Prof. Giovanni SARTORI

University of Columbia, New York;

University of Florence;

Director of «Rivista italiana di scienza politica»;

Editorialist of the newspaper «Corriere della Sera»

"Italy After the May 13, 2001 Elections"

Jun. 2001

Prof. Eike von SAVIGNY

University of Bielefeld

"Truth"

May 1998

Prof. Jutta SCHERRER

Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin;

École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris

"Comment la Russie reconstruit son passé"

Jun. 2001

Prof. Wulf SCHIEFENHÖVEL

Forschungsstelle für Humanethologie,

Max Planck Institut, Andechs

"Humans - Defective Creatures or Big Hit of Evolution"

"Birth and Early Socialization - Cultural Experiments and Evolutionary Dimensions"

"Constructing Sense and Giving Help – Concepts and Roles of Traditional Healers in Melanesia"

Apr. 1995

Apr. 1996

May 1999

Prof. Jean-Claude SCHMITT

École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris

"L’histoire des jeunes"

Mar. 1999

Dr. Jeremy SCHONFIELD

Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies

"Who are the Jews? Jews and Textuality"

Jun. 1996

Prof. John R. SEARLE

University of California at Berkeley

"Intentionality and Meaning"

"Rationality in Action"

May 2000

Prof. Em. Dr. Thomas SEBEOK

Indiana University at Bloomington

"Global Semiotics"

Oct. 1998

Prof. Quentin SKINNER

Faculty of History, University of Cambridge

"On the History of Laughter"

"The Third Concept of Liberty"

"On the Liberty of Citizens: History, Theory, Prospects"

Feb. 2002

Prof. Paul H. STAHL

École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris

"Birth, Marriage, and Death in South-Eastern Europe. Pagan and Christian Rituals"

Mar. 1999

PD Dr. Andreas STEFFENS

University of Kassel

"From World to World or The Art of the Fugue I & II"

Dec. 1997

Anne STENROS

General Manager, Design Forum Finland;

Editor-in-Chief, Form Function Finland

"BRAND IT! Finnish Design Brands in Global Competition"

May 2002

Prof. Victor Ieronim STOICHIŢĂ

Université de Fribourg

"The Shadow Stage, The Mirror Stage"

Mar. 2000

Prof. Ivan SZELENYI

University of California at Los Angeles

"Winners and Losers of Post-communist Transition"

Dec. 1997

Prof. Pál TAMÁS

Director of the Institute of Sociology of the Hungarian Academy, Budapest

"Post-Socialist Collective Memories: Tools for Social Exclusion and Inclusion in Central Europe"

Nov. 1999

Dr. Ramie TARGOFF

Yale University, New Haven

"Common Prayer: Public Devotion in Renaissance England"

Oct. 1999

Prof. Vladimir TISMĂNEANU

University of Maryland

"Reinventing Politics"

"Lost Illusions: Hopes and Sorrows of the First Post-Communist Decade"

Jan. 1997

Jun. 1999

Prof. Em. Heinrich URSPRUNG

Former President of ETH Zurich;

Former State Secretary for Science of Switzerland

"Wissenschaftspolitik in Westeuropa"

Oct. 1997

Prof. Ursula VOGEL

University of Manchester

"Marriage and the Crisis of Order in Modern Liberal Society"

Apr. 1998

Prof. Jacques WAARDENBURG

Faculty of Theology, University of Lausanne

"After Eliade. Religion as a Field of Investigation"

May 2003

Prof. Fritz WAGNER

Freie Universität, Berlin

"Die Universitätslage in der deutschen Gesellschaft"

Oct. 1996

Prof. Hans N. WEILER

Professor Emeritus of Education and Political Science, Stanford University;

Professor Emeritus of Comparative Politics and former Rector, Viadrina;

European University, Frankfurt/Oder

"Knowledge, Power and Culture: The International Politics of Knowledge Production and the Future of Higher Education"

Jun. 2003

Prof. Gloria WITHALM

University of Vienna

"Self-Referentiality in Film and TV"

Feb. 1998

Prof. Larry WOLFF

Boston College

"The Enlightenment and the Orthodox World: Western Perspectives on Orthodox Religion in Eastern Europe"

May 2003

Prof. Christos YANNARAS

Pantion University of Social and Political Sciences, Athens

"The Issue of Cultural Unity in Today’s Europe"

Nov. 2002

Prof. Zvi YAVETZ

University of Tel Aviv

"Jews and Dacians in Latin Sources"

Nov. 1997

Prof. Mihai ZAMFIR

Faculty of Letters, University of Bucharest

"Literary Hermeneutics Today"

Jun. 2002

Prof. Hanna ZAREMSKA

University of Warsaw

"Le concept de l’exclusion en Europe médiévale"

Jan. 1998