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Wedneesday, October 24th, 2007


10:00 Opening session


Greetings:

Moderator: Moshe Idel

Israel Bartal, Dean, the Faculty of Humanities

Eduard Iosiper, Romanian Ambassador in Israel

Madeea Axinciuc, Director, The Romanian Cultural Institute, Tel Aviv


10:30 - 12:30 First Session*

Moderator: Robert Wistrich

Edward Kanterian: Subjectivity and Objectivity: Mihail Sebastian’s Diary and Saul Friedländer’s Historiography

Moshe Idel: The Controversy around the novel For Two Thousand Years: Theological Aspects


15:00 - 17:15 Second Session: Identity Dilemmas

Moderator: Leon Volovici

Paul Cornea: Mihail Sebastian and the identity theme

Michael Finkenthal: How "dunarean" (danubian) was Mihail Sebastian?

Camelia Craciun: The identity dilemma between traditionalism and modernity: The controversy around the novel “For Two Thousand Years”

Lya Benjamin: Identity obsessions, from Jakob Wassermann to Mihail Sebastian


17:15 - 17:30 coffee break


17:30 - 20:00 Third Session: Mihail Sebastian and his contemporaries

Moderator: Madeea Axinciuc

Marta Petreu: Mihail Sebastian's place among the generation of '27

George Voicu: Mihail Sebastian and the literary antisemitism

Andrei Oisteanu: The friendship between Mihail Sebastian and Mircea Eliade against the background of the Romanian rhinocerization

Florin Turcanu: “The Generation of 1927” - a retrospective view 80 years later


20:00 Dinner


Thursday, October 25th, 2007


9:30 - 11:15 Fourth Session: Mihail Sebastian - From Jocul de-a vacanta to the Jurnal (I)

Moderator: Michael Finkenthal

Ion Vartic: Mihail Sebastian and the vegetal laziness of being

Costel Safirman: Mihail Sebastian's theatre: characters and actors

Andrei Strihan: Mihail Sebastian's contribution to the development of the Romanian theatre


11:15 - 11:30 Coffee break

11:30 - 13:30 Fifth Session: Mihail Sebastian - From "Holiday Games" to the Journal (II)

Moderator: Paul Cornea

Virgil Duda: Sebastian's Journal, a masterpiece

Liviu Rotman: Parallel mirrors of a tragic era: Mihail Sebastian's and Emil Dorian's Journals

B. Elvin: Mihail Sebastian confronting totalitarianisms

Leon Volovici: Bucharest 1941-1944: The island, the birdcage, the trap


15:00 - 17:00 Round Table: The Impact of the Journal and the rediscovery of Mihail Sebastian


Paul Cornea, Virgil Duda, Michael Finkenthal, Andrei Oisteanu, Marta Petreu, Florin Turcanu, Costel Safirman, Bazil Shafferman, Ion Vartic, George Voicu, Leon Volovici (moderator)


17:30 Reception