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PHSS 2019: Conference Program
FRIDAY, 17 May 2019
9.00-9.30 – Registration and coffee
The Museum of “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iași
9.30-10.30 – Opening Session
The Museum of “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iași
10.30-12.00 – Panel (1)
The Museum of “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iași
12.00-12.45 – The Museum of “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iași –Guided Tour
12.45-14.00 – Lunch-break at “Titu Maiorescu” Restaurant 14.00-16.00 – Panels (2-3)
16.00-18.00 – WORKSHOP
C505 Room, Building C, “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iași
Invited Speakers:
Prof. Angela Roman (“Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iași”)
Neculai Viţelaru (Vice-president CNIPMMR)
Eugenia Niculina Dăscălescu (Regional Director BRD)Sorin Cociș (Regional Expert BRD)
Chair: Dr. Valentina Diana Rusu
16.15-18.15– Panels (4-5)
The Old Water Tower of “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iași
18.30-19.00 – Book presentation: Exploring the Digital Turn
The Old Water Tower of “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iași
19.00 – Cocktail
The Old Water Tower of “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iași
SATURDAY, 18 May 2019
8.30-9.00 – Registration and coffee
The Old Water Tower of “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iași
9.00-11.00 – Panels (6-7)
S5 Room, Ground Floor, Building A of “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iaşi
11.00-12.30 – Plenary Conference
Faculty of Letters, Room III.11, Building A, “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iași
From Felix Klein’s Erlangen Program to Dan Barbilian’s Secondary Game: The Philological Side
Keynote Speaker: Prof. BOGDAN SUCEAVĂ, California State University, Fullerton
12.30-13.00 – Closing Remarks
The full program is available here.
Workshop PHSS 2019: The Development of Entrepreneurship in Romania. The Role of Institutional Environment
Chair: Dr. VALENTINA DIANA RUSU
Invited Speakers:
Prof. ANGELA ROMAN (“Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iași”)
NECULAI VIŢELARU (Vice-president National Council of Private Small andMedium Enterprises in Romania)
EUGENIA NICULINA DĂSCĂLESCU (Regional Administrative Director BRD – Groupe Société Générale, North East Region)
SORIN COCIȘ (Regional Expert in European funds, government programs and partnerships BRD – Groupe Société Générale, Northeast Retail Region)
Time and location: Friday, 17 May, 16.00-18.00
C505 Room, Building C, “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iași
Language: Romanian
Entrepreneurship plays a major role in the economic development of a country or region and the quality of entrepreneurial activity has a significant impact on economic growth. Among the main pillars identified as supporters of entrepreneurship are: access to finance (facilitating entrepreneurs’ access to finance, in particular by developing a different lending model for entrepreneurship by banks, and developing new sources of innovative funding such as crowd- funding and microfinance); entrepreneurial culture (tolerance for risk and failure, preference for self-employment, culture of innovation and research); taxes and regulations (tax incentives, ease of business start-up, business-friendly legislation); education and training (entrepreneurship education in pre-university and university education, training for entrepreneurs, encouraging lifelong learning for entrepreneurs); support in all areas mentioned offered by specialized organizations, such as entrepreneurs’ associations and clubs, government agencies, business incubators, groups and business centres. According to studies in the field, access to finance is an area where entrepreneurs face the most difficulties, so improving access to finance is considered to be the most supportive measure of entrepreneurial development.
Through this workshop, we intend to create an interactive seminar in which to work together with the participants to identify the main obstacles that entrepreneurs face when they want to start up a new business or are in the course of their activity, in Romania. We will discuss the characteristics of the entrepreneurial environment in Romania, the number of procedures necessary for the establishment of a new business, the main ways of financing available to start-up entrepreneurs, but also to those older on the market, the role of the institutional environment in stimulating and encouraging potential entrepreneurs. The practical experience of the speakers will bring us face to face with the real situation in the business and institutional environment. Also, the participants in this seminar, being seen as potential entrepreneurs, will present their perceptions of the obstacles they identify in the entrepreneurial environment, as well as the factors that would stimulate them to open a business.
Organizers: Institute of Interdisciplinary Research, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Department, “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iași
This workshop was supported by a grant of the “Alexandru Ioan Cuza”University of Iasi, within the Research Grants program, Grant UAIC, code GI-UAIC-2017-02, entitled “Increasing the competitiveness of the Romanian economy by improving the quality of entrepreneurship”.
Plenary Conference PHSS 2019 — From Felix Klein’s ‘Erlangen Program’ to Dan Barbilian’s ‘Secondary Game’: The Philological Side
Keynote speaker: Prof. Bogdan Suceavă
California State University, Fullerton, USA
Time and location: Saturday, 18 May 2019, 11.00-12.30
Faculty of Letters, III.11 Room, Building A, “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iași
Language: Romanian
In 1872, the 23-year old Felix Klein published an important work, known today as the Erlangen Program, with lasting impact on the development of modern mathematics. Pursuing the Erlangen’s Program philosophy, a doctoral student of Gaston Darboux, Gheorghe Țițeica, introduced the first concepts of affine differential geometry in a series of papers published in 1907-1908. Furthermore, while running the ‘Mathematical Gazette’s problem solving competition, Țițeica discovered Dan Barbilian, a young brilliant and original mathematician who later had many substantive contributions in algebraic geometry and metric geometry. In poetry, Barbilian is remembered for his volume titled ‘Secondary Game’. In an essay wrote a decade after the ‘Secondary Game”s publication, Barbilian wrote: “I personally consider myself a representative of the Erlangen Program, that movement of ideas that, from the standpoint of its consequences and the overturn of viewpoints, can be compared with the Discourse on the Method or with the Reform itself. Instead of the narrow specialization or the opaque technicality, which preceded the Erlangen Program, it brought an illuminated eclecticism. It pursues the depth of each theory, without missing from sight the homogeneity and unity of the whole.” Starting our inquiry from this standpoint, we investigate the existence of the common roots of ‘Secondary Game”s poetics and the philosophy of the Erlangen Program. Our conclusion is that the Erlangen Program yielded in the field of Romanian letters a totally unexpected outcome: an aesthetic vision.
Bogdan SUCEAVA (b. 1969) has a degree in mathematics (1994) and a M.Sc in geometry (1995) from the University of Bucharest, and a doctorate in mathematics from Michigan State University, East Lansing (2002). He is now a full professor of mathematics at California State University, Fullerton, where he taught since 2002. He has written articles on mathematics and the history of mathematics, some of which appeared in Historia Mathematica, the Notices of the American Mathematical Society, the Mathematical Intelligencer, among many others; two of historical essays are included in the Best Writings on Mathematics anthologies (2016, 2018) published by the Princeton University Press. He is also the author of 17 literary volumes, including Miruna: A Tale (Curtea Veche, 2007; Polirom 2016), The Night When Somebody Died for You (Polirom, 2010), Coming from an Off key Time (Polirom, 2004; 2nd edition, 2010; 3rd edition, 2014), Avalon. Secrets of Happy Emigrants (Polirom, 2018).
Call for Presentations PHSS 2019, Iași 17-18 May: Interdisciplinarity — An Umbrella Term?
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There is no unitary theory of interdisciplinarity, but we are most certainly crossing a postdisciplinary era, one in which inter-, multi-, transdisciplinarity have already merged into a meta-discipline, a new idiom where all these prefixes are partially interchangeable. But what does the conceptual vocabulary of interdisciplinarity consist of today? Which are its applicative methodologies? How do we acknowledge the potential meeting points of two distinct disciplines? How can these meetings be encouraged? And how does the imperative of being interdisciplinary shape the policies of research and the academic culture?
In order to answer these questions, the 6th edition of the PHSS Conference will focus on four thematic areas: conceptual vocabulary, epistemologies and methodologies, interferences, forms of collaboration. Theoretical approaches, as well as focused case studies and inter- and transdisciplinary explorations are welcome. Our selection will attempt, as far as possible, to come with a balanced selection of these four areas of interest:
Conceptual vocabulary
- Theories of post-, inter-, multi-, transdisciplinarity
- Operational metaphors of interdisciplinarity: hibridization, contamination, virus,
- From the humanist model of antiquity to transdisciplinarity: key concepts and their historical evolution
- Interdisciplinarity within the Academia: new disciplines and cross-disciplinary research areas
Epistemologies and methodologies
- Models of world representation from an inter- and transdisciplinary perspective: theory of evolution, world-systems theory etc.
- Interdisciplinarity in contemporary literary theory
- Objects of speculative thinking in antiquity: from theology to physics, from ethics to political studies
- Inter- and transdisciplinary methods in social sciences and humanities
Interferences
- Multi- and interdisciplinary research fields: memory studies, trauma studies, gender studies, etc.
- Digital literacy: modes of writing and reading in the digital medium
- Intermediality and intertextuality in literature, film, visual arts and performing arts
- Computational linguistics: instruments and applications of classical linguistics
- Martianus Capella and the system of the seven artes liberales
Forms of cross-collaboration
- Forms of collaboration among science, art and technology
- Interdisciplinarity, knowledge-transfer and cooperation with business and local communities
- Interdisciplinarity in the entrepreneurial environment
- Interdisciplinarity and interculturality
Conference languages: Romanian, English, and French.
There is no participation fee for this year’s edition.
The PHSS 2019 edition is partially supported through the research grants GI-UAIC-2017-01 and GI-UAIC-2017-02, currently implemented at the Institute for Interdisciplinary Research, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Department.
We invite researchers in all fields to submit abstracts until 22 April 2019.
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The final program of the PHSS Conference 2018 has been uploaded.
We are looking forward to meeting you in Iasi!