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The Banat of Timisoara

Author: Victor Neumann

Publisher: Scala Arts Publishers Incorporated

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781785511240

The Banat is a uniquely fascinating example of a European cross-border region, incorporating parts of western Romania, northeastern Serbia and a small area of southeastern Hungary. The team of historians, headed by Professor Victor Neumann of the West University in Timisoara, who have contributed to this volume are drawn from across the three modern nations of the region. They analyse the history and culture of the Banat from the earliest times, focusing on the 300 years since it was captured from the Ottoman Turks by Prince Eugene of Savoy. Today this ethnically diverse region has a distinct character of its own, and its Romanian seat, the city of Timisoara, exudes a character quite different from Transylvania and the rest of Romania. This new English edition of the book (originally published in Romanian in 2016 under the title Istoria Banatului) has been expanded and is published to support Timisoara's designation as European Capital of Culture in 2021. AUTHOR: Victor Neumann is a Romanian historian, political analyst, and professor at the West University in Timisoara. He is a well-known specialist in the recent cultural and intellectual histories of Eastern and Central Europe. Much of his work deals with Conceptual History, Jewish-Romanian history, the history of antisemitism, as well as various topics connected with nationalism. Since 2013 he has been Director of the Timisoara Museum of Arts. SELLING POINTS: * Contains the latest research on the history of a complex and fascinating region of Europe * Available in English for the first time * Expanded and updated edition * Published in anticipation of Timisoara's designation as European Capital of Culture for 2021 ILLUSTRATIONS: 30 colour, 30 b/w

My Journey from the Banat to Canada

Author: Nick Tullius

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2011-08-19

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 1463418345

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Nick Tullius grew up in the 1940s and 1950s in the Banat region of Romania. He witnessed dis-enfranchisement, expropriation, and deportation of his compatriots, events that have been largely ignored by historiography. After his US-born mother dies doing forced labour in the USSR, and his father remains in the West, he finds his way with the support of a grandmother, completing high school and University in Temeswar/Timisoara. In the second part of My Journey from the Banat to Canada, author Nick Tullius describes his emigration to Canada, and his adaptation to a new social order, languages and customs. He finds a rewarding engineering career with the research and development subsidiary of a large telecommunications company, while growing with his family of four. He becomes involved in the introduction of semiconductor devices and software into telecommunication, and the development of Canadian, American and international standards in his field. He writes technical papers, and presents them at international conferences. After his retirement in 2000, Nick Tullius concentrates on family research and making the history and culture of their ancestors accessible to English-speaking descendants of the Danube Swabians. Several of his translations and writings are published at www.dvhh.org and www.dvhh.org/alexanderhausen .

Managing Events, Festivals and the Visitor Economy

Author: Michael B. Duignan

Publisher: CABI

Published: 2021-12-14

Total Pages: 203

ISBN-13: 1789242843

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This edited text, intended to support a research-informed approach to learning and teaching, presents an array of concepts, collaborations and in-depth cases related to managing events, festivals and the visitor economy. Authors offer an array of philosophical, political, cultural, and ethical perspectives on how to achieve this across a range of contexts, from Cambodia, China, Egypt to the British cathedral city of Lincoln. Though recognising individual difference, each chapter unites in their common pursuit of supporting the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDGs). This is significant as utilising the UNSDGs as a normative organising framework for how we all think about, plan, and manage a 'good' visitor economy is increasingly ubiquitous. It is with this in mind that each chapter provides explicit links to the UNSDGs and policy and/or practical implications, along with a series of critical self-assessment questions to reflect on the chapter's key arguments. This collection aims to satiate what appears to be an increasing appetite of readers and students alike who seek exposure to rigorous debate in and out of the classroom.

The Timisoara National Museum of Art

Author: Victor Neumann

Publisher: Director's Choice

Published: 2021-07-12

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781785513626

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* From the author of The Banat of Timişoara and The Temptation of Homo Europaeus* The first Romanian institution to join the Director's Choice seriesThe collections of the Timisoara National Museum of Art trace their origins to the original Banat Museum founded in 1872 by Zsigmond Ormós, a great scholar and collector of the time. In 2006 Timisoara National Museum of Art was officially opened in its current form, housed in the splendid Baroque Palace on the city's Union Square. Its collections include important works by Romanian master painter Corneliu Baba, an impressive contemporary art collection, decorative arts, and collections of Banatian, Romanian and European art from the 17th to the 20th century. In recognition of its status as one of the country's finest art museums, in December 2020 it was designated a Museum of National Importance. The Museum will be a key visitor attraction during Timisoara's year as European Capital of Culture in 2023. Other titles by Director Victor Neumann - The Banat of Timisoara, The Temptation of Homo Europaeus, and Kin, People or Nation?

Combating the Hydra

Author: Stephan Steiner

Publisher: Purdue University Press

Published: 2023-02-15

Total Pages: 203

ISBN-13: 161249806X

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Combating the Hydra explores structural as well as occasion-specific state violence committed by the early modern Habsburg Empire. The book depicts and analyzes attacks on marginalized people “maladjusted” of all sorts, women “of ill repute,” “heretic” Protestants, and “Gypsies.” Previously uncharted archival records reveal the use of arbitrary imprisonment, coerced labor, and deportation. The case studies presented provide insights into the origins of modern state power from varied techniques of population control, but are also an investigation of resistance against oppression, persecution, and life-threatening assaults. The spectrum of fights against debasement is a touching attestation of the humanity of the outcasts; they range from mental and emotional perseverance to counterviolence. A conversation with the eminent historian Carlo Ginzburg concludes the collection by asking about the importance of memorizing horrors of the past.

The Mortuary Archaeology of the Medieval Banat (10th-14th Centuries)

Author: Silviu Ota

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2014-10-23

Total Pages: 407

ISBN-13: 9004281576

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Winner of the 2016 George Bariţiu Prize In The Mortuary Archaeology of the Medieval Banat (10th – 14th centuries) Silviu Oţa highlights the interactions between different ethnic groups as reflected in burial customs and funerary practices. The book will deal with the Banat as a whole (as opposed to the Romanian, Serbian or Hungarian parts of the region) since the modern political borders are not identical with the cultural boundaries in the Middle Ages. On a more general level, the goal of this book is to analyse the social dynamics in the region. The author rejects the idea that any of the "archaeological cultures" identified in the Banat (e.g. the Bjelo Brdo culture) may be associated with any single ethnic group. Winner of the 2016 George Bariţiu Prize from the Romanian Academy for outstanding contribution to the development of Romanian culture and science in the area of history and archaeology. The prize, named after the towering figure of George Bariţiu (1812-1893) in nineteenth-century Romanian political and cultural life and former president of the Academy, is awarded for originality of the work, its contribution to its field, and its impact at the national level of the field development.

Subverting Communism in Romania

Author: Mihaela Şerban

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2019-08-22

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 1498595685

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This study traces the Romanian communist regime’s attempts to extinguish private property in housing. The author analyzes the homeowners’ resistance through law, the subsequent remaking of private property, and the hybrid legal culture of property in early communist Romania.

Philosophical Challenges and Opportunities of Globalization

Author: Oliva Blanchette

Publisher: CRVP

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 9781565181342

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Academic Days of Timişoara

Author: Maria Palicica

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2011-09-22

Total Pages: 505

ISBN-13: 1443834017

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Academic Days of Timişoara: Social Sciences Today is a book of the proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium “Social Sciences Today: Between Theory and Practice” held in Timişoara, Romania, on May 6–7, 2011, under the auspices of the Romanian Academy. It will appeal to teachers of social sciences, no matter the level of instruction. The papers it contains deal with economics (economic crisis, communications, and Total Quality Management), education (systems of formal education, process of education, and educational theory), philosophy (education of the future, orthodoxy and nationalism, philosophy of history, Islamic tourism, rites and beliefs, and aesthetics), psychology (family imaginary, self-esteem, stress, personality, behaviour, intelligence, violence, and communication), and sociology (education, communication, social rituals, and non-formal education).

History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe

Author: Marcel Cornis-Pope

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 2006-09-13

Total Pages: 539

ISBN-13: 9027293406

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Continuing the work undertaken in Vol. 1 of the History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe, Vol. 2 considers various topographic sites—multicultural cities, border areas, cross-cultural corridors, multiethnic regions—that cut across national boundaries, rendering them permeable to the flow of hybrid cultural messages. By focusing on the literary cultures of specific geographical locations, this volume intends to put into practice a new type of comparative study. Traditional comparative literary studies establish transnational comparisons and contrasts, but thereby reconfirm, however inadvertently, the very national borders they play down. This volume inverts the expansive momentum of comparative studies towards ever-broader regional, European, and world literary histories. While the theater of this volume is still the literary culture of East-Central Europe, the contributors focus on pinpointed local traditions and geographic nodal points. Their histories of Riga, Plovdiv, Timişoara or Budapest, of Transylvania or the Danube corridor – to take a few examples – reveal how each of these sites was during the last two-hundred years a home for a variety of foreign or ethnic literary traditions next to the one now dominant within the national borders. By foregrounding such non-national or hybrid traditions, this volume pleads for a diversification and pluralization of local and national histories. A genuine comparatist revival of literary history should involve the recognition that “treading on native grounds” means actually treading on grounds cultivated by diverse people.