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On 3 September 2024, dr. Olivia Nițiș (G. Oprescu Institute of Art History) gave a presentation at the international colloquium Carmen Sylva, Dora Hitz and Women's Art Networks in Romania and Germany at the Peles National Museum. The colloquium accompanied the opening of the exhibition Carmen Sylva - Dora Hitz: word and image, curated by Dr. Shona Kallestrup (University of St Andrews) and Dr. Natalie Gutgesell (Kunstverein Coburg), with the support of the Peles National Museum.
Olivia Nițiș presented at the colloquium a paper titled Reclaming Visibility: Sonja Nădejde in the Bavarian Art Environment 1895-1904. The researcher emphasised the fact that "the erasure of women from art history is a deep systemic problem", adding: "there is still much to be discovered about 19th century women artists and their educational and professional links with Western centers (Munich, Vienna, Paris)". Her paper is part of a wider effort to restore the identity of these overlooked women artists.

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The 2024 Tyler Visiting Fellows, art historian Eduard Andrei (G. Oprescu Institute of Art History) and visual artist and writer Alina Gherasim, both from Romania, presented a research-in-progress webinar about their winning project The woman artist in the communist regime in Romania, represented in the Tyler Collection.

The webinar was scheduled on July 24, 2024 at 9am (Romanian time)/4 pm (Tasmanian time). Their project is focused on the works of four women artists: Geta Brătescu (1926–2018), Sultana Maitec (1928–2016), Georgeta Năpăruș (1930–1997), and Silvia Radu (b. 1935). During the webinar, the two Fellows presented the analysis of the art works created by the four women artists, following the research they did on site, at the University of Tasmania in Hobart, in March 2024.

During a ceremony held at the National Bank of Romania (NBR) on 23 May, 2024, the Magazin Istoric Cultural Foundation presented its awards for the best volumes published in 2023.
Among the laureates was Dr. Adrian-Silvan Ionescu, director of G. Oprescu Institute of Art History. The "Dinu C. Giurescu" award was offered to him for editing the book of memoirs of his father, Silvan D. Ionescu, Silvan despre Silvan. Memorii răzlețe [Silvan on Silvan: Scattered Memories], published by Corint Publishing House.

Olivia Nițiș, a researcher from G. Oprescu Institute of Art History, is the curator of the exhibition A Spring of Hope, a Winter of Despair, hosted by Hala Faber in Timișoara between 11 and 30 May, 2024, and by Pragovka Gallery in Prague between 6 June and 29 August, 2024. The exhibition includes works by artists Kamila B. Richter & Michael Bielicky, Irina Botea, Vladimir Havlik, Jiří Kovanda, Gabriela Mateescu, Iulian Mereuță, Karel Miler, Delia Popa, Gheorghe Rasovszky, Marilena Preda Sânc, Decebal Scriba, Roxana Trestioreanu and Jiří Valoch, as well of screenings of films made by Eva Koťátkova and Iulia Stătică & Adrian Câtu. A Spring of Hope, a Winter of Despair is a project produced by Contrasens Cultural Association and co-financed by the Administration of the National Cultural Fund.

Our colleague Marian Țuțui took part in the international colloquium Du Grand Tour à l'Orient-Express: curiosité, exploration, sociabilité, organised in Paris by INALCO (Institut national des langues et civilizations orientales) and the Institute for Political Studies in Belgrade. He presented a paper titled Orient Express and the First Screening of Motion Pictures in Bucharest, in which he put forward five hypotheses concerning the author of the first film screening in Romania and his very probable arrival in Bucharest by Orient Express train.

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