The National Symposium ”Medieval Art and Culture between the Orient and the Occident”, the 2nd of November 2021

Abstract

The pandemic has not succeeded to detain the organization, this year also, of the National Symposium Anastasis – Art and Medieval Culture between the Orient and the Occident. Although shortly before the beginning of events, there was still a lot of uncertainty, many of the proposed activities being cancelled or postponed, the main event of the symposium, the scientific lecturers held by the invited guests was done online, on the 2 of November 2021. Having the nostalgia of the times when these types of impediments had not appeared yet in the projection of the cultural-artistic events of the Research Centre of Medieval Art ”Vasile Drăguț”, this year’s edition of the symposium (organised by Professor Codrina Ioniță, Associate Professor Irina-Andreea Stoleriu and Associate Professor Adrian Stoleriu, PhD from the Faculty of Visual Arts and Design from Iași) was held entirely online, through the means of online communication (the platform Microsoft Teams of ”George Enescu” National University of Arts from Iași). Continuing the tradition opened a few years ago, by organizing culturalscientific events having as main focus the interest for the research of art and medieval culture between the Orient and the Occident, this year’s edition of the symposium has reverted to the general theme of previous editions, which is inexhausted in form and content, regarding the diversity of approaches and studies which can be done in this large territory of knowledge. Medieval art between the Orient and the Occident has represented the thematic challenge addressed to well-known personalities of our contemporary culture, with a rich research experience in the historical and cultural autochtonous and universal space, having in the centre the Academician Răzvan Theodorescu