“We apply this kind of racism to ourselves – we were born inferior from nature and that's it. It is a sort of Mioritic fatalism that passed to genetics, more modern,” Vintilă Mihăilescu said in an interview taken by pressone.ro, on the occasion of the publishing of the collective volume “Why is Romania like this? The avatars of the Romanian Exceptionalism”, coordinated by the same Vintilă Mihăilescu.
Cinepub Live invites the audience to a talk with Vintilă Mihăilescu, anthropologist, Ph. D. Professor and publicist. Director Of the Sociology Department within the National School of Political and Administrative Studies (SNSPA),
Visiting Professor within numerous universities and advanced studies centre in Canada, France, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Belgium, Austria, Bulgaria and permanent contributor with Dilema Veche Magazine, where he holds the column Socio-hai-hui, Vintilă Mihăilescu is the special guest of the Circle and of CINEPUB Live.
The meeting will be held on Wednesday, 29 November, at 19.30, at Cărturești Verona Bookstore and may be viewed online at
www.cinepub.ro. The talk will be hosted by Eugen Ciurtin.
In 1990, Vintilă Mihăilescu initiated the setting up of the Cultural Anthropology Society in Romania (SACR), whose Chairmanship he held from 1994 to 2000. From 2005 to 2010, he acted as general director of the Romanian Farmer Museum. Between 1978 - 1991, he worked as researcher of the Anthropology Center within the Romanian Academy. Among others, he published the following papers: “Paysans de l’histoire” (in cooperation,1992), “The Fascination of the Difference” (1999), “Socio-hai-hui. Another Sociology of Transition” (2000), “Socio-hai-hui through Romania Archipelagos” (2006), “Anthropology. Five Introductions” (2007), “End Game. Romania of the 20 Years” (2010), “Nation's Diapers and Emperor's Clothes. Notes on Public Anthropology” (2013), “Why is Romania like this? The avatars of the Romanian Exceptionalism” (coordinated, 2017).
