SCHEDULE

Friday, October 24

16:00–18:00 Registration – Room 93

18:00–20:00 Welcome cocktail – Cantemir Club

Saturday, October 25

Plenary session – Room 93
(Hybrid meeting in presence and online participation)

10:30  Welcome and Introduction Professor Corina DUMITRESCU, PhD — President of DCCU

11:00  Lynn RHODES – Ambassador and Former President of the International Society for the Comparative Study of Civilizations
Guardians of Continuity: Cultural Resource Protection and the Survival of Civilizations

11:15  Professor Massimo MASSA, PhD – Pro-Rettore Accademia delle Arti e delle Scienze Filosofiche, Bari, Italy
L’Université comme espace d’humanité et d’humanisme

11:30  Coffee break

12:00  Ceremony of Awarding the Title of Doctor Honoris Causa to His Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch BARTHOLOMEW I of Constantinople – Aula Magna

13:00  Lunch

14:00  Book Launch – The New Enlightenment between Traditions and Challenges – Lambert Academic Publishing, 2025, Professor Corina Adriana DUMITRESCU, PhD, Professor Dragos Marian RADULESCU PhD, and Associate Professor ⁠Alexandru STEFANESCU, PhD

1st Panel: Ancient Studies, the Theory of History, Language, Art
Room 93 (Hybrid meeting in presence and online participation)
Moderator: Associate Professor ⁠Alexandru STEFANESCU, PhD, DCCU

14:30  Professor Klaus MAINZER, PhD – Technical University of Munich, President European Academy of Sciences and Arts (EASA), Salzburg, Austria

14:45  Professor Joseph DREW, PhD – President of the Asian Politics and History Association, USA
The Patterns of History

15:00  Professor Ion CRAIOVAN, PhD – Romanian Association for the Philosophy of Law (National Branch of the International Association for the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy – IVR)
Law and Culture in Our Historical Time

15:15  Professor Nicu POHOATA, PhD – "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" Police Academy
The Contributions of the Romanian Historian Neagu Djuvara to the Comparative Research of the History of Civilizations

15:30  Coffee break

Plenary – Room 93
(Hybrid meeting in presence and online participation)

16:00  Questions and Discussion
Professor Corina DUMITRESCU, PhD – President of DCCU

17:00  End of the day

2nd Panel: Contemporary Studies of Culture, of Politics, Security, and the Clash of Civilizations
Room 45 (Hybrid meeting in presence and online participation)
Moderator: Dr. Marja-Liisa Kristiina Tenhunen, PhD, DCCU

14:30  Professor Corina DUMITRESCU, PhD– President of DCCU
The Work of Dimitrie Cantemir, Source of the New Enlightenment

14:45  Cheikh Tidiane GAYE – Presidente dell’Accademia Internazionale Léopold Sédar Senghor, Italy
Ubuntu e la civilisation de l’universel: une éthique relationnelle pour un monde interconnecté

15:00  Associate Professor Alexandru CORDOȘ, PhD – Dean, Law Faculty, DCCU, Mountain Economy Center, CE-MONT, National Institute for Economic Research Costin C. Kirițescu
Legal Philosophy as a Reflection of Civilization

15:15  Professor Jeton KELMENDI, PhD – European Academy of Sciences and Arts (EASA), Salzburg, Austria

15:30  Coffee break

Plenary – Room 93
(Hybrid meeting in presence and online participation)

16:00  Questions and Discussion
Professor Corina DUMITRESCU, PhD – President of DCCU

17:00  End of the day

3rd Panel: Dimitrie Cantemir and Europe as the Crossroads of Civilizations
Room 5 (Hybrid meeting in presence and online participation)
Moderator: Professor Dragos Marian RADULESCU PhD, DCCU

14:30  Professor Hab. Gabriela POHOATA, PhD – DCCU
Dimitrie Cantemir and G.W. Leibniz: Convergences of Thought in the United Europe Project

14:45  Associate Professor Agatador Mihaela POPESCU, PhD – DCCU,
Associate Professor Rodica Mariana TIRLEA, PhD – DCCU
Dimitrie Cantemir – Symbol of Contemporary Culture

15:00  Associate Professor Rodica Mariana TIRLEA, PhD – DCCU
The Cultural-Educational Art of Dimitrie Cantemir in the Current Context

15:15  Professor Ileana ORLICH, PhD – Arizona State University, USA, Global Futures Laboratory, DCCU

15:30  Coffee break

Plenary – Room 93
(Hybrid meeting in presence and online participation)

16:00  Questions and Discussion
Professor Corina DUMITRESCU, PhD – President of DCCU

17:00  End of the day

Sunday, October 26

(Hybrid meeting in presence and online participation)

10:00  Dr. Marja-Liisa Kristiina Tenhunen, PhD – Rector of DCCU

10:15  Dinos KOUBATIS – University of Valencia

10:30  Professor Constantin Barbu – European Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters, Paris, France

10:45  Professor Dragoș Marian RADULESCU, PhD – Vice-Rector of DCCU,
The History of the First Vlach-Bulgarian Empire

11:00  Professor Mihai BADESCU, PhD – Bucharest University of Economic Studies
Roman Law – the Cornerstone of Many Modern Legal Systems

11:15  Guillermo Eduardo PILIA – President at La Academia Hispanoamericana de Buenas Letras de Madrid, Spain
Angela GENTILE – writer, Argentina
Reynaldo LACAMARA – writer, Chile
Video presentations & messages

11:30  Associate Professor ⁠Alexandru STEFANESCU, PhD – DCCU
Time and Culture: what to Make of Lucian Blaga's Typologies

11:45  Professor Carmen BULZAN, PhD – Academia Universalis Poetarum, Academia Tomitana, Romania

12:00  Professor Corina DUMITRESCU, PhD – President of DCCU Concluding Remarks

13:00  End of the Congress