16:00–18:00 Registration – Room 93
18:00–20:00 Welcome cocktail – Cantemir Club
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
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
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
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
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