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Location: MANSARDA GALLERY – The Faculty of Fine Arts
- Timisoara, 4 Oituz Street , the attic

European Neighborhood
"Homo Europaeus and the concept of multiple identity"
Professor, PhD. Victor Neumann , historian, Western University Timiasoara
The role of institutions, personalities and writings that have contributed to the contacts between the East and West of the continent in the transition period between the Medieval and the Modern Age; the dynamics of people and idea movements in both ways throughout Europe; the typology of transmitter – receiver relationships, but also the old intentions and intellectual and pedagogical successes of European integration of the central and south-eastern regions of Europe.

Contemporary Neighborhood
"An Eldorado of confined places: Banat"
Professor, PhD. Adriana Babeti, The Philology, History and Theology Faculty of the Western University , Timisoara
A result of a research (both individual and within a group), An Eldorado of confined places: Banat , describes and analyses the case of a historical region from the perspective of the transition from multi to inter – culturality during a period of 300 years. As a case study, it uses an interdisciplinary approach (history, anthropology, the history of culture, socio-psychology, etc.). The subject of our intervention is centered on border vicinities (the confined places) and it reveals the evolution of the relationships between the many ethnic (over 20), religious, linguistic and cultural communities from the contemporary DKMT region.

Location: MANSARDA GALLERY – The Faculty of Fine Arts
- Timisoara, 4 Oituz Street , the attic

Neighborhood – A Different Type Of Space
TYPES OF VICINITIES: A CHAPTER OF URBAN MEMORY
Smaranda Vultur, PhD, Faculty of Philology, History and Theology, Western University, Timisoara
After reviewing types of good and bad vicinity taken from the interviews of oral history and from the archives of the Third Europe Foundation, whose creation and coordination involved myself as well, I will try to analyse the way in which conflicting memories territorialise themselves in one of the symbolic places for the inhabitants of Timisoara: the Opera Plaza, today known as Victoriei Plaza. I will review the events, the memorial speeches, monuments, buildings, through which relationships between the past and the present are disputed, a public space and a collective memory is disputed, meaninigs and consensus is proposed. Vicinities are thus built, more or less compatible, the hybrid being today the shape in which they become expressive and reveal a search for identity, without a definite outcome, but placing into action the relationship between local and global, and between the competing memories.

Contemporary Neighborhood
"Beautiful our neighbor … "
Robert Serban, writer, journalist, editorial director if “Brumar” publishing house, Timisoara
From the well known Romanian folkloric song: Beautiful our neighbor, shows her head at the window…, to one of the principles of liberalism – the freedom of someone ends where it disturbs that one another – the story of vicinity cannot be framed not even between open brackets.

Revitalising the Neibghborhood
"POWER AND ARCHITECTURE. TWO VICINITY CASE STUDIES"
Calin Dan, visual artist, media theorist, curator, Bucharest / Amsterdam
A chapter from the long-term research on emotional architecture. On good and bad urban neighborhood. Case studies on the House of the People, Bucharest (architect N. Ceausescu/A. Petrescu) and LinnaHall, Tallinn (architect Raine Karp).