ACTIVITY
REPORT ON THE GRANT
Sexuality and Political-religious
discourse in Romanian Pre-Modern Society
Project
PN-II-ID-PCE-2012-4-0079
The first phase of the project,
covering a period of four months, was devoted mainly to organizational issues,
with a purpose to the best possible conduct of the research process during
future stages. The first goal was the establishment of the Action Plan for the
purposes of research. This objective was carried out by delineating
responsibilities among team members depending of competence, each of the
members reserving him a clear role, contribution to the joint effort will be
reported strictly according to this factor. Team members agreed that
involvement in the project take place gradually as needed. Also falling under
this objective and setting preliminary stages and objectives and establish the
strategy work.
An
important goal for this phase was the research plan development in many ways
(themes) complementary. Team members considered it was necessary to structure
the sources and bibliography for each theme, according to the research plan.
This became clear from the discussions in the round table Gender and Sexuality in Modern Society Pre-Romanian: Sources and
Methods of Approach.
Another important objective was the
coverage of the project has been achieved mainly by organizing and attending a
workshop discussion of the Reflection Group on Political and Social History of
the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, held in Iasi, from 8 -9 November 2013,
an event that had far-reaching international conference profile, in which it
was intended public presentation of preliminary objectives. In this respect,
communication presented by the principal investigator, Constanta
Vintilă-Ghiţulescu, Pe urmele celetnicei Chiriachii: despre moravuri în
societatea românească a secolului al XVIII-lea and the other members of the
project interventions have attracted the attention of other participants, who appreciated
the great interest posed this area of research. Also for the purpose of
covering the project and the partial release of the results are the production
http://sexualitypremodernromanian.blogspot.ro/ project web page.
An important event was the publishing
of book Evgheniți, ciocoi mojici. Despre
obrazele primei modernități românești, 1750-1862, signed by Constance
Vintilă-Ghiţulescu and Publishers Humanitas, work that has received particular
attention from the local cultural environment.
Based on the results obtained in this
short stage, the team expects further research grant individual and collective
design of new projects. At the same time, we plan participation in national and
international scientific meetings in which to present the current state of
documentation and research on the topic, whose cultural impact to contribute
primarily to increase the visibility of Romanian historical research
internationally.
