Throughout the years, travel books have recorded memorable encounters between Romania and the UK. We conjure up 100 years of cross-border revelations and celebrate this great patrimony of ideas, images and perceptions through a panel talk, crowned by an exhibition of rare books. The conversation is chaired by Dr. Tim Youngs, the world renowned authority in travel literature, and brings together Romanian and international specialists and travelogue authors: Oana Cogeanu, Alex Drace Francis, Nick Hunt, Mihaela Irimia, Alan Ogden and Bronwen Riley. Organised in partnership with the reputed Centre for Travel Writing Studies at Nottingham Trent University.
The “Romania in English” exhibition, curated and presented by Lia Chisacof, is based on the private collection of old books and periodicals of Lia and Mircea Chisacof and will be opened in the Brancusi Gallery. The list of exhibits will include publications such as: Sidney Whitman’s ‘Reminiscences of the King of Roumania’ (1899), James Samuelson’s ‘Romania: Past and Present’ (1882), Grenville Murray’s ‘The national songs and legends of Roumania’ (1859) and Michael Quin’s ‘Steam Voyage down the Danube’ (1835).
