Spring Wind Conference

A conference  entitled Spring Wind Conference (Tavaszi Szél Konferencia) has been organized by the National Association of PhD Students (Doktoranduszok Országos Szövetsége – DOSZ) in Debrecen, Hungary on the 21st and 23rd March 2014. The respective conference is the main platform for PhD students for presententing and promoting their researches and projects. Our colleague took also part to this meeting and held a presentation about the typology and epigraphic analysis of a ceramic plate with graffito.

Exhibition on the Subject of Identity and Culture – the Heritage of the Roman Limes

The exhibition “Identity and culture. Three topics, eleven projects. Thoughts on the heritage of the Roman limes” will be opened on Tuesday, 4^th of March, 5 pm, at the Museum of Ethnography and Folk Art from Târgu Mureș (Trandafirilor Square, no. 11). The opening will be accompanied by speeches given by Zoltán Soós, director of the Mureș County Museum, Zsolt Vasáros, vice dean, and Cicelle Gaul, lecturer, as well as Ferenc Szélyes, the president of the Barn Theatre Association, Călugăreni.

The exhibition is based on the results obtained by the students and teachers from the Department of Industrial and Agricultural Building Design of the University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, who participated at the summer school organized at Sovata, in the summer of 2013, in the frame of an international project (RLRC – Erasmus IP).

The students had the opportunity of presenting the results of their research at the Students’ Conference organized last year by the University of Budapest. According to the regulation, they had the possibility to propose projects on one of the following three topics:

1. The placement of a pavilion near the ruins of the Roman watchtower from Ibănești, which could represent, in the same time, a reference point in the landscape.

2. The development of an archaeological research centre together with multifunctional exhibition areas using the buildings already existing in Călugăreni.

3. The design of provisional pavilions used for presenting the Roman ruins discovered at Călugăreni.

27 students took part at the conference and they presented 11 projects, each of them coordinated by a teacher. The jury, composed of architects, archaeologists and experts on heritage protection, awarded 5 main prizes and 4 special ones.

The projects will be presented for the first time in Târgu Mureș, as part of the exhibition organized by the Roman Limes Research Centre from Mureș County Museum, which can be visited between the 4^th and 30^th of March 2014.

Roman Delights

Roman bites and wine tasting served with ancient literary delicacy translated into Hungarian.

The assertion that the universal European culture rests on the fundaments of the Roman culture can be considered already a cliché. However, the Middle Ages, the Humanism, the Baroque or the Enlightenment from the 19th century would have never been born without the cultural and spiritual heritage of the classical antiquity.

The event entitled „Roman Delights” organised by the Roman Limes Research Centre affiliated to the Mureș County Museum would like to evoke this connections, through the means of the culinary art.  Our event tries to recall the Roman dining habits and recepies as well as the atmosphere of the banquets by delicious food and wine tasting made after authentic Roman recipes. In order to spice up even more the atmosphere, the visitors will be able to read Roman literary extracts related to meals and banquets, and also to watch small films about the reconstructed places used for dining in the Roman times. 

Place: Târgu Mureș, Bolyai Klub, Mihail Kogălniceanu Street 18B.

Date: the 21^st of January 2014 at 7 pm.