Vintila Mihailescu

Curriculum Vitae

Personal data

Born in Bucharest, the 23rd of Mai 1951
Rumanian nationality, rumanian citizenship
Married, two children
Adress: Str. Sf. Elefterie 22, 76211 Bucharest, Rumania; home tel. 40.1.642.36.78.
E-mail: bozo@pcnet.pcnet.ro

Academic data

1971 - 1974	University of Bucharest, Faculty of Psychology; bachelor of psychology.
1974 - 1978	Researcher at the National Institute of Gerontology
1979	Researcher at the Center for Anthropological Researches of the Rumanian Academy; head of the department of cultural anthropology
1991	Lecturer at the Faculty of Sociology, Psychology and Pedagogy, University of Bucharest Six month grant from the "Mission du Patrimoine Ethnologique de France" Founding director of the Social Observatory of the Bucharest University
1993	Ph. D. in psychology from the University of Bucharest
1995	Assitent professor at the depart. of sociology
1997	Head of the master program in anthropology at the Bucharest University Director of the "Bucharest Rural Observatory", PHARE Rural Development Project; Director of a World Bank/CNCSU project on community development.
1998	Editorialist at "Dilema" Chief editor of the "Yearbook of the Romanian Society of Cultural Anthropology" 2000 Full professor at the National School for Political and Administrative Sciences Head of the master program in anthropology at National School for Political and Administrative Sciences

Visiting professor at the universities of: Provance, Lyon II, Montpellier (France), Neuchâtel (Suisse), Humboldt (Germany), Pecs (Hungary), UQAM (Canada)

Fellow of: Rumanian Society of Cultural Anthropology (president); Société des Européanistes (secretary for eastern Europe); International Association of South-east European Anthropology (coordinator of the executive committee); Balkan Neighbors (director for Romania); International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences; European Association of Social Anthropologists; Rumanian Society of Cognitive Sciences.

Member of the scientific board of: Center for the Study of Balkan Society and Culture (Graz), Ethnobarometer (Rome/Amsterdam).

Member in the editorial board of: Annual Review of Cultural Anthropology (Rumania; editor), Revista de Cercetari Sociale (Bucuresti); Sinapse (Bucuresti); Revista de Stiinte Cognitive (Cluj); Europaea (Cagliari); Ethnologia Balkanica (Sofia).

Senior fellow, NEXUS program, Sofia.

Language knowledge

French, English, German

Fields of research

Community studies; ethnicity; cognitive anthropology

Main publications

Culture and Personality in Carbunesti Area, Gorj County (with I.Goian, C.Costea, I.Bansoiu), Rev. Roum. Sc. Soc., Serie Philosophie et Logique, tome 25, Nr. 1, 1982
The Politics of "Scapegoat" in Romania, in The Anthropology of Eastern Europe Review, vol. X, 2, 1991
Nationalité et nationalisme en Roumanie , in Terrain 3, 1991
Paysans de l'histoire , DAR, Bucarest, 1992 (with Ioana Popescu and Ioan Panzaru)
En/Quaite d'identité (Coordonateur), Civilisations, Vol. XLII, Nr. 2, 1993.
'Nos fréres d'au-delà': voisinages, passages et frontières en Roumanie, in Eric O Philippart (sous la direction de) Nations et frontières dans la nouvelle Europe, Editions Complexe, Bruxelles, 1993
Vintila Mihailescu iràsai , in Antropologiai Mühely, 3, 1993
ROMANIA - La construction d'une nation , Ethnologie Française, numéro spécial sous la direction de Jean Cuisenier et Vintila Mihailescu, 1995
Du village à la ville et retour. La maisnie mixte diffuse en Roumanie (with Viorica Nicolau), in Bulletin of the Ethnographical Institute, XLIV, Beograd, 1995
La transition entre hollisme et individualisme (with Viorica Nicolau), in Rev. Roum. des Sciences Sociales, 1995
An empiricist theory of tradition: H.H.Stahl, in Martor, 3, 1998
La table sans dessus-dessous. De l'hospitalité agonistique (Marianne Mesnil and Vintila Mihailescu), in La Revue du MAUSS semestrielle, no. 12, 1998
Le monde enchanté de la culture populaire, in Ethnologies, vol. 21, 2, 1999
Fascinatia diferentei (The Fascination of Difference), Paideia, Bucuresti, 1999
Socio-hai-hui; O alta sociologie a tranzitiei (Another sociology of transition), Paideia, Bucuresti, 2000

Main participations in international meetings

"The anthropology of politics in post-communist Europe", Zaborow, 30 sept-4 oct., 1990: The politics of scapegoat in Romania
Conference on Nationalism-nation State-Democracy in Hungary and in Rumania in the XXth century, Budapest, 9-11 february 1991: The opinion of groups in opposition about each other
Conférence "L'entreprise de Patrimoine en Europe", 10-11 avril 1992: L'identité comme média-discours
VIèmes Journées d'ethnologie éuropéenne comparée, Blagoevgrad, 23-25 août 1992: (Marianne Mesnil et V.M.) La table sans dessus dessous, ou la mé-prise de l'autre
Colloque éuropéen "Ethnologie et patrimoine en Europe", Tours, 8-11 décembre 1993: intervenant à la table ronde "Identité et patrimoine"
Colloque international "Nations et frontières dans la nouvelle architecture européenne", Bruxelles, 6-8 mai 1993: <Nos frères d'au-delà> - Voisinage, frontières et flux migratoires en Roumanie
3rd biannual EASA Conference, Oslo, 24-27 june 1994: Policy in the kitchen: Homogenisation and differentiation in communist and post-communist Romania
COTA Conference on "Theoretical anthropology and national ideologies", Balatonboglar, 29 sept.-2 oct. 1995: Nation-building ethnology in Romania
The challenges of theory symposium, Vienna, 22-24 nov. 1996: National ideology and social science: D. Gust and the holist approach of Romania Sociology
The 9th world congress of rural sociology, Bucharest, 22-26 july, 1996: (V.M. and Viorica Nicolau) Strategic types in rural post-communist society
Seminaire international "Territoires européens, diversité/différence, différenciation/intégration, Paris, 9 avril 1999: Penser la différence en Europe, le point de vue anthropologique
Journées d'étude interdisciplinaires "Les solidarités entre villes et campagnes dans l'Europe de sud-est", Berlin, 19-20 nov. 1999: La maisnie diffuse: une approche des réseaux ville-village en Roumanie
Rencontres internationales "Ruralité et urbanité en Europe Centrale et Orientale", Lyon, 26-27 nov. 1999: La maisnie diffuse: réseaux et économie rationnelle dans la campagne roumaine
Seminario di studi "La ricerca antropologica in Romania", Perugia, 9-10 marzo 2000: La tradition: quel objet pour quelle ethnologie ? Le cas roumain
XVIe Congrès international de l'AISLF, Québec, 3-7 juillet 2000: En marge de l'économie-monde: la "maisnie diffuse" et ses réseaux en Roumanie