Keynote Speakers
Books, Subjects, and Genres – Towards a New Typology of Cultural Systems
Andrei Terian is Professor of Romanian literature and Vice Rector for Research, Innovation, and Internationalization at Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Romania. His specialties are 19th-21st centuries Romanian literature, digital humanities, cultural heritage, comparative and world literature. He has published essays in international journals such as Textual Practice, Life Writing, Studies in the Novel, CLCWeb – Comparative Literature and Culture, Slovo, World Literature Studies, Interlitteraria, ALEA: Estudos Neolatinos. His latest books include the coedited volumes Engaging Communities in Cultural Heritage (Routledge, 2025) Theory in the “Post” Era: A Vocabulary for the 21st-Century Conceptual Commons (Bloomsbury, 2021; AATSEEL Prize for Best Edited Multi-Author Scholarly Volume). He is the PI of the ERC Consolidator Grant “A Transnational History of Romanian Literature” (2021–2027).
Between openness and trust: navigating Open Access practices
The expansion of Open Access has reshaped scholarly communication, particularly in smaller research systems where Open Science practices are still consolidating. Open Access implementation in the Republic of Moldova is examined with reference to open access journals, institutional repositories, and the National Bibliometric Instrument (IBN). Libraries and librarians play an increasingly important role in supporting researchers, promoting responsible publishing practices, and fostering trust in scholarly communication. At the same time, questionable and predatory publishing practices have gained visibility alongside the growth of Open Access, especially in contexts marked by limited awareness and institutional guidance. Findings from a recent national survey provide insight into researcher perceptions, awareness gaps, and expectations regarding institutional support in an evolving Open Access environment.
Nelly Țurcan is professor at the Faculty of Journalism and Communication Sciences at Moldova State University, with over 40 years’ experience in librarianship, information science and scholarly communication. She coordinated various national and international projects focusing mainly on information infrastructure, open science, and research evaluation. She is also senior scientific researcher at the Information Society Development Institute, focusing on topics such as open access, scientometrics, bibliometrics, and scientific communication. A significant part of her work is dedicated to promoting a culture of quality in research and education.
She participated in international training programmes in countries such as Romania, Poland, Sweden, Italy, Spain and the United States. These experiences have broadened her understanding of the global role of knowledge and enabled her to contribute to the development of educational and informational policies in Moldova.
Nelly is actively involved in developing occupational and competency standards for library and information science professionals. She also supports young researchers as a PhD supervisor and serves on various scientific, editorial and evaluation committees.
Outside of teaching and project work, she keeps up to date with the latest developments in Open Science and actively participates in initiatives that promote transparency and open access to research results.
Two Artist Archives and their Context
A journey through 40 years of an artistic career.
Fighting, adapting, and changing the context. From Dictatorship to Democracy. From Censorship to Freedom of Expression.
Research, Collect, Accumulate, Organize, Distribute. The Archive as an Artistic Medium. The “Museum” as a Work in Progress.
Lia Perjovschi’s CAA/AAC (Archive of Contemporary Art/Center for Art Analysis) and Knowledge Museum.
Dan Perjovschi’s Drawing Archive
Dan and Lia Perjovschi have shown their artistic works in hundreds of exhibitions and festivals in Romania and internationally. On some occasions, they have had the chance to exhibit together in public institutions such as MOca Skopje, Total Museum Seoul, Rupert Vilnius, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Tranzit.ro Cluj, Espaivizor Valencia, IFA Berlin & Stuttgart, galleries such as Christine Koenig Wien, Michel Rein Paris, Kula Split, and at Sao Paolo Biennial 2010 and Sydney Biennial 2008
They had a comprehensive retrospective exhibition at Nasher Museum at Duke University in 2007.
For over thirty years, Dan Perjovschi has been commenting on what is happening around us through drawings. He developed his own unmistakable reduced visual language that condenses intricate topics without taking away the complexity of reality. As an artist and journalist, Dan Perjovschi’s art practice developed as a kind of “visual journalism”. Since the early 1990s, he has been working at the independent weekly Revista 22. His drawings have been shown globally in contemporary art museums and biennials as well as in public space and on social media. For over 15 years, he has been working on the “Horizontal Newspaper”, a 30-metre-long public wall in Sibiu.
Lia Perjovschi is the founder and coordinator of CAA CAA (Contemporary Art Archive and Centre for Art Analysis), an organic work-in-progress project (with various names since 1985) and KM (Knowledge Museum), an interdisciplinary research project (since 1999). Her activities can be summarized as a journey from her physical body to the universal body of knowledge, and has been presented in more than 700 exhibitions, lectures, and workshops around the world. While her artistic practice comprises various media, Lia Perjovschi has also been concerned with producing opportunities for intellectual exchange.