The main objective of the program is to provide a multi-layered presentation of various images of South-Eastern Europe and Mediterranean lands, based on travel literature in different forms in order to incite the participants to understand intercultural issues within a historical, aesthetic and theoretical framework.
The course aims to privilege a broad learning process and thus include different historical periods, literary forms, gender issues and territories. The scope covers several centuries of writing, multiple areas of the Mediterranean lands (Corsica, Northern Africa, Egypt, Greece, Ottoman Empire...) and South-Eastern Europe, fictional and documentary sources, as well as male and female authors. In order to provide a link between the areas of content (and of geography), the program is closely tied together at the theoretical level: in all seminars, the question of the Other and the Otherness, seen through historical, cultural and generic perspectives, provides the main entrance to analytical work and deepened reflection.
The program will encourage critical thinking and the student’s initiative and responsibility for learning in offering a wide range of possible subjects to explore within its theoretical and thematic framework. This assures at the same time the coherence of the program and the active participation of the student. The students will see in what way their participation contributes to form the knowledge of the subject studied, open perspectives, strengthen their confidence and encourage their critical thinking.
The physical mobility part will take place between 16-20 March 2026 in Bucharest, Romania.
- Monday, 16 March
- Presentation of the program by the Bucharest team
- Sylvie Requemora: ”Le récit de captivité européen en Méditerranée au 17e siècle”
- Mathilde Mougin: ”Regards de voyageurs français sur les religions d'Orient au XVIIe siècle”
- Tuesday, 17 March
- visit to the French Institute of Bucharest
- Dragoş Jipa: ”Voyager sous surveillance. Professeurs français en Roumanie pendant la Guerre froide”
- Lucia Dragomir: ”Le voyage de Louis Aragon et Elsa Triolet dans les pays communistes (1946)”
- Wednesday, 18 March
- visit to Sinaia (visit to Peles castle); Hans Färnlöf: ”Chronotopies carpatiennes”
- visit to Bran (visit to Dracula castle).
- Thursday, 19 March
- Irini Apostolou: ”La perception de l’Autre: réalités et travestissements en Orient”
- students' oral presentations, discussions and intercultural exchanges
- Friday, 20 March
- Vanezia Pârlea: ”Isabelle Eberhardt: une nomade au Maghreb”
- students' oral presentations, discussions and intercultural exchanges.
The virtual module will take place between 4 February - 11 March 2026. The structure of the online programme is outlined below:
- 4 February - Introduction, presentation of the program by the Bucharest team; Vanezia Parlea: "Voyages et dialogues interculturels à l’âge classique: l’exemple du chevalier d’Arvieux"
- 11 February - Sylvie Requemora: "Les femmes orientales dans le théâtre français du 17e siècle: le cas de Roxane"; Mathilde Mougin: "Le sérail, entre réalité et fantasme dans les récits de voyage réels et fictionnels des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles"
- 18 February - Irini Apostolou: "À la découverte du patrimoine antique par les voyageurs français au 18e siècle"
- 25 February - Hans Färnlöf: "Chronotopies corses"
- 4 March - Dragoş Jipa: "Voyages d’intellectuels français et diplomatie culturelle dans l’Europe du Sud-Est pendant l’entre-deux-guerres"
- 11 March - Lucia Dragomir: "Les voyages des intellectuels français à l’Est à l’époque communiste (cadre général)"