Dan Eugen Ratiu

The project addresses the process of social construction of European identity in Transylvania during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The analysis focuses on identity forms related to civility, refinement and sociability, which are embodied in corporal habits and cultural practices as fashion and manners. In order to recollect a forgotten dimension of civil memory, Dan Eugen Raiu examines written sources, such as philosophical, documentary or literary, as well as artistic representations (portraits, genre scenes), as forms of expressing identity and otherness.