{"id":13469,"date":"2024-05-21T15:20:50","date_gmt":"2024-05-21T13:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unatc.ro\/devunatc\/doctor-honoris-causa-unatc-dr-john-elsom\/"},"modified":"2024-05-21T15:20:50","modified_gmt":"2024-05-21T13:20:50","slug":"doctor-honoris-causa-unatc-dr-john-elsom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unatc.ro\/devunatc\/doctor-honoris-causa-unatc-dr-john-elsom\/","title":{"rendered":"DOCTOR HONORIS CAUSA UNATC: dr. John Elsom","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/unatc.ro\/devunatc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-05-21-at-08.00.28-1024x682-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/unatc.ro\/devunatc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-05-21-at-08.00.28-1024x682-1.jpeg 1024w, http:\/\/www.teatrolog.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-05-21-at-08.00.28-300x200.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/www.teatrolog.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-05-21-at-08.00.28-768x512.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/www.teatrolog.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-05-21-at-08.00.28-1536x1023.jpeg 1536w, http:\/\/www.teatrolog.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-05-21-at-08.00.28-850x566.jpeg 850w, http:\/\/www.teatrolog.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-05-21-at-08.00.28.jpeg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Pe data de 19 mai 2024, \u00een cadrul Festivalului Interna\u021bional Shakespeare Craiova, a avut loc ceremonia de acordare a titlului de <strong><em>DOCTOR HONORIS CAUSA<\/em><\/strong> din partea Universit\u0103\u021bii Na\u021bionale de Art\u0103 Teatral\u0103 \u0219i Cinematografic\u0103 \u201eI. L. Caragiale\u201d Bucure\u0219ti c\u0103tre <strong>Dr. John Elsom<\/strong>, critic \u0219i teoretician de teatru, dramaturg, autor \u0219i jurnalist britanic.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>Laudatio<\/em> a fost scris \u0219i citit de conf. univ. dr. Anca Ioni\u021b\u0103, \u0219efa Departamentului de Studii Teatrale, din cadrul Facult\u0103\u021bii de Teatru, UNATC.<\/p>\n<p>La ceremonie au participat rectorul UNATC, Liviu Lucaci, membrii Senatului UNATC (pre\u0219edintele prof.univ.dr. Doru Ni\u021bescu \u0219i membrii: prof.univ.dr. Bogdana-Adina Cre\u021bu, prof.univ.dr. Liviu Lucaci, prof.univ.dr. Mihaela S\u00eerbu, prof.univ.dr. Alexandru Sterian, conf.univ.dr. Radu Mircea Apostol, conf.univ.dr. Mihaela Be\u021biu, conf.univ.dr. Anca Bradu, conf.univ.dr. \u0218tefan Caragiu, conf.univ.dr. Andrei Gorzo, conf.univ.dr. Anca Ioni\u021b\u0103, lect.univ.dr. Andrei Rus, conf.univ.dr. Daniel Stanciu, lect.univ.dr. Romina Bolda\u0219u, lect.univ.dr. Vlad Ioachimescu, lect.univ.dr. Bogdan Musta\u021b\u0103, lect.univ.dr. Gabriela Suciu-P\u0103dure\u021bu), invita\u021bi interna\u021bionali \u0219i studen\u021bi ai universit\u0103\u021bii.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>LAUDATIO\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">On The Occasion of Bestowing the Title of Doctor Honoris Causa of National University of Theatre and Film \u201eIon Luca Caragiale\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">To\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Dr. John Elsom<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Distinguished members of the Senate,\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Rector<\/p>\n<p>Distinguished guests, dear students, and friends,<br \/>Ladies and Gentlemen,\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Today we are celebrating a Renaissance Man of our times. Academic, scholar, author, playwright, theatre critic, journalist, manager and politician of arts, dr. John Elsom is more and foremost a conscious in action, activating at a world scale the power of theatre and culture.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I have the privilege and the extraordinarily difficult task to convey in a few words the overwhelming life achievements of a thinker <strong>and<\/strong> practician of arts and culture, \u201c\u2026the voice of sanity in a deluded world.\u201d, as John Pick, Emeritus Professor at Gresham College in London describes him.<\/p>\n<p>Born in 1934 in Essex, England, he won a State Scholarship and an Exhibition in History to Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he studied\u00a0<em>English Literature<\/em>. The intellectual influences he acknowledges are C.S. Lewis \u2013 professor of English Literature and one of the intellectual giants of the 20<sup>th<\/sup> century and F.R. Leavis \u2013 influential literary theoretician, constant critic of destructive influence of mass culture, and commercial values on authentic culture.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After leaving university, he became a writer, working as a free-lance journalist, an author, and a playwright. During the 1960s was the regular theatre critic for <em>London Magazine<\/em>, London\u2019s leading cultural magazine, founded in 1732. He joined <em>The Observer <\/em>and then the BBC\u2019s <em>The Listener<\/em> as a theatre critic, contributing and presenting arts programmes for the BBC and LBC in London. He was an arts editor for the US magazine, <em>The World and I<\/em>, and a theatre correspondent, script reader and talent scout for Paramount Pictures.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>His extensive journalistic work has been a constant of his over 60-year career in the service of arts and culture. Besides journalism, John Elsom\u2019s work includes many books, an opera libretto, plays. \u201cWhen my love says she is made of truth, I do believe her, although I know she lies\u2026\u201d, Quoting one of Shakespeare\u2019s sonnets, John Elsom praises his poetry for being direct and simple. A quality which we can find in all of his writings.<\/p>\n<p>Constantly present and involved in the development of theatre and performing arts, he wrote about the past and predicted the future.\u00a0 Among his most important book titles we mention:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The History of the National Theatre (with Nicholas Tomalin) (Cape, 1978)\u00a0<em>\u201cprovocative, sincere and even idealistic\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Sunday Telegraph<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li>Post-War British Theatre (Routledge, 1976, 1980)\u00a0<em>\u201cProbably the best book available on this intricate and intriguing subject\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Sunday Times<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ol start=\"3\">\n<li>Post-war British Theatre Criticism (Routledge, Ed. 1981)\u00a0<em>\u201can obsessively interesting book\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Antonia Fraser, PEN, Spring, 1981<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ol start=\"4\">\n<li>Cold War Theater (Routledge, 1992)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ol start=\"5\">\n<li>And last, but not least Missing the Point. The Rise of High Modernity and the Decline of Everything Else (Lutterworth, 2007)\u00a0<em>\u201cA stimulating, challenging book that no one with the slightest interest in politics, arts or the media can afford to miss\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Anthony Howard<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>In 1991 he received a PhD in Arts Policy and Management from City University, in London. He was one of the first to bring to the governments\u2019 attention the economic and business potential of creative industries. An international authority on arts policy and cultural management, founder, and director of <em>Arts Interlink<\/em>, the international arts management consultancy, John Elsom won in 2008 the Award of International Outstanding Contribution to the Creative Industry of China during the 3rd China Creative Industry Awards ceremony in Beijing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A man of ideas and leadership, founder of cultural organisations, companies, NGOs in the arts, John Elsom is an emulator and a pioneer, connecting people under the unifying banner of theatre and culture organisations. For him, theatre and Shakespeare, in particular, is the magic and powerful human invention which can transgress all borders \u2013 geographical, cultural, political, and intellectual. He is the first to have written and presented an arts programme from the former Soviet Union in 1984\/5, at the start of glasnost and perestroika.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>His visionary work as the President of the International Theatre Critics Association between 1985 \u2013 1992 lifted the Iron Curtain and brought together a politically divided Europe, under the unifying banner of theatre. A cultural ambassador of the Eastern European theatre, he chaired in this capacity more than 50 international conferences, bringing together critics, scholars, journalists, actors, playwrights, directors from West and East.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In October 1986, in his capacity of President of International Association of Theatre Critics organised a\u00a0public conference at London\u2019s Young Vic Theatre on the theme \u201cIs Shakespeare\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Still Our Contemporary?\u201d, to mark the 25 years anniversary of the publication of Jan Kott\u2019s influential and controversial book. \u201cOne purpose of this meeting was to consider how far words like \u2018universal\u2019 or \u2018contemporary\u2019 can be sensibly applied to Shakespeare\u2019s plays, using ourselves as test cases. It was as much about our perceptions of Shakespeare as about <strong>the canon of the man himself<\/strong>; and we did not seek to be theoretical in our approach.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The eight international debates were edited and gathered by Elsom in a volume titled <em>Is Shakespeare Still Our Contemporary? <\/em>and published three years later, in the revolutionary year of 1989. It could have never been timelier than that! Elsom envisaged a fundamental change no politician could have predicted with such accuracy! The book, translated also in Romanian in 1994 by Dan Du\u021bescu, is today one of the most well-known titles across the world, which \u201cevery library should possess a copy\u201d, as stated in one of its reviews.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the introduction of the volume, the editor John Elsom writes: \u201cIf it could somehow be proved that one man\u2019s plays really had overcome the barriers of language, race, creed and custom, as well as time, if it could be demonstrated that the proclaimed \u2018universality\u2019 of Shakespeare was something more than a poetic licence on the part of the enthusiasts, then we might not have added much to the libraries of Shakespearian criticism, but we would have gained a valuable insight into the <strong>cultural software<\/strong> that drives our computers.\u201d What a powerful image! Indeed, for John Elsom arts and culture are not products of human activity, but the very essence \/ quintessence of humankind.<\/p>\n<p>John Elsom has a long and constant connection to Romania. He was the guest of honour of the fourth edition of Shakespeare International Theatre Festival \u2013 Craiova 2003 and a constant and active presence of the festival, since. In the same year, he was decorated by the Romanian President, Ion Iliescu, for his services to culture during the Cold War. Some of his plays were also staged in Romania such as <em>The Well-Intentioned Builder<\/em> (1968, Cockpit, revived in 2004 for National Theatre of Craiova): \u201cIt\u2019s hard to imagine how a text written in 1968 could be so present in 2004\u2026 firm and complex in its simplicity.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>One of John Elsom\u2019s major achievements is to have raised <strong>culture<\/strong> at the level of state affairs, showing governments how important it is to have a cultural strategy, next to a social and economic one. In 1978 \u2013 as chair of Arts and Brodcasting Committe (1977-1988) of UK\u2019s third party, the Nation Liberal, he first proposed a British ministry of culture. His 1992 book <em>Notes and Queries Cold War Theatre<\/em> (published at Routledge)\u00a0is described by Jana Smatlokova<em> <\/em>in Kultirny Zivot<em> <\/em>magazine as \u201can exciting and illuminating reading, striking at the very heart of the existence of culture and the theatre\u201d.<strong><br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a recent article published in 2021 in the IATC journal <em>Critical Stages, <\/em>he addresses many issues of the politics of culture in the post 2020 world metaphorically described by its title: \u201cThe Night Before Christmas\u201d. Among them, the visionary idea of culture as a natural resource: \u201cWe should think of culture, as we do the environment, more as a natural resource, than in terms of products, trades and institutions.\u201d A world crusader of theatre, arts and culture, no aspect of their powerful impact on individual and societal life of the polis remains unchartered by him.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the same article he addresses, what seems to me one of the most important debates of this moment \u2013 political correctness and the fundamental confusion produced by it on the very meaning of the word Culture:\u00a0 \u201cWhat is meant by \u2018culture.\u2019 In the U.K., the word can be applied narrowly to \u201cthe arts\u201d or broadly in such phrases as \u201cstreet\u201d or \u201cChinese\u201d culture. These extremes have their political dimensions. Right-wingers usually apply the word \u201cculture\u201d to the \u201chigh arts,\u201d as opposed to \u201centertainment.\u201d Opera is \u201cculture\u201d: rock\u2019n\u2019roll is not. Left-wingers are inclined to embrace \u201chigh\u201d and \u201clow\u201d cultures but can be pernickety when it comes to social content. Can \u201cracist\u201d literature be considered \u201ccultural\u201d? Culture must be defined in a different way. It is not <strong>just a leisure activity<\/strong>, but the way in which we are learning how to think. \u2026 It is in our powers to share and communicate and open out the prospect of a <strong>true cultural revolution<\/strong>, more open, global, and democratic than in the past.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For his outstanding endeavours in promoting theatre and cultural values all across the world, for the remarkable accomplishments of a life dedicated to making culture a state policy and government priority, for his undaunted engagement in the service of truth, reason and freedom of thought, the Senate of National University of Theatre and Film \u201cIon Luca Caragiale\u201d\u00a0 bestows the title DOCTOR HONORIS CAUSA to Dr. John Elsom, a citizen of world and our contemporary.<\/p>\n<p>Conf. univ. dr. Anca Ioni\u021b\u0103<\/p>\n<p>May 19<sup>th<\/sup>, 2024<\/p>\n<p>Craiova\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/unatc.ro\/devunatc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-05-21-at-08.00.52-1024x682-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/unatc.ro\/devunatc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-05-21-at-08.00.52-1024x682-1.jpeg 1024w, http:\/\/www.teatrolog.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-05-21-at-08.00.52-300x200.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/www.teatrolog.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-05-21-at-08.00.52-768x512.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/www.teatrolog.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-05-21-at-08.00.52-1536x1023.jpeg 1536w, http:\/\/www.teatrolog.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-05-21-at-08.00.52-850x566.jpeg 850w, http:\/\/www.teatrolog.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-05-21-at-08.00.52.jpeg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/unatc.ro\/devunatc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-05-21-at-08.01.39-1024x682-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/unatc.ro\/devunatc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-05-21-at-08.01.39-1024x682-1.jpeg 1024w, http:\/\/www.teatrolog.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-05-21-at-08.01.39-300x200.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/www.teatrolog.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-05-21-at-08.01.39-768x512.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/www.teatrolog.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-05-21-at-08.01.39-1536x1023.jpeg 1536w, http:\/\/www.teatrolog.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-05-21-at-08.01.39-850x566.jpeg 850w, http:\/\/www.teatrolog.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-05-21-at-08.01.39.jpeg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/unatc.ro\/devunatc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-05-21-at-08.01.57-1024x682-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/unatc.ro\/devunatc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-05-21-at-08.01.57-1024x682-1.jpeg 1024w, http:\/\/www.teatrolog.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-05-21-at-08.01.57-300x200.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/www.teatrolog.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-05-21-at-08.01.57-768x512.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/www.teatrolog.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-05-21-at-08.01.57-1536x1023.jpeg 1536w, http:\/\/www.teatrolog.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-05-21-at-08.01.57-850x566.jpeg 850w, http:\/\/www.teatrolog.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-05-21-at-08.01.57.jpeg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"no-padding\">Pe data de 19 mai 2024, \u00een cadrul Festivalului Interna\u021bional Shakespeare Craiova, a avut loc ceremonia de acordare a titlului&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"author":167,"featured_media":13470,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[265],"tags":[],"erasmus_universities_programs":[],"class_list":["post-13469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fringe-unatc"],"acf":{"alternative_page_title":"","page_contact_email":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>DOCTOR HONORIS CAUSA UNATC: dr. 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