✴︎ Schedule Participation Effect 27-29 October
Participation Effect. Perspectives on Theatre and Film in Education is an International Conference hosted by National University of Theatre and Film
“I.L. Caragiale” Bucharest, Romania.
Supported by IDEA
International Drama/Theatre in Education Association
Day 1 (27 October 2025)
Conference Schedule
09:00-09:45
REGISTRATION
Participants are welcomed and invited to complete their conference check-in. During this time, attendees will receive their name badges and conference materials.
OPENING SESSION
Berlogea Hall
10:00-10:45
Liviu LUCACI
Rector of UNATC „I.L. Caragiale”
Daniel DAVID
Minister of Education and Research
Bogdan CRISTESCU
Head of the Curriculum, Exams, and National Assessments Department, National Center for Curriculum and Assessment
11:00-11:30
Ligia DECA
Secretary-General of the Romanian National Commission for UNESCO
The Role of Theater Education in Promoting Inclusive Education: Insights from the UNESCO CAE Framework
11:30-12:00
Sanja KRSMANOVIĆ TASIĆ
Associate Project Officer
IDEA President
The Transformative Power of Drama and Theatre Education
12:00-12:30
COFFEE BREAK
Room 104B
12:30-13:45
Keynote 1
dr. Adam CZIBOLY, professor Northwestern University
Rolling the DICE: Drama’s impact on learning and citizenship
Moderator: Robin PASCOE
Berlogea Hall
14:00-15:30
Lunch
Room 104B
15:30-16:00
dr. Bogdana DARIE
Professor, Dean of the Theatre Faculty in UNATC
dr. Andreea-Diana JICMAN
Assistant Professor, Head of CPPD UNATC
Joint presentation
Theatre Education in Romania: a brief overview of the steps taken by UNATC over the last 10 years
16:00-16:30
Rarița ZBRANCA
Program Director at the Cluj Cultural Centre, Cluj
Arts Engagement as Health Behaviour: Shifting Paradigms, Transforming Policy
Virtual presentation
PANELS
27 October 2025
16:40-18:30
Berlogea Hall – Panel 1
Moderator: Marina HANGANU
Day 1
Panel 1
Yang JIAO & Zhongyang ZHANG (online)
Embodied Aesthetics: Integrating Participatory Drama into Aesthetic Education in Chinese Higher Education
Panel 1
Ioana BARBU
Using Shakespearian scenes in sustaining creative thinking development during the rise of AI
Panel 1
Laura POP
Memory in Motion: Cultivating Creativity through Experimental Animation and Self-Empathy
Panel 1
Ana Maria COMĂNESCU
Looking Through the Director’s Eye: Film Practice as a Framework for Visual Education, Collaboration and Genuine Human Connection
16:40-18:30
Room 304A – Panel 2
Moderator: Vlad GALER
Day 1
Panel 2
David SCHWARTZ
“The Yellow Slave” – Financial Education through William Shakespeare’s Timon of Athens
Panel 2
Cristina Liana OLTEANU
Reconstitution of History: The Proclamation in Padeș, 23 January 1821, taught Through Role-Play
Panel 2
Veronika KORINKOVA
Drama Education Methodology through Classic Literature
Panel 2
Mirona Horiana STANESCU
Stories That Travel: Drama and Storytelling for Global Citizenship in Early Primary Classrooms
16:40-18:30
Room 205B – Panel 3
Moderator: Andreea JICMAN
Day 1
Panel 3
Iulia VOICU
Cinema Applied in Education, a Model of Practice: Growing Virtues through Creative Writing, Character Development and Sensorial Language
Panel 3
Crenguța BIZU
Alchemical education – landmarks for holistic development through art and beyond
Panel 3
Mihaela BEȚIU
Theatre as an Alternative Pedagogy. Learning through Theatre Techniques
Panel 3
Diana PĂCURAR
Theatrical Semiotic Concepts Involved in Developing Critical Thinking, a Fundamental Educational Competence
18:30-19:00
COFFEE BREAK
Room 104B
PERFORMANCE
19:00 – 20:30
“Lord of the flies”
performed by Theatre Pedagogy MA students,
Directed by Jum RUBIN, Assistant director: Cristiana CLUCENCU
Atelier Hall
Keynote – 60′ presentation + 15′ Q&A
Paper presentation – 20′ presentation + 5′ Q&A
Performances – 30′ to 1h 30′ showcases
Day 2 (28 October 2025)
Conference Schedule
09:00-09:45
REGISTRATION
Participants are welcomed and invited to complete their conference check-in. During this time, attendees will receive their name badges and conference materials.
10:00-10:10
Warm up session
Berlogea Hall
PANELS
28 October 2025
10:15-12:00
Berlogea Hall – Panel 4
Moderator: Andreea JICMAN
Day 2
Panel 4
Lorelei Anamaria SCHIAU
The SAFARI Model in (Pre-service) Teacher Training: Supporting Personal, Social, and Aesthetic Development through Theatre
Panel 4
Magda VITSOU & Paschalis DIMOU (online)
From Volos to Astoria: Documentary Theatre in Teacher Education for Exploring Migration, Memory, and Nostalgia
Panel 4
Yang JIAO (online)
Fracture and Connection: A Drama in Education Approach to Migration Trauma from the Perspective of Embodied Cognition
Panel 4
Yolanda CREȚESCU (online)
Performative art as a multiaxial intervention in intellectual disability: Integrating Sensory Processing, Neuroplasticity, and Inclusion
10:15-12:00
Room 304A – Panel 5
Moderator: Bogdana DARIE
Day 2
Panel 5
Magda JIANU
The hospital school – the place where theatrical games are used effectively in the teaching process
Panel 5
Mirona RADU
Mindful Cinema for Emotional Resilience: Artistic Interventions for Pediatric Oncology Patients
Panel 5
Maria BUCURENCIU
Serious games in special needs education: a bridge between theatre, film and interactive media
Panel 5
Alexandra SOFONEA & Alexandru BERCEANU
T-NET: A Drama-Based Narrative Exposure Intervention for Adolescents Involved in Bullying Dynamics
10:15-12:00
Room 205B – Panel 6
Moderator: Mihaela MICHAILOV
Day 2
Panel 6
Alexandru BOUREANU
The Artist as a Public Figure: A Call for Policy and Advocacy
Panel 6
Petru Mihai TOMA
Education through and for Culture: Using Theatre and Film to Enhance Social Awareness where the State is Reluctant
Panel 6
Lina MALCOCI & Doina CUȚULAB
Forum Theatre – a tool to change reality
Panel 6
Radu APOSTOL & Mihaela MIHAILOV
A Theatre of Belonging. Sign Language and Self-Representation
WORKSHOPS
28 October 2025
10:15-12:00
Room 306A – Workshop 1
Day 2
Malin Katherine VIK
Art of Learning – What happens when we learn through the arts? – applying a new language to well-known drama and theatre activities
10:15-12:00
Room 204B – Workshop 2
Day 2
Andrei TACHE-CODREANU
Through the Lens of the Self: Exploring Therapeutic Film-making as a Reflective Practice for Adolescents
10:15-12:00
Room Platou Sava – Workshop 3
Day 2
Simona STOICESCU & Laura CREȚ
Psychodrama Theatre Lab – Families on Paper
12:00-12:30
COFFEE BREAK
Room 104B
12:30-14:20
Room 306A – Workshop 4
Day 2
Annemari UNTAMALA
The Lion Inside – A physical workshop on learning theatre
12:30-14:20
Room 204B – Workshop 5
Day 2
Lina MALCOCI & Doina CUȚULAB
Forum Theatre and the power of TOGETHER
12:30-14:20
Room Platou Sava – Invited Workshop
Day 2
Jum RUBIN
Classroom management
14:30-15:45
Lunch
Room 104B
PERFORMANCE
16:00 – 17:00
“7 minutes”
performed by Theatre Pedagogy MA graduates and students,
directed by Ioana Rufu
Atelier Hall
17:15-18:30
Keynote 2
Thalia GOLDSTEIN, Ph.D. Associate Professor and Director Applied Developmental Psychology, George Mason University
Thinking on Stage: The Science of Acting
Virtual presentation
Moderator: Thomas CIOCȘIRESCU
Berlogea Hall
18:30-19:00
COFFEE BREAK
Room 104B
PERFORMANCE
19:00 – 20:30
“Dead poets society”
performed by Trupa AS, theatre group from „Gh. Lazar” Highschool, Bucharest, coordinated by Andrei GHEORGHE
Atelier Hall
Day 3 (29 October 2025)
Conference Schedule
09:00-09:45
REGISTRATION
Participants are welcomed and invited to complete their conference check-in. During this time, attendees will receive their name badges and conference materials.
10:00-10:10
Warm up session
Berlogea Hall
10:15-11:30
Keynote 3
Shoshi KEISARI, Associate Professor and Director of the Drama Therapy and Psychodrama Graduate Program at the University of Haifa
Playful minds: Psychological, cognitive, and physiological processes of improvisational theatre across adulthood and later life
Moderator: Bogdana DARIE
Berlogea Hall
11:30-12:00
COFFEE BREAK
Room 104B
PANELS
29 October 2025
12:00-13:50
Berlogea Hall – Panel 7
Moderator: Sabina BALAN
Day 3
Panel 7
Iulia GHERGHESCU
Acting Out Futures: Amateur Theatre and the Making of Cultural Citizens
Panel 7
Maria DRĂGHICI
Living Lab: Posmuș (Sat Viu — The Living Village)
Panel 7
Andreea LĂCĂTUȘ (online)
Learning through teaching: cinema language as a tool for change
Panel 7
Yuyang ZHANG (online)
The Stage as a Pedagogical Space: Fostering Undergraduate Agency and Community through Participatory Theatre
12:00-13:50
Room 304A – Panel 8
Moderator: Mihaela BEȚIU
Day 3
Panel 8
Túlio FERNANDES SILVEIRA
The School in Theater in School: philosophical and artistic investigations with children and young people in Brazilian public schools
Panel 8
Kateřina ŽARNIKOV
From Framework to Reality: Differences and Potential of Drama Education in Czech Schools
Panel 8
Thomas CIOCȘIRESCU
The impact of theatrical techniques in educational context: scientific research challenges
Panel 8
Doru NIȚESCU
One to one approach in teaching film
12:00-13:50
Room 304B – Panel 9
Moderator: Ioana Barbu
Day 3
Panel 9
Ioana RUFU
Commedia dell’arte in Contemporary Theatre Education
Panel 9
You LYU
Intercultural Physical Theatre: Interconnecting Stylisation with Improvisation – Blind Bird as Example
Panel 9
Kerasenia PAPALEXIOU, Sevaste CHATZIFOTIOU, Vasileios TSIANTOS
Joint presentation
Perspectives on Philosophical Theatre in Education
Panel 9
Bogdan MUSTAȚĂ
Film – a means of building communities and facilitating communication with adolescents
WORKSHOPS
29 October 2025
12:00-13:50
Room 306A – Invited Workshop
Day 3
Robin PASCOE, Christina GRAY & Liz PASCOE
Time changes us. Life shapes us. Learning moulds us. Drama transforms us
12:00-13:50
Room 306B – Workshop 6
Day 3
Annemari UNTAMALA
Now We Got It! The Finnish National Curriculum for Theatre and the “Helsinki Model”
12:00-13:50
Room Platou Sava – Workshop 7
Day 3
Iulia VOICU
Cinema Applied in Education, a Model of Practice: Growing Virtues through Creative Writing, Character Development and Sensorial Language
14:00-15:20
Lunch
Room 104B
15:30-17:20
Berlogea Hall – Invited Workshop
Day 3
Jum RUBIN
Safe space
15:30-17:20
Atelier Hall – Workshop 8
Day 3
Kateřina ŽARNIKOV
Arts Synergy: Deepen the Experience for Children
15:30-17:20
Room Pod Alb – Workshop 9
Day 3
Mihaela SÎRBU
Common Ground – Theatre as Intercultural Connection
17:30-18:00
Cristina CUSENZA
Associate Project Officer, UNESCO’s Intersectoral Programme on Culture and Education, Cultural Policies and Development, Culture Sector
Implementing the UNESCO Framework for Culture and Arts Education: From Vision to Action
18:00-19:00
Round table and Closing Session
An open discussion among speakers, participants, and guests, reflecting on the themes of the conference and sharing diverse perspectives and a final gathering to summarize the outcomes of the conference, acknowledge contributions, and officially conclude the event.
Berlogea Hall
20:30
Dinner at Aria TNB
About
The “I.L. Caragiale” National Theatre of Bucharest is a public cultural institution of national importance under the Ministry of Culture, funded through its own revenues and state subsidies. Its mission is to promote Romanian and universal artistic values, expand public access to culture, and cultivate audiences. With a tradition of over 170 years, it stands as a cultural landmark and national brand. Hosting around 50 performances monthly for over 20,000 spectators, the theatre attracts more than 170,000 loyal visitors annually and has shaped generations of acclaimed actors.
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