Victoria Baltag

Current occupation

Trainer, teacher, educator, life coach, facilitator, film-maker, blogger, fashion designer, dancer

Work experience

*Trainer of Yelco Erasmus Plus Project project (2016-2-CY02-KA105-000790) 14-28 October 2014, Nicosia, Cyprus.
*Trainer of Take Attitude Erasmus Plus Project (2014-2-UK01-KA105-001488), 12-20 February 2015, London, UK.
*Trainer of Enhance Youth Employment through Youth Network Cooperation Erasmus Plus Project (2015-2-RO01-KA105-015394), 22 November- 1 December 2015, Bucharest, Romania.
• Speaker at DiscourseNet17, ‘Reflexivity and Critique in Discourse’ with the paper ‘Media discourse analysis and the function of audio-visual art-forms as remembrance’, University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain, March 16-18, 2016.
• Speaker at the ‘2015 Gypsy Lore Society Annual Meeting and Conference on Romani Studies’, 11-12 September, Chisinau, Moldova, 2015: ‘Study case. Roma women and the education phenomenon in Zania’.
• Speaker at DiscourseNet15, ‘Discourse of Culture – Culture of Discourse’, with the paper on ‘Visual media and its limits: the genre of documentary films’, Belgrade, March 19-21, 2015, http://dn15.ubsm.rs/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/abstract-overview.pdf (p.13th )
• Education researcher for Connections Romania NGO (2012-present)
• Speaker at 2014 Annual Meeting of the Gypsy Lore Society and Conference on Romani Studies: ‘Roma Culture; Promoting and acquiring knowledge .Learning and teaching strategies inside a Roma Community in Romania (Education and Integration Panel, 12th of September : http://www.uet.sav.sk/files/programme_final_gls_2014.pdf
• Published article in European Dignities academic magazine: ‘Sociological and anthropological approaches to the education of marginal and impoverished groups’, nr.2, June, 2014, pp.74 -82. ISSN 2360-6355, ISSN-L 2360-6335 ( online at: http://issuu.com/supertineri/docs/europeandignities_summer2014 ) ,
• Published article in European Dignities academic magazine : “Historical and Cultural Background of Roma in Romania”, Nr. 1 , April, 2014, pp.17-23 (http://issuu.com/supertineri/docs/europeandignities_spring2014)
• Trainer for Youth In Action projects, funded by the European Commission (2007-2013)
• Published article in’Iuventa’ – academic magazine (http://revistaiuventa.ro/2013/04/revista-iuventa-nr-12-aprilie-2013/): “Documentary can and should use all the strategies of fictional construction to get at truth “. Nr. 12, 2013, pp.21-24.
• Popular Prize winner at LSE Research Festival with the anthropological documentary on Roma education: ‘Faith and Flame’
(http://www2.lse.ac.uk/intranet/LSEServices/TLC/TLCPhD/LSEResearchFestival/home.aspx )
• Speech: Anthropology, Education and Literature: Edgar Poe and Mihai Eminescu, HESPERUS Days, Xth Edition, Bucharest, 16th of January, 2014.
• Published article in ‘Iuventa’ – academic magazine (http://issuu.com/irin_a/docs/11_optimizat_web) : The Nuer. Social context. E. E. Pritchard’s interpretation. Nr.11, 2013, pp.16-24 and How can we account for the diversity in stated beliefs as to where the babies come from? Does everyone know the basic facts of life? Nr. 11, 2013, pp.10-14.
• Published article in House & Home, 2012, Dakam Publishing, Istanbul, pp.98-103: Searching home: Roma minority through ‘Faith and Flame’ documentary film. (ISBN:978-605-4514-04-5).
• Published article in ‘Iuventa” – academic magazine (http://revistaiuventa.ro/2012/11/revista-iuventa-numarul-10-noiembrie-2012/ ) : Roma children and the social work in Romania , nr. 10, 2012, pp.16-17.
• Speaker at the History Summer School affiliated to International Historical Film Festival (10-19 August, Rasnov, 2012): documentaries techniques and presentation of the “Faith and Flame” film (produced and directed by Victoria Baltag) about Roma minority and Roma Holocaust (www.ffir.ro ).
• Participation: Summer School about Communism: Between memoir and history (Ramnicu Sarat, 20 -27 August, 2012) – http://www.crimelecomunismului.ro/en .
• Participation: Summer School Political Communication , 6-9 August, Brasov, 2012 (http://www.hss.ro/index.php/evenimente/2012/38-scoala-de-vara-comunicare-politica-brasov-6-9-august-2012