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2018 SRS Conference Program www.society4romanianstudies.org 25-30 June 2018, Bucharest, Romania

Organizers of the SRS 2018 Conference

The Society for Romanian Studies &

The Faculty of International Business and EconomicsThe Bucharest University of Economic Studies

SRS 2018 Conference Organizing Committee: Peter Wagner (chair), Margaret Beissinger, Alexandra Ghit, Petru Negură, Delia Popescu,

Anca Şincan, Svetlana Suveică, Rodica Zaharia

We would also like to thank the following: Marcy Baker, Ioana Boca, Bogdan Cazacu, Roxana Cazan, Diana Dumitrescu, Laura

Dumitru, Alexandru Mihai Ghigiu, Ana Iuga, US Ambassador to Bucharest Hans Klemm, Ruxandra Onofrei, Ruxandra Canache Petrincă, Cristina Plămădeală, Laurenţiu Mihai

Ştefan, Lucian Turcescu

Special recognition goes to our institutional partners:

Arhivele Naţionale ale României, Banca Naţională a României, Consiliul Naţional pentru Studierea Arhivelor Naţionale, Facultatea de Ştiinţe Politice, Administrative şi ale

Comunicării a Universităţii Babeş-Bolyai, Fundaţia Academia Civică, Institutul de Cercetări al Universităţii din Bucureşti, Leibnitz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies,

New Europe College, Muzeul Ţăranului Român, Şcoala Naţională de Studii Politice şi Administrative, Universitatea Ovidius din Constanţa, Universitatea Piteşti, Universitatea

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Conference Activities and Locations Wewilluserooms in twoASEbuildings.RoomsSchuman,0124,0233,0319,0320,0321,0334, 0329, 0435, Aula, and AmAiteatrul 1 are located in thePiaţaRomană 6 building.Room1604 is located in thebuilding on Str.Mihai Eminescu. Note that all ASE roomshaveworkingaudio-visualpresentationunits.

SRS has a special relationship with Polirom, the largest academic publisher in Romania.During the conference,Poliromwill sell a rangeofRomanianStudies titles, including thebookspublishedintheSRS-PoliromRomanianStudiesseries.Location:ASEmainhallway,PiaţaRomană6,Bucureşti.Monday, 25 June 2018 9:00-17:00 Freevisitstovariousinstitutions(pre-registrationrequired),seebottomof nextpage.13:00-16:30FilmscreeningofŢaraMoartă:fragmentedevieţiparalele,and discussion:RaduJude’sdifAiculthistories-Aiction,history,archive (Cinemateca,str.IonCâmpeanu22) Participants:IrinaLivezeanu;RaduJude;ValentinaGlajar;ViorelAchim;Alina Pavelescu;CezarPopescu17:00-20:30 FilmscreeningofSieranevadaanddiscussionwithdirectorCristiPuiu (Cinemateca,str.IonCâmpeanu22)18:00-19:30 Openingreception(ASEMainHallway)

Tuesday, 26 June 2018

8:30-18:00 ConferenceRegistration(ASEmainhallway,PiațaRomană6,Bucureşti) 9:00-10:00 WelcomeandOpeningCeremony(AulaASE)10:00-10:15 Coffeebreak10:15-12:15 SessionA(ASEbuildings)12:15-14:15 Lunchbreak14:15-16:15 SessionB(ASEbuildings)16:15-16:30 Coffeebreak16:30-18:00 Keynoteaddress–VintilăMihăilescu(ASEAula) 19:00-21:00 SRSMentoringProgramgoestothepub(JourneyPub,Str.G.Enescu,25, Bucureşti)

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Wednesday, 27 June 2018 8:30-18:00 ConferenceRegistration(ASEmainhallway,PiațaRomană6,Bucureşti)8:30-10:30 SessionC(ASEbuildings)10:30-10:45 Coffeebreak10:45-12:45 SessionD(ASEbuildings)12:45-14:45 Lunchbreak14:45-16:45 SessionE(ASEbuildings)16:45-17:00 Coffeebreak 17:00-18:00 SessionF(ASEbuildings)

Thursday, 28 June 2018

8:30-18:00 ConferenceRegistration(ASEmainhallway,PiațaRomană6,Bucureşti8:30-10:30 SessionG(ASEbuildings)10:30-10:45 Coffeebreak10:45-12:45 SessionH(ASEbuildings)12:45-14:45 Lunchbreak14:45-16:45 SessionI(ASEbuildings)16:45-17:00 Coffeebreak17:00-18:30 Keynoteaddress–KatherineVerdery(ASEAula)

Friday, 29 June 2018 8:30-18:00 ConferenceRegistration(ASEmainhallway,PiațaRomană6,Bucureşti)8:30-10:30 SessionJ(ASEbuildings)10:30-10:45 Coffeebreak10:45-12:45 SessionK(ASEbuildings)12:45-14:45 Lunchbreak14:45-16:45 SessionL(ASEbuildings)16:45-17:00 Coffeebreak17:00-18:00 SessionM(ASEbuildings)18:00-20:00 Closingreception(CasaUniversitarilor,Str.DionisieLupu46)

Saturday, 30 June 2018 10:30-13:00 Freevisitstovariousinstitutions(pre-registrationrequired) Free tours to institutions (pre-registration required): ArhivadeImagineaMuzeuluiŢăranuluiRomânArhiveleNaţionalealeRomânieiConsiliulNaţionalpentruStudiereaArhivelorSecurităţiiMuzeulBănciiNaţionaleaRomânieiMuzeulNaţionalCotroceni

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Film Screenings

Monday, 25 June, 13:00-16:30 - Cinemateca ŢaraMoartă:fragmentedevieţiparalele(2017),directedbyRaduJudeJude tackles the troubledhistoryofRomanianantisemitismandRomanian Jews in the1930sandthe 1940s by interweaving still portraits of Romanian civilians and soldiers taken in Slobozia byCosticăAxinte,withnationalistsongssungbysoldiersandfascists,speechesmadebyIonAntonescuandotherantisemiticpoliticians,andsnippetsfromthediariesofEmilDorian,aJewishdoctorlivinginBucharestatthetime.ThiscinematicessayisadisturbingportraitofRomanianRealpolitikaimedatthedomesticfront,andofordinarypeoplecaughtinthegearsofhistory.Monday, 25 June, 17:00-20:30 - Cinemateca Sieranevada(2016),directedbyCristiPuiu“Though we’re so immediately desperate for clues (Who are these people?Howare they related?Andwhyare they soobsessedwith9/11 conspiracytheories?)ontheAirstgoroundtojugglealltheimplications,[Puiu]managestoweavea tapestry—or familyquilt, ifyouwill—inwhichdeceptionandthe hopeless search for truth is judged both on the micro level (as inextramarital affairs) and a more global scale (which is where questions ofRomania’scommunistpast,9/11andCharlieHebdoAitintothepicture),andwheredisturbancesineithersphererippleoutintotheworldatlarge.”PeterDebruge,Variety,May11,2016.Friday, 29 June, 17:00-18:00 - Amfiteatrul 1, Session M Through the Iron Curtain – from Romania (2017), produced by Monica Erickson with historicalresearchandscriptsupervisionbyJamesvonGeldernThedocumentarypresentsAifteenoralhistoryinterviewswithRomanianimmigrantstoMinnesotabetween1945and1989,andaudio-visualmaterialfromcommunistRomaniaandfromthelivesofthe Minnesota immigrant community before and after 1989. The Ailm acquainted Americanaudienceswith lifebehindtheIronCurtain. Italsoengagesthe livesof immigrantsafterarrival inthe United States, in a way that speaks to the experiences of many immigrant groups andcontributestocurrentdebatesaboutimmigrationinAmericansociety.Friday, 29 June, 17:00-18:00 - Sala 0334, Session M Invisible Lives: Romanian Night Workers in London (2013), by Tim Marrinan and Iulius-CezarMacarieThedocumentarypresentstheinvisibleandprecariouslivesoffourpeopleworkingthenightshiftwhilsttheregularfolk inLondonsleeporenjoythenocturnal life.Thestoriesofnightworkers intheconstructionandhotelierindustries,asexworkeronthestreetandamarkettraderarerevealedthroughaudiostoriesandavisualportraitofnocturnalLondon.InInvisibleLivestheprotagonistsportraytheirlivesastheyare,withoutmuchinterferencethroughcommentariesoranalysis.

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Book Presentations F5:StefanoBottoni,Stalin'sLegacyinRomania.TheHungarianAutonomousRegion1952-1960(Lanham:LexingtonBooks,2018).

F6:VictorNeumann&ArminHeinen,coord.,IstoriaRomânieiprinconcepte.Perspectivealternativeasupragândiriisocial-politice(Iasi:Polirom,2010).

M5:AdrianaCupceaandGyulaKozàk(coord.),IstorieşiidentitatelaTurciidinDobrogea(Cluj:ISPMN,2017).

M7:MarinMarian-Bălaşa,OchiuldraculuișialluiDumnezeu(mentalitățieconomice

tradiționale).

F2:AndreiCuşco,AContestedBorderland:CompetingRussianandRomanianVisionsofBessarabiaintheLateNineteenthandEarlyTwentiethCentury(CEUPress,2017).

M5:MetinOmerandAdrianaCupcea(coord.),UnDestindelaMareaNeagră.

TătariidinDobrogea(Cluj:ISPMN,2017).

M5:ŞtefanCristianIonescu,JewishResistancetoRomanianization,1940-1944(Basingstoke:Palgrave,2015).

M7:Revistadeetnogra_iesifolclor[JournalofEthnographyandFoklore](new,internationalseries,2007-2017).

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F7:MarinaCap-BunandFlorentinaNicolae,eds.,Cultureşicivilizațiiest-europene(STUR,2016).

F7:MarinaCap-BunandFlorentinaNicolae,eds.,Junimeaşiimpactuleidupă150ani(STUR,2013)

F7:MarinaCap-Bun,IulianaDavidandCorinaApostoleanu,eds.,StudiileRomâneştiînContext.Inter-şitransdisciplinar.ÎnmemoriamMarinMincu(STUR,2017).

F7:MarinaCap-BunandFlorentinaNicolae,eds.,ActualitatealuiCaragiale1912-2012(STUR,2012).

F7:MarinaCap-BunandFlorentinaNicolae,eds.,Literatura,teatrulşifilmulînonoareadramatistuluiMateiVişniec(STUR,2015).

F6:VictorNeumann,coord.,IstoriaBanatului.Studiiprivindparticularitățileuneiregiunitrans-

frontaliere(EdituraAcademiei,2016).

M2:ChrisDavis,HungarianReligion,RomanianBlood:AMinority’sStruggleforNationalBelonging,1920-1945(UniversityofWisconsinPress,2018).

M4:AdaI.Engebrigtsen,Romiprintreromâni.Relaţiideputere,schimbşiinterdependenţăîntr-un

satdinTransilvania(Ed.ISPMN,2016),trans.IoanaM.Voiculescu

M5:LuizaMarinescu,ScriitoriromânidespreMareaUnire(EdituraFundaţieiRomâniadeMâine,2018).Nocover.

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Art Exhibit SearchforTruthinYourself,Don’tGoogleIt!

A collection of twelve paintings by Cristina Rădulescu will beavailableforviewinginthehallwayoftheASEbuildinginPiațaRomană during 26-29 June. Please a point of checking themout!

AboutCristinaRădulescuBorn in 1978 in Bucharest, CristinaRădulescuisagraduateoftheNicolaeTonitzaSchoolofFineArts,Bucharest.Shehasparticipatedinseveralgroupandsoloexhibitionsboth inRomania

and abroad. Cristina worked on this series of paintingsduring 2011-2012. The collection was purchased in itsentirety by Dr. Hermina Anghelescu ([email protected])fromDetroit,whogenerouslyfacilitatedthisexhibit.

SRS Mentoring Program Goes to the Pub 7:00-9:00pm, Tuesday 26 June, Journey Pub, (Strada GeorgeEnescuNr.25,nexttoPiațaRomană) InvolvedintheSRSMentoringProgramorinterestedinAindingoutmore?JoinusattheJourneyPubforaninformalmeet-and-greet.

If you haven't heard of it before, the SRS offers a mentoringprogramthatpairsscholarsatdifferentstagesoftheircareersorin different parts of the world to facilitate mutually beneAicialdiscussionsandcommunication.Thepurpose is toprovideSRSmemberswith invaluablesupportandestablishedscholarstheopportunitytohelpshapethefutureoftheAieldandsupportnewresearch.MentoringrelationshipsmayeitherbeestablishedaroundspeciAic,short-termgoals,suchaswritingabookproposalordevelopingstrategies foracceptanceinto graduate schools, or may involve a series of discussions about career trajectories,publication plans, accessing libraries, archives, or fellowships, or other issues of mutualinteresttothementorandmentee.

Forfurtherdetails,contactRolandClark([email protected]).

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Key Note Speakers Vintilă Mihăilescu (Tuesday, June 26, 16:30-18:00, Aula ASE)

Frompeasanttopost-peasantsociety.Theruralfootprintofnation-buildingThepeasantryisconsideredastructuralandlastingfeatureofBalkansocieties in general, and of Romania in particular. Following this redline, the present talk will try to sum up the “rural footprint” ofRomanian nation-building in the Balkan context from the early 19thcentury, throughout communism, and up to the present day. Beyondembedding socio-political and economic changes all through thisperiod, this “rural footprint” also involves a speciAic culturalheritagestillframingsocialrelationsandinstitutions,(residual)oralityamongthemostimportantbutneglectedones.

BiographicalNote BacheloranddoctorinpsychologyfromtheUniversityofBucharest,VintilăMihăilescuiscurrentlyprofessorofanthropologyattheNationalSchoolofPoliticalStudiesandAdministrationinBucharest.HehasconductedpersonalandcollectiveAieldworkmainlyinruralsettingsinRomaniaforabout40years,andhasbeeninvolvedasprojectmanagerinmanyAnthropologydepartmentssince1990;hewasdirectoroftheMuseumoftheRomanianPeasantbetween2005and2010,andhasalsobeenacolumnistforDilemaVechesince1998.

Katherine Verdery (Thursday, June 28, 17:00-18:30, Aula ASE) ThoughtsonacenturyofsurveillanceAlongside the many achievements of Romania's twenty Airstcenturyhasbeenthegrowthofitssurveillancestate,inkeepingwith developments elsewhere in the world. The lecture willdiscuss several points in this process in Romania and suggesthowtheymightbeintegratedwithglobalprocesses.Biographical Note Katherine Verdery is the Julien J. StudleyDistinguishedProfessorofAnthropologyattheGraduateCenter,City University of New York. Since 1973 she has conductedanthropological research in Romania, on ethnic and nationalidentity, cultural politics, the socialist system, postsocialisttransition, the state, property transformation, and the secretpolice. Her recent books include: Peasants under Siege: TheCollectivizationofRomanianAgriculture,1949-1962(2011,withGailKligman),SecretsandTruths:Ethnography in thearchivesofRomania’sSecretPolice(2014),andmostrecently,MyLifeasaSpy:InvestigationsinaSecretPoliceFile(2018).Amongherprofessionalactivities,shehasservedasDirectoroftheCenterforRussianand East European Studies (University of Michigan), member of the Boards of Directors of theAmerican Anthropological Association and American Ethnological Society, and President of theAmericanAssociationfortheAdvancementofSlavicStudies.

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Program Schedule Monday, 25 June 2018

10:00-17:00 Freevisitstovariousinstitutions(pre-registrationrequired)

13:00-16:30 FilmscreeningofȚaraMoartă(2017)anddiscussion:RaduJude’sdifOiculthistories-Oiction,history,archiveLocation:Cinemateca,str.IonCâmpeanu22Participants:RaduJude,IrinaLivezeanu,ValentinaGlajar,ViorelAchim,AlinaPavelescu,CezarPopescu

17:00-20:30 FilmscreeningofSieranevada(2016)anddiscussionwith directorCristiPuiu

(RSAASponsored)Location:Cinemateca,str.IonCâmpeanu22

Screeningstartsat17:00,discussionstartsat20:00 Participants:CristiPuiuandinvitedguests

18:00-19:30 OpeningReception(pre-registrationrequired)

Tuesday, 26 June 2018

8:30-18:00 ConferenceRegistration Location:ASEmainhallway,PiațaRomană6,București

9:00-10:00 WelcomeandOpeningCeremony Location:AulaASE,PiațaRomană6,București

10:15-12:15 Session A

A1Panel:Fromdigitaltosocial:CurrentdigitalhistorydevelopmentsinRomanianStudies,10:15-12:15[Location:SalaSchuman]Chair:CorinaMoldovan

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Presenters:BogdanMateescu,OpeningoldRomaniancensusestothedigitalageLuminițaDumănescu&Elena-CrinelaHolom,TheHistoricalPopulationDatabaseofTransylvania:atoolforsocialhistoryresearchAngela Lumezeanu & Vlad Popovici,A prosopographical database for 19th centuryTransylvaniaandbeyondRafael Dorian Chelaru, Uniting archival fonds on-line in the Virtual GenealogicalArchive:thedigitizationofclericalandcivilianregistersinBucharestandBrașov

Discussants:CorinaMoldovan&OanaSorescu-Iudean

A2Panel:The1918eventreOlectedinprint,10:15-12:15[Location:Sala0124]Chair:DanielCitirigăPresenters:

Hans-ChristianManer,The‘GreatUnion’inhistorytextbooksCristianPopescu,1December1918inScânteiaHadrianGorun,Romania’sway topeaceand relationswith theAlliesas re_lected inFrenchandRomanianarchives(1918)GruiaBădescu,A taleof twounions:narratingDecember1st,1918 inRomaniaandtheformerYugoslavia

Discussant:ShonaKallestrup

A3Roundtable:ShapingRomanianStudies:American&Romanianscholarsatwork,10:15-12:15[Location:Sala0233]Moderators:VintilăMihăilescu&IuliuRațiuParticipants: Cătălina Florescu, László Fosztó, David Kideckel, Ileana Orlich, StevenSampson

A4Panel:TurningpointsinRomanianhistory,10:15-12:15[Location:Sala0321]Chairanddiscussant:DennisDeletantPresenters:

AndreiPippidi,TurningpointsinmedievalandearlymodernRomanianhistoryPaulMichelson,TurningpointsinmodernRomanianhistoryAlinaMungiu-Pippidi,TurningpointsinRomanianhistorysince1989

A5-B5Panel:Fromcommunisttopost-communistRomania:transforminggenderroles,10:15-16:15[Location:Sala1604]Chair:Roxana-ElisabetaMarinescuPresenters:

GerardA.Weber, ‘Ihad tobecontentwith tea’:gender inequalityandretirement inpost-communistGalaţiRoxanaOltean,(Post)-communistgenderidentitiesinAnglo-AmericanperspectiveElenaEcaterinaNicolae,Education,gender,andthelabormarketinRomaniaOana Negrea, Gendered jobs and the (re-)negotiation of gender equality on theRomanianlabormarketAna-LuanaStoicea-Deram,Romanianfeminism:fromcommunismtopost-communism

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Discussants:MihaelaMiroiu,MarianaNicolae&LauraGrűnberg

A6Panel:Deceptivemarginalia:state-makinginunexpectedplaces,10:15-12:15[Location:Sala0319]Chairanddiscussant:LuminițaGătejelPresenters:

AndreeaDeciu-Ritivoi,Thenationabroad:politicallegitimacybeyondstatehoodNarcis Tulbure, From monetary theory to political practice: the socialist monetaryreformsanditssaboteursEmanuelaGrama,Astateondisplay:constructingasocialistpatrimonyBruceO’Neill,UndergroundBucharest

A7 Panel:Aremembers of the Hungarianminority part of the Romanian politicalcommunity?,10:15-12:15[Location:Sala0320]Chair:LeventeSalatPresenters:

MyraWaterbury,TheperilsandpromisesofmultiplemembershipfortheHungarianminorityinRomaniaIrinaCulic,ThepoliticsofHungarianhighereducationinRomaniaafter1989Sherrill Stroschein, City council politics and power in Secuime: Odorheiu Secuiesc,MiercureaCiuc,andSfântuGheorgheTamás Kiss, Unequal accommodation of minority rights and the effects of anti-corruptionpopulism(‘citizenism’)inRomania

Discussant:ZsuzsaCsergő&GabrielBădescu

A8Panel:Beyondthewall/afterthefall:RomanianAmericandiasporaandthetaskofdoubletranslation(RSAASponsored),10:15-12:15[Location:Sala0334]Chair:LetițiaGuranPresenters:

Amy-DianaColin,Re-readingthepastasbridgetothefutureLetiția Guran, Double cultural translation: Romanian American paradigms oftransatlanticdialogueMaria-SabinaDragaAlexandru,Narratingandperformingexile:doubletranslationinDomnicaRădulescu'sworkCarmen Mușat, Scars and shadows of Holocaust, communist, and exile traumas inNormanManea'swork

A9 Panel: Lifelong learning between personal development and national interest,10:15-12:15[Location:Sala0329]Chair:AmaliaDuțuPresenters:

Mihaela Gabriela Neacșu, Education for life and social behavior: value landmarks,actionablepatternsandcurrenteducationalpolicyguidelinesMihaela Diaconu & Amalia Duțu, Life planning and carrier orientation: strategicinstrumentsinthetransitionfromschooltothelabormarket

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RosalbaRizzo,SocialmediaattheheartoflifelonglearningDianeVancea,MihaiGîrțu&CristinaDuhnea,FinancinghighereducationinRomania

Discussant:RodicaMilenaZaharia

A10Panel:ResearchevaluationinRomania,10:15-12:15[Location:Sala0435]Chair:OanaI.ArmeanuPresenters:

BogdanVoicu,ArePhDcandidatesandtheirtutorsalike?Viorel Proteasa,Ninoslav Stojanović& Silvia Fierașcu,The structuring dynamics ofdisciplinary_ieldsinRomania:acasestudyoftheproductivityofPhDcoordinatorsinthesocialsciencesFlorinN.Feșnic,Quantityversusqualityintheevaluationofacademicpublications:anEasternEuropeanimpactfactor?

Discussant:LucianaGhica&OanaI.Armeanu

14:15-16:15 Session B

B1Roundtable:100YearsofRomaniannationaldiscourse:adiscursivejourneyfromtheRomanianUniontotheEuropeanUnion(RSAASponsored),14:15-16:15[Location:SalaSchuman]Moderator:NoemiMarinParticipants:BogdanȘtefănescu,LetițiaGuran,Maria-SabinaDragaAlexandruRespondent:IleanaOrlich

B2Panel:ThepoliticsoftimeinmodernRomania,14:15-16:15[Location:Sala0124]Chairanddiscussant:CorinaDoboşPresenters:

AndreiDanSorescu,Thetemporalityofcontracts:structure,agency,andtherhetoricofabsentfeudalismin19thcenturyRomaniaRaulCârstocea,Timeofthenation,timeoftheother:JewsinthetemporalimaginationoftheLegionaryMovementDaliaBathory,Presentforever:makingsenseof‘time’inRomaniaduringtheCivilWar

B3 Panel: Feeling lonely in a crowd: audience, media, and the public sphere,14:15-16:15[Location:Sala0233]Chair:MihaiComanPresenters:

Raluca Radu,Another question? How journalists won the public heart in 2017, andapparentlylostitagainBrândușa Armanca,Protests and themedia: a test for the ethical behavior of newschannelsinRomania

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AntonioMomoc,Romanian alternative journalism and citizens as journalists in thefakenewsandpost-truthera

Discussant:PeterGross

B4 Panel: Complex readings: Marea Unire and the language of artistic response,14:15-16:15[Location:Sala0321]Chair:ShonaKallestrupPresenters:

Cosmin Minea,Divergent histories of the architectural heritage of Moldavia in thedecadesbeforethe1918uni_icationAdaHajdu,CompetingnationalarchitecturalstylesindowntownTg.MureșCristina-MarianaCojocaru,TheRomanianneo-Byzantinestyle inpost-1918religiouspaintingAlexandraChiriac,Bauhaus,Berlin,Bucharest:Romanianappliedartsanddesign inthe1920s

Discussant:RuxandraDemetrescu

A5-B5 Panel: From communist to post-communist Romania: transforming genderroles,10:15-16:15[Location:Sala1604]Chair:Roxana-ElisabetaMarinescuPresenters:

GerardA.Weber, ‘Ihad tobecontentwith tea’:gender inequalityandretirement inpost-communistGalaţiRoxanaOltean,(Post)-communistgenderidentitiesinAnglo-AmericanperspectiveElenaEcaterinaNicolae,Education,gender,andthelabormarketinRomaniaOana Negrea, Gendered jobs and the (re-)negotiation of gender equality on theRomanianlabormarketAna-LuanaStoicea-Deram,Romanianfeminism:fromcommunismtopost-communism

Discussants:MihaelaMiroiu,MarianaNicolae&LauraGrűnberg

B6RoundtableontheSRS-Polirombookseries,14:15-16:15[Location:Sala0319]Moderators:IrinaLivezeanu&LaviniaStanParticipants: Adrian Șerban, Roland Clark, Vladimir Solonari, Diane Vancea, CristinaVățulescu,NarcisTulbure

B7 Panel: The thorn in the nation’s Olesh? The Szeklerland at the crossroads ofEasternEuropeannationalprojects,14:15-16:15[Location:Sala0320]Chair:SilviaMartonPresenters:

GaborEgry,Outcastsinthecenter?AcomparisonoftheSzeklerlandandȚaraMoțilorasdualperipheriesandsymboliccentres1900-1944Stefano Bottoni, Forging good Romanians? Cultural policies in the HungarianAutonomousRegion,1952-1960ÁgnesPatakfalvi-Czirják&CsabaZahorán,Nation-buildingonthemargins:thecasesofSzeklerlandandBessarabia

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Discussant:SilviaMarton&AndreiFlorinSora

B8 Panel: Youth, professors, and schools in the inter-war period, 14:15-16:15[Location:Sala0334]Chairanddiscussant:IrinaIonPresenters:

Anca Filipovici, The youth of the uni_ied nation: minorities, social control, anddisciplineinRomanianinterwarhighschoolsAna-Maria Stan, The interwar Association of University Professors, a means ofmodernizingRomanianhighereducationIon Matei Costinescu, Growing patriots like tomatoes: bio-politics, peasant schools,andgrassrootstechnocracyininterwarRomania

B9Panel:TraditionandmodernityinRomanianeducation,14:15-16:15[Location:Sala0329]Chair:LoredanaSoAiaTudorPresenters:

Maria Magdalena Stan & Mihaela Păişi Lăzărescu, The management of teachingcompetenceassessmentininitialtraining:awaytoprofessionalsuccessLoredanaSoAiaTudor&ClaudiuLanga,Educationalpoliciesinprofessionalteaching-trainingRodicaMilenaZaharia,LauraElenaMarinaş,LauraWahed,&RăzvanZaharia,Howdoweteachsensitivetopics:acasestudyofteachinganEUintegrationcourse

Discussant:MihaelaDiaconu

B10Panel:ThewinterofRomaniandiscontent:The2017protestsathomeandintheRomaniandiaspora,14:15-16:15[Location:Sala0435]Chair:CaterinaPredaPresenters:

Olivia Horvath, A disenchanted young, educated diaspora craving to participate: aParisianexperienceRaduCristescu,Theusesofpointlessprotest:aVienneseexperienceAnca Fronescu, If you leave your country, does your country (eventually) leave youtoo?ExpatexperiencesfromtheNetherlandsOana-ValentinaSuciu,2017–ThewinterofRomaniandiscontent

Discussant:Oana-ValentinaSuciu

16:30-18:00 KeynoteAddressbyProf.VintilăMihăilescuFrompeasanttopost-peasantsociety.Theruralfootprintofnation-

building IntroducedbyMonicaHeintz

Location:AulaASE,PiațaRomană6,București

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Wednesday, 27 June


8:30-10:30 Session C

C1Panel:Accountability andmemorialization inRomania andMoldova, 8:30-10:30[Location:SalaSchuman]Chairanddiscussant:JamesKapaloPresenters:

FlorinAbraham,Threedecadesoftransitionaljusticeinpost-communistEuropeCynthiaHorne,Evaluatingtheimpactofpublicdisclosuresand_ileaccessprovisionsCaterinaPreda,Livingstatues:performingmemoryinpost-communistRomaniaLaviniaStan,ReckoningmeasuresinMoldova:apreliminaryoverview

C2Panel:1918andBeyond:theintegrationofthenewprovincesintoRomania(fromindividualandgroupperspective),8:30-10:30[Location:Sala0124]Chairanddiscussant:IrinaLivezeanuPresenters:

Florian Kührer-Wielach, Transylvania in transition: national integration, politicalregionalism,andminorityissuesafterWorldWarIDanielCain,Anoman’sland:Dobruja(1918-1919)Svetlana Suveică, “Neither easy, nor dif_icult”?! The Romanianization policy inBessarabiaandreactionstoit

C3Roundtable:Consciousness,identity,andspiritualityinRomaniancinema(RSAASponsored),8:30-10:30[Location:Sala0233]Moderator:AndreaVirginasParticipants:DianaPopa,AndreaVirginas&LenuțaGiukin

C4Panel:CopingwithnaturaldisastersinCeauşescu’sRomania,8:30-10:30[Location:Sala0321]Chairanddiscussant:LuminițaGătejelPresenters:

CristianCapotescu,Disastrous1970s:_loodsandearthquakesinsocialistRomaniaatthedawnofanewEuropeancultureofprivatedisasterreliefKarin Steinbrueck,The second earthquake: the Ceauşescu regime’s July 1977 orderthatendedseismicreinforcementassessmentsandhastenedrepairs

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LuminițaGătejel,RisinglikeaPhoenix fromtheashes?WesternhumanitarianaidtoRomaniaaftertheearthquake1977

C5Panel:Gender,ethnicity,sexuality,andthe(politicsof)representation,8:30-10:30[Location:Sala1604]Chair:OanaBăluțăPresenters:

DianaElenaNeaga,Discourses on reproductive andmaternal health: a re_lection ofwomen’sunder-representedinterestsDiana Dobrotă, Political representation and reproductive rights: incompletecitizenship,setsofexperiencesAndreiAvram&ArinaIacob,Dofeminists’argumentsmatter?AshortanalysisofUBIonthepoliticalagendainEuropeAlinaIsacAlak,MuslimwomenasvictimsandagentsofIslamicfundamentalism

Discussant:AndradaNimu

C6Panel:EvangelicalsandreligioninRomania,1918-1989,8:30-10:30[Location:Sala0319]Chair:LucianTurcescuPresenters:

PaulMichelson,IssuesconfrontingRomanianEvangelicals,1918-1945RolandClark,Anti-sectarianOrthodoxmissionsinthe1920sRomaniaDorinDobrincu,ThesmugglingofreligiousliteratureinRomania,1965-1989

Discussant:ViorelAchim

C7Panel:YiddishcultureinRomania:Newperspectivesoverthelastcentury8:30-10:30[Location:Sala0320]Chair:MargaretBeissingerPresenters:

Irina Nastasă-Matei & Dan Druță, Hebrew vs. Yiddish: Jewish identity options ininterwarRomaniaRaluca Andrei, Yiddish language and culture in Romania in the beginning of thecommunistregimeCamelia Crăciun & Cristina Mitrea, Representations of Yiddish culture in post-communistRomania:thestateoftheart

Discussant:ȘtefanCristianIonescu

C8Panel:Garmentsandfashionassymbolsofpower,8:30-10:30[Location:Sala0334]Chair:RoxanaCazanPresenters:

Sonia-Doris Andraș, From the Of_icial Gazette to Calea Victoriei: decoding 1930sBucharestthroughwomen’sfashionAlinaMihaelaGurguță,GarmentobjectscollectioninspiredbytheRomaniansculptorsofthe20thcenturyEllidaToma,UnconventionalcostumecollectioninspiredbytheBrâncuşiart

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Svetlana Ariton, Before and after: the self-styled image of Romanian youth around1990

Discussant:IrinaCulic

C9Panel:Massprotestsinthedigitalage:engagingwithRomania’s@Rezistpoliticsofcontestationandtheemergingpro-democracymovementsofthe21stcentury(I),8:30-10:30[Location:Sala0329]Chair:DanaTrifPresenters:

GabrielBădescu,ContextualdeterminantsofpoliticalprotestsinRomaniaBerk Esen,Elective af_inities between democratic backsliding and populism: TurkeyandHungaryincomparativeperspectiveGeorgeJiglău,Howcansuccessfulprotestsbebadnewsfordemocracy?

Discussant:BogdanRadu

C10Panel:LibrariesandarchivesforRomanianstudies:thecasesoftheUKandTasmania,8:30-10:30[Location:Sala0435]Chair:MuraGhoshPresenters:

MilanGrba,TheBritishLibraryandthedevelopmentofinformationaboutRomaniainBritainGregory Walker, A historical overview of Russian and East European StudiesscholarshipintheUKandtheUTREESdatabaseRachaelRose,CorneliuPetrescuandtheTylerCollection:theartofafriendship

Discussant:RaduCinpoeș

10:45-12:45 Session D

D1Panel:Rememberingandredressingpastatrocities(I),10:45-12:45[Location:SalaSchuman]Chair:LucianTurcescuPresenters:

Dragoș Petrescu, Shared, converging, or disputed memories? European patterns ofrememberingWorldWarI,WorldWarII,andtheColdWarDelia Popescu, Victim talk and the purpose of memory: revisiting rhetoric in TheMemorialofPainRuxandra Canache, ‘Auch polenta explodiert’: Radio Free Europe and RomanianpoliticaloppositiontoCeauşescu’sregimeValeska Bopp-Filimonov, Between silence and re-enactment: re_lections on intra-familialmemoriesofthesocialistpast

Discussant:MonicaCiobanu

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D2Panel:Pro-unionactivismacrossgroupsin1918,10:45-12:45[Location:Sala0124]Chair:CristianVasilePresenters:

PetreMatei,Attitudes towards union of Transylvanian Roma assemblies in 1919 asbeginningoftheinterwarRomamovementAndreea Dăncilă-Ineoan & Emil Ovidiu Iudean, Middle clergy`s activism for thenationaldesideratum:Romanianarchpriestsat theGreatNationalAssembly inAlbaIuliaRudigervonKraus,Changes inpoliticalpower:whatthe1918Romanianuni_icationmeantforTransylvanianSaxons

Discussant:SilviaMarton

D3Panel:AcenturyofRomanianStudies(1918-2018)(I),10:45-12:45[Location:Sala0233]Chair:MarinaCap-BunPresenters:

MarinaCap-Bun,RecentresearchandprojectsonRomanianStudiesFlorentinaNicolae,The impactof the(re)editingofDimitrieCantemir’smanuscriptsonthevisibilityofRomanianStudiesDanielaCrăciun&IulianaDavid,SomeaspectsofRomanianStudiesinItaly

Discussant:GheorghePetreBârlea

D4Panel:StateinterventionisminCentralandEasternEurope,10:45-12:45[Location:Sala0321]Chair:CorinaMurafaPresenters:

ClaraVolintiru,Capturebarometerofstate-ownedcompanies inCentralandEasternEuropeMihaiVladimirTopan,ThepoliticaleconomyofRomaniansocialism:acasestudy inplannedchaosMădălina Doroftei, Central banking and the perils of interventionism: the case ofRomaniaCristianPăun,DanDănulețiu&RaduMușetescu,Theroleofthe _inancialsector foreconomicdevelopment:aglobalperspective

Discussants:GeorgeJiglău

D5 Panel:Gender, ethnicity, sexuality and the (politics of) representation: womenandthemedia,10:45-12:45[Location:Sala1604]Chair:AndradaNimuPresenters:

Andreea-Nicoleta Voina, Gender negotiations in Alina Gorghiu’s 2016 campaignrhetoricRominaSurugiu,WomenandthemediainRomania:anoverviewofresearchafterTheFourthWorldConferenceonWomen,BeijingCosima Rughiniș & Andreea Moldoveanu, Gendered life trajectories and rules ofageinginrecentRomaniancomics

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Discussant:RominaSurugiu

D6 Panel:New insights on Orthodoxy, nation and state, 10:45-12:45 [Location: Sala0319]Chairanddiscussant:IonuțBiliuțăPresenters:

Ionuț Biliuță,When the Church talks back: reactionary Orthodoxy and nation-statebuildinginmodernRomaniaGiuseppe Tateo, Salvation, redemption, and providence: the signi_icance of recentlybuiltnationalcathedralsintheformersocialistblocSalome Kandelaki, Overlapping competences of the Orthodox Church and stateinstitutionsinGeorgiaandRomania

D7 Roundtable: New research on the persecution of Jews under the Antonescuregime,10:45-12:45[Location:Sala0320]Moderator:NataliaAleksiunParticipants:ȘtefanCristianIonescu,VladimirSolonari,SvetlanaSuveică

D8Panel:ThepoliticsofcontemporaryRomaniannationalism,10:45-12:45[Location:Sala0334]Chair:RonaldKingPresenters:

Gabriela Borz, Towards civic nationalism or more European integration: aninvestigationintothemaindriversofnationalidentityRyoFujishima,Theobsessionwithconspiracytheories:theideologyoftheRomanianultra-nationalistRonaldKing&CosminGabrielMarian,Underlyingrisk:ultra-nationalistbeliefsandRomanianpublicopinionTomaBurean&RalucaPopp,Goingnationalist:partycompetitionchangeinRomania

Discussant:MonicaHeintz

D9Panel:Massprotestsinthedigitalage:engagingwithRomania’s@Rezistpoliticsofcontestationandtheemergingpro-democracymovementsofthe21stcentury(II),10:45-12:45[Location:Sala0329]Chair:DanaTrifPresenters:

OleksiiPolegkyi,PopulismandprotestmovementsinEasternandCentralEurope:thecaseofPolandandUkraineAmbrusGaborSzentesi,YouthpoliticalorganizationinprotestmovementsDana Trif, The discourse and strategies of political protest in the digital age:comparingRomanianandEastAsianlarge-scalestreetdemonstrations

Discussant:BogdanRadu

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D10-E10Panel:Identity,participation,contestationandrepresentation,10:45-16:45[Location:Sala0435]Chairanddiscussant:MihaelaȘerbanPresenters:

MihaelaIvănescu,Romania’sdemocracyandthecurseofelectoralabsenteeismEmanuelCopilaş,Romania’sculturalpost-communism:acriticaldiscourseanalysisGeorge Kordas,Europeanization in changing seasons? Romania’s conservatives andextremeright-wingrepresentativesintheEuropeanParliamentMihaela Șerban,Legal constructions of identity under authoritarianism in Romania(1940-47)AnaBazac,Scienti_icnon-recognition,scienti_icloss:AndreiOțetea,1960,andabasicpremiseoftheRomanianmodernization

14:45-16:45 Session E

E1Panel:Rememberingandredressingpastatrocities(II),14:45-16:45[Location:SalaSchuman]Chair:DeliaPopescuPresenters:

MonicaCiobanu,Prisonsaints:memorialization,sacralization,andcollectivecatharsisLucian Turcescu, Resistance and collaboration at the theological institutes undercommunismCristianTileagă,Stagingsubjectivity:discursivepsychologyandaccountsofatroubledpast

Discussant:DragoșPetrescu&RuxandraCanache

E2Panel:Eliteconcernsbeforeandafter1918,14:45-16:45[Location:Sala0124]Chair:ManuelaUngureanuPresenters:

AndreiDanSorescu,Findingacommon language:makingpolitics intelligible to thepeasantinlate19thcenturyRomaniaDanielCitirigă,InterwarpoliticalelitesonTransylvania’sautonomyDennisDeletant,Thesigni_icanceofTransylvaniaforBritain,1940-1945

Discussant:GavinBowd

E3Panel:AcenturyofRomanianStudies(1918-2018)(II),14:45-16:45[Location:Sala0233]Chair:MarinaCap-BunPresenters:

Corina Apostoleanu, The development of Romanian collections in internationallibrariesCosminCăprioară,Romanian language in theattentionof foreign linguists fromthelastcenturyVeronicaNedelcu,StructuralaspectsregardingRomaniantextbooks

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Discussant:DomniţaTomescu

E4Panel:Energy efOiciency and public funding in the EuropeanUnion, 14:45-16:45[Location:Sala0321]Chair:MădălinaDorofteiPresenters:

CorinaMurafa&AncaSinea,Aquestionofef_iciency:ananalysisofthepublicpoliciestargetingenergypovertyinRomaniaGeorge Jiglău,Studying energypoverty inRomania: evidenceand challenges in _ieldresearchClaraVolintiru,InnovativesolutionsintheenergysectorinRomania

Discussants:CristianPăun

E5Panel:Gender,ethnicity,sexuality,andthe(politicsof)representation:rightsandlaw,14:45-16:45[Location:Sala1604]Chair:RominaSurugiuPresenters:

Victor Ciobotaru, The family values discourse and LGBT rights in the RomanianpoliticsVlad Levente Viski, One nation under God: Banning same-sex marriage in theRomanianconstitutionAndradaNimu,Rightsandresistance:howcountries(re)framesexuality

Discussant:OanaBăluță

E6 Panel: The Romanian Orthodox Church and its communist past, 14:45-16:45[Location:Sala0319]Chairanddiscussant:IonuțBiliuțăPresenters:

Cristina Plămădeală, Resistance under communism revisited: the VladimireştimonasteryincommunistRomaniaGabrielStelianManea,AportraitofPatriarchJustinianpaintedbyRadioFreeEuropeRadu Nedici, Embodying the nation: memory, symbols, and identity in 20th centuryOrthodoxnarrativesof18thcenturyreligiousdissent

E7 Panel: Ethnic choices under shifting cultural politics: identity, culture, and thesciencesinsocialistRomania,14:45-16:45[Location:Sala0320]Chair:OanaValentinaSuciuPresenters:

ValentinSăndulescu, Jewishpoliticaland intellectual elitesbetween23August1944and1947:choicesandconsequencesNarcisTulbure,FromtheSovietmodeltothe“rationalist”excess:dialecticsofethnicand professional identity in the quantitative economic sciences during socialistRomaniaCristian Vasile, Romanian Jewish scienti_ic researchers within Romanian Academy’s

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Social Sciences’ institutes and communist cultural policies in postwar Romania,1948-65

Discussant:RăzvanPârâianu

E8 Panel: Romanian culture and identity: national and international dimensions,14:45-16:45[Location:Sala0334]Chairanddiscussant:AdrianaGrozaPresenters:

Mihaela Arsene,Perceptions of Romanian culture on British and American screens:NineteenEighty-FourorGameofThrones?IoanaVirginiaBrezeanu,Dacianismtoday:neo-nationalism,memorialreconstruction,andcommodi_icationofcultureIoanaLuca,Post-communisttimesandcontemporarylifewriting

E9Panel:Newperspectivesonhooliganismandprotests,14:45-16:45 [Location:Sala0329]Chair:BogdanVoicuPresenters:

AlexandruGussi&CristianPopescu,Crisisofrepresentationandpoliticalcleavageinpost-communistRomania:thinkingbacktoadecadeofpost-accessionhooliganismHenry-PeterRammelt,Pro-EUframesinthenewRomaniancultureofprotestsDaniela Angi,Participation, political ef_icacy, and citizenship: Romanian youth as acasestudy

Discussant:RonaldKing

D10-E10Panel:Identity,participation,contestationandrepresentation,10:45-16:45[Location:Sala0435]Chairanddiscussant:MihaelaȘerbanPresenters:

MihaelaIvănescu,Romania’sdemocracyandthecurseofelectoralabsenteeismEmanuelCopilaş,Romania’sculturalpost-communism:acriticaldiscourseanalysisGeorge Kordas,Europeanization in changing seasons? Romania’s conservatives andextremeright-wingrepresentativesintheEuropeanParliamentMihaela Șerban,Legal constructions of identity under authoritarianism in Romania(1940-1947)AnaBazac,Scienti_icnon-recognition,scienti_icloss:AndreiOțetea,1960,andabasicpremiseofRomanianmodernization

17:00-18:00 Session F

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F2 Book discussion:Andrei Cusco,A Contested Borderland: Competing Russian andRomanianVisionsofBessarabia in theLateNineteenthandEarlyTwentiethCentury(CEUPress,2017),17:00-18:00[Location:Sala0124]Participants:SorinAntohi,CălinCotoi,AndreiCusco,SvetlanaSuveica,F.PeterWagner

F3Poetryreading:TheAccidentofBirthbyRoxanaCazan,17:00-18:00[Location:Sala0233]Participant:RoxanaCazan

F4Roundtable:Academicprecarity inRomanianStudies,17:00-18:45 [Location:Sala0321]Moderator:MaryiaIvanchevaParticipants:AdinaMocanu,AlexandraGhit,ChrisDavis

F5 Book discussion: Stefano Bottoni, Stalin's Legacy in Romania. The HungarianAutonomous Region 1952-1960 (Lanham: Lexington Books, 2018), 17:00-18:00[Location:Sala1604]Participants:DennisDeletant,CristianVasile,AncaȘincan,andStefanoBottoni

F6Bookpresentation:VictorNeumann&ArminHeinen,coord.,IstoriaRomânieiprinconcepte.Perspectivealternativeasupragândiriisocial-politice(Iaşi:Polirom,2010);and Victor Neumann, coord., Istoria Banatului. Studii privind particularitățile uneiregiunitrans-frontaliere(Bucharest:EdituraAcademiei,2016),17:00-18:00[Location:Sala0319]Participants:VictorNeumann

F7Bookdiscussion:FiverecentSTURpublications,17:00-18:00[Location:Sala0320]Participants: Marina Cap-Bun, Florentina Nicolae, Daniela Crăciun, Iuliana David, CorinaApostoleanu,Gh.PetreBârlea,DomniţaTomescu

Thursday, 28 June


8:30-10:30 Session G

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G1Panel:Memories&identitiesundercommunism:theclandestinesurvivalof thedemocraticdimensionof‘GreaterRomania’,8:30-10:30[Location:SalaSchuman]Chair:MonicaCiobanuPresenters:

AndreiCușco,‘Culturalopposition’inMoldova(MoldavianSovietSocialistRepublic)Corneliu Pintilescu,Remembering the ‘Golden Age’: Romanian Germans of interwarRomaniaincommunistandpost-communistprivatecollectionsCristina Petrescu, ‘Cultural opposition’ vs. ‘resistance through culture’: looking forpicturesatanexhibitiononcommunism

Discussant:CristianVasile

G2Panel: TheGreatWar andnational uniOication inRomania and Italy, 8:30-10:30[Location:Sala0124]Chair:MihaelaGranceaPresenters:

Giordano Altarozzi,The LastWar of Independence: Italy and Romania towards theGreatWarAlessandroVagnini,ItalyandRomaniaattheParisPeaceConference:twodelegationsincomparisonGiuseppeMotta,The Union of Transylvania in the documents of the Italian Army'sGeneralStaff

Discussant:AlessandroVagnini

G3-H3 Panel: Expats in Bucharest: Do they change Romania?, 8:30-12:45 [Location:Sala0233]Chair:BogdanVoicu&MarianVasilePresenters:

CristinaTomescu,AccesstoservicesamongexpatsinBucharestAlexandraDeliu,Identityandchange,individualsandsocialcontexts:EuropeanexpatsinBucharestMălinaVoicu,Expatsasupra-nationalgroup?MarianVasile,Multipleembeddedness:relationshipsbetweenexpatsandthecityBogdanVoicu,Ispowerimbalancerelevantforintegration?

Discussants:ElenaTudor

G4 Panel: Rights, festivities and ideology under communism, 8:30-10:30 [Location:Sala0321]Chairanddiscussant:SabinaSchnellPresenters:

DanDraghia,Fromamateurtocreator:becomingavisual ‘stateartist’ incommunistRomaniaAnaTeodorescu,Festivecultureinnationalcommunism:organizingthenationaldayfeastofAugust23underCeauşescuRoxana Cuciumeanu, Visual culture and ritualization of ideology in communism: avisualanalysisofCinemamagazine

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G5Panel:Womenbetween the state, the church, thematernityward, and the pub,8:30-10:30[Location:Sala1604]Chairanddiscussant:TriciaRichards-ServicePresenters:

Erica vander Sijpt,Culpability, care, and the church: copingwith pregnancy loss inpost-communistRomaniaAmalia Bouch, Public health interventions for decreasing maternal mortality andimprovingchildren’shealthAdrianaRoșca,Genderedstandardsofalcoholconsumptioninpresent-dayRomaniaPetruța Teampău, Women and men in and outside the family: a post-communistinsight

G6Panel:Hiddenchapels,hiddenbodies:undergroundreligious life inCentralandEasternEurope,8:30-10:30[Location:Sala0319]Chair:IonuțBiliuțăPresenters:

Anca Șincan, The afterlife of Bishop Evloghie Oța’s dead body and its disputedownershipJamesKapalo,Incenseandalcohol:InochentistsubterraneancommunitiesininterwarRomaniaDumitru Lisnic, Religious millennialism and ‘anti-Soviet conspiracy’ in Inochentistundergroundchapelsinpost-warMoldavianSSR

Discussant:RolandClark

G7 Panel:Minorities through times: divided identities and loyalties (I), 8:30-10:30[Location:Sala0320]Chair:EmanuelPlopeanuPresenters:

Ilie Iulian Mitran, ‘Gagaouzes et Grecs’: ethnic images, struggles, and bridgingcontradictingculturalrealitiesMetin Omer, Muslim emigration and Aromanian colonization in South Dobruja(1918-1940)Adriana Cupcea,TheMuslim community in Dobruja and Turkey’s kin state policiesaftertheColdWar:past,present,andfutureperspectives

Discussant:LászlóFosztó

G8-H8 Panel: New research: national and international dimensions, 8:30-12:45[Location:Sala0334]Chairanddiscussant:ManuelaUngureanuPresenters:

Corina Ilinca & Stephen Cutler, Age strati_ication in Romania: an intersectional,longitudinalfocusTudor Edu & Ionuț Costel Negricea, Income inequality in different contexts: thebene_itsofcollaborationbetweenRomaniaandSouthAfricaAdrianNetedu,ThehistoricaltraditionofcensusesinRomania

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Petre Comșa & Costea Munteanu, Economic personalism: some taxonomicalcommentsBogdanPopoveniuc,OnRomanianindividualism

G9Panel:Plagiarism:determinantsandresponses,8:30-10:30[Location:Sala0329]Chair:LaviniaStanPresenters:

MarianPopescu,TheTartuffeeffectoratheatreofethicsJulius Kravjar, Unique experience: nationwide plagiarism _ight in higher educationsince2010EmiliaȘercan,FightingacademicplagiarisminRomania:causesandeffects

Discussant:MarianPopescu&MarianZulean

G10Panel:Dynamicperspectiveonstudents’organizations(I),8:30-10:30[Location:Sala0435]Chair:DeliaGologanPresenters:

Viorel Proteasa & Liviu Andreescu, Students’ organizations, their protests andleaders:fromtheNeoStudprojecttoaresearchagendaMateiGheboianu,At the forefrontof theRomanianstudentmovement: theStudents’LeagueattheUniversityofBucharest(1989-2000)Silvian-EmanuelMan,StudentorganizationsandactivisminIași(1989-2000)Vlad Botgros, From anti-communism to anti-corruption: a genealogy of discourseswithinstudentprotests

Discussants:AdrianMiroiu,LazărVlăsceanu&BogdanMurgescu

10:45-12:45 Session H

H1Panel:Memory,identity,andtransitionaljusticeinMoldova,10:45-12:45[Location:SalaSchuman]Chairanddiscussant:MihaelaȘerbanPresenters:

IgorCașu,’Traitorsof therevolution’:repressionof the leadersofRomaniannationalmovementof1917-1918aftertheSovietoccupationofBessarabiain1940StelaSuhan,Monumentsandmemoriesinthepost-sovietlandscapeofChişinău:somepracticalexamplesEduard Baidaus, Linking the common past with a separate present: the Romanianhistoricallegacyandculturalidentityinpost-SovietMoldova

H2Panel:TheRomanianArmyandWorldWarI,10:45-12:45[Location:AmAiteatrul1]Chair:GeorgeUngureanuPresenters:

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PetreOtu,TheBattleofBucharest(November16/29-November20/December3)AurelianChistol,Participation of the Second ‘QueenElizabeth’HuntingRegiment intheoffensiveoperationsfromMărăşti(July1917)CornelPopescu,ContributionsoftheRomanArmyinWorldWarI

Discussant:FlorianBichir

G3-H3 Panel: Expats in Bucharest: Do they change Romania?, 8:30-12:45 [Location:Sala0233]Chair:BogdanVoicu&MarianVasilePresenters:

CristinaTomescu,AccesstoservicesamongexpatsinBucharestAlexandraDeliu,Identityandchange,individualsandsocialcontexts:EuropeanexpatsinBucharestMălinaVoicu,Expatsasupra-nationalgroup?MarianVasile,Multipleembeddedness:relationshipsbetweenexpatsandthecityBogdanVoicu,Ispowerimbalancerelevantforintegration?

Discussants:ElenaTudor

H4Panel:RomaniansintheEnglishlanguageworld,10:45-12:45[Location:Sala0321]Chairanddiscussant:SimonaLivescuPresenters:

RuxandraTrandafoiu&ZanaVathi,Fracturednationhood:politics fromafar for theRomaniansintheUKduringBrexitDarina Lepădatu & Eliza Markley, The Romanian American dream: permanentmigration,identity,andintegrationofRomanianimmigrantsintheUnitedStatesIlinca Olariu, For the homelands, both old and new: Romanian-born soldiers in theCanadianexpeditionaryforce

H6Panel:Religiousminoritiesandthesecretpolicearchives,10:45-12:45 [Location:Sala0319]Chair:ChrisR.DavisPresenters:

Iuliana Cindrea, Gender relations within the Stilist community as re_lected in theRomaniansecretpolicearchivesAleksandraDjurić-Milovanović,ResearchingtheNazarenecommunityintheYugoslavarchivesAgnesHesz,Vernacularreligioninsecretpolicearchives:methodologicalconcerns

Discussant:JamesKapalo

H7Panel:Minoritiesthroughtimes:dividedidentitiesandloyalties(II),10:45-12:45[Location:Sala0320]Chairanddiscussant:OanaValentinaSuciuPresenters:

Dana Mihăilescu, The Jewish Fusgeyer migration movement of early 20th centuryRomaniaasatransculturalrhetoricalandliterarytool

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Amy-DianaColin,PaulCelan’sCzernowitz:atestinggroundforaunitedEuropeintheRomanianinter-warperiodJamesKoranyi,IronCurtaintwitchers:aRomanianGermanfamilyduringtheCold

War

G8-H8 Panel: New research: national and international dimensions, 8:30-12:45[Location:Sala0334]Chairanddiscussant:ManuelaUngureanuPresenters:

Corina Ilinca & Stephen Cutler, Age strati_ication in Romania: an intersectional,longitudinalfocusTudor Edu & Ionuț Costel Negricea, Income inequality in different contexts: thebene_itsofcollaborationbetweenRomaniaandSouthAfricaAdrianNetedu,ThehistoricaltraditionofcensusesinRomaniaPetre Comșa & Costea Munteanu, Economic personalism: some taxonomicalcommentsBogdanPopoveniuc,OnRomanianindividualism

H9 Roundtable: Security in post-communist Romania: progress and challenges,10:45-12:45[Location:Sala0329]Moderator:MarianZuleanParticipants: Gen. Constantin Degeratu, Dennis Deletant, Dragoș Petrescu, Emilia Șercan,LaviniaStan

H10 Panel: Current debates on students’ organizations, their protests and theirleaders(II),10:45-12:45[Location:Sala0435]Chair:ViorelProteasaandLiviuAndreescuPresenters:

Delia Gologan, The occupy movement in Romanian universities: perspectives fromorganizationalneo-institutionalismMarius Deaconu, On Europeanization: the agency of the national federations ofstudentorganizationsDumitruOpriţoiu,Students’ organizations and their leaders:what does career datatellusabouttheindependenceofthissectorofthecivilsocietyVladD.Cherecheș,Repertoiresofrepressioninpost-communistRomania:ananalysisofstudentprotests

Discussants:AdrianMiroiu,LazărVlăsceanu&BogdanMurgescu

14:45-16:45 Session I

I1Panel:GreaterRomania:Geopoliticsand international relations inphilosophicalperspective,14:45-16:45[Location:SalaSchuman]Chair:PaulDragoșAligică&MarianPanait

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Presenters:MarianPanait,EcceRomania:Howitbecomes,whatitisPaul Dragoș Aligică & Robert Gabriel Ciobanu,DavidMitrany on Greater RomaniaandnationalidealsȘerbanCostinCrețu,MihailManoilescu’sproposalofaholisticinstitutionaldesignforRomaniaAndrei TrandaAira, Noica in dialogue with Philippe Nemo on Romania’s Europeanfuture

I2Panel:WorldWarIatthelocallevel,14:45-16:45[Location:AmAiteatrul1]Chair:AurelianChistolPresenters:

RemusCârstea,Adocumentary_ilmentitledArgeșCountyUnityMakersFlorianBichir,OrthodoxpriestsstrivingfortheGreatUnionGeorge Ungureanu, The Dobrujan issue from the Bolshevik Revolution until theNeuilly-sur-SeineTreaty

Discussant:CornelPopescu

I3Panel:TeachingpoliticalscienceinRomania,14:45-16:45[Location:Sala0233]Chair:BogdanVoicuPresenters:

Luciana Alexandra Ghica, Academic performance and the economic vulnerabilityargumentinRomanianpoliticalscienceSilvia Fierașcu & Viorel Proteasa, Teaching political science in Romania:synchronizingteachingwiththedynamicsofthejobmarketOana I. Armeanu& FlorinN. Feșnic,Teaching political science in Romania and theUnitedStates

Discussants:BogdanVoicu&FlorinN.Feșnic

I4Panel:Educationbetweenthefamilyandthestate,14:45-16:45[Location:Sala0321]Chair:ManuelaUngureanuPresenters:

Alex. R. Tipei, ‘Mama studied withme’: international politics, family networks, andfemaleeducationinWallachiaandMoldova,1815-1860sManuelaUngureanu,UniversitiesunderdictatorshipandtheirconfoundingfreedomsGabriela Walker & Cristian Buică-Belciu, Global integration and ‘Christmas inpurgatory’: deinstitutionalization and education of persons with disabilities inRomaniaandtheUnitedStatespre-andpost-claimingofrights

Discussant:AlinaBranda

I5 Panel: Economic and institutional transformations in Romania, Moldova, andSoutheasternEurope,14:45-16:45[Location:Sala1604]Chair:LucianBelașcuPresenters:

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Radu Lupu, Iulia Lupu & Dan Gabriel Dumitrescu, Stock markets and economicgrowthinCentralandEasternEuropeLucian Belașcu & Alma Pentescu, The new architecture of modern trade andconsumerbehaviorinRomaniaDianeVancea&CristinaDuhnea,Capitalmarketspolicies,pathwaystomaturityVioleta Duță, Romania and the Republic of Moldova: economic and institutionalchallengesinacooperationframework

Discussant:OanaPopovici

I6Panel:Interwarformsofreligiosity,14:45-16:45[Location:Sala0319]Chairanddiscussant:AncaȘincanPresenters:

Andreea Petruescu, The Old Calendarists in Bessarabia, 1924-1936: a religiouspeasantmovementagainsttheRomanianstateIemimaPloscariu,Religiousentanglements:Romanians,Roma,and Jews in interwarneo-ProtestantcongregationsMihaiStelianRusu,Legiuneadedincolo:necropoliticsandChristofascistfuneralritesintheRomanianlegionarymovement

I7Panel:RomanianGerman identitiesbeforeandafter1989,14:45-16:45 [Location:Sala0320]Chairanddiscussant:OanaValentinaSuciuPresenters:

Cristian Cercel & Ruth Wittlinger, Romanian German identi_ications: economy,entrepreneurship,expertiseRemus Gabriel Anghel & Ovidiu Oltean, Minority institutions and transnationalidentities:re_lectionsfromtheRomanian-GermantransnationalspaceAndreeaZamAira,Fromminorizationbythenewnationalstateandostracismduringcommunismtopost-’89mythicizationofRomanianGermans:Discursiveshifts,politicsofnationalidentity,andpublictelevisionbroadcasting

I8Panel:Post-communistdemocracybetweenconsolidationandregress,14:45-16:45[Location:Sala0334]Chair:MihaelaIvănescuPresenters:

LaurențiuMihaiȘtefan,ShapesandsizesoftheRomaniancabinets:1990-2017Sabina Schnell, From information to predictability: transparency on the path todemocraticgovernance:thecaseofRomaniaIoanaBaskerville,What’s ina sheep?Stateofartofa contestedRomaniannationalsymbolNicoleta-ElenaApostol,Beyondthepost-communistcontext:rethinkingjournalismasademocraticprofessionalproject

Discussant:EmanuelPlopeanu

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I9Roundtable:RoundtableontheJournalofRomanianStudies,14:45-16:45[Location:Sala0329]Moderator:LaviniaStanParticipants:MargaretBeissinger,RaduCinpoeș,DennisDeletant,MonicaCiobanu

I10Roundtable:WhitherRomaniananthropology?,14:45-16:45[Location:Sala0435]Moderators:JamesKapaloandNarcisTulbureParticipants:AlexandraIon,ȘtefanDorondel,OanaMateescu,RalucaPerneș

17:00-18:30 KeynoteaddressbyProf.KatherineVerdery ThoughtsonaCenturyofSurveillance IntroducedbyLiviuChelcea

Location:AulaASE,PiațaRomană6,București

Friday, 29 June


8:30-10:30 Session J

J1 Panel: Doing healthcare ethnography in post-socialist settings: methodologicalreOlections(I),8:30-10:30[Location:SalaSchuman]Chair:MariusWamsiedelPresenters:

Maryna Bazylevych, 6327, 6329: numbers and people in Ukraine’s national healthreform,newmodelsofcare,andtemporalityAnnaKlepikova,IdeologiesandpracticesofcareforpeoplewithmentaldisabilitiesinRussia:re_lectionsonconductingethnographicresearchina‘totalinstitution’CristianaLotrea,Adaptingtoillness:astudyofthewaypatientscopewithdiseaseAnaBorlescu,PublicandprivatediscoursesofvaccinationinRomania

Discussant:Valentin-VeronToma

J2 Panel: The Great Union across history: political debates, propaganda &historiography,8:30-10:30[Location:Sala0124]Chair:VirgiliuȚârăuPresenters:

AlexandruNicolaescu,The1918Unioninthepressofthe_irstinterwardecadeDaniela Stanciu, The German communities in Romania after the Great War:historiographicalperspectivesandpropaganda

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Ionuț Marcu,Historiography and national communism in Romania (1971-1989): acasestudyontheGreatUnionof1918ManuelaMarin,Rewritinghistory for thebene_itof the leader:NicolaeCeauşescuaswardenofnationalunityandindependence

Discussant:VirgiliuȚârău&AndreiFlorinSora

J3Roundtable:UnknownaspectsoftheRomanian18thcentury,8:30-10:30[Location:Sala0233]Moderator:LiaChisacofParticipants:IleanaMihăilă,MihailTipau,GabrielaElenaDima

J4 Panel: Communism, ideology, and popular culture: Entertainment in Romania(1945-1989),8:30-10:30[Location:Sala0321]Chair:Mirela-LuminițaMurgescuPresenters:

MihaelaGrancea&OlgaGrădinaru,Popularappropriationofof_icialcelebrations.The23rdofAugustbetweenideologyandentertainmentCristinaBarbu,TheHippiegenerationthroughcaricature:entertainmentandideologyintheRomaniancommunistpressEugen Constantin Ignat, Screen comedy in the 1960s Romania: betweenentertainment,enlightenment,andideologyClaudiu Oancea, Rocking out, giving in: rock music in socialist Romania betweenideologyandentertainment

Discussant:BogdanPetreOpreanu

J5Panel:Foreignvs. localcapitalassourcesofdevelopment forRomania,Moldova,andthecountriesofSoutheasternEurope,8:30-10:30[Location:Sala1604]Chair:AlexandraHorobețPresenters:

GeorgiMarinov&AleksandarShivarov,Linkagesbetweenregionaldevelopmentandinvestment:evidencefromSoutheasternEuropeAlexandra Horobeț & Oana Popovici, Performance dissimilarities in the activity offoreignandRomanian-ownedcompanies:whatlessonscouldbelearned?GabrielaPascariu&IonMușchei,Moldova–EuropeanUnionAssociationAgreementasinstitutionalmodernizationtoolthrougheconomic_lowsintensi_icationAncaMihaelaParaschiv&IoanaAlexandraRadu,Old(domestic)versusnew(foreign)capital_lowsinRomania

Discussant:DianeVancea

J6Panel:Debatingandexplainingmigrationfrompost-communistRomania8:30-10:30[Location:Sala0319]Chairanddiscussant:AlexandruGussiPresenters:

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Adriana A. Davidescu (Alexandru) & Andreea M. Paul (Vass), Determinants ofRomanians’ migration in the European context: an empirical approach based ongravitymodelsAnatolie Coșciug, Transnational motorways: trade with secondhand cars in anemigrationcountryElmarUjszaszi-Müller,Themigrationofphysicians:acasestudyoftheirsocializationandintegrationinthesocialworldofhealth

J7Panel:Bukovinabetweenempireandkingdom,8:30-10:30[Location:Sala0320]Chair:ȘtefanPuriciPresenters:

HarietaSabol,‘Waitingtohappen’:scenesfromdailylifeinBukovinaof1918MarianOlaru,BukovinaduringtheFirstWorldWar:thetwilightofimperialpowerMihai-Ștefan Ceaușu, Romanians of Bukovina at the end of the First World War:betweenloyalismandthenationalideaȘtefan Purici,Bukovina between empire and kingdom: the twilight of a dream, thedawnofanewhope

Discussants:MarianOlaru

J8Panel:Transylvanianidentitybetweenplaceandnation,8:30-10:30[Location:Sala0334]Chair:GiordanoAltarozziPresenters:

Andrea Bargan, Interethnic relationships as re_lected in place-names of SouthernTransylvaniaGavinBowd,Unionimpossible?PatrickLeighFermorandTransylvaniaAdrianaGroza, ‘Nationalistdiscourses’:thedilemmasofidentityconstructioninLiviuRebreanu’sPădureaspânzuraţilor

Discussant:LászlóFosztó

J9-K9Panel:EducationpoliticsandpoliciesinuniOiedRomania,8:30-12:45[Location:Sala0329]Chairanddiscussant:AlexTipeiPresenters:

AlinaBranda,EducationalprogramsinRomaniaafter1918:acasestudyValentin Maier & Dragoș Sdrobiș, One hundred years of Romanian education: theevolutionofhumancapitalinRomaniaRaduCupcea,Whatwe learnaboutwhoweare?TheRomanianeducational systemfromtheinterwarperiodtothepresentAlexandraK.Liebich,Change,continuity,andcontestation:thepoliticsofeducationinpost-communistRomaniaDarina Lepadatu& JenniferMcDonnell,Higher Education in Romania: Faculty andStudentsSpeakOutinaQualitativeStudyof5RomanianUniversities

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J10 Panel:New insights in literature and cinema studies, 8:30-10:30 [Location: Sala0435]Chairanddiscussant:RoxanaCazanPresenters:

AndreeaIonescu-Berechet,WomencinemacharactersasasocialmodelincommunistRomaniaAdinaMocanu,Feminism,gender,andsexualityinRomanianliteratureGeorge T. Sipos, The ‘spirit of civilization’ and ‘forms without content’: theories ofmodernityinRomaniaandJapan

10:45-12:45 Session K

K1 Panel:Doing healthcare ethnography in post-socialist settings: methodologicalreOlections(II),10:45-12:45[Location:SalaSchuman]Chair:Valentin-VeronTomaPresenters:

Elena Bărbulescu, Interviewing rural doctors: peculiarities of a Transylvanian _ieldresearchAnaBorlescu,ShiftingsocialframesinresearchinterviewsaboutillnessandcareMariusWamsiedel,Notanotherspystory:doing_ieldworkattheEDinRomania

Discussant:MarynaBazylevich

K2Panel:Foreignpolicychoicesintimesofpeaceandwar,10:45-12:45[Location:Sala0124]Chairanddiscussant:AlessandroVagniniPresenters:

MioaraAnton,Thequestforacompromise.IonI.C.Brătianu,TakeIonescu,andthelostfrontierofBanatKatyaVladimirov,Ofbattleswonandlost:GeneralNicolaeRădescu,1940s-1950sF.PeterWagner,Mediatingmiddlepowers?TheforeignpolicyofRomania, Italy,andGermanyinthecontextofthecontemporarycrisisoftransatlanticrelations

K3Panel:Regionaliststrategies,nationalism,andcentralism:Bessarabia,Bukovina,&GreaterRomania,10:45-12:45[Location:Sala0233]Chair:IrinaLivezeanuPresenters:

AndreiCușco,‘Nationalindifference’:mobilizationofethnicityandalternativeidentityprojectsinearly20thcenturyBessarabiaCălinCotoi,Imaginingthenationalspace:interwarnationalregionalismPetruNegură,Oldunionistsandyoungregionalists:politicalandgenerationaldividesamongtheBessarabianintellectualsintheinterwar(1918-1940)PhilippeBlasen,TwentyyearsaftertheGreatUnion:1918inCernăuținewspapersof1938

Discussant:IgorCașu

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K4 Panel: Communist period literature: imprisonment, displacement, exile10:45-12:45[Location:Sala0321]Chair:CristianTileagăPresenters:

MariaDărăbanț&DanaRadler,CommunismasseeninAdio,Europa!byD.SârbuGabrielaGlăvan,Fantasiesof _leeing,nostalgiasofhomecoming:uneasytieswiththehomelandinthenovelsofHertaMüllerandCătălinDorianFlorescuSimona Livescu,’Theses and antitheses in Paris’: the transnational Romanianliteratureofhumanrights

Discussant:SimonaLivescu

K5Panel:Past andpresentdiagnosesofRomanianeconomy, 10:45-12:45 [Location:Sala1604]Chair:ValentinCojanuPresenters:

SebastianBurduja,StateformationinRomania:asuccessfulstoryofnationalismandcentralization,1848-1864VladBulai,Extractiveindustriesandtheeconomy:aninput-outputanalysisGeorgiana Loredana Frecea, The CSR premises of the banking philanthropy inRomania

Discussants:AlexandraHorobeţ&RodicaMilenaZaharia

K6Panel:National (in)securityand internationalaspirations,10:45-12:45 [Location:Sala0319]Chair:MarianZuleanPresenters:

Bogdan-AlexandruTeodor&MihaelaTeodor,TheGreatWarand themakingof theRomanianintelligenceValentin Stoian, Securitizing practices and their societal effects: differentialperceptionsofrisksandthreatstonationalsecurityAlexandruBalaș,Romania’s contributions to peace operations: a comparative studywithotherCentralandEasternEuropeanEUmemberstates

Discussant:OanaI.Armeanu

K7 Panel:New research on identity and politics inMoldova, 10:45-12:45 [Location:Sala0320]Chair:LászlóFosztóPresenters:

MonicaHeintz,OnidiosyncrasiesandregularitiesduringtheMoldovanpost-socialist‘transition’Iulia Hossu, Moldovan and/or Romanian citizen: the reorganization of familyrelationshipsandpracticesRodicaRusu,TheMoldovandiaspora’spoliticalcommitmentPaulD.Quinlan,RecentMoldovan-RussianrelationsChristofferThomasStørup,Moldova’sMinoritiesandEuropeanIntegration

Discussant:PaulD.Quinlan

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K8Panel:Foreignwriters,Oilmmakers,andjournalistsonpastandpresentRomania10:45-12:45[Location:Sala0334]Chairanddiscussant:RoxanaCazanPresenters:

EmanuelPlopeanu,AmericanperceptionsofRomaniaandtheGreatWarOnoriu Colăcel, Re-enacting Romanianness under communism: Comrade Detective(2017,ChanningTatum,AmazonPrime)Ana Bento-Ribeiro, A French partner and a European player: the transnationalevolutionoftheRomanian_ilmindustry

J9-K9Panel:EducationpoliticsandpoliciesinuniOiedRomania,8:30-12:45[Location:Sala0329]Chairanddiscussant:AlexTipeiPresenters:

AlinaBranda,EducationalprogramsinRomaniaafter1918:acasestudyValentin Maier & Dragoș Sdrobiș, One hundred years of Romanian education: theevolutionofhumancapitalinRomaniaRaduCupcea,Whatwe learnaboutwhoweare?TheRomanianeducational systemfromtheinterwarperiodtothepresentAlexandraK.Liebich,Change,continuity,andcontestation:thepoliticsofeducationinpost-communistRomaniaDarina Lepădatu& JenniferMcDonnell,Higher Education in Romania: Faculty andStudentsSpeakOutinaQualitativeStudyof5RomanianUniversities

K10Roundtable:Doctoralstudies inRomania:patternsandchallenges,10:45-12:45[Location:Sala0435]Moderator:BogdanMurgescuParticipants: Katja Lasch, Lucian Nastasă-Kovács, Viorel Proteasa, Romeo Susan-Resiga,AndreiFlorinSora

14:45-16:45 Session L

L1Panel:GlobalRomania, global healthcare?Transnationalizinghealth services inthenewmillennium,14:45-16:45[Location:SalaSchuman]Chair:SabinaStanPresenters:

Sabina Stan, Valentin-Veron Toma & Alina-Cerasela Aluculesei, Mappinginstitutionalization processes at work in the development of medical tourism inRomaniaValentin-VeronToma,Qualityimprovementinmedicaltourism:theRomaniancaseAlina-Cerasela Aluculesei, Medical tourism collaborations between healthcareorganizationsinRomania

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IrinaGherghe(Boncea),Turningbraindrain intobraingain:translationalnetworksofhealthcareprofessionalsandRomanianhealthservices

Discussant:RodicaMilenaZaharia

L2Panel:Labor legislation, socialpolicies,and thepoliticsofcrisis in the interwarperiod,14:45-16:45[Location:Sala0124]Chairanddiscussant:VictorRizescuPresenters:

AdrianGrama, ‘Izvoruluneidezarmoniisociale’:laborlaw,collectivebargaining,andstateviolenceinRomania(1920s-1940s)AlexandraGhit,Theworkofcrisis:women’sandchildren’sworkandtheirimpactonlaborandsocialpolicyregimesininterwarRomaniaAlinConstantin,ForcedlaborandRomanianization:MirceaVulcănescuandthesocialpoliciesoftheAntonescugovernment

L3Panel:LawandpoliticsafteruniOication:newdimensions, 14:45-16:45 [Location:Sala0233]Chairanddiscussant:RaduCinpoeșPresenters:

Adrian-AlexandruHerța,Romanianelectorallawof1926:theoreticalsourcesCornelMicu,LandpropertyininterwarRomania:politicalprogramsandlegislationLuminița Tuleașcă, Reform of the Romanian commercial law: towards a newcommercialcode

L4 Roundtable: Field investigation in light of changes that occurred in Romania14:45-16:45[Location:Sala0321]Moderator:DoruBotezatParticipants:AndreiNetedu,DanaCostin,MihaelaTurcu

L5 Roundtable: From restricted to free access to information: Romania, past andpresent,14:45-16:45[Location:Sala1604]Moderator:HerminaAnghelescuParticipants:ElenaChiaburu,FlorianBichir,DanielNazare,BogdanPopovici,DanMatei

L6 Panel: Forecasting the future: social sciences and the politics of knowledgeproductioninlate-socialistRomania,14:45-16:45[Location:Sala0319]Chairanddiscussant:IrinaCulicPresenters:

AdelaHîncu,FutureStudiesinsocialistRomania:sketchforanintellectualhistoryAlinaSandraCucu,Economicdebatesintheadvanceof_lexiblecapitalisminEasternEuropeCorinaDoboș,Fromthe‘productionofthings’tothe‘productionofmen’:population-forecastpracticesunderCeauşescu

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MaraMărginean,Thefuturebelongstotheyouth:knowledgeproductionandvisionsoftheurbaninthe1970sand1980s

L7Roundtable:2018updateonManele:genre,performance,controversy14:45-16:45[Location:Sala0320]Moderator:MargaretBeissingerParticipants:ClaudiuOancea,GergőPulay,IoanidaCostache

L8Panel:SpacesofRomaniannationalidentity:ideologiesandpractices,14:45-16:45[Location:Sala0334]Chairanddiscussant:EmilyR.HanscamPresenters:

EmilyR.Hanscam,Romanian frontiers:nationalismand the ideological spaceof theRomanlimesÁgotaÁbrán,Mobilizing theactive ingredients of plants: the expansionofmedicinalplantgatheringandexportafterthe1918uni_icationCosmin-Gabriel Ghiurco-Porumb, The importance of qualitative methodology instudying representations of Transylvania as a touristic site: discourse analysis andsemiotics

L9Panel:Minoritiesbetweenpersecutionandmigration,14:45-16:45 [Location:Sala0329]Chair:DeliaPopescuPresenters:

ViorelAchim,TheRomanianabolitionismanditsnationalsourcesZsuzsaPlainer,‘Andtheythrewourstuffoutinthemud’–memoriesofaRomacolonyinRomaniathroughRomaandnon-RomarepresentationsStefániaToma,MigrationoftheRomanianRoma:socialdistancebetweenlocalsocialchangeandstrengthenedanchorage

Discussant:StefániaToma

L10 Roundtable: Thinking interwar history with or without Livezeanu's CulturalPoliticsinGreaterRomania,14:45-16:45[Location:Sala0435]Moderator:RolandClarkParticipants:IrinaLivezeanu,IonuțButoi,SvetlanaSuveică,DragoşSdrobiş

17:00-18:00 Session M

M1 Film screening and discussion: Through the Iron Curtain, from Romania17:00-18:00[Location:AmAiteatrul1]Participants:JamesvonGeldern

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M2Bookdiscussion:ChrisDavis,HungarianReligion,RomanianBlood:AMinority’sStruggle for National Belonging, 1920-1945 (University of Wisconsin Press, 2018),17:00-18:00[Location:Sala0124]Participants:JamesKapalo,RolandClark,CălinCotoi,ChrisDavis

M3Readingandcommentingthreeplays:DramaticTranslationswithaTwist(RSAASponsored),17:00-18:00[Location:Sala0233]Participants: Cătălina Florina Florescu, Roxana Mocanu, Marian Bănescu, AlexandraDulgheru,AlexandraBiancaHogea,VladNeagu,BiancaStoian

M4Bookpresentation: Ada I. Engebrigtsen,Romi printre români. Relaţii de putere,schimbşiinterdependenţăîntr-unsatdinTransilvania(Cluj:Ed.ISPMN,2016),trans.IoanaM.Voiculescu,17:00-18:00[Location:Sala0321]Participants:LászlóFosztó&StefániaToma

M5Bookpresentationsanddiscussionswith theauthors:MetinOmerandAdrianaCupcea(coord.),ADestinyattheBlackSea.TatarsinDobruja(Romania)(Cluj:ISPMN,2017);AdrianaCupceaandGyulaKozàk(coord.),HistoryandIdentityattheTurksinDobruja(Cluj:ISPMN,2017);ŞtefanC.Ionescu,JewishResistancetoRomanianization,1940-1944 (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2015); and Luiza Marinescu, Scriitorii românidespre Marea Unire (Bucharest: Editura Fundaţiei România de Mâine, 2018),17:00-18:00[Location:Sala1604]Participants:AdrianaCupcea,ȘtefanCristianIonescu,LuizaMarinescu

M6Lecture:KathleenLaraiaMcLaughlin,Şezătoare,17:00-18:00[Location:Sala0319]Participant:KathleenLaraiaMcLaughlin

M7 Book presentations and discussions with the authors: Marin Marian- Bălaşa,Ochiuldraculuișial luiDumnezeu (mentalitățieconomicetradiționale),andRevistadeetnogragiesifolclor(new,internationalseries,2007-2017),17:00-18:00[Location:Sala0320]Participants:MarinMarian-Bălaşa

M8Filmscreeninganddiscussion:RomanianNightWorkersinLondon,17:00-18:00[Location:Sala0334]Participant:Iulius-CezarMacarie

18:00-19:30 ClosingReception(ICUBSponsored) Location:CasaUniversitarilor,Str.DionisieLupu,nr.46,București Reservedforregisteredconferenceparticipants

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AbouttheSocietyofRomanianStudiesTheSociety forRomanian Studies is an international interdisciplinary academicorganizationbasedintheUnitedStatesofAmericaanddedicatedtopromotingtheprofessional study, criticism, and research of all aspects of Romanian culture andcivilization, particularly concerning the countries of Romania and Moldova.Establishedin1973byagroupofenthusiasts, theSocietyhasbecomethepremierRomanian Studies organization in the world, gathering scholars, students andgovernmentofAicialsfromavarietyofcountries.

TheSocietyrunsanumberofprogramsandactivitiesrelevant forscholars,students,andgovernmental ofAicials. Every year, it offers a prize for the best graduate student essaywritteninEnglishonaRomanianStudiestopic.TheSocietyalsoawardsabiennialprizeforthe best monograph published in English on a Romanian Studies theme, with aninternationallyrecognizedpress.InpartnershipwithPolirom,theSocietyalsopublishesabook collection. In 2019, the Society will launch the peer-reviewed Journal of RomanianStudies.ItsannualgeneralmeetingtakesplaceeveryyearinNovemberinconjunctionwiththeconferenceoftheAssociationforSlavic,EastEuropean&EurasianStudies(ASEEES).

WearepresentonFacebook,LinkedIn,Twitter,Academia.edu,andWikipedia.H-RomaniaisalsoanafAiliateofourSociety.Weareveryinterestedinhearingaboutyourwork!Togetintouchwithus,pleasecontactLaviniaStan.

President:LaviniaStan([email protected])Vice-President:MargaretBeissinger([email protected])PastPresident:IrinaLivezeanu([email protected])Treasurer:BillCrowther([email protected])Secretary:RolandClark([email protected])NewsletterEditors:AnaFumurescu([email protected])andCristinaPlămădeală([email protected])Webmasters:PetruNegură([email protected])andLucianTurcescu([email protected])H-RomaniaRepresentative:R.ChrisDavis([email protected])StudentRepresentatives:AlexandraGhit([email protected])andRuxandraCanachePetrincă([email protected])Membersatlarge:MarinaCap-Bun,RoxanaCazan,JamesKapalo,PetruNegură,MariusWamsiedel,AncaŞincan,OanaSuciu,RodicaZaharia

MeetandGreet forBoardMembers,Wednesday June27, 12:15-14:15, LocationTBA

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