2022 SRS Conference Program

2022 SRS Conference Program www.socie 4romanianstudies.
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2022 SRS Conference Program www.socie 4romanianstudies.org 15-17 June 2022, Timişoara, Romania
Organizers of e SRS 2022 Conference
e Socie for Romanian Studies

Universita a de Vest din Timișoara
PLURAL Forum for In rdisciplinary Studies
Muzeului Ororilor Comunismului
Muzeul Național de Artă Timișoara
SRS 2022 Conference Organizing Commi ee:
Anca Şincan (chair), Roland Clark, Vladimir Solonari, Cris na

Plămădeală, Philippe Blasen, Valen na Glajar, Claudiu Mesaroş, Dumi u
Tucan, Alexandru Groza, and Loredana Pungă (honorary).
We would also like ank e fo owing:

Andreea Aelenei, Georgiana Bălan, Maria Bica, Alexandra Bucătaru,
Adelina Cernica, Ioana Bianca Cris a, Oana Gogoșanu,
Monica- Alexandra Nis ran, An nia Pup, and Ș fania-Alexandra
Răduț
Wi special anks Philippe Blasen as individual sponsor
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Conference Activities and

Locations
All of the panels, roundtables, and book panels will take place in Universitatea de Vest
din Timișoara (UVT). Note that all UVT rooms have working audio-visual presentation
units.
Other events at Universitatea de Vest include:

Opening ceremony.
First Keynote: Adriana Babeți (Universitatea de Vest din Timișoara), “Tra c de
frontiere. Poetica intervalului în literaturile central-europene” (in Romanian).
Opening buffet reception.
Events at Muzeul Național de Artă Timișoara (MNAT) include:

Antinostalgia Exhibition by Muzeul Ororilor Comunismului.
Film screening: Fragile: The Series (2021) followed by a
discussion with Rucsandra Pop, Mihaela Miroiu, and Maria Bucur.
Second Keynote: Maria Bucur (Indiana University Bloomington), “When the
Invalids Came Home: Visual Discourses about Disability in Interwar
Romania” (in English).
Final wine and cheese reception.
Books stands will be run by external retailers in the main hallway at UVT, including:
Polirom
Editura Universității de Vest
CEEOL Press
Wednesday, 15 June 2022

9:30-10:00 Conference Registration (ongoing) (UVT, main hallway)
10:00-12:00 Session A
12:00-14:00 Lunch break
14:00-16:00 Session B
16:00-17:00 Coffee break
17:00-19:00 Opening ceremony (Aula, UVT)
Keynote: Adriana Babeți (Universitatea de Vest din Timișoara)
19:00 Buffet reception at UVT
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Thursday, 16 June 2022
9:00-11:00 Session C
11:00-12:30 Session D
Working group meetings
14:30-16:30 Session E
16:30-18:00 Session F
17:00-20:00 Muzeul Ororilor Comunismului exhibition (MNAT)
Film screening: Fragile: The Series (2021) (MNAT)
Friday, June 17, 2022

9:00-11:00 Session G
11:00-12:30 Session H
14:30-16:00 Session I
17:00-19:00 Closing ceremony (MNAT)
Exhibition opening by Muzeul Ororilor Comunismului (MNAT)
Keynote: Maria Bucur (Indiana University Bloomington) (MNAT)
Film Screening
THURSDAY, June 16, 17:00-18:30 -Muzeul Național de Artă
Timișoara
Fragile—a documentary series about vulnerability
Followed by a conversation with Rucsandra Pop, Maria Bucur and Mihaela Miroiu.
Fragile is a documentary series about vulnerability, but also about the

power of women. It attempts to document and to share the life stories
of Romanian women who struggle with abuse, with tensions created
by others’ prejudices and by social norms, and with a state that
ignores its citizens.
The women’s stories, told in the form of testimony-monologues, are

interpreted by Ioana Flora, who serves as a link with the public
sphere as an actress, allowing the protagonists to protect their
anonymity. One by one, Ioana Flora portrays each of the women who
had the courage to tell their stories, maintaining the authenticity of the
telling, the uniqueness and emotions of each story.
Fragile seeks to encourage those who need help to seek expert

support, demonstrating that a network of support organisations exists
which is concerned with protecting and promoting women’s rights.
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Art Exhibition: Antinostalgia

The purpose of Antinostalgia is to investigate the reaction of the public towards
elements of the communist past that trigger good and bad memories. Revisiting the
past becomes a way to rediscover the means and ways to survive in a hostile state
environment. Antinostalgia is meant to work like a vaccine against nostalgia. The
collective and affective memories are rooted in the dictatorial era of Ceaușescu and
represent the seeds from which nostalgia can grow — pleasant feelings, regrets for lost
good old times, desire to be young again, comparison with present times. The vaccine
might help us to ght against that stem of nostalgia which could lead us down an
authoritarian path again.
Andrei Pandele's photodocumentary incentives can be interpreted as real time capsules

that can be used as pills in the treatment of melancholy over the communist era, or even
a freedom call throughout history for the future generations to come. Ion Isaila created in
his workshop from Germany a series of anti state collages, under the name of
dada.import.export, through which he assumed a personal war with Ceaușescu's
regime. His art was not meant to speak to art galleries, but it was created to become a
statement of social activism for human rights in a dark time. The photographic memory
intertwines with gra c art statements as a form of protest. If the photography records a
real life situation with a speci c topographic meaning, historically placed between the
70s and 80s, then the anti-state collages embody the spirit of propaganda and
resistance in a unique dissident manner.
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Book Panels
A1 Lucian Turcescu and Lavinia Stan
eds., Church Reckoning with Communism in
Post-1989 Romania (Lanham, MA: Lexington
Books, 2021.
A2 Philippe Henri Blasen, La « primauté de

la nation roumaine » et les « étrangers ». Les
minorités et leur liberté du travail sous le
cabinet Goga et la dictature royale (Cluj-
Napoca: Casa Cărţii de Ştiinţă, 2022).
B1 Călin Cotoi, Inventing the Social in

Romania, 1848-1914: Networks and
Laboratories of Knowledge (Leiden: Brill,
2020).
C1 Mihaela Gligor ed., Memories of Terror:

Essays on Recent Histories (Frankfurt am
Main: CEEOL Press, 2021).
C2 Raluca Bianca Roman, So ya Zahova,

and Aleksandar Marinov, Roma Writings:
Romani Literature and Press in Central,
South-Eastern and Eastern Europe from the
19th Century until World War II (Leiden: Brill,
2021).
Elena Marushiakova and Vesselin Popov eds.

Roma Voices in History: A Sourcebook
(Leiden: Brill, 2021).
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Elena Marushiakova and Vesselin Popov

eds., Roma Portraits in History: Roma Civic
Emancipation Elite in Central, South-Eastern
and Eastern Europe from the 19th Century
until World War II (Leiden: Brill, 2022).
D1 Andrei Ursu, Roland O. Thomasson and

Madalin Hodor, eds. Trăgători și misti catori.
Contrarevoluția Securității în decembrie
1989 (Iaşi: Polirom, 2019).
D7 Victor Neumann, Kin, People or Nation?

On European Political Identities, trans. Gabi
Reigh (London: Scala, 2021).
Victor Neumann, The Banat of Timișoara: A
European Melting Pot (London: Scala, 2019).
E1 Giuseppe Tateo, Under the Sign of the

Cross: The People’s Salvation Cathedral and
the Church-Building Industry in Postsocialist
Romania (New York: Berghahn Books, 2020).
H6 Marin Marian-Bălaşa. Ochiul dracului și al

lui Dumnezeu (mentalități economice
tradiționale) (Bucureşti, Editura Muzicală,
2021).
I1 Cristian Cercel, Filogermanism

fărăgermani. România în
căutareaeuropenității (Iaşi: Polirom, 2021).
I7 Vladimir Solonari, Imperiul-satelit.

Guvernarea românească în Transnistria,
1941–1944 (Bucureşti: Humanitas, 2021).
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Key Note Speakers

Adriana Babeți (Wednesday, June 15, 17:00-19:00, Aula UVT)
Tra c de frontiere. Poetica intervalului în literaturile central-europene (in

Romanian)
Nota Biogra că
Adriana Babeți este profesor la Universitatea de Vest din
Timișoara, unde predă literatura comparată, și redactor la
revista Orizont. De asemenea, este membră a Uniunii
Scriitorilor din Romania, a Asocia iei de Literatura
Comparată din Romania și a PEN-Clubului roman. Este
bine cunoscută ca un critic literar, romancier, eseist și
traducător, și a primit premii de la Uniunea Scriitorilor din
Romania, Asociația de Literatură Comparată și Generală
din România, Romania literară, Observator cultural, și
Galea Industriei de Carte din Romania. Volumele recente semnate de ea includ Prozac
2. 90 de pastile împotriva triste ii (2014), Amazoanele. O poveste (2013), Prozac. 101
pastile pe tru bucurie (2009), și Le Banat: Un Eldorado aux con ns (2007).
Maria Bucur (Friday, June 17, 17:00-19:00, Muzeul Național de

Artă Timișoara )
When the Invalids Came Home: Visual Discourses about Disability in Interwar
Romania (in English)
Biographical Note
Maria Bucur is the John W. Hill Professor of History and
Gender Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington. She is the
author of numerous books on Romania, and has written
extensively on biopolitics, eugenics, nationalism, women’s
history, gender history, and the histories of war and of
memory. Her recent books include The Nation’s Gratitude:
War and Citizenship in Romania after World War I (2022), The
Birth of Democratic Citizenship: Women and Power in
Modern Romania (2018, with Mihaela Miroiu), and The
Century of Women: How Women Transformed the World in
the Twentieth Century (2018). She holds an Honorary Doctorate from the National
University for Political Science and Public Administration, Bucharest, and has received
grants from NCEEER, the Woodrow Wilson Center, the National Endowment for the
Humanities, Indiana University, IREX, and the AAUW.
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Program Schedule
Wednesday, 15 June 2022
9:30-10:00: Registration (ongoing)

Universitatea de Vest din Timișoara, main hallway
10:00-12:00: Session A
A1: Book panel: Church Reckoning with Communism in Post-1989 Romania, room 156
Editor: Lavinia Stan
Discussants: Anca Șincan, Cristian Vasile
A2: Book panel: La « primauté de la nation roumaine » et les « étrangers ». Les minorités
et leur liberté du travail sous le cabinet Goga et la dictature royale, room 204
Author: Philippe Henri Blasen
Discussants: Roland Clark, Andrei Cușco, Francesco Magno
A3: Panel: Building local narratives: Educating the younger generation about Romanian
communism, room 328
Chair: Cristian Alexandru Groza
Discussant: Ruxandra-Iuliana Petrinca-Canache
Dalia Agata Bathory, “Museum Education – between Vernacular Memories and Public
Memories. Educational programs for Museum of Communist Horrors in Romania”
Luciana-Mărioara Jinga, “Friend or foe? The Use of Statistics in Educational Programs for
Youth”
Jill Massino, “Exhibiting the Everyday: Narrating Communism through Life Stories”
A4: Panel: Challenging the Imagined Cultural Frontiers – The Ethnographic Method in
Recent Fieldresearches, room 308
Chair: Marin Marian-Bălașa
Discussant: Filippo Zerilli
Elena Bărbulescu, “Neoruralia. Etnologul obiect şi subiect de studiu”
Astrid Cambose, “Ce nu spune etnologul”
Iulia Elena Hossu, “Antropolog în pandemie. Provocări vechi şi noi”
Annemarie Sorescu-Marinković, “Cercetarea actuală de teren a comunităţilor româneşti
transfrontaliere”
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A5: Panel: Între internaționalizare epistemică, deschidere culturală și constrângeri

(geo)politice. Utilizări ale limbilor străine în învățământul superior din România
secolului XX, room 103
Chair & discussant: Irina Nastasă-Matei
Ana-Maria Stan, “Studenții din Europa Centrală și problematica frontierelor/ a status-quo-ului
interbelic – prolegomene despre Mica Antantă”
Dragoș Jipa & Valentin Maier, “Învățământul superior de limbă franceză în comunism:
continuitate, dezvoltare sau involuție?”
Ionuț-Mircea Marcu, “Internaționalizarea istoricilor profesioniști din România în socialismul târziu
între constrângeri politice, strategii adaptative de acumulare a capitalului simbolic și modele
istoriogra ce internaționale”
A6: Panel: Law, History and Justice: New Research Directions in Romanian Studies,
room 607a
Chair: Delia Popescu
Discussant: Simona Mitroiu
Emanuel Grec, “Memory as history? The Odessa Massacre, its perpetrators, and the
memorialization of the Holocaust in Romania”
Veronica Rozenberg, “The Criminal Procedure in an Economic Trial – Synopsis”
Mihaela Şerban, “Property Rights, Identity and Memory in Romania”
12:00-14:00: Lunch break
14:00-16:00: Session B
B1: Book panel: Inventing the Social in Romania, 1848-1914: Networks and Laboratories
of Knowledge, room 156
Author: Călin Cotoi
Discussants: Alex Drace-Francis, Alex R. Tipei
B2: Panel: Limits and borders of communication in the digital era: Romanian Online
Media, room 308
Chair: Adina Baya
Discussant: Iasmina Petrovici
Manuela Anghelescu, “Perceived motile borders in city branding: A case study of TM2023”
Simona Bader & Corina Sîrb, “Romanian online media: the good, the bad and the ugly”
Daniel Ciurel, “Thresholds, transitions and transgressions in media rhetoric”
Ionuţ Suciu, “Podcasting trends in digital communication”
B3: Panel: Looking Outwards: Re ections on Global Issues in State Socialist Romania,
room 328
Chair & discussant: Manuela Ungureanu
Ştefan Baghiu & Alex Cistelecan, “World outlooks and foreign policy in communist Romania”
Christian Ferencz-Flatz & Adela Hîncu, “From ecological crisis to ecological revolution: Marxist
re ections on the «limits to growth»”
Claudiu Oancea, “Closed Borders and Open Access: Black Markets and Popular Music in
Socialist Romania during the 1970s and 1980s”
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B4: Panel: Migration from and to Romania (1), room 308

Chair & discussant: Ruxandra Trandafoiu
Irina Culic, “Transnationalism as Captivity: Productive and Corrosive Liminality at Economic
Class Immigrants to Canada in the 2000s”
Julieta C. Paulesc, “Migration and Identity: Digital Storytelling”
Leyla Safta-Zecheria, “Immersive learning with young people about migration in Northeast
Romania”
B5: Panel: Transylvania in the Empire, room 103

Chair & discussant: Stefano Santoro
Dragoș Dumitru Ianc, “Military training of of cers of the line infantry and border guard regiments
of the Habsburg Army in the rst half of the 19th century. Comparative case study: the 17th
Border Regiment from Năsăud (2nd Romanian) and the 51st Line Regiment (G. Splény)”
Angela Lumezeanu & Vlad Popovici, “The Digital Framework for the History of the Austrian
Military Border in Transylvania. Making a Case for a Possible Leap Forward”
Alexandru Nicolaescu, “Transnational in uences in the educational approaches of the Romanian
press in Transylvania at the beginning of the twentieth century”
Raluca Prelipceanu, “Mobility of Painters and Circulation of Models in Transylvania during the
18th and rst half of the 19th centuries”
B6: Roundtable: The Study of Religions in and of Romania, room 607a

Participants: James Kapaló, Roland Clark, Aleksandra Djuric, Iemima Ploscariu, Anca Șincan
16:00-17:00: Coffee break
17:00-19:00: Opening ceremony (Aula, UVT)

Keynote speech: Adriana Babeți (Universitatea de Vest din Timișoara), “Tra c de frontiere.
Poetica intervalului în literaturile central-europene” (in Romanian)
19:00: Buffet reception at Universitatea de Vest din Timișoara
Thursday, 16 June 2022
9:00-11:00 Session C
C1: Book panel: Memories of Terror: Essays on Recent Histories, room 156
Editor: Mihaela Gligor
Discussants: Camelia Crăciun, Claudiu Mesaroș
C2: Book panel: Roma Voices in History, Roma Writings, and Roma Portraits in History,
room 607a
Organizer/editor: Raluca Bianca Roman
Discussants: Manuela Marin, Zsuzsa Plainer, Cristina Stoica
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C3: Panel: Dilemmas of Truth Telling in Post-Communism: Individual Biographies, Ethnic

Minorities, and Religious Denominations (1), room 607b
Chair & discussant: Mihai-Stelian Rusu
Margentina Iasmina Bot, “Exilul şi iugo-nostalgia”
Iuliana David, “Reprezentări ale graniței și ale teritoriilor de graniță în Danubius de Claudio
Magris”
Delia Popescu, “The Shape of Violence: Questions of Discursive and Ideological Practices in
relation to the Roma minority in Secret Police Files”
C4: Panel: Education in Greater Romania, room 201

Chair: Ana-Maria Stan
Discussant: Philippe Henri Blasen
Camelia Zavarache, “The cultural and nationalizing mission of kindergarten teachers in South
Dobruja, 1913-1940”
Petru Negură, “The primary school teachers in the Romanian and Soviet borderlands: privileged
outsiders, organic intellectuals or political mediators?”
Valentin Maier, “Training of Engineers in Communist Romania and the Connection with the
Industrial Development”
Ștefan-Marius Deaconu, “Amidst an ideological preference and socio-economic constraints:
expansion of technical higher education in the 1970s Romania”
C5: Panel: Imperial Legacies in Interwar Romania: Law, Political Thought, Sport, room
203
Chair & discussant: Andrei Cușco
Stefano Santoro, “Habsburg Legacies and Interwar Context in Transylvanian Romanian
Nationalist Thought After the Great Union”
Francesco Magno, “«Judges are mesmerized when they speak of the Austrian system»:
Bukovina’s legal integration in Greater Romania”
Lorenzo Venuti, “An Ethnic Game? Football and Imperial Legacies in Transylvania After WWI”
C6: Panel: Protests, social mobilization, and civic activism in Romania, room 248
Chair & discussant: Dana S. Trif
George Kordas, “Romanian MEPs’ and National Parties’ Positions in 2014 Refugee and
Migration Crisis”
Toma Burean, Diana Mărgărit, & Dana S. Trif, “«Movement parties for democracy»: The Rise of
Hungary’s Momentum and Romania’s USR PLUS Political Parties”
Toma Burean & Diana Mărgărit, “The Mobilisation of a Conservative Movement in Romania: The
Case of AUR”
Alin Gavreliuc, “Devianța tolerată ca soluție «funcțională» în Banatul contemporan – cazul
corupției”
C7: Panel: Practicing religion in troubled times, room 103

Chair & discussant: James Kapaló
Iuliana Nagy-Cindrea, “The Old Calendarists and the Issue of Monastic Incarceration in Interwar
Romania”
Iemima Ploscariu, “New Religious Identities in the Borderlands: the Jewish Christians of
Chisinau 1918-1938”
Ionuț Biliuță, “Lived Religion in the Time of Sorrows: Experiencing Orthodox Faith during the
Holocaust”
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11:00-12:30 Session D
D1: Book panel: Trăgători și misti catori. Contrarevoluția Securității în decembrie 1989,
room 201
Author: Andrei Ursu
Discussants: Gabriel Andreescu, Mihai Danilă, Luciana-Mărioara Jinga, Adrian Miroiu,
Ruxandra-Iuliana Petrinca-Canache, Lavinia Stan
D2: Panel: Călătorie şi cunoaştere în Principatele Române (secolul al XIX-lea), room 203
Chair: Alex Drace-Francis
Discussant: Constantin Ardeleanu
Constantin Bărbulescu, “Călătoria ca aventură şi regresie în timp: Ion Ghica, Nicolae Bălcescu
si C.A. Rosetti”
Mihai Chiper, “Peste (fosta) graniță. Călătoriile «dincolo» de Milcov în secolul al XIX-lea”
Alin Ciupală, “Călătoriile literare ale cărților reginei Elisabeta a României (Carmen Sylva)”
D3: Panel: Competing Pasts, Entangled Histories: Continuity and Change in Social and
Cultural Collective Identities, room 248
Chair & discussant: Manuela Marin
Csongor Jánosi, “Transylvanism versus Minima Moralia: Competing Concepts of Community in
the Dissident Thinking of the 1980s”
Cristina Petrescu, “The Quest for National Identity: Enduring Historical Narratives in Changing
Political Contexts”
Victor Rizescu, “Shifting Social Landscapes: Con icting Views on the Social Origins and
Ideological Sources of post-WWI Labour Policies”
D4: Panel: Translations and Films as Modes of Planetary Conviviality, room 607a
Chair & discussant: Ileana Marin
Letiția Guran, “Cosmopolitan Conviviality: Literary Translations, Films, and Critical Syntheses”
Monica Filimon, “Beyond Borders: Deterritorialization and Representation in Cristi Puiu’s
Malmkrog (2020)”
Cristian Gașpar, “Drawing Linguistic Boundaries in Banat: Regional Identities and the Dynamics
of Language Contact”
Viorel Pâslaru, “Crossing the Border Between Science and Politics”
D5: Panel: Yiddish Life in Greater Romania (1918-1940): between education and culture in
mother tongue, room 607b
Chair: Anca Șincan
Discussant: Răzvan Pârâianu
Camelia Crăciun, “Iacob Sternberg – Revolutionizing Yiddish Theatre in Romania”
Irina Nastasă-Matei, “The issue of Yiddish schooling in Greater Romania (1918-1940)”
Valentin Săndulescu, “Yiddish Culture as Threat: A Look at a Less Explored Dimension of
Antisemitism in Interwar Romania”
Francisca Solomon, “Shaping Yiddish Cultural Identity in Interwar Romania – Discourses in the
Yiddish Press”
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D6: Panel: Borders & identity, room 103

Chair & discussant: Leyla Safta-Zecheria
Sorana Constantinescu, “Shifting and reinforcing the borders of European identity: East-
European xenophobia as an assimilation strategy”
András Máté-Tóth, “Instable borders in the border region CEE”
Raluca-Nicoleta Radu, “How I learned to hate you. Crossing borders on Facebook, before the
2021 COVID sanitary disaster”
D7: Book panel: Kin, People or Nation? and The Banat of Timișoara: A European Melting
Pot, room 156
Author/editor: Victor Neumann
Discussant: Dana Percec

Time for working group meetings
14:30-16:30 Session E
E1: Book panel: Under the Sign of the Cross, room 156
Author: Giuseppe Tateo
Discussants: James Kapaló, Lavinia Stan
E2: Panel: Colonialism, Antisemitism, and Corruption (Scandals) in Romania, room 248
Chair & discussant: Alex R. Tipei
Constantin Ardeleanu, “From a «National Disgrace» to a Triumph of Romanian Hydraulic
Mastery: Romanian Techno-Nationalism and the Modernization of Constanța’s Habour in Late
Nineteenth Century”
Silvia Marton, “Railway Construction and Corruption Scandals in Nineteenth Century Romania”
Andrei Sorescu, “The «Colonial» Language of Nineteenth-Century Romanian Antisemitism”
E3: Panel: Construind comunitatea rasială nazistă în Europa de Sud-Est: O perspectivă

transnațională asupra Grupului Etnic German din România, room 203
Chair: Corneliu Pintilescu
Discussant: Matei Gheboianu
Manuela Marin, “Între «Vaterland» și «Mutterland»: Crearea Grupului Etnic German re ectată în
presa romȃnească”
Daniela Popescu, “Propaganda Grupului Etnic German din Romȃnia în decursul anului 1940
re ectată în arhivele romȃnești”
Ottmar Trașcă, “Serviciile secrete germane și Grupul Etnic German, 1939-1945”
Virgiliu Ţȃrău, “Ce s-a întȃmplat cu arhivele Grupului Etnic German din Romȃnia?”
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E4: Panel: Representations of the Past in Pre-Communist, Communist and Post-

Communist Romania: Public Monuments, Films, Testimonies and Martyrdom, room 201
Chair & discussant: Valeska Bopp-Filimonov
Simona Mitroiu, “Entangled histories: polyphonic expressions of borders in post-communist
cinema”
Iona Ramsay, “Scars of a Living Martyr: Richard Wurmbrand and the Construction of a
Transnational Anti-Communist Memory”
Mihai-Stelian Rusu, “Fallen into Disgrace: The Memorial Afterlives of the Communist
Monuments in Postsocialist Romania”
Cristian Vasile, “The Monuments of the Royal Family and the Romanian Historical Memory”
E5: Panel: The fostering role of ESG principles on the nexus between corporate
performance and macroeconomic resilience, room 607a
Chair: Alexandra Horobeț
Discussant: Lucian Belașcu
Lucian Belașcu & Alexandra Horobeț, “The relationship between environmental quality, energy
consumption and economic growth. A panel data analysis”
Răzvan & Rodica Milena Zaharia, “Triple Bottom Line (TBL) and the business model: how TBL is
re ected in the Romanian business environment?”
Iulia Maria Sobolevschi-David, “An introspection into the micro-macroeconomic correlations from
the perspective of the sustainable development paradigm”
E6: Panel: Borders, spaces and limits in ction and biography, room 607b
Chair & discussant: Valentina Glajar
Dana Costin, “A boundary meant to be crossed: Historians and their Autobiographies: The case
of Aurelian Sacerdoțeanu”
Carmen Levick, “The City in Dérive: Bucharest in Mihail Sebastian’s Journal 1935-1944 – The
Fascist Years”
Cristina-Felicia Sărăcuț, “How many countries in a story? Representing homeland in Romanian
children literature written in Serbia”
Jonathan Lahey Drons eld, “The Border between Inner and Outer Freedom for Possibilities of
Dissent”
E7: Panel: Migration from and to Romania (2), room 103

Chair & discussant: Irina Culic
Cayla Bleoaja, “Invisible Walls: The Psychosocial Boundaries of Trauma and Identity”
Bronwyn Cragg, “Letters from Exile: Canadian Media, the Romanian Diaspora, and the Radical
Right”
Ruxandra Trandafoiu, “The social media communicative paradox: Romanian Facebook groups
in the UK between boundary spanning and rebordering”
16:30-18:00 Session F
F1: Panel: Limits and borders of communication in the digital era: Borders and Online
Marketing and Communication, room 103
Chair & discussant: Ileana Rotaru
Anamaria Filimon-Benea, “Citizen journalism in the digital era: limits and opportunities”
Gianina Jurji, “Clients and practitioners negotiating in the online procurement process”
Iasmina Petrovici & Corina Sîrb, “Current challenges in promoting cultural and artistic events”
Ioana Vid, “Can we cross borders using digital Communication?”
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F2: Panel: Minority Groups in the Crosshairs of the Secret Police, room 201
Chair & discussant: Ionuț Biliuță
Valentina Glajar, “Recruitment Legends and Strategies: Cases of German-Romanian Informers”
Corina Petrescu, “Turning Tables: The Jewish State Theater in Bucharest and the Securitate”
Ruxandra-Iuliana Petrinca-Canache, “Supervision, Transgression, and Co-Habitation: The
Secret Lives of Liminal Spaces”
F3: Panel: National Identity Narratives, Territorial Disputes and Great Powers Strategies
in Twentieth-Century Transylvania and Banat, room 203
Chair: Ottmar Trașcă
Discussant: Virgiliu Ţȃrău
Cristian Cercel, “The «Banatais»: A Translocal, Transregional and/or Transnational Story?”
Corneliu Pintilescu, “Building a Nazi Racial Community in the South-East: Nazi Propaganda
Tropes in the German Press in Romania (1939-1944)”
Alessandro Vagnini, “The Hencke-Rogeri Special Commission for Transylvania”
F4: Panel: COVID, room 248

Chair: Delia Popescu
Discussant: Raluca-Nicoleta Radu
Iulia-Maria Apostu, “The impact of Covid-19 on access to healthcare and expanding access to
healthcare through innovation”
Onoriu Colăcel, “Conspiratorial and Populist Narratives in Romanian-language Media (Romania
and the Republic of Moldova)”
Cristina Carmencita Negreanu, “From perception to reality: contesting Covid-19 restrictions and
its socioeconomic and political implications”
Dragoș Petrescu, “Cultural Boundaries in the Pandemic Years 2020–2021: Civilizational
Incompetence and the Digital Roots of the Sanitary Crisis in Romania”
F5: Panel: Economic & administrative borders, room 607a

Chair & discussant: Narcis Tulbure
Alexandru M. Iorga, “Awaiting development at the margins of Europe. Politics of development
and heritage tourism in Chilia Veche, Romania”
Raluca Perneș, “Precarious industrial labour at the edge of the European Union: The case of
Baia Mare”
Sabina Schnell, “Forms without function? Global isomorphic power and local administrative
development. The case of Romania”
F6: Panel: Romania in the 1970s, room 607b

Chair & discussant: Cristina Petrescu
Andrei-Dan Bratu, “The Romanian student protests of 24th and 25th of December 1968”
Andrada Fătu-Tutoveanu, “Breaking boundaries: youth as performers, commodities and
audiences in Romanian underground visual media (1971-1989)”
Domnica Gorovei, “What image about Africa in Romania in the 1960s and 1970s?”
Răzvan Pârâianu, “Marginality and homogeneity in Ceaușescu’s Romania”
17:00: Visit to exhibition by Muzeul Ororilor Comunismului

Film screening and discussion “Conversații Fragile – proiecție a unui serial documentar
despre vulnerabilitate,” Rucsandra Pop, Mihaela Miroiu, Maria Bucur
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9:00-11:00 Session G
G1: Panel: The Scholarly Legacies of Keith Hitchins in Romanian Studies Today, room
156
Chair & discussant: Maria Bucur
Paul E. Michelson, “Revisiting Keith Hitchins' Oxford History of Modern Europe: Romania,
1774-1947”
Radu Nedici, “Transylvania in the nineteenth century: A reading of Keith Hitchins through the
ages”
Anca Șincan, “Positive in uence: negotiating the national historiographical canon with the
«West»”
Alex R. Tipei, “What Did Romanianness Mean to Ion? Keith Hitchins’s Legacy, Methodological
Nationalism, and Nineteenth-Century Romanian History”
G2: Panel: Jews in Greater Romania, room 248

Chair: Valentin Săndulescu
Discussant: Emanuel Grec
Julie Dawson, “«I Walked beyond the ‘Sanatorium’ into the Wood and Screamed»: Mapping
Spaces of Encounter and Emotion in Postwar Jewish Diaries”
Giuseppe Motta, “The Jewish Invasion: Myth and Reality of the Refugee question in rst postwar
Romania”
Vladimir Solonari, “Between Law and Criminal Orders, Or on the Problem of Romanian
Perpetrators’ Compliance”
G3: Panel: Life on the margins, room 204

Chair & discussant: Irina Nastasă-Matei
Adriana Cupcea, “Remembering and Being. The Memories of Communist Life in a Turkish
Muslim Roma Community in Dobruja (Romania)”
Zsuzsa Plainer, “«I tried to prove: there is such a thing that a Gypsy with university degree» –
investigating Roma/non-Roma ethno-racial borders in case of upwardly mobile Romanian
Roma”
Cristina Stoica, “Imagining the Mahala: Socio-economic Perceptions of the (Un)spoken Borders
of Roma Enclaves”
G5: Roundtable: The Journal of Romanian Studies: Achievements and Future Prospects,
room 103
Participants: Roland Clark, Iuliu Rațiu, Lavinia Stan, Svetlana Suveica
G6: Roundtable: The museum of communism between hypothesis and reality, room 607a
Participants: Ana-Maria Borz, Cristian Alexandru Groza, Irina Hasnaș-Hubbard, Cornel-
Constantin Ilie, Cristina Liana Pușcaș, Gino Rado
G7: Roundtable: To Cross or not to Cross: Borders and Gates to Life or Death, room 607b
Participants: Victor Neumann, Sylvia Hershcovitz, Anca Tudorancea, Felicia Waldman
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H1: Roundtable: Romanian Studies through Interdisciplinary Lenses, room 156

Participants: Luciana Alexandra Ghica, Mihaela Şerban, Anca Șincan, Narcis Tulbure
H2: Roundtable: Peripheral housing, social marginalization, and uneven territorial

development: The socio-economic practices of Romanian Roma in the context of
changing industrial relations, room 204
Participants: Mara Mărginean, Alexandru Burlacu, Liviu Chelcea, Zsuzsa Plainer, Raluca Bianca
Roman, Cristina Stoica
H3: Panel: Religion and the state, room 248

Chair & discussant: Csongor Jánosi
Ovidiu Emil Iudean, “The Clergy’s Children: Greek-Catholic Priests’ Orphans in the Blaj Diocese
in the Early Twentieth Century”
Tünde Komáromi, “Ethnic and religious borders and the transfer of crisis-solving practices:
Orthodox Romanians and Protestant Hungarians in the Transylvanian Plain”
Dumitru Lisnic, “Inquiring into Religion: Liquidation Commissions and Religious Communities in
Soviet Moldavia during the 1920s”
H4: Panel: Ethnicity and National Minorities in Bessarabia and Bukovina during World
War I and in Its Aftermath, room 607a
Chair & discussant: Petru Negură
Andrei Cușco, “Questionable Loyalties: Shifting Ethnic Hierarchies in Wartime Bessarabia
through the Lens of the Police Authorities”
Oana-Maria Mitu, “Unsettled Years: Early Contacts between Ethnic Elites in Budjak and the
Romanian Administration”
Svetlana Suveica, “Between the Russian Empire, the National Homeland, and Greater
Romania: The Ambiguous Positioning of the Bessarabian Minorities in the Year 1919”
Philippe Henri Blasen, “The Rise of Political Antisemitism in Postwar Bukovina”
H5: Roundtable: The State of the Art in Romanian Studies, room 607b
Participants: Dragoș Petrescu, Roland Clark, Ruxandra Trandafoiu
H6: Book panel: Ochiul dracului și al lui Dumnezeu, room 103

Author: Marin Marian-Bălașa
Discussants: Constantin Bărbulescu, Elena Bărbulescu
14:30-16:00 Session I
I1: Book panel: Filogermanism fără germani. România în căutarea europenității, room 156
Author: Cristian Cercel
Discussants: Remus Gabriel Anghel, Valentina Glajar, Corina Petrescu
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Minorities, and Religious Denominations (2), room 248
Chair & discussant: Mihaela Şerban
Cristina Plămădeală & Cristian Tileagă, “Telling Dif cult Stories with Fragments of Experience:
Archives as Ethnographic Spaces”
Cristina Spinei, “So Close and Yet So Far: Running the Gauntlet of Migration in Novels by
Simona Castiglione and Claudia Partole”
Ileana Alexandra Orlich, “Lunch with Marx, Lenin, and Stalin in Post-communist Romania”
Lavinia Stan, “Religion and transitional justice – some markers”
I3: Panel: From Gender Borders to Physical Borders: Sport and the Transfer to Freedom,
room 204
Chair & discussant: Simona Tabără-Amânar
Bogdan Popa, “Cultural Transfers and Gender Borders in Sport: Women and Body Culture in
Romania during the First Half of the 20th Century”
Pompiliu-Nicolae Constantin, “From national hero to traitor: The defection of Angelica Adelstein-
Rozeanu, the rst sports star of communist Romania”
Simona Petracovschi, “The Defection of the Coaches of the Romanian Women’s Artistic
Gymnastics Team to the United States in 1981”
Anita-Diana Sterea, “Nadia Comaneci and the decision to runway Romania”
I4: Panel: Innovative methods in economics and business research: the experience of
doctoral students from South-eastern Europe, room 308
Chair: Alexandra Horobeț
Discussant: Rodica Milena Zaharia
Daria Maria Sitea, “Digital world interconnecting the outward mindset in education - impact on IT
and banking organizations”
Andrei Ungureanu, “Mapping Romania’s online advertising supply chain – A new way of
analyzing online advertising market’s ef ciency”
I5: Roundtable: From the inside of a communist archive to the outside: Historiography
and the ideal of value-free social sciences, room 607a
Participants: Adela Hîncu, Ioana Macrea-Toma, Manuela Ungureanu, Cristian Vasile
I6: Book panel: Für den Glauben, gegen den Staat. Der Altkalendarismus in Rumänien
(1924-1936), room 607b
Author: Andreea Kaltenbrunner
Discussants: Roland Clark, Svetlana Suveica
I7: Book panel: Imperiul-satelit. Guvernarea românească în Transnistria, 1941–1944, room

103
Author: Vladimir Solonari
Discussants: Ionuț Biliuță, Emanuel Grec
17:00-19:00: Closing ceremony

Exhibition opening by Muzeul Ororilor Comunismului
Keynote speech: Maria Bucur (Indiana University Bloomington), “When the Invalids Came
Home: Visual Discourses about Disability in Interwar Romania”
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List of Conference Participants

First and last name Af liation
Gabriel Andreescu Școala Națională de Studii Politice și Administrative
Remus Gabriel Anghel Institutul pentru Studierea Problemelor Minorităților

Naționale
Manuela Anghelescu Universitatea de Vest din Timișoara
Iulia-Maria Apostu Universitatea „Lucian Blaga" din Sibiu
Constantin Ardeleanu Universitatea „Dunărea de Jos” din Galați
Simona Bader Universitatea de Vest din Timișoara
Ştefan Baghiu Universitatea „Lucian Blaga" din Sibiu
Constantin Bărbulescu Universitatea Babeș-Bolyai
Elena Bărbulescu Academia Română
Dalia Agata Bathory Institutul de Investigare a Crimelor Comunismului și

Memoria Exilului Românesc
Adina Baya Universitatea de Vest din Timișoara
Lucian Belașcu Universitatea „Lucian Blaga" din Sibiu
Ionuț Biliuță Institutul de Cercetări Socio-Umane „Gheorghe Șincai”
Philippe Henri Blasen Institutul de Istorie „A.D. Xenopol”
Cayla Bleoaja University of Oxford
Valeska Bopp-Filimonov Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Ana-Maria Borz Universitatea din București
Margentina Iasmina Bot Universitatea de Vest din Timișoara

Andrei-Dan Bratu
Maria Bucur Indiana University Bloomington
Toma Burean Universitatea Babeș-Bolyai
Alexandru Burlacu Universitatea Babeș-Bolyai
Astrid Cambose Institutul de Filologie Română „A. Philippide”
Cristian Cercel Ruhr University Bochum
Liviu Chelcea Universitatea din București
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Mihai Chiper Institutul de Istorie „A.D. Xenopol”
Alex Cistelecan Universitatea de Medicină, Farmacie, Științe și

Tehnologie „George Emil Palade” din Târgu Mureș
Alin Ciupală Universitatea din București
Daniel Ciurel Universitatea Politehnică Timișoara
Roland Clark University of Liverpool
Onoriu Colăcel Universitatea „Ștefan cel Mare” din Suceava
Pompiliu-Nicolae Constantin Universitatea Națională de Educație Fizică și Sport

București
Sorana Constantinescu Universitatea Babeș-Bolyai
Dana Costin Institutul de Istorie Nicolae Iorga
Călin Cotoi Universitatea din București
Camelia Crăciun New Europe College/Universitatea din București
Bronwyn Cragg University of Toronto
Irina Culic Universitatea Babeș-Bolyai
Adriana Cupcea Institutul pentru Studierea Problemelor Minorităților

Naționale
Andrei Cușco Institutul de Istorie „A.D. Xenopol”
Mihai Danilă Școala Națională de Studii Politice și Administrative
Iuliana David Universitatea Ovidius din Constanța
Julie Dawson University of Vienna
Ștefan-Marius Deaconu Universitatea din București
Aleksandra Djuric Institute for Balkan Studies SASA, Beograd
Alex Drace-Francis University of Amserdam
Jonathan Lahey Drons eld Independent Scholar
Andrada Fătu-Tutoveanu Universitatea Babeș-Bolyai
Christian Ferencz-Flatz Universitatea Naţională de Artă Teatrală şi

Cinematogra că „I.L. Caragiale”
Monica Filimon Kingsborough Community College
Anamaria Filimon-Benea Universitatea de Vest din Timișoara
Cristian Gașpar Central European University
Alin Gavreliuc Universitatea de Vest din Timișoara
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Matei Gheboianu Universitatea din București
Luciana Alexandra Ghica Universitatea din București
Valentina Glajar Texas State University
Mihaela Gligor Academia Română
Domnica Gorovei Universitatea din București
Emanuel Grec Heidelberg University

Cristian Alexandru Groza Muzeul Ororilor Comunismului
Letiția Guran University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Irina Hasnaș-Hubbard Muzeul Ororilor Comunismului
Sylvia Hershcovitz Bar-Ilan University
Adela Hîncu Institute for Philosophy “Alexandru Dragomir”/

Universitatea din București
Alexandra Horobeț Academia de Studii Economice din București

Iulia Elena Hossu Institutul pentru Studierea Problemelor Minorităților
Naționale
Dragoș Dumitru Ianc Universitatea Babeș-Bolyai
Cornel-Constantin Ilie Muzeul Național de Istorie a României
Alexandru M. Iorga Institutul de Etnogra e și Folclor „Constantin Brăiloiu”
Ovidiu Emil Iudean Universitatea Babeș-Bolyai
Csongor Jánosi Pokoly Association, Cluj-Napoca

Luciana-Mărioara Jinga Institutul de Investigare a Crimelor Comunismului și
Memoria Exilului Românesc
Dragoș Jipa Universitatea din București
Gianina Jurji Universitatea de Vest din Timișoara
Andreea Kaltenbrunner University of Vienna
James Kapaló University College Cork
Tünde Komáromi Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in

Hungary
George Kordas Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences
Carmen Levick University of Shef eld
Dumitru Lisnic University College Cork
Angela Lumezeanu Universitatea Babeș-Bolyai
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Ioana Macrea-Toma Open Society Archives, Budapest
Francesco Magno University of Messina
Valentin Maier Muzeul Universității din București
Ionuț-Mircea Marcu Universitatea din București/EHESS
Diana Mărgărit Universitatea „Alexandru Ioan Cuza” din Iași
Mara Mărginean Universitatea Babeș-Bolyai

Marin Marian-Bălașa Institutul de Etnogra e și Folclor „Constantin Brăiloiu”
Ileana Marin University of Washington
Manuela Marin Institutul de Istorie „George Bariţiu”
Silvia Marton Universitatea din București
Jill Massino University of North Carolina at Charlotte
András Máté-Tóth University of Szeged
Claudiu Mesaroș Universitatea de Vest din Timișoara
Paul E. Michelson Huntington University
Adrian Miroiu Școala Națională de Studii Politice și Administrative
Simona Mitroiu Universitatea „Alexandru Ioan Cuza” din Iași
Oana-Maria Mitu Universitatea „Dunărea de Jos” din Galați
Giuseppe Motta Sapienza – University of Rome
Iuliana Nagy (Cindrea) University College Cork
Irina Nastasă-Matei New Europe College/Universitatea din București
Radu Nedici Universitatea din București
Cristina Carmencita Negreanu Academia de Studii Economice din București
Petru Negură IOS Regensburg: Leibniz-Institut für Ost- und

Südosteuropaforschung
Victor Neumann Universitatea de Vest din Timișoara
Alexandru Nicolaescu Institutul de Cercetări Socio-Umane Sibiu
Claudiu Oancea New Europe College
Ileana Alexandra Orlich Arizona State University
Răzvan Pârâianu Universitatea de Medicină, Farmacie, Științe și

Tehnologie „George Emil Palade” din Târgu Mureș
Viorel Pâslaru University of Dayton
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Julieta C. Paulesc Arizona State University
Dana Percec Universitatea de Vest din Timișoara
Raluca Perneș Universitatea Babeș-Bolyai
Simona Petracovschi Universitatea de Vest din Timișoara
Corina Petrescu University of Mississippi
Cristina Petrescu Universitatea din București

Dragoș Petrescu Universitatea din București
Ruxandra-Iuliana Petrinca-Canache McGill University
Iasmina Petrovici Universitatea de Vest din Timișoara
Corneliu Pintilescu Institutul de Istorie „George Bariţiu”
Zsuzsa Plainer Institutul pentru Studierea Problemelor Minorităților

Naționale
Cristina Plămădeală Loughborough University

Iemima Ploscariu Dublin City University
Bogdan Popa Institutul de Istorie Nicolae Iorga
Daniela Popescu Institutul de Istorie „George Bariţiu”/Universitatea din

București
Delia Popescu Le Moyne College in Syracuse, NY
Vlad Popovici Universitatea Babeș-Bolyai
Raluca Prelipceanu Universitatea Babeș-Bolyai

Cristina Liana Pușcaș Universitatea din Oradea/Muzeul Țării Crișurilor
Gino Rado Memorialul Revoluţiei din Timişoara
Raluca-Nicoleta Radu Universitatea din București
Iona Ramsay University of Exeter
Iuliu Rațiu Universitatea Babeș-Bolyai
Victor Rizescu Universitatea din București
Raluca Bianca Roman Queen’s University Belfast/University of St Andrews
Ileana Rotaru Universitatea de Vest din Timișoara
Veronica Rozenberg Independent Scholar
Mihai-Stelian Rusu Universitatea „Lucian Blaga" din Sibiu
Leyla Safta-Zecheria Universitatea de Vest din Timișoara
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Valentin Săndulescu New Europe College/Universitatea din București
Stefano Santoro University of Trieste
Cristina-Felicia Sărăcuț University of Tampere
Sabina Schnell Syracuse University
Mihaela Şerban Ramapo College of New Jersey
Anca Șincan Institutul de Cercetări Socio-Umane „Gheorghe Șincai”

Corina Sîrb Universitatea de Vest din Timișoara
Daria Maria Sitea Universitatea „Lucian Blaga" din Sibiu
Iulia Maria Sobolevschi-David Academia de Studii Economice din București
Francisca Solomon New Europe College/Universitatea „Alexandru Ioan

Cuza” din Iași
Vladimir Solonari University of Central Florida
Andrei Sorescu University College London

Annemarie Sorescu-Marinković Institute for Balkan Studies SASA, Beograd
Cristina Spinei Universitatea „Alexandru Ioan Cuza” din Iași
Ana-Maria Stan Muzeului de Istorie al UBB
Lavinia Stan St. Francis Xavier University
Anita-Diana Sterea Universitatea din București
Cristina Stoica Western University
Ionuţ Suciu Universitatea de Vest din Timișoara
Svetlana Suveica University of Göttingen
Simona Tabără-Amânar Universitatea de Vest din Timișoara
Virgiliu Ţȃrău Universitatea Babeș-Bolyai
Giuseppe Tateo University of Leipzig
Cristian Tileagă Loughborough University
Alex R. Tipei Université de Montréal
Ruxandra Trandafoiu Edge Hill University
Ottmar Trașcă Institutul de Istorie „George Bariţiu”
Dana S. Trif Universitatea Babeș-Bolyai
Anca Tudorancea Universitatea din București
Narcis Tulbure Academia de Studii Economice din București
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Andrei Ungureanu Universitatea „Lucian Blaga" din Sibiu
Manuela Ungureanu University of British Columbia – Okanagan Campus
Andrei Ursu Fundatia „Gheorghe Ursu”
Alessandro Vagnini Sapienza – University of Rome
Cristian Vasile Institutul de Istorie Nicolae Iorga
Lorenzo Venuti University of Florence

Ioana Vid Universitatea de Vest din Timișoara
Felicia Waldman Universitatea din București
Răzvan Zaharia Academia de Studii Economice din București
Rodica Milena Zaharia Academia de Studii Economice din București
Camelia Zavarache Institutul de Istorie Nicolae Iorga
Filippo Zerilli University of Cagliari
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The SRS-Polirom book series
Studii Româneşti — Romanian Studies — Études Roumaines

— Rumänische Studien
Series Editors: Irina Livezeanu (irinal@pitt.edu) and Lavinia Stan (lstan@stfx.ca)
Assistant Editor: Narcis Tulbure (narcis.tulbure@gmail.com)
CALL FOR MANUSCRIPTS:

The Editors welcome proposals for new titles in our series! Nominate the work of a colleague or
former student, or present us your own book already published abroad. We also welcome and
hope to publish book manuscripts written in Romanian directly. You can nd details about what
needs to be included in a book proposal at: https://society4romanianstudies.org/2016/ 06/18/
book-series.
The series publishes scholarly books in Romanian authored or edited by SRS members. The
Editors will consider three types of manuscripts: 1) Romanian translations of scholarly
monographs already published in a foreign language; 2) original scholarly monographs written in
Romanian; and 3) edited collections of essays dealing with a Romanian Studies theme.
Books in the SRS Romanian Studies series are about Romania and/or Moldova and the
populations living on these territories, or they may deal with the Romanian and Moldovan
diasporas and their cultures. Manuscripts should have primarily an academic pro le, and a
disciplinary, interdisciplinary, or multidisciplinary focus, drawing on history, political science,
sociology, anthropology, law, economics, linguistics, literature, art history, or other elds. They
should be based on sound and rigorous scholarly analysis, and include references and
bibliography. We prefer contributions that are free of jargon and thus more likely to appeal to a
wide audience. All proposals, manuscripts, and books offered for translation will be carefully
reviewed for publication in the series.
Titles published in the series to date in reverse chronological order are:

· Cristian Cercel, Filogermanism fără germani. România în căutarea europenității
WINNER OF THE 2022 OBSERVATOR CULTURAL BOOK AWARD (2021)
· Maria Bucur, Eroi și victime. România și memoria celor două războaie mondiale
(2019)
· Diana Dumitru, Vecini în vremuri de restriște. Stat, antisemitism și Holocaust în
Basarabia și Transnistria (2019)
· Cristina Vățulescu, Cultură şi poliţie secretă în comunism (2018)
· Lavinia Stan şi Diane Vancea, coord., România postcomunistă: trecut, prezent, viitor
(2017)
· Alex Drace-Francis, Geneza culturii române moderne. Instituțiile scrisului și
dezvoltarea identității naționale, 1700-1900 (2016)
· Vladimir Solonari, Puri carea națiunii: dislocări forțate de populație și epurări etnice
în România lui Ion Antonescu, 1940-1944 (2015)
· Roland Clark, Sfântă tinereţe legionară. Activismul fascist în România interbelică
WINNER OF THE 2017 SRS BOOK AWARD (2015)
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Recent and forthcoming titles:
The most recent book published in the series, Cristian Cercel's Filogermanism fără
germani. România în căutarea europenității, (Editura Polirom, 2021), has recently been
awarded the 2022 Essay/ Journalism Book Award by Observator cultural.
Next to appear in our collection are Emanuela Grama's Socialist Heritage: The Politics
of Past and Place in Romania (Indiana University Press, 2019), Giuseppe Tateo’s Under
the Sign of the Cross: The People’s Salvation Cathedral and the Church Building
I n d u s t r y i n P o s t s o c i a l i s t R o m a n i a ( N e w Yo r k : B e r g h a h n , 2 0 2 0 ) , a n d
Mariana Hausleitner’s Eine Atmosphäre von Hoffnung und Zuversicht. Hilfe für verfolgte
Juden in Rumänien, Transnistrien und Nordsiebenbürgen 1940-1944 (Berlin: Lukas
Verlag, 2020).
Find more extensive presentations of the forthcoming books on the SRS web site:
https://society4romanianstudies.org/under-preparation/
Prospective authors:
If you plan to submit a manuscript for the SRS-Polirom book series, or if you have a
general interest in the series we encourage you to contact the editors.
Bookstand at the SRS Conference in Timișoara:

If you want to take a closer look at the books appeased in the series as well as to other
books on similar topics, please visit the stand organized by POLIROM at the 2022
Conference of the Society for Romanian Studies in Timișoara.
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org 15-17 June 2022, Timişoara, Romania

Organizers of e SRS 2022 Conference

e Socie for Romanian Studies

SRS 2022 Conference Organizing Commi ee:

Anca Şincan (chair), Roland Clark, Vladimir Solonari, Cris na

We would also like ank e fo owing:

Wi special anks Philippe Blasen as individual sponsor

Conference Activities and

Other events at Universitatea de Vest include:

Events at Muzeul Național de Artă Timișoara (MNAT) include:

Wednesday, 15 June 2022

Thursday, 16 June 2022

Friday, June 17, 2022

Fragile is a documentary series about vulnerability, but also about the

The women’s stories, told in the form of testimony-monologues, are

Fragile seeks to encourage those who need help to seek expert

Art Exhibition: Antinostalgia

Andrei Pandele's photodocumentary incentives can be interpreted as real time capsules

A2 Philippe Henri Blasen, La « primauté de

B1 Călin Cotoi, Inventing the Social in

C1 Mihaela Gligor ed., Memories of Terror:

C2 Raluca Bianca Roman, So ya Zahova,

Elena Marushiakova and Vesselin Popov eds.

Elena Marushiakova and Vesselin Popov

D1 Andrei Ursu, Roland O. Thomasson and

D7 Victor Neumann, Kin, People or Nation?

E1 Giuseppe Tateo, Under the Sign of the

H6 Marin Marian-Bălaşa. Ochiul dracului și al

I1 Cristian Cercel, Filogermanism

I7 Vladimir Solonari, Imperiul-satelit.

Key Note Speakers

Tra c de frontiere. Poetica intervalului în literaturile central-europene (in

Maria Bucur (Friday, June 17, 17:00-19:00, Muzeul Național de

9:30-10:00: Registration (ongoing)

A5: Panel: Între internaționalizare epistemică, deschidere culturală și constrângeri

12:00-14:00: Lunch break

B4: Panel: Migration from and to Romania (1), room 308

B5: Panel: Transylvania in the Empire, room 103

B6: Roundtable: The Study of Religions in and of Romania, room 607a

16:00-17:00: Coffee break

17:00-19:00: Opening ceremony (Aula, UVT)

19:00: Buffet reception at Universitatea de Vest din Timișoara

Thursday, 16 June 2022

C3: Panel: Dilemmas of Truth Telling in Post-Communism: Individual Biographies, Ethnic

C4: Panel: Education in Greater Romania, room 201

C7: Panel: Practicing religion in troubled times, room 103

D6: Panel: Borders & identity, room 103

12:30-14:30: Lunch break

E3: Panel: Construind comunitatea rasială nazistă în Europa de Sud-Est: O perspectivă

E4: Panel: Representations of the Past in Pre-Communist, Communist and Post-

E7: Panel: Migration from and to Romania (2), room 103

F4: Panel: COVID, room 248

F5: Panel: Economic & administrative borders, room 607a

F6: Panel: Romania in the 1970s, room 607b

17:00: Visit to exhibition by Muzeul Ororilor Comunismului

Friday, 17 June 2022

G2: Panel: Jews in Greater Romania, room 248

G3: Panel: Life on the margins, room 204

H1: Roundtable: Romanian Studies through Interdisciplinary Lenses, room 156

H2: Roundtable: Peripheral housing, social marginalization, and uneven territorial

H3: Panel: Religion and the state, room 248

H6: Book panel: Ochiul dracului și al lui Dumnezeu, room 103