The edited volume Creative Negotiations. Romania – America 1920-1940, eds. Sonia D. Andraș, Roxana Mihaly, has just been published.
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The edited volume Romanian American Negotiations in Education, Science, Culture, and Arts, eds. Cornel Sigmirean, Sonia D. Andraș, Roxana Mihaly, has just been published.
📻Tune in for an interview with EDERA Project Member Roxana Mihaly [in Romanian]
📻GRAFFITI with Diana Gherendi 📻Dr. Roxana Mihaly conducted research for a month in New York, in archives not easily accessible in museums such as the Museum of Modern Art/MoMa, the Guggenheim Museum, or the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She talks about the complex cultural and educational negotiations between Romania and the United States of America and the consequences of the political and diplomatic debates from the interwar period, about concept and historical research, about interdisciplinary perspectives. Listen to the comprehensive interview on Saturday, November 11, at #radiomures.ro, on Graffiti, from 3 pm. (paraphrased from the Romanian article text, Diana Gherendi) 📻Saturday, 11 November 2023, 15:00 (GMT+2) 📻 Click here for more info [RO]. 📻 EDERA Project Members have participated yet again with a full-day dedicated national conference, titled Etosul educației și al dialogului: Negocieri culturale româno-americane (1920-1940), at the Zilele Academice Clujene (Cluj Academic Days), on October 20, 2023. The conference was held online, within the research activities of the "Gheorghe Șincai" Institute for Social Sciences and the Humanities of the Romanian Academy, in Targu Mures.
The papers were: Ionuț BILIUȚĂ: Episcopia Ortodoxă Română a Americii în vremea Episcopului Policarp Morușca (1883-1958) și relațiile ei cu Mitropolia Transilvaniei: Interacțiuni și Diferențe • Cornel SIGMIREAN: Diplomație și imagine: Nicolae Titulescu in SUA • Carmen ANDRAȘ: Gusturile creative: Împărtășind meniuri aromate și știri de-a lungul traseelor europene ale corespondenței americane interbelice • Sonia ANDRAȘ: Hollywood si moda în cinematografele din București. Studiu de caz, filmul „Roberta” cu Fred Astaire și Ginger Rogers (1935-1937) • Laurențiu VLAD: Imagini ale lumii rurale românești în viziunea lui Dimitrie Gusti la Exposition des Arts et des Techniques dans la Vie Moderne (Paris, 1937) și New York World’s Fair (1939-1940). Câteva note comparative • Roxana MIHALY: Participările artiștilor români la Expozițiile Internaționale din America în perioada interbelică • Daniel CITIRIGĂ: Prin ochii unei asistente a Crucii Roșii Americane - România după Primul Război Mondial, în scrisorile lui Agnes von Kurowsky All members of the project The Ethos of Dialogue and Education: Romanian - American Cultural Negotiations (1920-1940) have made excellent contributions as part of the Negocierile româno-americane în educație, știință, cultură și artă/ Romanian American Negotiations in Education, Science, Culture, and Arts Conference, with a wide-ranging area of interests and subjects.
Their presentations were the following:
A richly informative first day of the International Conference Romanian American Negotiations in Education, Science, Culture, and Arts/Negocierile româno-americane în educație, știință, cultură și artă.
We are happy to have hosted a first conference day with such a diverse group of researchers and specialists (in order of appearance): Prof. Dr. Cornel Sigmirean, Prof. Dr. Laurențiu-Dănuț Vlad, Dr. Carmen Andraș, Dr. Daniel Citirigă, Dr. Eduard Andrei, Dr. Dipl.-Ing. Maria Boștenaru Dan, Dr. Octaviana Jianu, Dr. Roxana Mihaly, Conf. Dr. Giuseppe Motta, Dr. Grant T. Harward, and Dr. Sonia D. Andraș. The topics ranged from American students in the USA, different perspectives on the Romania and the 1939-1940 New York World Fair, War Correspondents’ Reports from Romania, Romania's representation in the Junior Red Cross News, the Bucharest works of Jewish architect Rudolf Fraenkel, Brâncuși's legacy at the 30th edition of the Venice Biennale, Romanian cultural diplomacy in the USA, the idea of Vin Americanii in Romania today and its WW2 memory, and Romanian women's representation in American Vogue. The second day is underway now, continuing the interesting sessions of papers and engaging conversations under the aegis of our project's theme. See the full programme here: Conference Programme: Negocierile româno-americane în educație, știință, cultură și artă/ Romanian American Negotiations in Education, Science, Culture, and Arts - EDERA (weebly.com) Find the abstracts in English here. Find the abstracts in Romanian here. 15 iunie 2023 / 15 June 2023
10:00 – 12:00 – Etosul dialogului și educației / The Ethos of Dialogue and Education – Moderatori / Chairs: Prof. Dr. Cornel Sigmirean, Prof. Dr. Laurențiu-Dănuț Vlad
14:30 – 16:30 De la idealuri la ideologie: Negocieri culturale, artistice și politice româno-americane / From Ideals to Ideology: Romanian-American Cultural, Artistic, and Political Negotiations II
10.00 – 12.00 – The Rise of the Far-Right, Political Violence and the Crisis of the Liberal Order in Interwar Romania: Historical Cases and Contemporary Debates
14.00 – 16.00 – American Influences and Romanian Religious Developments in Romania (1920-1968)
The article CÂTEVA DATE CU PRIVIRE LA CONSTRUCȚIA, AMENAJAREA ȘI ORGANIZAREA ACTIVITĂȚII CASEI ROMÂNEȘTI LA NEW YORK WORLD’S FAIR (1939–1940). RESTITUIRI DOCUMENTARE DIN ARHIVELE NAȚIONALE ȘI ALE MAE: 1938–1939 (SOME DETAILS REGARDING THE LAYOUT AND CONSTRUCTION OF THE ROMANIAN HOUSE AND THE ORGANIZATION OF ITS ACTIVITIES DURING THE NEW YORK WORLD’S FAIR (1939–1940). DOCUMENTS FROM THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND THE ARCHIVES OF THE MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS: 19) by Laurențiu Vlad, has appeared as Câteva date cu privire la construcția, amenajarea și organizarea activității Casei Românești la New York World’s Fair (1939-1940) has appeared on Cooperativa Gusti.
Click this link to access the article on Cooperativa Gusti. INSTUTUL DE CERCETĂRI SOCIO-UMANE, FILIALA CLUJ NAPOCA A ACADEMIEI ROMÂNE TÂRGU MUREȘ Proiect/Project PN-III-P4-PCE-2021-0688 EDERA The Ethos of Dialogue and Education: Romanian - American Cultural Negotiations (1920-1940) / Etosul educației și dialogului: Negocieri culturale româno-americane (1920-1940) Unitatea Executivă pentru Finanțarea Învățământului Superior, a Cercetării, Dezvoltării și Inovării – UEFISCDI, Consiliul Național al Cercetării Științifice (CNCS), Ministerul Educației Naționale INVITAȚIE CONTRIBUȚII CONFERINȚĂ CALL FOR CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS Negocierile româno-americane în educație, știință, cultură și artă Romanian American Negotiations in Education, Science Culture and Arts Wilson was treading a very fine line, where there were genuine and legitimate conflicting interests. He said he thought America would be first, not in the selfish spirit, but first to be in Europe to help whichever side won. Not to take sides, but to be there to promote justice and to help rebuild after the conflict. Sarah Churchwell, Smithsonian Magazine (2018) The "Gheorghe Șincai" Research Institute for Social Sciences and the Humanities of the Romanian Academy, Târgu Mureș invites you to participate in the International Conference Romanian American Negotiations in Education, Science Culture and Arts, which will be held online on 15-16 June 2023. The conference is organized in the frame of the project PN-III-P4-PCE-2021-0688, with the title "The Ethos of Dialogue and Education: Romanian - American Cultural Negotiations (1920-1940)" financed by UEFISCDI - CNCS. The project focuses on defining, researching and analyzing the multivalent cultural and educational negotiations between Romania and the United States and their implications for interwar political and diplomatic relations. The purpose of the Conference is to identify, analyze and apply the concept of negotiation in the educational, cultural, identity, religious, artistic or gender fields, to highlight their effects and implications on Romanian-American relations. The theme is topical in the current context of the escalation of international political-military conflicts, unexpectedly leading to the creation or consolidation of new opportunities for natural communication and collaboration in the academic, cultural, artistic and scientific fields, including between Romania and the United States. The conference is an invitation to intercultural and international communication and openness in the context of Romanian-American relations. Interdisciplinary and intercultural, comparative and multiperspectival, national and international methodological approaches are favored. Topics will include:
Project member Prof. Dr. Laurentiu Vlad has previously published an article titled "România la Expoziția Internațională de la New York (1939-1940). Un moment din istoria diplomației culturale autohtone: documente privind înființarea și funcționarea unui birou de propagandă în SUA / Romania at the New York International Exhibition (1939-1940). A Moment in the History of Domestic Cultural Diplomacy: Documents on the Establishment and Operation of a Propaganda Office in the USA" [RO] on Cooperativa Gusti:
România la Expoziția Internațională de la New York (1939-1940).* Un moment din istoria diplomației culturale autohtone: documente privind înființarea și funcționarea unui birou de propagandă în SUA (cooperativag.ro) |
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