„ASOCIAȚIA CREȘTINĂ A TINERILOR” DIN ROMÂNIA ȘI MIȘCĂRILE STUDENȚEȘTI INTERBELICE: CAZUL BULETINULUI ASOCIAȚIEI STUDENȚILOR CREȘTINI DIN BUCUREȘTI
(THE ROMANIAN YMCA AND THE INTERWAR STUDENT MOVEMENTS: THE CASE OF THE CHRISTIAN STUDENTS ASSOCIATION’S BULLETIN (1923–1928))
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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) Project member Sonia D. Andras just published her article "Fashioning simultaneous migrations: Sonia Delaunay and inter-war Romanian connections" in the journal "Critical Studies in Fashion & Beauty", 13:2.
https://intellectdiscover.com/.../10.1386/csfb_00047_1. Our Call for Book Chapters for "Creative Negotiations. Romania – America 1920-1940" has been included in the SRS Fall Winter 2022 newsletter (Open Calls, p. 42).
Find it here: https://www.academia.edu/.../SRS_Fall_Winter_2022_Newsletter 📻Tune in for an interview with EDERA Director Prof.Dr. Cornel Sigmirean [in Romanian, English translations upcoming].
📻GRAFFITI with Diana Gherendi 📻"I invite you to listen to a complex interview, with surprising details and fragments from little known or explored biographies until now." (Diana Gherendi) 📻Saturday, 12 Nov 2022, 14:00 (GMT+2) 📻 Click here for more info [RO]. 📻 Project member Sonia D. Andras will present at the Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association (MAPACA) 2022 Conference.
Her presentation titled Between Hollywood and Rockefeller: Fashioning the New Interwar Romanian Woman will be part of the Ethics and History in Material Culture panel. It will take place on 12 November 2022 between 16:30 and 17:45 Bucharest time (14:30 and 15:45 GMT). On Friday, 21 October 2021 EDERA project members and invited scholars participated to a conference in hybrid (online and offline) format, titled Etosul educației și al dialogului: Negocieri culturale româno-americane (1920-1940) / The Ethos of Dialogue and Education: Romanian - American Cultural Negotiations (1920-1940) within the Cluj Academic Days (Zilele Academice Clujene - https://indd.adobe.com/view/d7bd4668-30c3-427b-9d44-b3a37ba7b8ba).
Conference papers (in order of presentation):
Deadline Extended! ~ Call for Book Chapters: Creative Negotiations. Romania – America 1920-194012/10/2022 Chapter Abstract Submission Deadline: Monday, 6 February 2023 Book edited by Dr. Sonia D. Andraş (The “Gheorghe Şincai” Institute for Social Sciences and the Humanities, Târgu-Mureş, Romania) and Dr. Roxana Mihaly (The “Gheorghe Şincai” Institute for Social Sciences and the Humanities, Târgu-Mureş, Romania) Inquiries can be forwarded to [email protected] This edited volume will be supported by the Executive Agency for Higher Education, Research, Development and Innovation Funding-UEFISCDI, the National Research Council - CNCS, the Ministry of National Education (Romania), Project PN-III-P4-PCE-2021-0688, Contract 29 from 27 May 2022, title The Ethos of Dialogue and Education: Romanian - American Cultural Negotiations (1920-1940). [See more information about the project below.] The aim is to highlight the importance of cultural negotiations between creative and innovative individuals, fields, activities and forms, blending material and symbolic cultures for a comprehensive outline of the relationship between Romania and the USA between 1920 and 1940. The contributions will cover a diverse spectrum of a dynamic, ever-evolving dialogue between interwar individuals, currents or entities and those analyzing their works and interactions today. As part of The Ethos of Dialogue and Education: Romanian - American Cultural Negotiations (1920-1940) project, the contributions will be limited by time (between 1920 and 1940) and subject matter (Romanian – US cultural negotiations in creative fields or focusing on innovative aspects regarding Romanian – US cultural, educational or artistic negotiations). The book will nonetheless make the subjects and stories relevant to current audience through methodological, disciplinary or relational means. This will assure an outstanding contribution to knowledge about the interwar era in general and its reception today and within Romanian and American Studies.
EDERA ~ The Ethos of Dialogue and Education: Romanian - American Cultural Negotiations (1920-1940) ~ Project funded by UEFISCDI – Project Number PN-III-P4-PCE-2021-0688 ~ – Contract No. 29 from 27 May 2022.This project examines instances of both successful and unsuccessful Romanian-American formative cultural and educational negotiations, beyond interpretations of unilateral transfers from the center, as the United States and the marginal Other, as Romania. It transcends self-focused perspectives, culpabilization and self-victimization, favoring panoramic intercultural and transnational views. The approach is interdisciplinary, ranging from history (cultural, intellectual, social, political, economic, history of education, history of religion, art history) to cultural (religious, fashion, travel, memory, identity) studies, and imagology. The research applies cultural studies concepts (negotiation, difference, diversity, discourse, power relationship, representation) to historical investigation to further relativize the borders between disciplines, identities and cultures. The goal is to offer an outstanding contribution to knowledge on the Romanian-American relations between 1920-1940, with insights into under-researched aspects. It reflects this dialogue’s dynamic qualities, demonstrating how intercultural communications transcended national or bilateral political interests for mutual understanding. This project aims to prove the benefits of studying cultural and educational relations for a better appreciation of Romanian and American cultures, art, history and formative experiences. It reconstructs the dynamism and complexities of the historical and cultural context with interdisciplinary, comparative and multi-perspective approaches. It also plans to ascertain how cultural communication evolves during and after political, ideological and military conflicts for a more comprehensive image of Romanian-American cultural and educational exchanges. It gathers a team of researchers with internationally recognized contributions. This project aims to correlate the Romanian research on cultural, artistic and educational Romanian-American relations before and after 1989 offering comprehensive understanding of the interwar dialogue and its later echoes until the twenty-first century. The interdisciplinary, multi-perspectival and comparative research highlights fluidity and mobility outside of pre-established hierarchies. It is thus an outstanding contribution to the knowledge of interwar cultural, artistic and educational Romanian-American dialogues, highlighting instances of convergence and negotiations. This project applies the concept of negotiation recently adapted in cultural studies from business and media studies. It builds upon the director and team’s prior research applying cultural studies concepts and methodologies in cultural and intellectual history. Following this approach, it aims to analyze the juxtapositions difference/regularity, divergence/agreement, conflict/concord, in a space of in-betweenness, intermediality, transgression, and liminality, where negotiation can shift the direction from discord to resolution. Negotiation can mediate national, cultural, social, gender, religious, political, ideological ruptures in communication, by avoiding clashes in case there is a will to build a positive future. The Book’s ObjectiveAs a result of the project The Ethos of Dialogue and Education: Romanian - American Cultural Negotiations (1920-1940), this book focuses on the creative aspects of cultural negotiations between Romania and the United States. The aim is to link and uncover the subtle dynamics involved in the dialogues between creatives, critics, disseminators and the general public. This book and its contributors will thus add new knowledge to the field of Romanian-American Studies. Target AudienceThis English-language book addresses academic and non-academic audiences who wish to explore creative and innovative cultural negotiations between Romania and the United States between 1920 and 1940. The target fields are cultural studies, cultural and art history, research on written, visual or sound creative activities. Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
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Several of our colleagues participated to the National Congress of Romanian Historians (Congresul Național al Istoricilor Români), held in Alba Iulia between 8 and 10 September.
The papers were presented within the section titled "Elite: mobilitate socială, politică și culturală (Elites: Social, Political, and Cultural Mobility)" moderated by EDERA - The Ethos of Dialogue and Education Project Director, Dr. Sigmirean Cornel. They were (in chronological order): ☑️ Dr. Sonia D. Andras: "Negocieri ale modei și frumuseții feminine interbelice: București - Paris - New York (Interwar Women's Fashion and Beauty Negotiations: Bucharest - Paris - New York)". See the abstract here: [RO] https://cnir.uab.ro/420 ☑️ Dr. Roxana Mihaly: "Modelul american în viața artistică a României interbelice (The American Moden in Interwar Romania's Artistic Life)". See the abstract here: [RO] https://cnir.uab.ro/510 ☑️ Dr. Carmen Andras, Dr. Sigmirean Cornel: "Negocieri profesionale româno-americane: Sabin Manuilă și parcursul său american ca bursier al Fundației Rockefeller (Romanian-American Professional Negotiations: Sabin Manuilă and His American Itinerary as a Rockefeller Fellow". See the abstract here: [RO] https://cnir.uab.ro/610 Find more information here about the event: [RO] http://cnir.conference.uab.ro/index.php |
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