Libertatea de disidență: Cum a influențat Curtea Supremă relațiile de putere dintre guvernul Statelor Unite și cetățenii americani
Lect. dr. Raluca Andreescu
08:00
Bumbaru
Petre-Mihai
Masculinitate Italoamericana in Cinema si TV
Lect. dr. Dragos Manea
08:15
David
Mihaela
Reprezentări Asia-Americane ale alterității prin stereotipuri în “The Yellow Kid” a lui Richard F. Outcault și “American Born Chinese” a lui Gene Luen Yang
Lect. dr. Dragoș Manea
08:30
Netbai
Maria-Alexandra
Codarea Sensului și a Perspectivei în Cinematografia Coreean-americană Contemporană: Imagini „Arse” ale Memoriei și Re-creării
Conf. dr. Dana Mihăilescu
08:45
Neațu
Andrei-Cosmin
De La Fantezie pana la Sci-Fi: Un Studiu de caz al Reprezentarii
Asist. univ. dr. Andrei Nae
09:00
Renchez
Maria
Lupta pentru Visul American intr-o societate opresiva in trilogia distopica The Hunger Games de Suzanne Collins: dintr-o perspectiva feminista
Asist. univ. dr. Andrei Nae
09:15
Goran
Ana-Raluca
Salvarea oamenilor, vânătoarea de creaturi, afacerea familiei: Trauma și Moralitatea în “Supernatural”
Conf. dr. Mihaela Precup
09:30
Neculai
Alexandra-Florentina
Trauma și Expresia Artistică în Cruella și opera de la Black Veil Brides
Conf. dr. Mihaela Precup
09:45
Ștefănescu
Andreea-Cristiana
Narațiuni ale Adolescenței în serialul HBO “Euphoria” (2019-) și serialul Netflix “Ginny și Georgia” (2021-)
Conf. dr. Mihaela Precup
10:00
Ungureanu
Laura Roxana Liliana
Rolurile Sexelor si Prestația Feminității în Born to Die: Paradise Edition și Tropico
Conf. dr. Mihaela Precup
10:15
*Toţi candidaţii, cu excepţia primilor doi, sunt rugaţi să fie prezenţi la facultate cu 30 de minute înainte de programare.
PROGRAMARE SUSŢINERE DISERTAŢII STUDII AMERICANEIUNIE 2022
Nume
Prenume
Titlu
Coordonator
Oră*
Drăgan
Mihaela
Personaje Captive ale Sudului American în Trei Povestiri Scurte de Flannery O’Connor: Greu de găsit un om bun, Negrul Artificial și Un cerc în foc
Conf. dr. Anca Peiu
10:00
Cozma
Georgiana-Miruna
Punctul mort al muzicii Rap: O abordare feminista asupra reprezentarii femeilor Afro Americane in lumina Rapului comercial in America
Lect. dr. Manea Dragos
10:15
Metushevskaya
Olga
Problema Terorismului în Timpul Președinției lui George W. Bush prin Prisma Excepționalismului American
Prof. dr. Liviu Andreescu
10:30
Zahiu
Andreea-Simona
Reprezentări culturale ale prostituției militare sud-coreene sub puterea hegemonică a Statelor Unite ale Americii
Lect. dr. Diana Benea
10:45
Mărgineanu
Adriana Elena
Feminismul Finlandez în Statele Unite
Conf. dr. Maria-Sabina Draga Alexandru
11:00
Geantă
Sefora
Odiseea Româno-Americană. O analiză transgenerațională a identităților româno-americane
Conf. dr. Dana Mihăilescu
11:15
Mihai
Cristina-Maria
Reprezentarea identității chinezilor americani în The Joy Luck Club (1993) și American Born Chinese (2006)
Conf. dr. Dana Mihailescu
11:30
Moraru
Alexandra-Sorina
„Comemorare sau Ignoranță?”: Desființarea Stereotipului „Jump Jim Crow” din Show-urile Menestrele Americane în filmele Minstrel Man (1977) și Bamboozled (2000)
Conf. dr. Dana Mihăilescu
11:45
POPA
SÂNZIANA-MIRUNA
Portretizări ale comunității afro-americane în adaptări ale filmului Nașterea unei națiuni (1915)
Conf. dr. Dana Mihăilescu
12:00
COȘERU
IRINA-ALEXANDRA
Reprezentarea Răufăcătorului în Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes (Netflix, 2019), Ted Bundy: Falling for a Killer (Amazon Prime, 2020), si The Phantom Prince: My Life with Ted Bundy (2020) de Elizabeth Kendall
Conf. dr. Mihaela Precup
12:15
Datcu
Diandra-Ioana
Reprezentarea imaginii tatălui în benzi desenate autobiografice. Cazul Fun Home de Alison Bechdel și The Impostor’s Daughter de Laurie Sandell
Conf. dr. Mihaela Precup
12:30
FILOTE
IULIA-ȘTEFANIA
Antieroul Plăcut de Toți: Ambiguitate Morală în “Banda Celor Șase Ciori” de Leigh Bardugo
Conf. dr. Mihaela Precup
12:45
Voican
Maria Alexandra
Reconstructia Mitului Frontierei Americane in Red Dead Redemption II
Conf. dr. Mihaela Precup
13:00
*Toţi candidaţii, cu excepţia primilor doi, sunt rugaţi să fie prezenţi la facultate cu 30 de minute înainte de programare.
Transitions: Transience, Subversion, and (Im)permanence in Contemporary American Culture
An American Studies Online Student Conference
Friday, May 20, 2022
9:00-9:30 Opening (Chair: Assoc. Prof. Mihaela Precup, Conference Organizer, University of Bucharest)
Dragoș Manea (Assist. Prof., Director of the American Studies Center, University of Bucharest)
Mihai Moroiu (Program Director, Romanian-U.S. Fulbright Commission)
William O’Connor (Cultural Affairs Officer, United States Embassy, Bucharest)
9:30-10:15 Opening Talk by William O’Connor (Cultural Affairs Officer, United States Embassy, Bucharest) on Transitions: Transience, Subversion, and (Im)permanence in Contemporary American Culture (Chair: Assoc. Prof. Mihaela Precup)
10:15-10:30 Coffee Break
10:30-12:00 Panel 1. Chair: Prof. Roxana Oltean (American Studies Program, University of Bucharest)
Mihaela Tone (American Studies MA Program, University of Bucharest). “Female Perpetration and Gender Treachery in Bruce Miller’s The Handmaid’s Tale”
Ștefan Ionescu Ambrosie (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen). “Billingsgate, Bodily Fluids, and Millennial Socialism: The Dialogic Impasse of the Dirtbag Left”
Cristina Botîlcă (PhD student, The Doctoral School for Literary and Cultural Studies, University of Bucharest). “Transitioning from Tradition. Human Composting and Water Cremation in Contemporary America”
Andreea Moise (British Studies MA Program, University of Bucharest). “Death in the Making: Gendered Mourning in Sigrid Nunez’s What Are You Going Through”
12:00-12:45 Lunch Break
12:45-14.15 Panel 2. Chair: Assoc. Prof. Mihaela Precup (American Studies Program, University of Bucharest)
Ionuț-Laurențiu Cazan (American Studies MA Program, University of Bucharest). “Theorizing Animal Exploitation in The Flintstones as a Question of Reform”
Cristina-Maria Mihai (American Studies MA Program, University of Bucharest). “Transition and Adaptation in Gene Luen Yang’s Graphic Novel American Born Chinese (2006)”
Raul Săran (PhD Student, Doctoral School of Humanities, West University of Timișoara). ”From Meaninglessness to Irrelevancy – Chris Fogle and the “New” Heroism in David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King”
Andreea-Alexandra Călin (University of Bucharest (CESI), University of Leuven (Faculty of Arts). “Fragmentation and (Post)modern Society in Speedboat”
14:15-14.30 Coffee Break
14.30-16.10 Panel 3. Chair: Assist. Prof. Diana Benea (American Studies Program, University of Bucharest)
Andrada Stănei (American Studies BA Program, “Ovidius” University, Constanța). “Subverting Dracula: The Transition from a European Myth to an American Pop Culture Icon”
Viorel Samuel Tajkuna Teleagă (Modern Languages and Literatures, Faculty of Letters, History and Theology, University of the West, Timișoara). ”From Angel to Androgynous Vamp: Greta Garbo’s Challenging and Subversion of Stereotypes about Femininity in Early American Film”
Oana Condurache (American Studies MA Program, University of the West, Timișoara). ”Chicano Literature—A Subversive Approach to the American Studies Curriculum”
Sefora Geantă (American Studies MA Program, University of Bucharest). “Romanian Migration to the United States: Analyzing Spaces of Transition”
Denisa Aron (American Studies MA Program, University of Bucharest). “The Movie Trial of the Chicago 7 as a Subversive Mirror of the Past”
16.10-16.40 Coffee break / Jury Deliberation
16.40-17.00 “Dan Grigorescu” prize award ceremony. Closing remarks.
Jury:
Dr. Bri Ard, Director, International Education & Study Abroad, University of South Alabama, Fulbright fellow, American Studies Program, University of Bucharest
Dr. Ruxandra Rădulescu, Educational adviser, The Romanian-U.S. Fulbright Commission
Organizers:
The American Studies Program at the University of Bucharest
The American Studies Program at the University of Bucharest
invites proposals for its annual student conference on the topic
Transitions: Transience, Subversion, and (Im)permanence in Contemporary American Culture
to be held online
on May 20, 2022.
We invite proposals for 15-minute presentations from undergraduate and MA students whose research is relevant to the topic of the conference. PhD students are also welcome to submit proposals, but should note that their presentations cannot be assessed for the “Dan Grigorescu” prize (please see more information below). Papers may come from the fields of literature, film, theater and performance arts, popular culture, visual culture and the media, history, politics, intercultural and interdisciplinary communication, transatlantic relations, as well as other academic areas that are relevant to the subject, and may address issues such as (but not necessarily limited to): cultural, economic and political transitions in American history; representations of transience, subversion, and impermanence in American culture; gender, sexuality, and transition; subversions of the status quo; war, conflict, and transitional spaces; transnational relations and transitional geographies; democracy, autocracy, and transition; transitional episodes and processes in American literary and cultural spaces. The best presentation will be awarded the “Dan Grigorescu” Prize (US$ 200).
Submission Guidelines
Please submit the following:
1. a 250-word abstract attached as an MS Word file. Your abstract must include the title of your paper and the name of the academic coordinator who has agreed to supervise your paper. Please note that, considering that each presentation will be 15 minutes long, final papers should be approximately 5-6 pages long (Times New Roman, font 12, double-spaced). However, we strongly encourage participants to present and not simply read their papers.
2. 3-5 keywords from your essay;
3. Contact information (name, affiliation, phone number, and email address).
Students will receive an e-mail inviting them to attend the Google Meet session. If you have any questions, please contact us at alexandra.bacalu@lls.unibuc.ro.
Studenții și masteranzii vor primi invitația pe adresele lor de e-mail. Ambele întâlniri vor avea loc pe Zoom.
Licență:
1. 10:00 – 10:15 Pîrvu, Elena: Hip-hopul ca modalitate de reducere a stigmatizării sănătății mintale în comunitatea afro-americană, profesor coordonator Maria-Sabina Draga Alexandru; (Studii Americane-Rusă) 2. 10:15 – 10:30 Maxim, Jenifer-Simona: Teenage Representation through Teen Television Series: Gender Identity and Sexuality in Sex Education (2019) and Euphoria (2019), profesor coordonator Dragoş Manea; (Studii Americane-Coreeană) 3. 10:30 – 10:45 Voju, Alexandru: O Glumă Proastă: Traumă și Realism în Watchmen, profesor coordonator Dragoş Manea; (Spaniolă-Engleză)
Masterat:
14:00 – 14:15 Ciobanu, Oana Adina: Contemporary Media Representations of Mental Illnesses in Split and Joker, profesor coordonator Mihaela Precup
Toți candidații din fiecare serie de câte 6 se vor conecta la începutul intervalului alocat seriei lor. Dacă aveți vreo întrebare, vă rugăm să ne scrieți la adresa dragos.manea@lls.unibuc.ro.
CALL FOR PAPERS The 9th International Conference Synergies in Communication (SiC 2021) 28 – 29 October 2021
The Department of Modern Languages and Business Communication of the Bucharest University of Economic Studies (ASE), Romania, is organizing the 9th annual international conference Synergies in Communication (SiC 2021), to be held online on 28-29 October 2021. The event will be organized under the auspices of the Faculty of International Business and Economics in partnership with Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), University of Hyogo, University of Zaragoza, Quest Romania, PROSPER-ASE Language Centre and The Romanian Society for English and American Studies (RSEAS), a member of The European Society for the Study of English (ESSE). The conference will be dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the European Day of Languages and will be included in the EDL data base of the Council of Europe and the European Centre for Modern Languages (ECML/CELV).
Susținerile pentru disertații la masteratul de studii americane vor avea loc online pe 30 iunie 2021, de la ora 12.00. Programarea este afișată mai jos (masteranzii vor fi invitați și de către secretarul comisiei).
Please try to be online–and available–one hour before your scheduled time (with the exception of the first 4 students). You might be invited to present at a slightly earlier time.
Ambasada S.U.A. și Universitatea din București, Facultatea de Limbi și Literaturi Străine anunță inaugurarea Amfiteatrului Martin Luther King, Jr. renovat și modernizat printr-un proiect comun. Evenimentul va avea loc vineri, 18 iunie, ora 11:00, la sediul Facultății de Limbi și Literaturi Străine, str. Pitar Moș nr. 7-13, cu participarea Chargé d’Affaires al S.U.A, David Muniz și a Rectorului Universității din București, Prof. Marian Preda.
Proiectul sprijină Programul de Studii Americane prin crearea unui spațiu atractiv si multifuncțional dotat cu echipamente de ultimă generație, care permit predarea cursurilor într-un mod interactiv, inclusiv online, și accesul rapid al studenților la multiple resurse academice. Echipamentele și mobilierul au fost oferite de Ambasada S.U.A, iar Universitatea a acoperit costurile aferente renovării spațiului și modernizării sistemului electric.
Înființat în 1996, Programul de Studii Americane al Universității din București a fost primul demers academic multidisciplinar din Romania dedicat spațiului cultural american. Programa de studii include cursuri de istorie, guvernare si instituții democratice, filozofie politică și economică, literatură, media, antropologie culturală, discurs public, relații internaționale în context global. Programul de Studii Americane desfășurat atât la nivel de licență, cât și la nivel masteral și doctoral, se bucură de sprijinul Ambasadei S.U.A. si al Comisiei Fulbright din România.
9:00-9:30 Opening of the Conference (Chair: Maria-Sabina Draga Alexandru, Conference Organizer, University of Bucharest)
Octavian Roske (Assoc. Prof., Head of the English Department, University of Bucharest)
Mircea Dumitru (Executive Director, Romanian-U.S. Fulbright Commission)
William O’Connor (Cultural Affairs Officer, United States Embassy, Bucharest)
9:30-10:15 A Conversation with William O’Connor (Cultural Affairs Officer, United States Embassy, Bucharest) on the Concept of Crisis in American Culture (Chair: Maria-Sabina Draga Alexandru, Conference Organizer, University of Bucharest)
10:15-12:15 Panel 1: Crises in the Media, Old and New. Chair: Dana Mihăilescu (University of Bucharest
Alexandra-Petruta Borjog (American Studies BA student, University of Bucharest), “The Apocalypse and the Indian: Two Video Games”
Flavia Ciontu (PhD candidate, University of Paris 8), “Identities in Crisis: Coming of Age as an Immigrant in Little Odessa (1994)and An American Rhapsody (2001)”
Mihaela-Adriana Tone (English BA student, University of Bucharest), “Gilead’s Color Blindness: Contradictory Representations of Diversity in Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale”
Elena-Patricia Cătănoiu (American Studies BA student, University of Bucharest), “Reimagining African American Identity in Afrofuturist Film: Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther (2018)”
Sânziana-Miruna Popa (American Studies MA student, University of Bucharest), “Portrayals of the African American Community in The Birth of a Nation (2016)”
Tudor Constantin Truță (English BA student, University of Bucharest), “Beyond the Humanity of Cyberpunk”
12:15-13:00 Lunch break
13:00-14:40 Panel 2: Theorizing on Crises in Society/ Politics/ History. Chair: Maria-Sabina Draga Alexandru (University of Bucharest)
Anca Georgiana Dugaiasu (American Studies BA, “Ovidius” University of Constanța), “The Crisis of Residential Segregation: Disproportionate Opportunity Gaps in The U.S.”
Sean Muller (Anthropology MA, The New School for Social Research, New York), “Hyperreality, Identity, and the Crisis of Presence: An Anthropology of Impotent Revolution”
Remo Verdickt (PhD candidate, University of Leuven), “Frost/Baldwin: Go Tell It in the White House”
Maria-Alexandra Netbai (American Studies BA, University of Bucharest), “Translating the ‘Forgotten War’: Don Mee Choi’s Poems Rediscovering the Past of Korean-American Relations”
Ștefan Capmare (Letters BA student, University of Bucharest), “The Simulation Hypothesis and the Crisis of Reality”
14:40-15:00 Coffee break
15:00-17:00 Panel 3: Writing, Identity and the World. Chair: Diana Benea (University of Bucharest)
Andreea G. Moise (English BA, University of Bucharest), “‘A Soul in Physical Stress’: The Feminised Queer Body in Nightwood”
Carina Iulia Chereji (Literary Studies MA, University of Bucharest), “‘And so it goes’: A Close Encounter with Crisis in Kurt Vonnegut’s Fiction”
Teodora Florea (Letters BA, University of Bucharest), “From Signs on the Bathroom Wall to the Storming of the Capitol: American Paranoia as a Crisis of Interpretation”
Ionelia Sandu (Anglo-American Studies MA student, “Ovidius” University of Constanța), “The Concept of Identity in Sandra Cisneros’sThe House on Mango Street”
Raluca-Rebeca Rădulescu (British Cultural Studies MA, University of Bucharest), “The Crisis of Hyphenated Identity in America: Tensions between Language, Identity, and Integration in Yiyun Li’s To Speak is to Blunder”
Garima Singh (English BA, DIT University, Dehradun, India), “The Perks of Being a Wallflower: Revelation of Cultural Crises”
17:00-17:30 Break / Jury Deliberation
17:30-18:00 “Dan Grigorescu” prize award ceremony. Closing remarks.
Jury:
Dana Bădulescu, “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iași
Ludmila Martanovschi, “Ovidius” University of Constanța
Karina Pătrășcanu, University of Bucharest
Organizers:
The American Studies Program at the University of Bucharest
The Center for American Studies at the University of Bucharest
and the Romanian-U.S. Fulbright Commission
invite proposals for their annual student conference on the topic
The Concept of Crisis in American Culture
to be held online
on Friday, May 21, 2021
We invite proposals for 15-minute presentations from undergraduate and MA students whose research is relevant to the topic of the conference. Papers may come from the fields of literature, film, theater and performance arts, popular culture, visual culture and the media, history, politics, intercultural and interdisciplinary communication, and transatlantic relations and may address issues such as (but not necessarily limited to): cultural, economic and political crises in American history; epidemics as crisis; the environment in crisis; American ways of dealing with crisis; crisis, minorities and otherness in American culture; democracy and crisis; the United States and world crises; crises of literary and cultural canons. The best presentation will be awarded the “Dan Grigorescu” prize (US$ 200). Doctoral students are welcome to present outside the competition for the “Dan Grigorescu” prize.
Submission Guidelines
Please submit the following:
1. a 250-word abstract attached as an MS Word file. Your abstract must include the paper title and the name of the academic coordinator who has agreed to supervise your paper. Please note that, considering that each presentation will be 15 minutes long, final papers should be approximately 5-6 pages (Times New Roman, font 12, double-spaced). However, we strongly encourage participants to present and not simply read their papers.
2. 3-5 keywords from your essay;
3. Contact information (name, affiliation, phone number, and email address).
Numele, inițiala tatălui şi prenumele absolventului
Anul înmatriculării
Titlul lucrării de licență
Coordonator
Ora susținerii
1.
Ciucă S. Ștefania
2010
Importanța Emisiunii Ru Paul’s Drag Race pentru comunitatea LGBTQ
Conf. dr. Dana Mihăilescu
9:00
2.
Esterabadyan V. Sara
2015
Un studio al Împletirii dintre Transcendentalism și Pragmatism în Cultura Americană prin Prisma Scrierilor lui Ralph Waldo Emerson
Prof. dr. Roxana Oltean
9:15
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