{"id":1233,"date":"2020-12-25T00:57:57","date_gmt":"2020-12-24T22:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.americanstudies.ro\/?page_id=1233"},"modified":"2026-05-17T22:41:58","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T19:41:58","slug":"cross-cultural-encounters-in-american-trauma-narratives-a-comparative-approach-to-personal-and-collective-memories","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.americanstudies.ro\/ro\/cross-cultural-encounters-in-american-trauma-narratives-a-comparative-approach-to-personal-and-collective-memories\/","title":{"rendered":"Cross-Cultural Encounters in American Trauma Narratives: A Comparative Approach to Personal and Collective Memories"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Titlu proiect \/ Project Title<\/strong>: <em>Intalniri interculturale in naratiuni ale traumelor din spatiul american: Studiu comparativ asupra memoriilor personale si colective \/ Cross-Cultural Encounters in American Trauma Narratives: A Comparative Approach to Personal and Collective Memories <\/em>(no. 64 \/ 2011, PN-II-RU-TE-2011-3-0149)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Sursa de finantare \/ Financing<\/strong>: UEFISCDI, prin programul national de cercetare, PN-II-RU-TE, competitia Tinere Echipe din anul 2011 \/ National Council for Scientific Research \u2013 PN-II-RU-TE Programme, 2011 annual competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Durata proiectului \/ Project Duration<\/strong>: 3 ani (octombrie 2011 \u2013 octombrie 2014) \/ 3 years (October&nbsp; 2011 \u2013 October 2014).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Membrii proiectului \/ Project Members<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Conf. dr. Roxana Oltean &#8211; director<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prof. dr. Rodica Mihaila<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lect. dr. Mihaela Precup<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lect. dr. Dana Mihailescu<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Rezumat si obiective \/ Project summary and main objectives:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Situated at the interface of American cultural, ethnic, literary, visual and memory studies, this project attempts to explore<strong> cross-cultural and trans-generational encounters <\/strong>in post-World-War-Two American trauma narratives by mapping out <strong>traumatic memory<\/strong> in successive <strong>cycles of American narratives<\/strong> generated by major moments of trauma in U.S. history or European history impacting the U.S. through geopolitical consequences or extensive public debate in the U.S.: the Holocaust, (post) Cold War configurations, the Vietnam War, the AIDS crisis and the 9\/11 terrorist attacks. <strong>What these events have in common<\/strong> is the fact that they are <strong>traumatic <\/strong>moments characterized by considerable <strong>loss of life<\/strong>, infringement of <strong>human rights<\/strong>, and the production of <strong>subsequent<\/strong> <strong>ideological battlefields<\/strong> which led to heated <strong>debates <\/strong>inthe U.S.<strong> on<\/strong> how <strong>verbal and visual testimonies<\/strong> should be constructed. We read these narratives as not separate but interconnected, in the sense that they shape the U.S. as a common space of <strong>post-traumatic <\/strong>cross-cultural and transnational <strong>dialogue between generations<\/strong>, where trauma is transmitted through <strong>verbal and visual testimony<\/strong>. The corpus of narratives under discussion includes: fiction, memoirs, visual narratives, testimonies written in the U.S. The selection discloses a wide diversity of memories and voices, belonging to East European immigrants (the Holocaust and (post)communism), to people marginalized because of differences of class, race, ethnicity, gender or sexual orientation (the Vietnam War and the AIDS crisis), and to a seemingly prosperous multicultural America, the target of the 9\/11 terrorist attacks. Thus, the proposed theme of this project is topical, dynamic, and conversant with essential current issues of worldwide research interest, involving memory, history, trauma and forgetting, as well as transnational and generational bonds.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Rezultatele cercetarii \/ Results of research<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Publica\u021bii \u00een cadrul proiectului \/ Publications<br><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2014<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Dana Mih\u0103ilescu, Mihaela Precup and Roxana Oltean<\/strong>, eds. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cambridgescholars.com\/mapping-generations-of-traumatic-memory-in-american-narratives\"><em>Mapping Generations of Traumatic Memory in American Narratives<\/em><\/a>. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014. ISBN (10): 1-4438-5672-X, ISBN (13): 978-1-4438-5672-0.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Mih\u0103il\u0103<\/strong><strong>, Rodica. <\/strong>&#8220;Healing the Nation, Memorializing Trauma: Ground Zero and the Critique of Exceptionalism in the Recent American Novel.&#8221;<em>Mapping Generations of Traumatic Memory in American Narratives<\/em>. Eds. Dana Mih\ufffd?ilescu, Mihaela Precup and Roxana Oltean. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014. 286-299. ISBN (10): 1-4438-5672-X, ISBN (13): 978-1-4438-5672-0.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Mih\u0103ilescu, Dana. <\/strong>\u201cNegotiating Traumas via Cross-Cultural Urban Identity Configurations out of Grief: Aleksandar Hemon\u2019s <em>The Lazarus Project<\/em>.\u201d <em>Mapping Generations of Traumatic Memory in American Narratives<\/em>. Eds. Dana Mih\ufffd?ilescu, Mihaela Precup and Roxana Oltean. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014. 31-53. ISBN (10): 1-4438-5672-X, ISBN (13): 978-1-4438-5672-0.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Oltean, Roxana<\/strong>. \u2018\u201cStalintowns Aplenty\u201d: Totalitarian Cityscapes in Transatlantic Memory.\u2019 <em>Mapping Generations of Traumatic Memory in American Narratives<\/em>. Eds. Dana Mih\ufffd?ilescu, Mihaela Precup and Roxana Oltean. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014. 54-78. ISBN (10): 1-4438-5672-X, ISBN (13): 978-1-4438-5672-0.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Precup, Mihaela. <\/strong>\u201cThe Transgressive Mourner in Joan Didion\u2019s <em>The Year of Magical Thinking<\/em> (2005) and <em>Blue Nights<\/em> (2011), and Joyce Carol Oates\u2019s <em>A Widow\u2019s Story<\/em> (2011).\u201d <em>Mapping Generations of Traumatic Memory in American Narratives<\/em>. Eds. Dana Mih\ufffd?ilescu, Mihaela Precup and Roxana Oltean. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014. 192- 210. ISBN (10): 1-4438-5672-X, ISBN (13): 978-1-4438-5672-0.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Precup, Mihaela.<\/strong> <em>States of Displacement in American Literature and Popular Culture<\/em>. Bucharest: University of Bucharest Press,&nbsp; 2013 (publicata in 2014). ISBN 978-606-16-0365-7<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Precup, Mihaela. <\/strong><em>The American Graphic Memoir. An Introduction<\/em>. Bucharest: University of Bucharest Press, 2013 (publicata in 2014). ISBN 978-606-16-0364-0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Mih\u0103ilescu, Dana. <\/strong>\u201cTraumatic Echoes of Memories in Child Survivors\u2019 Narratives of the Holocaust: The Polish Experiences of Micha?? G??owi??ski and Henryk Grynberg.\u201d <em>European Review of History\/Revue europ\u00e9enne d\u2019histoire <\/em>21.1 (February 2014): 73-90. ISSN: 1350-7486 (Print), 1469-8293 (Online) (Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group, ISI-AHCI journal); <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/13507486.2013.869791#.UwuN0jNWHIU\">http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/13507486.2013.869791#.UwuN0jNWHIU<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Mih\u0103ilescu, Dana.<\/strong>\u201cPhotography and Prose Pictures in <em>Beloved<\/em>: The Frames of Emotional Memory.\u201d <em>Toni Morrison &#8211; Au-del\u00e0 du visible ordinaire \/ Toni Morrison &#8211; Beyond the Ordinary Visible<\/em>. Eds. Maryemma Graham, Janis Mayes and Andr\u00e9e-Anne Kekeh. Paris: Presses Universitaires de Vincennes, forthcoming October 2014. 97-109. L\u2019imaginaire du texte series. ISBN : 978-2-84292-413-3. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.puv-univ-paris8.org\/catalogue\/tous-les-titres\/toni-morrison-au-dela-du-visible-ordinaire-9782842924133-0-598.html\">http:\/\/www.puv-univ-paris8.org\/catalogue\/tous-les-titres\/toni-morrison-au-dela-du-visible-ordinaire-9782842924133-0-598.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2013<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Mih\u0103ilescu, Dana.<\/strong> \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.academia.edu\/3496522\/Being_Without_Pleasurable_Memories_On_the_Predicament_of_the_Shoahs_Child_Survivors_in_Norman_Maneas_Prousts_Tea_and_Kindred_Narratives\">Being without Pleasurable Memories: On the Predicament of the Shoah\u2019s Child Survivors in Norman Manea\u2019s \u201cProust\u2019s Tea\u201d and Kindred Narratives<\/a>.\u201d <em>American Imago <\/em>70.1 (Spring 2013): 107-124. E-ISSN: 1085-7931; Print ISSN: 0065-860X [Published by Johns Hopkins University Press, ISI-AHCI Journal]; <a href=\"http:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/login?auth=0&amp;type=summary&amp;url=\/journals\/american_imago\/v070\/70.1.mih-ilescu.html\">http:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/login?auth=0&amp;type=summary&amp;url=\/journals\/american_imago\/v070\/70.1.mih-ilescu.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Mih\u0103ilescu, Dana. <\/strong>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.academia.edu\/4898991\/Memory_Cues_Imbricated_in_Nineteenth_Century_Family_Photos_from_the_American_South_On_William_Faulkners_Absalom_Absalom_\">Memory Cues Imbricated in Nineteenth Century Family Photos from the American South: On William Faulkner\u2019s <em>Absalom! Absalom!<\/em>.<\/a>\u201d<em> University of Bucharest Review. A Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies <\/em>3.1 (December 2013): 116-124. ISSN: 2069-8658.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Oltean, Roxana.<\/strong> \u2018&#8221;Self-Obsessed and Incomprehensible.&#8221; Remembering (Post)Communist Traumas in the American Imaginary.\u2019 <em>University of Bucharest Review. A Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies<\/em> 3.1 (December 2013): 41-57. ISSN: 2069-8658.&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Precup, Mihaela.<\/strong><em>\u201cThe Dead in the Memory Palace: The Detective Work of Memory and Mourning in The Mentalist (CBS, 2008-).\u201d University of Bucharest Review. A Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies <\/em>((December 2013): 182-189. ISSN: 2069-8658.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Precup, Mihaela.<\/strong><em>\u201c<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/comicsforum.org\/2013\/05\/30\/blueprints-for-a-forward-dawning-futurity-brynjar-abel-banliens-strimb-life-2009-and-strimb-living-5-years-with-oskar-2011-by-mihaela-precup\/\">\u201cBlueprints for a Forward-Dawning Futurity\u201d: Brynjar &nbsp;\u00c5bel Banlien\u2019s <em>Str\u00eemb Life<\/em> (2009) and <em>Str\u00eemb Living \u2013 5 Years with Oskar<\/em> (2011)<\/a>, Comics Forum, May 2013<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2012<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Mih\u0103ilescu, Dana.<\/strong> \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1080\/13501674.2012.665585\">Images of Romania and America in Early Twentieth-Century Romanian-Jewish Immigrant Life Stories in the United States<\/a>.\u201d <em>East European Jewish Affairs <\/em>42: 1 (April 2012): 25-43. [Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group, Manchester, UK, ISI-AHCI indexed journal. ISSN: 1350-1674 (Print), 1743-971X (Online)<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><strong>Mih\u0103ilescu, Dana.<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.academia.edu\/1532757\/_Review_of_Memoires_des_Juifs_de_Roumanie_by_Mehdi_Chebana_and_Jonas_Mercier_Mure-Ravaud_\">Review of<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.academia.edu\/1532757\/_Review_of_Memoires_des_Juifs_de_Roumanie_by_Mehdi_Chebana_and_Jonas_Mercier_Mure-Ravaud_\"><strong> <\/strong><em>M\u00e9moires des Juifs de Roumanie, <\/em>by<em> <\/em>Mehdi Chebana and Jonas Mercier Mure-Ravaud<\/a>. <em>Journal of Jewish Studies<\/em> 63.1 (April 2012): 186-189. ISSN 0022-2097 [Oxford, UK, ISI-AHCI-indexed journal] <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jjs-online.net\/toc.php?subaction=content&amp;id=063_01\">http:\/\/www.jjs-online.net\/toc.php?subaction=content&amp;id=063_01<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Mih\u0103ilescu, Dana.<\/strong> \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.academia.edu\/1754070\/On_the_Performative_Lure_of_War_Memories_Tim_OBriens_How_to_Tell_a_True_War_Story_\">On the Performative Lure of War Memories: Tim O\u2019Brien\u2019s \u201cHow to Tell a True War Story\u201d<\/a>.\u201d <em>University of Bucharest Review. A Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies <\/em>(vol.1, no 2, 2011, p. in 2012): 105-114. &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/pdc-connection.ebscohost.com\/c\/articles\/73181735\/performative-lure-war-memories-tim-obriens-how-tell-true-war-story\">http:\/\/pdc-connection.ebscohost.com\/c\/articles\/73181735\/performative-lure-war-memories-tim-obriens-how-tell-true-war-story<\/a>>.\u00a0 ISSN: 2069-8658.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2011<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0<strong>Mih\u0103ilescu, Dana.<\/strong> \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/americanstudies.ro\/libs\/docs\/1381567224-67224.pdf\">Legacies of a Traumatic Past in Romanian Jews\u2019 Artworks. Review of Exhibition <\/a><em><a href=\"http:\/\/americanstudies.ro\/libs\/docs\/1381567224-67224.pdf\">Crossroads: Jewish Artists during the Holocaust<\/a>.<\/em>\u201d <em>Images. A Journal of Jewish Art and Visual Culture<\/em> (Brill Press), 2011. 111-113. ISSN 1871-7993, Online ISSN: 1871-8000. [Ingenta Brill \/ EBSCOHOST databases]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Precup, Mihaela.<\/strong> \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/americanstudies.ro\/libs\/docs\/1381567087-67087.pdf\">A Review of Hilary Chute\u2019s <em>Graphic Women: Life Narrative and Contemporary Comics<\/em>.\u201d<\/a> 545-548. <em>Biography<\/em> 34.4 (Fall 2011) E-ISSN: 1529-1456; Print-ISSN: 0162-4962 [ISI-AHCI Indexed Journal]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Stagii de cercetare efectuate \u00een cadrul proiectului &nbsp;\u00een afara Rom\u00e2niei \/ Research trips outside Romania within our project:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Manchester University Library, Manchester<\/strong> (Mihaela Precup, 06.07.2012-21.07.2012)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>M\u00e9morial de la Shoah, Paris (<\/strong>Dana Mihailescu, 17.08.2012-30.08.2012)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>East Central European Center, Columbia University, New York<\/strong> (Roxana Oltean, 23.04.2013-08.05.2013)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Participare conferin??e \u00een cadrul proiectului \/ Conference participation funded by our project:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Dana Mihailescu,<\/strong> \u201cBeing without Pleasurable Memories: On the Predicament of Shoah\u2019s Children-Survivors in Norman Manea\u2019s \u201cProust\u2019s Tea,\u201d <em>Beyond camps and forced labour: current international research on survivors of Nazi persecution Conference<\/em>, Imperial War Museum, London, 4-6 January 2012 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.iwm.org.uk\/sites\/default\/files\/public-document\/BCaFL-Programme2.pdf\">http:\/\/www.iwm.org.uk\/sites\/default\/files\/public-document\/BCaFL-Programme2.pdf<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Rodica Mihaila<\/strong>, \u201cHealing the Nation? The Critique of Exceptionalism in the Post-9\/11 American Novel,\u201d plenary lecture, EAAS Conference <em>Health of a Nation<\/em>, 30 March-2 April 2012, Izmir, Turkey (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eaas2012.org\/files\/downloads\/Conference_Program-24-Subat.pdf\">http:\/\/www.eaas2012.org\/files\/downloads\/Conference_Program-24-Subat.pdf<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Dana Mihailescu<\/strong>, \u201cMemory Cues Imbricated in Turn-of-the-Twentieth-Century Family Photos from the American South: William Faulkner\u2019s <em>Absalom! Absalom!,<\/em>\u201d <em>Cultures of Memory\/Memories of Culture International Conference<\/em>, organized by the English Department from the University of Bucharest, Bucharest, 6-8 June 2013 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.unibuc.ro\/depts\/limbi\/literatura_engleza\/conferinte.php\">http:\/\/www.unibuc.ro\/depts\/limbi\/literatura_engleza\/conferinte.php<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Roxana Oltean<\/strong>, \u201eTransatlantic Memory: Negotiating Cold War Broadcasting Policies,\u201d <em>Cultures of Memory\/Memories of Culture International Conference<\/em>, organized by the English Department from the University of Bucharest, Bucharest, 6-8 June 2013 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.unibuc.ro\/depts\/limbi\/literatura_engleza\/conferinte.php\">http:\/\/www.unibuc.ro\/depts\/limbi\/literatura_engleza\/conferinte.php<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Mihaela Precup<\/strong>, \u201cThe Dead in the Memory Palace: The Detective Work of Memory and Mourning in <em>The Mentalist<\/em> (CBS, 2008-),\u201d <em>Cultures of Memory\/Memories of Culture International Conference<\/em>, organized by the English Department from the University of Bucharest, Bucharest, 6-8 June 2013 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.unibuc.ro\/depts\/limbi\/literatura_engleza\/conferinte.php\">http:\/\/www.unibuc.ro\/depts\/limbi\/literatura_engleza\/conferinte.php<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Mihaela Precup<\/strong>, \u201cDrawn Photographs and the Performance of (Post)Memory in Carol Tyler&#8217;s <em>You&#8217;ll Never Know,<\/em>\u201d &nbsp;<em>Picturing Photography in Graphic Memoirs Panel, <\/em>MLA Conference, Boston, U.S., 3\u20136 January 2013 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mla.org\/conv_past\">http:\/\/www.mla.org\/conv_past<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Mihaela Precup<\/strong>, \u201c\u201cIt came from Alpha Centaur looking for love\u201d: The Mutant and Non-human Body in Denis Kitchen\u2019s <em>Bizarre Sex<\/em> (1972-1982),\u201d <em>Small Press and Undergrounds Conference<\/em>, organized by Comics Forum, Leeds, UK, 21-22 November 2013 (<a href=\"http:\/\/comicsforum.org\/comics-forum-archives\/comics-forum-2013\/\">http:\/\/comicsforum.org\/comics-forum-archives\/comics-forum-2013\/<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Dana Mihailescu<\/strong>, \u201cHaunting Specters of World War II Memories from a Transgenerational Ethical Perspective in Miriam Katin\u2019s <em>We Are on Our Own <\/em>and <em>Letting It Go,<\/em>\u201d Workshop on The Ethics of War and Conflict in Graphic Narratives organized by Rebecca Scherr and <strong>Mihaela Precup<\/strong>, 2014 EAAS Conference \u201cAmerica: Justice, Conflict, War,\u201d The Hague, Netherlands, 3-6 April 2014, (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eaas2014.org\/ehome\/eaas2014\/141766\/?&amp;&amp;\">http:\/\/www.eaas2014.org\/ehome\/eaas2014\/141766\/?&amp;&amp;<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Dana Mihailescu<\/strong>, \u201cUnderstanding the Past through Holocaust Child Survivors\u2019 Voices: The Input of Mnemonic Structures Molded on Cognitive and Critical\/Creative Grids,\u201d &#8220;Looking at then Now&#8221; Oral History Conference, Oral History Division, Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 8-10 June 2014, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hum.huji.ac.il\/english\/units.php?cat=5019&amp;incat=4254\">http:\/\/www.hum.huji.ac.il\/english\/units.php?cat=5019&amp;incat=4254<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><\/strong><strong>Dana Mihailescu, <\/strong>\u201cFacets of Romanian Anti-Semitism in Memoirs by Turn-of-the-Twentieth-Century Romanian Jewish Immigrants to the U.S.,\u201d <em>Collaborative Outreach Workshop: Anti-Semitism in Romania and Moldova, 1881-1991<\/em>, project organized by Dr. Irina Marin (University of Leceister) and Dr. Raul C\u00e2rstocea (European Centre for Minority Issues, Flensburg, Germany), held at the Stanley Burton Centre, University of Leicester, 2 July 2014 (<a href=\"http:\/\/romanianmoldovanresearchgroup.wordpress.com\/\">http:\/\/romanianmoldovanresearchgroup.wordpress.com\/<\/a>)&nbsp; <strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Dana Mihailescu, <\/strong>\u201cFamily Pictures Constructing Narratives of <em>Transpersonal Being<\/em>: On Svetlana Boym\u2019s Visual Projects <em>Unforeseen Past<\/em> and <em>Touching Photographs\u2013Most Wanted<\/em>,\u201d Picturing the Family: Media, Narrative, Memory Conference, Birkbeck, University of London, 10-11 July 2014. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbk.ac.uk\/brakc\/conference.html\">http:\/\/www.bbk.ac.uk\/brakc\/conference.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Mihaela Precup, <\/strong>\u201cComrades and Hippies: A Family Album from the Romanian Communist Dictatorship,\u201d Picturing the Family: Media, Narrative, Memory Conference, Birkbeck, University of London, 10-11 July 2014. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbk.ac.uk\/brakc\/conference.html\">http:\/\/www.bbk.ac.uk\/brakc\/conference.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Mihaela Precup, <\/strong>&#8220;Glorious Fanzines, Hardcomics, and Old Timers: Contemporary Comics Production and Consumption in Romania\u201d Graphic Novels and Comics Conference, British Library, London, 18-20 July 2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Mihaela Precup, <\/strong>\u201cThey Always Kill with Wire\u201d: Indonesian Adaptations of American Cinema in <em>The Act of Killing<\/em> (dir. Joshua Oppenheimer, 2012), English Department Conference &#8220;Transnational Dimensions of Literature and the Arts,&#8221; University of Bucharest, 5-7 June 2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Conferin\u021be organizate \u00een cadrul proiectului \/ Workshops organized within our project<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1. International workshop entitled <strong>Mapping Generations of Traumatic Memory in American City Narratives<\/strong>, organized within the bi-annual RAAS-Fulbright conference <strong><em>Remapping Urban Spaces \u2013 American Challenges<\/em><\/strong><strong>, <\/strong>Ovidius University from Constanta, 4-6 October 2012 (<a href=\"http:\/\/raas.ro\/conferences\">http:\/\/raas.ro\/conferences<\/a>):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Friday, October 5<sup>th<\/sup> 10.30 \u2013 12.00 Reading Room 1(2nd floor)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Session 4 A: Mapping Generations of Traumatic Memory in American City Narratives<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Chair: &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Roxana Oltean, University of Bucharest, Rodica Mih\ufffd?il\ufffd?, University of Bucharest<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Roxana Oltean, University of Bucharest<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Totalitarian Cityscapes in Transatlantic Memory<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Rodica Mih\u0103il\u0103, University of Bucharest<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Healing the Nation, Memorializing Trauma: Ground Zero and the Critique of Exceptionalism in the Recent American Novel<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Cristian Panaite, University of Texas, Dallas<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Remembering Communism in Washington DC: Politics, Aesthetics, and Rituals in the Nation\u2019s Capital<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Audrey Bardizbanian, University of Paris-Sorbonne Paris IV<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Writing Post-Traumatic Memories and the City: Jonathan Safran Foer\u2019s <em>Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Friday, October 5<sup>th<\/sup> 13.30 \u2013 15.30 Reading Room 1(2nd floor)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Session 5A: Mapping Generations of Traumatic Memory in American City Narratives<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Chair: \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Roxana Oltean, University of Bucharest, Dana Mih\u0103ilescu, University of Bucharest<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Mihaela Precup, University of Bucharest<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cLet us forget walking men\u201d: Levitation and Mourning in Collum McCann\u2019s <em>Let the Great World Spin<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Dana Mih\u0103iilescu, University of Bucharest<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Negotiating Traumas via Cross-Cultural Urban Identity Configurations out of Grief: Outlook on Aleksandar Hemon\u2019s <em>The Lazarus Project<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Maria Zirra, Utrecht University\/University of Bucharest<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nesting Dolls That Don\u2019t Fit: Performing the 1991 Crown Heights Riots in Anna Deavere Smith\u2019s <em>Fires in The Mirror<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ilinca-Miruna Diaconu, University of Bucharest<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shadrack\u2019s \u201cshack on the riverbank\u201d: Marginalization and Refuge in Toni Morrison\u2019s <em>Sula<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2. Young researcher lecture series:<\/strong> See <a href=\"http:\/\/americanstudies.ro\/?article=259\">http:\/\/americanstudies.ro\/?article=259<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>3. Workshop on \u201cThe Ethics of War and Conflict in Graphic Narratives\u201d<\/strong> organized by Rebecca Scherr and <strong>Mihaela Precup<\/strong>, 2014 EAAS Conference \u201cAmerica: Justice, Conflict, War,\u201d The Hague, Netherlands, 3-6 April 2014, (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eaas2014.org\/ehome\/eaas2014\/141766\/?&amp;&amp;\">http:\/\/www.eaas2014.org\/ehome\/eaas2014\/141766\/?&amp;&amp;<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Expozi\u021bie organizat \u00een \u00een cadrul proiectului \/<\/strong><br><strong>Exhibition organized within our project<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.familylineups.com\/\">www.familylineups.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Rapoarte anuale de activitate stiintifica \/ Annual reports of scientific research activities<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/americanstudies.ro\/libs\/docs\/2011-43610.pdf\">Raport 2011<\/a> \/ <a href=\"http:\/\/americanstudies.ro\/libs\/docs\/raport-2011-82904.doc\">2011 Report<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/americanstudies.ro\/libs\/docs\/2012-43774.pdf\">Raport 2012<\/a> \/ <a href=\"http:\/\/americanstudies.ro\/libs\/docs\/raport-2012-32121.doc\">2012 Report<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/americanstudies.ro\/libs\/docs\/2013-43808.pdf\">Raport 2013<\/a> \/ <a href=\"http:\/\/americanstudies.ro\/libs\/docs\/raport-2013-66339.doc\">2013 Report<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/americanstudies.ro\/libs\/docs\/2014-43837.pdf\">Raport 2014<\/a> \/ <a href=\"http:\/\/americanstudies.ro\/libs\/docs\/2014-75676.pdf\">2014 Report<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Titlu proiect \/ Project Title: Intalniri interculturale in naratiuni ale traumelor din spatiul american: Studiu comparativ asupra memoriilor personale si colective \/ Cross-Cultural Encounters in American Trauma Narratives: A Comparative Approach to Personal and Collective Memories (no. 64 \/ 2011, PN-II-RU-TE-2011-3-0149) Sursa de finantare \/ Financing: UEFISCDI, prin programul national de cercetare, PN-II-RU-TE, competitia Tinere &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanstudies.ro\/ro\/cross-cultural-encounters-in-american-trauma-narratives-a-comparative-approach-to-personal-and-collective-memories\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continu\u0103 lectura<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201eCross-Cultural Encounters in American Trauma Narratives: A Comparative Approach to Personal and Collective Memories\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americanstudies.ro\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1233"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americanstudies.ro\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americanstudies.ro\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanstudies.ro\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanstudies.ro\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1233"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanstudies.ro\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2440,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanstudies.ro\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1233\/revisions\/2440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americanstudies.ro\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}