{"id":1272,"date":"2021-05-20T23:54:31","date_gmt":"2021-05-20T20:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.americanstudies.ro\/?p=1272"},"modified":"2021-05-20T23:54:31","modified_gmt":"2021-05-20T20:54:31","slug":"the-concept-of-crisis-in-american-culture-american-studies-student-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.americanstudies.ro\/ro\/the-concept-of-crisis-in-american-culture-american-studies-student-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"The Concept of Crisis in American Culture \u2013 American Studies Student Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Concept of Crisis in American Culture<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

American Studies Student Conference<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Friday, May 21, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n

online at:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/us02web.zoom.us\/j\/83419677084?pwd=Y2FCUU5yTFNCTy9iMVM4L0grSng3QT09<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Meeting ID: 834 1967 7084, Passcode: 505841)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

9:00-9:30 Opening of the Conference<\/strong> (Chair: Maria-Sabina Draga Alexandru, Conference Organizer, University of Bucharest)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Octavian Roske (Assoc. Prof., Head of the English Department, University of Bucharest)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mircea Dumitru (Executive Director, Romanian-U.S. Fulbright Commission)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

William O\u2019Connor (Cultural Affairs Officer, United States Embassy, Bucharest)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

9:30-10:15 A Conversation with William O\u2019Connor <\/strong>(Cultural Affairs Officer<\/strong>, United States Embassy, Bucharest) on the Concept of Crisis <\/strong>i<\/strong>n American Culture <\/strong>(Chair: Maria-Sabina Draga Alexandru, Conference Organizer, University of Bucharest)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

10:15-12:15 P<\/strong>anel 1: Crises in the Media, Old and New<\/strong>. <\/strong>Chair: Dana Mih\u0103ilescu (University of Bucharest<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. Alexandra-Petruta Borjog (American Studies BA student, University of Bucharest), \u201cThe Apocalypse and the Indian: Two Video Games\u201d<\/li>
  2. Flavia Ciontu (PhD candidate, University of Paris 8), \u201cIdentities in Crisis: Coming of Age as an Immigrant in Little Odessa <\/em>(1994)and An American Rhapsody <\/em>(2001)\u201d<\/li>
  3. Mihaela-Adriana Tone (English BA student, University of Bucharest), \u201cGilead\u2019s Color Blindness: Contradictory Representations of Diversity in Hulu\u2019s The Handmaid\u2019s Tale<\/em>\u201d<\/li>
  4. Elena-Patricia C\u0103t\u0103noiu (American Studies BA student, University of Bucharest), \u201cReimagining African American Identity in Afrofuturist Film: Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther<\/em> (2018)\u201d<\/li>
  5. S\u00e2nziana-Miruna Popa (American Studies MA student, University of Bucharest), \u201cPortrayals of the African American Community in The <\/em>Birth of a Nation<\/em> (2016)\u201d<\/li>
  6. Tudor Constantin Tru\u021b\u0103 (English BA student, University of Bucharest), \u201cBeyond the Humanity of Cyberpunk\u201d<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    12:15-13:00 Lunch break<\/strong>
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    13:00-14:40 Panel 2: Theorizing on Crises in Society\/ Politics\/ History. <\/strong>Chair: Maria-Sabina Draga Alexandru (University of Bucharest)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    1. Anca Georgiana Dugaiasu (American Studies BA, \u201cOvidius\u201d University of Constan\u021ba), \u201cThe Crisis of Residential Segregation: Disproportionate Opportunity Gaps in The U.S.\u201d<\/li>
    2. Sean Muller (Anthropology MA, The New School for Social Research, New York), \u201cHyperreality, Identity, and the Crisis of Presence: An Anthropology of Impotent Revolution\u201d<\/li>
    3. Remo Verdickt (PhD candidate, University of Leuven), \u201cFrost\/Baldwin: Go Tell It in the White House\u201d<\/li>
    4. Maria-Alexandra Netbai (American Studies BA, University of Bucharest), \u201cTranslating the \u2018Forgotten War\u2019: Don Mee Choi\u2019s Poems Rediscovering the Past of Korean-American Relations\u201d<\/li>
    5. \u0218tefan Capmare (Letters BA student, University of Bucharest), \u201cThe Simulation Hypothesis and the Crisis of Reality\u201d<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n


      14:40-15:00 Coffee break<\/strong>
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      15:00-17:00 P<\/strong>anel 3: Writing, Identity and the World. <\/strong>Chair: Diana Benea (University of Bucharest)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      1. Andreea G. Moise (English BA, University of Bucharest), \u201c\u2018A Soul in Physical Stress\u2019<\/em>: The Feminised Queer Body in Nightwood<\/em>\u201d<\/li>
      2. Carina Iulia Chereji (Literary Studies MA, University of Bucharest), \u201c\u2018And so it goes\u2019: A Close Encounter with Crisis in Kurt Vonnegut\u2019s Fiction\u201d<\/li>
      3. Teodora Florea (Letters BA, University of Bucharest), \u201cFrom Signs on the Bathroom Wall to the Storming of the Capitol: American Paranoia as a Crisis of Interpretation\u201d<\/li>
      4. Ionelia Sandu (Anglo-American Studies MA student, \u201cOvidius\u201d University of Constan\u021ba), \u201cThe Concept of Identity in Sandra Cisneros\u2019sThe House on Mango Street<\/em>\u201d<\/li>
      5. Raluca-Rebeca R\u0103dulescu (British Cultural Studies MA, University of Bucharest), \u201cThe Crisis of Hyphenated Identity in America: Tensions between Language, Identity, and Integration in Yiyun Li’s To Speak is to Blunder<\/em>\u201d<\/li>
      6. Garima Singh (English BA, DIT University, Dehradun, India), \u201cThe Perks of Being a Wallflower<\/em>: Revelation of Cultural Crises\u201d<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

        17:00-17:30 Break \/ Jury Deliberation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

        17:30-18:00 \u201cDan Grigorescu\u201d prize award ceremony. Closing remarks.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

        Jury:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

        Dana B\u0103dulescu, “Alexandru Ioan Cuza\u201d University of Ia\u0219i<\/p>\n\n\n\n

        Ludmila Martanovschi, \u201cOvidius\u201d University of Constan\u021ba<\/p>\n\n\n\n

        Karina P\u0103tr\u0103\u0219canu, University of Bucharest<\/p>\n\n\n\n

        Organizers:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

        The American Studies Program at the University of Bucharest<\/p>\n\n\n\n

        The Romanian-U.S. Fulbright Commission<\/p>\n\n\n\n

        The organizers thank the U.S.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

        Embassy for their support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

        Program Graphics:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

        Laura Rusu<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

        The Concept of Crisis in American Culture American Studies Student Conference Friday, May 21, 2021 online at: https:\/\/us02web.zoom.us\/j\/83419677084?pwd=Y2FCUU5yTFNCTy9iMVM4L0grSng3QT09 (Meeting ID: 834 1967 7084, Passcode: 505841) 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, … <\/p>\n

        Continu\u0103 lectura \u201eThe Concept of Crisis in American Culture \u2013 American Studies Student Conference\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americanstudies.ro\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americanstudies.ro\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americanstudies.ro\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=1272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanstudies.ro\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americanstudies.ro\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanstudies.ro\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanstudies.ro\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}