{"id":406,"date":"2020-05-16T22:26:26","date_gmt":"2020-05-16T22:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.americanstudies.ro\/?p=406"},"modified":"2020-05-16T23:06:21","modified_gmt":"2020-05-16T23:06:21","slug":"american-studies-student-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.americanstudies.ro\/ro\/american-studies-student-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"American Studies Student Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Exploring Other Worlds: The United States and Its Others
American Studies Student Conference
March 10-11, 2020<\/h1>\n\n\n\n
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Tuesday, March 10, 2020, 9:00-19:00<\/strong>
Venue: The Romanian-U.S. Fulbright Commission, 2 Nicolae Costinescu St., Bucharest<\/p>\n\n\n\n

9:00-10:00 Opening of the Conference<\/strong>
Octavian Roske (Assoc. Prof., Head of the English Department, University of Bucharest)
Mircea Dumitru (Executive Director, Romanian-U.S. Fulbright Commission)
Andrew Greenough (Economic Officer, United States Embassy in Bucharest) \u2013 Opening talk: \u201cPromoting Inclusion and Representation in the U.S. Political System\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

10:00-11:30 Panel 1: Film and Television<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. Monica Matei (University of Bucharest): \u201cContemporary African American Outlaw & Heroic Figures in The Boondocks\u201d
2. Oana Ciobanu (University of Bucharest): \u201c\u2018Survivors\u2019 of the Holocaust: The Cynical Mass Media Adaptation of Jewish Otherness in Curb Your Enthusiasm\u201d
3. Ionu\u021b-\u0218erban Luca\u0219 (\u201cAlexandru Ioan Cuza\u201d University of Ia\u015fi): \u201cSimulacra in The Truman Show and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind\u201d
4. Alex Bojneagu (West University of Timi\u0219oara): \u201cStuck In-between Two Worlds. Michael Corleone\u2019s Double Tragedy\u201d
5. Teodora Marin (University of Bucharest): \u201cExploring the Transcultural Animated Film Adaptation The Princess and the Frog\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

11:30-11:45 Coffee break<\/p>\n\n\n\n

11:45-13:15 Panel 2: Fiction<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. Raluca Merian (University of Bucharest): \u201cExploring Witchcraft as a Space of Otherness in Esther Forbes\u2019 A Mirror for Witches (1928)\u201d
2. Robert Enescu (Ovidius University, Constan\u021ba): Getting Lost in the Crowd: A Thematic Analysis of Don DeLillo\u2019s White Noise\u201d
3. Ruxandra G\u00eedei (University of Bucharest): \u201cThe Other Beatniks: Beating Masculinist Discourse in Joyce Johnson\u2019s Come and Join the Dance\u201d
4. Martina Proietti (Ovidius University, Constan\u021ba): \u201cEthnic Identity in Jhumpa Lahiri\u2019s Novel The Namesake\u201d
5. Elena Mincu (University of Bucharest): \u201cVisual Literature of Disease and Feminine Madness: the Change of the Distressed Second Sex for the Price of Male Sensitivity in Edgar Allan Poe\u2019s \u2018The Fall of the House of Usher\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

13:15-14:00 Lunch break<\/p>\n\n\n\n

14:00-15:15 Panel 3: Cultural Studies\/History
1. David Dumitriu (University of Bucharest): \u201cCountercultures of Subversion. A Look at How Hardcore Punk and Black Metal Have Attempted to Subvert Mainstream or Popular Beliefs and Idea(l)s\u201d
2. Andreea Moise (University of Bucharest): \u201cThe Female Other: Mansplaining, Manspreading and Rape Culture in the Digital Era of Fourth-Wave Feminism\u201d
3. Iulia Salc\u0103 (Transilvania University of Bra\u0219ov): \u201cBringing Down the Mountains: The Impact of Mountaintop Removal Surface Coal Mining on Appalachian Communities\u201d
4. Jacob A. Bruggeman (Miami University of Ohio\/ University of Cambridge): \u201cMasters of Capital and Men on the Street: Making America\u2019s Economic Others in the Gilded Age, 1870-1900\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

15:15-15:30 Coffee break<\/p>\n\n\n\n

15:30-16:45 Panel 4: Drama, Comics, Architecture and Lit
1. Alp Kayhan (Ovidius University, Constan\u021ba): \u201cReflections of the American Dream in August Wilson\u2019s Fences\u201d
2. Bianca Stoian (University of Bucharest): \u201cOld Ideas, New Utopias in Hank Green\u2019s An Absolutely Remarkable Thing (2018)\u201d
3. Iliana Dumitrescu (University of Bucharest): \u201cIndigenizing the Native: Marvel\u2019s Red Wolf between Entertainment and Statement\u201d
4. Iris Knieling (\u201cAlexandru Ioan Cuza\u201d University of Ia\u015fi): \u201cOtherness in the American Modern Architecture and Literature\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

16:45-17:00 Coffee break<\/p>\n\n\n\n

17:00-18:15 Panel 5: Poetry
1. Ana Dragnea (University of Bucharest): \u201cPoetic Persona(s), Intimacy and Worldview in Emily Dickinson\u2019s Crafted Universe\u201d
2. Ana Soviany (University of Bucharest): \u201cThe Synesthetic Experience of Self in Walt Whitman\u2019s Song of Myself \u201d
3. Raul S\u0103ran (West University of Timi\u0219oara): \u201cFrom Andrei Codrescu to Barbara Jane Reyes \u2013 Exploring \u2018the Other\u2019 in 21st Century American Immigrant Poetry\u201d
4. Vasile Gribincea (University of Bucharest): \u201cTraumatic Identities and Reverberations of the Holocaust in Paul Celan\u2019s Todesfuge and Sylvia Plath\u2019s Daddy and Lady Lazarus: Towards an Intertextual \u2018Mirroring\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

18:15-18:30 Coffee break<\/p>\n\n\n\n

18:30-19:00 \u201cDan Grigorescu\u201d prize award ceremony. Closing remarks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Wednesday, March 11, 2020<\/strong>
Venue: Council Hall, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Bucharest,
7-13 Pitar Mo\u0219 St., Bucharest<\/p>\n\n\n\n

12:00-14:00 Keynote lecture
Cristina Stanciu, Fulbright scholar, Virginia Commonwealth University\/ \u201cAl. I. Cuza\u201d University of Ia\u0219i: \u201cWhere Are the Children?\u201d The Legacy of Residential Schools in Native North American
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