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“Dimitrie Cantemir” Christian University

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June 2013

T h e I n s t i t u t e f o r I n t e r c u l t u r a l S t u d i e s a n d

R e s e a r c h . F i r s t C o n f e r e n c e

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P A G E 2 N e w s l e t t e r

The Conference:

EUROFRINGES.

Intercultural Networking Strategies. Challenging Stereotypes

6th -8th June 2013

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DAY 1 (6 JUNE)

10.00 – 10.30: Opening address (room 130) - Professor Corina Dumitrescu, PhD, Rector of Dimitrie Cantemir Christian University

- Professor Elena Zamfir, PhD, Director of the Institute for Intercultural Studies and

Research, DCCU

- Carmen Beatrice Duţu, PhD, Reader, Dean of the Faculty of Foreign Languages and

Literatures, DCCU

10.30 – 12.00: Plenary lecture I (room 130) - Professor Alistair Ross, PhD (London Metropolitan University)

12.00-12.30: Coffee break

12.30-14.00: Plenary lecture II (room 130)

- Professor Elena Prus, PhD (The Academy of the Republic of Moldova)

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15.30-18.00: Panel session 1

Literary Studies (room 130) Cultural Studies (room 131)

Chairs: Prof. A. Vuillemin, PhD. and Reader I.

Paştin, PhD.

Chairs: Prof. M. Goggin, PhD. and Reader Dan H.

Popescu, PhD

Prof. Allain Vuillemin, PhD (University Paris-Est)

- L’expansion des littératures en langue française

au sud-est de l’Europe (XVII°-XXI° sècles)

Prof. Maureen Goggin, PhD (Arizona State

University) - Circulating Contemporary Protests

and Civil Disobedience through Yarn Graffiti

Reader Iuliana Paştin, PhD (DCCU) - J.M.G. Le

Clézio, écrivain des marges du monde dans le

recueil. “Raga. Approche du continent invisible’’

Reader Dan H. Popescu (Oradea) - Gypsy Music

and its Impact on Dominant Cultures in Hungary

and Romania, as Reflected in a British Travelogue

from the 1930s

Reader Irina Vainovski-Mihai, PhD (DCCU) -

Outsiders and In-Betweens: Identity Constructs in

the Contemporary Arabic Novel

Dr. Cristina Nedelcu (Bucharest University) -

Identity Features in the Shadow of Sectarianism:

Lebanon

Reader Felix Nicolau, PhD (Technical University

Bucharest) - The Perils of Science and Imagination

in Ian McEwan’s Atonement

Assist. Iov Claudia Anamaria, PhD Candidate

(Babes-Bolyai University / Paris 8 University) -

“The Rroma identity project” between ethnic

group, trans-national minority and European

identity

Assist. Monica Manolachi, PhD (University of

Bucharest) - Cultural Hybridity in Radu

Aldulescu’s Novels

Lect. Cristian Tiberiu-Popescu, PhD (Hyperion

University) - "The Quarrel between the King of

France and His Boyars” : Romanian Popular

Phenomenology Drawing on the French

Revolution's Ideas

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DAY 2 (7 JUNE) 9.30 – 11.00: Plenary lecture 3 (room 130) Prof. Efstratia Oktapoda, PhD (University of Sorbonne) 11.00-11.30: Coffee break

Language studies (room 131) Literary studies (room 132) Cultural studies (room 130)

Chairs: Prof. I.V. Rădulescu,

PhD and Lecturer Magdalena

Ciubâncan, PhD

Chairs: Prof. I. Mihăilă, PhD and Lect. Răzvan Staicu,

PhD Candidate Chairs: Lect. Rosa Furnari, PhD

and Reader Iulia Waniek, PhD

Prof. Ioana Vintilă Rădulescu,

PhD (Romanian Academy) -

Langues balkaniques et

orientales dans l’Union

Européenne actuelle et future

Prof. Ileana Mihăilă, PhD - Réception des auteures

français des Lumières dans la culture roumaine avant la

Grande Guerre

Lect. Rosa Isabela Furnari, PhD

(Catania University) - The

journey of the Myths from West to

East

Prof. Maria Magdalena Jianu,

PhD (DCCU) – The Theory of

Complexity in Language Study:

Irregularity of Certain

Pseudocausal Structures

Lect. Răzvan Staicu, PhD candidate (DCCU) – Traveller

and Narrator in Search for “the Core of Things”, as

Balance between the Central and the Marginal

Reader Iulia Waniek, PhD

(DCCU) - Shinsaku Noh as a

Mediator between Cultures and

Individuals

Reader Voichiţa A Ghenghea,

PhD (Bucharest Polytechnics) -

Effectiveness of the Discourse in

Technical Documentation from

a Cultural Perspective

Reader Maria Irod, PhD (DCCU) - The Role Of

Spirituality In Hubert Fichte’s Ethnopoetics Reader Narcis Zărnescu, PhD

(DCCU) – La sorcière de la

périphérie de l’Empire

Lect. Anca Pegulescu, PhD

(Ministry of Education (Craiova

University) - Literal Meaning

and Indirect Speech Acts in Elif

Shafak's The Bastard of Istanbul

Reader Caraivan Luiza, PhD (DCCU Timisoara) –

Representations of Otherness in Eginald Schlattner’s

“The beheaded Rooster”

Magdalena Dumitrana (Bucharest

University) - The Non-Balkan

Romanian Humor Between Irony

and Philosophy

Lect. Magdalena Ciubăncan,

PhD (DCCU) – The Cultural

Dimension of Communication.

An Insight into Politeness

Strategies in High-Context

Cultures

Assist. Cristina Chifane, PhD (Constantin Brancoveanu

University, Braila) – Cultural Otherness in Herta

Müller’s novels

Lect. Elena Vasiliu, PhD (DCCU)

- Endangered Cultural Memories

Lect. Gabriela Iliuţă, PHD

(Spiru Haret, University,

Bucharest) - Le politiquement

correct : De la stéréotypie à

l’altérisation du discours

publicitaire roumain

PhD Candidate Teodora Boboc

and PhD Candidate Cristina Ivan

(Bucharest University): Eastern

Versus Western Heterotopias

11.00-13.30: Panel sessions 2

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14.30-17.00: Panel sessions

Cultural studies (room 131) Round table: FrinGender in South-East Europe (room

130) Education (room 132)

Chairs: Lect. Roxana Mareş,

PhD candidate and Reader Otilia

Sîrbu, PhD

Chairs: Reader Carmen Duțu, PhD (DCCU) and Reader

Ramona Mihăilă, PhD (Spiru Haret University,

Bucharest)

Chairs: Reader Florentina

Alexandru, PhD and Lect. Fabiola

Hosu, PhD

Lect. Roxana Mareş, PhD

candidate (DCCU) – Arabic

Influence in the Balkan

Gastronomy

Reader Carmen Duțu, PhD (DCCU): Experiencing a

COST European Project: Towards a New Understanding

of Women’s Writing

Reader Florentina Alexandru

(DCCU) - The Intercultural

Education: A Modality to Stimulate

the Intercultural Dialogue

Reader Otilia Sîrbu, PhD

(Hyperion University) - À

l`autre bout du monde

Reader Ramona Mihăilă, PhD (Spiru Haret University,

Bucharest): Mapping Women’s Writing in the Austro-

Hungarian Empire

Dr. Elena Savu (Bucharest

Polytechnics) - Finding The Path

to Successful Language Learning

Reader Andreea Lazăr, PhD

(DCCU) – Balancing Cultures –

Balkan Images in the Romanian

Media

Dr. Irena Ragaisiene and Dr. Audrone Raskauskiene

(Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania) - Stereotyping

an Eastern European Woman in Herbjørg Wassmo’s

Novel A Glass of Milk, Please

Lect. Fabiola Hosu, PhD (DCCU)

– The Death of the Last

Metanarrative

Lect. Ştefan Lucian Mureşanu,

PhD (Hyperion University) -

Balkanisme, de l'identité des

nations ou européanisme

Reader Onorina Botezat, PhD (Spiru Haret University,

Constanta): Constructing the Images of the Other:

Russian Women Characters in Romanian Literature

Lect. Cristina Nicolaescu, PhD

(DCCU) - Intercultural Teacher

Education in the Balkan Countries

from Theory to Practice

Assist. Ioana Tinela Huza, PhD

Candidate (DCCU) – The

Cultural National Dimension

Alice Călin (SNSPA) – The Development of Gender and

Sexual Identity Lect. Mihaela Mocanu, PhD and

Lecturer Elena Vasiliu, PhD

(DCCU) - The Latest Debate: To

Clil Or Not to Clil

Lect. Tudor Iordăchescu, PhD

Candidate (DCCU) – Orwell: A

Political Life

Lect. Doina Ivanov, PhD (DCCU)

- How to Become a Good Teacher

of English

For more details, please visit the conference website:

http://eurofringes.ucdc.ro/

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Many thanks to the students who volunteered to help in the organization of the conference, in

assisting the registration desk and the proceedings:

Alexandru Mihai Buciu

Ana Maria Dorina Biţună

Andrada Cristina Dobrea

Răzvan Teodor Doholici

Victor Iancu

Alexandra Neagu

Alexandra Mona Toma

A d m i s s i o n t o t h e B a c h e l o r S t u d y

P r o g r a m m e s 2 0 1 3

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Candidates to Bachelor study programmes are admitted based on the average grades of

the candidate in the Baccalaureate examination, in decreasing order, within the limit of

available places; this is the sole competition criterion.

Admission is organized in two stages:

Stage I:

- Registration of candidates: 10.06.2013 - 31.07.2013

- Publication of list of admitted candidates: 01.08.2013

- Mandatory payment of first tuition tax (minimum 25 % of the total tuition tax):

01.08.2013- 14.08.2013.

Stage II: - Registration of candidates: 01.08.2013 - 27.09.2013

- Publication of list of admitted candidates: 28.09.2013

- Mandatory payment of first tuition tax (minimum 25 % of the total tuition tax):

28.09.2013- 05.10.2013.

For details, please follow this link: http://limbi-straine.ucdc.ro/

Workshop of Japanese Traditional Dance and Calligraphy

P A G E 9 N e w s l e t t e r

The Japanese department of the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures had the privilege of being the

host of two workshops on Japanese culture, organized by the Embassy of Japan in Bucharest. On June 26th,

2013 the Japanese calligrapher Aoi Yamaguchi and the choreographer and researcher Yuko Hashimoto held a

Japanese calligraphy and a Japanese traditional dance wokshop. The students had the chance to learn basic

moves of Japanese traditional dances and practised the writing of some ideograms which are often used in Japanese calligraphy.

O u r P r o f e s s o r s a t t h e

I n t e r n a t i o n a l B o o k F a i r

B o o k f e s t

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A new edition of the famous Ernesto Sábato’s novel Sobre héroes y tumbas

(translated into Romanian by Tudora Şandru Mehedinţi as Despre eroi şi

morminte) was launched at Bookfest by Humanitas Publishing House. Invited to the

event, the renowned literary critic Dan C. Mihăilescu and the Hispanist Andrei

Ionescu outlined the virtues of this “desert island book”.

P u b l i c a t i o n s o f O u r P r o f e s s o r s a t P r o

U n i v e r s i t a r i a P u b l i s h i n g H o u s e

h t t p : / / w w w . p r o u n i v e r s i t a r i a . r o /

P A G E 1 1 N e w s l e t t e r

Maria Irod, Deutsche Literatur in Epochen

Von der Aufklarung bis zum Realismus, Pro

Universitaria, 2013

Mihaela Mateescu, La

o r a c i ó n c o m p u e s t a :

C o o r d i n a c i ó n y

s u b o r d i n a c i ó n , P r o

Universitaria, 2011

Florentina Alexandru şi Adriana Dănăilă,

Curs practic de limba germană, Pro

Universitaria, 2010

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