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Grant ($37,000) from the Romanian Institute of Culture (ICR)   
for collaborative project of the ASU Romanian Program   
and the National Theatre of Cluj/Puck Theatre Romania   
to support theatre group visit and performances at ASU in October 2008.  
Performances free of charge for ASU students and faculty   
at the Recital Hall, October 8 & 10, 2008.        

Forthcoming:

Ileana Orlich: “Literature as Voice and Cultural Memory,” Presentation given at the International Festival and Colloquium “DAYS AND NIGHTS OF LITERATURE”, 7th edition, Neptun, 7-11 iunie, 2008. Sponsored by the Romanian government.

Ileana Orlich: “Cultural Legacies and Limits of Representation: Matei Visniec’s The Body of Woman as Battlefield in the Bosnian War,” Presentation given at the Romanian Association for American Studies Conference sponsored by the Fulbright Comission, Bucharest, May 22-24, 2008.

FULBRIGHT LECTURES in Romania

“Gellu Naum’s Zenobia and The Wasteland,” Facultatea de Filologie/Program in English and Comparative Literature, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj Napoca, Oct. 8, 2006.

“Melville’s Benito Cereno and the Politics of Transition in Modern Europe,” Facultatea de Filologie/Program in English and Comparative Literature, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj Napoca, Dec. 7, 2006.

  











  The Romanian Studies and Central European Collaborative 
in 
The Department of Languages and Literatures and The School of Global Studies 
at 
Arizona State University  
are pleased to announce a presentation 
by 
the Honorable Sorin Dumitru Ducaru,  
Ambassador of Romania to the United States , 
titled :  ROMANIAN-AMERICAN STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS: 
CURRENT AND FUTURE PERSPECTIVES  

Thursday, April 6, 2006 
1:40- 2:30 
The Architecture Building , Room 13  

Fluent in English, German, and French, Ambassador Ducaru, a career diplomat, brings to his current position an impressive background in diplomacy and expertise in international political exchanges at the highest levels. As former Head of Romania's NATO Division, Ambassador Ducaru played a key role in spearheading and promoting Romania 's national security interests, and was a member of his country's team that worked on NATO and EU integration.

Ambassador Ducaru holds an engineering degree in Electronics, an M.S. degree in Applied Electronics from the Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest, and a PhD in International Economics from the Bucharest Academy of Economics Studies. He also completed with highest academic distinctions post graduate studies at the Romanian National School of Political Science and Public Administration and at the Amsterdam School of International Relations from the University of Amsterdam .

The presentation is open to all ASU faculty and students. Please join us and announce the event to students in relevant courses.

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  The Romanian Studies and Central European Collaborative 
in 
The Department of Languages and Literatures and The School of Global Studies 
at 
Arizona State University   

present :   

"Women's Issues in the Communist Era"   
Monday, April 25 , 2005
2:00-4:00 
Languages and Literatures Building , Room 60  

A presentation by Carmen Firan and Adrian Sangeorzan

Carmen Firan, a prolific Romanian-born writer and poet, and Adrian Sangeorzan, a New-York-based gynecologist, offer a vivid and accurate account of what happened in Romania when Ceausescu decided that, if he couldn't expand his territory, at least he would have an ever-growing population. Contraceptives were illegal, and abortion was a crime. In the name of the respect for life, during the twenty-five years of the Ceausescu era Romania has had one of the highest mortality rates among infants and pregnant women. As the quality of life went down day by day, the newspapers and the television heralded great victories and accomplishments in all the fields. Everything was Orwellian and, reading Adrian 's stories, one could ask oneself whether the reality inspired the fiction or was it the other way around . . . In a bitter joke of those times someone asked: What is the ultimate degree of endurance? And the answer was the ultimate degree of endurance is to be Romanian!

The presentation is open to all ASU faculty and students. Please join us and announce the event to students in relevant courses. For more information, call Ileana Orlich at (480) 965-4658.  

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"New Democracies of Central and Eastern Europe"   

 a lecture by: 

 Stephen Fischer-Galati, Ph.D.

Tuesday, April 26, 2005 
3:00-4:00 
Lattie Coor Building, Room L1-64

Stephen Fischer-Galati is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Colorado and Editor of the EAST EUROPEAN QUARTERLY and of the East European Monographs series of scholarly studies on or related to Eastern Europe. Born in Romania and educated in the United States at Harvard University, he received his Ph.D. in 1949 and has devoted his entire professional career to the study of East European history and civilization within the context of relevant European and extra European history and civilization. He is the author of numerous books and articles, the holder of several honorary degrees and major grants and fellowships from American and international scholarly foundations. He is also the President of the International Commission of East European and Slavic Studies of the International Congress of Historical Studies, as well as member and/or officer of several national and international scholarly institutions and organizations.

The presentation is open to all ASU faculty and students. Please join us and announce the event to students in relevant courses.
For more information, call Ileana Orlich at (480) 965-4658.
 
 
 

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