RAAS • Romanian Association for American Studies
Website: http://www.raas.ro
President and EAAS Representative – Professor Eduard Vlad
Facultatea de Litere
Campus, Aleea Universitatii 1
Corp A, Constanta
Romania
Tel: 0241 551 773
Fax: 0241 543045
email: secretariat_FL@univ-ovidius.ro
Vice President: Associate-Professor Nicoleta Stanca
Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
Faculty of Letters
Ovidius University, Constanta
Romania
email: nicoletastanca1506@gmail.com
Secretary: Dr. Otilia Pacea
Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
Faculty of Letters
Ovidius University, Constanta
Romania
email: otiliapacea@yahoo.co.uk
Treasurer: Associate-Professor Ileana Jitaru
Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
Faculty of Letters
Ovidius University, Constanta
Romania
email: ileanajitaru@gmail.com
Latest update: February 14, 2017
Activity Report
CONFERENCES (http://www.raas.ro/conferences):
The 2014 RAAS-Fulbright Conference:
(Im)Migration Patterns: Displacement and Relocation in Contemporary America
October 10-12, 2014
Venue: Ovidius University, Constanta, Romania
The topic of the conference invited contributors to explore recent reflections centered on issues of migration, more specifically patterns of immigration into the United States of America, and discuss current ways of surviving, coping with and embracing the experiences of displacement and relocation in an increasingly globalized world.
Keynote Speakers:Dr. Shirley Geok-Lin Lim, Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara, and the recipient of the 2009 MELUS Award for Distinguished Contribution to Ethnic Studies; Dr. Marietta Messmer, Associate Professor, University of Groningen and the President of The Netherlands American Studies Association; Dr. Lonce Sandy-Bailey, Shippensburg University, U.S.A. and participant in the Fulbright Specialist Program.
The 2012 RAAS-Fulbright Conference:
Remapping Urban Spaces – American Challenges
October 4-6, 2012
Venue: Ovidius University, Constanta, Romania
The topic of the conference invited debates on the contemporary city in the context of the developments that take place within urban studies in the United States at a time when the economic, the social, the political and the cultural tend to intersect and thrive in the metropolis rather than anywhere else.
Keynote Speakers:Dr. Edward Soja, Distinguished Professor of Urban Planning, University of California, Los Angeles; Dr. Augustin Ioan, Professor, University of Architecture and Urbanism, Bucharest and Fulbright Senior Grantee.
The 2010 RAAS-Fulbright Conference:
The American Tradition of Descent/Dissent: The Underground, the Countercultural, the (Anti)Utopian
October 7-9, 2010
Venue: Ovidius University, Constanta, Romania
The topic of this conference aimed at reflecting the contemporary atmosphere of dissent in the United States at a time of underground, countercultural and (anti)utopian movements and positions in the United States of America in perfect correlation with the tradition that has marked their descent from the colonial period to the present.
Keynote Speakers:Dr. Janice A. Radway, Professor, Northwestern University, Illinois and a former president of the American Studies Association; Dr. Rodica Mihaila, Professor, University of Bucharest and currently Executive Director, Romanian-U.S. Fulbright Commission, Bucharest.
PUBLICATIONS
RAAS Conference Volumes: for complete list including table of contents consult http://www.raas.ro/publications
Highlights:
The American Tradition of Descent/Dissent: The Underground, the Countercultural, the (Anti)Utopian
Eds. Adina Ciugureanu, Ludmila Martanovschi, Nicoleta Stanca
Iasi: Institutul European, 2012
(http://www.euroinst.ro/titlu.php?id=1227)
This volume opened the American Studies field within the Academica Series at this prestigious Romanian publishing house.
The Sense of America: Histories into Text. A Collection of Essays
Eds. Rodica Mihăilă and Irina Grigorescu Pană
Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2009
The Romanian Journal of American Studies (RJAS), an inter-disciplinary academic e-journal whose objectives are to investigate the diversity and dynamics of cultural change in the US, in close connection with global and local processes and phenomena, European and otherwise:
RJAS 2014 - Space and the City in American Culture: http://www.raas.ro/e-journal-rjas
OTHER ACTIVITIES:
RAAS Graduate Student Award: The Romanian Association for American Studies rewards one best MA dissertation and one best PhD dissertation submitted by graduate students and/or junior faculty members every two years.
