Schedule
Friday, March 25
Maple Room, IMU
2:15-2:45 Registration and Welcome
2:45-4:30 Panel I: Memory, Museum, and Map: Relocating Romania
5:00 Keynote Address by Stella Ghervas,
Visiting Associate Professor, University of Chicago,
“How far from Europe? Romanian Society between Orthodoxy and Modernity "
Saturday, March 26
Rosebud Room, IMU
8:30-9:00 Registration
9:00-10:15 Panel II: Agency and Authenticity under Socialism
10:30-12:15 Panel III: Searching for National Destinies
12:15-1:15 Lunch
1:15-3:00 Panel IV: Rebuilding Nations, Rebuilding Selves: Choices in a Postwar Context
3:15-4:30 Panel V: Voices from the Ether: Technologies of Political Resistance
Panel I-- Friday, March 25, 2:45-4:30 pm
Memory, Museum, and Map: Relocating Romania-- Lynn Hooker
- “The Writing and Re-writing of a City: Bucharest Public Spaces Since 1945” by
Oana Druta and Eric Burnstein
- “Creating a Museum, Building a Nation: the Museological Construction of Greater
Romania in the National Village Museum” by Michael Young
- “Imagining the ‘Class:’ Social Tourism and the Making of the Working Class in
Socialist Romania during the 1950s-1960” by Adelina Stefan
Panel II-- Saturday, March 26, 9:00-10:15 am
Agency and Authenticity under Socialism-- Christina Illias
- “One Woman is Every Woman: Socialist Realist Paintings of Elena Ceausescu”
by Mirela Tanta
- “Does Caring under Oppression Sometimes Reinforce Inequality? Power and
Authority in 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days” by Bogdan Popa
Panel III-- Saturday, March 26, 10:30 am-12:15 pm
Searching for National Destinies-- Maria Bucur
- “Saxon Jews? Identity and Culture in the Jewish Communities of Saxon Southern
Transylvania” by Julie Dawson
- “Blut ohne Boden: Diaspora Activism and Interwar Romania's German Minorities”
by Nicholas Sveholm
- “A Secret Power: American Multinationals and the Construction of Greater
Romania, 1919-1926” by Justin Classen
Panel IV-- Saturday, March 26, 1:15-3:00 pm
Rebuilding Nations, Rebuilding Selves: Choices in a Postwar Context-- Padraic Kenney
- “A Sort of Liberation: The Experience of Roma Returnees from Transnistria,
1944-1948” by M. Benjamin Thorne
- “Lucreţiu Pătrăşcanu’s Paradox: The Life, Death, and Afterlife of Romania’s
Leading Communist Intellectual” by Gina S. Lentine
- “Rebuilding Rumenye: Three Anthologies of Yiddish Literature in Romania, 1945-
1947” by Sebastian Schulman
Panel V-- Saturday, March 26, 3:15-4:30 pm
Voices from the Ether: Technologies of Political Resistance-- Aurelian Craiutu
- “Journalism and Twitter - The #pman Case Study” by Claudia Serbanuta
- “The Radio, the Exiled Voice, and the Mute Poet in Communist Romania” by Irina
Popescu
