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SRS newsletter www.society4romanianstudies.org November 1, 2017

SOCIETY FOR ROMANIAN STUDIES NEWSLETTER Vol. 40 | Fall 2017| No. 1

From the President Duringthepastmonths,ourvariousSRS committees, editors, andof7icershaveworkedhardtoidentifypr i ze w inners , l i ne up newmanuscripts for the Journal ofRomanian Studies, and recruit newtitles for the SRS-Polirom bookseries, consolidate the mentorshipprogram, and keep t rack o fsubmissions for the internationalconferenceweareorganizinginJune2018atASEinBucureşti! Congratulations to Dana Mureşan and RolandClark for winning the SRS prizes! Dana’s essay,“Brâncuşi: The Construction of a Romanian NationalHero,” won the 2017 SRS prize for the best graduatestudent essay for excellent research, a high level ofsophistication, and the author’s ability to “showcasethe 7ield of Romanian Studies in an internationalcontext,”astheadjudicatingcommitteenoted.Roland’sHoly Legionary Youth: Fascist Activism in InterwarRomania (published with Cornell University Press in2015,andtranslatedtwoyearslaterasSfântătinereţelegionară.ActivismulfascistînRomâniainterbelicăforthe SRS-Polirom Romanian Studies book series) wasrecognized as the best monograph in a very strong7ieldofcontenders.Theprizecommittees–chairedbyChris Davis and Alex Drace-Francis, and includingValentinaGlajar,RonKing,DianeVancea, PeterGross,and Inessa Medzhibovskaya – worked hard to selectfromamongthesubmissions. The SRS-Polirom series has two booksforthcoming in the next few months: CristinaVăţulescu’s Police Aesthetics: Literature, Film and The

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In this issue FromthePresident……1JournalofRomanianStudies…2Update:2018SRSConference…4ConferenceInst.Partners…5 SRS-PoliromBookSeries…62017SRSBookAward…8InterviewwithRolandClark…9 SRS2017Grad.EssayPrize…12FeaturedBook…13SoundbitefromRomania…14 SRSMentoringProgram…15SoundbitefromRep.Moldova..16 NewPublication…17WorkshopReport…18GettoKnowourScholars…21H-RomaniaAnnouncement…25 MemberNews…25MemberPublications…26Non-MemberPublications…271918UnionSymposium…28RSAAAJournal…28SRSMembership…29AboutSRS…29

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Secret Police (StanfordUniversity Press, 2010), andMaria Bucur’sHeroes andVictims:RememberingWarinTwentiethCenturyRomania(IndianaUniversityPress,2010).Thesewill be the 7ifth and sixth titles published in the Studii Românești/Romanian Studies/ÉtudesRoumaines/RumänischeStudienseries. BytheOctober15submissiondeadline,thecommitteethatisorganizingthe2018SRS conference received over 100 individual presentation proposals, 14 roundtableproposals,closeto50panelproposals,andadozenotherproposalsforbooklaunches,poetryreadings,artprojects,and 7ilmscreenings.Thesecame fromover380graduatestudents,facultymembers,researchers,7ilmdirectors,andwritersworkingincountriesasdiverseasRomania,Moldova,theUK,Ireland,France,Italy,theNetherlands,Norway,Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria, Serbia, Turkey, theUSA, Canada, Georgia, Russia, China, Taiwan, and Japan. The committee will make itsselectionbyearlyDecember.2018willbeabusyyearfortheorganizingcommittee! Iwant to thankourdedicated teamof volunteers, especiallyRolandClark, IrinaLivezeanu, Roxana Cazan, and Alexandra Ghit, for helping maintain a constant SRSpresenceonFacebook,Twitter,andLinkedIn.Ourstrongsocialmediapresencere7lectsour expanded membership and the increased relevance of Romanian Studies acrossborders.WeencourageallofyoutosendusnewsitemsofinteresttoRomanianscholars,faculty,andstudents.Last,rememberthatSRSmembershipisonacalendaryearbasis,runningfromJanuarytoDecember.Youwillthusneedtorenewyourmembershiplaterthisyear.Conferenceparticipantswillhave topaybothSRSmembershipduesand theconferenceregistrationfeefortheirnametobeincludedinthe7inalprogram.

Bestwishestoallofyou!

LaviniaStan

Journal of Romanian Studies Call for Manuscripts EDITORS:LaviniaSTAN([email protected])andMargaretBEISSINGER([email protected])BOOKREVIEWEDITOR:RaduCINPOES([email protected])ADVISORYBOARD:DennisDeletant(GeorgetownUniversity,US),JonFox(UniversityofBristol,UK),ValentinaGlajar(TexasStateUniversity,US),PeterGross(UniversityofTennessee,US),BrigidHaines(SwanseaUniversity,UK),IrinaLivezeanu(UniversityofPittsburgh,US),MihaelaMiroiu(NationalSchoolofPoliticalScienceandPublicAdministration,Romania),SteveD.Roper(FloridaAtlanticUniversity,US),DomnicaRădulescu(WashingtonandLeeUniversity,US),PaulE.Sum(UniversityofNorthDakota,US),CristianTileaga(LoughboroughUniversity,UK),LucianTurcescu(ConcordiaUniversity,Canada),andVladimirTismăneanu(UniversityofMaryland,CollegePark,US).

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TheSocietyforRomanianStudiesispleasedtolaunchanewbiannualpeer-reviewedjournalincollaborationwith IbidemPress.Thenew interdisciplinary journal examines critical issues inRomanianStudiesbroadlyconceived,linkingworkinthat7ieldtowidertheoreticaldebatesandissuesofcurrentrelevance,andservingasaforumforjuniorandseniorscholars. The journal considers manuscripts that draw on various theoretical, conceptual andmethodologicalperspectivesasunderstoodindisciplinesrangingfromhistory,politicalscience,philosophy, law and justice studies, anthropology, sociology, ethnography, and education toliterature,linguistics,economics,business,religious,gender,7ilmandmediastudies,arthistory,and music. It considers theoretically informed manuscripts that examine political,socioeconomicandculturaldevelopmentsinRomaniaandMoldova,thesituationoftheirethnicminorities and their relations with the ethnic majority, as well as the position, culture, andhistoryofRomaniansandMoldovanslivingoutsidetheshiftingboundariesofthosecountries. The journal also welcomes articles that connect Romania and Moldova comparativelywith other states and their ethnic majorities and minorities, and with other groups byinvestigating the challenges of migration and globalization, changes and opportunities ininternational relations, and the impact of the EuropeanUnion. Both articleswith a historicalfocusandstudiesdealingwithrecenteventswillbeconsidered.

Thejournaleditorswillconsiderthefollowingtypesofmanuscripts: ♣Originalresearcharticles(ofupto10,000words,includingbibliography) ♣Reviewarticles(ofupto3,000words,commentingon2-3booksonacommontheme) ♣Bookreviews(ofupto1,000words)

All submissions are subject to peer review. Special issues that group research articles on acommonthemeinRomanianStudiesarewelcomed.Submissionsareacceptedonarollingbasis.The7irstissuewillbepublishedin2018.

HOWTOSUBMITAMANUSCRIPT:To submit a manuscript, please 7irst consult our notes for contributors to make sure thesubmissionconformstoourguidelines. ♣Yourmanuscriptshouldincludethetitle,a200-wordabstract,thetextofthearticle,as wellasabibliography.Notethattheabstractshouldbearound200words,andtheentire manuscript(includingbibliography)nolongerthan10,000words. ♣Theentiremanuscriptshouldbedouble-spaced,includingtheabstractandthe bibliography. ♣Themanuscriptshouldnotincludeyournameandaf7iliationanywhere.Pleasesave yourmanuscriptasaPDF7ile.Thenameofthe7ileshouldincludeyourname.

Send themanuscript by email as an attachment to Lavinia Stan ([email protected].) Your email coverlettershouldincludeyourfullnameandinstitutionalaf7iliation.Notethatwewillconsideronlymanuscriptsthatarenotunderreviewelsewhere.Tothiseffect,youremailcoverlettershouldclearlystatethatyourmanuscriptisnotunderreviewwithotherjournals.

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Update on the 2018 SRS Conference in Bucharest

October15wasthedeadlineforsubmittingproposalsforthe“#Romania100:LookingForwardthrough thePast” international conference, organizedby the Society forRomanian Studies totakeplaceon26-30 June2018at theAcademiadeStudiiEconomice (ASE) inBucharest.Theorganizingcommittee–composedofPeterWagner(chair),MargaretBeissinger,AlexandraGhit,PetruNegură,DeliaPopescu,AncaŞincan,SvetlanaSuveică,andRodicaZaharia–hasreceivedarecordnumberofproposalsfromover370graduatestudents,juniorandseniorscholars,artists,andresearchers.Wehaveproposals for49panels,14roundtables,103 individualpapers,and13art,poetry,book,andmoviepresentations.TheorganizingcommitteewillnotifythosewhosubmittedproposalsbyDecember4. We would like to thank the following departments, institutions and organizations fortheirgenerouspromisetoactasinstitutionalpartnersofour2018event:FacultateadeRelaţiiEconomiceInternaţionale(REI)ofASE,FacultateadeŞtiinţePoliticeandInstitutuldeCercetareof Universitatea Bucharest (FSUB and ICUB), Şcoala Naţională de Studii Politice şiAdministrative(SNSPA),UniversitateaOvidiusinConstanţa,UniversitateaPiteşti,UniversitateaŞtefancelMare in Suceava,ConsiliulNaţionalpentruStudiereaArhivelorSecurităţii (CNSAS),ArhiveleNaţionale, Facultatea de Studii Politice, Administrative şi ale Comunicării (FSPAC) ofUniversitate Babeş-Bolyai of Cluj, Muzeul Ţăranului Român, Fundaţia Academia Civică, IOS-Germany,BancaNaţionalăaRomâniei(BNR),AdministraţiaPrezidenţialăCotroceni,aswellastheRomanianStudiesAssociationofAmerica(RSAA).Inaddition,RadioFranceInternationaleRomania,LaPunkt,RadioRomâniaConstanţa,Zeppelin,andPictureFactoryhaveagreedtoactas our media partners. Additional help will come from the local organizing committee,coordinatedbyRodicaZahariaatASE.Wearehoping that,with their support, theconferencewillturnouttobenotonlythelargesteverorganizedbytheSRS,butalsotheliveliest.

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Conference Institutional Partners ***University-afPiliatedsponsorswillbefeaturedintheSpring2018editionoftheSRSNewsletter***

The Museum of the Romanian Peasant (MuzeulŢăranuluiRomân)MuzeulŢăranuluiRomânispartoftheEuropeanfamilyofMuseumsofFolkArtandTraditions.Itisanationalmuseum,undertheMinistryofCulture’spatronage.InpossessionofanespeciallyrichcollectionofobjectsandhousedinaNeo-Romanianstylehistoricalbuilding,ourMuseumdeveloped a unique and original collection and was honoured in 1996 with the EMYA –EuropeanMuseumoftheYearAward.TheMuseum’soriginalexhibitionstyleisalsore7lectedinitspublicationsand inactivities suchas theMissionaryMuseum, theVillageSchool, concerts,conferences,andexhibitopenings. TheRomanianPeasantMuseumwasre-establishedinFebruary1990,barelyonemonthafterthedemiseoftheRomanianCommunistregime.Thebuildingassignedtoitwasoriginallybuilt at the beginning of the twentieth century as an ethnographic museum. A National ArtMuseumwasremovedfromthebuildingin1952,andtheV.I.Lenin–I.V.StalinMuseum(laterrenamed the Marx–Engels–Lenin Museum) was installed in its place. In 1958, anotherpropagandainstitution,theMuseumoftheHistoryoftheRomanianWorkers’Partywashousedintheleftwingofthebuilding.Thetwomuseumsfunctionedsidebysideuntil1966,whentheMarx-Engels-Lenin Museum was silently dissolved and a new Museum of the History of theRomanian Communist Party and of the Romanian Revolutionary and Democratic Movement,occupiedthebuildinguntil1990.

Thetormentedhistoryofthemuseumisincorporatedcriticallyintothecurrentresearchand curatorial projects of the museums. The research department, concerned withanthropology,ruralandurbanethnology,andvisualstudiesbene7itfromarichImageArchive. SiminaBădică[email protected]

The National Archives of Romania (ArhiveleNaţionale) TheStateArchiveswereestablishedinWalachiaandMoldaviabasedontheOrganicRegulation,in 1831 in Bucharest and in 1832 in Iaşi. This was part of the plan of administrativemodernization of the Russian general Pavel Kiseleff. The two archives were uni7ied in 1862,aftertheUnionoftheRomanianPrincipalities,atwhichpointtheIaşiArchivesbecamepartofthe Archives in Bucharest, General Directorate. Archival activity was regulated in 1869 and1872,butanArchives lawwasonly issued in1925. InTransylvaniaandBanat, archiveswere

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regulatedbythelegislationinforceinHungary,whileAustrianregulationsappliedinBukovina.In the interwar period, regional archiveswere established in Cluj, Cernăuţi, Chişinău, Braşov,Craiova,andBistriţa,andin1969abranchoftheStateArchiveswasestablishedineverycounty.

TheRomanianNationalArchivesbelongstructurally to theMinistryof InternalAffairs,andhave42countybranches.TheCentralNationalHistoricalArchivesinBucharestadministersmainly the documents created by the Romanian state, but also very important collections ofmedievalrecords.TheNationalArchivesmanageabout320kmofdocuments,organizedinover36,000fundsandcollections.AlinaPavelescu [email protected]

The National Council for the Study of the Securitate ArchivesThe National Council for the Study of the Securitate Archives (Consiliul Naţional pentruStudiereaArhivelorSecurităţii–CNSAS)istheof7icialauthoritythatadministersthearchivesofthe former communist secret police in Romania, the Securitate. Beginning in 2015, on theoccasionof the Seventh international conferenceof the Society forRomanianStudies, held inBucharest,CNSASstartedtocollaboratesystematicallywiththeSRS.Thiscollaborationconsistsin the participation of CNSAS board members or researchers in various scholarly eventsorganizedbySRS;ourofferofguidedtoursof theCNSASArchive,which is located inPopeşti-Leordeni,some9kmsoutheastofBucharest;professionaladviceofferedtoSRSmembersdoingresearchatCNSAS;constantefforts toadjust to theneedsof researcherscoming fromabroadandspendingbriefresearchperiodsatCNSAS,especiallybyprovidingcopiesfromdocumentsintheCNSASarchive. DragoşPetrescu [email protected]

The SRS-Polirom Book Series

StudiiRomâneşti-RomanianStudies-ÉtudesRoumaines-RumänischeStudien

Series Editors: Irina LIVEZEANU ([email protected]) and Lavinia STAN([email protected])AssistantEditor:NarcisTULBURE([email protected])

The editors welcome proposals for new titles for the SRS-Polirom bookseries!Youcannominatetheworkofacolleagueorformerstudent,presenttousabookyouhavealreadypublishedabroad,oramanuscript thatyouhavewrittendirectlyinRomanian.Youcan7inddetailsaboutwhatneedstobeincludedinthebookproposalhere:

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TheseriespublishesscholarlybooksinRomanianauthoredoreditedbySRSmembers.Wewillconsiderthreetypesofmanuscripts:1)Romaniantranslationsofscholarlymonographsalreadypublishedinaforeignlanguage;2)originalscholarlymonographswritteninRomanian;or3)editedcollectionsofRomanian-languageessaysdealingwithaRomanianStudiestheme. BooksinthisseriesareaboutRomaniaand/orMoldova—thepopulationslivingontheirterritories,orRomanianandMoldovandiasporasandculturesabroad.Manuscriptsshouldhaveprimarily an academic pro7ile, and a disciplinary, interdisciplinary, ormultidisciplinary focus,drawing on history, political science, sociology, anthropology, law, economics, linguistics,literature, art history, or other 7ields. They should be based on sound and rigorous scholarlyanalysis, and include references and a bibliography.We prefer contributions that are free ofjargonandthuslikelymoreappealingtowideraudiences.Allproposals,manuscripts,andbooksofferedfortranslationwillbecarefullyreviewedforpublicationintheseries.Forthcoming: Cristina Văţulescu’s, Cultură şi Poliție Politică în Comunism is in production and will reachbookstoresbeforetheendof2017.

Fromtheback-coverofthe2010Englishlanguageedition:“The documents emerging from the secret police archives of the formerSovietblochavecausedscandalafterscandal,compromisingreveredcultural7igures and abruptly ending political careers. Police Aesthetics offers arevealing and responsible approach to suchmaterials. Taking advantageofthe partial opening of the secret police archives in Russia and Romania,Văţulescufocusesontheirmost infamousholdings–thepersonal 7iles–aswellasonmovies thepolicesponsored,scripted,orauthored.Throughthearchives,shegainsnewinsightsintothewritingofliteratureandraisesnewquestionsabout theethicsofreading.Sheshowshowpolice 7ilesand 7ilms

in7luencedliteratureandcinema,fromautobiographiestonovels, fromhigh-cultureclassicstoavant-gardeexperimentsandpopularblockbusters.Insodoing,sheopensafreshchapterintheheateddebateabout therelationshipbetweencultureandpolitics in twentieth-centurypolicestates.” In 2018 we will publish Romanian translations of Maria Bucur, Heroes and Victims:RememberingWar in Twentieth Century Romania (IndianaUniversity Press, 2010), andDianaDumitru, The State, Antisemitism, and Collaboration in the Holocaust: The Borderlands ofRomaniaandtheSovietUnion(CambridgeUniversityPress,2016).

Titlespublishedintheseriestodate:♣ LaviniaStanşiDianeVancea,Româniapostcomunistă:trecut,prezent,viitor♣ Alex Drace-Francis, Geneza culturii române moderne. Instituțiile scrisului și

dezvoltareaidentitățiinaționale,1700-1900♣ VladimirSolonari,PuriPicareanațiunii:dislocăriforțatedepopulațieșiepurări

etniceînRomânialuiIonAntonescu,1940-1944♣ Roland Clark, Sfântă tinereţe legionară. Activismul fascist în România

interbelică.(WINNEROFTHE2017SRSBOOKAWARD)

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2017 SRS Book Award Committee: Alex DRACE-FRANCIS (University of Amsterdam), Peter GROSS (University ofTennessee),andInessaMEDZHIBOVSKAYA(NewSchool,NewYork)

TheSRSFourthBiennialBookPrizeisawardedtothebestnewacademicbookonaRomaniantopic published in English between 1 January 2015 and 31 December 2016. The committeereceived a number of outstanding submissions in several academicdisciplines. Fourbooks inparticularstoodout: VirginiaHillandGabrielaAlboiu’sVerbMovementandClauseStructureinOldRomanian(Oxford University Press, 2016) shows that although early Romanian texts displaypredominantlyLatinandRomancemorphologypatterns,theyalsosignalastrongmanifestationoftheBalkanSprachbundwheresyntaxisconcerned.These7indingshelpustounderstandmoreclearlythelinguisticprocessesthatpavedthewayfortheemergenceofmodernRomanian. DennisDeletant’sBritishClandestineActivities inRomaniaduringtheSecondWorldWar(Palgrave, 2016) containspriceless and rare information concerningBritain’swartime role inRomania,thatbyitsnatureishardtoaccess.Deletantnotonlyclari7iesthedocumentaryrecordof a contested story but offers careful and calibrated assessments of the ultimate impact ofBritishactivities, aswell asproviding insights fromRomanianarchives thathavenothithertobeenavailabletoBritishresearchers. Ştefan Ionescu’s JewishResistance toRomanianization(Palgrave,2016)greatlyenrichesourunderstandingofJewishresistancetotheAntonescuregimeduringtheSecondWorldWar.Focusingon the JewishcommunityofBucharest, Ionescude7ineshis topicas “anasynchronicduelfoughtwithlegalweaponsinanasymmetricwarfare.”His7ineanalysis,basedonextensivearchivalresearch,addstoourknowledgebothoftheJewishcommunity'splightandactivities,andoftheirimpactonthesocialandpoliticalhistoryofwartimeRomaniaasawhole. Intheend,thecommitteeagreedunanimouslytoawardtheprizetoRolandClark,HolyLegionaryYouth:FascistActivisminInterwarRomania(CornellUP,2015).Clark’sbookoffersacomprehensivereinterpretationoftheinterwarLegionarymovementfromtheperspectiveofthehistoryofeverydaysociallife.Movingawayfromabstractparadigmsof “thenatureofRomanian fascism,”Clark tellsusmoreaboutwhat theLegionaries actually did (anddid not) do, using a largenumber of newarchival sources. His book covers the career of the movement frombeginning to end and treats a remarkable range of topics, with a goodstructure, contextualization, regional coverage, and comparison withother fascistmovements.Especially impressive is thewayClarksituatesinterwar Romanian political phenomena in the context of broaderparadigmsofinternationalsocial,cultural,political,andreligioushistory,andbringsthetopicuptodatewithaclosingre7lectiononthememoryofLegionaryactivityinpost-warandpresent-dayRomaniansociety.Forthebreadth and depth of its analysis, its rich documentation, and its clearwritingstyle,Clark’sworkstandsoutagainstaverystrong7ield.

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Interview with Roland Clark RolandClark,LecturerinModernEuropeanHistory,UniversityofLiverpool(InterviewbyCristinaPlămădealăandAnaFumurescu)

SRS:HowdidyourinterestintheRomanianLegionariesarise?RC: I 7irst became interested in the Legion of the ArchangelMichaelduring a second-year course at the University of Sydney in 2000entitled “Fascists and Anti-Fascists.” Although the course focusedmostly onWestern Europe, the lecturermentioned that “there werealsoclericalfascisms”andIwasfascinatedbytheideaofpriestswithguns.TheEnglish-language literatureavailable tomeat the timehadbeenwrittendecadesagobypeoplelikeEugenWeber,NicholasNagy-Talavera,andEmmanuelTurczynski. ItOrientalizedandromanticizedtheLegion,making it look likeanexoticreligiouscult. Itwasnotuntilmuch later,when Iwas able to readArminHeinen, FranciscoVeiga, Constantin Iordachi, andothers, and to see the archives formyself, that I realized howmisleading these early studieswere.ButbythattimeIwaswellandtrulyhooked.TherealstoryoftheLegionismuchmoreinterestingthanthemyth.

SRS: Did you encounter any methodological issues while conducting research for thisproject? RC: Every project faces numerous methodological questions, some of which you expect andothersyoudon’t.Lookingback, twostandoutwith thisparticularproject.The 7irsthas todowith the question of what “fascism” is. The term has a long and contested past in thehistoriography, inpartbecause scholars insiston treating fascismasa thing that really existsand which just has to be recognized. During the 1980s and 1990s it became fashionable tocreate bullet-point lists of characteristics that all fascist movements and regimes apparentlyshared.Overthepast7ifteenyearstheconsensushasmovedtowardslookingatfascistideology.Iamnotparticularlyinterestedinarguingaboutcategories,butIdon’ttrustfasciststotellmewhatthey’rereallythinkingwhentheymakepoliticalspeeches,sode7iningfascistsaccordingtoideologydoesn’tworkformeeither. Isolvedtheproblemformyselfbyaskingwhatpeople inthe1930smeantwhentheysaid“fascist,”andhowidentifyingoneselfasa fascist in interwarRomaniachangedthewaypeopletreatedyou. TheotherbigchallengethatstandsouttomehastodowiththesourcesIhadavailable.Ihadawealthofmemoirswrittenbyformerlegionaries,whichyoucan’ttrustbecausetheyaretrying to present themovement in terms thatmight seemappealing to us in the twenty-7irstcentury(orwhenevertheywerewriting).Ialsohadnumerouspolicereportsfromthenationaland regional archives,manyofwhichwerebasedon rumoursandunreliable informants.TheSecuritate archives also provided a host of testimonies given by legionaries in prison, oftenunder torture. All ofmymain collections of sourceswere thus highly suspect. Just because a

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sourceisproblematicdoesn’tmeanthatyoucan’tuseit,itjustmeansthatyouhavetobecarefulwhatsortsofinformationyoutakefromitandhowyouinterpretit.Ioftenhadtoreadsources“againstthegrain,”andtocorroborateinformationfromonesourcewithseveralothertypesofsources.

SRS: How do you situate your work in the Dield of Romanian studies, and in easternEuropeanhistoriographymorebroadly?RC:My research on the Legion contributes to a growing body of high quality literature onRomanianfascism.Inthelasttenyears,wehaveseensubstantialnewstudiesontheLegionbyOliverJensSchmitt,TraianSandu,ArminHeinen,ConstantinIordachi,RebeccaHaynes,ValentinSăndulescu, andRaduHaraldDinu, aswell asmarginal contributions on legionaryhistorybyhistorians working on related topics such as eugenics or the Holocaust in Romania, both ofwhichareblossoming7ieldsatpresent. My book also relies heavily on local studies of everyday life in different parts of thecountry and on the new histories of gender in Romania.We’re lucky that social and culturalhistoriesfrombelowhavebecomemoreandmorecommoninandaboutRomania,whichallowbooks like mine to be written. Two manifestos talking about new ways of writingAlltagsgeschichte authored by historians of East-Central Europe came out in The Journal ofModernHistory(2008)andAspasia(2009)whileIwaswriting,andtheyarticulatedveryclearlymyaimsandmethodsinHolyLegionaryYouth. The last thingworth saying about historiography is that the narrative I tell about theLegionandabout interwarRomaniamoregenerallyre7lects thestories toldbyArminHeinen,KeithHitchins,IrinaLivezeanu,LeonVolovici,ZiguOrnea,MariaBucur,IonuţBiliuţă,andothers.Heinen taughtme to see theLegionasa fascist socialmovement, for example, andLivezeanushowedmehowimportantnation-buildingandthestudentmovementwas.Volovici,Ornea,andHitchins emphasized the centrality of antisemitic intellectuals to Romanian nationalism, andBucur convinced me that gender matters. As do most people, when I write I rely onmetanarrativesandempiricalresearchthatotherscholarshavedevelopedandmybookisverymuchaproductofthecollectivewisdomthatthe7ieldhasdevelopedovertime.

SRS:WhatcanyourDindingsteachusaboutRomaniannationalmemory/politicstoday?RC: As I said earlier, I don’t believe that fascism is a “thing” that appears, disappears, andreemerges.Instead,I’minterestedinthesocialandculturalconnotationsthattheterm“fascism”hasforpeopleindifferenthistoricalcontexts.Itstrikesmeasparticularlyinterestingthatthereisstilla lotofdebatearoundwhetherornot theLegionof theArchangelMichaelwas fascist.Legallyandpoliticallyitisnolongerokaytobeafascist,butthereisstillalotofsympathyforthe Legion inmany circles, and disassociating it from European fascism is oneway tomakeCodreanu’s ideas socially acceptable again. Similarly, many legionaries suffered and died incommunistprisons,makingiteasytoresurrectthemasmartyrsinapost-socialistcontext.Itisimportant to remember that justbecause someone suffered for their ideasdoesn’tmean thatthoseideaswereworthsufferingfor.

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Moreover, thesocialmeaningsof theLegion foractivistsand for theauthoritieschangedovertime, and associating oneselfwith the Legionmeant different things in the 1930s and in the1950s. If my research teaches us anything, it should be that social movement identities arehistoricallycontingent,andthataone-size-7its-allmodelsimplydoesn’tworkwhenappliedtolong historical periods. Simplistic models are not analytically useful but they are politicallypotent, and the peoplewho use themdo so because they are not interested inwhat actuallyhappened in the past, but care about the political capital they can gain from praising orcondemning theLegion.Basingourbeliefs onmyths about thepast rather thanon evidence-basedresearchisdangerous,anditfrustratesandterri7iesmetoseehowoftenthishappensnotonlyinRomaniabutthroughouttheworld.

SRS:YouwrotethisbookasaPhDthesis.Tellusabitaboutyourdoctoralstudies.WhatwouldbeyouradvicetostudentscurrentlypursuinggraduatestudiesonRomania?RC: I originally decided to write a PhD on the Legion in 2001, and wanted to study it as apoliticalreligion,buildingontheoriesbyRobertBellahandothers. JudithKeene,whowastheresidentexpertonfascisminSydneyatthetime,refusedtosupervisesuchathesisbecauseshesaidthatitmisrepresentedwhathappened.Politicalreligioninterpretationsoffascismcametodominatethe7ieldoverthenextfewyears,butKeenewasright–onceIdelveddeeplyenoughinto the archives it became obvious that this was a complete misinterpretation of howlegionaries actually experienced their movement. Unable to study the Legion in Australia, ImovedtoPittsburghintheUStodoaPhDwithIrinaLivezeanu.TheadvantageofstudyingintheUSisthatittakesalongtimeto7inishyourdoctorate.MyideaschangedfrequentlyduringthesevenyearsIspentattheUniversityofPittsburgh,andmy7irstpieceofadviceforgraduatestudentsistotakethetimetoletyourideaspercolateratherthantyingyourselftoatheoryormethodthatyouhaven’thadtimetoproperlyappreciate. My secondpiece of advice is to spend asmuch time as you can inRomania. I lived inBraşov for eighteen months before starting graduate school, took research trips to Romaniaalmosteverysummer,andspentthelasttwoyearsofmyPhDthere.Americanhistoriansusuallydo their researchhalfway through thePhDand thenmoveback toRomania towriteup theirresearch.IwrotemydissertationupwhilelivinginRomania,whichgavemeinvaluableaccesstolibraries andarchives andmeant that I could 7ill in gaps inmy research that I hadn’t noticeduntilIstartedwriting.

SRS:Whatisyourcurrentresearchabout?RC:AtthemomentIamwritingtwobooks,bothaboutreligionininterwarRomania.The7irstlooksatattemptstorestructuretheRomanianOrthodoxChurchduringtheearly1920s,whichincluded a number of attempts to increase lay participation and piety, with a strong anti-sectarian (meaning, anti-neo-Protestant) agenda. I’m interested in how Orthodox leadersframed their initiativesandwhy theseattemptsat revival so frequentlyended in schism.Thesecond is amicrohistory of Petrache Lupu ofMaglavit in 1935. Hewas a shepherdwho hadvisions and began supernaturally healing people, provokingmassive pilgrimages to his smallvillage inDoljcounty.Lookingat thevarietyofdifferentreactionstoLupu letsme interrogatesecularization,politics,andbeliefsaboutmodernityonanationalscale.

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SRS 2017 Graduate Essay Prize

Committee:R.ChrisDAVIS(LoneStarCollege-Kingwood)chair,ValentinaGLAJAR(TexasStateUniversity), Ron KING (San Diego State University), Diane Vancea (Ovidius University ofConstanţa).

The 9th Annual SRS Graduate Student Essay Prize is awarded to the most outstandingunpublished essay or thesis chapter written in English, by a graduate student in any socialscienceorhumanitiesdiscipline,onaRomaniansubjectduringthe longacademicyear2016–17. The prize committee received over twenty essays from a wide range of disciplines,submittedbygraduatestudentsandrecentgraduatesfromacrossNorthAmerica,Europe,andAsia. The committee debated themerits of many prize-worthy essays. In the end, one essaystood out above the others. It is with great pleasure that the committee awards this year’sGraduateStudentEssayPrizetoDanaMureşanforheressay“Brâncuşi:TheConstructionofaRomanianNationalHero.” Mureşan’swell-researchedandhighlysophisticatedessayexaminesthroughthe lensofBrâncuşithecomplexrelationshipofartandnationalism.ItexplorestheroleofRomaniaintheformationofBrâncuşi’suniversalmodernartand,inturn,theroleofBrâncuşiandhisartintheformationofRomanianidentityandinthepromotionofnationalculture.Inparticular,MureşanaddressesthevaluetheRomanianstatederivedfromclaimingBrâncuşiasanationalhero,asacultural symbol combining historic identity and contemporary sophistication. Yet thisappropriation explicitly could not include full appreciation for the content of thework, giventhat Brâncuşi the émigré was producing art that was distinctly non-socialist in theme andformat.Thepaperbeautifullyexplores thiscontradiction,especiallyas itplayedout inof7icialRomanianartisticdiscourse,highlightingbothstatementsandsilencesofthatof7icialdiscourse.Allatonce,Mureşanre7lectsonthelegacyofBrâncuşi’sbiographyandartinbothRomaniaandParis, widens the analytical frame of Romanian identity discourses, and makes a signi7icantcontributiontoanarrayofscholarly7ields, includingnationalismstudies, identitystudies,andarthistory,amongothers.Equallyimportanttothecommittee,theessayshowcasesthe7ieldofRomanianStudiesinaninternationalcontext.Finally,Mureşanachievessomethingveryrareinacademicwriting thesedays,namely theability to communicate ideas to specialists andnon-specialistsalike. The committee felt three other 7inalists from this year’s competition deserved specialmention: Kathryn Grow Allen’s “Migration, Conversion and the Creation of an Identity inSoutheast Europe: A Biological Distance and Strontium Isotope Analysis of OttomanCommunities in Romania, Hungary and Croatia”; Alin Rus’s “‘Building’ Cultural Patrimony inCeaușescu’sNeopatrimonialRomania”;andKarinSteinbrueck’s“Aftershocks:NicolaeCeaușescuand theRomanianCommunist Regime’sResponses to the 1977Earthquake.” The quality anddiversityofthisyear’ssubmissionscertainlybodeswellforthefutureofRomanianstudies.

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DanaMureşanhasaBAinEuropeanStudiesfromtheUniversityofToronto,duringwhichshealsostudiedatSciencesPoParisforoneyear. In 2016 she received an MA in European Identity andIntegrationfromtheUniversityofAmsterdam,forwhichshewrotethe thesis “Brâncuşi: The Construction of a National Hero.” Herprimaryresearch interests includeartandpolitics,culturalhistory,and particularly the comparative analysis that involves suchdevelopmentsinEasternandWesternEurope.

Featured Book BUCUR-DECKER,Maria.GenderingModernism:AHistoricalReappraisaloftheCanon.BloomsburyAcademic,2017.

Gendering Modernism offers a critical reappraisal of the modernistmovement,askinghowgendernormsofthetimeshapedtherebellionofthe self-avowedmodernists, and examining the impact of radical genderreformersonmodernism. Focusing primarily on the connections between North American andEuropeanmodernists,MariaBucurexplainswhy it is imperative thatweconsider the gender angles of modernism as a way to understand thelegaciesofthemovement.Sheprovidesanoverviewofthescholarshiponmodernismandananalysisofhowde7initionsofmodernismhaveevolvedwith that scholarship. Interweaving vivid case studies from before theGreatWartotheinterwarperiod–lookingatindividualmodernistsfrom

Ibsen to Picasso, Hannah Höch to Josephine Baker – she covers various 7ields such as art,literature,theatre,and7ilm,whilstalsodemonstratinghowmodernismmanifesteditselfinthemajor social-political and cultural shifts of the 20th century, including feminism, psychology,sexology,eugenics,nudism,anarchism,communism,andfascism. Thisisafreshandwide-ranginginvestigationofmodernismwhichexpandsourde7initionofthemovement,integratinggenderanalysisandtherebyopeningupnewlinesofenquiry.Writtenina lively and accessible style, Gendering Modernism is a crucial intervention in the literature,which should be read by all scholars of themodernistmovement, as well by those studying20th-centuryhistoryandgenderstudiesmorebroadly.

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Soundbite: The Aftermath of the Romanian Protests

ByOana-ValentinaSuciu,UniversityofBucharest One usually likes never ending stories. But would this be the case of protests and civicinvolvement? For the last two decades, irrespective of the governing party or coalition, themajorityofRomaniansconsidertheircountrytobeheadinginthewrongdirection.Throughoutthelasttwoandahalfdecades,accordingtothesurveydataofvariouspollsters,overhalfofthepopulation is dissatis7ied with political, economic, and social developments in Romania.However,itisonlywhenconsideringthepast7iveyearsthatonemayspeakofthecreationofacriticalmassofpeopleprotestingthemannerinwhichthecentralandlocalgovernmentchosetoadministerpublicaffairs. Starting in2013,with thebiggestenvironmentalprotest inpost-warEurope(gatheredundertheslogan“Uniți,salvăm!”(”Unitedwesave!”),continuedwiththereactiontothetragicevents in thewinterof2015 thatgenerated the slogan “Corupțiaucide!” (“Corruptionkills!”),andreachinganunprecedentedwidthanddepthwiththe2017movement#Rezist,Romaniahasbeen experiencing aphenomenon labelledby several analysts and themedia as a “social andcivic awakening.”However, the picture is amore nuanced one. Asmuch as onewould like toanalyze the events that keep unrolling, questions still have to be asked about how the socialtissueoftheRomaniansalloverthecountry,butalsotheonesformingtheRomaniandiaspora,isbeingregenerated.Or,ifitisbeingregeneratedatall. Onestillhasto7indoutnotsomuchwhotheprotestersinRomaniaandinthediasporahave been, or why they decided to protest, but whether they protested against certainindividuals,oragainstpublic institutions.At7irstglance, itappearstobeacombinationofthetwo.Butinacountrywhereinstitutionsrarelyhaveaprofessionallifelongerthanthepeopleinthem,onehastostepoutsidetheeventsinordertohaveabetterviewofthewholepicture.Thesocial and urban dynamic of the Romanian protests in the last years, at home and abroad,suggeststhatthismightbethecase,buttheresultsarestilldif7iculttoquantify.Canonespeakabout the existence of a public space in Romania and in the Romanian diaspora? Iwould betemptedtogiveapositiveanswertothisquestion,buttheeffectsremaintobefollowedinthemonthsandyearstocome. Howwere thesocial in7luencenetworkscreatedandhowdid theycontinue toactivateafter the streetmovementswere over? Various social networks and public groups have beencreated, counting tens of thousands ofmembers, but online posting and debates are not themostef7icientmannerofpoliticalparticipation.Aretheygoingtobeturnedintoaparticipativepoliticalculture?Onamoreoptimistictone,theanswerisyes.Severaloftheseinitiallyinformalnetworksarebeginningtoliterallygetoutoftheonlineboxandestablishalliances,projects,andinvolve people from variousmillieux. From grassroots civic education projects, to apparentlysmall community initiatives, to NGOs networks (see the platform Respect: https://www.facebook.com/pg/respectpentrutoti/about/?ref=page_internal),tocompetitionsforshortdocumentaries, inspired by famousmovie super-heroes that 7ight themonster of corruption(see, for instance, http://www.onceinromania.ro/), many of the individuals who took to the

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streetsinthelast7iveyearschosetoputtheirknow-how,time,andenergyintothedevelopmentand enhancement of a democratic, participative political culture. Their results are to be evenmoreimportantifwetakealookattheevolvingtasteforilliberalregimesinseveralcountriesinRomania’sproximity,whichareappreciatedbyvariousdomesticpoliticiansbasedatthecentralandlocallevelofthecountry.

SRS Mentoring Program SRS has launched a newmentoring program this year, pairing scholars at different stages oftheircareersor indifferentpartsoftheworldtofacilitatemutuallybene7icialdiscussionsandcommunication.Juniorscholarsmaygainlocalinformationformallyfromtheirsupervisorsandinformally from others they come into contact with. Informal mentorship is particularlyimportant for students and scholarsworking in theWestwhoseprimary supervisors are notthemselves specialists in Romania and Moldova. Similarly, students and scholars based inEastern Europe 7ind it bene7icial to establish informal relationships with their colleaguesabroad,withwhomtheycandiscussdisciplinarytrendsandotherquestionsofmutualinterest.Mentoring also bene7its senior scholars by helping them stay abreast of new literatures andtrendsinthe7ield,aswellasprovidinginsightsintootheruniversitiesandothercountries. Someof our currentmentors includeFlorinAbraham,AnaBazac,MargaretBeissinger,StefanoBottini,RoxanaBratu,MariaBucur,MonicaCiobanu,RolandClark,AleksandraDjurić-Milanović,DonaldDyer, PeterGross,Bob Ives, JamesKapaló, IrinaLivezeanu, PaulMichelson,Petru Negură, Sergiu Musteaţă, Valentin Săndulescu, Lavinia Stan, Cristian Tileagă, NarcisTulbure,F.PeterWagner,andRodicaMilenaZaharia. Please get in touch with us via the SRS website if you are interested in becoming amentor or amentee. The purpose of the SRSMentoring Program is to provide SRSmemberswithinvaluablesupportandestablishedscholarstheopportunitytohelpshapethefutureofthe7ield and support new research. Responsibility for making the mentoring relationship workrestswith the individualmentor/mentee, but the SRS acts as a sponsoring organization thatmatchesmentorsandmenteesandsuggestsparameters for the relationship.TheSRSaimsatfacilitatingformalmentoringinitiativesincaseswherementorsandmenteesdonotknoweachother,havenoclearunderstandingoftheircurrentexpertiseareas,andneedhelptoconnect. Mentoring relationships may either be established around speci7ic, short-term goals,suchaswritingabookproposalordevelopingstrategiesforacceptanceintograduateschools,or may involve a series of discussions about career trajectories, publication plans, accessinglibraries,archives,orfellowships,orotherissuesofmutualinteresttothementorandmentee.Individualpairsshouldagreeonthenatureandlongevityofthecommitment,butweenvisagethatmostmentoringrelationshipswill involveseveral informalconversationsoveraperiodofsixmonths.RolandClark [email protected]

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Soundbite from the Republic of Moldova

By Petru Negură, “Ion Creangă” State Pedagogical University, Republic ofMoldovaAccording to estimates put forth by its government and the national bank, the Republic ofMoldova is experiencing a relative economic stabilization and a slight growth in GDP(approximately 3%). Nevertheless, independent experts (Expert-Grup) do not believe thisgrowth is suf7icient fora sustainableeconomic recovery,particularlygivenMoldova’songoingbrain-drain,whichseesthecountry’syoungestandmostactivecitizensemigratinginsearchofbetteremploymentopportunitiesandlivingconditionsabroad. Although theNewYorkbasedKroll Corporate Investigations andRiskConsultingFirmhasnowprovidedasecondreporton"therobberyofthecentury"(“jafulsecolului”)(aboutonebilliondollars stolen in 2014 from threeMoldovanbanks) those deemed responsible for this“robbery”haveyet tobeconvicted.Theprincipal "suspect"under investigation, theMoldovanentrepreneurIlanShor,whowasheadofoneofthebanksatthetimeoftherobbery,isstillfreetogoabouthisbusiness,evenoccupyingthepostofmayorinthecityofOrheisinceJuly2015.With the Moldovan government having recently decided that the responsibility for therepayment of the stolen money would now be assumed by the state, the debt the countryobtainedasaresultofthisdecisionisprojectedtobepaidinfullonlyby2042. Onthepoliticalfront,Moldova’spartiesarepreparingforparliamentaryelections,tobeheldinthefallof2018.TheDemocraticParty(PartidulDemocratic),thepresidentofwhichisoligarchVladPlahotniuc,andthePartyofSocialists(PartidulSocialiştilor),thecountry’slargestparliamentary opposition party, promoted and eventually adopted the modi7ication of theelectoralsystembytransformingthe formerlyproportionalelectoralsystemintoamixedone.Halfofthedeputieswouldnowbeelectedonpartylists,withtheotherhalfbeingchosenfromamongindividualcandidates,nominatedbytheparties. Policyexperts,however,believethissystemwouldfavourlargerpartiesattheexpenseofsmaller ones. Because smaller parties have a relatively lower representation throughout thecountry,aswellaslimitedcommunicationandpersuasioncapacity(lackingpreferentialaccessto certain radio and TV stations), they will likely have the most to lose from this newarrangement.Asaresult,thiselectoralreformrevealsatendencytoinstitutionalizeamodelofgovernancebasedonpoliticalfraudandin7luencepeddling. Althoughitonlygained16%ofvotesin2015,theDemocraticPartynowhasadominantmajority formedoutof a largenumberofparliamentarianswhohadarrived inParliamentasmembers of other parties, but later joined the coalition led by the Democratic Party due tovariouspoliticaltransactionscarriedoutbehindcloseddoors.Thus,underthecurrentelectoralreform,theDemocraticPartyandthePartyofSocialistswill likelycompeteforprimacyinthefutureParliament,withrecentpollsprojectingthePartyofSocialiststocomeoutontopinthe

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2018elections.Despiteapparentcontradictionsbetweenthesetwoparties,somecommentatorsindicatetheexistenceofhiddenarrangementsbetweenthem.Inthemeantime,theoppositionparties,especiallytheActionandSolidarityParty(PartidulAcțiuneșiSolidaritate),ledbyMaiaSandu,andthePlatformforDignityandTruth(PlatformaDemnitateşiAdevăr), ledbyAndreiNăstase, are undergoing a period of latent recon7iguration, and attempting to expand theircommunicationstrategiesoutsideofChişinău,wheretheyhavethegreatestsupport. Despite the economic crisis and the lack of trust in their country’s political system,Moldova’s citizens continue to go on with their lives in a way they consider acceptable andpersonallyuseful.

New Publication

VASILE,Cristian,coord.“Netrebuieoameni!”EliteintelectualeşitransformăriistoriceînRomâniacontemporană[“Weneedpeople!”IntellectualElitesandHistoricalTransformationsinModernandContemporaryRomania]Târgovişte:CetateadeScaunPublishingHouse,2017.

Research for this book was funded by the National Research Council(CNCS).The teamledbyDr.CristianVasilerevisited thehistoricalcanonregarding the formation of intellectual elites during the nineteenth andtwentiethcenturies.Whileexistingworksonthetopicfocuseitherontheeliminationofoldelitesintimesofradicalsocialchangeoronthecreationof new elites by each newpolitical regime, this new study focuses on athirdmechanism—theuseofoldintellectualelitesfornewmodernizationprojects.Thismechanismofhistoricalandsocialchangeappearsateverymajortransition(“historicaldisjuncture”)butisaccordedlesssigni7icancebothinhistory/socialsciencesandinpublicdiscourse. Thebookargues that the recuperationandconversionof intellectual elites ispartof aresilientmechanism of historical change in East Central Europe, and speci7ically in Romania,throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Themechanism becomes easier to graspwhen considering the succession of modernization projects that Romania, like most of EastCentralEurope,hasundergone.Ayoungstatehavingtoaccommodateshiftingborders,ethnicstructures,religiousidentities,administrativetraditions,andresilientformsofsocialinequality,Romaniaexperimentedwithmostofthevisionsofmodernitybeingeitherimportedorimposedin East Central Europe during the long twentieth century. Modernization projects trying tomaterialize such visions – liberalism, socialism, fascism, Stalinism, national Stalinism,marketdemocracy, took place in a socially underdeveloped milieu, one that was not attuned to thehistoricaltime(s)ofWesternEurope.Copied,imitated,distortedandadaptedbylocalactorsorimposedfromabove,thevariousprojectsofmodernizationendedupincomplete,overlapping,partial,andfragmented.

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CHAPTERS: “Introduction: Fragmented Modernities: Intellectual Elites and HistoricalTransformationsinModernandContemporaryRomania”(CristianVASILE);“AgentsofChange:The Romanian Principalities’ Orthodox Clergy from Feudal Regime to Nation-State” (IonuţBILIUŢĂ); “Cholera, Public Hygiene, SocialModernity and Racial Degeneration inNineteenth-Century Romania” (Călin COTOI); “Conversions and Re-Conversions: Academic Elites andPoliticalChangeinRomania,1930-1960”(ValentinSĂNDULESCU);“TheGeometryofaComplexRelationship:Elite,modelsofStateModernization,andPoliticalRegimesinTwentieth-CenturyRomania” (Camelia ZAVARACHE); “Modernity, Modernism, Modernization and Propaganda inCommunistRomania” (CristianVASILE); “ThePortrait ofN.DepartingCommunistOrthodoxy:OnReligiousPolicyAfter1948”(AncaŞINCAN);“Professionsofrisks:Economists,statisticians,andCyberneticiansintheSocialistPeriod”(NarcisTULBURE).

Workshop Report

“HiddenGalleries”AnnualProjectWorkshop “MaterializingReligionintheSecretPoliceArchive:Methodological,EthicalandLegalApproachestotheStudyofReligionsintheSecretPoliceArchives”September11,2017,Ábtl,Budapest,Hungary

Report by Anca Șincan, Gheorghe Şincai Institute for Social Sciences & Humanities of theRomanianAcademyThe ERC-funded project “Creative Agency and ReligiousMinorities:HiddenGalleriesintheSecretPoliceArchivesinCentral and Eastern Europe” constitutes the 7irst attemptat conducting comparative research on the secret policearchives, from the perspective of the history andanthropologyof religion, in three countries:Romania, theRepublicofMoldova,andHungary.Thisapproachoffersaperspectivalshiftontheusesofthearchivesbyfocusingonitsmaterialcontent,mainlyonthecon7iscatedreligiousartand publications that were produced by religious minorities in the region. The project’sPrincipalInvestigator,Dr.JamesKapaló,isSeniorLecturerintheStudyofReligionsatUniversityCollegeCork,Ireland. On September 11, 2017, the “Hidden Galleries” Project organized its 7irst annualworkshop, hosted in Budapest, Hungary, by ÁBTL (Állambiztonsági Szolgálatok TörténetiLevéltára), theHistoricalArchivesoftheHungarianStateSecurity.Theeventbroughttogetherscholarsfromdifferentdisciplines,suchasanthropology,history,andthestudyofreligions,andfromarangeofcountriesinCentralandEasternEurope.ScholarsfromHungary,Romania,theRepublic of Moldova, Lithuania, Serbia, and Ireland participated in four sessions coveringimportant issues linked to religion and the archives. Themain focus of the 7irst international“HiddenGalleries”workshopwas toraisequestionsconcerning themethodological, legal,and

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ethicalaspectsencounteredwhenworkingwithreligiousminoritiesandstatesecurityarchivesandarchivalinstitutions. Theworkshop openedwith a shortwelcome and introduction by Dr. Gergő BendegúzCseh,theDirectorGeneralofÁBTL,whobrie7ly informedtheaudienceaboutthechangesthathaveappearedinthelegalframeworkoftheHistoricalArchivesoftheHungarianStateSecurityin2017.Thiswasfollowedbyanintroductiontothe“HiddenGalleries”ERCProject,madebyDr.JamesA.Kapaló.

Thethreepapersofthe7irstsession,“SocialistLegalities,”werededicatedtopresentingthelegalframeworkfortheregulationofreligiousdenominationsinthetwentiethcenturyandthe repressivepolicies towards religiousminoritiesduringCommunism inHungary,Romania,and the Republic of Moldova. Szilvia Köbel’s paper, “Legal context of religious activities inHungarybetween1945and1989/90,”raisedquestionsconcerningtheterminologyusedbytheHungarianCommunist regime in order to clarify the legality or illegality of a religious group.Igor Cașu’s presentation, “The ambiguities of socialist legality: Religious groups in SovietMoldaviaunder lateStalinism,1944-1953,”exploredtheapplicationof legalcodes inpractice,ratherthanintheory,illustratingthewaysinwhichrepressiveandpunitivestepstakenbytheauthorities were in7luenced by local context. Corneliu Pintilescu’s paper, “Turning ReligiousPractices intoPoliticalGuilt: Jehovah’sWitnesses in theNarrativesof theSecuritateFiles,” setthestageforcomparativediscussionsbetweentherepressivepoliciesoftheHungarianandtheRomanianCommunistregimestowardsthesamereligiousgroup. Thesecondsession,entitled “HistoricalContextsandCaseStudies,”openedwithCsabaFazekas’spaper,“TheStateandtheProblemofNewReligiousMovementsinInterwarHungary,”whichraiseddebatesabout theterminologyusedwhenreferringtoreligiousgroupsandhowthisissuecanbeconnectedwithaspectsofnationality.Inherpaper,“Jehovah’sWitnessesintheeraofstatesocialisminHungary,1948-1989,”ÉvaPetrásofferedaglimpseintothemindsetofJehovah’sWitnesses and the politicalmanner inwhich theHungarian Communist authoritiesunderstoodthemessageoftheirpublications inordertocriminalizethem.ThesessionclosedwithRasaPranskevičiūté’spaper,“ActingintheUnderground:LifeasaHareKrishnaDevoteeinthe Soviet Republic of Lithuania (1979- 1989),” during which she also presented the legalframeworkof the formersecretpolicearchives inLithuaniaand thepossibilitiesofaccess forscholarsfromvariousdisciplines. Issues pertaining tomethodology and ethicswere dealtwith during the third session,whichwasopenedbyAncaȘincanwithapresentationonthethemesofmoralityandsexualityencounteredinarchivaldocumentsrelatedtoreligiouslife.Afterofferingexamplesofpersonalexperiences while conducting research in the Romanian secret police archives (CNSAS), Dr.Șincanopenedthe7loorfordebateconcerningthedifferencesbetweenthelegalframeworkofÁBTLinHungaryanditsequivalentinRomania,CNSAS,theNationalCouncilfortheStudyoftheSecuritateArchives.Questionsrelatingtohowmuchaccessscholarsshouldhavetotheprivatelifeof an individual andhow the regulationsof the secretpolice archives control suchaccesswere themain concerns of the discussion. JamesKapaló’s paper on the various categories ofphotographsconnectedwithreligiousgroupsthatcanbefoundinthesecretpolice7ilesledtoaninterestingdiscussionregardingthemethodsofincriminationusedbyNKVD,aswellasother

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policepractices.Hispaperalsohighlightedthevalueof imagesinthearchivalcontextandtheneedforscholarstobeginfocusingontheseheretoforeoverlookedissues.KingaPovedáksharedsome of her experiences of the obstacles she had encountered during her archival andethnographic research as part of the “Hidden Galleries” Project, challenging the audience tore7lectonsomeimportantethicalissuesassociatedwiththeProject.Thediscussionthenmovedinadifferentdirection,withscholarsre7lectingontheirownsituation,as“detectives” lookingforindividualswhoarewillingtoofferinformationabouteventsfromthepast,astance“nottoodifferentfromthatofasecretpoliceagent,”inAncaȘincan’sopinion. The last session, entitled “Minority Religions and State Security Archives,” addressedimportantquestionsregardingthecharacterofreligiouspersecution,howit isre7lectedinthestate security archives, and the frameworks in place for scholars to accessmaterials on thissubject.DorinDobrincu’spaper,“ReligiousMovementsintheArchivesofRomanianRepressiveandSecretServices(1919-1944):TheEvangelicals,”outlinedtherepressivepoliciesinplaceininterwarRomaniaandledtoadiscussiononthecomparativeseverityofrepressionacrosstheregion. Cristian Vasile, whose presentation focused on the politics of research on religiousdenominations in Romanian Archives post 1989, highlighted one of the key questions at theheart of the “Hidden Galleries” project. Namely, his paper focused on how to address thefascination and paradoxical desire on the part of the researchers and the public to 7ind“historical truth” in the texts generated by the secret police. Aleksandra DjurićMilovanović’spresentationaddressedtheproblemsofaccesstosecretpolicearchivesintheformerYugoslaviaand suggested ways in which the archives could be used for research on Yugoslav religiousminoritiesduringcommunism. Existingscholarshiponreligiousgroupsinthesecretpolicearchiveshasbeendominatedbymainstreamandmajoritychurchconcernsfocusedoninstitutionsandhierarchiesandonthesearch for justice based on “historical truths.” The papers presented during this workshopraisednewquestions,offeredsomenewperspectives,andsoughtsolutionsforsomeofthemostimportantissuesthatfacescholarswhodealwithaspectsofreligioninthearchives.Thelivelydebatescarriedoutduringthisworkshopcenteredaroundthefollowingkeyissues:thepoliticalandreligiousinterferenceinthecontrolofsecretpolicearchives;theproblemsassociatedwithaccess and with the ethical use of data by historians and anthropologists; how scholarshipimpacts societal prejudice and state regulation of religion in post-socialism, and the issue ofculturalpatrimonyofcon7iscatedreligiousmaterials.

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Get to Know our Scholars

JAMESKAPALÓ,ProfessoratUniversityCollegeCork,PrincipalInvestigatoroftheHiddenGalleries.

InterviewconductedbyAncaȘincan

AS: Idon’thaveagood Dirstquestion. Ihavea second, I’d say, goodquestion,butlet’sstartwiththis.WhoisJamesKapaló?JK: I’m a scholar of religions working in Ireland. My academic historystarted in cultural studiesand thenEastCentralEuropean studiesand IhavePhDinthestudyofreligionsfromtheSchoolofOrientalandAfricanStudies, University of London. So primarily I am a scholar of religionsfocusingonreligiousminorities.When I sayreligiousminorities, Imeannotonlyminorityreligionspresentinanygivencontextorstate,butalsothereligionofminoritypeoples,forexampletheOrthodoxChristianityoftheGagauzminorityinMoldova.MymainareaoffocushasbeenRomaniaandRepublicofMoldova,butI’vealsodonesomeresearchworkinginHungaryandcurrentlyIamthePrincipalInvestigatoroftheprojectHiddenGalleries.Sothatismyacademicpro7ileinbrief.

AS: Every research calls for something personal from the researcher or comes fromsomethingpersonal.Isthistrueforyou?JK:Absolutely! I was a youngman just coming out of universitywhen the change of systemhappened across East Central Europe. Iwas actually in Budapestwhen the BerlinWall camedownandtheborderwasopened,soIhaveapersonalhistorythere.Myfather’sfamilyisfromHungary,soIhadalotofexperiencesofHungaryinthe1980s’attheendofthesocialistperiod.Furthermore,myfamilybelongstoareligiousminorityinHungary—GreekCatholic.So,growingupIwasfascinatedbythelocalreligiouscultureofmygrandmotherandrelativesinthevillage,whichwassomewherebetweenOrthodoxyandRomanCatholicism.AndIthinkthissparkedmyinterest and my imagination—state socialism in relation to religion and the existence ofminorityreligions,especiallythemoreunusualin-between-typereligiouscommunities. AS:YouareheadingaEuropeanResearchCouncil(ERC)projectonreligiousminoritiesinSecretPolicearchives.Telluswhattheprojectisaboutinafewwords.JK:Asbrie7lyasIcan,whichisdif7icultwhenyouareverydeeplyengagedwithaprojectofthisscaleandscope.Theproject’s ideaarosefromresearchIwasdoingin2013-2014whenI 7irsthad exposure to secret police archive 7iles both in CNSAS and in the National Archives inRomania,lookingat7ilesofsecretpolice,police,andtheGendarmerie.IrealizedwhenIstartedthe research into one particular religious group I am writing a monograph about, theInochentists,thatsomematerialrelatedtothegroupthatisnotpubliclyavailable,orcollectedinother archives, museum collections, or by the Romanian Academy, may possibly be in 7ilescollectedbypoliceandtheSecretPolice.ItwasthenIhadaEurekamoment.

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Ithinkitwasinthewinterof2014andIwentintothearchivesinthemorningandbytheeveningwhenIwentout,metupwithfriendsfordinner,IwasjusteuphoricbecauseIhadfoundmy 7irst postcard-icon in a Gendarmerie 7ile in the National Archives. This was the Eurekamoment because I realized that aspects of the sacred—I call it sacred cultural patrimony ofreligiousgroups—aretobefoundinthese7iles.SoIbecameincreasinglyinterestedinthenon-textualdimensionofthe7iles,andlessinterestedinthehistoricalortextualnarrativeperse.Myfocus switched to the visual and material cultures contained within the archives, which Irecognized as incredibly important in understanding cultural production during communism,andalsoduring theperiod leadingup to it.So theproject really isabout this—it isabout thematerial,thelocal,andthevernacular(whichis,ifyoulike,asynonymforfolk,localfolkculturalelements). So in the project all this comes together and looks at religious minorities in thearchivesthroughanewlensbasedonanewsetofsourcesthathavebeenlargelyoverlookeduptothispoint.

AS:Couldyoutellusalittleabouttheprojectgoals,whichIunderstandalsotobealittledifferent? Is this the resultof the typeofproject fundedby theERC,ordoes this comefromyou?JK:Withintheproject,westrivetoconnecttheeverydaypeopleandreligiouscommunitiesweresearch to the academic research, and this is a little different from standard basic researchwork.Intermsofwhythisisthecasewithmyproject,itisabitofbothreally,myowndesiretomake theproject impactfuland theERC’sconcernwithsocietalchallenges facingEurope.Theproject’soutputsincludeapublicexhibition,anonlineexhibition,andanonlinedigitaldatabase,aswellastheusualsortofacademicoutputs.Lookingatthefullspread,thereareanumberofaudiencestheprojectteamhopestoreach.

Thepublicexhibitionclearlyhastodowiththepublicperceptionsofreligiousminoritiesandtheroletheyplayedduringstatesocialism.I’mveryinterestedintryingtoin7luencesomevery negative opinions that persist across the region in regard to religious minorities, oftenencouragedorpropagatedbymajorityChurches.Ibelievethereisinsuf7icientunderstandingofthe personal narratives involvedwith those groups, and the project is trying to in7luence theway society at large views difference and the reasons why markers of identity, markers ofdifference in society during totalitarianism, become so powerful and so signi7icant. This isunusualforscholars,andIdescribethisaspectoftheworkasengagedscholarship.Thisisn’tthesameasadvocacyscholarship.A lotofscholarshipthatwentonaboutreligion inEastCentralEuropeduringcommunismwasfundedfromtheoutsideanditwasaboutadvocacy,advocatingfortherightsofreligiousminoritiesrepressedatthattime.We’renowdealingwithacontextinwhich the religiouspersecution is insuf7icientlyunderstood in relation to theagencyof thosegroups, their creativity,what theywere able to achieve. Instead of looking at thempurely asvictims,itisabouttheircreativeprocessesandpractices…Andsecondly,itisabouthowamoreholistic understanding of that history helps us to understand the state of the Romanian,Moldovan,andHungariansocietiestoday.

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I think there is also very important work to do in terms of reaching an academicaudience,andIamreluctanttoexpressitinthisway,butreligiousstudiesortheacademicnon-confessionalstudyofreligionsneedssomedevelopmentinRomaniaasIseeit.Thatisnottosaythat itneeds to imitate thewaythestudyofreligionsorreligiousstudies isstructuredacrossWestern Europe, but I think there is a lot of interesting work to be done and I thinkincorporatingreligiousstudiesintotheheartofRomanianacademiclifewouldbeagoodthing,throughprograms,conferencesandevendepartments.I’dliketothink,tohope,thatthiskindofprojectwill spark the imagination of scholars in Romania to think about religious studies inanother way and to see it not simply as a vehicle for or a means of elaborating the role ofpowerfulreligious forces,butactuallyasameansofre7lectionon localreligiouscommunities,narratives,andidentities.AS:WhatdoesitmeantoleadanERCproject,tobeanERCPrincipalInvestigator?JK:That’saverygoodquestionandonethatIamconstantlyforcedtore7lectonmyselfbecauseoneofthethingsaboutERCprojects,thenatureofthiskindofproject,isthattheydemandorrequireateamandcollaborativework.Itcan’tbedonebyasingleresearcher,butatthesametime the single researcher, the PI, has to keep an overview of the entire team, of the centralresearchquestions thatarebeingasked,andtheresearchprocessandoutputs.Soa lotofmytimeisspentthinkingabouthowtogivetheresearcherswhattheyneedinordertobeabletoconducttheresearchindifferentcontexts,butatthesametimedrawthembacktogethertotalkto each other, to share information, and to understand howwhat they’re doing 7its into thebroader picture of the research project. This is a little bit different from the usual way ofworkingasanacademic,especiallyinthe7ieldofreligiousstudieswheremostscholarswilltendto beaver away on their own personal work. People do collaborate all the time, but not asintensively as you need to in an ERC project. The other aspect is the administrative andbureaucratic side to the project, and Iwould advise anyone considering applying for an ERCproject to factor in asmuch time as possible for looking after things like budgets, recruitingpeople,dealingwithHRissues,dataprotection,andsoon.Thesetakealotoftimeandalotofhead-space.AS: You know, you are one of the few researcherswith an ERC project that dealswithRomania.HasitmadeanimpactinRomaniathatyoudealwith…Romanianthings?JK:It’searlydaysyet,andwe’reonlybeginningtheresearchphaseinRomania.Sointhenexttwelvemonthstherewillbeanumberofopportunitiestoreallypublicizetheproject,butthenthe 7indings will really make an impact in the years that follow. I’m having very interestingconversations,forexample,withCNSASasaninstitutionandwe’veinvolvedthemfromtheverybeginning.ThatwouldbeoneoftheareaswhereIhopetohavemostimpact,inasensethattheresearch team that is working there will be coming up with interesting methodologicalquestions but also on the role of institutions in society, and the role, later, of museums andpublic exhibitions. As to what the scholar can hope to achieve in terms of societal impactthroughthiskindofprojectIhopetobeabletosaymoreintheyearortwo’stime.

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AS:This isactuallyoneofmylastquestionsandis takingusonabitofadetour.Whensome researchers talk about Eastern Europe, there is this label that is put on EasternEuropeans.It’sthereverseofGraceDaviesbelievingwithoutbelongingandtheysayit’sbelonging without believing. You’ve been a researcher of religious matters in EasternEuropenowforsomeyears.DoyouDindthistrue?J.K.No,inactualfact,Idon’t7indittrue.Asresearchersofreligion,wehavetobere7lexiveandrecognize that we’re attracted to where religion is powerful and strong, and that’s amongbelievers.Forexample,myPhDresearchwasontheGagauzofMoldova.InMoldova,anyway,Ithink religiosity is generally quite a strong motivating factor, and in certain communities isparticularlystrong.That’s thecaseamongtheGagauz,orat least that ishowIexperienced it.Prior to that, my academic apprenticeship was among the Moldavian Csángós, who againconstituteaverystrongCatholiccommunity.SoIdon’t7indthistobethecase.Butifoneweretolookmoregenerallyacrosstheregionwithasociologicaleye,Ithinkitmightbethecaseinsomesocieties.InHungary,beliefisgenerallynotparticularlystrong,inSloveniait’snotparticularlystrong.Butanyway,Ithinkit’sageneralmisconceptionthatreligionisallaboutbelief,thisisavery Protestant approach. Religion as lived experience encompasses so much more that isrelatedto“being,”topractice,tocommunity,andtothebody. ButIthinkyouhavetolookateachnationalcontextverycloselyandthenyouhavetobere7lexive as a researcher. As a scholar of religion, I 7ind myself drawn to contexts in whichreligionisapowerfulmotivatorandwhereasascholarIamforcedtotakereligiousmotivationseriously. Often, scholars of religion, especially those who are not coming at it from aconfessional or a theological perspective, overlook or don’t give suf7icientweight to religiousmotivations,whethertheybetheologicalideas,religiouspractices,thein7luenceofchurchesinsocieties, or local religious personalities and leaders. This is one of the areas that I amparticularlyinterestedin,thelocal.WehaveverystrongnationalnarrativesofwhatconstitutesreligioninRomaniaandRomanianhistory.Iaminterestedinlookingatthegrassrootscontextswhere you have to engage both in ethnographic and in historical, archival work to reallyunderstand what is being missed, what narratives, what personal stories, what motivatingfactorsarebeingwashedoverbythesegrandernarrativesonreligionintheregion.AS:What’snextforJamesKapaló?JK:It’sdif7iculttosee“thenext”whenyou’reonlyjustgettingstuckintoaprojectofthisscale,butIhopetocontinuewithresearchonmoreinformalaspectsofthewayinwhichreligionsandstatescooperateinregulatingsocietyandcommunities.

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CORNEL BANpublishedRuling Ideas: How Neoliberalism Goes Local, Oxford University Press(2015),which looks at thepolitical economyof theRomanian transition and crisis through acomparisonwithSpain.

MONICACIOBANUisafellowinresidencyatImreKerteszKollegInstituteinJena,GermanyinFall2017.

THEODORDAMIAN publishedGregory of Nazianus’ Poetry and his Human Face in It. SophiaInstitute:TheotokosPress,2017.

DENNIS DELETANT of Georgetown University received the “Award for Contribution toRomanianStudies”attheannualGalaofAliantaon22September.

GAILKLIGMANwasawardedanhonorarydegree,doctorhonoriscausa,fromtheUniversityofBabeş-Bolyai,Cluj-Napoca,onMay25,2017.

MARIALUPASisnowaLectureratSophiaUniversityJuniorCollegeDivisioninJapan.

KIKISKAGENMUNSHIpublishedaWhisperinBucharest(2016).Coveringtheperiod1939to1985,thisnovelfollowsthelifeoftwoRomanianpeasantboysandtheirJewishfriendfromtheharshdaysoftheSecondWorldWarthroughthecomingoftheCommunistrule. Parthistoricalnovel, part spy story,Whisper in Bucharest was published in Bucharest in June 2014 in bothEnglishandRomanianeditions.

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ADAMJ.SORKINretiredfromPennStateinJuneasDistinguishedProfessorEmeritus;hehadtaughtatPennStateBrandywinesince1978.Sorkinalsoguesteditedandtranslatedaspecialtranslation issue of Paragraphiti, “Seven Young Romanian Poets,” with art by Daniel Ursache(May2016),andaspecialRomaniandouble issueof the journalPoem, translating112of119poemsby24authors,Poem[U.K.]4.3-4(September-December2016).

ALEX TIPEI won the John Iatrides Best Dissertation Award from the Modern Greek StudiesAssociationforherPhDdissertation,“ForYourCivilizationandOurs:Greece,Romania,andtheMakingofFrenchUniversalism,”defendedatIndianaUniversityin2016.Tipei’sworkstoodoutbecause of themanner with which she was able to present her nuanced analysis of how, toparaphraseher,FrenchuniversalismwasnotmadeinFrance,but[remade]inplaceslikeGreeceandRomania.

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BOTTONI,Stefano.LongAwaitedWest:EasternEuropesince1944.Bloomington:Indiana UniversityPress,2017.DUMITRU,Diana.TheState,Anti-Semitism,andtheCollaborationintheHolocaust:TheSoviet- RomanianBorderland.NewYork:CambridgeUniversityPress,2016.RUSU,MihaiStelian.(2017).“TransitionalPoliticsofMemory:PoliticalStrategiesofManaging thePastinPost-communistRomania,”Europe-AsiaStudies69(8):1257-1279.SORKIN,AdamJ.andDianaManole,trans.TheHunchbacks’BusbyNoraIuga.Fayetteville:Bitter OleanderPress,2016.________andIrmaGiannettiand,trans.SyllablesofFleshbyFloareaȚuțuianu.Washington,DC: Plamen Press:2017.________,MădălinaBănucu,andMagdaCârneci,trans.ADeafeningSilencebyMagdaCârneci. Bristol:ShearsmanBooks,2017. SUVEICĂ,Svetlana.“NegotiatingLoyalty.TheBessarabianGermansfromtheRussianEmpireto the Romanian Nation-State (1917-1919),” in Florian Kührer-Wielach and Markus Winkler,(eds.)Mutter:Land–Vater:Staat.LoyalitätskonPlikte,politische NeuorientierungundderErsteWeltkriegimösterreichisch-russländischenGrenzraum. VeröffentlichungendesIKGSMünchen,Band134,Regensburg,VerlagFriedrich Pustet,2017:135-152.

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________andVirgilPâslariuc.(2017)“GorodKishinëv:otzapadnojokrainyRossijskojimperiik vostochnojokraineVelikojĭRumynii”[“ChișinăuCity:BetweentheWesternbordersof theRussianEmpireandtheEasternoutskirtsofGreaterRomania”]inAleksejI. Miller,DmitrijN.Černyj,(eds.) GorodaimperiivgodyVelikojvojnyirevoljucii:sbornik statej.Moskva:Nestor- istorija:370-409.

Non-Member Publications ANDREESCU,Gabriel,DianaBotău,andOanaMăriucaConstantin,(eds.)DoctrinaInternaţională aTratăriiTrecutuluiComunist.Bucharest:EdituraC.H.Beck,2016.BAN,Cornel,LeonardSeabrooke,andSarahFreitas.(2016)"Greymatterinshadowbanking: internationalorganizationsandexpertstrategiesinglobal7inancialgovernance."Review ofInternationalPoliticalEconomy23(6):1001-1033.________.(2015)“Austerityversusstimulus?Understanding7iscalpolicychangeatthe InternationalMonetaryFundsincethegreatrecession.”Governance28(2):167-183.

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POPA,Ion.TheRomanianOrthodoxChurchandtheHolocaust.Bloomington:IndianaUniversity Press,2017.

PREDA,Caterina.ArtandPoliticsunderModernDictatorship:AComparisonofChileandRomania. London:PalgraveMacmillan,2017.

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ŞCHIOP,Adrian.Șmecherieșilumerea.Universulsocialalmanelelor.Chișinău:Cartier,2017.

TOTOK,WilliamandMacoveiElena-Irina.ȊntreMitşiBagatelizare:DespreReconsiderarea CriticăaTrecutului,IonGavrilăOgoranuşiRezistenţaArmatăAnticomunistădin România.Iaşi:Polirom,2016.

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Title:„1918–2018.Limbaşiculturaromână–structurifundamentalealeidentităţiinaţionale:evaluări,perspective”Time:26–28September2018Location:Iaşi,RomaniaTheInstituteofRomanianPhilologyhasorganizedits17thannualInternationalSymposiumincollaboration with the Cultural Association “A. Philippide.” In 2018, the annual internationalsymposiumwill consider Romanian philology within the context of the “Great Union” of theRomanian provinces in 1918, probing theways inwhich printed text contributed to nationalunity.KatherineVerderyandKeithHitchinsareservingontheboardofthisevent.

RSAA Journal Announcement TheRomanianStudiesAssociationofAmericaJournalisapeerreviewedjournalfoundedinthe United States whose main purpose is to promote Romanian Studies on the Americancontinent,aswellasaroundtheglobe.The main goal of our community of humanists is to share past and present experiences,resources, knowledge and opinions in order to create historic understanding, educate futuregenerations about Romania’s culture and traditions, and contribute to the development ofintellectualvaluesinourworld.

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