Catedra de limba și literatura engleză și Centrul Linguaculture vă invită să participați joi, 6 aprilie 2023, în Sala Ferdinand, la Conferința Legenda Meșterului Manole - A Romanian Ballad Immured in World Literature, susținută de profesorul emerit Thomas J. Cousineau de la Washigton College, Maryland, Statele Unite ale Americii. Profesorul T.J. Cousineau este autorul a numeroase articole și cărți de specialitate în domeniul criticii literare, printre care se numără Waiting for Godot: Form in Movement (1990), Ritual Unbound: Reading Sacrifice in Modernist Fiction (2004) sau Three-part Inventions: The Novels of Thomas Bernhard (2008).
Conferința va fi susținută cu ocazia lansării volumului The Séance of Reading: Uncanny Designs in Modernist Writing și va fi moderată de conf.univ.dr. Iulia Milică.
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EXTENDED DEADLINE: Anglicists and Americanists Today. Facing Ideology and Its Discontents
Celebrating 100 Years of English and American Studies in Iasi
International conference, 8-9 May 2025, Iasi
Our contemporary world at large has undergone dramatic shifts of paradigms in the last 80 years or so. Between 1945 and 1960, most of the new states in Asia and Africa achieved at least an autonomy if not complete independence from their European colonial rulers. This situation generated a need for political and cultural (self)identification and self-determination. Decolonisation reshaped the world. In its wake, Asian, African, and Western intellectuals reshaped the cultural paradigm: Fanon, the theorists of the so-called “Subaltern Studies”, Michel Foucault’s analysis of the relation between power and knowledge, Edward Said’s groundbreaking Orientalism (1978) shook the plinth and the whole scaffolding of entrenched colonial culture. In Europe, the French upheavals of 1968, with their makeshift barricades and graffiti protests, paved the path for radical movements of restless emancipation. From France, the zest for ceaseless discontent has spread and conquered both sides of the Atlantic. The advancement of technology inspired Julian Huxley, a brother of novelist Aldous Huxley, to envisage in “Transhumanism” (1957) an era of social and cultural change, a future when humanity transcends itself. In the 21st century, Huxley’s concept of transhumanism coexists with Posthumanism and a range of other theories and movements in what looks like a cacophony of narratives and discourses.
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On the 60th anniversary of the death of C. S. Lewis, as well as the 10th year since our first Symposium, the sixth C. S. Lewis conference C. S. Lewis - the Reenchanted Academic addresses topics related to the scholarship of C. S. Lewis and his kindred spirits as members of academia: biographical particulars; vocations as literary/cultural historians and critics; specific attention to the influence of Medieval and Renaissance ages in their writing -- academic, theological, and otherwise; their perspectives on pedagogy and education (higher education in particular); their perspectives on the academic as tutor and mentor. We invite papers in the fields of literary history and criticism, cultural studies and arts studies, linguistics, aesthetics, theology, history, ethics, and education sciences, that will invite constructive dialogues between disciplines and generate constructive responses to contemporary dilemmas.
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Interculturalia 2025: Looking at the (Post)-canon to Get to Grips with the new Zeitgeist
InterCulturalia #7, an intersection of 5 languages and several fields, organised by the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures in partnership with the Faculty of Geography and Geology, the Faculty of Law and the University of Medicine and Pharmacy ”Grigore T. Popa” of Iaşi took place on the 11th and 12th of April this year.
Despite the chilly weather, its spirit was as enthusiastic as ever. The topic of interrogating centers, margins and norms in the age of the (post)-canon challenged the participants and the keynote speakers to look into it and chart a vast and complex territory through interdisciplinary methods. In the German Studies, the literary canon and xenotransplantation were tackled together. Thus, the humanities and the medical sciences engaged in a dialogue.
Afaceri cu Litere: întâlniri cu absolvente remarcabile în luna martie
În luna martie, Catedra de engleză a avut onoarea de a organiza și găzdui, prin reprezentantele sale, dr. Sorina Ciobanu și dr. Alexandra Vrînceanu, o serie de întâlniri cu absolvente remarcabile, care au reușit să își construiască afaceri și cariere de succes cu... Litere. Ne-am dorit să sărbătorim succesul feminin și totodată să le oferim posibile modele de reușită și determinare studentelor și studenților noștri. Fiecare dintre întâlniri a fost la fel de remarcabilă ca protagonista ei și ne-a arătat o nouă față a vieții și succesului după Litere.
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Elena Cuvinciuc-Aviv, traducătoare și fondatoarea uneia dintre cele mai longevive firme de traduceri din Iași, Eurocontact, ne-a captivat cu energia și optimismul ei, care au ajutat-o să se reinventeze continuu, atât pe plan personal, cât și în afaceri. Elena nu a plecat fără să ne spună că „Viața e prea scurtă pentru a fi banal”, îndemnându-ne să avem curajul de a încerca lucruri noi și de a gândi creativ, de a nu rămâne blocați în situații aparent fără ieșire.
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