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Anglicists and Americanists Today. Facing Ideology and Its Discontents

Afis2 mic siteCelebrating 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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The English and French Departments of Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași, have the great pleasure of extending an open invitation to the third edition of our symposium for students and young researchers.

We take great pride in seeing how the seedling of tradition keeps growing, allowing for students to sound their voices and opinions, in a forum of academic peers. In an era marked by miscommunication, we place great value on opportunities that allow for fruitful repartee, away from the cumbersome entanglements of other media, in an incubator for ideas and great thinkers.

A collaboration between the Arden School of Theatre in Manchester, UK and the English Department at Alexandru Ioan Cuza University

Arden Theatre 6Between December 10 and December 13, 2018, a group of Romanian and International students from all levels (B.A, M.A and PhD) took part in Drama workshops carried out by two professors and eleven third year Theatre and Performance students from the Arden School of Theatre in Manchester, UK. This marked the second consecutive year of collaboration between the Arden School of Theatre and the English Department, giving our students the opportunity, not only to learn more about acting, but also to express themselves on stage in a joint performance played on December 13, at 3 PM, at the Luceafarul Theatre in Iasi.

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