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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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Anunțuri / Announcements

Stanciu UAIC TalkJoi, 24 mai, de la ora 14.00, la Catedra de Engleză, toți cei interesați de istoria Statelor Unite și a cinematografiei, dar și de studiile culturale în general sunt invitați să participe la prelegerea cu titlul Spectacular Nationalism: Immigrants on the Silver Screen, Americanization and the Picture Show 1903-1920, susținută de dr. Cristina Stanciu, conferențiar la Virginia Commonwealth University, S.U.A.

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Afis Conf Did micSâmbătă, 19 mai, începând cu ora 9.00, în Laboratorul B, toți cei interesați de predarea limbii engleze sunt invitați să participe la cea de-a V-a ediție a Conferinței Anuale a Studenților de la Masteratul de Lingvistică aplicată - Didactica limbii engleze, organizată de Catedra de limba și literatura engleză sub coordonarea prof.dr. Anca Cehan. În acest an, la eveniment vor participa și masteranzi de la Universitatea Yuryi Fedkovych din Cernăuți, Ucraina.

Programul prezentărilor poate fi consultat aici.

 

 

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