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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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Afis europa2018 micMarți, 22 mai 2018, de la ora 14.00, toți studenții și absolvenții interesați de o carieră în cadrul instituțiilor europene sunt invitați să participe la întâlnirea cu titlul Pregătirea absolvenților români pentru instituțiile europene. La manifestarea organizată de Catedra de limba și literatura engleză în cadrul Săptămânii europene la UAIC vor participa CARMEN TOMA, reprezentantă a Comisiei Europene în România și CAMELIA GHEORGHIEŞ, absolventă a Masteratului de Traducere UAIC și traducătoare la European Court of Auditors, Luxemburg. Organizată sub coordonarea Prof.dr. Rodica DIMITRIU, întâlnirea va avea loc în amfiteatrul III.12

 

siglaULBSalbLucian Blaga University of Sibiu, the Faculty of Letters and Arts and the Alumni Organization are proud to announce a new edition of the PHILOLOGICAL AND CULTURAL STUDIES INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE FOR YOUNG RESEARCHERS to be held in Sibiu, 4-­‐6 October 2018.
This year’s theme is Playfulness in Language, Literature, Education, and the Media. Papers are invited in the following fields:

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