Country report - Romania

May 2004 – December 2004

1.	New courses and new centres

North University Baia Mare

- a two-year MA programme in Canadian Studies since October 2004 (Director: Ana Olos; Deputy Director: Dana Puiu)

University of Bucharest

- the Canadian Studies Centre was given a room of its own, which was officially opened on 3 December 2004 in the presence of the Canadian Ambassador.

2.Conference organization and participation

14th British and American Studies Conference, Univ. of the West, 13-15 May, Timisoara
 - Ana Olos (University of the North, Baia Mare), “Two ‘Subpassionary’ Canadian Writers”

Colloque International de Grammaire Comparé des variétés de français d’Amérique, 16-20 May, Avignon, France
- Maria Pavel (Univeresity of Iasi), “Régionalismes grammaticaux en ‘chiac’. Témoignage de Régis Brun”
- Cristina Petras (Univeresity of Iasi), “Valeurs pragmatiques du code-switching au niveau des connecteurs dans un corpus de français acadien”
- Ioana Grecu (Univeresity of Iasi), “La corruption linguistique chez Réjean Ducharme”

“Les premières nations/First Nations”: Atelier/workshop du Centre d’Etudes Canadiennes et Québécoises, 1 June, Cluj
- Simona Ferent (University of Cluj-Napoca), “L’Indien comme figure discursive”

Conference on “The Secret and the Known”, Faculty of Foreign Languages, 2-4 June, Bucharest 
- Ana Olos (University of the North, Baia Mare), “Timothy Findley’s Purloined Secret” 
Oana Godeanu (University of Bucharest), “Inventing the Secret of the Other -Strategies of Reading in Carol Shields’s Swan”

Conférence, 30 September - 1 October, Limoges, France 
- Voichita-Maria Sasu (University of Cluj-Napoca), “Chants du royaume perdu et de l’errance” (Emile Ollivier et René Depestre)

13th European Seminar for Graduate Students in Canadian Studies, 7-9 October, Szeged, Hungary
- Oana Godeanu (University of Bucharest), “British Colonialism in 19th Century North America – Identity and Otherness in Early Canadian Fiction”
- Izabela Silvestru (University of Bucharest), “Metamorphoses of the Native Trickster Figure”

Romanian Society for English and American Studies, International Conference “Cultural Matrix Reloaded”, 8-10 October, Galati
- Rodica Albu (University of Iasi), “Notes on Present Day Canadian English Usage Focus on Noun Phrases”

Canada in the European Mind II, 21-23 October, Debrecen, Hungary 
- Ana Olos (University of the North, Baia Mare), “Ewoclem, the Word on the   Doormat” 
- Oana Godeanu (University of Budapest), “Canada and Romania – spaces of interference”
- Dana Puiu (University of the North, Baia Mare), “Europe versus Canada. Nancy Huston du monologue au dialogue”  

Colloque CRILCQ Jeunes Chercheurs, 3-4 November, Univ. Laval Québec, Canada
- Denisa Oprea  (University of Cluj-Napoca),“La vie de trop : l’Amérique décadente dans les romans de Lise Tremblay”

 Groupe de Recherche Espaces Francophones (GREF), décembre 2005, Iasi
- Camelia Grosu (étudiante, Université d’Iasi ), “L’aménagement linguistique du Québec et la literature”
	
3. Academic publications

Books
– Ana Olos (University of the North, Baia Mare), ‘Twas Nice to Meet Findley Angry, Baia Mare, Editura Universitatii de Nord, 2004 (228 p.)
- Monica Bottez (University of Bucharest), Infinite Horizons: Canadian Fiction in English, Bucharest, Univ. of Bucharest Press, 2004 (258 p.)

Articles 

University of the North, Baia Mare

Ana Olos, “Identity in the Global Village According to McLuhan”, in  Construction of Identity, Cluj-Napoca, Napoca Star, 2004, p. 321-330.

Ana Olos, “Canadian non-fiction writer Myrna Kostash and feminism”, in Gender Studies, Timisoara, Editura Universitatii de Vest,2004, p.213-228.

Ana Olos, “Rereading Marshall McLuhan”, in Euresis (cahier roumain d’études littéraires et culturelles), 1 sept. 2004, p. 9-18.

Ana Olos “Interviu electronic cu Eugen Giurgiu”, in Nord literar, nr. 7-8, iulie-aug.,2004, p.13-14.

Ana Olos, “Canadianul Stephen Henighan despre Provincia pierduta”, in Nord literar, nr.11, nov. 2004, p.13.

University of Iasi

Florin Irimia, “Excentricitate la puterea a doua” [“Double Ex-centricity”], article on the translation into Romanian of Michael Ondaatje’s In the Skin of a Lion, in Observator cultural, nr. 229/2004.

Florin Irimia, “In barca cu un tigru” [In a boat with a Tiger], an article on the translation into Romanian of Yann Martel’s Life of Pi, in Observator cultural nr. 239/2004.

University of Cluj-Napoca

Denisa Oprea, “Martine Desjardins, L’Elu du hazard”, in Québec français, 134 (été 2004), p. 19

Mihaela Mudure, “Notes of Canadian Literature (I)”, in Tribuna, 1-15 Aug. 2004

Mihaela Mudure, “Notes of Canadian Literature (II), in Tribuna, 16-31 Aug. 2004

Voichita-Maria Sasu, “Féminisme et postmodernisme: Louky Bersianik et France Théoret”, in L’Individuel et la communauté: le Canada au 20e s., Brno, Masaryk Univ.Press, 2004

Voichita-Maria Sasu, “La Trans-Identité: le cas de C. Stoiciu”, in Canada in the Sign of Migration and Trans-Culturalism/ Le Canada sous le signe de la migration et du transculturalisme, Wien,  Peter Lang, 2004

Voichita-Maria Sasu, “Sergio Kokis, ‘citoyen du monde’”, in Trans-Internet, Zeitschrift fur Kulturwissenschaften, no. 15, Aug. 2004

University of Bucharest

Adina Ruiu, “Du ‘sauvage’ au ‘bon néophyte’: le parcours d’une ‘curiosité légitime’”, in Canada in the Sign of Migration and Trans-Culturalism/ Le Canada sous le signe de la migration et du transculturalisme, Wien,  Peter Lang, 2004

4. Visiting lecturers

University of Bucharest

Prof. Daniel Chartier, UQAM, 6-10 December, an intensive course for the MA students on “Le pluriculturalisme au Québec”

5. Grants

University of Bucharest

Oana Godeanu – July 2004 – CEU Summer school on “Cosmologies of History –The Symbolic Organization of Time”, Central Europe University Budapest, Hungary; project on “Cosmologies of New Cultures – the Construction of the Mythical Past in 19th Century North America: Canada vs. USA”

6. Young Canadianists 

University of Cluj-Napoca
MA thesis by Simona Ferent on “Angéline de Montbrun de Laure Conan et  d’Anne Hébert”, defended in June 2004

University of Bucharest 
- 9 MA theses were successfully defended in September 2004: Bejan Viorica, Bocancea Oana, Gheorghe Florentina, Icatoiu Ana Maria, Nicolae Roxana, Tioc Andreea, Silvestru Izabela, Sandu Cristina. 

9. Other

Two workshops took place at the University of Cluj-Napoca, organized by Le Centre d’Etudes Canadiennes et Québécoises/Centre for Canadian and Quebec Studies Cluj-Napoca, V.-M. Sasu and M. Mudure. The first, on 1 June, was devoted to “Les premières nations/First Nations”, the second, on 9 December, to “Canada et la colonisation/ Canada and colonization”.