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Posts tagged as “Romania”

Spring Weekend: I Hope I Wouldn’t Meet Myself Today

[4th Floor] Rehearsal for Truth Theater Festival’s Spring Weekend presents “I Hope I Wouldn’t Meet Myself Today,” a play by Romanian writer Herta Muller, Nobel Prize recipient, set in Eastern Europe before the fall of the Berlin Wall. Lili, the main character, works in a Romanian factory making fine men’s overcoats for export to Italy. Her love life is a…

Romanian Voices in a Transcultural Dialogue

Please join the Harriman Institute and the East Central European Center for a talk organized by the N. Iorga Chair for Romanian Language and Culture Dr. Mona Momescu with Dr. Catalina Florina Florescu, editor of the volume Transnational Narratives in Englishes of Exile (Lexington Books, 2017), and Dr. Maria-Sabina Draga Alexandru, a contributor to the volume and Vice President of the Romanian Studies Association of America. On Transnational Narratives in Englishes…

Why 1989 Still Matters: Post-communist Rhetoric, Romanian Discourse and European Identity as Public Arguments of Democracy

Please join the East Central European Center, the Romanian Cultural Institute, New York, and the Harriman Institute for a talk with Dr. Noemi Marin, School of Communication and Multimedia Studies, Florida Atlantic University. Dr. Marin will present on the pre- and post-1989 political discourse in Romania, Eastern Europe, and the United States, drawing on the volume she recently co-edited with…