Pittsburgh Romanian Studies
University of Pittsburgh,
October 21-22, 2005
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FRIDAY OCTOBER 21, 5:00-7:00 p.m.
3703 Posvar
Hall
Keynote
Address: Remembering & Forgetting
Around the Black Sea
Charles King,
Ion Raţiu Chair of Romanian Studies, Georgetown University
SATURDAY
OCTOBER 22,
4130
Posvar Hall
Tales of Heroes & Cities
9-10:15
Mihnea Vasilescu The Art of Remembering
and the Politics of Forgetting: Commemorating the 1989 Revolution in
Timişoară & Bucharest
Elizabeth
Anderson Making Patriots or Citizens? History Education and Challenges to Education for Democratic
Citizenship in the Republic of Moldova
Alexander Vari Globalizing Cities in Eastern Europe: The Trope of Paris in
Budapest and Bucharests Urban Marketing
Discourses, 1879-1940
Discussant: Gregor Thum
Nationalism & Its Fragments 10:30-12:00
Ionaş Rus The Rise of
Moldovan-Romanian Nationalism in Bessarabia
(1900-1917) and Its Legacy
Rebecca Chamberlain Creangă Identity & Imaginings of the State
in the Self-Proclaimed Transnistrian Moldovan
Republic
Cătălina Gurăgata What
Kind of Nationalism for the Republic
of Moldova?
Hülya Demirdirek How
Collectivities Do Not Remember: Institutionalization of Power and Memory in Gagauzia
Discussant: Robert
Hayden
The Places of Memory 1:30-2:45
Maria Bucur Gender,
Religion, and Collective Memory in 20th Century Transylvania
Ludmila Cojocari Places
of Memory and Identity Constructs in the Republic of Moldova:
The May 9, 2005 Celebration
Andreea Deciu Ritivoi Competing Memories:
Constructing the Nation’s Cathedral in Postcommunist
Romania
Discussant: Kirk
Savage
(Re)Writing the Past:
Communism, the Jews
& the Holocaust 3-4:30
Dmitry Tartakovsky Communism, Judaism, and Anti-Romanianism
in Romanian Bessarabia: Holocaust Memory in
Moldovan National Identity Construction
Vladimir Solonari History, Politics and the Holocaust: The Annihilation of Bessarabian
Jewry during World War II in
Moldovan History Writing
Kate Sorrels Nothing but Communist Propaganda: The Encounter between
Romanian Police and Jewish Activists
in Interwar Bessarabia
Discussant: Christian
Gerlach
Film: 5-6:30
This Country and
that Other Country by Monica Heintz
and Alin Rus.
Co-sponsors: University of Pittsburgh A & S
Dean’s Office, UCIS, the Department of History, REES, Cultural Studies,
Department of Anthropology, Department of Political Science; and the English
Department at Carnegie Mellon University.