1.Ana Olos, PhD, Associate
professor: Canadian Studies in English , 2-semester courses (
undergraduate level) and a 1-semester
course in Canadian Literature ( undergraduate level).
Book: How Nice to Meet Findley Angry, Wald Press, Timisoara, 2000.
Articles
published:
1. Cheyne Walk between
Findley’s Pilgrim and Woolf’s Orlando, in Studii de Limbi si Literaturi Moderne, Editura Mirton, Timisoara, p.296-306
2. The Call of the East in Myrna Kostash’s Bloodlines,
in Buletin Stiintific, Universitatea
de Nord, Seria A, vol. 14, Limbi Moderne, Baia Mare 2000, p. 141- 154
Papers presented at conferences
1. 21-24 March, Findley’s
Human Rights Watch, at “Living between Borders: Construction of Gender,
Ethnicity, Race, Class and Sexuality along the Centuries, “Al. I. Cuza”
University, Iasi
2. 17-19 May, Findley’s
Approach to History, at North University - Baia Mare
3. 1-2 June, Nature and Camp in Findley’s Work,
at Bucharest University
4. 24-25 October, The Medium and the Message at
September 11, “Dunãrea de Jos” University, Galaþi
5. 26-29 October, Intertextuality and Interdisciplinarity in
Marshall McLuhan’s Media Books, at the
2nd International Conference of Central European Canadianist, Bucureºti
2.Dana Puiu, Ph D, senior lecturer:Canadian Studies in French : a 2-semester9 undergraduate level); a
1-semester course in Canadian Literature ( undergraduate level).
Articles published:
1. Le bilinguisme comme
frustration identitaire dans la Literature Canadienne francophone, in Buletin Stiintific, Universitatea de
Nord, Seria A, vol. 15, Limbi Moderne, Baia Mare, 2001
Papers presented
Theatre sur le teatrum
mundi canadien francophone, 2nd
International Conference of Central European Canadianists, Bucharest 26-28 Oct.
Project
to edit a bilingual collection of articles : Identity and Alterity in
Modern Canadian Literature
3.Horea Nascu, Assistant lecturer: seminars in
Canadian Literature9 undergraduate level)
Papers presented
- On Leonard Cohen’s poetry in Italy, May 2001
- Leonard Cohen: Reasons to Kill,
2nd International Conference of Central
European Canadianist, Bucharest, October 2001
3. Attendance of the Grainau conference of the German
Association of Canadian Studies
VISITING
LECTURERS The Canadian Studies Centre
was visited by Professor Joella Gipson, Canadian citizen, but working in an
American university, who has a contract with our university to teach
methodology. She talked to our students about Windsor, the town where she
lives. She has left a gift of 6 books of Canadian fiction and promised to send
over some other books from Canada. She is going to return in May, 2002.
II.
UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST
1.
Irina Badescu, Ph.D, Professor, Director of the Canadian Studies Centre,
Director of Studies for the Canadian Studies
MA Program:
1-semester course
in French Canadian literature and civilisation on the
CS MA program; 1-semester course on
Quebecois literature and civilisation on the Francophone Studies MA program;
Paper for the 2nd International Conference of Central European Canadianists:
Representations de la communaute- representations de l’individu dans la
litterature quebecoise contemporaine.
Organiser of 2nd
ICCEC
Recipient of class sets
in Sept. 2001
2. Monica Bottez, PhD, Associate Professor,
member for Romania of the Steering Committee of the Central European Network
for Canadian Studies: 1-semester course on English Canadian literature and
civilisation on the CS MA program;
1-semester course on North American
Intercultural Aspects of English Canadian Literature on the American
Studies MA program; 1-semester course on De-scribing
the Empire on the British Cultural Studies MA program, 50% on Canadian
literature.
Organiser of 2nd
ICCEC
-Transylvanian Bears in Canadian and Romanian Short Fiction, University of Bucharest Review , 5, 2000.
- Paper in the published proceedings of the 1st International Conference of CE Canadianists, Brno.
- Mythological Time in Tay John , English Dept. Conference, UB, 2-4 June 2001,
-
Individual and Community in Howard
O’Hagan’s Tay John and Sheila
Watson’s The Double Hook, 2nd ICCEC, Bucharest,Oct. 2001
Lecture tour in Germany-May 2001; lectures on Margaret
Laurence, H.O’Hagan, Sheila Watson, Vanderhaeghe at the Unversities of Marburg,
Cologne, Kiel, Trier.
3.
Mihai Coman, PhD,
Professor: 1-semester course on the
anthropology of communication on the CS MA
Paper at the 2nd ICCEC : Un regard
sociologique sur le travail des journalistes- les recherches canadiennes.
4.Ion Dragan, PhD, Professor : 1-semester
course on Canadian civilisation and new
technologies on the CS MA program
Recipient of class sets in Sept. 2001
Paper at the 2nd
ICCEC, with MA student Ana –Maria Petre:L’utilisation d’Internet en tant que
moyen de communication interculturelle roumano-canadienne.
5.Daniela
Frumusani, Ph.D., Codirector of Studies:1-semester course on the CS MA program, on Women, Mass-Media and Canadian Society.
On the Organising Committee
of 2nd ICCEC
Books in collaboration with
Cana dian and Romanian researchers::
> 1. Daniela Roventa-Frumusani & D. Romain Gaudreault,
> Pour connaitre la> science
des signes, Editura Fundatiei Meridian,2001, the following chapters:>
"La theorie francaise du signe apres Suasure"- Marie
> Renoue, France;> "Evenements et narration" -Romain
Gaudreault, Canada;
> "La semiotique theatrale"- Daniela> Roventa-Frumusani,
Roumanie
> "presentation de la semiotique peirceenne"-Bernard
> Favreault & Francois> Latraverse, Canada
Ø 2. Ion Dragan (editor):
La Communication du> politique,
Paris> l'Harmattan, 1998
Ø Articles and Papers at Conferences
Ø Contribution to the
Radio –Canada program Regards croises- 21 oct 2001, an interview on Marc
Angenot’s last publication
Ø Presentation at the 2nd
ICCEC: La construction identitaire feminine dans la presse ecrite canadienne et
roumaine
Ø Paper included in the
publication of the Proceedings of the 1st ICCEC, Brno,1998
Ø DFAIT research grant for the project "L'image
de la femme dans la presse ecrite roumaine et canadienne", 2001
6.Adina Ruiu, instructor, Secretary of 2nd ICCEC
Paper at the Conference of the French Association of CS, May 2001
Paper at 2nd ICCEC: Honte et denegation de sois au Quebec et
en Roumanie- le debat intellecuel des annes 1990
7.Sorina Voiculescu,
PhD,Lecturer: University of Timisoara: package course on the Geography of Canada
Visiting professors from Canada and Germany
delivered courses on Multiculturalism and Interethnic relations, and supervised
dissertations: Prof. Gina Stoiciu (UQAM),
Prof. Donna Patrick( Brock U.), Prof. Konrad Gross( U.of Kiel).
Students chose to write 10 MA
dissertations and 2 diploma papers with Canadian subjects.
Other students who presented papers at the 2nd ICCEC:
Mihaela Precup, Aura Deacu- Munteanu
II. “Babes –Bolyai”
UNIVERSITY , CLUJ-NPOCA
1. Liviu Cotrau, PhD, Professor : 1-semester course on
Canadian poetry,for 4th year students( undergraduate level)
Paper at 2nd ICCEC:
Separatism and the politics of multiculturalism in Canada
Current project: Translation of a
selection of English Canadian poets
2.Octavian More, teaching assistant.
Paper at 2nd
ICCEC: Parlez-vous Canadien? Issues of the Past, and Perspectives of the Future
3. Mihaela Mudure, PhD,
Associate Professor.
One chapter on Canadian
Multiculturalism in book entitled Coveting Multiculturalism.
Cluj:NapocaStar, 2000
Articles:
The Poetics of Margaret Atwood's Dystopia. Studia Universitas
Babes-Bolyai, nr. 3-4/1996.
Article on The English Patient,
a parallel between book and film version , “Micuta fraza.” Convorbiri literare, June, 2000.
Organiser, with Prof. Voichita –Maria Sasu , of Workshop on the topic La prose canadienne , May 4 ,2001.
4. Maria Petrut, lecturer at the Faculty of Economics, Dept. of Foreign Languages,
defended her doctoral thesis entitled Tradition
and Experiment in the Postwar Canadian Novel,
in Sept. 2001
4. Voichita-Maria Sasu, PhD, Professor, Director of CS
Centre: lectures on French Canadian literature on the Francophone Literatures MA
program
Organiser of the workshop
mentioned above.
Organiser of cycle of lectures given by Professors Gilles Dorion and Ljiljana Matic,
April 2001
Paper at 2nd
ICCEC:Feminisme et postmodernisme- Louky Bersianik et France Theoret.
Reykjavik, Iceland,2001( proceedings of 1999 NACS Conference)
Translation of excerpt from Eva Le Grand, Kundera ou la memoire du recit,
Cartea romaneasca May- June 2001, no 5-6
1. Constantin Pavel, PhD, Professor, Director of the
Canadian Studies Center: 1-semester course in French Canadian literature ( Francophone Studies MA
program)
Paper at 2nd ICCEC:Federalistes
et independentistes dans la litterature quebecoise contemporaine
2.Maria
Pavel, PhD, Professor, 1-sem. course on
the French language in Canada
(MA level)
Paper at 2nd
ICCEC: Batardise et acculturation au Quebec
2. Rodica Albu, PhD, Professor, 1-sem course on
Varieties of Present Day English
(MA level)
Papers
-2nf ICCEC: English in Canada- Canadian Representations of Language and Identity
-
-paper at
the Inernational Conference for the Study of Variants of English,Freiburg, June
2001);
- - paper at the 29 th International Conference of Functional -Systemic Linguistics, Ottawa, July,2001
-
4.Victoria
Chicus , MA, instructor
Paper at 2nd ICCEC: Politique linguistique au Quebec
3.
Florin Eduard Irimia, MA, instructor.
Paper at 2nd
ICCEC: Canadian and American Traits in
Leonard Cohen’s Beautiful Losers
-has started working on Doctoral thesis on Canadian postmodernism
Article “ Changing Worlds” on L. Cohen in Cultural Observer
Visiting Professors
Danielle
FOURNIER – poet, essay writer, teacher of literature at the
“Jean – de – Brébeuf “
college of Montreal, gave 3 lectures- on French Canadian literature, on the
present language ,culture and civilisation of Quebec, and on the teaching of
literature at Canadian universities.
Her program
, organised by the CS Center of the AIC University, also included a Poetry
Evening at the french Cultural Center,
one lecture at the Lower Danube University of Galati, 2 lectures at the Tomis University of
Contanta, a lecture at the Alliance francaise in Costanta, and a visit to the
“Carmen Silva “ highschool in Constanta
6 MA dissertations with Canadian Content (Politiques
linguistiques au Québec ; “Réflexions
linguistiques chez les écrivans québécois”; “Diversité dans l ´espace francophone. L´exemple du
Canada ”; Le franco – québécois. Passé et présent ”; “Réjean
Ducharme et l´obsession de la pureté”; “Les anglicismes en québécois”).
4 lectures: Dcember
2001(Maria Pavel), January 2002 (Cristina Petraº), February (Constantin Pavel
and Victoria Chicuº)
Journée du Québec (in March), on interdisciplinary
topics: history, language, literature,
civilisation, political sciences.
1.Ecaterina–Lia Hantiu, PhD,
Associate Professor;1-sem optional course on English Canadian
literature, undergraduate level
Paper at 2nd ICCEC: Women and the Modern World in M.Atwood’s
Novels
VI.“LUCIAN BLAGA” UNIVERSITY
OF SIBIU
1. Lucia Zaharescu, lecturer: 1-sem. optional
course on Features of the French
spoken in Canada, undergraduate level
Project a new 1-sem optional course
on French Canadian Civilisation (undegraduate level)
Paper at 2nd
ICCEC: Identité, norme et
lexicologie au Québec
2. Horia Capusan, lecturer at the University of Cluj-
Napoca: 1-sem.
optional course on French
Canadian Literature, undergraduate level (initiated and delivered until this
year by Prof Dr. Voichita -.Maria Sasu).
3. Anamaria Enescu, instructor, studies and does
research in French Canadian literature in order to take the exam to be admitted to a doctoral program this field .
She participated in the 2nd ICCEC
1.Margareta Gyurcsik,
PhD,Professor –1-sem. MA course L'identité culturelle francophone - le modèle
québécois; lectures on Modernité/postmodernité québécoise within the
undergraduate course on Francophone literatures.
Paper at 2nd ICCEC: Une
romanciere acadienne fin de siecle- France Daigle.