Appendix 7

country report – romania

April 2003 – October 2003

1. New courses and new centres

.

University of Bucharest

- The History of Canada (for Canadian Studies MA students; Anton Caragea,

Faculty of History)

Al. I.Cuza University, Iasi

- English in Canada (as part of the course of lectures entitled Varieties of

Present-day English; Rodica Albu, Faculty of Letters)

University of Suceava

- Littérature et civilization québécoises (Elena-Bradusa Steiciuc) - a small new

Centre de documentation en littérature québécoise (CDLQ), for students

preparing their diploma papers.

West University of Timisoara

- Le roman québécois postmoderne (Margareta Gyurcsik)

2. Conferences, conference participation

Conference on “Tradition, Modernity, and Postmodernity”, 26-19 March

2003, University of Iasi, Romania

- Oana Godeanu, “Stereotyping Otherness in M. Laurence’s The Diviners”

Journées de la Francophonie, March 2003, Iasi, Romania

- Maria Pavel (University of Iasi), “Norme et imaginaire sociolinguistique au

Québec”

International Conference of English and American Studies, Al. I. Cuza

University, April 2003, Iasi, Romania

- Rodica Albu (A. I. Cuza University, Iasi), “On some American verb forms in

American English. Focus on Canada”

Annual conference of the North University of Baia Mare, 29-30 April

- Ana Olos, “Communications in Ondaatje’s In the Skin of a Lion”

- Dana Puiu, “Transfeminism dans le roman canadien”

- Horea Nascu – paper on Leonard Cohen

13^th British and American Studies Conference, 17-19 May, University of

Timisoara, Romania

- Ana Olos (University of Baia Mare), “Myrna Kostash, Canadian Feminist”

Conference on “L’Exil - espace de la parole”, 23-25 May 2003, Babes-Bolyai

University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania (organized by Voichita-Maria Sasu)

- Denisa Oprea (University of Cluj), “Vintila Horia, Dieu est né en exil, le
chemin vers le centre”

- Anamaria Enescu (University of Sibiu), “Errance, mémoire et identité dans

l’oeuvre de Sergio Kokis”

Conference of Applied Linguistics, 29 May - 2 June, Eforie

- Ana Olos (North University of Baie Mare), “Hyphenated Canadians’

Relationship with the English Language”

Workshop on “Le Voyage (Marie-Claire Blais, Alain Grandbois, Gabrielle Roy,

Margaret Atwood)”, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 3

June (organized by Voichita-Maria Sasu)

Conference on “Sites of Memory”, 5-7 June, English Department, University of

Bucharest

- Monica Bottez, “The Puritan Legacy in Margaret Laurence’s The Stone Angel”

Conference on globalization, 13-19 July, Ovidius University, Constanta,

Romania

- Ana Olos (University of Baia Mare) “Marshall McLuhan Revisited”

“Anti-Conference –Nesses and –Isms”, English Department conference, 18-21

September, Ovidius University, Constanta, Romania

- Ana Olos (University of Baia mare), “Canadianness and Canadian

Nationalism

- Oana Godeanu (Spiru Haret University, Bucharest), “The mechanisms of

ethnic humour in the North American Space”

Conference on “Communication in Multicultural and Plurilingual Spaces”,

Edition VII, 2-5 October 2003, Cernauti, Ukraine

- Maria Pavel (University of Iasi), “Bilinguisme ‘quotidian’ au Québec”

- Constantin Pavel (University of Iasi), “Le modèle français dans l’espace

canadien français”

- E.B.Steiciuc (University of Suceava), “L’identité québécoise à travers

quelques classiques du roman: Louis Hémon, Ringuet, Gabrielle Roy”

“Other Language: Otherness in Canadian Culture” – 1^st International

Conference of Canadian Studies, 18-20 October, Belgrade, Serbia

- Monica Bottez (University of Bucharest), “Othering Japanese Canadians”

- Oana Godeanu, “Canadian identity before the Confederation: The case of

Susanna Moodie, Th. Ch. Haliburton and John Richardson”

- Ana Olos (North University of Baia Mare), “Representations of Canada by

Hyphenated Canadian Writers”

- Voichita-Maria Sasu (University of Cluj-Napoca), “Comprendre l'autre: Le

Coeur decouvert de Michel Tremblay”

Congrès européen des études québécoises: “Le Québec au miroir de

l’Europe”, 23-25 October 2003, Paris, France

- Ioana Grecu (University of Iasi), “La boulimie du désespoir dans le roman

L’Avalée des avalés de Réjean Ducharme”

- Margareta Gyurcsik (West University of Timisoara), “Le roman québécois

contemporain - voyage au bout de l’écriture”

- Maria Pavel (University of Iasi), “Guerre et paix des langues au Québec”

3. Academic publications

Ana Olos, “Human Rights Watch, Nature and Camp in Findley’s Not Wanted on the Voyage”, in Living between and on Borders: Constructions of Gender, Ethnicity, Race, Class and Sexuality along the Centuries, Universitas, XXI, Iasi, 2003, ISBN: 973-8344-23-9, p. 324-334.

Ana Olos, “Hyphenated Canadian’s Relationship with the English Language and Their Mother Tongue as it Appears from Myrna Kostash’s Work”, in La Langue et les parlants - Language and its users - Limba si vorbitorii. Edited by Tatiana Slama-Cazacu, Editura Arvin Press, Bucuresti / Bucharest, 2003, ISBN: 973- 7966- 06-6, p. 123- 139.

Ana Olos, “Myrna Kostash’s Non-Fiction on Hyphenated Canadian Identity”, in Identity and Alterity in Canadian Literature - Identité et Altérité dnas la litterature canadienne. Edited by Universitatea de Nord Canadian Studies Centre, Editor Dana Puiu, Risoprint, Cluj-Napoca, 2003, ISBN 973-656-405-3, p. 181-201

Dana Puiu, ed., Identity and Alterity in Canadian Literature - Identité et Altérité dans la litterature canadienne. Universitatea de Nord Baia Mare, Canadian Studies Centre, Risoprint, Cluj-Napoca, ISBN 973-656-405-3.

- “Pré-face.../ Pre-face”, p. IX-XXXIII; “En guise de Post-face / Afterword”, p. 277-280; “Théâtre québécois ‘de gustibus et coloribus’ Gratien Gélinas, André Major, Michel Tremblay, Marcel Dubé”, p. 265-276.

Horea Nascu, “Leonard Cohen: Ten New Songs and Revisiting Notions of Freedom”, in Identité et Altérité dans la litterature canadienne. Universitatea de Nord Baia Mare, Canadian Studies Centre, Risoprint, Cluj-Napoca, ISBN 973-656-405-3, p. 171-180.

Irina Badescu, “We Acadians are the salmon swimming upstream”, Euphorion, Sibiu, Oct. 2003.

Monica Bottez, “Hyphenated Identity: Joy Kogawa‘s Obasan”, University of Bucharest Review, no 3-4, 2002 (came out June 2003).

Voichita-Maria Sasu, “Le Coffre a jouets de Dyane Leger”, in Dalhousie French Studies, 2003, vol. 62, p. 63-73.

Voichita-Maria Sasu, “L’exil heureux (Nancy Huston)” in Euphorion (Sibiu), Oct. 2003.

Denisa Oprea, “Jacques Poulin - invitatie la tandrete- /invitation a la tendresse”,

in Echinox, 7-8-9, 2002 (only came out this year)

Maria Pavel, “Approche différentielle du français canadien. Franco-québécois et franco-acadien,” in Actes du colloque La Francophonie: espace ou frontières, March 20-23 2002, Iasi University Press, 2003, pp. 375-383.

Victoria Chicus, “Français québécois. Variété nationale ou français régional?”, in Ibidem, pp. 383-391.

Veronica Grecu, “Variation syntaxique:français québécois-français standard”, in Ibidem, pp. 391-398.

Florin Irimia, “Leonard Cohen in limba romana”/Cohen in Romanian”, in Observator cultural/Cultural Observer, no. 185/2003.

4. Visiting lecturers

North University Baia Mare

- Canadian intern Theresa Way- Lun Ho spent 6 months at the Canadian Studies Centre, taught seminars and organised a Speech Contest for students and pupils on Canadian themes

University of Bucharest

- Donna Patrick (Brock University), two-week compact course on Inuit

communities, March 2003

- Konrad Gross (University of Kiel), two-week compact course on

Multiculturalism in Canada, March 2003

- Markus Kaim (University of Jena), one-week course on Canadian Foreign

Policy, April 2003

- Marlene Colette, one-week course on the Canadian political system, April

2003

- Irina Badescu, lecture tour to Germany, May 2003: Universities of Kiel and

Trier; round-table discussion at University of Saarbrucken

- Daniel Chartier (Université du Québec à Montréal): “Le Nord dans la

littérature québécoise”, 27-31 October 2003.

University of Cluj

- Claude Filteau (Limoges) – MA course on Quebec literature (Anne Hebert

and Gaston Miron)

University of Iasi

- Zellie Guével, Laval University, Québec, “Les problèmes de la traduction

juridique”, 17 March 2003

Lecture tour by Danielle Forget (University of Ottawa) to the Universities of

Sibiu, Cluj-Napoca, Iasi and Suceava, February – March 2003, a project

initiated and organised by Lucia Zaharescu, lecturer at the Department of

French and Francophone Studies, Lucian Blaga University, Sibiu, with the

financial support of the Canadian Embassy in Bucharest.

5. Grants

Grants at the J.F. Kennedy Institute, Berlin, for Oana Godeanu (Spiru Haret

University, Bucharest) to do research into the construction of 18^th century Canadian identity, and to Anamaria Enescu (University of Sibiu).

FEP grant to Elena-Brânduşa Steiciuc (University of Suceava); FRP grant to Voiculescu Mircea (Univ. of Timisoara)

6. Young Canadianists

University of Bucharest

- 13 MA dissertations successfully defended in September 2003: English-Canadian literature (6), Metis identity (1), Jewish immigration (1), Quebec studies (2), feminist issues in Canadian media (2), e-mail security (1).

North University of Baia Mare

- Supervision of 17 graduation papers on Canadian topics.

University of Cluj

- 3 MA dissertations (Gabrielle Roy, Hubert Aquin, Noel Audet)

- Denisa Oprea admitted as doctoral student at Laval University, Quebec, in September 2003, working on a thesis feminism

University of Iasi

- 2 diploma papers

- Florin Irimia, doctoral candidate, presented two papers, “Blurred Identities in Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient” and “Subverting and Enforcing Kroetsch’s What the Crow Said”

- Cristina Petras, joint doctoral supervision University of Iasi – University of Avignon, presented a paper on “Les emprunts et la dynamique linguistique. L’exemple acadien”.

University of Suceava

- 2 diploma papers

- MA thesis by Iulia Estera Tabarcea on Traductions de Gabrielle Roy en

Roumanie defended

7. Cultural activities related to Canada

“Pleins feux sur le Canada” - Festival du film canadien à l'Institut français de Bucarest, May 20-June 2, with a donation of some of the films on video cassettes to the Canadian Studies Centre at the University of Bucharest

West University of Timisoara, French Dept., March 2003, a show dedicated to

Le jour de la Francophonie: poems, a short play, presentation of Quebec cuisine

8. Translations and special issues of journals

Madeleine Ouellette-Michalska, Femeia de nisip/The Sand Woman, Cluj

Napoca, LIMES, trans. Voichita-Maria Sasu

Euphorion (published at the University of Sibiu) autumn issue, October 2003 contains a dossier of Quebec contemporary literature including critical essays, prose and poems.

9. Other

Interview on Radio Renasterea (Februry 10, 2003) with Voichita-Maria Sasu,

Director of the Centre d'Etudes Canadiennes et Quebecoises at the University of

Cluj Napoca about the Centre and the Francophone MA program (Quebec in

particular).

Five-hour “Comenius” programme (8 September) by Voicita-Maria Sasu

presenting Michel Tremblay,his work, le joual, with text commentary.

“World Literature” Series at LIMES Publishing House (Cluj-Napoca) headed

by Vochita-Maria Sasu has two streams, one of which, "Aurora borealis",

includes translations from Canadian literature.

Interview by Elena-Brânduşa Steiciuc (University of Suceava), “Despre francofonie, în Canada, cu Maurice Lemire”/ “With M. Lemire about francophonie”, in Bucovina literară, no 2, (144), February 2003.