Between Shuba, Sarma and Pasta. The Hybrid Identity of Moldovans in the West
Lucrare prezentată în cadrul Conferinței internaționale „Re-Learning to be Human for Global Times: Cultural Borders and Border Cultures”, organizată de Iași Center for Research in Values and Philosophy, Washington D.C., Universitatea „Alexandru Ioan Cuza” și Academia Română – Filiala Iaşi, 2-3 noiembrie 2018. Abstract Based on recent in-depth interviews with Moldovans (through the project Migration
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Food, Clothes, and Expectations. Romanian Migrants Non-monetary Remittances as Intercultural Exchange
Lucrare prezentată în cadrul Conferintei Internationale „More than Money. Remittances as social practice”, organizată de SIEF (International Society for Ethnology and Folklore) Working Group „Migration & Mobility”, Institute of European Ethnology, University of Innsbruck, Austria, 26-28 septembrie 2018. Abstract The data in this paper come from a field study conducted through the project Migration and
2018 Society for Romanian Studies Conference (ASE, Bucharest, June 25-28, 2018): Whatʼs in a sheep? State of art of a contested Romanian national symbol
As in the case of other eastern European nations, folklore had a significant role in the development of Romanian national consciousness starting in the middle of the 19th century, continuing to the 1918 unification, and further with the manipulation of peasant traditions to fit the communist cultural politics. Described as one of “the national myths”,
Căi de înțelegere a unui patrimoniu cultural transnațional
pecialiștii care au studiat schimbările socio-culturale determinate de migrația intensivă în Europa au avansat ipoteze diverse în privința modurilor în care patrimoniul cultural european este afectat de acest fenomen. Scenariul cel mai intens sugerat a fost pierderea identității etno-culturale așa cum o cunoaștem și formarea unor noi tipuri de identități, unele hibride, fragmentate, ambigue (Touraine,
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Migration and identity in the Romanian cultural milieu. Research design, methodology, and expectations
The MIRO project addresses a currently salient topic on a scholarly, political and social level: population movements and their connections with identity. The analysis is multidisciplinary, approached through different social and human sciences (history, linguistics, cultural anthropology, sociology, political philosophy, ethnography). The needed expertise in all these fields is provided by established academic institutions (four
