Film professor and Fulbright Alumnus Doru Pop delivered a series of three lectures in the US and Canada on March 28, 30 and 31, as part of a project on Romanian contemporary cinema initiated by the Romanian Cultural Institute in New York (RCINY).

On March 28, in Montreal, Professor Pop took part in a conference titled Society for Cinema & Media Studies (SCMS) where he presented the paper Between Realism, Minimalism, and Transnationalism. New Romanian Cinema as Transnational Cinema.

On March 30, Doru Pop delivered the lecture The quest for cinematic realism in recent Romanian cinema within the Film and Electronic Arts Department at Bard College, in Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, at the invitation of Professor John Pruitt. The event included screening of excerpts from The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (directed by Cristi Puiu), Love Sick (directed by Tudor Giurgiu), The Japanese Dog (directed by Tudor Cristian Giurgiu).

The third event took place on March 31 when Doru Pop gave the presentation The contemporary Romanian cinema. From national specificity to international relevance. The lecture was accompanied by screening of excerpts from The Death of Mr. Lazarescu and Aurora (directed by Cristi Puiu), Morgen and Rocker (directed by Marian Crișan). Professor Pop’s presentation tried to map the most important transformations brought forward in contemporary film-making in Romania.

Doru Pop is associate professor at “Babeş-Bolyai” University in Cluj, Theatre and Television Department, where he gives courses on visual culture and media studies. He has an MA in journalism and mass communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a PhD in the philosophy of visual culture from Babeș-Bolyai University. He was Fulbright Junior fellow (1995-1996), Ron Brown fellow (2000-2002) and Fulbright Senior fellow (2012-2013). In 2012 he taught at Bard College, New York, where he presented a course on recent Romanian cinema.