Fulbright Scholar Participates in Bucharest Colloquium on Global Justice

Dr Michael S. Jones, visiting Fulbright scholar at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Bucharest (http://filosofie.unibuc.ro/), took part in a two-day colloquium on the theme of “Global Justice” on May 26th and 27th. Dr Thomas Pogge of Yale University, who has spent most of his career working on issues of global justice, was the keynote speaker, delivering an address on “Human Rights and Human Responsibilities.” Dr Jones spoke on “Racism at Home and Abroad: Thoughts from a Christian Ethicist.” Among the many others on the program were Dr. Romulus Brâncoveanu, dean of the Faculty of Philosophy, Ovidiu Caraiani from the Polytechnical University of Bucharest, and numerous other Bucharest philosophers. The colloquium was organized and sponsored by the Faculty of Philosophy and the papers presented will be published in the December issue of Public Reason (http://www.publicreason.ro/home), an open-access scholarly journal published biannually by the Center for the Study of Retionality and Beliefs (CSRC) (http://csrc.ro/home).

2015 American Studies Students’ Conference @FEAC-EducationUSA

On Friday, May 22, the Fulbright Educational Advising Center (FEAC)-EducationUSA hosted the 2015 American Studies Students’ Conference, titled “Correlations: Prejudice, Anti-Discrimination Policies and Minority Rights in American Culture”, co-organized by the Center for American Studies within the University of Bucharest, the Romanian – U.S. Fulbright Commission and FEAC-EducationUSA. Marjorie Stein, Cultural Attaché of the Embassy of the United States in Romania, kindly agreed to join us on this special occasion and delivered a warm welcome address, voicing her delight with the topic of this year’s conference, given that the month of May is Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month in the United States and that May 17 marked the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia.

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2015 American Studies Students’ Conference

The American Studies Program at the University of Bucharest invites you to the 2015 Students’ Conference “Correlations: Prejudice, Anti-Discrimination Policies and Minority Rights in American Culture”. The conference organized by Fulbright alumnae Dana Mihăilescu, Roxana Oltean and Mihaela Precup will be held at the Romanian-U.S. Fulbright Commission, on Friday, May 22, 2015, from 10:00 a.m. The program is available here.

First Essay in Romanian

Carla Baricz’s first essay in Romanian has just been published in the Observator Cultural magazine, under the title Este Hamlet cu adevărat nebun? O problemă veche în straie noiIs Hamlet Truly Mad? An Ancient Question in New Garments. See the full article at: http://www.observatorcultural.ro/Este-Hamlet-cu-adevarat-nebun-O-problema-veche-in-straie-noi*articleID_31810-articles_details.html. Carla is a U.S. Fulbright grantee in the field of Comparative Literature, affiliated with the University of Bucharest.
Congratulations, Carla, and we hope you will find the time to write more articles and books in Romanian.

“Always in Between”

Erika Schultes, ETA Fulbright Student, participated in the National Conference for Students of English Studies at the University of Suceava, where she spoke on Friday, May 8th on the theme of “Always in Between” – Belonging and Exclusion across the Borders of Language, Culture, and Identity.

The conference welcomed students from Bucharest, Iasi, and Cluj, as well as Suceava, whose contributions addressed notions of belonging, estrangement, and variety of related issues considered in individual works and texts from Anglophone cultures. 

Read more: “Always in Between”

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