MLA Commons | LLC Romanian | Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/romanian/ Activity feed for the group, LLC Romanian. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 18:43:54 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 695c204f9cc8c2de5077d8923c289dd4 Ioana Luca started the topic CFP MLA panel 2027 Romanian, Hungarian and other Emancipatory Narratives in the forum LLC Romanian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/romanian/forum/topic/cfp-mla-panel-2027-romanian-hungarian-and-other-emancipatory-narratives-2/ Fri, 06 Mar 2026 17:20:32 -0500 Dear colleagues,

We invite proposals for a guaranteed panel at the Modern Language Association Annual Convention (MLA 2027) in Los Angeles, to be held January 7–10, 2027, titled “Romanian, Hungarian and Other Emancipatory Narratives.”
This panel examines emancipatory narratives emerging from Romanian, Hungarian and broader Eastern European cultu…[Read more]

]]> 0 d43eaed61be98afce0c5b783884c0554 Oana Popescu-Sandu started the topic MLA 2026 Forum Guaranteed Session in the forum LLC Romanian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/romanian/forum/topic/mla-2026-forum-guaranteed-session/ Thu, 06 Mar 2025 15:24:06 -0500 Hi everybody, I am posting below the theme for the 2026 guaranteed session. Please email me your proposals at opopescusa@usi.edu. Please note that both connected panels below will be roundtables, to encourage a productive conversation on the topics.

MLA Romanian Forum and RSAA (Romanian Studies Society of American) Proposal for Guaranteed…[Read more]

]]> 0 93951ca8820acf7e86a8b35389dade81 Oana Popescu-Sandu started the topic LLC ROmanian MLA 2025 CFP in the discussion LLC Romanian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/romanian/forum/topic/llc-romanian-mla-2025-cfp/ Fri, 01 Mar 2024 15:43:08 -0500 Colleagues,

Please see below our CFP for next year’s MLA from LLC Romanian! Email your 250-word proposals by March 15 to Ileana Marin at marini@uw.edu.

(In)visibility of Romanian Writers in English as a Second Language

The list of successful exophonic writers is impressive: Vladimir Nabokov (native speaker of Russian), Elie Wiesel (native…[Read more]

]]> 0 c56d1e33b598d526fe018a48a100c967 Oana Popescu-Sandu started the topic Romanian forum executive commitee and delegate in the discussion LLC Romanian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/romanian/forum/topic/romanian-forum-executive-commitee-and-delegate/ Wed, 10 Jan 2024 19:39:18 -0500 Hi everybody,

The LLC ROmanian executive committee is seeking self-nominations for 1) membership in the committee and 2) for the forum delegate to the MLA Delegate Assembly. Please review the requirements for each position carefully and send your self-nominations as soon as possible to Ileana…[Read more]

]]> 0 80dbf1abebff664d5c54caefd2c6b97d Oana Popescu-Sandu started the topic MLA forum and assembly elections in the discussion LLC Romanian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/romanian/forum/topic/mla-forum-and-assembly-elections/ Tue, 09 Nov 2021 17:50:37 -0500 Colleagues,

The election email from the MLA has been sent. Please submit your votes for the MLA committees and as well as for your forums, including Romanian (there are two ballots for Romanian). Looking forward to meeting many of you at the convention.

Oana

]]> 0 9df248fdd7bec09a895c88adfa8ca537 Julia Elsky started the topic CFP (MLA): Making Waves: Two Decades of Experimental Romanian Cinema  in the discussion LLC Romanian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/romanian/forum/topic/cfp-mla-making-waves-two-decades-of-experimental-romanian-cinema/ Mon, 08 Feb 2021 20:45:46 -0500 Call for Papers: MLA 2022 (6-9 January, Washington, D.C.)

Romanian Forum’s Guaranteed Panel  

Making Waves: Two Decades of Experimental Romanian Cinema 

2021 marks two decades since the symbolic launch of Romanian New Wave cinema, a movement that has received important recognition at international film festivals. The Romanian Forum of the MLA i…[Read more]

]]> 0 0c232ad427184644d1b6d188777074bd Noemi Marin deposited Rhetorical Crossings of 1989: Communist Space, Arguments by Definition, and Discourse of National Identity Twenty-Five Years Later in the group LLC Romanian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1620160/ Sat, 06 Oct 2018 03:48:43 -0400 The Romanian political scene at the end of 1989 calls for a critical rhetorical perspective to understand how totalitarian politics clash with revolutionary changes and how communist space, so ambitiously crafted to cover an entire country’s public sphere, influences, if at all, a free(d) discourse on national unity. Examining official discourse o…[Read more]

]]> 0 d327c23a6f96b17922b652a2f9fdb5cd Oana Popescu-Sandu deposited “From Minimalist Representation to Excessive Interpretation: Contextualizing 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days.” in the group LLC Romanian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1619898/ Wed, 03 Oct 2018 16:30:59 -0400 The article examines the Romanian and American reception of Cristian Mungiu’s 4 weeks, 3 months, 2 weeks (2007), arguing that the film’s representational minimalism indirectly caused an excess of interpretation across cultural contexts. This overinterpretation was possible because the film’s aesthetic minimalism encouraged viewers to decode the s…[Read more]

]]> 0 56831485c86af65a102c0ce02c97bb41 Oana Popescu-Sandu deposited "Translingualism as Dialogism in Romanian-American Poetry" in the group LLC Romanian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1619894/ Wed, 03 Oct 2018 16:25:21 -0400 This essay examines how translingual poetry by immigrant Romanian writers who live in or travel to the United States requires a transnational community framing rather than a national one and raises new questions about cultural and linguistic identity formation that reflect on both national and world literature issues. This analysis of the…[Read more]

]]> 0 b1cab700868607b701f04b6a9116c3a6 Lenuta Giukin posted an update in the group LLC Romanian: CALL FOR PAPERS CRISIS IN FILM AND VISUAL MEDIA An […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/69719/ Fri, 30 May 2014 15:38:21 -0400 CALL FOR PAPERS
CRISIS IN FILM AND VISUAL MEDIA
An international conference hosted by Vilnius University (Vilnius, Lithuania), September 19-20, 2014

Co-organized by Contemporary Art Centre (Vilnius, Lithuania), and Lithuanian Film Centre (Vilnius, Lithuania),

With the participation of keynote speakers dr. Dina Iordanova (University of St.…[Read more]

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