Events
Radu Vancu presents the TRANSHIROL project at the event “Literature in the Digital and Transnational Era,” a dialogue with Ruxandra Gâdei organized within the Electric Castle music festival in Bonțida, Cluj county.
Teodora Dumitru publishes Thermosofia și alte muze: 6 studii despre Maiorescu, Eminescu, Lovinescu și modelele lor din știință și filosofie (Thermosophy and Other Muses: Six Studies on Maiorescu, Eminescu, Lovinescu, and Their Scientific and Philosophical Models, Sibiu: Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu Press), the second individual volume funded by the TRANSHIROL project.
Imre József Balázs receives the Prize for Comparative Literature of the Romanian Association of General and Comparative Literature (link: https://www.algcr.ro/premiile-algcr/) for his volume Rețele avangardiste, afilieri multiple.
Institute of Critical Theory, 5th edition: A Transnational History of Romanian Literature (Sibiu-Păltiniș). A TRANSHIROL event. Programme
Christian Moraru gives the lecture “Who’s Afraid of World Literature?” at the University of Bucharest, Romania
Radu Vancu presents the TRANSHIROL project at the event “Literature in the Zuckerberg Galaxy”, organized within the National Olympiad “Reading as a Life Ability” 2024, the Bistrița Synagogue.
Imre József Balázs receives the Prize for Literary History, Criticism, and Theory of the Observator cultural magazine for his volume Rețele avangardiste, afilieri multiple.
Andrei Terian gives the lecture “Waves, Viruses, Sieges: A History of World Literature in Three Maps” at the Department of Comparative Literature – New York University (NYU), New York, USA
NeMLA 55th Annual Convention. Tufts University, Boston, MA, US. 4 TRANSHIROL papers presented in the conference.
Christian Moraru gives the lecture “Oikos and Cosmos after New Materialism: Toward an Ontologically Oriented Cosmopolitanism” in Melbourne, Australia (a joint event of University of Melbourne and the Greek Center in Melbourne).
Andrei Terian, PI of the TRANSHIROL project, is awarded the Dimitrie Cantemir Prize for Humanities at the second edition of the Romanian Research Gala, organized by the Romanian Ministry of Research, Innovation, and Digitalization. It is the most prestigious and substantial prize granted so far in the Romanian academic system, amounting to cca. €60,000.
Publication of The German Model in Romanian Culture / Das deutsche Vorbild in der rumänischen Kultur (Berlin: Peter Lang), edited by Maria Sass, Ovio Olaru, and Andrei Terian. The volume includes six chapters written for TRANSHIROL.
Doris Mironescu co-organizes the TRANSHIROL panel “Decolonizing Post-Cold War Hierarchies: Research Practices and Fictional Discourses” within the 2023 ASEEES Virtual Convention
Christian Moraru gives the lecture “Romanian Literature as World Literature” in Korce, Albania (a joint event of University of Korce and Romania’s Information Center Korce).
Christian Moraru gives the lecture “An Ethos of Attunement: Ruxandra Novac among Objects” at the University of Augsburg, Germany.
Imre József Balázs publishes Rețele avangardiste, afilieri multiple (Avant-garde Networks, Multiple Affiliations, Bucharest: Tracus Arte), the first individual volume funded from the TRANSHIROL project.
As President of the National Olympiad of Romanian Language and Literature, organized in Sibiu, Andrei Terian gives a lecture on the very first Romanian novel in which he summarizes some of the most relevant results of TRANSHIROL.
Andrei Terian gives the lecture “Beyond the Aesthetic: Paradigms and Directions in the Development of Romanian Literary Criticism” (online) for the South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China
“Anca Parvulescu and Manuela Boatca’s Creolizing the Modern: Transylvania Across Empires.” A special issue of the journal Transilvania published within TRANSHIROL and edited by Ștefan Baghiu.
“Romanian Literary History at a Crossroads.” A special issue of the journal Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai. Philologia published within TRANSHIROL and edited by Daiana Gârdan, Emanuel Modoc, and Christian Moraru.
Andrei Terian presents the TRANSHIROL project at the event “100 Years of Romanian Studies in Slovakia”, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia
Andrei Terian gives the lecture “Romanian Literature as East-European Literature” at the Department of Slavic, East European & Eurasian Languages and Cultures – University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), California, USA
Institute of Critical Theory, 4th edition: Postmillenial Literature in Romania: Towards a New Aesthetics (Sibiu-Păltiniș). A TRANSHIROL event. Programme.
Christian Moraru gives the lecture “Comparative into World Literature: Scholarships and Politics in the Contemporary Era” at the University of Alicante, Spain
“Mihai Iovănel’s History of Contemporary Romanian Literature 1990-2020.” A special issue of the journal Transilvania published within TRANSHIROL and edited by Ștefan Baghiu.
The project kick-off meeting (Sibiu)
