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Catalina Mihalache

- ACADEMIA ROMÂNĂ - FILIALA IAŞI

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The Encyclopedia of Romanian Imaginaries. Historical Patrimony and Cultural-Linguistic Identities Call name: P 1 - SP 1.2 - Proiecte complexe realizate in consorții CDI
PN-III-P1-1.2-PCCDI-2017-0326 2018 - 2021

Role in this project:

Coordinating institution: UNIVERSITATEA BABES BOLYAI

Project partners: UNIVERSITATEA BABES BOLYAI (RO); ACADEMIA ROMANA FILIALA CLUJ (RO); UNIVERSITATEA NATIONALA DE ARTE DIN BUCURESTI (RO)

Affiliation: UNIVERSITATEA BABES BOLYAI (RO)

Project website: http://romimag.granturi.ubbcluj.ro/

Abstract:

The project The Encyclopedia of Romanian Imaginaries. Historical Patrimony and Cultural-Linguistic Identities (ROMIMAG) aims to produce a knowledge base and a five-volume Encyclopaedia, providing a synoptic perspective on the cultural inheritance and spiritual identities of Romania. However, it would be impossible to tackle cultural identities without a thorough analysis of the collective imagination. Guided by the powerful and innovative concept of social and cultural imaginaries, along with other key concepts such as semantic basin, linguistic field, constellations of images, fractal identity, ROMIMAG will use multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary methodologies for analyzing the main domains of Romanian collective representations. It will feature 5 scientific work packages, covering the following fields: Romania’s Linguistic Patrimony; Literary Imaginaries; Historical Representations; Religious Imaginaries; Artistic Imaginaries and Patrimony. Within a two-year calendar, each work package will feature about 20 contributors, who will produce 20 articles presenting the main cultural basins covered by their volume, and 2 patents. This database will be published online (an interactive site, designed as an “electronic hive”) and in print (a five-volume Encyclopedia, published by Polirom, Iași). ROMIMAG targets different categories of public: educated (writers, artists, musicians, theatre and movie directors, linguists, editors, media specialists, curators), broad (pupils, students, general readership) and institutional (media studios, advertising and tourism companies, leaders and policy makers from the administration and governance levels). This panoramic image of the cultural and spiritual patrimony of Romania will offer, within the frame of European interculturalism, a better understanding of national, but also of local and group identities, which could prevent latent tensions and social violence from erupting and allow the configuration of a collaborative climate.

Women who shaped public education in Romania in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Call name: Postdoctoral Research Projects - PD-2012 call
PN-II-RU-PD-2012-3-0048 2013 - 2015

Role in this project:

Coordinating institution: ACADEMIA ROMÂNĂ - FILIALA IAŞI

Project partners: ACADEMIA ROMÂNĂ - FILIALA IAŞI (RO)

Affiliation: ACADEMIA ROMÂNĂ - FILIALA IAŞI (RO)

Project website: http://womed.acadiasi.ro//

Abstract:

The project aims at identifying the main ways in which women participated in the definition, functioning, evolution and expansion of public education in Romania in the last two decades of the 19th century and the first two of the 20th. In this period, of remarkable stability, the Romanian society passed through an accelerated (but not constant) process of modernization, taking advantage of the political achievements of the national State (from independence to a maximal territorial extension). We consider that education was both an instrument and a product of the development of these years, just like the increasingly visible implication of women in public life; their presence was mainly oriented towards the means of informal education (quite influential otherwise) of the time, like, for instance, the “Ladies’ societies”, the cultural or charitable associations, the press, the didactic and moralizing literature, conferences, festive or commemorative events. Their involvement in the formal education (schooling and professional training) also became, in time, a remarkable social phenomenon, unprecedented before. In order to carefully evaluate the women’s participation in this public life segment, our research proposes an interdisciplinary analysis of their implication into the educational systems (models, policies, norms, practices, contents, institutions, characters), by pursuing its dependence upon the political, social and cultural context of the period in question.

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