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GIRL, INTERRUPTEDTestimonies, Silences and Self-Censorshipin European Women’s Life Writing Cluj-Napoca, Romania, October 24-25, 2025The Faculty of Letters, “Babeș-Bolyai” University“Sextil Pușcariu” Institute, The Romanian Academy, Cluj BranchCall for PapersWhile Life Writing as an umbrella genre has been increasingly popular in both Eastern and Western Europe, it took longer for women’s personal narratives, including memoirs, diaries or correspondence, to get the same attention. The conference aims to stir the interest of specialists in Life Writing, Literature, Memory and Trauma Studies, Gender and Youth Studies in Eastern and Western Europe in order to fill in the gap, and focus on what is becoming a literary boom phenomenon, as in the last decade female… Read More »GIRL, INTERRUPTED

Online or at 1 Decembrie 1918 University of Alba Iulia, Romania; June 19th –21th, 2025Since ancient times, artists have transformed, reinterpreted, and reimagined folk tales and myths in a variety of forms, genres, and media. From the seemingly straightforward adaptation of a text into a film, a play, or a new literary work to the more subtle appropriation of style or meaning, one could argue that all texts are, in some way, part of a broader ensemble of already established texts and artistic forms. In the contemporary era, the cinematic adaptation of literary works stands as the most popular and widely recognized expression of this process. Your papers may fall… Read More »LITERARY ADAPTATIONS AND THE IMAGINARY

Call for Papers Voices and Silences: 50 years of the Society for Romanian Studies29-31 May 2025Faculty of European Studies, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-NapocaThe 2025 Triennial Conference of the SRS in Cluj-Napoca will mark 50 years since the creation of the Society for Romanian Studies. This moment in the life of the society calls us to celebrate the achievements and advances in Romanian studies of the past five decades but also for critical reflection on the purpose and contribution of Romanian Studies in a rapidly changing academic and intellectual context. On the occasion of this important gathering we also take the opportunity to imagine a Romanian studies of the future, and indeed the… Read More »Voices and Silences: 50 years of the Society for Romanian Studies