We want to encourage you to start using H-Romania exclusively. Please begin to migrate to H-Romania. In the meantime, we will keep this page to provide a smooth transition, but it will not remain forever.

You are invited to join the News from the Society for Romanian Studies E-mail List, which is made available through Google Groups. Anyone who is interested, SRS member or not, may subscribe to the list. The SRS List is used to send out news, information, or other notices in a more timely fashion between issues of the Newsletter. This might include conference announcements, calls for papers, funding information, etc.

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H-Romania is an international interdisciplinary academic forum promoting the professional study, criticism, and research of all aspects of Romanian history, politics, culture and society. It focuses primarily on the countries of Romania and Moldova but also attends to numerous other past and present political, ethnic and social groups, including minorities and diasporas, in terms of their significant connections to present-day Romanian territory. Its intended audience is scholars, professionals, and students who study, teach, and write about Romania, Moldova, and these countries’ cultures and diasporas. Since 2013, it has been affiliated with the Society for Romanian Studies (SRS), generally recognized as the major international professional organization for scholars concerned with Romania and Moldova. H-Romania’s editorial rationale is to facilitate the exchange of news, resources, and ideas about Romanian Studies. Specifically, it endeavors to create and strengthen scholarly and professional networks; to commission reviews and other scholarly discussions and debates on historical and contemporary issues important to Romania; to share ideas about teaching and researching; and more broadly to promote activities designed to foster advancement in these fields. H-Romania is currently edited by R. Chris Davis and Valentin Săndulescu.

How to Join H-Romania

To join H-Romania, first set up an H-Net account. To do so, go to https://networks.h-net.org, click on “Sign up to subscribe & contribute,” and follow the instructions there. Once you’ve created an H-Net account and profile, you can then go to the H-Romania page and click “Subscribe to this network to join the discussion.” Before allowing any contributions, we ask that you complete your H-Net profile, indicating your institutional affiliation, degrees, and areas of interest. You can do this by clicking on the accounts icon in the upper right, then selecting the “Profile” option from the drop-down menu.

How to Contact the Editors

We are interested in building our Reviews and Reports pages, including book and film reviews as well as conference and exhibition reports. If you have any questions please feel free to contact the editors at editorial-romania@mail.h-net.msu.edu. Please also let us know if you are interested in joining the editorial team or becoming a reviewer or blogger at H-Romania. Thanks, and please spread the word to colleagues and students!!

The Society for Romanian Studies maintains close ties with a number of other scholarly organizations. Chief among them is the Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES), which every November organizes an annual meeting that is well attended by SRS members.

The other organizations with which the SRS maintains links are listed below, together with the SRS liaisons:

• The American Historical Association (AHA) is the oldest and largest society of historians in the United States. It organizes an annual conference in January, in which many SRS members participate. The SRS participates with one panel organized by Ruxandra Petrinca. More information is available at: http://www.historians.org.
  SRS liaison: Ruxandra Petrinca (McGill University, ruxandra.petrinca@mail.mcgill.ca)

• The American Political Science Association (APSA) is the largest organization of political scientists in the United States. Each year, the APSA organizes a conference in late August. The SRS participates with one panel organized by Dr. Claudiu Tufiş. The APSA website is: http://www.apsanet.org.
  SRS liaison: Claudiu Tufiş (University of Bucharest, claudiu.tufis@fspub.unibuc.ro)

• The Romanian Studies Association of America (RSAA) focuses on Romanian language and literature. Each year since its creation, the RSAA has organized two sessions at the annual Modern Language Association (MLA) convention, which takes place in January. More information on the RSAA is available at: http://www.thersaa.org. The SRS and RSAA offer a joint membership.
  SRS liaison: Margaret Beissinger (Princeton University, mhbeissi@princeton.edu)
• The Southeast European Studies Association (SEESA) is devoted to the exchange of knowledge amongst scholars interested in the area of Southeastern Europe. Many of its members are working on Romania and Moldova. Its website is: http://www.seesa.info/conferences. The SRS and SEESA offer a joint membership.
  SRS liaison: Dallas Michelbacher (Central Michigan University, miche1df@cmich.edu)
• The Balkan History Association (BHA) is a non-profit, apolitical, and independent organization that aims to develop and promote at both national and international levels the interdisciplinary and comparative study of the Balkan region, and, more generally, of South-East Europe, located in Bucharest, Romania. The BHA website is: https://www.balkan-history.com/
  SRS liaison: Roland Clark (University of Liverpool, clarkr@liv.ac.uk)

• The PLURAL Forum for Interdisciplinary Studies is a not-for-profit organisation based in the Republic of Moldova. It aims at initiating and carrying out analyses and discussions of phenomena and social issues neglected or distorted in the public space, such as inequality, oppression, identities, cultures, power and ideologies. It’s website is http://plural.md/ SRS liaison: Petru Negură (Free International University from Moldova, Chişinău, petru.negura@gmail.com).
• The American Romanian Coalition for Human and Equal Rights (ARCHER) formed in 2020 “to empower the members of diaspora to become active supporters and advocates of social justice and human rights in our communities.” For more information see https://archercoalition.org/ SRS liaison: Roxana Cazan (roxanalcazan@gmail.com)
• The Immigration Research Forum (IRF) is an independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit organization established in Washington, DC dedicated to the research of transatlantic immigration, the social integration of immigrants and their impact on host communities and countries of origin. It seeks to bring together professionals with different areas of research expertise, to help develop, promote and sustain strategies of empowering vulnerable populations, including immigrant groups through lobby and public diplomacy efforts. For more information see https://www.immigrationresearchforum.org/ SRS liaison: Teodor Stan (info@immigrationresearchforum.org)
• The New Books Network (NBN) is a consortium of author-interview podcast channels dedicated to raising the level of public discourse by introducing scholars and other serious writers to a wide public via new media. Covering 100+ subjects, disciplines, and genres, we publish 50 to 75 episodes every week. The NBN reaches about a million people every month; NBN listeners download close to 5 million episodes a month. SRS liaison: Roland Clark (clarkr@liverpool.ac.uk)

Society for Romanian Studies (SRS), cea mai importantă organizație academică internațională dedicată dezvoltării și promovării studiilor românești, și Polirom, cea mai puternică editură de pe piața academică românească, au încheiat un parteneriat cu scopul de a lansa o nouă colecție editorială, Studii Româneşti/Romanian Studies/Études Roumaines/Rumänische Studien. Colecția va cuprinde cărți în limba română, scrise sau coordonate de către membrii SRS.

În momentul de față acceptăm trei tipuri de manuscrise:

• Traduceri în limba română ale unor studii monografice deja publicate într-o limbă străină
• Studii monografice inedite, scrise în limba română
• Volume colective de studii care tratează o temă unitară, scrise în limba română

Volumele propuse pentru publicare în cadrul colecției trebuie să aibă un caracter preponderent academic și să se ocupe de România și/sau de Republica Moldova, de comunitățile care trăiesc pe teritoriile acestor țări, de culturile lor sau de diaspora românească și moldovenească. Contribuțiile pot să adopte o perspectivă disciplinară, interdisciplinară sau multidisciplinară și să vizeze domenii precum istoria, științele politice, sociologia, antropologia, dreptul, economia, lingvistica, literatura, istoria artei și altele. Toate manuscrisele și cărțile vor fi recenzate atent în vederea publicării.

Mai multe informații privind procedura de trimitere a propunerilor de volume sunt disponibile pe site-ul SRS, la adresa http://www.srstudies.org/book-series/.

Pentru întrebări și sugestii, vă rugăm să-i contactați pe coordonatoarele colecției, pe consultant sau pe membrii consiliului consultativ.

Members’ Blogs:

Holly Case’s Blog, “East-Central Europe Past & Present”

A series of interviews with scholars of East-Central Europe

Lavinia Stan’s Blog

Devoted to contemporary political & social affairs

Ana Chelariu’s Blog, “Zamolxis: Comparative Mythology”

Devoted to the study of Romanian mythology & folklore

Corina Apostol’s Blog, “Romanian Art Map”

Devoted to the contemporary Romanian art scene

Blog of the Southeast European Studies Association

News & announcements blog