WE ARE THE RAAS

We promote the academic study of American culture and society in Romania

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Our Mission

Our mission is to encourage and support Romanian academics and students to create, and be part of, a network dedicated to the promotion of American Studies in Romania.

Welcome to the Romanian Association for American Studies. We are an academic association that advocates for the study of American culture and society in Romania. Our members are university faculty, researchers, graduate students, as well as independent scholars involved in teaching, conducting research, and publishing in the field of American Studies. We support cooperation and intercommunication among Romanian, European, and American scholars who study the United States from an interdisciplinary perspective.

Our Mission

Our mission is to encourage and support Romanian academics and students to create, and be part of, a network dedicated to the promotion of American Studies in Romania.

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2024 EAAS CONFERENCE 1924 – 2024: The American Immigrant Narrative Revisited

The EAAS-conference 2024 seeks to engage with the complicated histories that have shaped the American immigrant narrative in all of its variations across time and from different disciplinary angles, and it welcomes contributions that critically interrogate its historical trajectories, political conundrums, regional manifestations, and myriad cultural representations. We invite scholars interested in exploring these topics to submit their proposals for individual papers or full panels. Proposals can be submitted via our conference tool by September 15, 2023. Abstracts for individual papers should be no longer than...

The 2023 RAAS-Fulbright Conference

MAPPING SPACES AND (THE) US October 5-7, 2023 The thematic framework that the conference promotes envisages various exploratory areas of research which, following such paths as “the spatial turn,” have stimulated considerable interest in critical spatial thinking across a large variety of subject areas. Starting from geography, architecture, urban and regional planning, and urban sociology, spatial thinking has reached far beyond the traditional disciplines to cover such fields as cultural studies, anthropology, postcolonial and feminist thought, race and gender theories,...