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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Conferences & Events

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,...

Wastelands – 34TH EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION FOR AMERICAN STUDIES CONFERENCE – Madrid 6-8 April 2022

Wastelands 34TH EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION FOR AMERICAN STUDIES CONFERENCE Madrid 6-8 April 2022 Organized by the UNED (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia) with the collaboration of the Universidad Complutense. The year 2022 marks the centenary of the publication of T.S. Eliot’s poem The Waste Land. The title of the conference alludes to Eliot’s work and the main themes in it, expanding the idea of the wasteland to the study of the United States. Hence, the overarching theme of the conference is...