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Mrs. Sonia Andras

PhD

Associate Researcher - ACADEMIA ROMANA FILIALA CLUJ

Other affiliations

MA (British Cultural Studies) - UNIVERSITATEA BUCURESTI (Romania)

Researcher

Sonia D. Andraș is a researcher focusing on fashion, gender, urban cultures, and modernity in a Romanian context. She holds a PhD from London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London, awarded in August 2020. Her monograph, "The Women of 'Little Paris': Fashion in Interwar Bucharest," will be published on 14 November 2024. She is currently an Associate Researcher in the UEFISCDI-funded research project The Ethos of Dialogue and Education: Romanian – American Cultural Negotiations (1920-1940) at the “Gheorghe Șincai” Institute for Social Sciences and Humanities in Târgu-Mureș, sub-theme Embodying the American feminine ethos: Renegotiating Romanian women’s identity from Hollywood to Rockefeller. She published two volumes with the Cluj University Press, Creative Negotiations. Romania – America 1920-1940, eds. Sonia D. Andraș, Roxana Mihaly and Romanian American Negotiations in Education, Science, Culture, and Arts, eds. Cornel Sigmirean, Sonia D. Andraș, Roxana Mihaly.

Web of Science ResearcherID: AEZ-2073-2022

Expertise & keywords

A History of Translations in Romanian 16th -20th centuries Call name:
O.M.E.N. nr. 3694/2019. 2019 - 2029

Role in this project: Key expert

Coordinating institution: UNIVERSITATEA "ŞTEFAN CEL MARE" DIN SUCEAVA

Project partners: UNIVERSITATEA "ŞTEFAN CEL MARE" DIN SUCEAVA (); UNIVERSITATEA DE VEST TIMISOARA ()

Affiliation: UNIVERSITATEA "ŞTEFAN CEL MARE" DIN SUCEAVA ()

Project website: http://www.itlr.usv.ro

Abstract:

„O istorie a traducerilor în limba română – secolele XVI-XX (ITLR)” are ca obiectiv studierea traducerii ca parte integrantă a patrimoniului cultural și intelectual, analiza dimensiunii sale dialogice interculturale de conectare la patrimoniul universal.

Folosirea pluralului pentru cuvântul „traducere” are ca scop să atragă atenția asupra unicității fiecărei traduceri, a faptului că ea presupune o sumă de condiții concrete și, mai ales, activitatea și creativitatea constrânse de anumite limite ale unui traducător.

Cercetarea ITLR vizează traducerile în limba română elaborate și publicate în toate provinciile istorice românești (Moldova, Muntenia, Transilvania, Basarabia, Bucovina) sau în alte spații culturale românofone.

Este o cercetare deosebit de complexă (9-10 ani), de mare amploare (4-5 volume), care antrenează numeroși cercetători (aproximativ 100) din mai multe universități.

The Ethos of Dialogue and Education: Romanian–American Cultural Negotiations (1920-1940) Call name: P 4 - Proiecte de cercetare exploratorie - PCE-2021
PN-III-P4-PCE-2021-0688 2022 - 2024

Role in this project:

Coordinating institution: ACADEMIA ROMANA FILIALA CLUJ

Project partners: ACADEMIA ROMANA FILIALA CLUJ (RO)

Affiliation:

Project website: https://www.icsumures.ro/proiecte-de-cercetare/edera_raport_stiintific_ro_eng_2023.pdf

Abstract:

This project follows the complex cultural and educational negotiations between Romania and the United States as consequences of political and diplomatic debates in the interwar era. Its timeframe covers two crucial decades in Romania’s history, from 1920 with Romania’s recognition as a national state, until 1940 as Romania aligned itself with the Axis. Its theme continues the vast array of literature on Romanian-US relations from diplomacy, politics and sociology towards the realms of culture, art and education. It aims to decode and correlate negotiations on educational, intellectual, cultural, ethnic, religious, artistic or gender themes, to determine their effects and implications. It thus offers a clearer insight into how collective and individual identity was recalibrated at the end of the Age of Empires, amid turbulent power center shifts. The world’s new political configuration brought a much more solid and persistent redistribution of cultural and academic centers, with the United States in full affirmation. This contribution recovers the ignored or deliberately omitted facts regarding the interwar dialogues between Romania and the United States. It is based on the project director’s experience in the history of education, intellectual history and, the attendance of foreign universities by Romanian students. It is also based on the expertise of project members in cultural and intellectual history, cultural studies, history of religion, arts and political science.

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