The Society for Romanian Studies

UNIVERSITY AND ACADEMIC SITES

This page last modified: 19 iii 2006

WESTERN ACADEMIC CENTERS & ORGANIZATIONS

• The American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies

• The American Romanian Academy of Arts and Sciences

• Association for the Study of Nationalities

• The American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages

• Arizona State University Romanian Program

• Columbia University Institute on East Central Europe

• The Harriman Institute, Columbia University

• Duke University Center for Slavic, Eurasian, & East European Studies

• Emory University Center for Russian and East European Studies

• Georgetown University Center for Eurasian, Russian, and East European Studies

• Georgetown University/The Ion Ratiu Chair of Romanian Studies.

• HABSBURG, the H-NET List for the study of East Central European History since 1500.

• Harvard University Russian, East European, and Central Asian Studies

• H-Net, the on-line history people.

• The Immigration Research Center, University of Minnesota

• Indiana University Romanian Studies

• Indiana University Russian and East European Institute

• Ohio State University Center for Slavic and East European Studies

• Romanian Cultural Institute of New York

• Stanford University Center for Russian and East European Studies

• Sud-Ost Institut, Munchen

• The United States Holocaust Museum

• University of California at Berkeley Center for Slavic and East European Studies

• University of Illinois Russian and East European Center

• University of Kansas Center for Russian and East European Studies

• University College of London School of Slavonic and East European Studies

• University of Michigan Center for Russian and East European Studies

• University of Minnesota Center for Austrian Studies

• University of North Carolina Center for Slavic, Eurasian & East European Studies

• University of Toronto Centre for European, Russian, and East European Studies

• University of Virginia Center for Russian and East European Studies

• University of Washington Russian, East European, and Central Asian Studies Center

• University of Wisconsin Center for Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia

• Woodrow Wilson Center East European Studies Program

  ROMANIAN ACADEMIC CENTERS & ORGANIZATIONS

• Academia Romana. For contact information on the Academy's many institutes, see this list.

• Academia de Stiinte Economice: Academy of Economic Sciences/Bucuresti

• Fulbright Commission of Romania
• Institutul Cultural Roman exists to promote Romanian culture and civilization throughout the world, and to integrate Romania into the world cultural heritage. The ICR also promotes ties with the Romanians in neighboring countries, as well as with the Romanian diaspora, with a view toward preserving their cultural identity. For a listing of the ICR's institutes abroad, see here. It also hosts an annual summer course for those wanting to learn Romanian.

• Institutul de Istorie N. Iorga, Bucuresti, is concerned with editing sources (internal, foreign, and narrative sources), as well as developing projects and programs on the following subjects: the history of social-political structures, the study of international relations, the history of communism, or the history of regional factors (the Black Sea), mentality, climate, personalities, religions.

• Institutul Roman de Istorie Recenta, Bucuresti was created to contribute to the democratization of the Romanian society by facilitating the process of coming to terms with Romania's troublesome recent past; and to overcome the parochialism of the Romanian academic community in the field of recent history through comparative studies and a multi-layered framework of international dialogue and exchanges.

• International Research and Exchanges Board, Bucuresti Office

• Memorialul Sighet, The Memorial of the Victims of Communism and of the Resistance was founded in 1992 by the President of the Civic Alliance, Ana Blandiana, along with Romulus Rusan and a group of historians, architects and designers. In 1998, The Council of Europe designated the Sighet Memorial as one of the main memorial sites of the continent, alongside the Auschwitz Museum and the Peace Memorial in Normandy. The Memorial is composed of a museum, situated in the former political prison in Sighet, and the International Center for Studies about Communism, located in Bucuresti.

• Research Institute for Informatics, Bucuresti

• Societatea Academica din Romania, which carries out a full program of research and publications (for which see here), aims to contribute to good governance in Romania and Romanian development through policy research and advocacy by enhancing the contribution of independent experts to the process of policy design in Romania, through public dialogue and evaluations of alternative policy proposals. It proposes to do this through the (re)building of the fields of applied social sciences, economics and public policy in Romania after fifty years of Communism, with the goal of promoting the European integration of Romania and the stability of the Balkan area through research, monitoring and advocacy.

• Universitatea Al. I. Cuza (Iasi), host of the 1993 SRS Second Congress on Romanian Studies.

• Universitatea Babes-Bolyai (Cluj), host of the 1997 SRS Third Congress on Romanian Studies.

• Universtitatea din Bucuresti

• Universitatea Politehnica din Bucuresti

• Universitatea Ovidius, Constanta, host of the 2007 SRS Fifth Congress on Romanian Studies.

• Universitatea Stefan cel Mare, Suceava, host of the 2001 SRS Fourth Congress on Romanian Studies.

• Veritas Romanian Studies Program in Sighisoara

  MOLDOVAN ACADEMIC CENTERS & ORGANIZATIONS

• Academia de Stiinte a Moldovei

• Academia de Stiinte Economice: Academy of Economic Sciences/Chisinau, Moldova

• Soros Foundation Moldova, Chisinau

• ULIM-Free International University of Moldova

• USM-State University of Moldova

• UTM-Technical University of Moldova