Mihai-Stelian RUSU

Discipline predate

• Practica cercetării sociale (laborator, semestrul I)
• Introducere în sociologia organizațiilor (seminar, semestrul I)
• Informatică și baze de date (laborator, semestrul I)
• Formarea echipei și dinamica grupului (curs și seminar, semestrul I, master LMO)
• Teorii organizaționale (curs și seminar, semestrul II)
• Istoria gândirii sociale (curs, semestrul II)
• Practică lucrare licență (laborator, semestrul II)
• Sociologia corpului (curs opțional, semestrul II)
• Psihologie socială (seminar, semestrul II)
• Teorii sociologice contemporane (seminar, semestrul II)
• Tehnica elaborării lucrărilor științifice (seminar, semestrul II)

Domenii de interes

• Sociologia memoriei colective
• Politicile trecutului
• Sociologia naționalismului
• Sociologia dragostei
• Sociologia celebrării

Publicații recente

• Rusu, M.S. (2016). Domesticating Viragos: The Politics of Womanhood in the Romanian Legionary Movement, Fascism. Journal of Comparative Fascist Studies, 5(2), pp. 149–176.
• Rusu, M.S. (2016). The Sacralization of Martyric Death in Romanian Legionary Movement: Self-sacrificial Patriotism, Vicarious Atonement, and Thanatic Nationalism, Politics, Religion & Ideology, 17(2-3), pp. 249–273.
• Rusu, M.S. and Kantola, I. (2016). A Time of Meta-celebration: Celebrating the Sociology of Celebration. Journal of Comparative Research in Anthropology and Sociology, 7(1), pp. 1–22.
• Rusu, M.S. (2016). Celebrating the Royal Liturgy within the National Calendrical Memory – The Politics of Festive Time in the Romanian Kingdom, 1866–1947. Journal of Comparative Research in Anthropology and Sociology, 7(1), pp. 127–159.
• Rusu, Mihai Stelian (2015). Memoria națională românească. Facerea și prefacerile discursive ale trecutului național. Iași: Editura Institutul European, 466 pp.
• Rusu, M.S. (2015). From the Will of Memory to the Right to Be Forgotten – A Paradigm Shift in the Culture of Remembering. Philobiblon. Transylvanian Journal of Multidisciplinary Research in Humanities, 20(2), pp. 384–411.
• Rusu, M.S. (2015). Battling over Romanian Red Past. The Memory of Communism between Elitist Cultural Trauma and Popular Collective Nostalgia. Romanian Journal of Society and Politics, 10(1), 18, pp. 24–48.
• Croitoru, A., Rusu, H., and Rusu, M.S. (2015). Tailoring a Fashionable Self: Sartorial Practices in an Emerging Market Context. Social Change Review, 13(2), pp. 137–158.
• Rusu, M.S. (2014). Literary Fiction and Social Science. Two Partially Overlapping Magisteria. Journal of Comparative Research in Anthropology and Sociology, 5(2), pp. 133–152.
• Rusu, M.S. (2014). The Media–History of Memory. Mapping the Technological Regimes of Memory. Philobiblon. Transylvanian Journal of Multidisciplinary Research in Humanities, 9(2), pp. 291–326.
• Rusu, M.S. (2014). (Hi)story–telling the Nation: The Narrative Construction of Romanianism in the Late 19th Century. Journal of Comparative Research in Anthropology and Sociology, 5(1), pp. 97–116.
• Rusu, M.S. (2013). Hermeneutics of Reason: The Principle of Common Rationality as Premise for Understanding the Other(s), Journal of Comparative Research in Anthropology and Sociology, 4(1), pp. 63–83.
• Rusu, M.S. (2013). Topografii ale trecutului: structurarea și restructurarea conștiinței istorice românești prin manualele naționale de istorie [Topographies of the past: structuring and restructuring Romanian historical consciousness through national history textbooks], Sociologie Românească, 11(1), pp. 84–102.
• Rusu, M.S. (2013). History and Collective Memory: The Succeeding Incarnations of an Evolving Relationship. Philobiblon. Transylvanian Journal of Multidisciplinary Research in Humanities, 18, 2, pp. 260–282.
• Rusu, M.S. (2012). Multi–Paradigmaticity, Scattered Cumulativity, Multi–Localized Ignorance: The Tumultuous Condition of Sociological Knowledge. Revista de Cercetare si Interventie Sociala [Review of Research and Social Intervention], 39, pp. 187–203.

Proiecte de cercetare

• Community participation for reducing the burden of cancer: stakeholders’ involvement in facilitating the return to work of cancer patients, PN II RU-TE 2014-4-0478, Director de proiect: conf. univ. dr. Adela Elena Popa – membru în echipa de cercetare, 2016–2017 (în curs de desfășurare)
• Models of interaction between formal and informal social capital. Investigating the supporting and mediating role of the kinship, PN II IDEI 2572/2008, Director de proiect: prof. univ. dr. Petru Iluț – membru în echipa de cercetare, 2011–212.

Curriculum vitae

WORK EXPERIENCE

• February 2016 onwards – Assistant Lecturer
  Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities
  Department of Journalism, Public Relations, Sociology and Psychology,
  Chair of Sociology and Social Work:
  Teaching courses and seminaries
  Conducting research
  Sector Higher education
• October 2013–June 2014 Adjunct Lecturer
  Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Faculty of Sociology and Social Work
  Teaching courses and seminaries
  Conducting research
  Sector Higher education

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

• August 2014–December 2015 Postdoctoral studies in Sociology
  Babeș–Bolyai University, Str. Kogălniceanu nr. 1, 400604 Cluj–Napoca (Romania)
  Title of the research: “Shifting Loyalties: Romanian Patriotism in the Age of Postnationalism” (advisor: Prof. Maria Roth).
• September 2010–April 2014 Ph.D. studies in Sociology
  Babeș–Bolyai University, Str. Kogălniceanu nr. 1, 400604 Cluj–Napoca (Romania)
  Ph.D. thesis title: “Romanian National Memory: The Discursive Making and Remakings of the National Past. Structural Resistances and Substantial Transformations in the Political Management of the Romanian Past” (thesis advisor: Prof. Petru Iluț), 2014
• 2008–2010 Master studies in Advanced Sociological Research
  Babeș–Bolyai University (Faculty of Sociology and Social Work), 128, 21 Decembrie 1989 Blvd, 400604 Cluj–Napoca (Romania)
  Dissertation title: “Collective Memory and the Social Construction of the Past”
  (thesis advisor: Prof. Petru Iluț), defended in June 2010.
• 2004–2008 B.A. studies in Administrative Sciences
  Babeș–Bolyai University (Faculty of Political, Administration and Communication Sciences), 71, General Moșoiu street, 400132 Cluj–Napoca (Romania)
  Political theories
  Organizational theories
  Administrative law

RESEARCH STAGES

• April 30, 2015–June 5, 2015 Visiting Research Fellow
  Oxford Brookes University, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of History, Philosophy and Religion, supervised by Prof. Roger Griffin
  Principal subjects studied: Fascism; New Man Utopia; Sacrificial Patriotism; Heroic Martyrdom
• October 2012–March 2013 Visiting Ph.D. Researcher
  Georg–Eckert–Institut für internationale Schulbuchforschung, Braunschweig, Germany
  Principal subjects studied: Textbook Research; Sociology of Education; Social Memory Studies

PERSONAL SKILLS

Other languages

• Engleza: level C2
• Italian: level A2

Teaching experience

I have taught the following courses:

•  Sociological paradigms (Babes-Bolyai University)
•  Sociology of the body (Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu)
•  Contemporary sociological theories (BBU, LBUS)
•  Sociology of public opinion (BBU)
• History of Romanian social thought (BBU)
• Social psychology (BBU, LBUS)
• Sociology and anthropology of the family (BBU)
•  Academic writing (LBUS)

Summer schools / International and national seminaries

• Lecturer in the international Intensive Programme Anti–Semitism and Anti–Ciganism and the Pursuit of Reflective Social Work, Budapest, 26 May–5 June 2014, organizing university: Hochschule für angewandte Wissenschaften Coburg, Germany.
•  Lecturer in the Junior Summer University, 17–24 July 2012, Babeș–Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, with lectures on “Social Influence, Conformity, and Obedience to Authority,” and “Sociological Conceptions on Social Deviance.”

Participation to research projects

• Project code PN II RU-TE 2014-4-0478, “Community participation for reducing the burden of cancer:
  stakeholders’ involvement in facilitating the return to work of cancer patients, Project director: Assoc. Prof. Adela Elena Popa” (2016–ongoing) – team member.
•  “Understanding Transnational Roma Migration: Challenges and Perspectives for Romania and Norway,” funded through the Financial Mechanism SEE 2009-2014, EEA Grants and Norway Grants, 22 July 2016–15 January 2017, in partnership with the University College of Southeast Norway, 21,363.50 EUR – project director.
•  Project code PN II IDEI 2572/2008, “Models of interaction between formal and informal social capital. Investigating the supporting and mediating role of the kinship,” Project director: Prof. Petru Iluţ, 2011– 2012 – involved as Ph.D. student

Organisational / managerial skills

• Co–editor of the special issue on “The Sociology of Celebration,” Journal of Comparative Research in Anthropology and Sociology, 2016, 7(1), in collaboration with Ismo Kantola (University of Turku, Finland).
•  Reviewer for the following peer reviewed journals:
  Communist and Post–Communist Studies
  Nationalities Papers
  Journal of Comparative Research in Anthropology and Sociology
  Social Change Review and of other contributions to collective volumes.
•  Co–organizer of the folowing conferences:
  International Conference “New Societies, Old Minorities / New Minorities, Old Societies?,” 29 September–1 October 2016, Sibiu, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu.
  International Student Conference “Youth Participation to Research and Psychosocial Intervention in Contemporary Society,” 21–22 April 2015, Cluj Napoca, Babeş–Bolyai University.
•  Moderator of panels in various conferences.

Prizes and awards

• Winner and recipient of the Postdoctoral Scholarship “Young Successful Researchers – Professional Development in an International and Interdisciplinary Environment,” (September 2014–August 2015), POSDRU/159/1.5/S/132400.
•  Winner and recipient of the Ph.D. Scholarship “Modern Doctoral Studies: Internationalization and Interdisciplinary,” (October 2010–September 2013), POSDRU/107/1.5/S/76841.
•  First place award for the paper “Social science and fiction: literature as ideational fertiliser,” within the competition organized by the Sociological Doctoral School of the University of Bucharest entitled “Competing forms of knowledge about the social: science, fiction and everyday life,” February 2012.

PUBLICATIONS

Books

• Rusu, M.S. (2015). Memoria națională românească. Facerea și prefacerile discursive ale trecutului național [Romanian National Memory. The Discursive Making and
  Remakings of the National Past]. Iași: Editura Institutul European, 466 pp.

Peer-reviewed Articles

• Rusu, M.S. (2016). Domesticating Viragos: The Politics of Womanhood in the Romanian Legionary Movement, Fascism. Journal of Comparative Fascist Studies, 5(2), 149–176.
• Rusu, M.S. (2016). The Sacralization of Martyric Death in Romanian Legionary Movement: Self-sacrificial Patriotism, Vicarious Atonement, and Thanatic Nationalism, Politics, Religion & Ideology, 17(2-3), pp. 249–273, DOI: 10.1080/21567689.2016.1232196.
• Rusu, M.S. and Kantola, I. (2016). A Time of Meta-celebration: Celebrating the Sociology of Celebration. Editorial to the special issue on “Sociology of Celebration,” Journal of Comparative Research in Sociology and Anthropology, 7(1), pp. 1–22.
• Rusu, M.S. (2016). Celebrating the Royal Liturgy within the National Calendric Memory – The Politics of Festive Time in the Romanian Kingdom, 1866-1947, Journal of Comparative Research in Anthropology and Sociology, 7(1), pp. 127–159.
• Rusu, M.S. (2016). Fundamentele rezonabilității epistemologice. Comentarii pe marginea lucrării: Traian Rotariu, Fundamente metodologice ale științelor sociale, Iași, Polirom, 2016 [The Foundations of Epistemological Reasonability. Comments on Rotariu 2016], Sociologie românească, 14(1), forthcoming.
• Croitoru, A., Rusu, H., and Rusu, M.S. (2015). Tailoring a Fashionable Self: Sartorial
  Practices in an Emerging Market Context. Social Change Review, 13(2), pp. 137–158.
• Rusu, M.S. (2015). From the Will of Memory to the Right to Be Forgotten – A Paradigm Shift in the Culture of Remembering. Philobiblon. Transylvanian Journal of Multidisciplinary Research in Humanities, 20(2), pp. 384–411.
• Rusu, M.S. (2015). Battling over Romanian Red Past. The Memory of Communism
  between Elitist Cultural Trauma and Popular Collective Nostalgia. Romanian Journal of Society and Politics, 10(1), 18, pp. 24–48.
• Rusu, M.S. (2014). Literary Fiction and Social Science. Two Partially Overlapping
  Magisteria. Journal of Comparative Research in Anthropology and Sociology, 5(2),
  pp. 133–152.
• Rusu, M.S. (2014). The Media–History of Memory. Mapping the Technological Regimes of Memory. Philobiblon. Transylvanian Journal of Multidisciplinary Research in Humanities, 9(2), pp. 291–326.
• Rusu, M.S. (2014). (Hi)story–telling the Nation: The Narrative Construction of Romanianism in the Late 19th Century. Journal of Comparative Research in Anthropology and Sociology, 5(1), pp. 97–116.
• Rusu, M.S. (2013). Setting the Historical Record Straight: Judging the Romanian
  Communist Past against the Backdrop of Popular Nostalgic Resistance, Analele
  Ştiinţifice ale Universităţii „Alexandru Ioan Cuza” din Iaşi. (Serie Noua) Sociologie și Asistență Socială [Scientific Annals of the “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University, Iasi.
  New Series Sociology and Social Work Section], 6(2), pp. 40–57.
• Rusu, M.S. (2013). Hermeneutics of Reason: The Principle of Common Rationality as Premise for Understanding the Other(s), Journal of Comparative Research in
  Anthropology and Sociology, 4(1), pp. 63–83.
• Rusu, M.S. (2013). Topografii ale trecutului: structurarea și restructurarea conștiinței istorice românești prin manualele naționale de istorie [Topographies of the past: structuring and restructuring Romanian historical consciousness through national history textbooks], Sociologie Românească [Romanian Sociology], 11(1), pp. 84–102.
• Rusu, M.S. (2013). History and Collective Memory: The Succeeding Incarnations of an Evolving Relationship. Philobiblon. Transylvanian Journal of Multidisciplinary
  Research in Humanities, 18, 2, pp. 260–282.
• Rusu, M.S. (2012). The Double Wedding: a Social Drama in Two Acts. Acta Universitatis Sapientiae. Social Analysis, 2(2), pp. 185–205.
• Rusu, M.S. (2012). Multi–Paradigmaticity, Scattered Cumulativity, Multi–Localized
  Ignorance: The Tumultuous Condition of Sociological Knowledge. Revista de
  Cercetare si Interventie Sociala [Review of Research and Social Intervention], 39, pp. 187–203.
• Rusu, M.S. (2011). Sociopsychology of Canonization: Petru Iluț in the Structure of
  Sociological Memory. International Colloquium of Social Science ACUM: Social
  Space and Its Actors, 5(2), pp. 31–40.
• Rusu, M.S. (2011). The Colonization of the Past and the Construction of Mnemonic Order. Studia Universitatis Babes–Bolyai – Sociologia, 56(2), pp. 39–57.
• Rusu, M.S. (2011). The Structure of Mnemonic Revolution. International Review of Social Research, 1(1), pp. 105–121.

Book chapters

• Rusu, M.S. (2015). Romania. In Odekon, Mehmet and Golson, J. Geoffrey (Eds).The SAGE Encyclopedia of World Poverty, Second Edition. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, pp. 1333-1334.
• Rusu, M.S. (2015). Virtuțile sociale ale bârfei: o apologie psihosociologică [The Social Virtues of Gossip: A Psychosociological Apology]. In P. Iluț (Ed.). Dragoste, familie și fericire. Spre o sociologie a seninătății [Love, Family and Happiness. Towards a Sociology of Serenity] (pp. 289–339), Iași: Polirom.
• Rusu, M.S. (2015). Dragostea ca fenomen psihosocial, între metaforă și concept. Teorii metaforice ale dragostei [Love as a Psychosocial Phenomenon, between Metaphor and Concept. Metaphorical Theories of Love]. In P. Iluț (Ed.). Dragoste, familie și fericire. Spre o sociologie a seninătății [Love, Family and Happiness. Towards a Sociology of Serenity] (pp. 32–85), Iași: Polirom.
• Rusu, M.S. (2014). Metaphors of Historical Memory: Site, Construction, Archive,
  Palimpsest. In I. Boldea (Ed.). Identities in Metamorphosis. Literature, Discourse and Multicultural Dialogue. Section: Political Sciences, Sociology, International Relations (pp. 188–199). Tîrgu Mureș: Arhipelag XXI Press.
• Rusu, M.S. (2014). Making the New Romanian. An Overview of the Nationalist and the Legionary Programs of Political Anthropogenesis. In I. Boldea (Ed.), Communication, Context, Interdisciplinarity. Volume III. Section: Political Sciences and International Relations (pp. 295–307), Tîrgu Mureș: Arhipelag XXI Press.
• Iluț, P. and Rusu, M.S. (2013). Sociologia postmodernă şi capcanele teoretizării haute couture [Postmodernist sociology and the traps of haute couture theorizing]. In P. Iluț(Ed.). În căutare de principii. Epistemologie și metodologie socială aplicată [In search of principles. Applied social epistemolology and methology] (pp. 91–112), Iași: Polirom.
• Rusu, M.S. (2013). Doctrina simțului comun critic ca platformă epistemologică a cercetării sociale [The doctrine of critical commonsense as the epistemological platform for social research]. In P. Iluț (Ed.). În căutare de principii. Epistemologie și metodologie socială aplicată [In search of principles. Applied social pistemolology and methology] (pp. 159–179), Iași: Polirom.
• Rusu, M.S. (2011). Sociopsihologia memoriei colective [The Sociopsychology of Collective Memory], pp. (67–89). In P. Iluț (ed.). Studii de sociopsihologie [Sociopsychological Studies]. Cluj–Napoca: Presa Universitară Clujeană [Cluj University Press].

Book reviews

• Rusu, M.S. (2014). Book Review: Archie Brown, The Rise and Fall of Communism, New York: Ecco, 2011, 720 pp., The Romanian Journal of Society and Politics, IX(1), 17, pp. 157–160.
• Rusu, M.S. (2012). Book review: Jeffrey K. Olick, Vered Vinitzky–Seroussi, and Daniel Levy (eds.), The Collective Memory Reader, Oxford și New York: Oxford University Press, 528 pp, Sociologie Românească, 10(3), pp. 132–136.

Conferences

• International Conference “Children of Transition, Children of War. The ‘Generation of Transformation’ from a European Perspective,” 3–5 November 2016, University of Vienna, Austria, with the paper “Civilizing the Transitional Generation: The Politics of Civic Education in Post-Communist Romania.”
• The 4th International Conference of the Romanian Sociological Society (RSS), “New
  Societies, Old Minorities / New Minorities, Old Societies?” 29 September–1 October
  2016, Sibiu, Romania, with the paper “Commemorating the Holocaust in Romania. A National Topography of Remembrance.”
• Midterm conference of ESA RN 36 “Social Transformations: New Challenges, Practices, and Critique,” 28–29 September 2016, Sibiu, Romania, with the paper “Fashioning the Post-national Self: The Changing Politics of Civic Education in Pre- and Postaccession Romania.”
• The National Congress of Romanian Historians, 25–28 August 2016, Cluj-Napoca,
  Romania, with the paper “Feminități legionare: o analiză vizuală și de conținut a
  imaginii femeii în presa legionară.”
• The Symposium of the Seminary of Historical Anthropology, 2–4 June 2016, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, with the paper “The Sacralization of Self-Sacrificial Death in the Legionary Ideology: Self-Sacrificial Patriotism, Heroic Martyrdom, and Thanatic Nationalism.”
• National Conference of the Romanian Sociological Society (RSS) and Communication Sciences ACUM 2015, 19–21 November 2015, Brașov, Romania, with the paper “The Royal and Republican Politics of Commemoration: Calendric Struggles over Mastering Symbolic Time in Romanian Modern History.”
• National Conference of the Romanian Sociological Society (RSS) and the International Colloquium of Social and Communication Sciences ACUM 2015, 19–21 November 2015, Brașov, Romania, with the paper “From Amnesia to Anamnesis to Mnemology: The Politics of Memory in Post-Communist Romania.”
• The International Workshop “After the War–A New Beginning? A Comparative Examination of Reading Primers Published and Used in 1945 in Europe,” 13–14 November 2015, Braunschweig, Germany, with the paper “Between Structural Continuity and Ideological Rupture: Romanian Primers for Children and Adults before, during, and after 1945” (in collaboration with Simona Szakács).
• POSDRU Conference, 22–26 September 2015, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, with the paper “Transitional Politics of Memory in Post-Communist Romania.”
• The 12th Conference of the European Sociological Association (ESA) “Differences,
  Inequalities and Sociological Imagination,” 25–28 August 2015, Prague, Czech
  Republic, with the paper “Celebrating the Royal Liturgy within the National Calendric Memory – The Politics of Commemoration in Romanian Kingdom.”
• The International Conference of the Doctoral School “History. Civilization. Culture” of Babes–Bolyai University, 9–10 July 2015, Cluj–Napoca, Romania, with the paper
  “From ‘Obedience towards Sovereignty’ to the Supreme Sacrifice for the Nation: The
  Contortions of Romanian Patriotism from the Organic Rules to the Second World
  War.”
• The Society for Romanian Studies 2015 International Conference “Linking Past, Present and Future: The 25th Anniversary of Regime Change in Romania and Moldova (1989/1991),” 17–19 June 2015, Faculty of Political Science, University of Bucharest, Romania, with the paper “Transitional Memory: Political Strategies for the Public Management of the Past in Transitional Times.”
• The International Student Conference “Youth Participation to Research and Psychosocial Intervention in Contemporary Society,” 21–22 April 2015, Cluj Napoca, Babeş–Bolyai University, Romania, with the paper “Yearning after a Pre–biographic Past: Romanian Teenagers’ Nostalgia over the Communist Regime,” (Keynote address).
• The International Scientific Conference “Literature, Discourse and Multicultural Dialogue (LDMD),” 2nd Edition, 4–5 December 2014, Tîrgu Mureș, “Petru Maior” University, Romania, with the paper “Metaphors of Historical Memory: Site, Construction, Archive, Palimpsest.”
• The Annual Conference of the Hungarian Sociological Association, “Nationhood in the Carpathian Region: Hungarians and their Neighbours – Sociological Perspectives,” 27–29 November 2014, Babeş–Bolyai University, Cluj–Napoca, Romania, with the paper “Emplotting the Nation: The Narrative Construction of the ‘Romanian Master Story’.”
• Conference of the Romanian Society for Social and Cultural Anthropology (SASC) “Modes of Appropriation and Social Resistance,” 11th Edition, 21–22 November 2014, Babeș– Bolyai University, Cluj–Napoca, Romania, with the paper “’Sub specie Europæa.’
• Reforms and Resistences in Remembering the Romanian Past within the New
  European Ethics of Memory.”
• The 3rd Edition of the International Scientific Conference “Communication, context, interdisciplinarity,” (CCI3) 23–24 October 2014, “Petru Maior” University, Tîrgu Mureș, Romania, with the paper “Making The New Romanian. An Overview of the Romanian Programs of Political Anthropogenesis.”
• The 7th Edition of ABDD International Conference “Dying and Death in 18th–21st Century Europe,” 4–6 September 2014, University “1st of December 1918” of Alba Iulia, Romania, with the paper “Thanatic Nationalism, Sacrificial Patriotism: Dying for the Country in the Nationalist Century of Romanian Historical Existence (1848–1947)”.
• The 3rd International Conference of the Romanian Sociological Society, “Society of the 21st Century. Challenges, Trends, and Perspectives,” 9–10 May 2014, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași, Romania, with the paper “Romanian Post–National Memory. Coming to Terms with the Challenge of European Identity.”
• The 11th Conference of the European Sociological Association (ESA) “Crisis, Critique and Change,” 28–31 August 2013, Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy, with the paper “Revertebrating Collective Memory’s Backbone: The Changing Logic of Periodization in Romanian Historical Consciousness.”
• The Annual National Conference of the Faculty of Sociology and Social Work, “Distance and Togetherness through Time and Space,” 7–9 June 2013, University of Bucharest, Romania, with the paper “More than a ‘Story’: Sociology’s Grip on Reality.”
• The National Conference of the Romanian Sociological Society (RSS), “Social Challanges:
  Institutions, Values, Trends” 16–18 May 2013, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași, Romania, with the paper “‘Societal Schizophrenia’: The Memory of Romanian
  Communism between Elitist Cultural Trauma and Popular Red Nostalgia.”
• National Colloquium for Social Sciences (ACUM), 17–18 November 2011, Transylvania University of Brașov, Romania, with the paper “Sociopsihologia canonizării: Petru Iluț în structura memoriei sociologice.”
• The 2nd International Conference of the Romanian Sociological Society (RSS), “Beyond Globalization,” 31 May–3 June 2012, University of Bucharest, Romania, with the paper “The Canon of Sociology and the Sociology of Canonization.”
• The Annual Research Conference in Sociology and Social Work, 27–28 May 2011,
  University of Bucharest, Romania, with the paper “Sociopsychology of Collective
  Memory: An Exercise in (Macro)Theorizing.”
• The First International Conference of the Romanian Sociological Society (RSS), 2–4
  December 2010, Babeș–Bolyai University, Cluj–Napoca, Romania, with the paper
  “The Structure of Mnemonic Revolutions.”

Professional membership

• Member of CORPUS. International Group for the Cultural Studies of the Body
  (http://corpus.comlu.com) since March 2016.
• Member of “Transnational Memory & Identity in Europe Research Network”
  (http://councilforeuropeanstudies.org/research/research etworks/transnationalmemory) since June 2015.
• Member of the “Society for Romanian Studies” (SRS)
  (http://www.society4romanianstudies.org) since 2014.
• Member of “European Sociological Association” (ESA) (http://www.europeansociology.org) since May 2013, affiliated to ESA Research Network: RN29 Social Theory.
• Member of “The Romanian Sociological Society” (SSR) (http://societateasociologilor.ro) since 2011.
• Member of “The Social Psychology Club” of The Romanian Sociological Society (http://ssrpsihosociologie.ro) since 2011.