Seminar on Lesson Planning: Lesson Planning – Friend or Foe? The Department of Foreign Studies and Silvia Manoliu Association for Anglophone Studies are holding a Seminar on Lesson Planning: Lesson Planning – Friend or Foe? on April 28th, 2018 Teacher…
Call for Papers MSA, Vol 6, No 1, August 2019
Reading Reality through Science Fiction The academic journal Messages, Sages and Ages (http://www.msa.usv.ro/), based at the English Department, University of Suceava, Romania, invites contributions for an issue on “science fiction as reality-check”; the theme issue is guest edited by Roberto…
Call for Papers MSA, Vol 5, No 2, November 2018
OBSCENITY: “I Know It when I See It” The academic journal Messages, Sages and Ages (http://www.msa.usv.ro/), based at the English Department, University of Suceava, Romania, invites contributions for an issue focusing on the theme of obscenity. We envisage papers that…
Call for Papers MSA, Vol 5, No 1, August 2018
T(r)opophilia: Haunting/Haunted Places The academic journal Messages, Sages and Ages (http://www.msa.usv.ro/), based at the English Department, University of Suceava, Romania, invites contributions for an issue focusing on t(r)opophilia: sense/love of place. If the nineteenth century and the former part of…
Teacher Development Day: A Four-Hour Seminar on English Teaching and Learning, November 4th, 2017
Teacher Development Day, November 4th, 2017 The Department of Foreign Studies and Silvia Manoliu Association for Anglophone Studies are holding their Teacher Development Day: A Four-Hour Seminar on English Teaching and Learning on November 4th, 2017 Presenters: 1. ALINA CREȚU…
Messages, Sages and Ages, Vol. 4, No. 1, (2017)
Editor: Onoriu Colacel
GERHARD RICHTER’S CRITICAL ARTISTIC STRATEGIES: POLITICS, TERRORISM AND WAR – Randall K. Van Schepen
The present paper analyzes two artistic strategies employed by Gerhard Richter to deal with painful recent cultural memory. Two works in particular reveal the relative success of Richter’s varied artistic strategies addressing contemporary political events: 18. Oktober 1977 (1988) and…
A STUDY OF THE THIRD SPACE, HYBRIDITY, AND COLONIAL MIMICRY IN ATHOL FUGARD’S MY CHILDREN! MY AFRICA! – Parvin Ghasemi, Samira Sasani, Fatereh Nemati
South Africa, like many other Eastern countries, was a victim of the brutal phenomenon called colonialism. Its people suffered a lot but did not give up protesting against it. Literature was often used as a means to demonstrate the problems…
TRANSYLVANIAN SAXON CHARMS AS PART OF OLD GERMANIC FOLKLORE – Andrea Bargan
The present article deals with archaic pieces of folklore, namely with Transylvanian Saxon (TS) charms recorded in the 19th century. The author, herself a speaker of the TS dialect, translated a number of those charms into English and added comments…