SOCIETY FOR ROMANIAN STUDIES SUMMER UPDATE/30 v 2007
1. Plans for the Fifth International Congress on Romanian Studies, June 25-28, at Ovidius University in Constanta, are more or less complete. Some 300+ presentations are scheduled. For more information, see http://www.huntington.edu/srs/constanta2007.htm. Of course, anyone is welcome to attend the congress, whether or not they are involved in one of the numerous panels and roundtables.
2. The latest number of the SRS NEWSLETTER has been sent out. An electronic version can be downloaded at: http://www.huntington.edu/srs/srs_newsletter.htm
3. Romanians did rather well at the Cannes Film Festival. According to the New York Times, May 28, 2007, „The message from the Cannes Film Festival juries was clear: Romania rules. In its closing ceremony on Sunday the festival bestowed two of its most important prizes on Romanian films, affirming the vitality of this recently emerging cinema. The top award, the Palme dOr, went to Cristian Mungiu for „4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days,” an unsparing yet humane look at life during the dictatorship of Nicolae Ceausescu.
Additionally the jury for Un Certain Regard, a sidebar to the main competition, gave its highest honor to „California Dreamin, „a first feature by Cristian Nemescu set in Romania during the Kosovo
war of 1999.”
We wish you all a pleasant summer.