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EU Enlargement Outcomes in Romania Seven Years Later: Diasporas as agents of Europeanization?
February 25, 2014 at 3:00 PM to 4:30 PM
| Location: | 6th Floor, A602 Loeb Building |
| Cost: | Free |
| Key Contact: | Cathleen Schmidt |
| Contact Email: | ces@carleton.ca |
| Contact Phone: | 613-520-2600 ext. 1087 |
The Centre for European Studies at Carleton University is pleased to present, as part of its Current Events Series:
EU Enlargement Outcomes in Romania Seven Years Later: Diasporas as agents of Europeanization?
By Professor Gabriel Marin
Lecturer at Royal Military College of Canada
* Coffee, tea and light snacks will be served. No RSVP required for this event.
Following the accession of Romania and Bulgaria to the European Union (January 1st, 2007), there has been a continuing process of socio-economic and political transformation. The speaker will look at the role of new ‘political’ diaspora as “genuine” resources for continuing democratization and as a new extended “trans-national” electoral force. He also will reflect on the way that these voices are mediated and echoed at the European institutional level, either by parties and European political alliances, or by non-governmental and civil society organizations. He argues that Eastern European Diaspora could be a “lieu de passage,” a term coined by Walter Benjamin, by which economic, political, social and cultural change are “displayed” as forms of Europeanization.
Biography: Gabriel Marin received a PhD in History at the University of Laval in 2004. He has worked and studied in Romania, Russia, Hungary, France, Canada and the U.S. He was previously a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Public History at Carleton University. His previous research was on the Eastern European community in Canada and the U.S. with a specific focus on “Broadcasting the Memory of the Cold War with the Eastern European Immigrant Truck-Drivers”. He published a book Apprendre l’histoire à l’école communiste. Mémoire et crise identitaire à travers les manuels scolaires des Roumains (L’Harmattan, Paris, France ,2013) and several papers dealing with national and European identity and Eastern European migration. He was Director at the Institute for the Investigation of the Communist Crime and the Memory of the Romanian Exile. He was previously a lecturer at the University of Ottawa and is currently teaching at the Royal Military College of Canada.
The event is supported, in part, by a grant from the European Union.