C. S. Lewis – Received, Reflected, Reinvented

C. S. Lewis – Received, Reflected, Reinvented
The Seventh C. S. Lewis and Kindred Spirits Conference at Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași, Romania

19 - 22 November 2025

❗💡 More info on: https://iasi.cslks.ro/

Over the past two decades C. S. Lewis has not only persisted as a cultural icon, and his writings as cultural touchstones, but the impact of both his person and his work continues to reach into new mediums and find new expressions in fields he himself could not have imagined. Film, theatre, video games, board games, dance, sculptures, paintings, book illustrations, fanfiction – all join the continual burgeoning of academic papers and theses, biographies, monographs, personal blogs. Since their publication, Lewis’s writings have attracted a wide range of readership and thus an ever-widening range of interpretive responses, such as reading a Narnia novel as basic religious allegory, medieval cosmology, or covert criticism of communism. The process goes both ways, for there is a consistent acknowledgment that these works can, in turn, change perceptions, perhaps even entire worldviews. Of particular interest is how his works – and those of the Inklings in general – have been received, reflected or re-invented through different cultural lenses, societies, languages, and the varying resulting impacts on readers; the variances in apprehension and (re)interpretation in literary criticism and literary history.

A Century of Scholarly Pursuits: Anglicists and Americanists Today - Facing Ideology and its Discontents

Iasi, May 8-9, 2025

A Hybrid Conference

In the hallowed halls of the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi and also in a hybrid format, scholars from all over Romania, as well as abroad, gathered to mark a momentous occasion: the centennial celebration of the founding of the English Department (one of the many of the Faculty of Letters). The conference, aptly titled Facing Ideology and its Discontents, provided a fertile ground for intellectual discourse, drawing attention to the ever-evolving landscape of ideologies that shape our world through various mechanisms of our language(s).

The centenary celebration was opened by Dr. Dana Bădulescu (Head of the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures) and featured speeches by Dr. Nicoleta Laura Popa (Vice-Rector of Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași), Dr. Oana Cogeanu-Haraga (Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Letters), and Dr. Codrin Liviu Cuțitaru (Member of the Scientific Committee).

The Conference opened each day with a plenary session featuring keynote speakers from Romania and abroad.

Întâlnire cu Mihaela Pîrvuleț, terminolog principal la DGT-RO

Marți, 13 mai 2025, în Sala Senat, studentele, studenții și cadrele didactice de la specializarea Limbi Moderne Aplicate - Traducere și Interpretare și de la masteratul de Traducere și terminologie au avut plăcerea de a se întâlni cu doamna Mihaela Pîrvuleț, terminolog principal la Directoratul General pentru Traduceri al Uniunii Europene. În cadrul întâlnirii, doamna Pîrvuleț ne-a vorbit, printre altele, despre ce presupune munca de terminolog în instituțiile europene, instrumentele informatice folosite, cursul normal al unui proiect terminologic, dar și despre importanța documentării, a unei foarte bune cunoașteri a limbilor străine implicate și a perseverenței.