LUDMILA D. COJOCARU
Faculty of History and Philosophy, Moldova State University
С.P. 2980, Chisinau, MD-2004, Republic of Moldova
E-mail: lcojocari@gmail.com
Website: www.promemoria.md
Education
1998 PhD in History, Academy of Sciences of Moldova, Ethnology
1993 Graduate studies, Moldova State University, History
Scientific Degree
1998 PhD in History, Diploma of Doctor in History Sciences. Institute of Ethnography and Folklore, Academy of Sciences of Moldova; 25 February 1999, Diploma nr. 00742; 07.00.07 - Ethnography, Ethnology, Anthropology
Academic Degree
2004 Associate Professor in Ethnology, Cultural and Historical Anthropology. Free International University of Moldova; 23 December 2004, Diploma nr. CU 0003
Academic Positions
2011-prezent Associate Professor, Institute of Social History, Faculty of History and Philosophy, Moldova State University
2010-prezent Visiting Professor (part-time), European Humanities University, Vilnius, Lithuania
2009-2010 Superior Researcher, Institute of European Integration and Political Sciences, Academy of Sciences of Moldova
2005-2009 Superior Researcher, Institute of History and Political Sciences, Free International University of Moldova
2004-2009 Associate Professor, Faculty of History and International Relations, Free International University of Moldova
1998-2004 Superior Lecturer, Department of History and International Relations, Free International University of Moldova
1997-1998 Scientific Researcher, Institute of Ethnography and Folklore, Academy of Sciences of Moldova
Administrative Appointments
2010 Academic Director, Institute of European Integration and Political Sciences, Academy of Sciences of Moldova
2005-2009 Chair, Section “Contemporary History”, Institute of History and Political Sciences, Free International University of Moldova
1998-1999 Leading Specialist, Department of Higher Education, Ministry of Education of the Republic of Moldova
Professional Development (2005- )
2015 Methodological On-line Workshop “Changes and New Features of Moodle 2.9” (6 ac. hours), European Humanities University, Vilnius, Lithuania, 8-10 December 2015
Seminar “New Request for Projecting and Development of Online Courses for Graduate School using Educational Media Materials” (6 hours), European Humanities University, Vilnius, Lithuania, 19 May 2015
2014 Documentation and exchange of experience, Tbilisi State University, Georgia, August-September 2014
Documentation visit at the Institute “Archive of Folklore of Romanian Academy”, Cluj-Napoca, January-February 2014
2012 Course “Development of Online Courses for Graduate School” (3 ECTS), European Humanities University, Vilnius, Lithuania
2011 Documentation and exchange of experience, Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, USA, 10-24 October 2011
Documentation and exchange of experience, Max Planck Institute of Social Anthropology from Halle/Saale, Germany, September-October 2011
2010 DAAD documentation and exchange of experience, University of Regensburg, Germany, September-December 2010
Documentation and exchange of experience, Centre of Russian and Eurasian Studies, University of Uppsala, Sweden, 09-16 March & 9-27 August 2010
2009 DAAD visit of documentation, FU Berlin, Germany, October 2009 - January 2010
2008 Documentation & exchange experience, University of Bucharest, Romania, April-June 2008
2007 Volkswagen Program documentation visit, Graz University, Austria, February-March 2007
OSI-HESP Program documentation visit, University of Bucharest, Romania, April-June 2007
2006 OSI-HESP Program study visit, Free University of Berlin, 8-15 October 2006
2005-2006 Fulbright Program research documentation, University of Pittsburgh, USA, August-January 2006
Courses taught
Postmodern Theories and Practices (MA)
Ethnicity, Nationalism and Identity (MA)
Oral History (MA)
Identity Patterns and National Projects in the Eastern Europe (MA)
Memory Politics in Post-Totalitarian Societies (MA)
Ethnology (BA)
Cultural Anthropology (BA)
Political Semiotics (BA)
Ethno-Confessional Geography of the Contemporary World (BA)
Fieldwork
2012-2015 Memory and Commemorations of Communist Repressions in Moldavian SSR, R. Moldova
2010-2014 Festive and Commemorative Culture and Public Remembering after Socialism, R. Moldova
2009-2010 Performative Dimension of (Re)constructing the National Identity, Republic of Moldova
2007-2008 Memory Politics and Nation-Building Projects, Republic of Moldova
2003-2006 National Holidays and Memory Practices, Republic of Moldova
2002-2010 Nuptial Rituals and Practices, Republic of Moldova
1995-1998 Wedding Traditions, Republic of Moldova
Scholarships & Awards
2015 -2016 State Program of the Republic of Moldova
2015 Eastern Partnership. Civil Society Forum
2014, 2015 Department of Policies for Liaison with Romanians Everywhere (DPRRP)
2013 Seton-Watson Program, Romanian Cultural Institute
2012 Geschichtswerkstatt Europa
2011 UC Berkeley CASE-CRRC Field Development Project, USA
2011 Max Planck Institute of Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale, Germany
2010-2011 Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
2010-2011 ACTR-ACCELS Program
2009-2010 DAAD-OSI Program
2008-2010 Swedish Institute Program
2007-2008 ACTR-ACCELS Program
2006-2009 Volkswagen Foundation
2005-2008 OSI-HESP Unit Partnership Program
2005-2006 ACTR-ACCELS Program
2005-2006 Fulbright Scholarship Program
2001-2004 OSI-HESP Unit Partnership Program
2000-2004 Civic Education Program
1999-2000 OSI-HESP Curriculum Resource Centre Program
1996-1998 Moldova Soros Foundation Program
Key-Note Presentations & Speaking Engagements (2005-prezent)
2015 “Taras Shevchenko” Kiev National University. Invited speaker at the International Scientific Conference “Ukraine in 20-21 Centuries: towards Dignity and Freedom”, Kiev, 11-12 December 2015. Presentation: The Memory of the War: from the Great Power Nostalgia to European Culture of Memory
Institute of Educational Sciences. Invited speaker for Courses of Continuing Professional Development for teachers of the History, Chișinău, 2 December 2015. Presentation: Oral History: Theories and Methods
Institute of Educational Sciences. Invited speaker for Courses of Continuing Professional Development for teachers of the History, Chișinău, 12 October 2015. Presentation: Oral History Sources: New Perspective for Teaching History
Moldova State University. Invited speaker by the Federal Foundation for the Reappraisal of the SED-Dictatorship (Bundesstiftung zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur), Chisinau, 6-12 September 2015. Presentation: Umgang mit politischen Denkmälern. Wahrnehmungen und Einstellungen/Confronting Political Monuments: Perceptions and Attitudes
2014 Lund University, Sweden. Key-note presentation for the end-project-conference “The Memory of Vanished Population Groups and Societies in Today’s East- and Central European Urban Environments. Memory Treatment and Urban Planning in Lviv, Černivci, Chișinău and Wrocław”. Presentation: Competing Regimes of Memory at the Margins of “New Eastern Europe”: Between Nation-Building and Diversity-Performing, Lund 19-21 November 2014
2013 Centre for Social Anthropology, Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas. Presentation: The Mărţișor Celebrations in Moldova: Tradition, Art and Politics”, Kaunas, 16 May 2013
2011 Max Planck Institute of Social Anthropology from Halle/Saale, Germany. Presentation: Celebrations and Festival Culture in the Post-Soviet Moldova (1989-2009): the Case of the International Music Festival “Martisor”, 10 October 2011
European Humanities University of Vilnius, Lithuania. MA curse Patterns of Identity and Nation-building Projects in the Eastern Europe Borderland, November-December 2011
2010 Institute for South East European Studies, Regensburg, Germania. Presentation: Seeing beyond the Memory Policy in the EU Neighbourhood: the case of the Republic of Moldova, 29 October 2010
Berliner Forschungscolloquium Sudosteuropa, Osteuropa-Institut, Free University of Berlin, Germany. Presentation: Nation-Building and Collective Memory in the Republic of Moldova: between Political Symbols, Ideological Performance, and Identity Dilemmas, 15 January 2010
2009 International Colloquium for MA students “Modern theories of social and political processes and the collective memory factors”, Civil Service Academy, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. Theoretical-methodological seminar: Persistence of Memory (Studies): Prolegomena to Theories, Concepts, and Practical Approaches, 27-29 May 2009
2005 REES Centre, University of Pittsburgh, USA. Public Lecture: Metamorphoses of Collective Memory and National Identity in the Republic of Moldova: Between Visible and Invisible Borders, 29 November 2005
Department of Folklore and Linguistic, Utah State University, Logan, USA. Public Presentation: Traditions, Customs and Holidays in the Republic of Moldova, 2 November 2005
Projects coordinated (2005-)
2015-2018 Project Director, collective project “The Recovering and Historical Investigation of the Memory of Totalitarian-Communist Regime’s Victims in the Moldavian SSR (1940-1941, 1944-1953). Researches in the Localities from the Center Area of the Republic of Moldova”, Contract/reference number: 15.857.06.02F
2015-2016 National Expert, collective project “Monitoring of the Public Participation in the Higher Education Governance (Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova)” with the support of Eastern Partnership. Civil Society Forum
2014-2015 Methodological Coordinator, collective project “Romanians in the Gulag: Recovering and Studying Historical Memory of the Victims of the Totalitarian Communist Regime in Bessarabia (1940-1941, 1944-1953): Project extension”. Contract/reference number: U1-1/534/18.06.2014 MAE-DPRRP
2013-2014 Methodological Coordinator, collective project “Romanians in the Gulag: Recovering and Studying Historical Memory of the Victims of the Totalitarian Communist Regime in Bessarabia (1940-1941, 1944-1953)”. Contract/reference number: U1-1/717/28.06.2013 MAE-DPRRP
2011-2012 Scientific Coordinator, international project “Deportations from the Region of Chernivci (Ukraine) in 1947 and from the Neighbouring Edinets District (Moldova) in 1949”. Geschichtswerkstatt Europa Program
2008-2010 Scientific Coordinator, institutional project “A Division between Educative and Teaching Internationalization in Post-Soviet Universities” in cooperation with University of Uppsala. Swedish Institute Program
2005-2008 Director of the Grant, institutional project “Democratizing the Teaching and Learning of History: Sharing the Partnership Experience” in cooperation with the University of București. OSI-HESP Faculty Development Unit Partnership Program
2002 Director of the Project, institutional project “The International Academic Network on Anthropology (InANA) Project”. CEP Program
2001-2005 Director, institutional project “Modernizing the Department of History and International Relations, Free International University of Moldova” in cooperation with the University of Silesia. OSI-HESP Faculty Development Unit Partnership Program
Conferences / roundtables / seminars organised
2015 Co-convenor, Scientific Conference Scientific Conference “The Stalinist Terror in the Moldavian SSR: Issues, Methodological Criteria, and Achievements of Oral History” with the support of the RM’ State Program, Chișinău, 25 November 2014
Co-convenor, Methodological Seminar “Recovering and Historical Investigation of the Memory of Totalitarian-Communist Regime’s Victims in the Moldavian SSR (1940-1941, 1944-1953). Researches in the Localities from the Center Area of the Republic of Moldova” with the support of the RM’s State Program, Chișinău, 14 June 2015
2012 Co-convenor, Conference “Politics and Practices of Memory in Eastern Europe: Between Totalitarian Past and European Future” with the support of KAS Program, Chișinău, 30 November-1 December 2012
Co-organiser, Session “Teaching and Studying Anthropology in the Post-Soviet Universities” at the conference “The Mission of Humanities Universities in Eastern and Central Europe” in cooperation with the European Humanities University, Vilnius, 22-23 June 2012
Co-organiser, Exhibition „Historical and Archaeological Patrimony of Chișinău: Documentation, Protection, Values” with the support of Cultural Department of the Chişinău City Hall, Chişinău, 14 October 2012
Co-organiser, Roundtable “21 Anniversary of Independence: Peoples, Histories, Memories” with the support of Cultural Department of the Chişinău City Hall, Chișinău, 29 August 2012
2011 Co-organiser, Roundtable “The Memory of Dniester Conflict: Forgiving and Reconciliation through Christian Religion” with the support of Varnița City Hall, Varnița, 21 May 2011
Co-convenor, Conference “Stalinist Terror and Resistance in Eastern Europe” with the support of Cultural Department of the Chişinău City Hall, Chișinău, 28 October 2011
2010 Convenor, Roundtable “9 May - 65 Anniversary of Victory: European Values and Aspirations in the Republic of Moldova Memory Politics” with the support of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova, Chișinău, 6 May 2010
Convenor, Seminar “Internationalization of Post-Soviet Universities” with the support of the University of Uppsala, Chișinău, 7 April 2010
2009 Co-organiser, Conference “New and Ambiguous Nation-building Processes in South-eastern Europe” with the support of FU Berlin and Graz University, Chișinău, 14-18 October 2009
Co-organiser, Conference “Composite Nations & Multiple Memories in the East-European Borderland (Belarus, Moldova, and Ukraine)” with the support of SCOPES program, Chișinău, 5-6 April 2009
2008 Co-organiser, Conference “Politics and Collective Identities in Border Regions (MD, UA and BY) in the Context of an Enlarged but Sealed EU” with the support of Fribourg University, Fribourg, 4-7 September 2008
2007 Convenor, End-of-Project-Seminar “Teaching and Studying of the History in the Republic of Moldova: Old Paradigms and Perspectives of Modernising” with the support of HESP South-East European Faculty Development Program, Chișinău, 30 June 2007
Co-convenor, Conference “History and Collective Memory in the South-Eastern Europe: Dilemmas of Political Discourse Implication” with the support of East-East Program, Moldova Soros Foundation, Chișinău, 22-23 November 2007
Publications (2005-prezent)
Books
2016 Ludmila D. Cojocaru (ed.), Arhivele Memoriei. [Archives of Memory], tom. I, vol. I, Chișinău: Editura Balacron (in printing)
2015 Anatol Petrencu, Ludmila D. Cojocaru, Lidia Pădureac (eds), Românii în Gulag: memorii, mărturii, documente [Romanians in the Gulag: Memories, Testimonies, Documents], vol. II, Chișinău: Editura Balacron, 2015, 362 p. ISBN: 978-9975-128-42-1
Award: “Clio” of the International Book Salon Edition XXIV, Chisinau, 2015
2014 Anatol Petrencu, Ludmila D. Cojocaru, Lidia Pădureac (eds), Românii în Gulag: memorii, mărturii, documente [Romanians in the Gulag: Memories, Testimonies, Documents], vol. I, Chișinău: Editura Balacron, 2014, 350 p. ISBN: 978-9975-128-09-4
Award: “Promemoria” of the International Book Salon Edition XXIII, Chisinau, 2014
Reviews: Maria Vleju, Teodor Marșalcovschi, Expansionismul și deportările criminale, “Cuvântul. Săptămânal Regional Independent”, 12 martie 2015; Alexandru Zub, „Basarabia” în dezbatere istorico-memorială (Sighet 2014), “Convorbiri Literare”, CXLVIII, 8(224), p. 37-38.
2013 Ludmila D. Cojocaru, Jennifer R. Cash (guest eds), Time, Space and Agency in (Post)socialist Festive Culture, special issue of “Interstitio. East European Review of Historical and Cultural Anthropology”, vol. V, nr. 1-2(9-10), 2013. ISSN: 1857-047X
Rozita Dimova, Ludmila D. Cojocaru (guest eds), Politics and Performance in South-Eastern Europe, special issues of “History and Anthropology”, vol. 24(1), February 2013, 182 p. ISSN 0275-7206
2010 Victor Tvircun, Ludmila Cojocaru et. al. (eds), Societatea contemporană în viziunea tinerilor cercetători: provocări, contribuţii, perspective [Contemporary Society in the Vision of Young Researchers: Challenges, Contributions, Perspectives], Chişinău: Prag-3, 2010, 308 p. ISBN: 978-9975-77-134-4
Book Chapters
2015 Ludmila D. Cojocaru, Lidia Pădureac, Deportările staliniste în Basarabia: memorii împărtășite [Stalinist Deportations in Bessarabia: Shared Memories], in “Românii în Gulag: memorii, mărturii, documente”, Anatol Petrencu, Ludmila D. Cojocaru, Lidia Pădureac (eds), vol. II, Chișinău: Ed. “Balacron”, 2015, p. 7-58. ISBN: 978-9975-128-42-1
2014 Ludmila D. Cojocaru, Nășia la românii din Basarabia: între autoritatea tradiției și avatarurile modernizării [Godparenthood at the Bessarabian Romanians: between Tradition’s Authority and Avatars of Modernity], in “Cultura populară la români: context istoric și specific cultural”, Nicolae Mihai (ed.), Cluj Napoca: Ed. Presa Universitară Clujeană, 2014, p. 215-235. ISBN 978-973-595-799-5
Ludmila D. Cojocaru, Deportările staliniste - traumă a memoriei românilor basarabeni [Stalinist Deportations - A Trauma in the Memory of Romanians from Bessarabia], in “Românii în Gulag: memorii, mărturii, documente”, Anatol Petrencu, Ludmila D. Cojocaru, Lidia Pădureac (eds), vol. I, Chișinău: Ed. “Balacron”, 2014, p. 319-337. ISBN: 978-9975-128-09-4
2013 Ludmila D. Cojocaru, “Republica Moldova, Patria mea!”: The Moldavian Nation-Building Project in Search of Reification and Legitimacy, in “The Ambiguous Nation. Case Studies from Southeastern Europe in the 20th Century”, Ulf Brunnbauer, Hannes Gradits (eds), Oldenbourg: Wissenschaftsverlag, 2013, p. 283-305. ISBN 978-3-486-72296-3.
Ludmila D. Cojocaru, Virgiliu Bîrlădeanu, Război, alcool, identitate. Al Doilea Război Mondial în memoria socială a Republicii Moldova (2001-2009) [War, Alcohol, Identity. The WWII in the Social Memory of the Republic of Moldova], in “Istoria recentă altfel. Perspective culturale”, Andi Mihalache, Adrian Cioflâncă (coords), Iași: Editura Universității „Alexandru Ioan Cuza” from Iași, 2013, p. 877-887. ISBN 978-973-7003-883-8
2011 Ludmila Cojocaru, Festivalul ‘Mărţișor’ (1966- 2009): între celebrarea primăverii și mitologia naţiunii [Festival ‘Martisor’ (1966-2009): Between Spring Season Celebration and Mythology of the Nation], in “Disciplinarea socială şi modernitatea în societatea modernă şi contemporană (sec. XVI-XXI)”, Toader Nicoară (ed.), Cluj-Napoca: Accent, p. 529-543, 2011. ISBN 978-606-561-031-6
Ludmila Cojocari, Staging the Nation in Moldova: Between Politics and Practices of Memory, and Beyond, in “Коллективная социально-историческая память и вызовы современности. Актуальные теоретические очерки”, Андрей Дахин (коорд. изд.), Нижний Новгород: Изд-во ВВАГС, 2011, c. 63-76. ISBN: 978-5-85152-873-6
2010 Лудмила Кожокари, Паттерны пограничной идентичности в практиках коллективной памяти постсоветской Молдовы [Patterns of Border Identity in the Practices of Collective Memory in Post-Soviet Moldova], in “Республика Молдова в контексте воображаемых и действительных границ (Паттерны пограничной идентичности)”, Виржилиу Бырлэдяну (коорд. изд.), Вильнюc: ЕГУ, 2010, p. 41-61. ISBN: 978-9953-773-24-5
Лудмила Кожокари, Ала Швец, Национальный праздник в пограничье (наброски к портрету “воображаемых сообществ”) [National Holiday in the Borderlands (sketches at the portrait of ‘imagined communities’)], in „Республика Молдова в контексте воображаемых и действительных границ (Паттерны пограничной идентичности)”, Виржилиу Бырлэдяну (коорд. изд.), Вильнюс: ЕГУ, 2010, с. 62-78. ISBN: 978-9953-773-24-5
Ludmila Cojocari, 100 grams for Victory!’ or the Dilemmas of Collective Memory in the Republic of Moldova, in “Alcoholism - Historical and Social Issues. International Conference (1st edition)”, Marius Rotar & V.T. Roșu (eds), Alba Iulia: Altip, 2010, p. 51-58. ISBN: 978-973-117-258-3
2009 Ludmila Cojocari, Between Politics and Practices of Memory, and Beyond: the Case of International Music Festival “Mărţişor”, in “Probleme actuale de istorie naţională”, Andrei Galben, Gheorghe Postică (eds), Chişinău: ULIM, 2009, p. 323-334. ISBN: 978-9975-934-80-0
2008 Ludmila Cojocari, The Culture of Memory and Amnesia in the Borderland Societies: The case of the Republic of Moldova, in “Impact of Culture on Human Interaction: Clash or Challenge”, Helfrich H. et al. (eds), Göttingen: Hogrefe & Huber, 2008, p. 233-247. ISBN: 978-0-88937-364-8
2005 Ludmila Cojocari, Metamorphoses of Memory in the Post-totalitarian Societies. The Case of the Republic of Moldova, in „Identity and Tolerance in Interethnic Civil Society - Selected Papers of the III International Seminar, May 11-14, 2004, Alushta, Ukraine”, Kjartan Selnes & Tatiana Senyushkina (eds), Oslo: Human-Etisk Forbund, 2005, p. 31-41. ISBN: 82-92529-05-5
Articles (peer-reviewed journals)
2015 Ludmila D. Cojocaru, (Re)viziting Romanian Childhoood, review for: Nicoleta Roman (coord.), Copilăria românească între familie și societate (secolele XVIIXX), București, Nemira Publishing House, 2015, 417 p., in “Brukenthalia. Romanian Cultural History Review. Supplement of Brukenthal. Acta Musei”, vol. 5, 2015, p. 1022-1023. ISSN: 2285-9489
Ludmila D. Cojocaru, Studying and Teaching Anthropology in Moldova after 1991: Legacies, Opportunities, and Deadlocks, special issue of “Ethnologia Balkanica. Journal for Southeast European Anthropology”, vol. 17: Changing Paradigms. The State of the Ethnological Sciences in Southeast Europe, Klaus Roth (ed.), Berlin, Zurich: LIT, 2015, p. 191-198, http://www.ceeol.com/aspx/issuedetails.aspx?issueid=f1a635f1-7faa-443c-8fe9-e9338078b355&articleId=217241d5-c3a4-4a84-b62e-972db0918110 . ISBN 978-3-643-90621-2, ISSN 1111-0411
2013 Ludmila D. Cojocaru, Jennifer R. Cash, Approaching Festive Culture after Socialism: Historical Ruptures, Memory Continuities, special issue of “Interstitio. East European Review of Historical and Cultural Anthropology”, vol. V, nr. 1-2(9-10): Time, Space and Agency in (Post)socialist Festive Culture, Ludmila D. Cojocaru & Jennifer R. Cash (guest eds), 2013, p. 5-14, http://promemoria.md/files/4514/2788/5811/INTERSTITIO_2013_V.pdf . ISSN: 1857-047X
Ludmila D. Cojocaru, Festivalul Martisor in Republica Moldova: proiecții performative ale renașterii naționale, special issue of “Interstitio. East European Review of Historical and Cultural Anthropology”, vol. V, nr. 1-2(9-10): Time, Space and Agency in (Post)socialist Festive Culture, Ludmila D. Cojocaru & Jennifer R. Cash (guest eds), 2013, p. 112-124, http://promemoria.md/files/4514/2788/5811/INTERSTITIO_2013_V.pdf. ISSN: 1857-047X
Ludmila D. Cojocaru, Rozita Dimova, ‘Nature’ and ‘Nation’ in the Republic of Moldova: Rebirth and Rebuilding through the International Festival of Music ‘Mărţişor’, special issue of “History and Anthropology”, vol. 24(1): Politics and Performance in South-Eastern Europe, February 2013, p. 13-35. ISSN 0275-7206
Rozita Dimova, Ludmila D. Cojocaru, Contested Nation-Building within the International ‘Order of Things’: Performance, Festivals and Legitimization in South-Eastern Europe”, special issue of “History and Anthropology”, vol. 24(1): Politics and Performance in South-Eastern Europe, February 2013, p. 1-12. ISSN 0275-7206
Ludmila D. Cojocaru, The Post-Soviet Museum: History Ruptures, Memory Continuities, review for: Ingrid Commandeur (eds.), Museutopia. A Photographic Research Project by Ilya Rabinovich, Amsterdam, Alauda Publications, 2012, 184 p., in “Brukenthalia. Romanian Cultural History Review. Supplement of Brukenthal. Acta Musei”, vol. 3, 2013, p. 223-225, http://www.brukenthalmuseum.ro/pdf/BAM/Brukenthalia%203.pdf . ISSN 2285 - 9497
2012 Valentyna Kushnarenko, Ludmila D. Cojocaru, Internationalization of Higher Education in Post-Soviet Small States: Realities and Perspectives of Moldova, special issue of “Comparative Education”, vol. 15, issue 1: Education in Small States: Fragilities, Vulnerabilities, and Strengths, Fall 2012, p. 132-144, http://www.tc.columbia.edu/i/a/document/26786_15_01_Complete.pdf . ISSN 1523-1615
Ludmila D. Cojocaru, Recuperarea memoriei colective în Republica Moldova: probleme şi perspective [The Recovering of Collective Memory in the Republic of Moldova: issues and perspectives], “Interstitio. East European Review of Historical and Cultural Anthropology”, vol. IV, nr. 1-2(7-8), December 2012, p. 7-18. ISSN: 1857-047X
2010 Ludmila Cojocari, Politici ale memoriei în Republica Moldova, în contextul proceselor de integrare europeană [Memory Politics in the Republic of Moldova, in the context of the European Integration Process], “Revista de Ştiinţă, Inovare, Cultură şi Artă ‘Akademos’”, nr. 2(17), June 2010, p. 16-18. ISSN: 1857-0461.
2009 Ludmila Cojocari et al., Forum ‘Scholars confronting the Emergency of Memory’/Форум ‘Pamiat` jak pole zmahan’, “Ukraina Moderna”, vol. 4(15), Kiev: Kritika, 2009, p. 9-52. ISBN: 978-966-8978-37-1
2007 Ludmila Cojocari, Political Liturgies and Concurrent Memories in the context of Nation-Building Process in Post-Soviet Moldova: the Case of “Victory Day”, Special issue of “Interstitio. East European Review of Historical Anthropology”, vol. 2, nr. 2(2): Memory, History and Identity in Bessarabia and Beyond, Irina Livezeanu & Jennifer R. Cash (guest eds), December 2007, p. 87-116. ISSN: 1857-2707
Ludmila Cojocari, Memorie colectivă în Republica Moldova: perspective de restituţie istorică în spaţiul post-totalitar [Collective Memory in the Republic of Moldova: Perspective of Historical Restitution in the Post-totalitarian Space], „Interstitio. East European Review of Historical Anthropology”, vol. 1, nr. 1(1), 2007, p. 31-49. ISSN: 1857-2707
2006 Ludmila Cojocari, The Problem of Memory and Identity in Post-Totalitarian States. The case of the Republic of Moldova, “Crossroads. Review of Studying Easter-European Borderland”, nr. 1, 2006, p. 99-104. ISSN: 1822-5136
Papers (national journals)
2015 Ludmila D. Cojocaru, Copilăria în Gulag: o istorie orală a deportărilor staliniste, “Caiete de Antropologie Istorică. Revistă semestrială publicată de Seminarul de Antropologie Istorică al Facultății de Istorie și Filosofie din cadrul Universității „Babeș-Bolyai” Cluj-Napoca” (in printing)
Ludmila D. Cojocaru, Castitatea miresei și autoritatea tradiţiei în obiceiurile nupţiale românești din Basarabia la finele sec. al XIX-lea – mijlocul sec. al XX-lea, “Caiete de Antropologie Istorică. Revistă semestrială publicată de Seminarul de Antropologie Istorică al Facultății de Istorie și Filosofie din cadrul Universității „Babeș-Bolyai” Cluj-Napoca” (in printing)
Ludmila D. Cojocaru, Castitatea miresei în tradiția de nuntă din Basarabia (prima jum. a sec. al XIX-lea), “Ghidul Iubitorilor de Folclor”, vol. 5, 2015, p. 152-162. ISSN 2284-5593 file:///C:/Users/Ludmila/Downloads/Muzica-CCPCT-Ghidul-iubitorilor-de-folclor-5-2015.pdf
2013 Ludmila D. Cojocaru, O istorie a vieții în socialism: “Regimul a știut tot timpul că am fost dintre deportați” [A History of Life in the Socialism: “The Regimes always Knew we were Deported Persons”], “ProMemoria. Revista Institutului de Istorie Socială”, vol. IV(5-6), 2013, p. 257-268. ISSN 1857-3843
2012 Ludmila D. Cojocaru, Instituția nășiei la românii din Basarabia [The Institution of Godparenthood at the Romanians from Bessarabia], “ProMemoria. Revista Institutului de Istorie Socială”, vol. 2(3), 2012, p. 55-73. ISSN 1857-3843
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Ludmila Cojocaru, Memoria colectivă în societatea post-conflict: semnificația și căile reconcilierii [Collective Memory in the Post-Conflict Societies: Significance and the Paths of Reconciliation], “ProMemoria. Revista Institutului de Istorie Socială”, vol. 1(1-2),2011, p. 170-182. ISSN 1857-3843
2008 Ludmila Cojocari, The Victory Day in Moldova: Selective Remembering and Forgetting in a Post-Soviet Project of Nation-Building, “History & Politics”, vol. 1(1-2), 2008, p. 27-44. ISSN: 1857-4076
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Ludmila Cojocari, Practici de comemorare în Republica Moldova: paterne ideologice versus structuri ale memoriei colective [Commemorative Practices in the Republic of Moldova: Ideological Patterns vs Collective Memory Structures], “Discobolul. Revista lunară de cultură”, nr. 106-107-108, 2006, p. 158-168. ISSN: 1453-8881
Didactic Materials
2014 MOODLE Platform for the MA Course „Ethnicity, Nationalism and Identity”, Moldova State University, Faculty of History and Philosophy, MA Program in Anthropology, http://moodle.usm.md/moodle/course/view.php?id=818
University curricula for the MA Course „Ethnicity, Nationalism and Identity”, Moldova State University, Faculty of History and Philosophy, MA Program in Anthropology
MOODLE Platform for the MA Course „Postmodern Theory and Practices”, Moldova State University, Faculty of History and Philosophy, MA Program in Anthropology, http://moodle.usm.md/moodle/course/view.php?id=820
University curricula for the MA Course „Postmodern Theory and Practices”, Moldova State University, Faculty of History and Philosophy, MA Program in Anthropology
2011 Study Program “Memory Politics in Post-Totalitarian Societies. The Case of Central and Eastern Europe”, elaborated with the support of UC Berkeley CASE-CRRC Project
2010 Study Program “Identity Patterns and Nation-building Projects in the Eastern Europe”, elaborated with the support of Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (co-authored Virgiliu Birladeanu)
2008 Reader “Political Semiotics” (2nd edition), elaborated with the support of OSI-HESP Faculty Development Program Chișinău: ULIM, 2008, 238 p.
2007 Didactical Guide for the Undergraduate Course “Ethno-Confessional Geography of the Contemporary World” (2nd edition), published with the support of OSI-HESP Faculty Development Program, Chişinău: ULIM, 2007, 26 p.
Conference Papers (2005-prezent)
2015 International Conference “Mapping Memories of Post-1989 Europe” organised by German federal Agency for Civic education, Vienna, 29 November-3 December 2015
Narațiunea din imagine. Valorificarea materialului fotografic în cercetările de istorie orală (cazul deportărilor staliniste în RSS Moldovenească), Scientific Conference “Recovering and Historical Valorisation of the Totalitarian-Communist Regime Victims’ Memory” with the support of the RM’ State Program, Chișinău, 25 November 2015
«Мы простили всех, но мы помним …»: дилеммы и стратегии примирения в устноисторических повествованиях о массовых депортациях в Молдавской ССР, International Conference of the Ucrainian Association of Oral History “Усна історія (не)подоланого минулого: подія-наратив-інтерпретація”, Одеcса, 8-9 October, 2015
Doing Oral History in the Republic of Moldova: from Theory to Practice, Methodological Seminar “The Recovering and Historical Investigation of the Memory of Totalitarian-Communist Regime’s Victims in the Moldavian SSR (1940-1941, 1944-1953). Researches in the Localities from the Center Area of the Republic of Moldova” with the support of the RM’ State Program, Chișinău, 14 June 2015
2014 Ethnographic Manuscripts from the first half of the 20th centuries regarding Habits and Nuptial Tradition in Bessarabia, International Conference “Folklore and PostFolklore in Contemporaneity”, Academy of Music, Theatre, and Arts of Chișinău, 11-12 December 2014
Godparenthood Institution at the Bessarabian Romanians: between Tradition’s Authority and Valences of Modernization, International conference “Popular Culture in Romania: Historical Context and Cultural Peculiarities”, Museum of Oltenia in Craiova, 14-15 November 2014
Childhood in the GULag: Social Memory, Trauma and Strategies of Reconciliation, Conference of the Seminar of Historical Anthropology, „Babeş-Bolyai” University of Cluj-Napoca, 7-8 November 2014
Stalinist Deportations of 1940-41, 1944-1953: Experience and Perspectives of Oral History Research in Moldova, Scientific Conference “Deportations, Displacements, Relocation of Population in the Eastern Europe”, Kiev Taras Shevchenko University, Kiev, 17 October 2014
Spiritual kinship in the Republic of Moldova. Dynamics and Dilemmas of Modernisation, the 7th Congress of the International Association for Southeast European Anthropology “Cultures of Crisis. Experiencing and Coping with Upheavals and Disasters in Southeastern Europe”, Kadir Has University, Istanbul, Turkey, 18-20 September 2014
„Moldova’s Woman”: Patterns of Ideological Iconography and Dilemmas of Festive Culture in Socialism, National Conference „The Woman’s Status in Communist Romania”, „Petre Andrei” University of Iasi, 8 March 2014
2013 Studying and Teaching Anthropology in Post-Soviet Moldova: Heritages, Opportunities and Deadlocks, InASEA Workshop “Changing Paradigms: The State of the Ethnological Sciences in Southeast Europe”, Zheravna, Bulgaria, 30 May-2 June 2013
2012 Cha(lle)nges of Memory Politics in Moldova: between the Totalitarian History and European Aspirations, Conference „Politics and Practices of Memory in the South-Eastern Europe: between the Totalitarian Past and a European Future”, INIS, Republic of Moldova, 30 November-1 December 2012
Performing Cultural Diversity and National Unity in the Post-Soviet Moldova, Conference „Issues of Cultural Diversity in Post-Socialist Eastern Europe”, University of Fribourg, Switzerland, 15-16 November 2012
Rebirth of Nature vs Rebuilding of Nation. Festive Practices and Political Rituals in the Republic of Moldova (2001-2009), Conference „Political Rituals in the Eastern Europe: between Propaganda and ‘Communities of Memory’”, University of Craiova, Romania, 12-14 October 2012
Commemoration of the Communism Victims: European Politics, International Conference „The Stalinist Deportations (6 July 1949): Causes and Consequences”, INIS, Republic of Moldova, 5 July 2012
Studying Anthropology in the Republic of Moldova: Opportunities and Deadlocks, Conference “The Mission of Humanities Universities in Eastern and Central Europe”, EHU, Lithuania, 22-23 June 2012
(Un)mastering the Past at the Margins of Europe: Between Totalitarian History and European Aspirations, Conference “Baltic-Black Sea Intermarum: Paradigms of Regional Development and Transformations of Law”, EHU, Lithuania, 29-30 March 2012
2011 Traumatised Memory and Practices of Commemorating the Stalinist Victims in the Republic of Moldova: an Approach of Cultural Anthropology, International Conference “Stalinist Terror and Resistance in Eastern Europe”, INIS, Republic of Moldova, 28 October 2011
Higher Education in the Republic of Moldova: between Challenges of Knowledge Society and Interferences of Political Authority, Conference “Social Sciences, Humanities and Higher Education in Eastern Europe after 1991”, EHU, Lithuania, 14-16 June 2011
Collective Memory of the Post-Conflict Societies: Significance and Paths of Reconciliation, Roundtable “Memory of the Dniester Conflict: Forgetting and Reconciliation through the Christian Religion”, INIS ProMemoria, Republic of Moldova, 21 May 2011
Festival Mărţișor at Chișinău (1966-2011): between Tradition and Ideological Spectacle, International Symposium „We & Others. Identity Constructions in the History of Romanians (14-21 centuries)”, Institute of History of Jași, Romania, 6-7 April 2011
2010 Cha(lle)nges of Memory Policy in the Countries of Baltic-Black See Area, Conference “A New Region of Europe: Regional Development Paradigms in the Baltic-Black Sea Intermarum”, EHU, Lithuania, 26-27 November 2010
Ideological Performing of Nation and the (Re)birth of Nature: the Festival of Music Mărţişor in the Republic of Moldova, The 7th National Conference of the Society of Cultural Anthropology of Romania, 24-26 September 2010
May 9 in the Republic of Moldova (2001-2009): between the Commemoration of Victory and Cult of the Dead, The 3rd International Conference „Dying and Death in 18th-21st Century Europe: Refiguring Death Rites in Europe”, University “1 Decembrie 1918” Alba Iulia, România, 2-6 September 2010
Twitter Revolution in the Republic of Moldova (April 2009): One Year Later Considerations, The 8th International Symposium “Communication in the Millennium”, Anadolu University, Turkey, 23-26 May 2010
Politics and Practices of Memory in the context of European Integration of the Republic of Moldova, The 9th International Symposium „Ethnicity and Power: National and International Dimension of New Security Architecture in Europe”, Yalta, Ukraine, 17-22 May 2010
Nation-Building Processes in the South-Eastern Europe: the Case of Bosnia, Macedonia, Moldova and Montenegro, Seminar “Internationalization of Post-Soviet universities”, IEIPS of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova, Republic of Moldova, 7 April 2010
Parliamentarian Election and the “Tweeter Revolution” in the Republic of Moldova: One Year Latter Considerations, Workshop “Parliamentarian Election in Ukraine and Moldova: comparative approach”, Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies of the University of Uppsala, Sweden, 12 March 2010
Nation-Building and Collective Memory in the Republic of Moldova: between Political Symbols, Ideological Performance, and Identity Dilemmas, Berliner Forschungscolloquium Sudosteuropa, Free University of Berlin, Germany, 15 January 2010
2009 Nation-building in the Case of Borderland Societies, Symposium “Pogranicza Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej - ludzie pogranicza i elity regionalne”, University of Silesia, Poland, 6-9 December 2009
Measuring University Values: the Case of the Republic of Moldova, Workshop “Academic Freedom and University Autonomy in the Balkan, Black Sea & Caspian Regions”, Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey, 23-24 October 2009 (co-authored with Virgiliu Birladeanu)
“100 grams for Victory!” or the Dilemmas of Collective memory in the Republic of Moldova, Conference “Dying and Death in the 18th-21st centuries Europe”, National Museum of Unification „Iuliu Maniu”, Romania, 28-29 August 2009
Staging the Nation in Moldova: Between Politics and Practices of Memory, and Beyond, The Xth International Symposium “Dialog of Mentalities: Collective Socio-Historical Memory and Challenges of Modernity”, Civil Service Academy, Russia, 27-29 May 2009
Constructing a Public Image of the Republic of Moldova, Final Conference of the project “New and Ambiguous Nation-building Processes in South-eastern Europe”, Academy of Sciences of Moldova, Republic of Moldova, 14-18 October 2009
Between Politics and Practices of Commemoration, and Beyond: Staging the Nation-Building in the Republic of Moldova, Conference “Composite Nations & Multiple Memories in the East-European Borderland (Belarus, Moldova, and Ukraine)”, Laboratory of Cultural Anthropology and Political Sciences, Republic of Moldova, 5-6 April 2009
Perspectives on Democratizing the Teaching and Learning of History at FIUM: OSI-HESP Projects Implementation, Seminar “A Division between Educative and Teaching Internationalization in Post-Soviet Universities”, Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of Ukraine, 8-9 October 2009
2008 Practices of Memory and Identity in Borderland Society: the Case of the Moldova, Conference “Politics and Collective Identities in Border Regions (MD, UA and BY) in the Context of an Enlarged but Sealed EU”, University of Fribourg, Switzerland, 4-7 September 2008
Time, Space and Semiotics of Holiday in the Project of Nation-Building in Moldova, Seminar “Border Space - Scientific Notion and Concept”, EHU, Lithuania, 27-28 February 2008
Le Jour de la Victoire en République de Moldavie: de mémoires concurrentes aux pratiques de réconciliation, Colloque “Mémoire et Réconciliation”, Alliance Française du Moldova, Chisinau, 8-9 December 2008
Performing Identity and Negotiating Memory in the Context of “Moldavian nation-building” Project, Conference “AnthropoEast: The Europenisation of Balkans - The Balkanisation of Europe”, University of Craiova, Romania, 26-28 November 2008
2007 Simbolurile publice și procesul de constructie a natiunii în Moldova: cazul monumentului „Badea Mior”. Secvenţe ale unui narativ istoric instrumentalizat, International Colloquium “Ţara Moldovei între Commonwealth-ul bizantin şi Respublica Christiana. Metafore, ritualuri, simboluri şi concepţii ale puterii în secolele XIV-XV”, University „Al.I. Cuza”, Romania, 1 December 2007
Practices of Commemoration as Identity Structures and Realms of Memory in the Post-Soviet Borderland Societies. The Case of the Republic of Moldova, Conference “Life in Motion; Shifting Spaces, Transcending Times, Crossing Borders”, Brno, Czech Republic, 28-30 July 2007
Practices of Commemoration in the Republic of Moldova: Collective Memory versus Power Discourse, The 5th Congress of Romanian Studies, University of Constanta, Romania 25-27 July 2007
Practices of Memory and Amnesia in the Borderland Society: the Case of the Republic of Moldova, The InASEA Conference “Region, Regional Identity and Regionalism in Southeastern Europe”, University of Timisoara, Romania, 24-27 May 2007
2006 Culture of Memory and Amnesia in the Borderland Societies: the Case of the Republic of Moldova, The International Scientific Symposia „Cultural Impact on Human Interaction: Clash or Challenge”, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, 27-29 November 2006
2005 Between Visible and Invisible Borders: Collective Memory in Post-Soviet Moldova, The 37th National Convention of AAASS, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, 3-6 November 2005
Places of Memory and Identity Constructs in the Republic of Moldova: The May 9, 2005 Celebration, Conference “Memory, History and Identity in Bessarabia and Beyond”, University of Pittsburgh, USA, 20-21 October 2005
Metamorphoses of Collective Memory and National Identity Reflected in lieux de memoire of Post-Soviet Capital City. The Case of Chisinau, Moldova, The InASEA Conference “Urban Life and Culture in Southeast Europe”, University of Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro, 26-29 May 2005
The Reflection of Political Holidays in the Collective Memory of the Moldovan Society, Conference “Imaging Borderland: Models, Identities, Representations”, EHU, Belarus, 27-29 January 2005
Special awards
2008 Special Award of the Free International University of Moldova for promotion and organizing the scientific symposiums in the frame of History and International Relations Faculty, ULIM, 15 October 2008
2005 Occasional Lecturer Program Award in the frame of Fulbright Program Scholarship, Utah State University, USA, 2-6 November 2005
2003 Special Award of the Free International University of Moldova for the Promotion of Active Teaching and Learning Methodology in the Field of Socio-Humanitarian Disciplines, 10 October 2003
2003 The Stephen R. Grand Award for outstanding Performance and contribution as a CEP LFF, teaching at Free International University of Moldova, 2000-2001, 2001-2002 AY, Budapest, 1 August 2003
2002 Special Award of the Free International University of Moldova for promotion and organizing the scientific symposiums in the frame of History and International Relations Department, ULIM, 15 October 2002
2001 Special Award of the Free International University of Moldova for the outstanding successes in the field of scientific research during the 2000-2001, ULIM, 5 May 2001
1998 Moldova-Soros Foundation Award for Junior Faculty Members from the Institutions of Moldova Higher Education (HESP), November 1998
Membership & Activity in Professional Associations
2011-prezent ProMemoria Institute of Social History (INIS), co-founder member
2010-prezent Societatea de Antropologie Culturală din România (SACR), member
2008-prezent International Network “Scholars at Risk” (SAR), member
2005-prezent Resource Centre of Teaching and Learning History (RCTLH), co-founder member
2005-prezent International Association for Southeast European Anthropology (InASEA), Advisory Board
2002-prezent Association of Socio-Cultural Anthropology from Moldova (ASCAM), member
Editorial activities
2015- The Journal of European Historical Studies, Kiev, Ukraine, (Editorial Board member)
2010- ProMemoria. Revista Institutului de Istorie Socială, Chişinău, Republic of Moldova (Editorial Board member)
2005- Перекрестки. Журнал Исследований Восточноевропейского Пограничья, Центр Европейских и Трансатлантических Исследований, Вильнюс, Литва (Editorial Board member)
2005- Crossroads Digest. The Journal for the Studies of Eastern European Borderland. European Humanities University, CASE, Vilnius, Lithuania (Editorial Board)
Languages
Romanian – native
English – fluent
French – fluent
Russian – fluent.