Răzvan Pârâianu       Junior research fellow Pasts Inc. Institute of Historical Studies Central European University, Budapest   page created on 26th of February, 2002

Research Projects:

Interests of Research:

Transylvania Fin-de-Siècle

History teaching and history writing

Studies of anti-Semitism

The rise of extreme right movements

Nationalism, Communism, and National-Communism

Research Topics:

The Impact of the WWI on the Romanian Culture and Politics. (work in progress)

The Romanian Modernists and the New Nationalism of the 20th Century. (work in progress)

Rhetoric and Violence Befor and After the Great War. (work in progress)

Octavian Goga – Complete Works (still in work)

Ethno-national vulgata vs Historians: Reform curricula and history teaching in Central and Eastern Europe

Reform and crisis: History writing and history teaching in Romania in 2000.

«Es ist eigentlich gesehen». The non-academic roots of the Romanian Ethno-national vulgata in the last decades of XX^-th century.

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Internet Modern Jewish History Sourcebook for Central and Eastern Europe

Published Articles:

“Semitism as a Metaphor for Modernity,” in Studia Hebraica, vol. 5 (2005): 23-68.

“Culturalist Nationalism and Anti-Semitism in Fin-de-Siècle Romania” in Marius Turda and Paul Weindling (eds.), Eugenics, Race and Nation in Central and Southeast Europe, 1900-1940 (Budapest: CEU Press, 2006, forthcoming)

“The Syntax of Anti-Semitism” in Alexandru Zub and Adrian Cioflâncă, Cultură, politică şi politici culturale în România modernă, (Iaşi: Editura Universitaţii “Alexandru Ioan Cuza”, 2005), pp. 229-243.

“Politica şi predarea istoriei” [Politics and History Teaching], Idei în dialog, II (2005), no. 1 (January): 14-17; “A történelemkönyv-vita Romániában. Öt év múltán,” Magyar Letter Internationale, no. 58 (October 14, 2005), "The history textbooks controversy in Romania. Five years on"
http://www.eurozine.com/authors/paraianu.html

“National Culture as a Plot against Modernity,” Studia Hebraica, vol. 4 (2004): 103-116.

”National Prejudices, Mass Media and History Textbooks: Mitu Controversy,” in Balázs Trencsényi et all (eds.), Nation Building and Contested Identities. Romanian and Hungarian Case Studies, (Budapest-Jassy: Regio Books & Polirom, 2001), pp. 93-117.

 “Envisioning the City. City, Jews and Modernity In the Literature of the Early Twentieth Century” (essay for the seminar on topics and research methodologies in the study of nationalism) Published in Altera (Pro Europe League’s Review, Târgu Mureş), VI (2000), No. 13, and in Jahrbücher für Geschichte und Kultur Südosteuropa, 2/2000, pp. 125-152; the Romanian title: ”Literatură şi politică în oraşul începutului de secol: Ady şi Goga.”

“Poets vs. Politicians: Fin-de-Siècle Budapest and the End of Transylvanian Romanian Traditional Politics,” Marius Turda (ed), The Garden and the Workshop. Disseminating Cultural Creativity (Budapest: Europa Institute, 1998).

 Review Essays:                         

Marius Turda, "The Idea of National Superiority in Central Europe, 1880-1918," in Studia Hebraica, vol. 5 (2005): 414-417.
Carol Iancu, "Avatarurile comunităţii evreieşti între 1913 şi 1939”, in Observatorul cultural, VI (2005), no. 19 (7-13 Iulie): 12-13 on Carol Iancu, Lupta internaţională pentru emanciparea evreilor din România. Documente şi mărturii (Bucharest: Hasafer, 2005).
Bogdan Murgescu, A fi istoric în anul 2000, (Iaşi: Polirom, 2004), in Armand Goşu (ed.), Politică externă comunistă şi exil anticomunist. Anuarul Institutului de Istorie Recentă, vol. II (2003): 467-470.
Alexandru Claudian, Antisemitismul şi cauzele lui sociale, Bucureşti: Albatros, 2000, in Sfera Politicii, IX (2001), No. 100 (May). See Sfera Politici on-line.

Andrei Oişteanu, Imaginea evreului în cultura română. [The Image Of The Jew In Romanian Culture] (Bucharest: Humanitas, 2001), in Sfera Politicii, IX (2001), No. 93 (July). See Sfera Politici on-line.

„Criza istoriografiei române: un diagnostic.” Review essay on Bogdan Murgescu, A fi istoric în anul 2000 (Bucureşti: All, 2000). [unpublished]

Michael Pollack, Vienna 1900. A hurt identity, in Altera, 2000, No. 13.

Zbigniew Brzezinski, Europa centrală şi de est in ciclonul tranziţiei [East Central Europe in the Cyclone of transition (Bucharest: Diogene, 1995), Cartea, 1995, No.

 Translations:

Randolph Braham, “The Romanian Nationalists and Holocaust: an Attempt to Refurbish the Past,” in Jewish Studies at Central European University (Budapest: CEU, 2000). Published in Sfera Politicii, X (2002), No. 100 (May). See Sfera Politici on-line.

Stanislaw Krajewski, “Jews, Communism, and the Jewish Communists” in Andras Kovács (ed.), Jewish Studies at Central European University (Budapest: CEU, 2000). Appeared in Sfera Politicii, IX (2001), No. 91-92 (July), pp. 56-70. See Sfera Politici on-line.

Hayden White, “The Burden of History” in Tropics of Discourse (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978). [forthcoming].

Biographical details:

Place and Date of Birth: Bucharest, September 1, 1965.

Citizenship: Romanian

Marital Status: Married.

Currently Junior research fellow at Pasts Inc. Institute of Historical Studies, Central European University, Budapest.

2001 – 2002. OSI/FCO Chevening Scholarship program, visiting student at St. Antony’s College, Oxford University.

1998 – 2004, PhD Studies in comparative history at Central European University, Department of History, graduated in 2004, diploma PhD. Thesis title: Octavian Goga: The Sacerdote of Nation. The National Idea from Emancipation to Integrism and Racism.

1997 – 1998, MA Studies at Central European University, Department of History, graduated in 1998, diploma MA. Thesis title: “Poets vs. Politicians. Debates on National Policy and Traditional Politics among Transylvanian Romanians at the End of the Nineteenth Century”

1992 – 1997, University of Bucharest - Faculty of History  
graduated in 1997 - diploma BA. Thesis title: “The Discourse about Identity in Romanian Culture at the Beginning of the Twenty Century: The case of O. Goga.” Paper awarded with “Veress Endre” prize of Romanian-Hungarian Historical Committee (November 1997).

1984 - 1990, Polytechnic Institute Bucharest - Faculty of Electronics and Telecommunications - graduated in 1990; B.Sc. diploma