- Promoting gender studies as a fundamental discipline in the academic curriculum; in an initial phase, including gender studies among the elective disciplines that are taught to final year students, as well as introducing gender studies as a module in the Master’s programme of English and American Studies offered by the English Language and Literature Subdepartment; creating a postgraduate gender studies programme from the academic year 2003-2004 onwards.
- Through its activity, the centre wants to respond to a manifested absence of a theoretical corpus for the feminist discourse, the terms and concepts of a highly intellectual debate, in a social climate in which the early feminist movement in Romania is fragmented and its basic orientation is strictly pragmatic, social activist and especially charitable, without its necessary echo in the area of reflexivity and critical discourse.
- The centre will contribute to the creation of a consistent and efficient network of providing and disseminating specialized information, becoming a link between committed activism and academic feminism. The centre aims to identify all local, regional and national organisations in this field and to create a database for collaboration, resource synergy with the purpose of avoiding the duplication of effort. Relevant information for the centre will be disseminated also via the website we will create and which will also include a forum for debates on subjects of general interest.
- The Centre’s activity will focus on specific projects with multi-disciplinary contents that will contribute to raising young people’s awareness of gender issues, of the necessity of women’s visibility in the public area, of identifying and quickly sanctioning sexist manifestations within the family, at school, at work, in the media, both in the private and public areas of life.
- The Gender Studies centre will undertake the translation of projects and will create critical editions of universal feminist literature.
- The Centre will also be a documentation research centre with a specialized library, including periodicals and a database to allow free access to information.
- Editing a journal in English that will publish specialized research papers (Gender Studies)
- The Centre will organize seminars, conferences, round tables, workshops together with the English Language and Literature Subdepartment, as well as with other Humanities Departments and with the British Library, all of which are meant to promote gender studies.

Prof. univ. dr. PIA BRÎNZEU PhD
Conf. univ. dr. REGHINA DASCĂL - Director ICGS/CISG
Conf. univ. dr. DANA PERCEC - doctoral supervisor in Literature and Gender Studies
Conf. univ. dr. SORINA VOICULESCU
Conf. univ. dr. ADRIAN BASARABĂ
Lect. dr. ABA CARINA PÂRLOG
Lect. dr. ANDREEA ȘERBAN
Lect. dr. DIANA MĂDROANE
Lect. dr. VALENTINA MUREȘAN
As. dr. ANDREEA PELE
As. dr. ROXANA GHIȚĂ

Centrul Interdisciplinar de Studii de Gen
Universitatea de Vest Timisoara
Bv. V. Parvan, nr. 2-4, 300223, Timisoara
Tel/Fax: 0256-493886

e-mail: gender(at)rectorat.uvt.ro

The study of various types of memorial practices from the perspective in which they integrate a local intercultural tradition and reinvent it, relating it to new frames of reference, is an ideal way of trying to overcome the constraints which the theme of memory is subject to within different disciplines and to explore its links to history, to the theme of identity, the changing mentalities, the reconfiguration of the values that society once regarded as important. Considering memory as a way of refashioning the past and rebuilding identity, approaching it in an interdisciplinary way, valorising and correlating the findings of previous research on the Banat region, the team members involved in this project planned to focus on the following issues:
- the status of memorial practices in relation to other cultural practices (folkloric, literary, historiographical, political)
- the capturing of new social dynamics, types of mentalities and behaviours associated with various memorial practices, and the way they perform identity.

Conf. univ. dr. Smaranda Vultur – directorul proiectului
Prof. Univ. Dr. Adriana Babeti
Lect. dr. Simona Adam
Asist. drd. Daciana Branea
Prof. univ. dr. Pia Branzeu
Conf. univ. dr. Vasile Docea
Lect. univ. dr. Gabriela Glavan
Prof. univ. dr. Otilia Hedesan
Lect. univ. dr. Dana Andreea Percec
Prof. univ. dr. Corneliu Tiberiu Ungureanu

The Centre for Francophone Studies DF, since 2009, was set up in 1994 at the initiative of professor Margareta Gyurcsik and gathers researchers and teachers at the department of French of the Faculty of Letters, History and Theology, University of the West Timişoara.

Objectives
a. The main aim of the CENTRE FOR FRANCOPHONE STUDIES DF is to develop the study of Francphone cultures and to promote francophony as a specific form of intercultural dialogue in the contemporary world.
The research is targeted at
- the great cultural areas of francophony (like Europe, Canada, Maghreb, Sub-Saharan Africa, Carribean);
- the relations between the French culture and other francophone cultures;
- the study of the Romanian contributions to francophony.

b. The specific objectives of the research are:
1. to publish books dealing with the francophone cultures in the modern/ post-modern age;
2. to publish books that highlight Romania’s position in the francophone world and its contribution to the intercultural francophone dialogue;
3. to publish an annual issue of the journal DIALOGUES FRANCOPHONES (https://dfrev.uvt.ro/ ):
- thematic issues, since 2009 :
no. 20-21/2015 « Écritures de la (non)violence »
no. 19/2014 « Estitudes. Littératures francophones de l’Europe centrale et de l’Est. Roumanie et Hongrie »
no. 18/2012 « De l’(im)pudeur en Francophonie »
no. 17/2011 « Ecritures francophones contemporaines »
no. 16/2010 « Les francophonies au féminin »
no. 15/2009 « (En)jeux identitaires »
- the first 14 numbers of the journal (1995-2008)
(https://dfrev.uvt.ro/ro/archives.htm)
4. to co-organize an annual international colloquium of francophone studies (CIEFT) at the University of the West, Timisoara
(https://litere.uvt.ro/publicatii/CIEFT/index.htm);
5. to give papers at the conferences, congresses, colloquia of the associations with which the Centre collaborates: CIEF (Conseil International d’Études Francophones), AIEQ, (Association Internationale d’Études Québécoises), AEFECO (Association des Études Francophones d’Europe Centrale et Orientale), the Association for Canadian Studies in Central Europe, CEL (Conseil Européen des Langues);
6. to establish a translation programme and to publish literary and scientific books at Romanian publishing houses;
7. to establish a programme for researching and teaching francophony with the help of the new communication technologies;
8. to establish a programme for the teaching of the French language, literature and civilization, from the perspective of francophone and interdisciplinary studies.

Members of the Centre:

Founder: Margareta GYURCSIK
Director: Georgiana I. BADEA

Members:
Georgiana I. BADEA, editor-in-chief of Dialogues francophones
Andreea GHEORGHIU, deputy editor-in-chief of Dialogues francophones
Ileana Neli EIBEN, editorial secretary of Dialogues francophones

Ioana MARCU
Mariana PITAR
Adina TIHU
Dana UNGUREANU

Other members and collaborators:

Elena GHIŢĂ
Eugenia ARJOCA IEREMIA
Ilona BALAZS
Livius CIOCÂRLIE
Marius LAZURCA
Dorica LUCACI
Florin OCHIANĂ
Anca OPRIĆ
Mirela PÂRĂU
Maria ŢENCHEA

Violeta AVRAM
Carmen BĂBAN
Alina BÎRDEANU
Diana-Livia CHEPEŢAN
Nicoleta GABOR
Ioana S. GIURGINCA
Simona TOMESCU
Bogdan VECHE

The Centre for Francophone Studies DF
University of the West, Timişoara
Facultaty of Letters, History and Theology
Bd. V. Pârvan, nr. 4
300223, Timişoara, Romania

a. Promoting and supporting both materially and morally the in-depth study of Banat history in a national and European context.
b. Promoting the activities of outstanding personalities from Romania and Banat, through various studies and monographs.
c. Supporting the development of scientific research within this Centre of Excellence, by promoting young members, doctoral and master’s degree students, in order to obtain research grants with a view to professional development.
d. The Centre of Excellence is meant to ensure a vivid scientific dialogue between local history researchers and national and European ones.
e. The Centre of Excellence aims to promote scientific research through its own publication: B.H.A.U.T. Bibliotheca Historica et Archaeologica Universitatis Timisiensis and the electronic journal ArheoVest.
f. On the occasion of anniversaries of historical events or personalities, the Centre of Excellence will organize thematic scientific manifestations in domains such as history, archaeology, history of art, etc.
g. The Centre of Excellence proposes common, interdisciplinary research activities with the departments of Anthropology, Sociology and Geography within the West University of Timişoara.

Emeritus Professor Doina Benea
Reader PhD Mihaela Vlăsceanu
Reader PhD Vasile Rămneanțu
Reader PhD Remus Feraru
Senior Lecturer PhD Simona Regep
Senior Lecturer PhD Mariana Balaci
Senior Lecturer PhD Nicolae Hurduzeu
Senior Lecturer PhD Atalia Onițiu
Junior Lecturer PhD Adrian Cîntar
Junior Lecturer PhD Sînziana Preda
PhD Cătălin Balaci
PhD Victor Bunoiu
PhD Paul Dinulescu
PhD Florin Golban
PhD Maria Hadiji
PhD Cosmin Matei
PhD Bogdan Muscalu
PhD Octavian Rogozea
PhD Călin Timoc
PhD Oana Tutilă
Dan Vlase