sâmbătă, 16 noiembrie 2019

Congresul 43 ARA Los Angeles 2019

PROGRAM

ARA 43rd Congress

November 15-17, 2019

 

  

Hosted and co-sponsored by the UCLA Department of Slavic, East European and Eurasian Languages and Cultures, the UCLA Center for European and Russian Studies, and the Romanian Student Club at UCLA

 

The Congress sessions are divided into two distinct parts:

Part I: Saturday, November 16, 2019, at UCLA, E. Kaplan Hall, Rooms 348 & 311

Part II: Web Conference, online, with participants at their computers.

 

General Chair: Ilona Scott

Co-Chair: Ileana Costea

Local Chair: Georgiana Gălățeanu-Fârnoagă

 

Web Conference Chair: Adrian Stoica

 

Editor-in-Chief: Oana Leonte

 

Day 1: Friday, November 15, 2019

Welcome Reception 6:30pm-8:30pm (email arainterimpresident@gmail.com)

 

Day 2: Saturday, November 16, 2019

ARA 43rd Congress Part I – on site Program

UCLA, E. Kaplan Hall, Rooms 348 and 311

   415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095

 

 

Note: Most presentations will be in English. A few will be in Romanian but accompanied

by simultaneous translation. 10 minutes maximum per talk, unless otherwise specified.


9:00 am– 10:00am Opening Session

 

Introductions:

                             Ilona Scott, General Chair

Ileana Costea, ARA Interim President

 

Address by Mr. Cosmin Dumitrescu, General Consul of Romania in Los Angeles

Laudatio: Maria Manoliu-Manea 

Doina Uricariu: Omagiul unei foste studente

 

Memento: Constantin Corduneanu 

Oana Leonte

Vasile Badiu (remote)

Album of precious memories with Academician Professor Constantin Corduneanu

 

10:00am-10:45am   Round Table on "Innovation & Entrepreneurship"

Moderator: Jacob Segal, Investor Research Group, Los Angeles, California

 

Participants:

Adrian Stoica, Ph.D., Founder, Telemediators Alliance, Pasadena, CA 91107, USA  

Bill Bellows, PhD, President, InThinking Services

Cedar Sinai Accelerator Representative

UCLA Venture Accelerator Representative

Children Hospital of Los Angeles Incubator Representative

Ileana Costea, PhD, Cal State Northridge "Art of Innovation" Conference

Two start-ups Entrepreneurs

 

10:45am-11:00am Coffee Break

 

11:00am-11:50am  Romanian Personalities' Moments

                                   

Session Chair: Ilona Scott

 

Vlaicu Ionescu, Nostradamian and painter 

Doina Uricariu & Alina Ionescu-Graff: Vlaicu Ionescu - avanpremieră

 

Sofia Cosma, concert pianist

Ilona Scott

 

Nicolae-Serban Tanasoca, historian

Filip-Lucian Iorga (Remote): What, in fact, does not disappear

                   Ceea ce, totuşi, nu dispare

                   Ileana Costea: Who was Nicolae-Serban Tanasoca?

             Cine a fost Nicolae-Serban Tanasoca?

 

11:50am-12:35pm   Film and Art

 

Session Chair: Rick Meghiddo


Rick Meghiddo, Architect and Filmmaker 

      Meghiddo Architects / ArchiDocu, Long Beach, California

Filmmaking Through an Architect's Eye: Producing architectural documentaries

to educate a broader public in understanding the value of architectural design

 

Vera Mijojlić, Cultural reporter and film critic

SEEfest Champions: Romanian Cinema in the U.S

 

Ileana Costea, Director I.C. ART Gallery, & Jerry W. McDaniel, artist

  Romanian posters and banners by American artist Jerry W. McDaniel

 

12:35pm-1:35pm Lunch Break (A free light lunch is served.)

 

1:35pm-2:05pm    Ecology Session

      

Session Chair: Ruth Meghiddo

 

Radu Popa, River Road Research, Los Angeles, 90039, USA

The New World of Nutrient Recycling

Ruth Meghiddo, Meghiddo Architects, Long Beach California, 90802

       California Green Business

Climate Change Is Everybody's Business: How urban farming can make our cities resilient and prosperous

 

2:05pm-3:20 pm  Engineering Session

 

Session Chair: Adrian Stoica

 

Bill Bellows, PhD, President, InThinking Services

To Infinity (and Zero) and Beyond – Life Lessons in Continual Improvement

 

Adrian Stoica, PhD, Founder, Telemediators Alliance, Pasadena, CA 91107, USA

Nature Therapy via Telepresence – The AVATAR Chair Project

 

Virgil Adumitroaie, PhD, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Towards a second Earth: exoplanet discovery and characterization methods

 

Dinu Leonte, PhD, Poet, Mathematician, Eng. in Power Engineering, CEO BPT

IKIGAI meaningfulness in life

 

Cristian N. Călugărița, MSME, Senior Program Manager Aerospace Systems

Senior Member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Los Angeles, California, USA

50 Years After First Moon Landing, On A Mission To Mars: From Aldrin's Cycler

to Lockheed's Project Red Rocks

 

3:20pm-3:55pm  Round Table on "Romanian Communities" (5 min per talk)

 

Moderator: Vlad R. Ghenciu, Esq

 

Radio ZZZ

Ben Todica (remote), Melbourne, Australia, inoneb@gmail.com



Romanian-American Chamber of Commerce (RACC), Los Angeles

Vlad R. Ghenciu, Esq., Attorney at law, Los Angeles, CA 

 

Viitorul Roman Society (VRS)

Ionela Kloes, Los Angeles, CA, https://viitorulroman.com/

 

Romanians in Los Angeles Organizations

Ady Simion, Los Angeles, CA, Ady@AdySimion.com 

 

Holy Trinity Romanian Orthodox Church/Biserica Sfânta Treime 

Ing. Ion Anton, Los Angeles, CA , constantinalecse@gmail.com

 

3:55pm-4:10pm  Coffee Break

 

4:10pm-5:20pm  Romanian Program at UCLA

Session Chair: Georgiana Gălățeanu-Fârnoagă

 

 

Creating European Identity in Romanian Dobruja

 

Amanda L. Andrei, MFA Student in Dramatic Writing, University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles

Graphite to the Bone: Writing the Generational Trauma of a Filipino Romanian Family

 

Laura Margareta Luca, PhD Student in Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles; International Relations/Political Science, M.A., Graduate Institute of Geneva, 2019

Global Security Arrangements: A Game-Theoretic Perspective

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Georgiana Gălățeanu-Fârnoagă, PhD, Lecturer, Department of Slavic, East European  and Eurasian Languages and Cultures, University of California, Los Angeles

Political statements, cultural highlights, and social values in Romanian language textbooks for foreigners

 

5:20pm-5:30pm  Onsite ARA 43rd Congress Closing session

Ilona Scott, General Chair

Ileana Costea, ARA Interim President

Oana Leonte, Editor-in-Chief

 

5:30pm-5:40pm  Break

 

5:40pm-7:45  Movie time

Remarks by: Vera Mijojlić, Cultural reporter and film critic

Ileana Costea, ARA Interim President

 

                               Romanian Feature Movie: Puzzle for a blind man, directed by Andrei Zinca (93 min)

       A love story with a twist, or a twisted love story.

 

8:30pm-10:00pm  ARA 43rd Congress Banquet at a restaurant (each person will pay for her/his dinner)

If you wish to attend  the Banquet make a reservation by email to arainterimpresident@gmail.com or by calling (818)512-3089



PROGRAM

Web Session

ARA 43rd Congress, Part II  

 

 

 

Day 3, Sunday, November 17, 2019

7:00am Pacific Time – 2:30pm Pacific Time

 

Web Session Chair: Adrian Stoica, Email: adrian.stoica@jpl.nasa.gov

 

Online presentations at Pacific Time (PST)

 

All presentations will be online and can be seen by all presenters and the attendees of the Part I on the site of the Congress. Instructions will be sent to all by Friday, November 15, 2019.

 

Important Note:

Talk time: maximum 10 min per speaker. Carefully check the day and time in your country.

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7:00am-7:05am

Opening Session ARA 43rd Web Session

Ileana Costea, Interim  President

 

 

Science / Engineering  7:05am-8:05am

 

7:05-7:15 3.01

Numerical Modeling and Simulation in the Petroleum Industry: Achievements and Perspective
Vasile Badiu1* and Florian Vasile Badiu2, SPE Members 
1 Volunteer with SPE, ARA and Springer, Campina, 105600, Romania
2 Renault Tehnologie Roumanie, Voluntari 077190, Romania
E-mail: *vasile.badiu@gmail.com

 

7:15-7:25 3.02

Stochastic microsensors for the assay of IL-1β, IL-6, IL-12, IL-17 from whole blood samples

Ioana Popa-Tudor1,2,*, Raluca-Ioana Stefan-van Staden1,2

PhD student, Researcher

1 Laboratory of Electrochemistry and PATLAB Bucharest, National Institute of Research for  

Electrochemistry and Condensed Matter

2Faculty of Applied Chemistry and Material Science, Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania


E-mail: *ralucavanstaden@gmail.com; johana.popa@gmail.com

 

7:25-7:35 3.03

Screening test for tumor markers p53,CEA, CA19-9 in whole blood samples using stochastic mode

Ruxandra-Maria Ilie-Mihai1,2, Raluca-Ioana Stefan-van Staden1,2

Postdoc

1Laboratory of Electrochemistry and PATLAB, National Institute of Research for Electrochemistry and Condensed Matter, 202 Splaiul Independentei Str., 060021, Bucharest-6, Romania

2Faculty of Applied Chemistry and Material Science, Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania

E-mail: ralucavanstaden@gmail.com; i.ruxandra04@yahoo.com

 

7:35-7:45 3.04

New Trends in Molecular Recognition of Substances of Biological Importance, INVITED LECTURE

Raluca-Ioana Stefan-van Staden

Scientist, PhD, Laboratory Director

Laboratory of Electrochemistry and PATLAB Bucharest, National Institute of Research for Electrochemistry and Condensed Matter, 202 Splaiul Independentei Str., Bucharest, 060021, Romania

E-mail: ralucavanstaden@gmail.com    Website: www.patlab.ro

 

7:45-7:55 3.05

Detection of sweeteners in biological fluids and food samples using stochastic sensors

Alexandrina Lungu - Moscalu1,2,*, Raluca-Ioana Stefan-van Staden1,2,

Jacobus Frederick van Staden1

1Laboratory of Electrochemistry and PATLAB Bucharest, National Institute of Research for Electrochemistry and Condensed Matter, Bucharest 060021, Romania

2Faculty of Applied Chemistry and Material Science, Politehnica University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania

E-mail: * alex_ly15@yahoo.com

 

7:55-8:05 3.06

 Fast Screening Test for the Assay of Antibiotics in Water POSTER

Mariana Mincu, Raluca-Ioana Stefan-van Staden

Scientist, PhD, Laboratory Director

Laboratory of Electrochemistry and PATLAB Bucharest, National Institute of Research for Electrochemistry and Condensed Matter

 E-mail: ralucavanstaden@gmail.com

 

 

Medicine and related topics  8:05am-8:45am

 

8:05-8:15 3.07

Fast Screening of Bladder cancer biomarkers using stochastic sensors

Damaris-Cristina Gheorghe1*, Raluca-Ioana Stefan-van Staden1 

1Laboratory of Electrochemistry and PATLAB, National Institute of Research for Electrochemistry and Condensed Matter, 202 Splaiul Independentei Street, 060021, Bucharest-6, Romania

E-mail: *gheorghe.damaris16@gmail.com

 

8:15-8:25 3.08

Neuroimmunomodulation of the Intestinal Microbiota in case of paralysis in dog

Gheorghe Giurgiu*1, Manole Cojocaru2

1 Deniplant-Aide Sante Medical Center, Biomedicine, Bucharest, 012371, Romania

2 Titu Maiorescu University, Faculty of Medicine, Bucharest, 031593, Romania


 E-mail: * deniplant@gmail.com

 

 

8:25-8:35 3.09

Composite human mind and composite human society

Gheorghe Dragan

Ph. D., physicist retired

Bucharest, ROMANIA

E-mail: gdf.dragan@gmail.com

 

8:35-8:45 3.10 

From qigong to energy medicine and psychology

Doina Tetcu

Physicist, Bucharest, Romania

E-mail: dtetcu@yahoo.com

 

 

Economy 8:45am-9:25am

 

8:45-8:55 3.11

Brief Exploration of the Evolution of Factors Impacting Professional Judgment in Financial Audit

Delia Deliu

Post-Doctoral Researcher

Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, West University of Timişoara

Timişoara, 300115, Romania

delia.deliu@e-uvt.ro

 

 

8:55-9:05 3.12

Social Responsibility versus Social Liability –  Conceptual Delimitations regarding the Financial Auditor's Challenges. A Philosophical-Juristic Approach

Delia Deliu

Post-Doctoral Researcher

Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, West University of Timişoara

Timişoara, Romania

delia.deliu@e-uvt.ro

 

9:05-9:15 3.13

Strategies and sustainable solutions for a healthy future economy

Adriana Paduraru (Horaciu), PhD Ana-Maria Campandaru (Andrei)

Doctoral School of economics and Humanities, Targoviste

adriana_paduraru@yahoo.ro

 

9:15-9:25 3.14 

Financial Information Transparency and Publicity II

Horia Cristea

Professor, DHC, PhD, Accounting expert, Financial auditor

West University of Timișoara, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration

Timişoara,  Romania

horia.cristea@yahoo.com

 

9:25am-9:40am    Break #1  15 min

 

Romanian Personalities  9:40am-9:50am

9:40-9:50 3.15 

Brâncuşi'masterpieces (Capodoperele lui Brâncuşi)

Ana Trestieni

Poet, Writer, Translator, Mathematician, Freelancer. Bucharest, Romania.

Email: trestieniana@yahoo.com

 

 

Education Part I  9:50-10:10am

 

9:50-10:00 3.16

Didactica predării viorii la elevii de vârstă instrumentală mica

De la Profesor la Maestru in Arte

Interviu cu doamna profesor Galina Buinovschi, domeniul învăţământului violonistic 

Nina Munteanu, Violin Teacher

National College of Art "Octav Băncilă", Iași

nina.munteanu10@gmail.com 

 

10:00-10:10 3.17 

Dezideratele Educatiei Artistice in Invatamantul  European Contemporan

Doina Badica

Cello teacher

Schools of Arts, Targoviste, Dambovita county, Romania

doina_valeria2006@yahoo.com

 

 

Linguistics and Literature 10:10-11:00am

 

10:10-10:20 3.18

Toponimia minoră – în pericol

Anca Andrei – Fanea, PhD,

București, România

Email: faneaandreea@yahoo.com

 

10:20-10:30 3.19

Un blog de scriitor – ilazu.blogspot.com

Ion Lazu

Writer, Writers' Union of Romania (Uniunea Scriitorilor din România)

Bucharest, Romania

Email: ion.lazu@gmail.com Website: http://ilazu.blogspot.com/

 

10:30-10:40 3.20

Portret: Lidia Lazu – actriță și poetă

and Lidia Lazu reading poems

Ion Lazu, writer, and Lidia Lazu, poet and actress

Writers' Union of Romania (Uniunea Scriitorilor din România)

Bucharest, Romania

Email: ion.lazu@gmail.com and  lazulidia@yahoo.co.uk

 

10:40-10:50  3.21

Book review: Romanian Literature as World Literature

Mirela Roznoveanu

literary critic, writer and poet, journalist

Email: mirela.roznoveanu@gmail.com

 

10:50-11:00 3.22

Art and Faith: V.V. Voiculescu's Poetry

Monica Grecu

Prof. Emerita, University of Reno, Reno, Nevada

Email: grecu@unr.edu

 

 

History Part I  11:00am-12:00pm

 

11:00-11:10 3.23

Mănăstirea Stelea din Târgovişte– lăcaş de cult şi şcoală

Andreea Fanea

Biblioteca Centrală Universitară „Carol I", Bucuresti, Romania

Email: faneaandreea@yahoo.com

 

11:10-11:20 3.24

Invăţăturile lui Neagoe Basarab – prima  lucrare românească de  pedagogie

Andreea Fanea

Biblioteca Centrală Universitară „Carol I", Bucuresti, Romania

Email: faneaandreea@yahoo.com

 

11:20-11:30 3.25

The cultural heritage of the Dalles family in Bucșani, Dâmbovița county

Corneliu Marculescu

History and geography teacher

"Dora Dalles" School of Bucşani, Dâmboviţa County, Romania

 

11:30-11:40 3.26

Un Pictor in Altarul Culorilor

Nicolae Petrescu-Redi

Writer, Writers' Union of Romania, Ploiești, Romania

E-mail: petrescuredi@yahoo.com

 

11:40-11:50 3.27

Camera in hand stories of Romanian recent history, 1989-2019

Doina Tetcu

Physicist, Bucharest, Romania

E-mail: dtetcu@yahoo.com

 

 

Law 11:50am-12:00pm

 

11:50-12:00 3.28

Solving Conflicts through Mediation

Beatrice Blohorn-Brenneur

Was Judge at the Court of Appeal of Grenoble and Lyon, France

E-mail: brenneur@gmail.com

 

12:00pm-12:15pm  Break #2   15 min

 

Ecology  12:15pm-12:25pm

 

12:15-12:25 3.29

Transportation – Ecology

The Sky Way ecologic transportation system

Mihaela Viorica Chiriac

Sky Way project collaborator

E-mail: mchiriac9@gmail.com 

 

Architecture 12:25pm-1:05pm

 

12:25-12:35 3.30

A Course in Stereotomy

Irina Margareta Popovici

Architect

Bucharest, Romania

Email: popovici.irinamargareta@gmail.com

 

12:35-12:45 3.31

Adaptive architecture. The interactivity and  impact on the user.

Ionuț Dohotariu

Arhitect, PhD Student

"Ion Mincu" University of Architecture and Urbanism, Bucharest, 010014, Romania.

E-mail: i.dvdohotariu@gmail.com.

 

12:45-12:55 3.32

The Department of Astronomy, Astrophysics and Space Sciences

Ionuț Dohotariu

Arhitect, PhD Student

"Gh. Asachi" Tehnical University, Iași, 700050, Romania

E-mail: i.dvdohotariu@gmail.com

 

12:55-1:05 3.33

TETH – Technological transformation hub: Society and architecture on the brink of a new technological era

Vlad Constantin Tudor

Architect

"Gh. Asachi" Technical University, Iași, 700050, Romania.

E-mail: tudorvlad94@yahoo.com

 

 

History Part II  1:05pm-1:15pm

 

1:05-1:15 3.34

Situaţia refugiaţilor polonezi din România în timpul Celui de-al Doilea Război Mondial

Marius Iulian Petraru

Associate Professor, Geography Department

California State University Sacramento

Sacramento, CA  95819 USA

mpetraru@csus.edu

Education Part II 1:15-1:45pm

 

1:15-1:25 3.35

The Unevenness in Academic Appropriation in the Humanities

Ileana Alexandra Orlich

President's Professor of English and Comparative Literature and Director of Romanian Studies

Arizona State University, Tempe , Arizona

Email: orlich@asu.edu

 

1:25-1:35 3.36

Teaching Romanian Prepositional Constructions to Students of Other Languages

Ionuț Geană

Visiting Faculty at Arizona State University, Romanian Studies Program

Tempe, AZ 85281, USA

E-mail: geana@asu.edu or ionut.geana@litere.unibuc.ro

 

1:35-1:45 3.37

Multilingualism in the 21st Century: A Progressive Paradigm

Andreea Cervatiuc, PhD

Applied Linguist, Academic, Author, Researcher, and  Educational Leader

University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

E-mail: andreea.cervatiuc@ubc.ca

 

 

Social Sciences  1:45-2:05pm

 

1:45-1:55 3.38

The Roma Peoples Project at Columbia University

Cristiana Grigore 

Founder of the Roma Peoples Project at Columbia University, Research Scholar and Writer,

Columbia University, New York, USA

Email: cristiana.grigore@columbia.edu or cristianagrigore@gmail.com 

 

1:55-2:05 3.39

Blueprint for Social Entrepreneurship

Stefania Magidson

Author, Searching for the White Magician, Spiritual Psychology and the Manifestation of Destiny

President, Blue Heron Foundation,

University of Santa Monica, Los Angeles, USA

E-mail: smagidson@blueheronfoundation.org

 

Closing of ARA 43rd Web Session 2:05pm-2:30 pm

Ileana Costea, ARA Interim President

 

 





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