Cosmin Florin Budeancă

Position within the IICCR

Expert - Head of the Museum and Memory Office

Place and date of birth

Orăştie, 31 March 1975

Cosmin Florin
Budeancă

Education

Postgraduate in oral history - collective mentalities at the "Babes-Bolyai" University, Cluj-Napoca;
Graduate studies in Oral History at the "Babes-Bolyai" University, Cluj-Napoca;
Bachelor’s Degree awarded by the Faculty of History and Philosophy, Department of History, "Babes-Bolyai" University, Cluj-Napoca;

Work Experience

November 2000 - May 2006: Researcher at the Institute of Oral History within "Babes-Bolyai" University, Cluj-Napoca 2000-2001: Professor at the "Transporturi" Educational Group, Cluj-Napoca
1999-2000: Professor at the "Tehnofrig" Industrial Educational Group, Cluj-Napoca,
1998-1999: Professor at the "Gelu Romanul" School, Dabaca.

Scholarships, Grants, Professional Training

(Selective Grants)
1. The Romanian Armed Anticommunist Resistance. Oral History Research - carried on by The Institute of Oral History, Cluj-Napoca (1997-1999) - member of the grant team.
2. The 1989 Revolution in the Memory of its Witnesses and Participants. Oral History Research - carried on by The Institute of Oral History, Cluj-Napoca (2000-2002) - member of the grant team.
3. The Romanians’ Image of the Transylvanian Saxons in the XX th Century: Counties Hunedoara, Alba, Sibiu (2001-2002) - project manager.
4. Memory and Identity. The Transylvanian Ethnic and Religious Minorities in the Communist Era (1945-1965). Oral History Research - carried on by The Institute of Oral History, Cluj-Napoca (2003-2005) - member of the grant team.
5. War and Peace - Stories of Germans living in Romania - carried on by The Institute of Oral History, Cluj-Napoca (2003-2004) - member of the grant team.
6. Remember for the Future. Exhibition-Romania - carried on by The Local Center for Adult Education Cluj and The Institute of Oral History, Cluj-Napoca (2003-2004) - project coordinator on behalf of The Institute of Oral History.

Books, reviews, essays

(Selective Books)
1. "You Never Pass Your Sufferance Over to Your Bothers"… Lucretia Jurj’s Testimony on the Anticommunist Resistance in Apuseni (1948-1958) , Dacia, Cluj-Napoca, 2002; 277 pp. (joint author)
2. The Armed Anticommunist Resistance in the Apuseni. The "Teodor Susman", "Capota-Dejeu" and "Cruce si Spada" Groups. Oral History Studies. Argonaut Publishing House, Cluj-Napoca, 2003, 246 pp, (joint author).
3. The Romanian Armed Anticommunist Resistance. The "Teodor Susman" Group (1948-1958). Memoirs. Argonaut Publishing House, Cluj-Napoca, 2004, 240 pp, (editor).
4. The Anticommunist Resistance Movement in Romania. The "Cruce si Spada" Group. Testimonials. Argonaut Publishing House, Cluj-Napoca, 2005,260 pp, (editor).
5. - "From Seed to Fruit". Doing and Teaching an Oral History Research Project , (coauthor), Cluj-Napoca, Argonaut Publishing House, 2005.
6. The Anticommunist Resistance in Romania. The "Capota- Dejeu" Group (1947-1957) Testimonials. Argonaut Publishing House, Cluj-Napoca, 2006, 252 pp, (editor).
- The Anticomunist Resistance - scientific research and museum revaluation , I-II, (editor) Cluj-Napoca, Argonaut Publishing House, 2006
7. Enjoying Teaching - Oral History in the Classroom , (coautor), Sofia, IIZ-DVV - SEE Office, 2006.

(Studies)
1. "White Guard" Organization - A Judicial Frame-Up Made by Security in Hunedoara in "AIO - The Oral History Yearbook", I, Presa Universitara Clujeana Publishing House, Cluj-Napoca, 1999, pp.259-288;
2. The Agricultural Collectivization in the Hunedoara Region. Case Study: The Aurel Vlaicu Village in "AIO - The Oral History Yearbook", II, Presa Universitara Clujeana Publishing House, Cluj-Napoca, 2001, pp.351-376;
3. The End of the Agricultural Collectivization Process Reflected in the Mass-media in "The Sighet Annuals 9. Years 1961-1972. The East European Countries Between the Hopes of Reform and the Reality of Stagnation", Academia Civica, Bucharest, 2002, pp 212-251;
4. The Emigration of the Orastie Saxons in the Last Decade of the Communist Regime in "The Sighet Annuals X Years 1972-1989. The Chronicle of a Systems’ End" Academia Civica, Bucharest, 2002, pp235-251;
5. Aspects Regarding the Involvement of Women in the Anticommunist Resistance in the Romanian Mountains.The Case of Lucretia Jurj ( The Susman Group) in "The Woman’s Condition in Romania in the XX th Century", Presa Universitara Clujeana Publishing House, Cluj-Napoca, 2003, pp 161-177;
6. The Image of the Other in Transylvania after 1918, in the Mixed Romanian - German Communities from Hunedoara, Alba and Sibiu Counties in the collective volume "The Recourse to the Sciences and Methods of the Contemporary Methodology Developments" Aeternitas Publishing House, Alba Iulia, 2003, pp 273-282.
7. A Perspective on the Emigration of the German Ethics in the Aftermath of 1989 within the Collective Memory of the Roamnian Communities, in "The Population of Romania. Past. Present. Future", Cluj-Napoca, 2006

Fields of interest

Recent history, oral history, social imaginary, collective mentalities.

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