International Conference Co-organized by the Center

The Center for Research in Communication was co-organizer of the international conference R&D Perspectives. Promoting Innovation through Education, Culture and Communication, held in Bucharest on November 6, 2009, at the College of Communication and Public Relations, National School of Public and Administrative Studies, at the initiative of the College of Communication and Public Relations, in cooperation with the Fulbright Commission Romania.

Dr. Lee B. Becker and Dr. Tudor Vlad, representing the James M. Cox Jr. Center for International Mass Communication Training and Research, Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Georgia, USA, and Dr. Stefan Bratosin, from LERASS center, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France, were among the keynote speakers of the conference. The other keynote speakers were Dr. Paul Dobrescu, the Rector of the National School of Public and Administrative Studies, Dr. Remus Pricopie, the Dean of the College of Communication and Public Relations, and Dr. Paul E. Sum from the University of North Dakota, currently Fulbright scholar at Babes-Bolyai University.

Dr. Mihaela Alexandra Ionescu is co-editor of the volume of the conference, Dobrescu, Paul, Pricopie, Remus, Ionescu, Mihaela Alexandra (eds.), R&D Perspectives. Promoting Innovation through Education, Culture and Communication, Bucharest, Comunicare.ro. She was also directed the organizing committee of the conference.

Dr. Nicoleta Corbu, the Executive Director of the Center, conducted one of the panels.
The other two chair persons were Dr. Dorina Guţu, Executive Director of the Fulbright Commission Romania, and Dr. Alina Bârgăoanu, President of the Quality and Evaluation Commission at the National School of Public and Administrative Studies and Fulbright Allumna.

All the members of the Center For Research in Communication presented papers at the conference and were involved in the organization of the conference as well. All the papers were published in the conference volume.

Corbu, Nicoleta (2009), Methodological Issues in Cultural Semiotics of Advertising, in Dobrescu, Paul, Pricopie, Remus, Ionescu, Mihaela Alexandra (eds.), R&D Perspectives. Promoting Innovation through Education, Culture and Communication, Bucharest, Comunicare.ro, pp. 173-180.

Cârlan, Alexandru, Corbu, Nicoleta, Ciocea, Mălina (2009), Research Methods in Cultural Identity Inquiry, in Dobrescu, Paul, Pricopie, Remus, Ionescu, Mihaela Alexandra (eds.), R&D Perspectives. Promoting Innovation through Education, Culture and Communication, Bucharest, Comunicare.ro, pp. 133-140.

Tudor-Ionescu, Mihaela Alexandra (2009), Médiations Métaphoriques dans les discours des sciences de la communication: une approche sémio-hermeneutique, in Dobrescu, Paul, Pricopie, Remus, Ionescu, Mihaela Alexandra (eds.), R&D Perspectives. Promoting Innovation through Education, Culture and Communication, Bucharest, Comunicare.ro, pp. 189-199.

Boţan, Mădălina (2009), Un dialogue virtuel à finalité sociale? Etude de cas: les principaux blogs roumains, in Dobrescu, Paul, Pricopie, Remus, Ionescu, Mihaela Alexandra (eds.), R&D Perspectives. Promoting Innovation through Education, Culture and Communication, Bucharest, Comunicare.ro, pp. 429-436.