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</span></font><b><font color="#333333" face="Trebuchet MS" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: bold;" lang="EN-GB">Tuesday 3 November 2009 // // // // // // // // // Culture
Power Presentation </span></font></b><font color="#333333" face="Trebuchet MS" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" lang="EN-GB"></span></font></p>
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</span></font><b><font color="#1c1c1c" face="Trebuchet MS" size="5"><span style="font-size: 20pt; color: rgb(28, 28, 28); font-weight: bold;" lang="EN-GB">Cementing Secession?</span></font></b><font color="#1c1c1c" face="Trebuchet MS" size="5"><span style="font-size: 18pt; color: rgb(28, 28, 28);" lang="EN-GB"> <br>
</span></font><b><font color="#1c1c1c" face="Trebuchet MS" size="4"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(28, 28, 28); font-weight: bold;" lang="EN-GB">Transnational Big Business, Identity, and Politics on
Moldova’s Frozen War Front</span></font></b><b><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="4"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: bold;" lang="EN-GB"><br>
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<b><font color="#1c1c1c"><span style="color: rgb(28, 28, 28); font-weight: bold;">a
presentation by Rebecca Chamberlain-Creanga </span></font></b></span></font><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB"><br>
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<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">19.00-21.00, The Ratiu Foundation /
Romanian Cultural Centre, Manchester Square, 18 Fitzhardinge Street, London W1H
6EQ; Tel. 020 7486 0295, ext 108; e-mail: </span></b><a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:bookings@romanianculturalcentre.org.uk" target="_blank" href="/mc/compose?to=bookings@romanianculturalcentre.org.uk">bookings@romanianculturalcentre.org.uk</a><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">; Entry is free but booking is essential. <br>
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Moderator: David Webster, Director of the Anglo-Romanian Economic and
Political Forum </span></b><br>
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“This presentation examines competing political-economic forces and
identity formations dividing and uniting the newly independent, post-Soviet
country of Moldova, torn apart by separatism. It is based on new field
research conducted in the Republic of Moldova in spring 2009 (March-June) on
the relationship between identity formation and political process in and
between Moldova and its separatist region of Transdnistria. It addresses how
democratic processes and political transformations articulate with and affect
the diverging Moldovan-Transdnistrian identity formations discovered during
my 2005-06 doctoral fieldwork. <br>
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Will burgeoning democratization – just beginning in Transdnistria and
yet solidifying in right-bank Moldova – bring both warring sides
together, the study asks? The topic is timely in that it covers
Moldova’s April and July 2009 parliamentary election. It looks at the
impact of elections, political crisis and coalition-building on the
Moldovan-Transdnistrian conflict settlement process, as well as
Moldova’s relationship with Romania and the European Union. The paper
speaks to policy-relevant debates about the interplay between citizen and
elite interests, as well as raises questions about whether small, newly independent
countries like Moldova can decide their fate”.<i><span style="font-style: italic;"> – Rebecca Chamberlain-Creanga <br>
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<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Rebecca Chamberlain-Creanga</span></b> is a
PhD Candidate in Anthropology at The London School of Economics and Political
Science (LSE), specializing in the ethnographic study of governance and the
political-economy of conflict, including transnational dimensions and
local-level sources of separatism. As a former British FCO-sponsored Marshall
Scholar to Great Britain, she holds MSc and MA degrees from the LSE and the
School of Slavonic and East European Studies/UCL. Her Bachelors degree
training is in International Relations. Chamberlain-Creanga worked as a US
Department of State (IREX Title VIII) Embassy Policy Specialist at the US
Embassy Chisinau in summer 2007. Chamberlain-Creanga lived on both of
Moldova’s river banks, including in the separatist Transdnistrian
region, for almost two years in 2004-06 for the study <i><span style="font-style: italic;">Manufacturing Separatism: Transnational Economy,
Identity, and State Formation on a Post-Soviet Frozen War Front</span></i>,
supported by several US Department of State/Title VIII academic fellowships.
She will be a Research Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington,
D.C. in 2010, supported by the US Department of State’s Program for
Research and Training. She is a contributor to <i><span style="font-style: italic;">Weak State, Uncertain Citizenship: Moldova</span></i> (Heintz ed.,
Frankfurt & New York: Peter Lang, 2008). Prior to her research on the
Republic of Moldova, Chamberlain-Creanga investigated issues of ethnicity and
conflict in Bosnia and Croatia as a Rotary Foundation Scholar, writing
opinion-editorials on the Kosovo conflict for several major American
newspapers. She has been married over 8 years to Romanian Ovidiu Creanga (PhD
Religion). <br>
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Culture Power is a programme initiated by the Ratiu Foundation, consisting of
a number of presentations and constructive dialogue with an invited audience.</span></font></p>
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