(the CV was last revised in August 1996; however, the last update was done in January 96. Anewer version will soon replace this one).
First name: MIRCEA
Last name: BOARI
Date/place of birth: January 6, 1963/Arad, Romania
Languages: French (reading, writing, speaking fluently)
English (TOEFL 627)
German (elementary)
Romanian (native)
Computer skills: MacIntosh, PC; wordprocessing, DTP, Web.
RECENT ACTIVITY
* May 1994: accepted in the PhD program and offered a Teaching Assistantship
at the University of Hawaii, Dept of Political Science
* July 1994: I become member of the Romanian Association of Political Science
* September 1994-present: teaching/studying in the Dept of Political Science
at University of Hawaii
* January 1995: I become an affiliate of the East-West Center, Honolulu,
Hawaii
* April 1995: Summer Lectureship in the Dept of Political Science
* August 1995: Lectureship, College for Continuing Education and Community
Services
* September 1995: I passed my Dissertation Proposal, Dept. of Political
Science at University of Hawaii
* November 1995: I passed the comprehensive examination. I was granted
a Lectureship for the Summer semster 1996
* December 1995: I was granted the Werner Levi Award
* January 1996: I started my field work in Eastern Europe (until June 1996)
* February-May 1996: Associate Professor at the Faculty of Political Science
and Administration, University of Bucharest
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FORMAL EDUCATION
Undergraduate studies:
* Institute of Medicine Timisoara (1989) BA Medical Sciences
* University of Bucharest, Faculty of Philosophy (1994) BA, MA Philosophy
Graduate studies:
* University of Manchester, Dept of Government (1994) MA Political Theory
* University of Hawai'i of Manoa, Dept of Political Science (present) (PhD)
Specialized training:
* University of Black Sea (1993) Diploma
* Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (1992-1993) Certificate
PROFESSIONAL AND PROFESSIONAL RELATED EXPERIENCE
* Independent Center for Social Analysis (1991-1993), research assistant
* Institute for Marketing and Social Polls (1991-1994), editor
* Sfera Politicii Foundation (1994-present), editorial board
* Faculty of Philosophy Bucharest (1991-1993), student representative in
the Faculty Committee
* Dept. of political Science, Univ of Hawaii (1994-1995), member of the
Information and Computer Technology Committee
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
* "Center for Social Systems Analysis" (1990), TEMPUS project
for the Faculty of Philosophy and Faculte Internationale des Sciences Sociales,
Bucharest
(team work)
* "Political Profile of the Romanian Society During the First Year
of Transition" (1991), research project for the Independent Center
for Social Analysis, ordered by Romanian government (team work)
* "Towards an Aesthetic Theory of Communism" (1992), research
contract with Central European University in Prague (personal project)
* "End of History and Fin de Siècle Politics: The Political
Theory of Posthistory", current doctoral research, Dept of Political
Science, University of Hawaii at Manoa
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
* 1994, Fall Semester: Pols300, Dept of Political Science at UH
* 1995, Spring Semester: Pols 375B, Dept of Political Science at UH
* 1995, Summer Semester: Pols 300, Dept of Political Science at UH
* 1995, Fall Semester: Pols375B, College for Continuing Education and
Community Services, UH
* 1996, Spring Semester: Political Culture, Faculty of Political Science
and Administration, University of Bucharest
* 1996, Summer Semester: Pols 375B, Dept of Political Science at UH
Occasional Lectures
* "The Political Discourse in Postcommunist Romania: the 'Social Justice'
Syntagm", Seminar for Democracy/Group for Social Dialogue, Bucharest,
November 1992
* "Institutional Structures of Romanian Media", International
Institute for the Media, Manchester, March 1994 (within an MA Program in
International Media)
* "The End of History", October 1995, Dept. of Political Science
at UH (with Sandy Schram)
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
* Seminar for Democracy, Bucharest Branch (New School for Social Research,
New York)
* South-Eastern European Branch of AISLF-Association Internationale des
Sociologues de Langue Francais (initiative group)
* The Society for Philosophical Reflection "Krisis"
* The Romanian Association for Political Science
* East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawaii
AWARDS AND HONORS
* Romanian Government Study Grant (1990-1993), MA in Philosophy
* Central European University (Prague) Research Award (1992)
* Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1993), to participate at the IPSA/RCPE
Conference
* University of Bucharest Study Grant (1993), to participate in the Summer
courses on the "Sociology of Transition" at the Black Sea University
* Soros/Foreign Commonwealth Office Study Grant (1993-1994), MA in Political
Theory, University of Manchester
* Teaching Assistantship (1994-1995), Dept of Political Science at University
of Hawaii, to pursue PhD program
* Tuition Waver (Fall 1995), Dept of Political Science at University of
Hawaii at Manoa (not used, since I finally registered for the 800 level)
* East-West Center, Affiliate Program (1995-1996)
* Wener Levy Award (1995) Dept of Political Science at University of Hawaii
at Manoa
PUBLICATIONS
* "On History, Truth and Individuals. The Eastern European Dissidents'
Case and the Paradigm of Modern Political Thought", Sfera Politicii,
no 6, June 1993 (in English)
* "Capital and Morality. Ethic-Economic Interferences During Transition",
Sfera Politicii, 10, October 1993 (in Romanian)
* "The Embarrassing Otherness: Residual Totalitarianism of the Postcommunist
Society", Proceedings of the Graduate Conference on Identity
and Agency, Manchester, December 1993
* "Structural Limits of Political Socialization in Romania: A Case
Study on Political Discourse", in Csepeli, G., German, D., Keri, L.,
Stumpf, I. (eds),
From Subject to Citizen, Budapest, 1994. Also published in Sfera
Politicii, no 9, September 1994 (in original, in English)
* "Intellectuals and Technocrats During Transition. The Critique of
a Role Partition", POLIS, 1/1994 (in Romanian)
* "Totalitarianism and Society in Eastern Europe", MA Thesis,
Manchester, 1994. Slections will soon be published in Romanian translation
in POLIS, 1/1996
* "Postmodernity: A Recess of Late Modernity?", Revista de
Filozofie, 1/1995
* "Social Change in Posthistory", Manoa Journal for Fried
and Half-Fried Ideas, no 8, 1995
* "The Role of Speculative Thought in Theorizing Otherness",
Krisis, 1996 (forthcoming)
BOOK REVIEWS
* Dubet, F., Lapeyronnie, D., Les Quartiers de l'Exile, in 22, 19(171)/1993
* Brzezinski, Z., The Grand Failure. The Birth and Death of Communism in
the Twentieth Century, in Sfera Politicii, no 7, July, 1993
TRANSLATIONS
* Chatelet, F., Pisier-Kouchner, E., Les Conceptions Politiques
du XXème Siecle, at Humanitas, Bucuresti, 1994
* Campeanu, P., Roumanie-La Queue pour la Nourriture. Une maniere de
vivre,
(from the manuscript in French), at Litera, Bucuresti, 1994
* Hollander, P., Political Pilgrims. Travels of Western Intellectuals
to Soviet Union, China, and Cuba, in Polis, 1/1994 (selected fragments)
* Kolankiewicz, G., Elites in Search of a Political Formula, Polis,
2/1996
*Burton, M., Gunther, R., Higley, J., Transformation of the Elites and
Democratic Regimes, (selections), Polis, 2/1996
* Kligman, G., The Wedding of the Death. Ritual, Poetics and popular
Culture in Transylvania (forthcoming, Litera, Bucuresti, 1996)
* Hobbes, Th., Leviathan, (critical edition, forthcoming, Ararat,
Bucuresti, 1996)
CONFERENCES
* International Political Science Association (Research Committee for
Political Education) Conference, Balatonfoldvar, Hungary, May 1993 (invitation)
* Graduate Conference on "Identity and Agency", Manchester, December
1993
INTERVIEWS
* 1992, "East-East", Hungarian Television
* 1996, January, News, The Bulletin of the Soros Foundation