Oana Adelina Stefan
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| Faculty or Centre | Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History | ||||
| Department | Contemporary European History | ||||
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Université du Luxembourg Maison des Sciences Humaines 11, Porte des Sciences L-4366 Esch-sur-Alzette |
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| Campus Office | MSH, E04 25-310 | ||||
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| Telephone | (+352) 46 66 44 9814 | ||||
Adelina Stefan is a historian of 20th century eastern and southern Europe with a particular interest in the cultural history of the Cold War, tourism and consumption.
Previously, she was a Humanities Initiative Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study at Central European University in Budapest and a research associate in the Department of History and Civilization at the European University Institute in Florence. She holds a PhD in History from the University of Pittsburgh, USA. Her book manuscript tentatively titled, Vacationing in Dictatorships: Foreign Tourists to Socialist Romania and Francoist Spain, 1960s-1970s examines how international tourism brought about a bottom-up liberalization in the two dictatorships, as it altered ordinary people’s lifestyles and material culture. Her most recent publications are: “Postcards Transfer across the Iron Curtain: Foreign Tourists and Transcultural Exchanges in Socialist Romania during the 1960s and 1980s“ in the International Journal for History, Culture and Modernity (HCM), special issue on “Photo Transfer in Cold War Europe”, vol. 5, no.1, (2018), pp. 169-195 and “Foreign Tourists and the Shadow Economy in Socialist Romania in the 1960s-1980s” in Christian Noack, Sune Bechmann Pedersen (eds.), Tourism and Travel During the Cold War: Negotiating Tourist Experiences Across the Iron Curtain (Routledge, 2019).
Last updated on: Thursday, 09 February 2023
In press
Unpacking Tourism in the Cold War: International Tourism and Commercialism in Socialist Romania, 1960s-1980sin Contemporary European History (in press)
2021
Pan Am and Socialist Romania: Flying from New York to Bucharest in the 1970sPresentation (2021, December 02)
The Snowballing of Globalization: International Tourism and Economic Crisis in Socialist Romania in the Long 1970sPresentation (2021, September 03)
2020
Review of Péter Berta, Materializing Difference, Consumer Culture, Politics and Ethnicity among Romanian Roma, University of Toronto Press, 2019in Luxury: History, Culture, Consumption (2020), 7(1), 69-71
2019
Foreign Tourists and the Shadow Economy in Socialist Romania in the 1960s-1980sin Noack, Christian; Pedersen, Sune Bechmann (Eds.) Tourism and Travel During the Cold War: Negotiating Tourist Experiences Across the Iron Curtain (2019)
Silent Cold War: International Tourism and East-West Commodity Exchanges in Socialist Romania of the 1960s-1980sPresentation (2019, December 16)
2018
Cold War from Below: Tourist Encounters in Socialist Romania of the 1960s-1980sPresentation (2018, December 11)
Postcards Transfer across the Iron Curtain: Foreign Tourists and Transcultural Exchanges in Socialist Romania during the 1960s and 1980sin International Journal for History, Culture and Modernity (2018), 5(1), 169-195
2017
Vacationing in Dictatorships: International Tourism in Socialist Romania and Franco’s Spain, 1960s-1970sPresentation (2017, May 22)
The Lure of Capitalism: Foreign Tourists and the “Economy of Shadows” in Socialist Romania of the 1960s-1980sPresentation (2017, April 07)
Tourism as cultural diplomacy: Advertising socialist Romania as a tourist destination in the West, 1960s-1970sPresentation (2017, February 24)
2016
Tourism and Dictatorship: Building Leisure Spaces on the Romanian Black Sea Coast and the Spanish Costa del Sol, 1960s-1970sPresentation (2016, December 01)
Exchanging Postcards Across the Iron Curtain: Foreign Tourists and Transnational Networks in Socialist Romania of the 1960s-1980Presentation (2016, November 18)
Bridging Europe over the Cold War Divide: East-West Encounters on the Romanian Black Sea Coast, 1960s-80sPresentation (2016, January 08)
2015
Individual Tourists and ‘Tourism by Choice’: Tourist Policies in Romania of the 1960s-1970sin Serban, Alina; Istudor, Sorin; Dimou, Kaliopi (Eds.) Enchanting Views: Romanian Black Sea Tourism Planning and Architecture in the 1960s-70s (2015)
Automobility and the Building of Tourism in Communist Romania, c. 1960-1989in Divall, Colin (Ed.) Cultural Histories of Sociabilities, Spaces, and Mobilities (2015)
2014
On the Route of Dracula: Promoting Romania as a Tourism Destination during the Socialist 1960s-1980sPresentation (2014, November 21)
Between Limits, Lures, and Excitement: Holidays Abroad in Socialist Romania during the 1960s-1980sin Burrell, Kathy; Horschelmann, Kathrin (Eds.) Socialist and Post-Socialist Mobilities (2014)
They Even Gave Us Pork Cutlets for Breakfast: Foreign Tourists Easting Practices in Socialist Romania of the 1960s-1980sPresentation (2014, February 07)
2013
Where West Meets East: International Tourism and Consumerism in Socialist Romania of the 1960-1980sPresentation (2013, November 22)
Passengers' Railway Identity in Socialist Romania during the 1950s and 1960sin Roth, Ralf; Jacolin, Henry (Eds.) Eastern European Railways in Transition 19th to 21th centuries (2013)
Statul şi turismul de masă în România comunistă a anilor 1950-1960”in Cioflanca, Adrian; Mihalache, Andi (Eds.) Istoria recentă altfel: perspective culturale (A New Look at Recent History: Cultural Perspectives) (2013)
2012
Railway Tourism in Socialist Romania: Between Collectivist Experience and Social ModernizationPresentation (2012, November 16)
2011
2010
Shoppers, Tourists & Socialism: Czechoslovakia, Romania and Yugoslavia (1950s-1980s);
Presentation (2010, October 10)
