Immigration Research Forum

Join us today and tomorrow! Visit the stand featuring our community based organizations, our many communities finding one voice, building solidarity, trust and a terrific presence in Washington, DC!

🇷🇴 🇺🇸 The Romanian-American communities are as strong and vibrant as their organizations. The network of foundations and associations representing Americans of Romanian origin is dynamic and ever-expanding, with missions ranging from education, culture, social work and even international affairs.

Since its inception, “Romanian Weekend at The Wharf.” has not only provided the context for cultural discoveries, but also an occasion to celebrate the leaders and organizations of the Romanian communities from all over the United States.

📌 Come to meet people and organizations from Romanian-American communities at the “Romanian Weekend at the Wharf” on Friday, July 12, 2024 from 5:00 PM; Saturday, July 13 & Sunday, July 14, from 12:00 PM!

“Romanian Weekend at The Wharf” is initiated and co-organized by the Embassy of Romania to the United States and the Romanian Cultural Institute in New York /, with the support of the Maramureș County Council / Consiliul Judeţean Maramureş and numerous partners, collaborators, and friends from both sides of the Atlantic.

👉 Link in the comments for more details.

We wanted to take a moment to wish each one of you a Happy Independence Day! It is a time to reflect on the freedoms we enjoy and must defend, our achievements, our journey so far as a nation of nations, and to look forward with hope for the road ahead. We leave you with these thoughts of those before us:
“Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Surely, in the light of history, it is more intelligent to hope rather than to fear, to try rather than not to try. For one thing we know beyond all doubt: Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, ‘It can’t be done.’” — Eleanor Roosevelt
The privileges and values that make our country strong will be intertied only if this remains the home of the brave not of the fearful. We wish you and yours a safe and happy July 4th!

We are thrilled to announce our participation again this year in the 3rd annual in . In addition to the book stand promoting Romanian-American writers, the will be part of the 🇷🇴🇺🇸 diaspora community leaders booth together with our partners:
Festival is produced by .in.us & 💙☀️❤️

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🔜 COMING UP SOON IN WASHINGTON, D.C.
🇷🇴 Romanian Weekend at the Wharf, the landmark of Romanian cultural presences in America, returns to Washington, D.C. for its third edition!
In only three years since its launching in 2022 as a joint initiative of Ambasada României în Statele Unite ale Americii / Romanian Embassy to US and the Romanian Cultural Institute in New York, “The Romanian Weekend at The Wharf” has reinvented the Romanian public and cultural diplomacy of Romania in the United States. Massive in scale, with an ingenious programming, this tumultuous, diverse, and participatory festival has grown year after year to become not only the milestone of Romanian cultural presence in America but also one of the most entertaining events of the D.C. summer.
With three days of non-stop music, traditional crafts demonstrations, literary performances, wine & food sampling, temporary exhibitions, and interactive activities, the festival literally takes over The Wharf, the popular Washington esplanade by the Potomac, offering the irresistible context for an all-encompassing experience of cultural discoveries and cementing the Romanian-American friendship. “The Romanian Weekend at The Wharf” is initiated, co-organized and co-financed by Ambasada României în Statele Unite ale Americii / Romanian Embassy to US and the Romanian Cultural Institute in New York, with the support of the Maramureș County Council and numerous partners, collaborators, and friends from both sides of the Atlantic.
👉 If you want to find out more about this year`s program and plan your visit, don`t forget to check out our website: https://www.romanianfestivaldc.com/

As a founding member of the Federation of Romanian-American Organizations - FORA, Immigration Research Forum is proud to support the "Romanian American National Heritage Award,” an annual competition aimed at youth with Romanian heritage or connections, working to contribute to strengthening the Romanian spirit and community cohesion in the United States. The award distinguishes exceptional contributions of youth to increasing the community cohesion, and the preservation and dissemination of the Romanian culture and traditions in the United States.
​As in the previous years, the jury is excited to learn about the wonderful contributions applicants will make to the cohesion of the Romanian community.
2024 Edition Application is OPEN June 15 - August 25​
DON'T WAIT, APPLY HERE:
http://www.romanianamericanheritage.us

We are proud to support the latest project and the terrific artivism work of our partners in Romania, VAR Cultural Association:

Watch live the Romanian Community Summit taking place in Chicago

Romanian United Foundation Live Stream

Honored to be part of this impressive Chicago diaspora event and trust it will lead to many more entities joining our national efforts in shaping our ethnic heritage solidarity through the FORA.

Happy Holidays

Happy Holidays Sending you our very best wishes for a joyful holiday season and a New Year filled with wonder...

A returning speaker in our annual conference, EURAXESS North America Regional Coordinator Jackson Howard, will present on Dec. 15th the common platform hosted by the European Union’s Delegation in Washington designed to coordinate interaction with the scientific diasporas of all member states. He will reiterate the various opportunities dedicated to both US and Canadian-based researchers, especially the grant applications for Marie Sklodowska Curie Actions and other opportunities funded by the European Research Council. This platform dedicated to international research funding at a European level, seeks to facilitate the linking of researchers in North American and Europe by centering on scientific diaspora members as natural stakeholders in the dissemination of funding opportunities and information on research career development through transnational mobility.

Building Bridges for Societal Resilience - Fifth Annual Conference of Romanian American Professionals Dec. 15-16th

Building Bridges for Societal Resilience Fifth Annual Conference of Romanian American Professionals

La multi ani de ziua națională a României!

Happy 105th Birthday Romania 🇷🇴 ! La mulți ani românilor de pretutindeni!

We are greatful for our shared journey. Happy Thanksgiving!

Thank You for Being with Us We value all that you bring to our table of plenty and wish you a joyous Thanksgiving. Celebrăm Ziua Recunoștinței mulțumindu-vă pentru că ne sunteți alături. Sărbători fericite!

IRF Fall Newsletter 2023

IRF Fall Newsletter Updates from our network of partners:

Invitation: EURAXESS North America's 9th Annual Meeting

Dear Colleagues, Please find below an invitation from our EURAXESS North America colleagues to their 9th Annual Meeting of the European Scientific Diasporas in the U.S. on October 27 2023. EURAXESS North America cordially invites you to its... About

Starts tonight!💙💛❤️ Stop by at the Wharf!

BiB is elated to start this DC day with our SURPRISE announcement ... (obviously we would have something up our BiB sleeve) for this Romanian Weekend at the Wharf 2.0 we bring you BOOK SIGNINGS by VIP DMV diaspora seasoned/awardwinning/emerging - Romanian - American - Nigerian AUTHORS. All these writers are legit GOATs, so we do recommend getting a snap for the Instas: Book Signings will be at the BiB book booth at the Wharf (SW DC) this Saturday at 4pm (Ioana Ieronim's "Lavinia and Her Daughters" & Ernest Latham's "Timeless and Transitory"); and Sunday 1pm (Tope Folarin's "A Particular Kind of Black Man") and Sunday 4pm (Adela Sinclair's "La Revedere") ... author BIOs below!

IOANA IERONIM is a Romanian poet, essayist, playwright and translator. Author of narrative poetry in Triumph of the Water Witch (multiple editions, including in England and Germany) and Lavinia and Her Daughters, A Carpathian Elegy, translated by Adam J. Sorkin with the author, U. S.). ONLINE: When Big Is Not Beautiful. The House of the People (collage and verse); Omnivorous Syllables; Ariadne’s Veil. Her poetry was published in several European countries and Turkey, Israel, the U.S. She participated in multimedia shows, wrote studies on the Balkan and Israeli theater, translated extensively poetry and drama from Shakespeare to Tony Kushner. She was an editor for foreign encyclopedias, cultural journalist (“Secolul 20”, Revista 22), Romania’s cultural attaché in Washington DC, Fulbright program director in Bucharest. Recipient i.a. of the “M.Eminescu” Prize of the Romanian Academy. Member of the PEN Center and of the Writers’ Union in Romania. She lives in Washington DC and Bucharest. http://www.ioanaieronim.ro/index.php/en/

ERNEST H. LATHAM, Jr., Ph.D, American historian and diplomat. Author of the volumes Timeless and Transitory: 20 the Century Relations Between Romanian and the English Speaking World ; What Strange Fate: J. Breckinridge Bayne, an American Doctor on the Romanian Front 2016-1919 a.o., as well as numerous articles and reviews about Romania. He edited and reintroduced Athene Palace, by Countess R. Waldeck, republished in several editions and translations. He recently introduced a new edition of Kurt Hielscher’s
photographic album, Romania. His many contributions include, i.a., entries on Romanian subjects to the Encyclopaedia on Eastern Europe and revision of the entries on Romania for the Encyclopaedia Britannica, edition 2000. He served as cultural attaché in Romania between 1983 and 1987. Special Assistant to the US Secretary of Defence for Romanian military archives (1997 - 2000). Fulbright Professor in Romania, at the Babes- Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca and at the University of Bucharest (2000 – 2002). He taught advanced area studies on Romania and Moldova at the Foreign Service Institute (U.S. Department of State) in the 1990s.

TOPE FOLARIN is a Nigerian-American writer based in Washington DC. He serves as Director of the Institute for Policy Studies and the Lannan Visiting Lecturer in Creative Writing at Georgetown University. He is the recipient of the Caine Prize for African Writing, the Whiting Award for Fiction, and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, among other awards. His debut novel, A Particular Kind of Black Man, was published by Simon & Schuster.

ADELA SINCLAIR is a NYFA (New York Foundation for the Arts) Grant winning Romanian-American poet, translator, and teacher. Fluent in English, French, and Romanian, poetry is her primary, though not exclusive, medium. Her Chapbook entitled LA REVEDERE is now available through Finishing Line Press. Her poetry explores themes of cultural identity, memory, loss, trauma, and desire. Her work appears on “The Bridge,” published by Brooklyn Poets, and Tupelo Press’ “30/30 Project.” “On April 26, 1986, Chernobyl Exploded”, Adela’s poem is published in the Winter Anthology Healing Felines and Femmes by Other Worldly Women Press. Adela is currently working with an editor on her first full-length poetry collection, “The Butcher’s Granddaughter,” a lyrical memoir of her childhood in Romania. She has performed her poetry all over New York City including the Yale Club, 92nd Street Y, Bowery Poetry Club, Poet’s House, Brooklyn Poets, Books are Magic, KGB Bar, Saint Francis College, and Writer’s Voice at the JCC. She is a founding member and poetry editor of the emerging literary magazine, “Unbound Brooklyn,” and volunteers with Ugly Duckling Presse in Brooklyn. Adela holds a BA in French Culture and Civilization from SUNY Albany, with additional coursework at the Sorbonne University of Paris, an MA in Education from Hunter College (NYC), and an MFA in Creative Writing/Poetry from St. Francis College (Brooklyn).

Looking forward to seeing you all at our Romanian American writers’ book stand. The opening of the weekend festival is this evening!!!!

We recommend joining a free Human Trafficking Webinar, Today at 12 pm, hosted by immigration attorney and Romania's Honorary Consul to CT, Dana Bucin. The topic is Combating Human Trafficking on American territory. She will have American specialists in the field dedicated to this topic and will focus on cases among the Romanian and Roma population. Attached is the flyer and RSVP can be done here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN__Jl2a_AbQMiyHJHNfeygLg #/registration
We hope it will be useful to those who are interested in preventing this phenomenon.

Relansare apel MCID de investiții pentru atragerea resurselor umane înalt specializate din străinătate, în activități de cercetare

Relansare apel MCID de investiții pentru atragerea resurselor umane înalt specializate din străinătate, în activități de cercetare Revenim cu un subiect de interes pentru aria dumneavoastră de activitate, transmis din partea Ministerului Cercetării, Inovării și Digitalizării (MCID).

Happy Mărțișor! May the reenactment of this ancestral tradition of reveling in the joy of nature’s rebirth, fertility and celebration of women, remain in our lives as a discreet little joy we share with those we esteem as a totem of our ritualized affection and solidarity. Our adoptive nation has found different ways of committing these universal sentiments to paper. Last night, President Biden continued a White House tradition initiated since 1995 of issuing A Proclamation on Women’s History Month 2023. Initiated by President Carter’s first proclamation of Women’s History Week in 1981, this American tradition was elevated by the US Congress in 1987 into a month dedicated to celebrating women’s contributions to American society. This year’s theme is that of “celebrating the women who help tell our stories.” For the past few years IRF has held public events dedicated to highlighting the contributions of outstanding Romanian American women, trailblazers who left their mark on both Romanian and American societies. This year, we ask those interested in sharing their immigration experience to share with us stories that affirm and acknowledge women mentors. Tell us who helped you personally tell your story or pursue your dreams and potential. We would be honored to collect these oral testimonies, so please contact us sending your entry for a woman you wish to lift up and praise. Your messages will be made publicly available. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2023/02/28/a-proclamation-on-womens-history-month-2023/

Începem Noul An cu două subiecte de interes, transmise din partea Ministerului Cercetării, Inovării și Digitalizării (MCID), după cm urmează: Înființarea Consiliul Onorific pentru Știință, Inovare și Tehnologie; si Lansarea competiției pentru prima ediție a Galei Cercetării Românești:

Inițiative ale Ministerului Cercetării, Inovării și Digitalizării (MCID) I. Înființarea Consiliul Onorific pentru Știință, Inovare și Tehnologie. Români de elită oferă viziune și experiență pentru România viitorului; II. Lansarea competiției pentru prima ediție a Galei Cercetării Românești organizată de Ministerul Cercetării, Inovării și Digitaliză...

La început de an, dorim sa reiteram invitația extinsa in cadrul celei de a patra Conferințe Anuale a Profesioniștilor Români Americani tuturor membrilor comunității noastre de a participa in aceasta conferința ce va fi gazduita la Timișoara sub înaltul patronaj al Președintelui României.

Smart Diaspora 2023 Conferința “Diaspora în cercetarea științifică și învățământul superior din România”, 10-13 aprilie 2023, Timișoara La început de an, dorim sa reiteram invitația extinsa in cadrul celei de a patra Conferințe Anuale a Profesioniștilor Români Americani tuturor membrilor comunită...

We would like to express our gratitude to all of you, our donors, volunteers, and supporters who made it possible for us to pursue our mission and implement a series of impactful events throughout 2022. Thank you for being part of our journey! Happy New Year!

| 2023 | Wishing you a HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Dear friends, We would like to express our gratitude to all of you, our donors, volunteers, and supporters who made it possible for us to pursue our mission and implement a series of impactful events throughout 2022. As we ring in 2023, we also take account of the year past, the trials that drove us...

Sending you our very best wishes for a joyful holiday season and a New Year filled with wonder. May your lives be filled with love, laughter, caring and sharing!

Happy Holidays Sending you our very best wishes for a joyful holiday season and a New Year filled with wonder...

Please find here our 2022 Featured Speakers:
VESTED IN WEAVING SOCIAL COHESION
When: December 2nd, 2:00PM-5:30PM EST and December 3rd 10:00AM-3:00PM EST

New Blog Post FOURTH CONFERENCE OF ROMANIAN AMERICAN PROFESSIONALS

We value all that you bring to our table of plenty. Wishing you a cozy and
cheerful Thanksgiving.
Vă mulțumim! Sărbători fericite!

Thank You for Being with Us We value all that you bring to our table of plenty. Wishing you a cozy and cheerful Thanksgiving. Vă mulțumim! Sărbători fericite!

We would like to hereby extend our invitation to the Fourth Conference of Romanian American Professionals. We gather to highlight the contributions of those committed to weaving back the social capital of trust both here and abroad, trust that allows newcomers to turn into productive members of host communities. As in previous years, on December 2nd and 3rd we will hold our annual virtual online event taking stock of developments within our academic and professional councils.

VESTED IN WEAVING SOCIAL COHESION FOURTH CONFERENCE OF ROMANIAN AMERICAN PROFESSIONALS