26 September, 2009. Courtland, Ontario, Canada.
Welcome readers, to what will be a log of my adventures, experiences, and observations as an ICCS Teaching Fellow in Canadian Studies at North University of Baia Mare, Romania. I depart from Toronto Sunday evening and will arrive in Budapest, Hungary (via Brussels) on Monday morning. I'll spend a day in Budapest with Veronika K. (a friend and former colleague from Slovakia) before continuing on to Cluj-Napoca, Romania. From Cluj I will continue by train to Baia Mare on Tuesday, and by the end of the week I'll begin my duties as a Teaching Fellow at North University.
As part of my duties, I've been asked to teach a graduate course at North University in the Canadian Studies programme entitled, "Canadian Culture and Civilization." This course will be an interdisciplinary approach to Canadian history and culture, and I expect my Romanian students and colleagues will introduce me to new and interesting insights. I look forward to this unique opportunity, and I'm grateful to the International Council for Canadian Studies for providing me with a postdoctoral teaching fellowship.
No doubt some of you are thinking, as I have, how strange is it that a Canadian with a PhD in Canadian History (not to mention an MA in Canadian Studies) has to travel to Central Europe to find professional employment right now? Well, I'll just let you think about that, and you can come to your own conclusions... ;-)
Stay tuned. Baia Mare, here I come....
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