Andreea Pascaru, MA
Scientific researcher in the project "'Hidden' languages in Austria", Austrian Academy's Platform for Multilingualism (2022-2023)
Scientific researcher in the IRDICH Project (2018-2020)
Contact: Andreea.Pascaru(at)oeaw.ac.at
Tel.: +43 (0) 6769460826
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6053-8433
Research areas
Research areas
- Cultural and Linguistic Anthropology
- Cultural diversity in Southeast Europe and Asia Minor
- Oral traditions and endangered languages
- Ethnography and Oral History
- Documentation and digitization of languages and cultures at risk
- Environmental Linguistics
Since 2014: Ongoing documentation of linguistic and ethnographic material within several Slavic, Romance and Greek language communities in South-Eastern Europe and the Caucasus (Greece, Albania, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey and Georgia).
Since 2016 I am doing intense research among the Pontic Greek speakers living in Greece, Turkey and the Caucasus (Georgia) while also working on the documentation of several other Greek varieties in Europe and Minor Asia. All field research data (Video, Audio and Photo) is being annotated and documented within the VLACH Commission and long term stored at LaZAR.
Scientific career
Scientific career
02/2022-03/2023 | Scientific researcher in the project "Hidden" languages in Austria of the Austrian Academy's Platform for Multilingualism within the ACDH-CH (Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage) in cooperation with the VLACH Commission |
2020-2022 | Coordinator in the publication of ethnolinguistic material within the Basic projects of the VLACH Commission
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2021 | Research assistant in the Balkanomad Project of the VLACH Commission |
06/2018-08/2020 | Scientific researcher in the Innovation in Research and Documentation of Intangible Cultural Heritage (IRDICH) Project of the VLACH Commission, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna |
04/2017-06/2019 | Scientific researcher in the DFG research project Web platform for the processing, publication and digital preservation of research data from the regional science (LaZAR) |
Autumn 2016 | Internship at the Phonogram Archives of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna |
Spring 2016 | Research assistant in the Project "LaZAR" (Digital Archive for Ethnographic Field Data), Friedrich Schiller University, Jena |
01/2015-03/2017 | Research assistant at the Department of South Slavic Studies of the Institute of Slavic and Caucasus Studies, Jena |
Memberships
since 2025 | Member of the Society of Turkic, Ottoman and Turkish Studies. |
since 2024 | Scientific Committee Member of the Journal of Urban Anthropology |
since 2023 | Member of the Vanishing Languages and Cultural Heritage Commission, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna |
since 2023 | Member of the American Anthropological Association |
since 2023 | Associate consultant of the Research unit Bessarion (Center for research, documentation, archiving and study of Greek varieties) |
since 2018 | Regular member of the Association of Balkanologists (Balkanologenverband e.V.) |
since 2017 | Regular member of the International Council for Traditional Music and Dance (https://www.ictmusic.org/) |
Organized scientific events
10/2022 | Symposium: “Ethnic markets” in the modern urban space. From ethnic diversity to ethno-business, the 7th edition of the International Symposium of Urban Anthropology, Bucharest, (together with Thede Kahl). |
09/10 2019 | Workshop: Co-organizer of Documenting Vanishing Languages, Vanishing Languages and Cultural Heritage Commission, Vienna. |
06/2017 | Conference: Intangible Cultural Heritage. Field Studies from Southeast Europe, Friedrich-Schiller-University. International conference of the Institute for Slavic Studies and Caucasus Studies, Jena, (together with Thede Kahl). |
05/2016 | Workshop: Co-organizer of Archiving Linguistic and Ethnographic Fieldwork Data, a workshop within the Project "LaZAR", Jena. |
Education
Education
Since 2017 | PhD Project: (Re)bonding with the heritage language: beliefs, intergenerational transmission, maintenance and revitalization of Pontic Greek in Northern Greece and Romeyka in Turkey, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany |
2012 - 2016 | MA in Southeastern European Studies with a focus on Slavic and romance cultures and languages, at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Institute of Slavic Studies and Caucasus Studies. Master's thesis: Linguistic and Cultural Identity in a Multiethnic Region: The Banat Bulgarians |
2008 - 2012 | BA in Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology (Institute for Cultural Analysis/European Ethnology) and Practical Theology at the Albert Ludwig University, Freiburg. Bachelor thesis: The image of the Hungarian minority in the Romanian press |
Publications
Publications
New: Open Call for Book Chapters (planned for spring 2025, peer reviewed ) Peer Reviewed | |||
2024 | article with Thede Kahl. History through Oral Narratives: Analyzing Folk Songs of the Greek-speaking Muslim Community of the ‘Vallahades’ in Yeşilburç (Niğde, Central Anatolia). In: Agnes Grond and Salih Akin (Eds.), Linguistic and Cultural Diversity in Central Anatolia, Wien: Praesens Verlag, p. 209-243. | ||
2024 | article with Florian Wiencek. „Explore the hidden sounds“ – Medieninhärente Vermittlung von bedrohtem musikalischem und sprachlichem Kulturerbe/“Explore the hidden sounds” – Media-inherent communication of musical and linguistic cultural heritage at risk. In: Birgit Peter et al (Hrsg.) Digitale Strategien zur Erschließung prekärer Bestände. Über Erzählen, Ausstellen, Partizipieren. V&R unipress, Vienna University Press, p. 203-223. ISBN: 978-3-7370-1759-6, https://www.vandenhoeck-ruprecht-verlage.com/detail/index/sArticle/59244. | |
Edited journals
2022 | (guest ed.), ”Ethnic markets” in the modern urban space. From ethnic diversity to ethno-business (Journal of Urban Anthropology 10/2), 244 p., Bucharest: Oscar Print, ISSN-L 2286-2390. |
Articles
2021 | with George A. Budur: "Ich schreibe sowohl auf Standardbulgarisch als auch auf Paulikianisch" – Die Banater Bulgaren und ihre Mikroliteratursprache, in Deutsch-Rumänische Hefte. |
2018 | with Thede Kahl: Rrāmānj und Armānj. Wie einheitlich sind Kultur, Sprache und Identität der Aromunen? In: Quo vadis Romania 50, p. 51-77. |
2017 | with Thede Kahl: Das Banater Bulgarisch im Dialog mit der Vergangenheit: Zur sprachlichen und kulturellen Identität einer slawischen Minderheit. In: Bulgarica Bd. 1, Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft München, p. 101-131. |
Translated books
2016 | Wie Rumänien rumänisch wurde. Berlin: Frank & Timme (Translation of the book Cum s-a românizat România by Lucian Boia) |
Online Publications
2021 Characteristics of the Pontic Greek variety
https://www.oeaw.ac.at/vlach/collections/greek-varieties/pontic-greek
2021 Characteristics of the Meglen Vlach language
https://www.oeaw.ac.at/vlach/collections/meglen-vlach.
2019 Characteristics of the Banat Bulgarian language
https://www.oeaw.ac.at/vlach/collections/bulgarian-varieties/banat-bulgarian.
Presentations
Presentations
Invited talks
Διατήρηση της γλώσσας και πολιτιστική κληρονομιά: ευρήματα από μια κοινωνιογλωσσολογική μελέτη των Ελλήνων του Πόντου και των Ρουμέικων Ομιλητών (Language Preservation and Cultural Legacy: Findings from a Sociolinguistic Study among Pontian Greeks in Greece and Romeyka Speakers in Turkey), Tagung Modern Greek dialects as a living tradition, Stiftung Griechisches Haus, Frankfurt, October 12, 2024
Endangered Minority languages in Europe and Minor Asia, University of Buffalo, Department of Linguistics, Buffalo, September 9, 2024 - online event
Mapping language stories on site and at home: The many seasons of ethnolinguistic fieldwork, University of Buffalo, Department of Linguistics, Buffalo (online presentation), April 2023
Panelist, Bulgarische Minderheiten im Ausland im Vergleich: Geschichte, Kultur, Identitäten. 7. Deutsch-Bulgarischer Geschichtstag, Jena. November 12, 2022
Escuchando su historia: lingüística cultural y el enfoque holístico hacia las lenguas en extinción y la herencia cultural de Turquía (Listening to Their Story: Cultural Linguistics and a Holistic Approach to Endangered Languages and Cultural Heritage in Turkey), 2nd Coloquio de Lingüística en Bolivia (LSSB), Cochabamba, Bolivia, July 2021 - online event
Documenting an endangered Greek variety: a profile of Romeyka (Pontic Greek of Turkey), Annual Meeting of the Commission for Vanishing Languages and Cultural Heritage, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, October 2019
Rumänische Dialekte außerhalb Rumäniens: Aktuelle Feldforschungen zu Verbreitung, Zustand und Bedeutung (Romanian dialects outside of Romania: current field research on distribution, condition and meaning), Institute for Romance Studies, Regensburg, Germany, January 2017 (with Th. Kahl)
Presentations
(forthcoming) Resilience and Change: Preliminary Findings on the Sociolinguistic Dynamics of the Vallahades. Fifth European Convention on Turkic, Ottoman and Turkish Studies, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, September 2025
Fieldwork Reflections on Language Endangerment: Pontic Greek Interviewees' Insights into Language Attrition, Conference "The Greek Heritage of Pontus: interdisciplinary perspectives", Jena, May 2025
Verborgene Schätze: Sprachvielfalt in der aramäischen, christlich-orthodoxen und jüdischen Gemeinde Wiens (Juhuri, Makedonisch, Boyash, Turoyo), ACDH-CH Research Day 5: Multilingualism in society and science, ACDH-CH, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, November 8, 2024
The tongue that travelled: unveiling and safeguarding the lesser known repertoire of the Vallahades, 9th Symposium of the ICTMD Study Group on Music and Dance in Southeast Europe, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, October 24, 2024
Elevating Voices: Sociolinguistic Insights on Language Prestige Among Language Communities. The Case of Pontic Greek, Inauguration of the Research Centre Bessarion, Jena, Germany, November 8 2023.
Schwindende Worte und bedrohtes Wissen im Zeichen nationaler Homogenisierungsprozesse: die Angstkultur innerhalb der pontosgriechischen Gemeinschaft In Nordgriechenland (Vanishing words and threatened knowledge during national homogenization processes: the culture of fear among the Pontic Greek community in Northern Greece). Balkanologenverband, Berlin, November 2023
Legitimating authentic Pontic Greek: performative competences of young speakers and intergenerational language transmission. XIX International Conference on Minority Languages (ICML), Wales Trinity Saint David University, Carmarthen, Wales, June 2023
Προκλήσεις στη διατήρηση των γλωσσών πολιτιστικής κληρονομιάς: Ποντιακά Ελληνικά στη Βόρεια Ελλάδα. Μια μελέτη περίπτωσης (Challenges in the preservation of heritage languages: Pontic Greek in Northern Greece. A case study), at the International Scientific Congress for Pontic Greek Ποντι-α-κή: Όψεις του σήμερα, προοπτικές του αύριο. Σκιαγραφώντας δρόμους και διαδρομές, Florina, Greece, October 2022
"Oh, oh, my Isuf, oh!" Performance and Meaning of Women's Laments from the Pontic Alps. Recordings in Pontic Greek of Karaçam Yaylası. 7th Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Music and Dance in Southeastern Europe (online event) April 2021
Linguistic field methods: background, insights and examples, International Virtual Student Colloquium Perspectives on Romania and Moldova, Institute for Slavic Studies and Caucasus Studies, Jena, Germany, February 2021
Documenting an endangered language: attempting an ethnolinguistic profile of Pontic Greek from Northern Turkey, Workshop Documenting Vanishing Languages, VLACH Commission, ÖAW, Vienna, October, 2019.
Singing rumca and dancing horon on the mountains of Karadeniz. Language preservation through music among the Romeyka speakers of Trebizond and Tonya, 12th Congress of South-East European Studies, Bucharest, Romania, September 2019
"Rumca tragodía exéris?" Die musikalische Renaissance des Pontos-Griechischen/Romeyka: Sprache, Stil und Folklore in der neuen Musik an der türkischen Schwarzmeerküste (The Musical Renaissance of Pontic Greek/Romeyka: Language, Style and Folklore in New Music on the Turkish Black Sea Coast), Symposium "Von der Wiederholung zum Ritual. Prezente Prozesse in den Sprachen und Kulturen südosteuropäischer Gesellschaften", Berlin, November 2018
Assessing vitality of minority languages: Ethnolinguistic and anthropological fieldwork in Southeast Europe and the Caucasus, Kutaisi University, Kutaisi, September 2018
Revival and Fall in Adapting Folklore and Poetics: Revitalization and Cultural Turn of the Banat Bulgarian Language, Conference "Perspectives on linguistic diversity", Rijeka, June 2018
Multipart Aromanian singing and the sudden rise from rural to urban folklore, 6th Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Music and Dance in Southeastern Europe, Sinj, April 2018
On the Meaning of Language Codification: Multilingualism and Multispelling among Farsherots, Pomaks, and Pontians [orig. Vom Sinn der Sprachkodifizierung: Mehrsprachigkeit und Mehrschriftigkeit bei Farscheroten, Pomaken und Pontiern], SYmposium Preservation of European Linguistic Diversity: Threatened linguistic varieties and minority languages in Italy and the Balkans. sustainability and language policy, Como (Villa Vigoni), March 2018
Introduction to Daco-Romanian. Framing the History of the Language and its Dialects, Romanian Cultural Days, Friedrich-Schiller University, Jena, Germany, February 2018.
Οι ελληνόφωνοι Θρακιώτες της Δοβρουτσάς. Η περίπτωση του χωριού Ιζβοάρελε, Ρουμανία) (The Greek speaking Thracians in Dobrudja (Romania). The case of the village Izvoarele, Romania), Conference "Η ιστορική Θράκη υπό το πρίσμα των εθνο-γλωσσολογικών μελετών", Komotini, October 2017 (with Th. Kahl)
Searching for Nasreddin. Storytelling in Farsherot Aromanian (rramaneshti). Conference "Intangible Cultural Heritage. Field Studies from Southeast Europe", Jena, June 2017
Codifying the Pomak language: Political, cultural and scientific arguments and tendencies. Conference "Οι πομάκοι της Θράκης: πολυεπιστημονικές και διεπιστημονικές προσεγγίσεις" (The Pomaks of Thrace: A Multidisciplinary and Interdisciplinary Approach), Komotini, Greece, March 18, 2017
Ethnolinguistische Feldforschung bei den Banater Bulgaren: Identitätsmuster und Kulturbewahrung einer schwindenden Minderheit (Ethnolinguistic fieldwork among the Banat Bulgarians: Identity patterns and cultural preservation of a dwindling minority). Symposium "Bulgarische Sprache, Kultur und Literatur in Europa", Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, June 7, 2015
Interviews
19.05.2021:Wie junge Menschen aussterbende Sprachen retten können (How can young people save endangered languages?), https://www.oeaw.ac.at/detail/news/wie-junge-menschen-aussterbende-sprachen-retten-koennen.
Digital language data
Digital language data
Phonetic transcriptions accompanying audio-visual material of several recorded languages:
the Meglen Vlach language. See recordings and PDFs under https://www.oeaw.ac.at/vlach/collections/meglen-vlach/
the Banat Bulgarian language. See recordings and PDFs under https://www.oeaw.ac.at/vlach/collections/bulgarian-varieties/banat-bulgarian/
the Timok Vlach variety. See recordings and PDFs under https://www.oeaw.ac.at/de/vlach/collections/romanian-varieties/timok-romanian/vlach/
Krashovan. See recordings and PDFs under https://www.oeaw.ac.at/vlach/collections/bosniancroatianmontenegrinserbian/krashovan/video-collection/oral-history
Teaching
Teaching
Teaching
2018 - 2019 | Outside the trends: preservation and revitalization of language, music and material culture among the South Slavs, (together with Thede Kahl), Institute of Slavic Studies and Caucasus Studies, Jena |
2017 - 2018 | Linguistic and Religious Vitality of Minorities in Southeastern Europe, (together with Evelyn Reuter), Institute of Slavic Studies and Caucasus Studies, Jena |
09/2017 | Oral Traditions of the South Slavs in Music and Literature within the Expeditionsakademie of the Studienstiftung, Sarajevo |
2014 - 2015 | Introduction to South Slavic Literatures, Institute of Slavic Studies and Caucasus Studies, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena |