The Coverage of the Russian-Ukrainian War in the Romanian Mainstream Media

Iulia Ticărău

27 March 2025, 15:30-16:15

Heimasvæði tungumála, Veröld

The Coverage of the Russian-Ukrainian War in the Romanian Mainstream Media: The Image of Women during Military Conflicts

This lecture is based on the corpus compiled within the project: The coverage and reception of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict in Polish, Romanian and English-language media: A comparative critical critical discourse study with recommendations for journalism training (CORECON), implemented at the "Lucian Blaga" University of Sibiu. From the selected news, I analyze how the image of women is presented during military conflicts by comparing the political, military and social discourse. The focus is  on the  hegemonic relationship in order to highlight that women are not "passive" in military conflicts and with this overview I want to point out the need to re-evaluate how women are perceived in times of military crisis. The image of women during military conflicts is also analyzed by using visual rhetoric as a tool, by which we find important information regarding the presence of women in war, but also about the perpetuation of gender stereotypes.

Iulia Maria Ticărău is a teaching assistant at the "Lucian Blaga" University of Sibiu. She graduated from the Faculty of Letters and Arts ("Lucian Blaga" University) in 2016. Since 2018 she is a PhD student at the same university with a thesis entitled ”The Microsystem of Jewish Literature in Romania in the First Half of the 20th-century.” She teaches Romanian language seminars (Normative Grammar, Language and Communication) and Romanian as a foreign language. She is currently involved in two research projects  titled: Preservation, Transformation and Study of the Romanian Linguistic Patrimony in the Context of Globalization (PATLIRO) and The coverage and reception of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict in Polish, Romanian and English-language media: A comparative critical discourse study with recommendations for journalism training (CORECON).