Seminar Series

Romani Migration: A Retro-History of the Romanian Roma Presence in France after the Second World War The seminar proposes to trace...

The Slovenian and Croatian Roma in Italy during the Fascist Regime and the Second World War: Internees, Deportees, and Refugees The...

The Fate of the Romani Minorities in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania during World War II: Genocide and Its Resonance Today The...

The Fortunoff Archive as Model of Grassroots Refugee/Survivor Archival Activism In 1979, a grassroots organization, the Holocaust Survivors Film Project, began...

Precarious and Hidden: Roma and Sinti Testimonies at the Fortunoff Video Archive The Seminar provides information about the Fortunoff Video Archive...

Romani Writing as An Intersection of Literature and Activism: Yugoslavia Before and After WWII Writing has always played a central role...

World War II and the Radicalization of Academic Antigypsyism in Sweden. A Case of Uppsala University's Researchers. Like many other European...

Polish, Lithuanian and Russian Roma Lives before and after World War II History and Roma Studies have pretty much neglected researching...

Romanian Roma Survivors' Recollections of 1942: Deportations to Transnistria. In this talk, I reflect on the deportation of Romanian Roma to...

Collecting the Scattered Knowledge. Towards an Encyclopaedia of the Nazi Genocide of the Sinti and Roma in Europe. The genocide of...

Language and Culture of Swedish Roma (Svenska romers språk och kultur) The talk will overview the history of the Kelderash (Kelderáš)...

Swedish Resande: A Historical Overview of the Romani History in Sweden The first known appearance of Roma in Sweden was in 1512....

A Comparative Approach to Roma and Jewish Survivors’ Post-War Compensation Claims in Communist Romania The talk will focus on the post-Holocaust individual...

The "Darker Side" of East European (post) Coloniality: The Case of the Lost Roma Signifier This talk revisits the early (post)colonial thinking present...

Between Oblivion and Remembrance: The Genocide of Roma and Politics of Memory in Moldova This talk delves into the narrative of...

The Situation of Ukrainian Roma Refugees in Poland: The experience of the "Foundation Towards Dialogue". This talk will highlight the situation...

The Forgotten Crimes and the Mass Crimes against Roma in the Independent State of Croatia The talk will focus on the...

Book Presentation: "The Persecution of Roma and Sinti in Fascist Italy: History, Ethnography, and Memories (Viella, 2024)" Paola Trevisan's book, La...

Journal Presentation: Études Tsiganes: Ukraine, №72-73 (Spring 2023) As the invited editor of the special issue of Études Tsiganes: Ukraine, Issue 72-73...

The Struggle for Recognition and Continuing the Legacies of Roma and Sinti Holocaust Survivors: A Third-Generation Survivor’s Perspective Dr. Matkowska will share...

Roma Activism for Change: Experiences from Austria Approximately 600 individuals, out of the 11,000 Roma residing in Austria in 1938, survived...

Ukrainian Roma Activism during The War Ms. Tomenko will talk about the role of Ukrainian Roma activism during the ongoing war, which...

Introducing Artificial Intelligence into Romani Studies: Risks, Possibilities, and a New Model for Oral History Research This talk introduces artificial intelligence...