Registration with Coffee 8:30–9:00

Opening Remarks 9:00–9:10 - Julika Griem, Director, Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen & Kader Konuk, Director, Academy in Exile, Technische Universität Dortmund Faculty of Cultural Studies

Opening Address 9:10–9:30 - Frank Reuter, Scientific Executive Director, Forschungsstelle Antiziganismus – Historisches Seminar, Universität
Heidelberg Research on Antigypsyism at the University of Heidelberg (VIDEO ONLINE)

Panel I. 9:30–11:00
Romani Historiography – Memory

9:30–9:45 Adrian Marsh, Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul
Researcher on Romani Studies
"The Temporal “Gap” of Earliest Migrations and Movements of the “Proto-Romani” People" (ONLINE)

9:45–10:00 Ann Ostendorf, Professor and Department Chair of History, Gonzaga University, Washington, US
"Romani Americans: Linchpins in the Imperial Atlantic’s Entangled Racial Matrix" (ONLINE)

10:00–10:15 Hazel Marsh, Associate Professor of Latin American Studies in the School of Politics, Philosophy, Language and Communication Studies, University of East Anglia, UK
"George Borrow and the Representation of “Gypsy Song” in England"

10:15–10:30 Iulius Rostas, Visiting Professor at the National University of Political Studies and Administration, Bucharest, Romania
"Constructing “the Gypsy” – an Inquiry into Knowledge, Memory, and Social Imaginary"

10:30–10:40 Discussant, Ismael Cortes, Independent Researcher, Former Member of the Spanish Congress of Deputies

10:40–11:00 Q&A Chair, Ana Jovanovic, European Roma Rights Centre, Romani LGBTIQ+ Human Rights Monitor

Coffee break 11:00–11:30

Panel II. 11:30–13:00
Romani Arts and Culture – Representations

11:30–11:45 Anna Mirga-Kruszelnicka, Deputy Director, European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture
"From Victims to Heroes – Building Roma Narratives of History at the Intersection of Scholarship and the Arts" (ONLINE)

11:45–12:00 Jan Selling, Associate Professor of History and Head of Department of Critical Romani Studies, Södertörn University, Sweden
"Invalidating “the Conceptual Gypsy” through Academic and Cultural Activism"

12:00–12:15 Isaac Blake, Executive Director of the Romani Cultural and Arts Company (RCAC), Cardiff
"Romani, Gypsy, and Travellers’ Knowledge Production Through Arts and Culture"

12:15–12:30 Andre Raatzsch, Head of Documentation Department at the Documentation and Cultural Center for German Sinti and Roma, Heidelberg
"The Sinti and Roma Civil Rights Movement: The Struggle for the Recognition of the Genocide and Resistance to Discrimination and Stereotyping"

12:30–12:40 Discussant, Delia Grigore, Researcher, Writer, Philologist, and Romani Rights Activist
"University of Bucharest, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Romani
Language and Literature" (ONLINE)

12:40–13:00 Q&A Chair, Bela Varadi, Documentary Photographer, (RCAC), Cardiff, London, UK

Lunch and coffee break 13:00–14:00

Panel III. 14:00–15:30
Sinti and Romani Holocaust, Slavery – Reparations

14:00–14:15 Margareta Matache, Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Director of the Roma Program at the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard University, US
"The System of Slavery in the Romanian Principalities of Wallachia and Moldova: Legacies and Reparations" (ONLINE)

14:15–14:30 Marius Turda, Professor, Director of the Centre for Medical Humanities, Oxford Brookes University, UK
"Some Reflections on Anti-Roma Racism and the Holocaust" (ONLINE)

14:30–14:45 Verena Meier, PhD Candidate at the Research Center on Antigypsyism, Ruprecht-Karls Universität Heidelberg
"Voices of Resistance by Sinti and Roma in Petitions for the Release from Concentration Camps – Ego-documents and Speech Acts in a Broader Communicative and Societal Context of Policing" (ONLINE)

14:45–15:00 Nicolae Adrian Furtuna, PhD Researcher at the Institute for Quality of Life, Romanian Academy
"History and Memory – the Case of Roma Slavery" (ONLINE)

15:00–15:10 Discussant, Marissa Petrou, Professor of History and Director of the Guilbeau Center for Public History at University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Department of History, Geography & Philosophy (ONLINE)

15:10–15:30 Q&A Chair, Egemen Özbek, Academy in Exile, Academic Coordinator

Closing remarks 15:30–16:00, Vanessa Agnew, Associate Director, Academy in Exile, Technische Universität Dortmund Faculty of Cultural Studies & Dezso Mate, Academy in Exile Alumnus, Associate Research Fellow Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut, Essen

Dinner for Contributors 19:00