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International Conference: Racializing Romani People in the Nineteenth Century
May 20 - 21, 2024
The scholarly study of race, racism, racialization, and racial capitalism on a global scale has significantly reframed our understanding of the nineteenth century. It has been established that ideas about race influenced...
The Politicization of Xenophobia in Transatlantic Contexts: Past and Present
18-19 May, 2023, Villa Lanna Prague
Organizers: Jonathan Wiesen (University of Alabama at Birmingham) Angéla Kóczé (Romani Studies Program at the Central European University in Vienna) Kateřina Čapková (Institute of Contemporary History, Czech Academy...
Romani History – Methods, Sources, Ethics
8–9 June 2022, Villa Lanna, Prague
Organizers: Ari Joskowicz, Kateřina Čapková, Martin Fotta, Helena Sadílková Application deadline: April 15, 2022 On the sixth anniversary of the founding of the Prague Forum for Romani Histories, this workshop...
Trajectories of Romani Migrations and Mobilities in Europe and Beyond (1945 – present)
16-18 September 2019, Prague
The conference will bring together scholars from across a variety of disciplines to present empirically grounded accounts of the multiple dimensions of Romani mobilities since 1945 in order to analyse connections between...
Forced Sterilization of Romani Women in the Czech(oslovak) and European Contexts: Past and Present
12 June 2018, New York University in Prague
An international workshop for registered participants organized at NYU in Prague. The workshop will focus on analysing the reasoning behind the forced sterilization of Roma in the Czech(oslovak) Republic in the context of...
Tracing the Legacies of the Roma Genocide. Families as Transmitters of Experience and Memory
20-21 September 2017, Prague
The conference is a joint event bringing together two recent academic initiatives focusing on the research on the history of the Roma and supporting new approaches in the field: the Prague Forum for Romani Histories and the...
