Past

On Tuesday, March 10, 2026, at 3 p.m., we will commemorate the 83rd anniversary of the transport of Roma and Sinti from Ruzyně to the Auschwitz II-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp.

We share here the invitation of the Harvard University that invites you to a powerful conversation marking the launch of Dr. Margareta Matache’s new monograph, The Permanence of Anti-Roma Racism: (Un)uttered Sentences.

The paper compares the activist biographies and agendas of the first generation of Romani women activists Elena (Ilona) Lacková (1921-2003) and Mária László (1909-1989) in (state) socialist Czechoslovakia and Hungary between the 1950s and the 1970s.

After the performance, the Prague Center for Romani Histories and the Committee for the Redress of the Roma Holocaust organised a discussion with Zdeněk Serinek and Rudolf Murka, who are relatives of Romani partisans from the Second World War.

This text will serve as an introduction to a special issue that emerged from the Prague Forum for Romani Histories 2024 Conference on The Racializations of Romani People in the Long Nineteenth-Century. The five articles in this special...

This article studies anti-Roma racism as a transnational phenomenon from the perspective of locally entrenched social history. Based on the idea that local contexts provide nuances of more complex phenomena, this article studies the Roma of

Roma are frequently characterized as ‘Europe’s largest ethnic minority’ – an undoubtedly evocative and potentially politically efficacious description. It might be insightful, however, to reflect on how this phrase frames Romani people.

Organized by Municipal Department of Prague 6 together with Prague Forum for Romani Histories (Faculty of Arts, Charles University) and with the Museum of Romani Culture in Brno

In 1812, the Russian Empire expanded its territory by annexing the eastern part of the Principality of Moldova, encompassing the area known as Bessarabia, situated between the Prut and Dniester rivers. This annexation not only altered ...

This text presents a case study focused on the development of workhouses (known as "zemské donucovací pracovny" in Czech and "Zwangsarbeitsanstalten" in German) in the Bohemian lands during the first half of the 20th century.

The scholarly study of race, racism, racialization, and racial capitalism on a global scale has significantly reshaped our understanding of the nineteenth century.

In this chapter, we will examine the shifting meanings of the terms 'chisto' (lit. pure/clean) and 'narodna' (lit. popular/folk), used today in both expert and popular discourses in Bulgaria to refer to what is supposed to be 'folklore', ...

Ethical-Epistemic Issues in German Migration and the Collection of Racial or Ethnic Data“ Tina Magazzini kindly accepted to be our main discussant.

This article explores nostalgia for jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt (1910-1953) as he lived and worked in Nazi-occupied France. From the 1930s, Reinhardt became Europe's most celebrated jazz musician. Nazi policy officially labelled jazz as ...

Today, many people have become resigned to the fact that xenophobia is a central feature of the transatlantic political landscape.

The text is a draft chapter of a forthcoming book on the social and political engagement of Roma in post-war Czechoslovakia during the first two decades of its existence as a communist state (1948-1969). Based on documents written by socially ...