Seminar

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.

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

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.

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', ...