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Pc Illuzzi

Seminar

Mar 12, 2026

Jennifer G Illuzzi: The power of a story - the racial hoax of kidnapping zingari in early twentieth century Italy

In this article Jennifer G Illuzzi highlights the longevity of the racist stereotype of zingari as child kidnappers through four case studies from Italian state archives and fourteen case studies from Corriere della Sera and La Stampa in the early...

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Eszter Varsa

Seminar

Jan 15, 2026

Marie Láníková and Eszter Varsa: Elena (Ilona) Lacková and Mária László - the first generation of Romani women activists in (state) socialist Czechoslovakia and Hungary, 1950s - 1970s

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.

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Vita Zalar and Ann Ostendorf

Seminar

Nov 13, 2025

Ann Ostendorf and Vita Zalar: The Racializations of Romani People in the Long Nineteenth-Century

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...

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Rafael Image

Seminar

Sep 25, 2025

Rafael Buhigas Jiménez & David Martín Sánchez: The Roma of the Basque Country in Nineteenth Century Spain

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

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Tatiana sirbu scaled

Seminar

Nov 14, 2024

Tatiana Sîrbu: Officials and "Nomads" on the border of the Russian Empire

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 ...

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Jiri Smlsal

Seminar

Oct 30, 2024

Pavel Baloun and Jiří Smlsal: Correction, Violence and Race in the Workhouses of the Bohemian Lands

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.

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