Seminar

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 ...

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 ...

The chapter is part of Vita Zalar's ongoing dissertation project, The Conceptual History of Gypsiness: Habsburg and Post-Habsburg Perspectives, 1860-1940, which presents a materialist reading of imperial and post-imperial modes of structural ...

Memorial work of the Sinti/ze and Rom/nja in the shadow of trauma, transgenerationality and memory using the example of Neumünster. Against the backdrop of a second persecution that Sinti/ze and Rom/nja faced after 1945, survivors of the genocide

We will discuss Eszter Varsa’s chapter “‘The minor would hinder the mother in finding employment’: Child protection regulating women’s labor force participation” from her recently published book Protected Children, Regulated Mothers...

In recent years, there has been a boom in scholarship on Romani memory of the Nazi genocide. Approaches range from collective amnesia to the impact of the Holocaust on contemporary European Roma identities and the role of Romani Holocaust memory ...