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Camilla Salvatore

Seminar

Apr 17, 2024

Camilla Salvatore: "Folk music is Balkan music." Kotel musicians´ positioning, between re-appropriation and resignification

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', ...

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Portrait Daniel James

Seminar

Nov 1, 2023

Daniel James, Morgan Thompson and Tereza Hendl: Who Counts in Official Statistics?

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

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Siv b lie

Seminar

Jun 14, 2023

Siv B. Lie: Django Under the Nazis: Subversive Stories, Uncertain Resistance, and Romani Essentialism in Popular Media

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 ...

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Helena

Seminar

Apr 5, 2023

Helena Sadílková: Strategies of Participation and Negotiation. Socially Engaged Roma in Post-War Czechoslovakia 1948-1969

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 ...

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Vita

Seminar

Mar 22, 2023

Vita Zalar: Antinomies of Romaniness in the Habsburg Empire, 1860-1918

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 ...

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Leo Stocklein Bild

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Nov 16, 2022

Leonard Stöcklein: „If we don’t get a seat at the table, then we’ll just create our own“

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

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