Seminar

HERO SEMINAR ENG
Piotr wawrzeniuk

Seminar

Jan 19, 2022

Piotr Wawrzeniuk: Towards the state of exception: Roma in Polish police journals in 1920–1939

The article analyzes Polish police narratives about Roma in the interwar period, revealing attitudes and possible practices. According to police journals and manuals, Roma were mobile and prone to theft and fraud. Their traditional crafts were ...

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Maria gloria

Seminar

Dec 15, 2021

Maria Gloria Tumminelli: Inside the Churches. The Gitanos and the Right of Asylum in the Seventeenth-Century Habsburg Spain

The right of asylum coincides with the birth of the first churches. It guaranteed that refugees in sacred places could not be forcibly expelled, sentenced to death, or subjected to other corporal punishment. The use of churches as places of refuge

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Gregoire cousin

Seminar

Nov 20, 2021

Grégoire Cousin: Persecution of the Tulcean Roma, 1927–1947: An Ethnography of Violence

Based on the study of a specific community between 1927 and 1947, the Čoroman Roma from Tulcea in eastern Romania, the chapter offers an anthropological reading of the relationship between written sources in state archives and oral information ...

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Jan ort

Seminar

Jun 30, 2021

Jan Ort: ‘We weren’t nomadic G*psies but old settlers!’

Using a microhistorical approach, the article focuses on the implementation of the central policies of socialist Czechoslovakia aimed at regulating the movement of Roma, namely the legal efforts to settle "nomadic" people and subsequently ...

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Ari joskowicz

Seminar

Feb 22, 2021

Ari Joskowicz: Reckoning with the Romani and Jewish Holocaust in Europe, 1979 to today

In the first session of the Romani History Seminar, participants will read and discuss a pre-circulated paper by Ari Joskowicz. The paper is the seventh and final chapter of the book manuscript "Jews and Roma in the Shadow of Genocide.

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