Seminar

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...