Program
FRIDAY, APRIL 24
9-9:15am
Opening remarks
9:15-9:45am
"Dancing the Göbek Atmak: The Politics of Representation in Turkish Romani Dance Practice"
(Paromita Kar, York University)
9:45-10:15am
"Playing It Dangerously: Affect and Transgression in Romani and Croatian Tambura Performance"
(Ian MacMillen, Oberlin College)
10:15-10:45am
"‘We are Flamenco’: Gitanos, Cultural Patrimony and Racial Purity"
(Joshua Brown, Chapman University)
10:45-11am
Break
11-11:30am
"Romani literary voices in the public sphere"
(Beate Eder-Jordan, Universität Innsbruck)
11:30am-12pm
"Romani Literature in Europe: scope for a wider narrative"
(Andrew Singer, Trafika Europe)
12-12:30pm
"Writing Roma: Rhetorical Vision and Marketing Realities in American Romani Literature"
(Glenda Bailey-Mershon, Twisted Road Publications)
12:30-1:45pm
Lunch
2-2:30pm
"Red wheel, black legion and green forest: On the role of symbols, myths and allegories in contemporary Roma nation-building initiatives"
(Lidia Balogh, Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
2:30-3pm
"Expulsion of Rroma from Kosovo: Identity, integration and education of the Rroma in Germany-Europe"
(Irina Grosser and Ragip Jasharaj, Rroma Teachers Association of Münster, Germany)
3-3:30pm
"Out of Place: Romani Women’s Holocaust Testimony, Digital Circulations and the Possibility of Critique"
(Ethel Brooks, Rutgers University)
3:30-4pm
Break
4-4:30pm
"Now I sing of the possibility for this freedom”: Music as a Motif for Sinti and Roma Culture, History, and Literature in Autobiographies by Marianne Rosenberg, Dotschy Reinhardt, and Mišo Nikolić"
(Lorely French, Pacific University)
4:30-5pm
"The Rajkó Gypsy Orchestra, the “Gypsy question,” and Romani identity in twentieth- century Hungary"
(Lynn Hooker, Indiana University)
5-5:30pm
"Romani Music, Activism, and Representation: Issues and Challenges"
(Carol Silverman, University of Oregon)
5:30-6pm
"Gypsy hype & stereotype"
(Sani Rifati, Voice of Roma)
6-8pm
Break
8pm
Events at the Hungarian House (see "Workshop and Concert" page for directions)
Dance workshop with Sani Rifati
Concerts: Eva Salina and Peter Stan; Sazet Band
SATURDAY, APRIL 25
9:30-10 am
"Evidence-based approach to combating anti-Roma sentiment in Hungary"
(Laura Ligouri, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; absent presenters: Emile Bruneau, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Hanna Szekeres, University of Herzliya)
10-10:30am
"Parsing Persecution of the Roma Refugee Claimant and Reconfiguring the Gypsy in Canada"
(Cynthia Levine-Rasky, Queen's University)
10:30-11am
"A Decade of Romani Inclusion? Some critical reflections on the period of 2005-2015"
(Nidhi Trehan, Delhi University (Visiting Fellow) /American Montessori Public School (Gurgaon, India))
11-11:15am
Break
11:15-11:45am
"Follow the money …A critical examination of training Romani journalists in democracy, development and dependency"
(Shayna Plaut, University of British Columbia / Simon Fraser University)
11:45am-12:15pm
"When Roma Political, Cultural and Thought Leaders Demean Romani Culture: Examples and Reflections"
(Jud Nirenberg, Director of PRADAN USA, Board Chair of the National Romani Centre (Macedonia))
12:15-1:30pm
Lunch
1:45-2:15pm
"Representations of Sinti and Roma in Recent European Cinema"
(Habiba Hadziavdic, University of Saint Thomas, and Hilde Hoffman, University of Minnesota)
2:15-2:45pm
"Analysis of the Portrayals of the Roma in the Netflix series Hemlock Grove"
(Sabrina Deaton, University of Central Florida)
2:45-3:15pm
"The lautar dilemma: self-essentialization in Romanian-Roma music"
(Ioanida Costache, Stanford University)
3:15-3:30pm
Break
3:30-4pm
"Negotiating Identities and Cultural Representations: A Case Study of Roma-Transylvanian Folk Violinist Florin Codoba"
(Colleen Bertsch, University of Minnesota)
4-4:30pm
"Occupation and Identity: Strategies of Music-Making among Roma in Southern Romania"
(Margaret H. Beissinger, Princeton University)
4:30-4:45pm
Performance by the Rroma Teachers Association (Münster, Germany)
4:45-5pm
Break
5-6:30pm
Community panel, participants TBA