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