UPDATE:
We are pleased to announce that the Romani Studies Program at Central European University is offering a limited number of scholarships for Romani applicants (who are not from OSUN institutions) to the summer course : New Frontiers in Romani Studies: Insights from Critical Race Theory. The application deadline is the 15th of March.
5 more days to Apply to New Frontiers in Romani Studies! - Deadline Extended - March 15!
New Frontiers in Romani Studies: Insights from Critical Race Theory summer university course, is a great opportunity to explore an interest in the field of Critical Romani Studies, gain comparative perspective on the realities of Roma and other racialized minorities, experience RSP and CEU, or network!
Being held in a hybrid format (online and in-person) between June 27 and July 8, 2022, the summer course offers a pioneering intellectual inquiry into the dynamics, varieties, and antagonisms of racialization and racial oppression of Romani people in relation to other racialized populations in Europe.
Financial aid is available on a competitive basis for Romani applicants (who are not from OSUN institutions) and to those who are currently enrolled students or are employees of OSUN member institutions.
Get a first-hand sneak peek into the course from the course faculty and last year's students:
What motivated me to attend for the second time the New Frontiers in Romani Studies Summer School were: the knowledge that the program provided, the experienced lecturers, researchers, and activists.
Learning about, discussing, and questioning most recent studies on Roma community from various sociological approaches was quite interesting and beneficial!
You will acquire not just knowledge and social experience, but also a valuable network who might also help you in their future careers.
Ram Hadroj, Germany, 2022 Summer Course Participant
Romani studies is inherently interdisciplinary and transnational-- and that's just what you get from the CEU Romani Studies summer school program.
As the only literary scholar in my cohort, I perhaps benefitted the most because I had the most to learn, from the legal and the sociological to Critical Race Theory. We covered it all. After the course, I could intelligently apply all that I'd learned to my Ph.D. dissertation, which I was just wrapping up. The program gave me confidence that I understood the cutting edge of the Romani Studies field.
Eric Bergman, Finland, 2021 Summer Course Participant
As a researcher at the Forecasting Institute - Center for Social and Psychological Sciences of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, I am working on the project called Analysis of Barriers to Access to Job Opportunities for Marginalized Population Groups: Selected Regions of Slovakia in a Socio-Economic, Geographical and Socio-Anthropological Perspective. I came to learn at the New Frontiers in Romani Studies to meet and talk to researchers who are interested in equity in employment. This summer university widened my horizons on this topic.
Martina Chrančoková, Slovakia, 2021 Summer Course Participant
I really am grateful for being part of this summer school. It was such a good fun experience I appreciate that I learned a lot but in a very pleasant way; I was never bored! The organizers and participants created a unique safe space where we could share experiences and thoughts. The summer school has definitely deepened my knowledge and enriched the way I think about the world. I could definitely recommend participation to everyone.
Katerina Canigova, The Czech Republic, 2021 Summer Course Participant
Faculty voices:
The concepts of race and racism have been transformed repeatedly and gradually in a wide range of historical, political, and geographical settings. Also, the history and manifestations of racism in particular countries or regions have determined the ways that racism was understood and defined in each place. However, the history of anti-Roma racism has rarely been considered in the global conversations on race and racism. In this session, we aim to place the oppression and the racialization of Roma since the 1300s (and perhaps earlier) in the world’s history of race and racism.
The goal of my session during the summer course is two-folded: a) to place the oppression of Roma in the global history of race and racism; and b) to discuss pillars of anti-Roma racism.
Margareta Matache, New Frontiers in Romani Studies 2022 Summer Course Instructor
The European Roma activisms and Romani Feminisms cannot be separated from global anti-racist movements and intersectional perspectives. The racialization of Roma as a perpetuating narrative has prevailed in the European social and political discourse, and it shows a great resemblance to the experiences of other marginalized communities, including the experiences of Black women. There are lots of ways Romani movements and other anti-racist movements can learn from each other. One of the most important takeaways perhaps is that any anti-racist agenda must center on the understanding the delicate nature of the intersection of race, gender, class, and other factors of inequality.
Angela Kocze, New Frontiers in Romani Studies 2022 Summer Course Director
Critical Race Theory was developed in the United States with the American legal and historical background in mind. However, quickly the broad lens of understanding race and racism was applied beyond the borders of the United States and beyond the borders of law. During my seminar we will look at the difficulties and the potential of applying CRT to a European context and look at the commonalities and differences between applying CRT to Roma and other racial minorities in that different geographic and legal reality.
Mathias, Moshel, New Frontiers in Romani Studies 2022 Summer Course Co-director
Race is a broad concept--normatively, politically, socially, linguistically and, not least of all, legally. My session begins by examining ways in which notions of race and law intersect and affect the lives of people racialised as Black. This examination focuses mainly on Europe with limited comparative examples from the United States, Brazil and South America, and highlights a range of social, political and legal conversations on racial justice. The session then shifts to a conversation on 'critical race futures,' which involves examining the past and using concepts such as memory, time, ancestry, diaspora and coloniality to ask ourselves what conditions must exist in order to sustain a racially just legal order. Roma and non-Roma scholars will benefit from this session by sharpening the critical interpretive skills necessary for engaging in contemporary discussions on race, racism and the law.
Eddie Bruce-Jones, New Frontiers in Romani Studies 2022 Summer Course Instructor
The course I teach on - as guest member of staff from Glasgow, Scotland - is the Romani Studies one. For 2022 it is entitled: Romani Studies: Insights from Critical Race Theory. This is an important development and connects the two areas together in a fundamental way, both theoretical and empirically. The racialization aspects of Romani experiences in Europe, and beyond Europe, are foregrounded. Further, the course draws on other contemporary social divisions, in addition to 'race' - such as class and gender - to understand how oppression under late capitalism works and how discrimination and injustice can be countered and addressed. The key questions for the course include how Critical Race Theory 'works' in understanding Romani experiences, and what the insights and limitations are. We also look at the manifestations and patterns of anti-Romani racism and how these can form and spread in public life/civil society. The course also wants to look at how racial injustice is best tackled. These are the fundamental questions for the summer university course in Romani Studies.
Colin Clark, New Frontiers in Romani Studies 2022 Summer Course Instructor
Application deadline: February 28, 2022