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Who is afraid of identity politics? Lessons from Romani activism

January 16, 2020
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We are pleased to invite you to a series of roundtable discussions to promote critical approaches to analyze the situation of Roma. Roma have been an object of academic and policy inquiry for centuries; however, until recently, due to structural discrimination, few Romani people have been allowed to shape the discourses on themselves.

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International and local awards to excellent former and current students of RGPP

January 16, 2020
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Credit: Ondřej Besperát. The Award Ceremony was attended by Günther Oettinger (European Commissioner), Tomáš Petříček (Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic), Ivan Hodáč (President of the Aspen Institute CE) and Jiří Schneider (Director of the Aspen Institute CE). The second awardee was Do Thu Trang, a blogger writing famous blog ASIJATKA.cz about the Vietnamese diaspora in the Czech Republic.

An Alumni and a current student of the Roma Graduate Preparation Program (RGPP) were awarded last year for their exceptional work for the community. Michal Mižigár CEU History student won an international award, Jozsef Csendes RGPP student was awarded the Minority Award of the city of Miskolc.

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Slavery, genocide, and resistance: pioneering inquiries into Romani history

January 16, 2020
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The second roundtable discussion of the Romani Studies Program (RSP) was held on the 9th January on slavery, genocide, and resistance which allowed scholars to critically reflect upon contemporary memory politics and the way Roma minority’s involvement in various historical events was misrepresented or rendered invisible.

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Call for Papers for the Critical Romani Studies Journal: Thematic Issue on Environmental justice for Roma

January 6, 2020
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Editors: Jekatyerina Dunajeva, PhD. (Pazmany Peter Catholic University, Department of Political Science), Szilvia Rezmuves (independent activist and researcher), Richard Robert Racz (Research Fellow, Roma Initiatives Office, Open Society Foundations), and Marek Szilvasi, PhD. (Public Health Program, Open Society Foundations).

About the Critical Romani Studies Journal:

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Call for Papers for the Critical Approaches to Romani Studies conference at Central European University, in Budapest

January 6, 2020
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Call for papers

Date: May 21-22, 2020

Deadline: February 16, 2020

Venue: Central European University, Budapest, Hungary

The Romani Studies Program (RSP) at the Central European University is pleased to invite scholars to submit paper and panel proposals for the Critical Approaches to Romani Studies conference held on the 21st and 22nd of May 2019, in Budapest, Hungary.

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