ROMAPHOBIA in Europe Workshop
Join us for our ROMAPHOBIA in Europe workshop lead by Dr Petre Breazu and Professor Aidan McGarry.
Please see the schedule below
Time |
Research panel |
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| 9.30am-11am | Visual Representation and Visual Methods in Romani Studies | Welcome: Dr Petre Breazu (IDIG, London)
Prof. Aidan McGarry and Dr Petre Breazu (Loughbrough London) Visual Representation of Roma in UK and Swedish Media Dr Annabel Tremlett (University of Portsmouth) A kind of thinking’ – a dialogue between art, activism and academia in Romani studies Dr Lucie Fremlova Challenging misrepresentations of Roma through queer Romani visual self-representations Prof. Éva Kovács (Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies and Centre for Social Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences Centre of Excellence) The Gaze of the Other – The Visual Representations of Roma in Central-Europe (1880-1920) Chair: Prof. Jan Covanec (Masaryk University) |
| 11am-11.30am | Coffee Break | |
| 11.30am-1pm | Romaphobia and Media Discourse |
Prof. Jan Chovanec (Masaryk University) Racist discourses about Roma migrants in British and Czech discussion forums Prof. Jo Richardson (De Montfort University) Reframing the narrative for Gypsy/Traveller accommodation provision in England Dr Andreja Zevnic and Prof. Andrew Russell (University of Manchester and University of Liverpool) The state calls me Roma, the majority calls me "gypsy", I call myself Slovenian": media representation of Romani (un)belonging in Europe. Dr. Vera Messing (Center for Social Sciences and Democracy Institute Central European University) Resisting majority representations: how do Roma interpret the image presented by the mainstream media about their communities Chair: Prof. Marius Turda (Oxford Brookes University) |
| 1pm-2pm | Lunch | |
| 2pm-3.30pm | Images of Roma: A Historical Perspective |
Professor Marius Turda (Oxford Brookes University) Anti-Roma Racism in Romania: From Blissful Ignorance to Historical Revisionism Nicolae Furtuna (Research Institue for Quality of Life, Romanian Academy) The “Gypsy slave” and the emancipated. Building of a new historical narrative of slavery from the Romanian countries. Dr Radmila Mladenova (Heidelberg University) The phenomenon of ‘gypsy’-themed films in the history of cinema Rafael Buhigas Jiménez (UCM, Madrid) Images of Roma urban settlements in contemporary Madrid Chair: Prof. Jo Richardson (De Montfort University) |
| 3.30pm-4pm | Break | |
| 4pm-5pm | Round table Discussion |
Roundtable discussion on media representation recommendations based on themes which emerge in the presentations and discussions Chair: Prof. Aidan McGarry |