Criminalization-Surveillance-Resistance: Roma and Policing from the Holocaust to the Present (Session III)

Criminalization-Surveillance-Resistance: Roma & Policing from the Holocaust to the Present
This virtual workshop explores the history of race and policing through the experiences of European Roma from the late 19th century through the Holocaust and into the present.

This virtual workshop explores the history of race and policing through the experiences of European Roma from the late 19th century through the Holocaust and into the present. Scholars from the US, Europe, and beyond will address the confluence of the criminalization and racialization of the category of “Gypsy,” the role of the police in the persecution and genocide of Roma in the Holocaust, and the legacies of this history for Romani communities to the present day. The program will open with a roundtable of scholars and activists who will address the contemporary stakes of the history of the criminalization and police persecution of Roma in Europe and explore resonances with parallel histories of race and policing in the American context.

Presented by: The Center for Austrian Studies, The Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, and the Institute for Global Studies

Session III: Legacies of Genocide: Romani Communities in the Aftermath of the Holocaust | 1:30PM - 3:00PM CDT

Moderator
Angéla Kóczé, Assistant Professor and Chair, Romani Studies Program, Central European University

Speakers
Margareta Matache, Director, Roma Program, FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard University

• Practices of Denial and Distortion of the Samudaripen/Porrajmos in Southeastern Europe

Ioanida Costache, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities, University of Pennsylvania

• Race, Genocide, and Romani Life: Legacies of Persecution

Ana Ivasiuc, Lecturer in the Anthropology of Crime and Security, Department of Anthropology, Maynooth University

• The Racial Policing of the Roma in Contemporary Italy

Anabel Carballo Mesa, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Barcelona

• Romane Zorako: Historic Roma and Sinti Resilience

Respondent
Ari Joskowicz, Associate Professor of Jewish Studies and European Studies, Vanderbilt University

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