Call for Papers: The Roma - A Minority in Europe
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Call for Papers: The Roma - A Minority in Europe
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Call for Papers: The Roma - A Minority in Europe
The situation of the Roma in Europe, especially in the former
communist states, is one of the more important human rights issues on
the agenda of the international community, especially in the
Euro-Atlantic bodies of integration. Within European states with Roma
populations there is a growing awareness that the matter must be
confronted, and that a concentrated effort is needed to solve social
problems and ease tensions between the Roma and the European nations
among which they dwell. The issue is not only an internal one
pertaining to these states alone but has become an international one
due to the attempts of some Roma in Eastern and Central Europe to seek
asylum in the West, and the emigration of thousands of others to
Western countries.
At the same time a process of self-identification has been taking
place among the various Roma communities � a search for roots,
language and common features among the various groups. Their fate
during World War II is of crucial importance in this process of
identity and nation-building, since victimization and persecution are
key elements in this search.
The Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism
and Racism at Tel Aviv University is holding an international
conference, entitled "The Roma � A Minority in Europe: Historical,
Social and Cultural Perspectives", which will take place at Tel Aviv
University from 1 to 3 December 2002. An advisory committee composed
of distinguished scholars is accompanying its organization.
The conference will serve as a forum for a multidisciplinary
discussion on the past and present of the Roma. It will seek to
compare the historical experience of Jews and Roma regarding patterns
of racism and xenophobia, as well as that of destruction and
annihilation, reconstruction after the war and commemoration.
The conference will address the following topics:
1. A history of oppression? European attitudes toward the Roma in
historical perspective.
2. The tragic fate of the Roma during the Nazi era - historiographical
interpretations and historical memory.
3. Nation-building � the Roma and the international community (focus
on organizational patterns of the Roma, emerging political activism).
4. The Roma experience � social and cultural aspects.
5. The current situation of the Roma in Western and Eastern Europe
(education, living conditions, crime, legislation, etc.).
6. The "Jewish question" and the "Roma question": assimilation,
integration and rejection (comparative aspects of relations between
the minority and majority groups).
7. The "wandering Jew" and the "wandering Gypsy" � common stereotypes
in the arts (literature, theater, cinema and art).
The suggested topic of your paper should relate to one of the themes
listed above.
Please e-mail an abstract, together with a short curriculum vitae, by
15 April, to [email protected]
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