Anthropology, Ethnic and Racial studies, Gender studies, Political science, Sociology
ONLINE - New Frontiers in Romani Studies: Insights from Critical Race Theory

       

The summer course is part of the Roma in European Society Initiative, co-funded by the Velux Foundations, Open Society Foundations Roma Initiatives Office, the Roma Education Fund and the Open Society University Network (OSUN).

 

Course date

28 June - 8 July, 2021
Application for this course is closed.
Course Director(s): 

Angela Kocze

Romani Studies Program, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary

Mathias Möschel

Department of Legal studies, CEU, Vienna, Austria
Course Faculty: 

Cengiz Barskanmaz

Department of Law and Anthropology, Max Planck Institute Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany

Eddie Bruce-Jones

School of Law, Birbeck College, University of London, UK

Colin Clark

School of Media, Culture and Society, University of the West of Scotland (UWS), UK

Faye Venetia Harrison

African American Studies, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA

Margareta Matache

FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, School of Public Health, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA

Marton Rovid

Romani Studies Program, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary

Tommaso Vitale

Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics, Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris/ Sciences Po, Paris, France

This 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.

The course examines the links between gender, race, and class in the past and present era of global capitalism and the impact of marketization, financialization on racialized groups, such as Roma. Through the course participants will critically explore the historical formation of intersected racialized and gendered manifestations of oppression at the global and local level.

The summer school addresses the following questions:

  • What are the insights and limitations of applying critical race theory to the studying the situation of Roma in Eastern European societies?
  • What are the manifestations and patterns of anti-Romani racisms?
  • How is it reproduced in different areas of public life?
  • How could enduring forms of racial injustice be tackled?

Online course format

The course will be held online comprising both asynchronous and synchronous elements. The real-time online seminars are planned to be held between 13.30 and 17.00 Central European Time. In addition, participants will have the opportunity to individually consult with faculty members and to develop their own projects during the course. The course comprises online social and cultural events as well.