This two-day, in-person symposium, organised by The Wiener Holocaust Library and the University of Cambridge, will be held at the Library 10 – 11 May 2023. It will bring together early career researchers and senior academics to discuss new directions in the study of the Roma genocide.
Co-convenors: Dr Barbara Warnock, The Wiener Holocaust Library, Clara Dijkstra, The Wiener Holocaust Library and University of Cambridge, Dr Celia Donert, University of Cambridge
9:30 – 10:30: Keynote lecture by Volha Bartash: ‘On agency and resistance, Roma in the Soviet partisan movement’
Chair: Barbara Warnock
10:45 – 12:45: Panel 4, Commemoration and transitional justice
Chair: Ian Rich
Maëlle Lepitre: ‘Remembering the Roma genocide: The case of the Buchenwald memorial after 1989/1990’
Renata Berkyová: ‘Searching for ways to remember the Holocaust of Czech Roma and Sinti in the 1960s and Early 1970s’
Lara Raabe: ‘Between bureaucracy and agency: Romani voices in West Berlin restitution proceedings’
Verena Meier: ‘New perpetrator research and voices of the oppressed: The NS genocide against Sinti and Roma in Magdeburg and Transitional Justice after 1945
13:45 – 14:45: Panel, 5 State perspectives, perpetration and responses
Chair: Barbara Warnock
Alexander Korb: ‘Genozide ante Portas? Bavarian anti-traveler legislation and practice in the 1920s’
László Csősz: ‘Anti-Roma violence in Hungary during the last months of World War II’
14:45 – 15:45: Panel 6, Roma children and the Holocaust
Chair: Toby Simpson
Aisling Shalvey: ‘Identification of victims and uncovering injustice in the Noma experiment on Roma children at Auschwitz’
Justyna Matkowska: ‘Roma orphans in the southeastern area of occupied Poland during WWII’
16:00 – 17:00: Final roundtable: New directions in the study of the Roma genocide
Chair: Christine Schmidt
Karola Fings, Ari Joskowicz, Volha Bartash
17:00: Concluding remarks & end
Explore the full Draft Programme here.
This symposium is generously supported by the Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah, the George Macaulay Trevelyan Fund through the Faculty of History at the University of Cambridge, and the Past & Present Society.
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