Annual Meeting

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           The Gypsy Lore Society Annual Meeting and Conference on Gypsy Studies

Gypsy Lore Society meetings are held on an annual basis and are rotated among different US cities and other countries. Meetings typically include presentations of recent research, discussion sessions, exhibits and films. Gypsy Lore Society members receive discounts on meeting registration fees.

Recent conferences have been held at

• Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA (2003)

• Belgrade, Serbia (2022)

• Bratislava, Slovakia (2014)

• Bucharest, Romania (2018)

• Budapest, Hungary (2002)

• Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic (2021)

• Academy of Sciences of Moldova, Chișinău, Moldova (2015)

• Florence, Italy (1999)

• Glasgow, Scotland (2013)

• Universidad de Granada, Spain (2005)

• Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal (2010)

• Graz, Austria (2011)

• Istanbul, Turkey (2012)

• University of Helsinki, Finland (2009)

• University of Manchester, England (2007)

• Newcastle upon Tyne, England (2004)

• University of Cyprus, Nicosia (2017)

• University of Iceland, Reykjavik (2019)

• São Paulo, Brazil (2023)

• Södertörn University, Stockholm, Sweden (2016)

• Sofia, Bulgaria (2024)

• Tucson, Arizona, USA (2006)

• Washington, DC, USA (2000, 2008)

Complete list of Annual Meetings and Conferences

2025 Annual Meeting of the Gypsy Lore Society and Conference on Romani Studies

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Gypsy Lore Society conferences are among the most significant annual scholarly events devoted to Romani Studies worldwide. Each year the event takes place in a different country, and is organised by the Gypsy Lore Society in cooperation with local academic institutions.

General Information

The 2025 Annual Meeting of the Gypsy Lore Society and Conference on Romani Studies is scheduled for September 24th -26th and will be held in Paris, France. The conference is organised on behalf of the Gypsy Lore Society by the Institut des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO), the Institut Convergences Migrations (ICM) – Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) and the Médiathèque “Matéo Maximoff”, Paris.

 Call for Papers and Deadlines

Proposals for individual papers, open panels and pre-arranged panels are welcome. Panel organisers may submit only one panel proposal and one as co-organiser. A speaker may propose only one paper (for an individual paper or paper within a panel) as author and one as co-author. Papers should be 20 minutes long with an additional 10 minutes allotted for discussion. Panels and individual paper proposals undergo a peer-review process by the Academic Committee. 

Deadline for submission of open panel proposals: 15 March 2025

Deadline for submission of papers and pre-arranged panel proposals: 15 April 2025

Deadline for the confirmation of contributions accepted for 2025 GLS Conference: 15 May 2025

An assessment committee of international scholars from the Conference Academic Committee, headed by the President of the GLS, Tatiana Zachar Podolinská, will make the final selection of papers to be presented and possible panels.

Please send your abstracts and possible proposals for panels to gypsyloreconference2025@gmail.com.

Abstracts should be not less than 250 words and not more than 600 words. Keywords and bibliography are not needed.

Venue of the conference and schedule

The conference will feature paper presentations and topic-focused panels. The panels can be pre-arranged or open panels. The organizers aim to limit scheduling parallel sessions to maximize participant attendance and engagement.

The conference will begin on the morning of Wednesday, September 24, 2025, and close on Friday evening, September 26.

The working hours for the conference are from 9h30 to 12h30 and from 14h to 18h. The total time for presentation of a paper is expected to be 30 minutes: 20 minutes for the paper and 10 minutes for discussion. The presentation languages are English, French and Romani.

The sessions and panels of the conference take place on the new humanities campus, a hub of conference and exhibition center belonging to various research and universities in Paris, Campus Condorcet, Aubervilliers.

Campus Condorcet

Campus Condorcet‒ Centre de colloques

Place du Front populaire,

93300 Aubervilliers

The closest metro station is Front Populaire, line 12.

Registration

To register for the conference, fill out the registration form and pay the conference fee.

Registration deadline is August 20, 2025.

After 1st of June

210 € for GLS members

270 € general

The registration fee Includes:

1. access to all conference events and cultural programs organized on the premises of the conference venue.

2. tea/coffee breaks for the full three days

3. conference material (bag, stationary, printed program booklet, etc.)

Please choose between the two types of registration fee depending on your membership status. GLS members pay a lower fee than non-members. If you are unsure of your membership status, please contact the Treasurer,

treasurergypsylore@gmail.com.

Participation is not guaranteed until full payment of the registration fee is received. Thank you for your understanding.

You can make a bank transfer to our bank account. You may incur banking charges from your bank if you choose to pay via bank transfer.

For the bank transfer you will need the following details:

Account name: GYPSY LORE SOCIETY (FOUNDED 1888), n.o.

Bank name: 365.BANK, A.S.

Currency: EUR

Address: Dvorakovo nabrezie 4

BIC/Swift code: POBNSKBA

IBAN number: SK6565000000000020607416 

To pay directly using PayPal, debit or credit card, use the following link:

https://www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/2VEMA3T7WVPGS

Accommodation

A limited number of fully equipped flats with 3-star hotel services are available at "Break and Home" located in the heart of the Condorcet Campus and close to transport.

For information, please visit:

https://www.breakandhome.com/condorcet and

https://www.breakandhome.com/condorcet/en/sleep/

Several hotels (2 to 5 stars) are within moderate distance from the main conference venue at Campus Condorcet, Aubervilliers, particularly near the Stade de France. The Front Populaire station on Metro line 12 is adjacent to Campus Condorcet, connecting to central Paris on one side and

Aubervilliers on the other.

The Campus lies just south of the Stade de France. Ibis hotel Saint-Denis Stade Sud (Address: rue de la Cokerie, Saint Denis La Plaine, tel. +33 (0) 1 55 93 36 00; fax +33 (0) 1 55 93 36 36) is approximately 2.5 kilometers north of the conference venue.

The budget hotel HotelF1.com Stade de France is located immediately next to Ibis (rue de la Cokerie, Saint Denis La Plaine, tel. +33 (0) 8 91 70 53 78; fax +33 (0) 1 55 93 46 05).

To the east of Campus, also about 2.5 km away, you'll find Ibis Styles Hotel Paris Saint Denis La Plaine (212 avenue du Président Wilson, Saint Denis La Plaine, tel. +33 (0) 1 48 09 96 85; fax +33 (0) 1 42 43 79 43).

Due to high demand for accommodation near the Stade de France during this period, early booking is strongly recommended.

Conference Organising Committee

Leny Mauduit -- Médiatheque “Matéo Maximoff”

Julieta Rotaru -- Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO).

Magdalena Slavkova, Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Studies with Ethnographic Museum, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

Adèle Sutre -- Institut Convergences Migrations (ICM)-- Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)

Aurore Tirard -- Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO)

Rodica Tudor (Dr., Asociația Doctorilor și Doctoranzilor Romi- ADDR) 

Conference Academic Committee

Elena Marushiakova, University of St Andrews and Institute of Ethnology and Social Anthropology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences

Tatiana Zachar Podolinská, Slovak Academy of Sciences

Julieta Rotaru -- Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO).

Adèle Sutre -- Institut Convergences Migrations-- CNRS

Aurore Tirard -- Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO)

Financial Aid

Two stipends are available for participation in the 2025 Annual Meeting of the Gypsy Lore Society and Conference on Romani Studies, 24th-26th September, Paris, France.

Through the generosity of its members, the Gypsy Lore Society awards two stipends of $500 each to eligible conference participants enrolled in a PhD programme or those up to three years past completion of their PhD requirements. Their conference papers should be accepted. They should not have received aid for meeting attendance from another source. Priority is given to members of the Gypsy Lore Society. Stipends are awarded if approved participants attend the conference and present their papers.

Applicants should send a letter of application to the Gypsy Lore Society treasurer, treasurergypsylore@gmail.com, by June 30, 2025.