26/08/13 UPDATE
The Gypsy Lore Society (GLS) Annual International
Conference in Romani, Gypsy and Traveller Studies
To
be held on the 12th and 13th September
2013 @ The University of
Strathclyde in Glasgow
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
Main
Conference Venue:
The
McCance Building (Rooms 301, 307, 309, 402) and the Conservatory space on Level
3)
(NB:
The McCance Building is located on Richmond St, Glasgow, Scotland, G1 1XH.)
Academic Conference
Organiser: Prof. Colin Clark, the University of the West of Scotland (colin.clark@uws.ac.uk)
Conference
Administration & Support: Mrs. Caroline Marley, the University of Strathclyde
(caroline.marley@strath.ac.uk)
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
THURSDAY 12th SEPTEMBER 2013
08:30-09:15 Registration and Tea/Coffee
09:15-10:00 Welcome
and Opening Remarks – McCance 301 (Chair:
Prof. Colin Clark, University of the West of Scotland)
· Prof. Sir.
Jim McDonald, Principal and Vice Chancellor of the University of Strathclyde,
Glasgow
· Prof. Tony McGrew, Dean of Humanities and Social
Sciences, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow
· Prof. Elena Marushiakova, President of the Gypsy Lore
Society
10.00-10.30 Performance from Scottish Gypsy/Traveller Author and
Traditional Storyteller Jess Smith (http://www.jesssmith.co.uk/)
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10:30-12:00 Session 1 (A, B, C, D)
NB: Please note that each presentation is allotted a strict 30 minutes.
This is inclusive of time for questions and answers.
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Session
1A Venue McCance 301
RELIGION AND FAITH (1)
Chair: Fabian Jacobs
Paper 1: Margaret Greenfields - ‘Ethnic Solidarity, Evangelising and Empathy: The Motivation of
non-Romani Activists working with Gypsies, Travellers and Roma in Faith and
Community Settings’
Paper 2: Sorin Gog - ‘Bio-Politics and the Neo-Liberal Exclusion of Roma: Resistance and
Community-Building among the Evangelicals from Romania’
Paper 3: Elena Marushiakova and Vesselin Popov - ‘The First Gypsy/Roma Organizations, the
Churches and the Newspapers in South-Eastern Europe during the First Half of
the 20th Century’
Session
1B Venue McCance 307
POVERTY, EXCLUSION AND MARGINALITY
Chair: Sheila Salo
Paper 1: Kitti Baracsi - ‘Prosperity and Exclusion Stories of Roma From Central and Eastern
European Countries in Southern Italy’
Paper 2: Hamied G. M. Al Hashimi - ‘Gypsies in Iraq: Struggling Against
Social Exclusion’
Paper 3: Rinaldo Diricchardi - ’Poverty and Economic Recession in Europe: Roma in Slovenia’
Session
1C Venue McCance 309
EDUCATION (1)
Chair: Thomas Acton
Paper 1: Christina Haupt - ‘Access to (Language) Learning: Perspectives of Teaching Staff and
Eastern European Roma, Gypsy and Traveller Pupils in British Primary
Education’
Paper 2: Mihaela Gramaticu - ‘An Analysis of Socio-Cultural and Institutional Context to Access to
Formal Education: the Case of Roma Children in Romania’
Paper 3: Panagiota Gkofa -‘Roma’s Successful Educational Pathways in Greece’
Session
1D Venue McCance 402
IDENTITY AND CULTURE (1)
Chair: Sofiya Zahova
Paper 1: Selma Balaman - ‘Mugats: A Distinct Existence From Their Colourful Dwelings to
Passionate Quail Fights’
Paper 2: Jacopo Miglioranzi – ‘Routes Are More Important Than Roots’
Paper 3: Colin Clark – ‘Another kind of ‘Holy Trinity’: Issues of Class, Gender and
Nationality in the everyday lives of Roma migrant communities in Glasgow,
Scotland’
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12:00-13:00 Lunch. Served in the Conservatory
area of the McCance Building (level 3). Please note there is no charge
for lunch – this is included in your conference registration fee.
13:00-14:30 Session 2 (A, B, C)
NB: Please note that each presentation is allotted a strict 30 minutes.
This is inclusive of time for questions and answers.
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Session
2A Venue McCance 301
EDUCATION (2)
Chair: Anne Sutherland
Paper 1: Jekatyerina (Katya) Dunajeva – ‘Roma Identity in Formation: A Case Study
of Kalderash Roma in a Russian School’
Paper 2: Vita Petrušauskaitė – ‘The Role of Local Government in Reproducing Social Inequalities:
Explaining Differences in Educational Attainment Levels of Roma in Lithuania’
Paper 3: Pauline Padfield – ‘Who Decides What We Learn and When We Learn It? The Changing
Expectations of Gypsy/Travellers’
Session
2B Venue McCance 307
MIGRATION AND BELONGING
Chair: Colin Clark
Paper 1: Veronika Nagy – ‘Fame, Shame or Silence? Ethical Issues in Mobile Ethnographic
Research’
Paper 2: Rachel Humphris – ‘Waiting Room: Romanian Roma Migrants’ Negotiations of Transitional
Controls in UK Bureaucracy’
Paper 3: Eva Kourova – ‘The Social Construction of the ‘Unreachables: a practitioner’s
observations’
Session
2C Venue McCance 309
HISTORY, SLAVERY AND EMANCIPATION (1)
Chair: Margaret Beissinger
Paper 1: Thomas Acton – ‘Scientific Racism and the Discourse of the Gypsy Lore Society’
Paper 2: Stephan Steiner – ‘The End of Roma Slavery in the Bukovina’
Paper 3: Viorel Achim – ‘Social Changes in the Process of Emancipation of Gypsies From
Slavery: Romanian Principalities in the mid-19th Century’
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14:30-15:00
Coffee. Served in the Conservatory area of the McCance Building (level
3). Please note there is no charge for refreshments as this is included
in your conference registration fee.
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15:00-16:30 Session 3 (A, B, C, D)
NB: Please note that each presentation is allotted a strict 30 minutes.
This is inclusive of time for questions and answers.
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Session
3A Venue McCance 301
LANGUAGE (1)
Chair: Elena Marushiakova
Paper 1: Csaba Fėnyes – ‘Language and Culture in Roma Policies’
Paper 2: Sofiya Zahova – ‘Burgudžii-Parpuli from Bulgaria: Boundaries, Group Identity and
Language’
Paper 3: Marianna Seslavinskaya and Georgy Tsvetkov
– ‘The Development of the Secret
Inter-Group Lovara Lexicon in Light of the Ethnosocial Processes within the
Russian Roms Community’
Session
3B Venue McCance 307
URBAN SPACE, HOUSING AND THE CITY
Chair: Colin Clark
Paper 1: Lászá Fosztó – ‘Mobilisers and Gatekeepers: Socio-Cultural Structures and
Development Opportunities in Segregated Roma Communities in Romania’
Paper 2: Patricia Karina Hayek – ‘Is the City to Blame? The Promise and
Pitfalls of Gypsy Public Housing in Romania’
Paper 3: Antonio Montaňės Jimėnez – ‘Urbanisation and Social Change Among
Spanish Gypsies’
Session
3C Venue McCance 309
REPRESENTATIONS (1)
Chair: Anne Sutherland
Paper 1: Tamsin Graves – ‘Mediating Marginality: Issues of Representation for the On-Screen
Gypsy in the Films of Tony Gatlif’
Paper 2: James Deutsch – ‘Stolen By Gypsies in Early-20th Century Films’
Paper 3: Paola Toninato – ‘Romani Literature and Cultural Mediation’
Session
3D Venue McCance 402
RELIGION AND FAITH (2)
Chair: Matt Salo
Paper 1: Dragan Todorović and Vladimir Cvetković – ‘Rromanipe in Transition: Protestanisation
of Roma’
Paper 2: Raluca Bianca Roman – ‘Faith-Based Integration? Evangelism, Belonging and Social
Mobilisation Among the Finnish Kaale’
Paper 3: Tatiana Podolinská – ‘“Angel Voices”: Religious Change from the Perspective of Insiders’
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18:30-19:30: Civic Reception at Glasgow City Chambers, George Square, Glasgow.
This is a formal welcome and drinks reception to the city of Glasgow,
hosted by Glasgow City Council at the impressive City Chambers building on
George Square (a two minute walk from the University of Strathclyde)
19.30-22:00: Dinner We would suggest dining in the Merchant City area of
the City (right next to the University, see Postcodes G1 and G2) or you may
want to travel to the West End of the City, using the Underground system, and
explore the Hillhead area around Byres Road (see Postcodes G11 and G12) where a
number of good restaurants and cafes can be found as well as Kelvingrove Park
and other attractions.
FRIDAY 13th
SEPTEMBER 2013
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09:00-10:30 Session 4 (A, B, C, D)
NB: Please note that each presentation is allotted a strict 30 minutes.
This is inclusive of time for questions and answers.
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Session 4A Venue McCance 301
MUSIC, PERFORMANCE AND
SOCIAL CHANGE
Chair: Thomas Acton
Paper 1: Kai Viljami Ǻberg
- ‘Kaaleita Haaleita’ (‘Black and
White’): Types of Irony in the Music of the Finnish Kaale (Roma)
Paper 2: Margaret H
Beissinger - ‘Where is Home? Romani
Musicians Caught Between Two Continents’
Paper 3: Iren Kertesz
Wilkinson - ‘As Time Goes By: Changes
in Roma Experiences and its effect on Music and Lyrics’
Session 4B Venue McCance 307
CITIZENSHIP, STATE AND
NATIONALITY
Chair: Sofiya Zahova
Paper 1: Julija Sardelić -
‘Roma on the Margins of Citizenship: Romani
Minorities in the Context of Post-Yugoslav Citizenship Regimes’
Paper 2: Ioana Szeman - ‘Closing the Gap? The Politics of Romani
Culture and Performative Citizenship in Postsocialist Romania’
Paper 3: TBC
Session 4C Venue McCance 309
LIVES, LIVELIHOODS AND
LEGISLATION
Chair: Margaret
Greenfields
Paper 1: Marco Solimene - ‘”Going for Iron”: the collaboration of
Bosnian Xoraxane Roma and Romanian Roma in Scrap Metal Collection in Rome,
Italy’
Paper 2: Christine Miller
- ‘Garbage Dependency and the Loss of
Livelihood for the Roma at Pata Rat, Romania’
Paper 3: Judit Durst -
‘”Better to be a Gypsy in Canada than a Hungarian in Hungary”: Migration and
the Informal Economy’
Session 4D Venue McCance 402
LEGAL AND POLICING ISSUES
Chair: Colin Clark
Paper 1: Anthony Drummond
-‘“I Wouldn’t Trust Them… I Just
Wouldn’t Have Faith [In Them]”: Policing Travellers in Ireland’
Paper 2: Carol Silverman –
‘Culture as Defense/Culture as
Explanation: Kalderash Roma and American Law’
Paper 3: Ayako Iwatani – ‘From Vagrancy to Criminality: the Gypsy
Policy and the Criminal Tribes Act in British India’
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10:30-11:00 Coffee. Served in the Conservatory area of
the McCance Building (level 3)
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11:00 -12:30 Session 5 (A, B, C, D)
NB: Please note that each presentation is allotted a strict 30 minutes.
This is inclusive of time for questions and answers.
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Session
5A Venue McCance 301
FAMILY, DEATH AND BELIEF
Chair: Sheila Salo
Paper 1: Eugenio Restrepo Madero – ‘Attitudes on Death Rituals and
Religiosity Among Gypsies in Southern Spain’
Paper 2: Nathalie Manrique – ‘“My Blood, Come With Me!” Widows and Widowers in an Andalusian Gypsy
Community’
Paper 3: Stefánia Toma – ‘Godparenthood: Strategy and Trust among Roma and Non-Roma in
Romania’
Session
5B Venue McCance 307
GENDER AND IDENTITY (2)
Chair: Fabian Jacobs
Paper 1: Marek Lukáč, Monica Bosá, Dávid Bosý and
Alena Moravčiková – ‘Identity of Slovak
Roma Women in the Context of Gender, Ethnicity and Civic Participation’
Paper 2: Valentina Siniego Benenati – ‘Mexitanos: The Roma People in Mexico’
Paper 3:
Slawomir
Kapralski – ‘Gendered Identities: The
Past and Present of Being Rom/ni’
Session
5C Venue McCance 309
EDUCATION (3)
Chair: Colin Clark
Paper 1: Lynne Tammi – ‘Gypsy/Travellers and the Education System: the Case for Qualitative
Approaches’
Paper 2: Christina Rodell Olgaç and Angelina
Dimiter-Taikon – ‘The School Situation
of Roma Children and Youth in Five Major Cities in Sweden Today’
Paper 3: Florinda Balla – ‘The Social Demographic Characteristics of Roma People in Albania
with Reference to Education’
Session
5D Venue McCance 402
HISTORY, SLAVERY AND EMANCIPATION (2)
Chair: Sofiya Zahova
Paper 1: Ömer Ulusoy – ‘An Inquiry into the Ottomans’ Knowledge and Perception of the
Gypsies in the Late 19th Century’
Paper 2: Danijel Vojak – “They Have Suffered and They Were Victims”: The Suffering of Roma
During the Second World War in Croatia With Particular Focus on the
‘Forgotten Holocaust/Genocide’ of Contemporary Croatian Historiography’
Paper 3: Valdemar Kalinin – ‘Parallels in the Approach and Work of the Soviet Union Towards Jews
and Gypsies (1925-1938)’
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12:30-13:30 Lunch. Served in the Conservatory area of
the McCance Building (level 3). Please note there is no charge for lunch – this
is included in your registration fee.
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13:30-15:00 Session 6 (A, B, C, D)
NB: Please note that each presentation is allotted a strict 30 minutes.
This is inclusive of time for questions and answers.
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Session
6A Venue McCance 301
REPRESENTATIONS (2)
Chair: Fabian Jacobs
Paper 1: David Cressy – ‘English Gypsies in the 18th Century: The Trials and
Travels of Mary Squires’
Paper 2: Abby Bardi – ‘The Trope of Gypsy Wildness in the Novels of Lady Eleanor Smith’
Paper 3: Lance Wilder – ‘Of Hedges and Asylum Walls – John Clare and the Desire for Gypsy
Movement and Freedom’
Session
6B Venue McCance 307
IDENTITY AND CULTURE (2)
Chair: Carol Silverman
Paper 1: Léon Grimard – ‘Outside Living Among Gypsies: Cultural Trait or Social
Contingencies?’
Paper 2: Gul Ozatesler – ‘Gypsyness in Turkey: Ambiguity in Definition and Certainty in Stigmatization’
Paper 3: Abdullah Cisdir – ‘Report on Roma People in Turkey: Problems and Proposed Solutions’
Session
6C Venue McCance 309
GOVERNANCE, POLITICS AND IDENTITY
Chair: Margaret Beissinger
Paper 1: Delia Popescu – ‘Shadow of the Hegemon: Religion, Politics and Romani Identity in
Ceausescu’s Romania’
Paper 2: Eszter Tarcsafalvi – ‘Negotiating Identity and Culture: A Study of the Romanian Roma in
Govanhill, Glasgow’
Paper 3: Enkelejda Sula-Raxhimi – ‘Cleaning the City, Managing its
‘Undesirables’
Session
6D Venue McCance 402
LANGUAGE (2)
Chair: Thomas Acton
Paper 1: Ján Ĉonka – ‘Gypsy (Rómske) Language Environment’
Paper 2: Evangelia Adamon and Esteban Acuna – ‘How Did Linguistic Innovations Spread in
the Romani Varieties of the Americas?’
Paper 3: H. Kyratji and C. Pelekani – An Analysis of ‘The Twelve Lays of the
Gypsy’ (1907) by Kostis Palamas
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15:00-15:30 Tea and Coffee. Served in the Conservatory
area of the McCance Building (Level 3)
15:30-16:30 Workshop session (Chair: Michelle Lloyd,
McCance 307) MECOPP (Minority Ethnic Carers of People Project, http://www.mecopp.org.uk/). This is a
small interactive workshop session, facilitated by Michelle Lloyd and led by
Gypsy/Travellers, sharing examples of their work in Scotland. Please note
that a maximum number of 25 people can attend this session on a ‘first come,
first served’ basis. Please register in advance with Colin.Clark@uws.ac.uk. Please also
note that on the Friday MECOPP’s powerful and thought-provoking “Moving Minds” exhibition
will also be on display in the Conservatory area of the McCance Building on
Richmond St (Level 3).
16:15-17:00 Additional Papers:
(Chair: Colin Clark, McCance 301)
Paper 1: Lilyana Kovatcheva
- ‘Roma Groups in Middle-Western
Bulgaria’
Paper 2: Olga Magano and
Manuela Mendes – ‘Gypsy Women in
Portuguese Society: Tracing Singular and Plural Paths of Life’
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17:00-18:00
Annual General Meeting of the GLS Membership (McCance 301) – * Only open to
GLS members
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Agenda to follow.
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19:00-00:00 Conference Dinner and
Traditional Céilidh. This event is being held at Partick Burgh Halls, 9 Burgh
Hall St, Glasgow, Lanarkshire G11 5LW. Telephone: 0141-357-5399. (Full details will
be provided during registration). Please note the nearest train/subway station
is at Partick.
SATURDAY 14
SEPTEMBER 2013
On the Saturday, for those still with us in
Glasgow over the weekend, there are a range of places to visit and things to do
across Scotland in your own time. For example, a visit to the village of Luss
is highly recommended, as is a day-trip to places such as Loch Lomond,
Aberfoyle, Oban, Culzean Castle and Rabbie Burns Country, Loch Ness, Stirling
Castle, Inveraray at Loch Fyne, Glencoe etc. All of these places can be reached
by public transport or hire car. Please speak with Colin or Caroline for other tips
and suggestions.
Useful day-trip websites include:
http://www.timberbush-tours.co.uk/our-tours/from-glasgow/
http://www.goscotlandtours.com/tour-list/glasgow-day-tours-groups.html
http://www.rabbies.com/one_day_tours_scotland_gl.asp
http://www.discoverscotlandtours.com/tour.htm
