2007 ANNUAL MEETING
Preliminary Program
The following program is subject to change. The final program will be available at the registration desk.

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Friday, 7 September 2007

8.30-9	Registration
9-9.15	Welcome
	Session 1	Session 2	Session 3
	Ethnography and identity	Refugees and migrants	Politics and the state
9.30-10	Development of Roma/Gypsy/Traveller Identity during the Candidacy for EU Membership of the Turkish Republic, Thomas Acton and Adrian Marsh (U of Greenwich).	The Origins of English Travelers in America, Matt T. Salo.	Ethnic Group Identity and the Roma Social Movement, Aidan McGarry (Queen's University).
10-10.30	Ethnic Identification of Dom People in Diyarbakir, Turkey, Gul Ozatesler (Bogazici U, Turkey).	Roma Underdiaspora: neither refugees nor migrants, Laura Fantone (Istituto Universitario Orientale).	Civilising offensives and ambivalence: British Gypsies and the state, Ryan Powell (Sheffield Hallam U).
10.30-11	Coffee
11-11.30	Ethnic Community Views - The Dom of Jordan, P. Scott Phillips (U of Warwick).	Macedonian Romani Migrants to New York: Diasporic Gender Issues, Carol Silverman (U of Oregon).	Antigypsism and Social Work, Gernot Haupt (Institut für Sozialarbeit, Austria).
11.30-12	The Roma's Contemporary Dilemmas in Central Europe, Eva Davidová (U of South Bohemia).	Factors influencing the return migration of the Polska Roma Romanies of Oswiecim (Auschwitz), Slawomir Kapralski (Warsaw U).	Gypsies in Finnish Health care - the Trap of Equality, Anna Maria Viljanen (U of Helsinki).
12-12.30	Romani Renaissance in Ukraine, Tatiana Gabrielson (Austin Community Coll).	Gypsy Immigrations to Turkey in the Late Ottoman Empire (1850-1924), Sinan Sanlier.	Roma and Black Americans: Comparison and Lessons Learned for Roma from the Struggle of Another Marginalized People, Jonathan Hogstad.
12.30-2	Lunch
2-2.30	In the name of Romani culture: Ethnography on Romani culturalism and racism in Slovenia, Alenka Janko Spreizer (U of Primorska).	The Exodus and Identity of the Roma refugees from Kosovo to Macedonia, Trajko Petrovski ("Marko Cepenkov" Institute of Folklore, Macedonia ).	Towards a `socialist Gypsy State': Plans for an autonomous region for Romanies in the early Soviet Union, Martin Holler (Humboldt U, Berlin).
	Ethnography and identity (continued)	Religion	Fiction and film
2.30-3	Gitanos in Cyberspace, Ines Arribas (Bryn Mawr Coll).	The celebration of Kakava/Hiderlez among the Gypsies in Eastern Thrace (Turkey), Elena Marushiakova and Veselin Popov (Ethnographical Institute and Museum at Bulgarian Academy of Sciences).	Our Choice Gypsy Images: Roma Representation in Hungarian Fiction Films Made after 1960, Andrea Pócsik (University of Pécs, Hungary).
3-4	Coffee
4-4.30	Gypsies and Jews: Identity Construction in the Diaspora, Jason Alexander (U of Utah).	An Examination of the Role of Non Orthodox New Protestantism on Roma Acculturation in Romania, Robert D. Egbert (Walla Walla Coll).	“The Roma are Like This”, The Roma Image in Turkish Comedy, Rustem Ertug Altinay.
4.30-5	Oral traditions of the Bhils and Asivarikaran, Mathias Bhuriya (Gypsy Centre for Culture and Art, India).	Identity as a religious performance. Evangelical pentecostalism amongst Catalan gitanos of Barcelona, Martí Marfa i Castan (Universitat de Barcelona, Spain).	Beyond the Wearing of the Pants and the Skirts: Roma Writers from Austria and Switzerland Transform Stereotypical Gender Roles, Lorely French (Pacific U).
5-6	Wine reception

Saturday, 8 September 2007

	Session 1	Session 2	Session 3
	Ethnography and identity	Language	Music
9.30-10	The Manouche Diaspora in Western Europe, Alain Reyniers (U of Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium).	Turkish Verbs in Balkan Romani: Toward a Typology of Integration, Victor A. Friedman (U of Chicago).	Hungarian Music or Gypsy Music? The case of Pista Dankó (1858-1903), Lynn Hooker (Indiana U).
10-10.30	Mobility, Gypsies and Others: Uncertain in Relation to Territory, Alexandra Castro and André Clareza Correia (Centro de Estudos Territoriais of the Instituto Superior de Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa, Portugal).	Language Change, Linguistic Repertoire and Migration, Dieter W. Halwachs (U of Graz, Austria).	The Use of Hip Hop in Diasporic Romani Music Making in Ostrava, Czech Republic, Melissa Elliott.
10.30-11	Coffee
11-11.30	Horizontal and Vertical forms of Mobility among the Gabor People in Transylvania, Fabian Jacobs (Leipzig U, Germany).	The Research Institute for the Languages of Finland, Kimmo Granqvist (Research Institute for the Languages of Finland).	Challenges Faced by the Roma Musicians: A Historical and Commercial perspective, Stan Renard (Southern New Hampshire U).
11.30-12	Home or Away? Diasporic 'Otherness' as Economic Niche, Colin Clark (Strathclyde U, Glasgow).	Soviet Romani Literature: The Linguistic Expression of Ideological Content, Alexander Rusakov (Saint Petersburg State U).	The Third Culture by a Dead Language and a Live Music, Zeynep Gonca Girgin Tohumcu (Istanbul Technical U).
12-12.30	Migration and kinship. The case of “Czecho-Slovakia,” Lenka Budilová and Marek Jakoubek (J.E. Purkynê U, Czech Republic).	Etymology of Bulgarian Gypsy Group Names, Veliyana Chileva (U of Manchester, UK).	Roma Diaspora in the Musical Performance of the Hungarian Roma, Iren Kertesz Wilkinson.
12.30-2	Lunch
	Ethnography and identity (continued)	Language (continued)	Sociology
2-2.30	Gypsy People in South Italy: An Anthropological Perspective, Elisabetta Di Giovanni (Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy).	When George Borrow Met Spanish Romani, Ignasi-Xavier Adiego (Universitat de Barcelona, Spain).	Social Mobility and Education of Gypsy/Roma and Non-Roma People in a Northwestern Provincial Town of Greece, Spyros Themelis (U of London).
2.30-3	Towards an ethnography of the "Gypsy problem" in Italy, Nando Sigona (Oxford Brooks U, UK).	The Language of the "Gabor": An Exercise in the Definition of "Dialects," Yaron Matras (U of Manchester, UK).	Cultural Identity, Gender and Social Processes of the Rom in Chile, Roxana Toro Barrientos (University Of Chile).
3-4	Coffee
	Ethnography and identity (continued)	Media	Sociology (continued)
4-4.30		The Pornography of Pigeonholing: Depictions of Roma in Media, Matthew Orefice.	Changes in the Reproductive Strategies of the Ghetto - Poor Gypsies in Hungary, Judit Durst (Corvinus U, Budapest).
4.30-5	"We are Portuguese, But We Have a Different Law" - Constants and Vicissitudes of a Failed Interethnic "Dialogue", José Bastos, André Correia, Elsa Rodrigues (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal).	The Ultimate Folk Devils? British National Media Coverage of Gypsies and Travellers in 2005, Mel Porter.	Divided Cities: Social and Residential Segregation in a Gypsy Neighborhood in Edirne, Turkey, Nevin Turgut Gültekin (Gazi U, Turkey).
5-6	Gypsy Lore Society Annual Meeting
8	Banquet