The Gypsy Lore Society

THE GYPSY LORE SOCIETY

2005 ANNUAL MEETING AND CONFERENCE ON GYPSY STUDIES
9-10 September 2005
Facultad de Filosofía, Universidad de Granada, Spain

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

The following program is subject to change. Events will take place in the Aula Magna and the Aula Federico Gardia Lorca of the Filosofia y Letras, Campus de Cartuja, unless otherwise noted. The final program will be available at the registration desk. Abstracts will be published in the August issue of the Newsletter.

Thursday, September 8, 2005

17:00-19:00 Meeting of the Gypsy Lore Society Board of Directors. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Campus de Cartuja.

Friday, September 9, 2005

8:00 Registration, Aula Magna Desk, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras.

9:00 Welcome address by the Rector of the Universidad de Granada and other authorities.

Session 1A (Aula Magna): Population Dynamics in Time and Space

9:30 Robert B. Begg and John Benhart (Indiana U of Pennsylvania), Stelian Dimitrov and Anton Popov (U of Sophia). Demographic and Internal Migration Characteristics of the Bulgarian Roma: 1992-2001.

9:50 Gülden Erkut and Yasemin Çakirer (Istanbul Technical U). Socio-spatial Segregation Patterns of Gypsies in City Life: The Case of the West Marmara Region of Turkey.

10:10 Almudena Macías (U Pública de Navarra). Roma Migrations from Romania to Spain and the Enlargment of the European Union.

10:30 am Elisa I. Martín (Seminario de Estudios Romaníes Internacionales, U Granada). Major Changes in the Fertility Patterns of Gitanas (Spanish Gypsy Women) in the 20th Century.

Session 1B (Aula Federico García Lorca): Rights, Needs, and Legal Conditions

9:30 Margaret Greenfields (Buckingham Chilterns U College) and Robert Home (Anglia Polytechnic U). "A Place To Call Home:" Accommodation Needs, Social Inclusion and Access to Services for British Gypsies and Travellers.

9:50 Pep Ros Nicolau (U Autónoma de Barcelona). Occupational Programs for Spanish and Portuguese Gypsies in Girona (Spain).

10:10 am Belén Sánchez Rubio and Humberto García (Fundación Secretariado Gitano). Access to Employment for the Gypsy/Roma Population in Spain.

10:30 Claudia Tavani. Hope for Better Protection of Roma Rights: A Critical Assessment of the Missing Definition of Minority.

11:00 Coffee break

Session 2A (Aula Magna): Health and Health-related Issues

11:30 Mercedes Alba (U of Granada), Mari Luz Flores and Antonia Pérez Lázaro (Servicio Andaluz de Salud). Fieldnotes from a Nutrition Workshop with Gypsy Women.

11:50 Othon Alexandrakis (Rice U). Defining Nomads: Roma Health and the Greek State.

12:10 Luba Kalaydjieva (U of Western Australia, Perth). Genetic Studies of the Gypsies: New Approaches and Developments.

12:30 Véronique Klauber (U de Laval). Post-Communist Transformations and Roma Health in a Hungarian Romany Community.

12:50 Susana Ramírez Hita (U Rovira i Virgili). Differences and Inequalities in Health: The Case of the Roma.

Session 2B (Aula Federico García Lorca): Music and Interpretation

11: 30 Yuko Aoyama (Clark U). Global Markets and Regionally-embedded Art Complexes: The Flamenco Industry in Japan and the U.S.

11:50 Miguel Angel Berlanga (U de Granada). Flamenco, Andalusian or Gypsy Art? New Views on an Old Controversy.

12:10 Francisco Bethencourt Llobet (U of Newcastle upon Tyne). Flamencos in the Canary Islands.

12:30 Iren Kertesz Wilkinson. The Significance of Music-Making amongst the Hungarian Musician Roma.

12:50 Lila Zellet Elías and Verónica Villa. The Emotional Gypsy Territory, a Homeland Explored through Mexican Music.

13:10 Katalin Kovalcsik (Hungarian Academy of Sciences). Changes in the Repertoires of Romany Balls in Present-day Hungary.

13:30 Lunch

Session 3A (Aula Magna): Historical Perspectives.

15:00 Ismail Altinöz (U of Istanbul). Gypsies in Ottoman Society.

15:20 Antonio Gómez Alfaro (Presencia Gitana). Local Agency in the "Prisión General de Gitanos" of 1749: The Case of Loja (Granada).

15:40 David Martín Sánchez (U de Salamanca). Gypsies in the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939).

16:00 Sheila Salo. Rom on the Pacific Rim, ca. 1920- ca. 1951.

Session 3B (Aula Federico García Lorca): New Perspectives on Spanish Gypsies

15:00 Luis Guillermo Cortés (Federación de Asociaciones Culturales Cristianas de Andalucía). The Philadelphia Evangelical Church in Spain and its Sociocultural Impact in the Gypsy Community.

15:20 José Luis Díaz (Junta de Andalucía). Gitanos' Political Struggle for Land Rights in an Andalusian Agrotown in the Francoist Period.

15:40 Luis Nogués (Instituto de Realojamiento e Integración Social, Madrid). Gitano Slums and Housing Policies in Madrid (1978-2004): A Critical Assessment.

16:00 Daniel Wagman and Begoña Pernas. The Imprisonment of Gypsy Women in Contemporary Spain.

16:30 Coffee break

Session 4A (Aula Magna): Researchers, Indigenous Associations, and the Media: Understandings and Misunderstandings

17:00 Kalwant Bhopal (U of Greenwich). Who are You and What do You Want? An Asian Woman Researching Gypsy Travellers.

17:20 Yaron Matras (U. of Manchester). Who are the 'Gypsylorists'?

17:40 Shayna Plaut. Lack of Communication Patterns between Romani NGOs and Romani Media in Macedonia.

Session 4B (Aula Federico García Lorca): Representations, Memories, Experiences

17:00 Inés Arribas (Bryn Mawr College). Are We Beyond Folklore Yet? Representation of Gypsies in Spanish Cinema.

17:20 Trajko Petrovski. Rom in the Travel Writings of Ami Boue, Puqwil and Evlija Celebija.

17:40 Alenka Janko Spreizer (U of Primorska). From Integration to Displacement: Discourse on Romani Culture in Slovenia.

18:00 Suat Kolukirik (Demirel U). Looking in the Mirror of the Past: Migration Experiences and Memories of Turkish Gypsies.

18:30- 20:00 Film and video show

20:30 Dinner: On your own

22:00 Nocturnal visit to the Alhambra Palaces

Saturday, September 10, 2005

8:30 Registration, Aula Magna Desk, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras

Session 1A (Aula Magna): Identities, Cultural Generation and Reproduction

9:00 Giuseppe Beluschi (U de Granada). Kris, Pomana and Rom Weddings in Spain: Roma Migrations and Cultural Reproduction.

9:20 Colin Clark (U of Strathclyde). Romipen: Locating Mind, Body and Spirit in the Gypsy World.

9:40 Eva Davidová. The Central and Eastern European Romanies: Legal and Actual Conditions.

10:00 Juan F. Gamella (U de Granada). The Ritual Cycle of the "casamiento gitano," the Spanish Gypsy Wedding.

10:20 Elena Marushiakova and Veselin Popov (Sophia U). A Comparison of Two Gypsy Micro-groups: Field Notes from Bukovina and Transylvania.

10:40 Carol Silverman (U of Oregon). Balkan Romani Identity Dilemmas: Heritage and the Nation/State.

Session 1B (Aula Federico García Lorca): The Long, Winding Road to Universal Schooling: Spanish and Italian Experiences

9:00 José Eugenio Abajo (Asociación de Enseñantes con Gitanos) and Silvia Carrasco (U. Autónoma Barcelona). A Gender Perspective of the Conditions for School Achievement among Spanish Gypsies.

9:20 Bálint Ábel Bereményi (U Autònoma de Barcelona). Invisible Gypsy Students in Intercultural Schools.

9:40 S. Patricia Sánchez-Muros (Escuela Andaluza de Salud Pública). Talking about Gitanos: Stereotypes and Prejudices in the Discourses of High School Students in Multiethnic Schools.

10:00 Stefania Pontrandolfo. A Century of Rom Schooling in Melfi (Southern Italy).

10:20 Carlotta Saletti. The Identity of the Rom Schoolchild.

10:40 Simona Sidoti. The Caminanti of Sicily and the Public School System.

11:00 Coffee break

Session 2A (Aula Magna): Romany Languages, Linguistics and Dialectology

11:30 Ignasi Xavier Adiego (U de Barcelona). Recent Fieldwork on Spanish Romani: Lexical Findings.

11:50 Ivo Buzek (Ostrava U). Traces of Caló in the Spanish Language.

12:10 Dieter W. Halwachs (U of Graz). Romani - a Language of Isolation and Folklorisation?

12:30 Zoran Lapov (U of Florence). Towards a Possible Classification of the Gurbeti Dialects.

12:50 Victor A. Friedman (U of Chicago). Romani Dialectology and Balkan Dialectology.

Session 2B (Aula Federico García Lorca): Hypotheses on the Origins of the Roma and their Consequences

11:30 Antonio Fernández Torres. From the "Romani Cib" to the "Chipa Cali."

11:50 Eynard Gilles. Reflections on Romani Origins and Identities.

12:10 Valdemar Kalinin. India is the Historic Motherland of Roma - Is it?

12:30 Susan Kirwan (Wayne State U). Tip of The Iceberg: Anthropological Triangulation of Narratives About Gypsies.

12:50 pm Sergio Rodríguez (U Ramon Llull). Romany Religious Experiences, a Bridge between East and West.

13:30 Lunch

Session 3A (Aula Magna): Traveling, Migrating, Settling

15:00 Orsetta Bechelloni (EHSS, Paris) Bargaining as Winners: Feminine Dealing with Outsiders in a Group of Settled "Voyageurs."

15:20 Koen Koen. Peripatetic Rrom in Ecuador and Southern Colombia: The Spatial Organization of Liminal Status.

15:40 Matt T. Salo. The East St. Louis Horse Empire: An Economic Interpretation.

16:00 Leah Wild. "Los inmortales:" An Exploration of the Construction of Identity among "New-Age" Travellers in Rural Spain.

Session 3B (Aula Federico García Lorca): Linguistic and Psychological Development: The Role of Cultural Context

15:00 Antonio García Guzmán (U de Granada). The Written Expression of Spanish Gypsy Children in Primary Education

15:20 Lourdes Fernández Cabezuelo (U de Sevilla). Sociocultural Context and the Psychological Developent of Gypsy and Non-Gypsy Children.

15:40 Hristo Kyuchukov (Veliko Tarnovo U) Acquisition of Romani in Conversational Settings.

16:30 Coffee break

17:00-18:00 Plenary Session of the Gypsy Lore Society

20:00 Banquet (Carmen de la Victoria, Albaicín, Granada)

23.00 Flamenco Festival (Place to be announced).

Revised: 07/01/2005