The 2021 Annual Meeting of the Gypsy Lore Society and Conference on Romani Studies is scheduled for 8–11 September 2021 and will be held in Prague.

Now you can follow the Gypsy Lore Society and Romani Studies on Twitter. The Twitter handle is @RomaniStudies. 

Colin Clark, University of the West of Scotland, is Twitter post editor.

Twitter joins the Gypsy Lore Society’s other information and sharing avenues:

Romani Studies (continuing Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society), published twice a year

Newsletter of the Gypsy Lore Society, published four times a year

The Society’s public Facebook Page

The Gypsy Lore Society Membership Facebook Group

After quite some consideration, taking into account the responses we have gathered from you as well as the possibilities of a hybrid conference format that would combine on-site and on-line meeting for those that cannot come, the organization committee has finally decided to postpone the 2020 Gypsy Lore Society Conference on Romani Studies. 

The conference is now scheduled for September 8-10, 2021. The venue remains the same. We hope we will be able to welcome all of you in Prague. 

The conference will work with all panels and abstracts accepted for the originally planned conference, unless presenters and conveners decide on changes. We will also open a new call to enable the participation of other researchers interested and the presentation of new research.

Thank you very much for all your support and interactions so far. We look forward to continued cooperation during the preparation of GLS 2021. We will keep you informed of all further developments.

Research Articles

The screening committee of the Gypsy Lore Society Young Scholar’s Prize in Romani Studies has announced two winners of the prize for the 2019 competition. The winners are Antonio Montañés Jimenez for the paper “Gitano Christian politics of memory: Remembering and belonging” and Ionela Bogdan for “Stories of their own: Roma women in Romania and the everyday life under Communist regime. An oral history research.”

Abstracts of the winning papers are posted on the Gypsy Lore Society Young Scholars' Prize page of the Gypsy Lore Society website.

The Gypsy Lore Society established the Marian Madison Gypsy Lore Society Young Scholars’ Prize in Romani Studies for the best unpublished paper by a young scholar on a topic in Romani Studies. The prize is a cash award of $500.  The winning papers will be published, after any necessary revisions, in an issue of the journal Romani Studies.

The deadline for receipt of papers for the next round of the competition is November 30, 2020. The full announcement is available on the Gypsy Lore Society web site, http://www.gypsyloresociety.org.

The 2020 Annual Meeting of the Gypsy Lore Society and Conference on Romani Studies is scheduled for September 16–18, 2020 in Prague.

Gypsy Lore Society conferences are among the most significant annual scholarly events devoted to Romani Studies worldwide. Each year the event is located in a different place, and is organized by the Gypsy Lore Society in cooperation with local academic institutions. In 2020 the conference will be hosted in Prague for the first time and organized together with Charles University.

We invite contributions on any aspect of Romani Studies and encourage participants from various academic disciplines to propose conference papers. Both theoretical studies and empirical contributions, including good fieldwork presentations, are welcomed.

Each conference attendee may submit only one individual paper proposal and one co-authored paper proposal. Papers should be planned to last 20 minutes with an additional 10 minutes allotted for discussion. All paper proposals undergo a peer-review process by the Academic Committee.

Your proposal for a paper should contain:

• Name(s), email address(es) and affiliation of the author(s)

• Title of the paper and an abstract of the paper not shorter than 200 words and not longer than 400 words (excluding references).

• Your proposal should also indicate whether it is an individual paper, or a paper submitted for an open/pre-arranged panel (in this case please indicate also the name of the panel). The accepted open and pre-arranged panels are listed on the main Annual Meeting page. Links to the full abstracts of the panels are on the same page.
  

All paper proposals should be submitted in doc, docx or rtf format to GLS2020Prague@ff.cuni.cz.