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.

The 2020 Annual Meeting of the Gypsy Lore Society and Conference on Romani Studies is scheduled for September 16–18, 2020. The conference will be hosted in Prague and organized together with Charles University.

Proposals for organized panels are being accepted now. A call for abstracts for papers both intended for  organized panels and individual papers will appear at the beginning of February.

Details for the submission of panel proposals will be found on the Annual Meeting page.

The URL for the forged page is https://www.romanistudiesjournal.com/.

Gypsy Lore Society Out of Print Books Now Available Online on HathiTrust

Three volumes in the Gypsy Lore Society Publications Series can now be read online at HathiTrust.

Papers from the 4th and 5th Annual Meetings. Joanne Grumet, ed. Publications, no. 2, 1985.

Papers from the 6th and 7th Annual Meetings. Joanne Grumet, ed. Publications, no. 3, 1986.

Papers from the 8th and 9th Annual Meetings. Cara De Silva, Joanne Grumet, and David J. Nemeth, eds. Publications, no. 4, 1988.

You can find them through a search of the HathiTrust digital library,.

For your convenience, they have also been grouped in a public collection, https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/mb?a=listis&c=1973157298 which can be searched independent of the entire library.

To view tables of contents of these volumes, see https://sites.google.com/site/gypsyloresociety/gypsy-lore-society-publications/books/papers-from-the-meetings.

What you can do

• Search the full text of the books

• View the texts

What you cannot do

• Print more than one page at a time. To print more than one page at a time, you must log onto HathiTrust from a member institution: https://www.hathitrust.org/community.

The remaining out of print volume, The American Kalderaš: Gypsies in the New World. Matt T. Salo, ed. Publications, no. 1, 1981, is scheduled to be digitized and available on HathiTrust in the future.

These books join back issues of the Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society, 1888-1999, which are currently online at HathiTrust in their own collection, https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/mb?a=listis&c=778052705.

Conference registration is now open and will close June 14.

Please pay your participation fee and register for the conference at http://vigdis.hi.is/en/events/gls-2019/.

Your registration is not valid until a payment has been made. Registration and fee payment is done only online by June 14 at latest. Please note that registration/fee payment is not possible on the spot during the conference days.

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