Annual Meeting

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           The Gypsy Lore Society Annual Meeting and Conference on Gypsy Studies

Gypsy Lore Society meetings are held on an annual basis and are rotated among different US cities and other countries. Meetings typically include presentations of recent research, discussion sessions, exhibits and films. Gypsy Lore Society members receive discounts on meeting registration fees.

Recent conferences have been held at

• Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA (2003)

• Belgrade, Serbia (2022)

• Bratislava, Slovakia (2014)

• Bucharest, Romania (2018)

• Budapest, Hungary (2002)

• Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic (2021)

• Academy of Sciences of Moldova, Chișinău, Moldova (2015)

• Florence, Italy (1999)

• Glasgow, Scotland (2013)

• Universidad de Granada, Spain (2005)

• Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal (2010)

• Graz, Austria (2011)

• Istanbul, Turkey (2012)

• University of Helsinki, Finland (2009)

• University of Manchester, England (2007)

• Newcastle upon Tyne, England (2004)

• University of Cyprus, Nicosia (2017)

• University of Iceland, Reykjavik (2019)

• São Paulo, Brazil (2023)

• Södertörn University, Stockholm, Sweden (2016)

• Sofia, Bulgaria (2024)

• Tucson, Arizona, USA (2006)

• Washington, DC, USA (2000, 2008)

Complete list of Annual Meetings and Conferences

2025 Annual Meeting of the Gypsy Lore Society and Conference on Romani Studies

Updated Conference Information

Dear Colleagues,

I am pleased to announce that we have received an unprecedented number of high-quality proposals for the upcoming Gypsy Lore Society annual conference. The submissions showcase innovative research in Romani studies, emerging themes, critical assessments of old and new methods, and fresh approaches to old themes using data analysis and collections.

The conference promises to be exciting, moreover as it will take place from September 24-26 at the modern Campus Condorcet  in beautiful Paris, where your French colleagues look forward to hosting you.

Another important news, in response to several requests from colleagues facing examination periods, work commitments, or, Devla! health issues, we have decided to extend the proposal submission deadline.

Since our Society is a scientific community that serves its dedicated members, the new deadline will be May 1st, providing an additional fifteen days to accommodate these circumstances.

It has come to my notice that we were unable to receive some email submissions in the email box of the organizing committee. If you have submitted an abstract but have not yet received a confirmation of acceptance, I kindly request that you resubmit your abstract.

Best regards,

Julieta Rotaru

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Gypsy Lore Society conferences are among the most significant annual scholarly events devoted to Romani Studies worldwide. Each year the event takes place in a different country, and is organised by the Gypsy Lore Society in cooperation with local academic institutions.

General Information

The 2025 Annual Meeting of the Gypsy Lore Society and Conference on Romani Studies is scheduled for September 24th -26th and will be held in Paris, France. The conference is organised on behalf of the Gypsy Lore Society by the Institut des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO), the Institut Convergences Migrations (ICM) – Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) and the Médiathèque “Matéo Maximoff”, Paris.

 Call for Papers and Deadlines

Proposals for individual papers, open panels and pre-arranged panels are welcome. Panel organisers may submit only one panel proposal and one as co-organiser. A speaker may propose only one paper (for an individual paper or paper within a panel) as author and one as co-author. Papers should be 20 minutes long with an additional 10 minutes allotted for discussion. Panels and individual paper proposals undergo a peer-review process by the Academic Committee. 

Deadline for submission of open panel proposals: 15 March 2025

Deadline for submission of papers and pre-arranged panel proposals: 15 April 2025

Deadline for the confirmation of contributions accepted for 2025 GLS Conference: 15 May 2025

An assessment committee of international scholars from the Conference Academic Committee, headed by the President of the GLS, Tatiana Zachar Podolinská, will make the final selection of papers to be presented and possible panels.

Please send your abstracts and possible proposals for panels to gypsyloreconference2025@gmail.com.

Abstracts should be not less than 250 words and not more than 600 words. Keywords and bibliography are not needed.

Open Panels -- Call for Papers

Venue of the conference and schedule

The conference will feature paper presentations and topic-focused panels. The panels can be pre-arranged or open panels. The organizers aim to limit scheduling parallel sessions to maximize participant attendance and engagement.

The conference will begin on the morning of Wednesday, September 24, 2025, and close on Friday evening, September 26.

The working hours for the conference are from 9h30 to 12h30 and from 14h to 18h. The total time for presentation of a paper is expected to be 30 minutes: 20 minutes for the paper and 10 minutes for discussion. The presentation languages are English, French and Romani.

The sessions and panels of the conference take place on the new humanities campus, a hub of conference and exhibition center belonging to various research and universities in Paris, Campus Condorcet, Aubervilliers.

Campus Condorcet

Campus Condorcet‒ Centre de colloques

Place du Front populaire,

93300 Aubervilliers

The closest metro station is Front Populaire, line 12.

Registration fee

Early birds, till 1st June After 1 st of June

150 € for GLS members 210 € for GLS members

210 € general 270 € general

The registration fee Includes:

1. access to all conference events and cultural programs organized on the premises of the conference venue.

2. tea/coffee breaks for the full three days

3. conference material (bag, stationary, printed program booklet, etc.)

Accommodation

A limited number of fully equipped flats with 3-star hotel services are available at "Break and Home" located in the heart of the Condorcet Campus and close to transport.

For information, please visit:

https://www.breakandhome.com/condorcet and

https://www.breakandhome.com/condorcet/en/sleep/

Several hotels (2 to 5 stars) are within moderate distance from the main conference venue at Campus Condorcet, Aubervilliers, particularly near the Stade de France. The Front Populaire station on Metro line 12 is adjacent to Campus Condorcet, connecting to central Paris on one side and

Aubervilliers on the other.

The Campus lies just south of the Stade de France. Ibis hotel Saint-Denis Stade Sud (Address: rue de la Cokerie, Saint Denis La Plaine, tel. +33 (0) 1 55 93 36 00; fax +33 (0) 1 55 93 36 36) is approximately 2.5 kilometers north of the conference venue.

The budget hotel HotelF1.com Stade de France is located immediately next to Ibis (rue de la Cokerie, Saint Denis La Plaine, tel. +33 (0) 8 91 70 53 78; fax +33 (0) 1 55 93 46 05).

To the east of Campus, also about 2.5 km away, you'll find Ibis Styles Hotel Paris Saint Denis La Plaine (212 avenue du Président Wilson, Saint Denis La Plaine, tel. +33 (0) 1 48 09 96 85; fax +33 (0) 1 42 43 79 43).

Due to high demand for accommodation near the Stade de France during this period, early booking is strongly recommended.

Conference Organising Committee

Leny Mauduit -- Médiatheque “Matéo Maximoff”

Julieta Rotaru -- Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO).

Adèle Sutre -- Institut Convergences Migrations (ICM)-- Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)

Magdalena Slavkova, Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Studies with Ethnographic Museum, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

Aurore Tirard -- Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO)

Conference Academic Committee

Elena Marushiakova, University of St Andrews and Institute of Ethnology and Social Anthropology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences

Tatiana Zachar Podolinská, Slovak Academy of Sciences

Julieta Rotaru -- Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO).

Adèle Sutre -- Institut Convergences Migrations-- CNRS

Aurore Tirard -- Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO)