Academic Section

On 21 March 2022, the Commission organised the European Anti-Racism Summit 2022 with the support of the ARDI Intergroup of the European Parliament and Council of Europe’s European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI/CoE) with the involvement of civil society, equality bodies and grassroots organisations. This year, the meaningful participation of youth in the fight against racism was also highlighted within the context of the European Year of Youth 2022.

REF SERBIA-ERIAC INTERNSHIP PROGRAM Five fully-funded Internship positions at the European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture (ERIAC) Starting date:                         April 1st 2022 End date:                               August 31st 2022 Application deadline:             March 19th 2022   The European Roma Institute for Arts and...

          ONLINE EVENT February 28, 2022 15:00 – 17:00 CET #ERIACNET4EU Registration link for participants: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_hDzKasbUQ-qPBXzaIXHRNA     As part of the Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values Programme (CERV) of the European Union, ERIAC is launching a new project: ERIACNET4EU: ERIAC NETWORK TO ADVANCE ROMA INCLUSION BY COMBATTING AND PREVENTING ANTIGYPSYISM...

  The seminar Roma Youth Together 2022 will bring together 30 young people who are youth leaders or youth workers in Roma and Travellers communities. It is organised by the Youth Department of the Council of Europe in cooperation with Phiren Amenca International, ERGO Network and the European Roma Institute of Arts and Culture. The...

  On 12 February 2022, the »Institutions and Resistance – Alliances for Art at Risk« symposium brought together activists, artists of all genres, and representatives of institutions to resist the »Threats and Risks« faced by art, free creativity and thought and imagine alliances to strengthen the field in the turbulent global predicament. Where would you...

On January 26, 2022, the Barvalipe Academy of the European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture (ERIAC) held its seventh meeting. This is the first meeting of the complete Barvalipe Academy with the members who were newly nominated by the Board and appointed by the General Assembly, following internal elections conducted in each of the...

On Wednesday, December 8 2021, the European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture (ERIAC), in the frame of the Barvalipe Roma Online University, has launched the Library Digital Library of Critical Romani Scholarship. A critical turn in Romani Studies, requires a process of decolonization and an evaluative reframing of our current bibliographies. The Barvalipe Digital Library...

On Novemner 2-3, 2021, representatives of ERIAC joined the 12th meeting of the Council of Europe Dialogue with Roma and Traveller civil society (Concept note + Romani version).   The meeting took stock of recent developments in the teaching of Roma and Traveller history and Holocaust remembrance at school and in non-formal learning environments such as Youth work...

The Tajsa Prize embodies the founding principles of ERIAC and the spirit of Roma history and cultural heritage while looking onwards, shaping and re-inventing forms of Roma cultural expressions for the next generations. The Prize aims to honor outstanding Roma individuals who are leading voices of the Roma cultural movement today. It seeks to encourage...

  ERIAC and the Department of Romani Studies at Södertörn University (SH) in Sweden are proud to announce their institutional partnership to join forces in advancing critical Romani scholarship and ensuring greater presence of Romani scholarly voices in academic settings. As part of the partnership agreement, Södertörn University in cooperation with ERIAC will offer distance-based...

We are launching the second course of Barvalipe Roma Online University!   Bavarlipe Roma Online University is an online educational platform where Roma and non-Roma can access knowledge about the Roma identity(ies), history(ies) and culture(s) through a collection of high-quality lectures delivered by leading Roma scholars on topics ranging from the Roma Holocaust to Roma...

  As part of the online meeting of the Committee of Experts on Roma and Traveller Issues (ADI-ROM) of the Council of Europe, ERIAC hosted an online cultural programme including exclusive online opening of the “Family Archives” exhibition. The event took place on the occasion of the 3rd ADI-ROM meeting. The programme commenced with music...

Roma Youth: Together for Emancipation and Empowerment The role of history in the participation and inclusion of Roma young people In the framework of the programme of the German Presidency of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe   Online conference and public event 7-8-9 April 2021 on the occasion of International Roma...

This video was first published on post, The Museum of Modern Art’s online resource devoted to art and the history of modernism in a global context. This presentation was part of The Multiplication of Perspectives, which took place in April 2019 at The Museum of Modern Art, and brought together scholars, artists, and curators from around...

Online symposium organized by the European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture (ERIAC) and the Romani Studies Program at Central European University (RSP CEU)   Wednesday November 25, 2020 15:30 – 17:30 CET       The Covid-19 pandemic has disproportionately affected Romani pupils compelling various private and public bodies to reconsider their strategies promoting...

On the occasion of the World Day of Romani Language, the European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture in partnership with the Council of Europe and the Plurilingualism Research Unit of the University of Graz organizes the International Conference Safeguarding our Romani Language (online event).

On the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the end of WW II, ERIAC and Volksbühne are hosting an eventseries entitled “Diaspora Europe” curated by Shally Kupferberg and Timea Junghaus. The events between March 1st and December 10 are gathering Roma/Sinti and Jewish communities to explore the politics and poetics of diaspora belonging within contemporary...

On 23rd January the third roundtable discussion of Romani Studies Program (RSP) was held, this time the event was jointly organized by the Department of Political Science at CEU. The invited scholars critically reflected on identity politics and the potentials and dilemmas of identity-based activism in the Romani movement.   Anna Mirga-Kruszelnicka, deputy director of...