Academic Section

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...

European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture (ERIAC) hosts symposium at the Tensta Konsthall in Stockholm to protect the threatened Roma Cultural Heritage     The symposium, taking place in Tensta Konsthall on 28 November, was organized by the European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture (ERIAC) – the first and only transnational, European-level organization...

ERIAC joins panel discussion about Roma Holocaust Remembrance at the POLIN Museum   On August 5th, 2019,  on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the 2nd of August – Roma Holocaust Memorial day – the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw, organized a panel discussion with Roma experts. The event...