Conference

The discussion will be moderated by Ms Oana Taba, Project Manager within the Roma and Traveller Team of the Council of Europe. The event will be held online on 14 April 2022 between 16.00 and 17.30, in French and English.

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.

  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...

WEAVE LabDay Roma Self-representation in the History of the Venice Biennale 11 October 2021 14:00-16:00 CET ZOOM   hosted by the European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture (ERIAC) in cooperation with WEAVE (Widen European Access to Cultural Communities Via Europeana) and Council of Europe representation in Venice     CONCEPT In this first ERIAC...

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...

    Hate speech remains a global phenomenon which disproportionately affects Sinti and Roma around Europe and the world. Both in the traditional media outlets as well as online, in particular on social media, Sinti and Roma are victims of discriminatory and hateful discourses, misinformation, misrepresentation and fake news, all considered as manifestations of antigypsyism....

In the framework of the German Presidency of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, ERIAC will organize a series of activities to raise awareness of the importance of awareness of the importance of Roma arts and culture by highlighting the contributions of Roma to majority societies and advocate for the building of...

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...

Strasbourg, 18.11.2020   On 18 November 2020, Germany took over the Presidency of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe from Greece during a video-conference meeting with representatives of the Organisation’s 47 member States.   Greece’s Alternate Minister for Foreign Affairs Miltiadis Varvitsiotis gave an overview of his country’s achievements during its Presidency. The new...

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 26 February 2018, in the framework of ERIAC’s first “International Cultural Outreach Program”, Prof. Dr. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak of Columbia University gave a lecture together with Roma feminist scholars. In this panel discussion organised in ERIAC’s office and art space in Berlin, outstanding Roma activists discussed the transformative potential of transnational alliances and the...

During the United Nations General Assembly in New York, the European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture (ERIAC) hosted a Symposium and Exhibition at the Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany. The ERIAC Symposium “Re-Inventing Roma Inclusion”, supported by the Federal Foreign Office of the German Federal Republic, took place on 24 September...

ERIAC was honored to participate in the REACH 2018 opening conference. The REACH is a major EU Horizon2020 project which aims to contribute to unlocking the potential of people to engage in culture and cultural heritage (CH) in order to foster creativity and innovation and, thereby, to empower citizens to face the immense and rapid changes...

ERIAC Contributes to the Decolonizing North, Conference 07-08 December 2017 Locations: Royal Institute of Art and Konsthall C, Stockholm   Invited speakers: Lesley-Ann Brown Gurminder K. Bhambra Gunilla Larsson Encarnacion Gutierrez-Rodriguez Tone Olaf Nielsen   Respondents: Ylva Habel, Patricia Lorenzoni, Timea Junghaus, and Stefan Helgesson Artists: Anawana Haloba, Katarina Pirak Sikku, Minna L. Henriksson, Santiago...

30 November 2017 Bratislava Goethe Institute   What is the current topography of Roma collections in Europe, and how do Slovak cultural initiatives and artists’ strategies contribute to it? Which institutions preserve and present Roma cultural heritage? What is an ethical and effective strategy for collecting Roma-related information, objects, and cultural artifacts? How can Roma...