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ERIAC was delighted to host a group of high-school students from Lycée Jacques Amyot in Melun, France and give a guided tour at the exhibition titled “Roma Women Weaving Europe”.   Since the students were really curious about the work of ERIAC and the Roma contribution to arts and culture, it was our pleasure to...

  Venice, May 10th 2019   German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas opened this afternoon the Roma exhibition FUTUROMA, an official Collateral Event of the La 58 Biennale di Venezia, highlighting the importance of the Roma minority as an example for a united Europe.     FUTUROMA, commissioned by ERIAC (the European Roma Institute for Arts...

The Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN) World Convention is the largest international and interdisciplinary scholarly gathering of its kind, welcoming proposals on a wide range of topics related to nationalism, ethnicity, ethnic conflict, and national identity. Annually held in the spring in New York City at the premises of Columbia University, the ASN World...

  Timea Junghaus, art historian, executive director of ERIAC is lecturer/panelist in the C-Map Symposium of MOMA, New York. The event The Multiplication of Perspectives: The 10th Anniversary of MoMA (New York’s Global Research Initiative: C-MAP) will take place at MOMA on April 28, at 13.15 (NY Time).   The Multiplication of Perspectives offers a variety of...

ERIAC welcomes U.S. Ambassador Grenell   On 9 April 2019, ERIAC was visited by the U.S. Ambassador in Germany, Honourable Ambassador Richard A. Grenell, accompanied by Ms. Sandra Sebastian, a political specialist and Ms. Amanda Ahlers, second secretary of the Political Section. The meeting was organized in connection to the International Roma Day.   The...

  THE BEST CHILD IN THE WORLD” – A PERFORMANCE BY ALINA SERBAN TO CELEBRATE THE INTERNATIONAL ROMA DAY On the International Roma Day, 8th of April, a guided tour will take place at the two institutions, which will start at ERIAC and will continue at RKI followed by the artistic performance of Alina Serban:...

PRESS RELEASE Berlin, 8th April 2019   Join ERIAC and be part of the vibrant community of European Roma arts and culture scene by filling in the  online application form.   On the occasion of celebrating the International Roma Day (8th of April) we are announcing the opening of the second call for associate members! ERIAC is...

FutuRoma – Collateral Event of the 58th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia   Curated by: Daniel Baker Commissioned by: European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture e.V. (ERIAC) Exhibition Site: Zattere, Dorsoduro 417, 30123 Venezia Preview Days: 8 -10 May 2019 Opening Event: 10 May 2019, 16:00 – 19:00 Palazzo Franchetti, S. Marco, 2847, 30124...

On April 5-6, 2019, the Harvard FXB Center for Health and Human Rights and the Romani Studies Program of the Central European University will host Neglected Voices: The Global Roma Diaspora, the seventh Annual Roma Conference at Harvard to mark International Roma Day, organized under the honorary patronage of the European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture.   The conference...

  On the occasion of the celebration of the International Roma Day (8 April), the European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture (ERIAC) and the Rumänisches Kulturinstitut Berlin (RKI) join forces to honor Romani women – as leaders and survivors, guardians and re-inventors of culture, revolutionaries and change-makers. In a joint exhibition titled, “Roma Women...

On February 13th, 2019, Federal Foreign Minister Heiko Maas (SPD) reported to the Bundestag on the human rights activities of the federal government. His remarks are based on the 13th Report of the Federal Government on its Human Rights Policy (19/7730), which describes the domestic and foreign policy activities and initiatives of the Federal Government...

ERIAC Cultural Institutions Network Initiative (CINI) Transgenerational Knowledge Transfer Public Symposium     In Belgrade, on 06 February 2019, the Cultural Institutions Network Initiative (CINI) of the European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture (ERIAC), the first transnational European-level organization for the recognition and promotion of Roma arts and culture, hosted a one-day public symposium,...

    ERIAC Barvalipe Academy Holds its First Meeting in Belgrade   Belgrade, 05 February 2019 – The Barvalipe Academy held its first meeting on 5 February 2019 in Belgrade, Serbia. The Academy held a major discussion on the strategy of ERIAC, as well as made several key decisions, fulfilling the obligations defined in the...

ERIAC GENERAL ASSEMBLY APPOINTS 8 NEW MEMBERS TO THE BARVALIPE ACADEMY PRESS RELEASE Berlin, December 18th 2018   The first General Assembly of the European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture (ERIAC) took place on 17 December, bringing together associate members, representatives of the ERIAC Board, and the ERIAC management.   The General Assembly appointed eight...

On 28 November the Non-Kin-State Working Group of the Flensburg-based Federal Union of European Nationalities (FUEN) visited ERIAC in the context of their yearly assembly.   (C) FUEN, Kornél Szilágyi The group was composed of West Frisians (NL), Romansh People (CH) and Ladins (IT). The Roma community was represented by a delegation from Bosnia &...

ALBANIA’S ROMA CULTURAL HERITAGE ERIAC CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS NETWORK INITIATIVE PROGRAM 26-27 November 2018 Tirana, Albania       In the framework of the ERIAC Cultural Institution Network Initiative (CINI) an event was held on 26 and 27 November 2018, at the National Museum of History in Tirana.       The two-day event, entitled “Albania’s...

In the framework of a study visit on remembrance, culture, and “coming to terms with the past,” orgsanised by the Goethe Institute, a delegation of academics, decision-makers, and media representatives from Croatia visited ERIAC on 24 November 2018.   The participants represented the University of Zagreb, the University of Zadar, the Catholic University of Croatia, and...

In its programme, “Latscho Diwes,” Stiftung EVZ (“Foundation for Remembrance, Responsibility, Future”) funds civil society organisations from Central, South, and Eastern Europe that are locally supporting survivors of the Roma genocide. On 20 November 2018, 25 representatives of such organisations from Belarus, Ukraine, and Moldova were invited by Stiftung EVZ for a seminar in Berlin...