Agenda: Intersectional Discrimination. The Roma Case.

**Update (06/23/2020): Due to new Harvard University guidelines on international travel and events in response to COVID-19, this event has been rescheduled from April 3, 2020 to March 26, 2021. Please view event details here.**

Agenda is as of 03/09/2020 and is subject to change.

Friday, March 26, 2020

9:00 am – Welcome remarks

Mary T. Bassett, Director, FXB Center for Health and Human Rights

Framing the Conference Issues | Margareta Matache, Director of the Roma Program and Instructor, FXB Center

9:15 am – Keynote Panel

Chair | Jacqueline Bhabha, Director of Research, Harvard FXB Center for Health and Human Rights

Keynote Speaker | Angela Kocze, Assistant Professor of Romani Studies, Central European University

Discussant | Michelle Morse, Founding Co-Director, Equal Health Soros Equality Fellow and Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School

10:00 am – Panel 1 | Historical Perspectives on Intersectional Discrimination against Roma

Chair | Eugene Richardson, Assistant Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Contributor | Marius Turda, Professor, Department of History, Philosophy and Religion and Director of the Centre for Medical Humanities, Oxford Brookes University

Contributor | Alexandra Oprea, Lawyer, and Romani feminist, Columbia University

Contributor | Vera Kurtić, Executive Coordinator, Women Space

Contributor | Lucie Fremlova, Post-doctoral Fellow in Romani Studies, Central European University

Discussant | TBD

11:30 am – Break

11:45 am – Panel 2 | Changing Norms: Legal and Policy Efforts to Address Intersectional Discrimination against Roma  

Chair | Anna Crowe, Lecturer on Law and the Assistant Director of the International Human Rights Clinic

Contributor | Nicoleta Bitu, Romani feminist and member of the board of the European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture (ERIAC)

Contributor | Ethel Brooks, Associate Professor, Departments of Women’s and Gender Studies and Sociology, Rutgers University (invited)

Contributor | Isabela Mihalache, Advocacy Officer, European Network against Racism (ENAR)

Contributor | Dezso Mate, Doctoral Researcher at – Eötvös Loránd University – Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Romani LGBTIQ activist-scholarar

Contributor | Emilia Rigova, Visual artist

Discussant | TBD

1:15 pm – Lunch Break

2:45 pm – Keynote speech

Keynote speaker  | David Williams, the Florence Sprague Norman and Laura Smart Norman Professor of Public Health, Chair of the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

3:15 pm – Panel 3 | Moving Forward? Solidarity Movements against Racialized and Gendered Oppression  

Chair | Sushma Raman, Executive Director, the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Harvard Kennedy School

Contributor | Ioanida Costache, Ph.D. candidate at Stanford University and Volunteer with E-Romnja

Contributor | Shelly C. Lowe, Executive Director, Harvard University Native American Program

Contributor | Karlene Griffiths Sekou, Founder and Principal of the Dignity Project International and a Core Leader for Black Lives Matter Boston

Contributor | Suraj Yengde, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Initiative for Institutional Anti-Racism and Accountability, Shorenstein Center, Harvard Kennedy School

Discussant | Keletso Makofane, HIV Public Health Practitioner and Ph.D. candidate at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

5:15 pm – Conclusions

Jacqueline Bhabha, Director of Research, Harvard FXB Center for Health and Human Rights