**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