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SUMMARY:Unraveling injustice and power structures
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DESCRIPTION:\nDate and Time: Friday\, April 4\, 2025 at 12:30pm – 6:15pm EDT. Reception to follow.\n\n\n\nLocation: Smith Campus Center\, 1350 Massachusetts Avenue\, 10th Floor\, Cambridge\, MA 02138 (Harvard University) and online\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBackground Information About International Roma Day (April 8):\n\n\n\nRomani people worldwide have celebrated International Roma Day on April 8 for decades. This year will mark the 54th anniversary of the First World Roma Congress\, a historic moment when Roma Day\, the flag\, and the anthem were adopted. Some have turned the anniversary into a one-day opportunity to discuss their rich heritage through concerts\, exhibitions\, film screenings\, school events\, conferences\, and media events. Others\, including activists and academics\, have marked International Roma Day by organizing remembrance events to take stock of continuing racism and progress in social\, political\, cultural\, and economic fields.  \n\n\n\nConference Overview:\n\n\n\nSince 2013\, the annual Roma conference at Harvard University has served as a forum to examine and address anti-Roma racism\, its genesis\, history\, pillars\, and manifestations worldwide. We have aimed to improve the collection of data related to the Roma people\, enhance research methods\, focus on action-oriented research\, and revisit and inform the histories\, policies\, and practices concerning Roma people. Furthermore\, the Harvard Roma conference has actively sought to elevate and co-center the voices and experiences of Roma people within global scholarship. It has fostered discussions on anti-racism\, reparations\, solidarity\, and justice-oriented solutions and emphasized the importance of solidarity among historically oppressed communities. \n\n\n\nOn April 4th\, 2025\, we will mark International Roma Day with the 13th Roma conference at Harvard University\, Unraveling injustice and power structures.  \n\n\n\nThe event aims to unpack and reframe the enduring reproduction of the artificial hierarchy imposed between white Europeans and European Roma people\, situating it within the broader global theoretical frameworks related to racism\, casteism\, racialization\, and socio-cultural hierarchies and oppressions. Unraveling injustice and power structures will contribute to and expand upon ongoing global dialogues on racialization.  \n\n\n\nIt will also create opportunities for new inquiries into how caste and/or racial hierarchies are upheld within educational systems beginning in childhood\, in violation of several articles of the 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC)\, such as Article 2\, which frames a duty to non-discrimination\, Article 3\, which consequently stipulates that the best interest of each child should be the primary consideration of public or private social welfare institutions\, and Article 4\, which calls on State Parties to make every effort to uphold children’s rights including economic\, social\, and cultural ones. These constructed hierarchies inevitably fail to preserve children’s identities (Article 8 of the CRC) and\, through structural barriers\, prevent them from accessing the highest attainable standard of health (Article 24) hence setting the stage for adverse impact throughout all stages of life.\n\n\n\nAgenda\n\n\n\n12:00pm – 12:30pm: Gathering\n\n\n\n12:30pm: Welcoming remarks\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n12:40pm: Framing the conference topics\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n12:45pm: Keynote panel - Beyond race: An ontological enquiry of the twenty-first century\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1:45pm: Panel 1 - Race\, caste\, ethnicity\, and other constructs of power\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n3:45pm - 4:00pm: Coffee break\n\n\n\n4:00pm: Panel 2 - Distinct and interconnected mechanisms of oppression\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n5:30pm: Book talk\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n6:15pm: Reception\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPlease direct any questions about this event to Claire Street at cstreet@hsph.harvard.edu.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers’ remarks are based on their own scholarship and experience. As such\, they speak for themselves\, not for Harvard University.\n
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