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SUMMARY:MEMOROBIA Conference
DTSTART:20251124T030000Z
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LOCATION:Hybrid – Online and in-person
DESCRIPTION:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis event marked the conclusion of the research project MEMOROBIA: Memorialization of Romani Enslavement in the Territories of Contemporary Romania which is co-led by Dr. Margareta Matache\, PhD\, the Director of the FXB Center's Roma Program for Health and Human Rights.\n\n\n\nThe conference program featured leading voices in the fields of history\, education\, memory\, and arts. The agenda explored the role of the arts in memorialization and resistance and included scientific presentations on the history\, legacies\, and memory of institutionalized slavery in the Romanian principalities\, such as:\n\n\n\n\nPanel discussions that exploring the history of Roma slavery\, reflect on its legacy\, memorialization\, and past and present forms of resistance.\n\n\n\nPanel discussions examining reparations for Roma from both a global and European perspective\, including reparations for Roma slavery.\n\n\n\nThe launch of the Critical Romani Studies special issue “Racialized Slavery in Moldova and Wallachia: Legacies and Silences”\n\n\n\nPanels and performances about the role of the arts in remembering the history of Roma slavery.\n\n\n\nAn exhibition about Roma slavery\, curated by the MEMOROBIA research team and the Center for Studies of the Holocaust and Religious Minorities.\n\n\n\n\nThis event was jointly organized by MF Norwegian School of Theology\, Religion\, and Society\, Amare Rromentza\, the Roma Program for Health and Human Rights at the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University\, and the Norwegian Center for Holocaust and Minority Studies. The conference was organized under the framework of the MEMOROBIA project\, funded by the Research Council of Norway.\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\nAgenda\n\n\n\n\nMonday\, November 24\, 2025 - Revisit on YouTube here.\n\n\n\nIn-person location: MF Norwegian School of Theology\, Religion\, and Society\, Oslo\, Norway\n\n\n\n3:00am-3:15am EST | 9:00am-9:15am CET | Welcome\n\n\n\nSolvor Mjøberg Lauritzen\, Professor\, MF Norwegian School of Theology\, Religion and Society  \n\n\n\nTrine Anker\, Professor and Prorector Research/ Acting Rector MF Norwegian School of Theology\, Religion and Society  \n\n\n\nMaria Dumitru\, PhD Candidate\, MF Norwegian School of Theology\, Religion and Society   \n\n\n\n3:15am-4:15am EST| 9:15am-10:15am CET | Keynote speech: Slavery\, legacies\, traumas \n\n\n\nIan Hancock\, Professor emeritus\, University of Texas at Austin  \n\n\n\nModerator: Maria Dumitru\, PhD Candidate\, MF Norwegian School of Theology\, Religion and Society  \n\n\n\n4:15am-4:30am EST | 10:15am-10:30am CET | Coffee Break\n\n\n\n4:30am-5:45am EST | 10:30am-11:45am CET | The history of Roma slavery and forms of resistance \n\n\n\nMaria Dumitru\, PhD Candidate\, MF Norwegian School of Theology\, Religion and Society  \n\n\n\nAdrian Furtuna\, Researcher\, National Center for Roma Culture\, Romania  - Romano Kher \n\n\n\nPetre Petcut\, PhD\, Historian \n\n\n\nModerator: Alma Dzafic Ferhatovic\, MSc student in Sociology of Law\, Lund University \n\n\n\n5:45am-6:45am EST | 11:45am-12:45pm CET | Lunch Break\n\n\n\n6:45am-7:45am | 12:45pm-1:45pm CET | Keynote speech: Reparations | Re-watch here\n\n\n\nMary Bassett\, Director of the François-Xavier Bagnoud (FXB) Center for Health and Human Rights and FXB Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights in the department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health \n\n\n\n7:45am-8:00am EST | 1:45pm-2:00pm CET | Break\n\n\n\n8:00am-9:00am EST | 2:00pm-3:00pm CET | Panel discussion: Reparations across geographies  \n\n\n\nMihai Neacsu\, Director of the National Centre for Roma Culture\, Romania \n\n\n\nFernando Ruiz Molina\, PhD Candidate at School of Law\, Criminology and Government at the University of Plymouth \n\n\n\nLillan Støen\, Taternes Landsforening (National Association of Travellers\, Norway) \n\n\n\nSolomia Karoli\, Romas Menneskerettigheter - Roma Manushikane Cacimata\, Norway \n\n\n\nModerator: Margareta Matache\, Lecturer on Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences\, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health\, and the co-founder and Director of the Roma program at the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights\, Harvard University \n\n\n\n11:00am-12:30pm EST | 5:00pm-6:30pm CET | Book launch of The Permanence of Anti-Roma Racism: (Un)uttered Sentences\n\n\n\nMargareta Matache\, Lecturer on Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences\, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health\, and the co-founder and Director of the Roma program at the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nIn-person location: Litteraturhuset  \n\n\n\n1:00pm EST | 7:00pm CET | Dinner  \n\n\n\nPerformance by Salamanca Taikon Gonzalez\, Athem – Romska teatern \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTuesday\, November 25\, 2025 - Revisit on YouTube here.\n\n\n\nIn-person location: The Center for Studies of the Holocaust and Religious Minorities\, Oslo\, Norway \n\n\n\n3:00am-3:15am EST | 9:00am-9:15am CET | Welcome\n\n\n\nJan Heiret\, Director at The Norwegian Center for Holocaust and Minority Studies  \n\n\n\nSolvor Lauritzen\, Professor\, MF Norwegian School of Theology\, Religion and Society \n\n\n\n3:15am-4:00am EST| 9:15am-10:00am CET | Keynote speech: Contemporary activism and arts of resistance \n\n\n\nDelia Grigore\, Associate Professor\, University of Bucharest \n\n\n\nModerator: Solvor Lauritzen\, Professor\, MF Norwegian School of Theology\, Religion and Society  \n\n\n\n4:00am-4:45am EST | 10:00am-10:45am CET | Panel discussion: Roma history and education \n\n\n\nAlexandru Zamfir\, PhD\, University of Bucharest  \n\n\n\nLuiza Medeleanu\, PhD candidate University of Bucharest  \n\n\n\nElise Christensen\, Educator\, 22. Juli senteret \n\n\n\nModerator: Solvor Lauritzen \n\n\n\n4:40am-5:00am EST | 10:45am-11:00am CET | Coffee Break\n\n\n\n5:00am-5:30am | 11:00am-11:30am CET | Launch of Critical Romani Studies special issue “Racialized Slavery in Moldova and Wallachia: Legacies and Silences.” Read it here.\n\n\n\nModerator: Maria Bogdan\, PhD\, Central European University\n\n\n\n5:30am-6:00am EST |11:30am-12:00pm CET | Launch of exhibition curated by the MEMOROBIA research team and the Center for Studies of the Holocaust and Religious Minorities. See the exhibition here.\n\n\n\nSolvor Lauritzen\, Professor\, MF Norwegian School of Theology\, Religion and Society \n\n\n\nEmanuel Barica\, artist  \n\n\n\n6:00am-7:00am EST | 12:00pm-1:00pm CET | Lunch Break\n\n\n\n7:00am-8:00am EST | 1:00pm-2:00pm CET | Panel discussion: The role of the arts in remembering the history of Roma slavery\n\n\n\nEmanuel Barica\, artist  \n\n\n\nOana Rusu\, actor and PhD candidate\, University of Arts\, Târgu Mureș\, and Lucian Blaga University\, Sibiu. \n\n\n\nCecilia Salinas\, PhD\, Anthropologist and artist  \n\n\n\nModerator: Alma Dzafic Ferhatovic\, MSc student in Sociology of Law\, Lund University  \n\n\n\n8:00am-8:30am EST | 2:00pm-2:30pm CET | Documenting and remembering the Roma slavery: A conversation  \n\n\n\nAgnes Lakatos\, Journalist\, Radio Sweden  \n\n\n\nIan Hancock\, Professor emeritus\, University of Texas at Austin  \n\n\n\n8:30am-9:00am EST | 2:30pm-3:00pm CET | Screening: Letter of Forgiveness\n\n\n\nA film by Alina Serban\n\n\n\n9:00am EST | 3:00pm CET | Reception\n\n\n\n\nImage used for cover art: Fernando Ruiz Molina\n\n\n\nSpeaker remarks are based on their own scholarship and experience. As such\, they speak for themselves\, not for Harvard University.\n
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