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Defying Stereotypes: Stories of Roma in America

405 Schermerhorn Hall Columbia

Join the Harriman Institute, the Roma Peoples Project, and the Oral History Master of Arts Program at Columbia University for a book talk with Martha Aladjem Bloomfield, author of Romanies in Michigan (Michigan State University Press, 2019). Bloomfield will discuss her book, Romanies in Michigan, a collection of oral histories from Hungarian-Slovak Roma in Detroit, Michigan.

Detroit, Capital of the 20th Century: Fordism’s First Globalization

Center for European and Mediterranean Studies (NYU) 53 Washington Square South, 3rd Floor East, New York

A talk by Stefan J. Link, from Dartmouth College. Stefan Link’s paper explores how the industrializing states of Europe turned to mass production and Fordism in the 1930s by investigating what their motives were, how they did it, and what the consequences of this transition were for the future. It shows how Europeans looked to Detroit as the capital of…