This program will be held virtually on Zoom and YouTube Live. There will be no in-person event. See program below for registration and live stream links. Please join the Harriman Institute at Columbia University and the Kupferberg Holocaust Center at Queensborough Community College, CUNY for a conference on the state of Roma human rights in the Balkans. The aim of this…
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.
Romani people – Roma – have been migrating west for hundreds of years. The most recent wave of mass migrations from Central and Eastern Europe began in the 1970s and increased in the 1990s after the fall of the Communist regimes there. The situation of migrant Roma in Italy, whose number is estimated at around 75,000, has been particularly difficult,…