With apologies for cross-posting.
Colin Clark.
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GLS 2004
ANNUAL CONFERENCE AND MEETING
September 3rd/4th, 2004
Henderson Halls
University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
'Transformations in Romani/Gypsy society: past, present, future'
* All events will take place in The Great Hall, at Henderson Hall, University of Newcastle upon Tyne unless otherwise indicated.
* Please note that this running order may be subject to change.
* Speakers are reminded that their time is a STRICT twenty minutes (this time includes 5 minutes for questions i.e., you have 15 minutes to give your paper).
Thursday, September 2, 2004
2:00-5:00 pm - Meeting of the Gypsy Lore Society Board of Directors, The Great Hall, Henderson Hall
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DAY ONE: Friday, September 3, 2004
From 8:00 am - Registration and coffee
Welcome to Newcastle upon Tyne
8.45 am - An opening address and welcome from Professor Christopher Edwards, Vice Chancellor, University of Newcastle upon Tyne.
SESSION 1: History / re-reading history
Chair: Thomas Acton (Greenwich University)
9:00 am - Slawomir Kapralski (CSS, Warsaw, Poland)
"History, memory and Romani identity"
9:20 am - Mauro Turrini (University of Bologna, Italy)
"Gypsy/Romany history: between stigma and re-appropriation"
9:40 am - Sinéad ní Shuinéar (Irish Research Council for the
Humanities and Social Sciences, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland)
"Apocrypha to Canon: Inventing Irish Traveller History"
10:00 am - Eric Støttrup Thomsen ("Romano", Denmark)
"Uninformed - or black government propaganda?"
COFFEE: 10:20-11am
SESSION 2: Political Science: transformations within CEE
Chair: Nidhi Trehan (LSE)
11:00 am - Dawn Lomden (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
"The Gypsy question: is ethnic assimilation the price the Czech Roma must pay for their civil rights?"
11:20 am - Jolanta Khan (University College London, London)
"Incorporating Roma into the new democratic dialogue in Central and Eastern Europe"
11:40 am - Ewa Nowicka (Warsaw University, Poland)
"Marginalisation or transformation: the Romani/Gypsy in contemporary Central-Eastern Europe countries"
12:00 noon - Eva Davidová (Ceský Krumlov, Czech Republic)
"Transformations in Romany society in the Czech and Slovak Republics: past, present and future"
12:30 - Lunch, on your own/with friends etc.
SESSION 3: Researching and working with Roma/Gypsies/Travellers
Chair: Judith Okely (Hull / Oxford Brookes Universities)
2:00 pm - Csaba Prónai (Eotvos Lorand University / ENS, Institute of Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary)
"Some ethical problems on 'doing' Gypsy studies"
2:20 pm - Will Guy (University of Bristol, England)
"Researching government policy on Roma during the Communist era: ethical and political dilemmas"
2:40 pm - Vera Klauber (University of Laval, Quebec City and EHESS (Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales), Paris)
"A relationship between researcher/researched spun of mistrust and irrational hope"
3:00 pm - Pauline Padfield (University of Edinburgh, Scotland)
"A chap [knock] on the trailer door: researching with Gypsy/Travellers"
COFFEE: 3:20pm-4pm
SESSION 4: Representations and Images: The Roma in media, art and literature
Chair: Paloma Gay Y Blasco (St Andrews University)
4:00 pm - Dagmar Reschke (IRCHSS Government of Ireland Scholar, University of Limerick, Ireland)
"Carmen forever?"
4:20 pm - Rosa María Díez-Cobo (University of León, Spain)
"Stereotyped representations of Gypsy/Roma cultures in contemporary cultural theory, literature and films"
4:40 pm - Veerle Sanderink (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)
"'Marginal thiefs and mystical heros: Gypsies in Western European art 1450-1950'.
5:00 pm - Abby Bardi (Prince George's Community College, Maryland, USA)
"The Rom as Trope: representations of the Gypsy in early Twentieth-Century British Literature"
5:30-7:00 pm - Dinner, on your own/with friends etc.
SESSION 5 (Evening): Roma Music and Culture
Chair: Katalin Kovalcsik (Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
7:00 pm - Donald Kenrick (Independent scholar, London, England)
"Luri: the lost musicians of Iran"
7.20 pm - Belma Kurtisoglu (Istanbul Technical University, Turkey)
"Roma women: musicianship"
7:40 pm - Serpil Murtezaoglu (Istanbul Technical University, Turkey)
"Istanbul entertainment culture and the Roma: changing music, changing status"
8:00pm - Nihal Otken (Istanbul Technical University, Turkey)
"A case study: musical life forms of Roma people from Mimarsinan"
8:20pm - B?lent Kurtisoglu (Istanbul technical University, Turkey)
"Changing Musical Experiences of the Roma Musicians in Turkish Folk Dances"
8.45pm onwards: ROMANI FILM SHOWING / BAR
Electra Bada will present and discuss her short film 'In search of the exotic Gypsy' (2004)
The film will be shown in the main bar of Henderson Hall.
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DAY TWO: Saturday, September 4, 2004
From 8:30 a.m. - coffee and late registration
SESSION 1: Identity, culture, transitions
Chair: Colin Clark (Newcastle University)
9:00 am - Johannes Ries (University of Leipzig, Germany)
"From homo prodigus to homo abstinens: the impact of Pentecostalism on Roma culture"
9:20 am - Sal Buckler (University of Durham, England)
"The Gypsies' dilemma - on still being Gypsy in a constantly shifting world"
9:40 am - Aspasia Theodosiou (University of Manchester, England/Technological Institute of Epirus, Greece)
"On the catachresis of otherness: Gypsy 'be - longing' on the Greek - Albanian border"
10:00 am - Patrice van Cleemput (University of Sheffield)
"Gypsy Travellers: "to many we are just a subject for research""
COFFEE: 10.20-11am
SESSION 2: Health, fertility and demographics
Chair: Larry Mayer (John Hopkins Medical School)
11:00 am - Elisa I. Martín and Mercedes Alba (University of Granada, Spain)
"The fertility of Gitanas (Spanish Gypsy Women) in the 20th Century"
11:20 am - Judit Durst (Budapest University of Economic Sciences, Hungary) "The change in fertility in a rural Hungarian Gypsy community (1970-2003): the use of anthropology in demography"
11:40 am - Juan F. Gamella, Antonia Pérez Lázaro and Mari Luz Flores (University of Granada, Spain)
"Forgotten dimensions of exclusion: the health status of a Spanish Gypsy population and its evolution in the last Century"
12:00 noon - Lorenzo Monasta (CIET International, Italy)
"A medical bibliography on 'Gypsies': a critical analysis"
12:30 - Lunch, on your own/with friends etc.
SESSION 3: Exclusion, inclusion and the wider spatial environment
Chair: Bill Lockwood (University of Michigan)
2:00 pm - Sibel Kalaycioglu and Selin Ceyhan (Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey)
"The role of identities in the social inclusion/exclusion of the Gypsy/Roma community in Edirne, Turkey"
2:20 pm - Jane Jameson-Till (Abertay University, Dundee, Scotland)
"The role of legal research in the transformation of Gypsy society in the 21st Century"
2:40 pm - Chris Griffin (Edith Cowan University, Western Australia)
"Spaces and places: spatial approaches to Traveller transformations on the London Westway site"
3:00 pm - John Coxhead and Siobhan Spencer (Derbyshire Police, UK and Derbyshire Gypsy Liaison Group)
"'The Police are not our Police': developing Police liaison and relations with the Gypsy and Traveller communities in Britain"
COFFEE: 3.20pm-4pm
SESSION 4: Education: from school to University
Chair: Arthur Ivatts (OFSTED)
4:00 pm - Gwynedd Lloyd and Gillean McCluskey (University of Edinburgh, Scotland)
"Changing relationships with schooling: past, present and future"
4:20 pm - Chris Derrington and Sally Kendall (University College Northampton and NFER, England)
"Gypsy Traveller students in English Secondary Schools"
4:40 pm - Sarah Miller (University of North Carolina, USA)
"Roma Students in Hungarian Schools: moving towards a better education"
5:00 pm - Piroska Kovach (Macedonia)
"Equal chance for all of us": Roma entering University in CEE.
5:30 pm - Plenary Meeting of the Gypsy Lore Society
8:00 pm - The Annual Banquet of the Gypsy Lore Society - The Assembly Rooms, Newcastle upon Tyne.
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Dr. Colin Clark
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