The focus of the campaign around the 9 November is to join forces and build a strong movement capable of fighting fascism in all its forms. Antifascist, antiracist, Jewish and Roma organisations both inside and outside the UNITED network commemorate the “Kristallnacht”, which took place on 9 November 1938. This partly state-organised pogrom against German… Read more »
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2nd International Roma LGBT Conference
The historic first International Roma LGBTIQ Conference in 2015 highlighted and explored the many challenges facing Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Roma in Europe and beyond. The important exchange of information and lively debate between the delegates resulted in the drafting of the Roma LGBTIQ Prague Declaration in which the 28 representatives of Romani LGBTIQ… Read more »
International Day Against Fascism and Antisemitism
The focus of the campaign around the 9 November is to join forces and build a strong movement capable of fighting fascism in all its forms. Antifascist, antiracist, Jewish and Roma organisations both inside and outside the UNITED network commemorate the Kristallnacht”, which took place on 9 November 1938. This partly state-organised pogrom against German… Read more »
Prejudice, Genocide, Remembrance
The Summer School combines substantive education with skills training. It employs a multidisciplinary approach that complements Holocaust education with human rights training. In its methodology it combines collective memory workshops with the discussion of relevant cases of human rights violations and the teaching of skills to prevent and counter these violations. The principle goal of… Read more »
Performing Romani: Strategy and Critique
The Summer School will focus on the nexus between Romani studies and performance, with special attention paid to questions of visual culture and representation. The disquiet around increasing violence against and marginalisation of Roma across Europe lends this course a special urgency. The course will focus particularly on the enduring hierarchies, exclusions and stereotypes that… Read more »
Badge Competition
The ‘Design-a-Badge’ competition is open to all Primary schools in Wales and culminates in a Gala event on Wednesday 24th June 2015 at St David’s Hall in Cardiff. The competition supports the National Literacy & Numeracy Framework and is open to all children with two entry categories available: Key Stage 1 entries and Key Stage… Read more »
Roma Youth – Building Bridges
International Conference – The Holocaust in Southeastern Europe
The Elie Wiesel National Institute for the Study of the Holocaust in Romania and the Mandel Center are co-organizing an interdisciplinary conference on the Holocaust in Southeastern Europe. This two-day conference will bring together scholars from all disciplines working on the Holocaust in the Southeastern tier of Europe to share their research with each other… Read more »
Anti-Gypsyism and the Holocaust: Remembering the Past and Shaping the Future
Roma and Sinti have a history of persecution. They have been oppressed and discriminated against for centuries and their persecution reached a climax throughout the Nazi regime during which they were subjected to genocide and deprived of their civil rights. The suffering of Roma and Sinti communities during WWII is mirrored today by persistent practices… Read more »
Holocaust Memorial Day
Holocaust Memorial Day was created on 27 January 2000, when representatives from 46 governments around the world met in Stockholm to discuss Holocaust education, remembrance and research. At the end of this meeting, all attendees signed a declaration committing to preserving the memory of those who have been murdered in the Holocaust. This declaration became… Read more »
