INSTITUTE FOR MINORITY STUDIES
Centre for Social Sciences Hungarian Academy of Sciences
ROMAKUTATÁSOK A XXI. SZÁZADBAN
A Roma Kritikai Tanulmányok Kutatócsoport Műhelysorozata
MANIFESTATIONS OF ROMA BODY POLITICS
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Tuesday, 30 June 2015 at 10.00 am RSVP: kisebbsegkutato@tk.mta.hu MTA TK Kisebbségkutató Intézet, TK Könyvtár Olvasóterem 1014 Budapest, Országház u. 30., 3rd floor |
This workshop is organized in collaboration with the CEU Summer School on Performing Romani Identities: Strategy and Critique and it will be conducted in English.
The workshop explores the various practices and manifestations of body politics which objectify as well as engage to regulate, control and racialize the body of Roma. Bodies are not just matter but also at the core of the political order as markers of gender, race, social status, power and even citizenship. Bodies are powerful symbols and sources of social and political power and privilege on one hand and subordination and oppression on the other. The ongoing exclusion and racialization of Roma bodies in Europe tied into their exoticization, sexualization, and criminalization. The panelists of the workshop will theorize the "black body politics" of Roma in the European context. Furthermore they will discuss the possibilities to liberate Romani bodies through arts and critical knowledge production as well as to challenge the mechanisms that create subordinated bodies.
Panelists:
Daniel Baker, Ph.D., UK-based Artist, Curator and Researcher with expertise on Romani aesthetics and visual culture.
Dr. Ethel Brooks of the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies and Sociology, Rutgers University, USA and the University of the Arts London 2011-2012 US-UK Fulbright Distinguished Chair.
Delaine LeBas, British Artist from a large Romani family whose work focuses on displacement, outsider-status, violence in representation and the contested space.
Angéla Kóczé, Ph.D., Visiting Assistant Professor, Wake Forest University and Research Fellow, Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Winner of the 2013 Ion Ratiu Democracy Award.