Collecting the scattered knowledge. Towards an Encyclopaedia of the Nazi Genocide of the Sinti and Roma in Europe.

  • Datum: 15 maj 2023, kl. 15.15–17.00
  • Plats: IRES Library, Gamla torget 3, vån 3
  • Typ: Seminarium
  • Föreläsare: Dr. Karola Fings
  • Arrangör: Uppsala Forum, Institutet för Rysslands- och Eurasienstudier och Hugo Valentin-centrum
  • Kontaktperson: Hanna Abukunova

Evenemanget är hybrid - https://uu-se.zoom.us/j/67907288304

This event will be held in a hybrid format via Zoom.

Abstract

The genocide of the Sinti and Roma became the subject of academic research only late. Among the general public, numerous contexts of persecution and crime, especially in their European dimension, are still largely unknown today. This is also due to the fact that knowledge is highly fragmented and language barriers prevent access to the international research literature. The project funded by the Federal Foreign Office, which will be available online in English from the end of 2023, counters the previous misrepresentation of the genocide with an encyclopaedic compilation of existing knowledge. The lecture will also provide information on current research developments in Germany. 

Short Bio
Dr. Karola Fings is a historian at the Research Centre on Antigypsyism at the Department of History at Heidelberg University, where she heads the project "Encyclopaedia of the Nazi Genocide of the Sinti and Roma in Europe". Since the late 1980s, she has published numerous studies on the Nazi persecution of Sinti and Roma. In 2019, the digital edition "Voices of the Victims", which she curated, was launched in RomArchive. She was a member of the "Independent Commission on Antiziganism" set up by the Federal Government from 2019 to 2021 and is a member of the German delegation to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance. 

This event will be held in a hybrid format via Zoom.

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