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Co-organizer of the Annual Political Science Workshop of the Low Countries (Politicologenetmaal 2023). To be held 1-2 June 2023 at the Faculty of Social Sciences, KU Leuven, Belgium 2022 PhD defense of Laura Soréna Tittel, on the basis of her doctoral dissertation "Umrisse einer Theorie des Antiziganismus" ("Contours of a Theory of Antigypsyism"). Summa Cum Laude. Held June 14, 2022, at the Institute for Political Science of the Justus Liebig University Giessen, Giessen, Germany. Supervisors: Prof.dr. Regina Kreide and Prof.dr. Huub van Baar "The Politics of Evictability: From Governing Welfare to Pacifying Resistance" - Keynote lecture at the international research workshop Evictability: Understanding the Nexus of Migration and Urban Displacements. Held June 2-3, 2022, at the Institute for Urban Research, Malmö University, Sweden Panel discussion on Julija Sardejic's The Fringes of Citizenship: Romani Minorities in Europe and Civic Marginalization (Manchester UP, 2021). Held May 4-7, 2022, during the ASN 2022 World Convention, organization by the Association for the Study of Nationalities. Columbia University, New York, USA Public discussion about the documentary (R)oma, een (familie)geschiedenis - Roma, a (family) history, directed by Klaas Burger and Stefany Karghoti. Held with Huub van Baar on 13 March 2022, Breda, Chassé Theater, the Netherlands Discussant during Tom Toremans' lecture "De vluchteling en de literaire verbeelding: empathie, representatie en mensenrechten". Held on February 28, 2022 as part of the Interfacultaire reeks Lessen voor de XXIe Eeuw, Aula Pieter de Somer, KU Leuven, Belgium 2021 Premiere of the documentary (R)oma, een (familie)geschiedenis - Roma, a (family) history, directed by Klaas Burger and Stefany Karghoti. Advise Huub van Baar. 14 November 2021, Breda, Chassé Theater, the Netherlands Opening of the art exhibition (R)oma, een (familie)geschiedenis - Roma, a (family) history, curated by Klaas Burger and Stefany Karghoti. Advise Huub van Baar. 5 November 2021, Breda, Stedelijk Museum, the Netherlands Roundtable discussion about The Roma and Their Struggle for Identity in Contemporary Europe, edited by Huub van Baar and Angéla Kóczé. With Peter Vermeersch (chair), the book's editors and various authors who contributed chapters to the book. International conference Critical Approaches to Romani Studies. Held online 2 June 2021 at Central European University Budapest, Hungary "The European Roma and their Search for Representational Space: Claiming History and Challenging the Borders of Europe", keynote lecture at the online international conference Minority Experiences and European Narratives: Contemporary and Historical Perspectives. Coorganized by the University of Helsinki and Åbo Akademi University, Turku. Held online 14-16 April 2021 at Åbo Akademi University in Turku, Finland (invited) Co-organization of the workshop "Security and Difference". Funded by the SFB Collaborative Research Center Dynamics of Security: Forms of Securitization in Historical Perspective. To be held 25-26 February 2021 at the Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany "The Construction of Racial and Social Difference through Securitizing Mobility: The Irregularization of Citizenship of Roma in the Long Twentieth Century". Presentation at the online workshop "Security and Difference". Held 25-26 February 2021 at the Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany Annual international conference of the SFB research consortium Dynamics of Security: Forms of Securitization in Historical Perspective. Held online 22-24 October 2020 at the Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany Co-organization of the international conference "Decolonial Methods, Peripheral Selves: The Migrant Figure between (South-)East European and Global South Entanglements". Held online 10-11 July 2020 at the Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany Call for Papers deadline 26 February 2020 2020 Co-organization of the workshop "Security and Difference". Funded by the SFB Collaborative Research Center Dynamics of Security: Forms of Securitization in Historical Perspective. To be held 4-5 June 2020 at the Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany [postponed to February 2021, due to the Covid-19 crisis] "The Construction of Racial and Social Difference through Securitizing Mobility: The Irregularization of Citizenship of Roma in the Long Twentieth Century". Presentation at the workshop "Security and Difference". To be held 4-5 June 2020 at the Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany [postponed to February 2021, due to the Covid-19 crisis] Book presentation of The Roma and Their Struggle for Identity in Contemporary Europe, edited by Huub van Baar and Angéla Kóczé (Oxford: Berghahn). Annual International Conference of Critical Romani Studies. To be held 21-22 May 2020 at Central European University, (CEU) Budapest [cancelled due to the Covid-19 crisis] Co-organization of the international workshop "Securitization, Politicization, Differentiation: How Security has Shaped the Configuration of Politics". Funded by the SFB Collaborative Research Center Dynamics of Security: Forms of Securitization in Historical Perspective. To be held 18-19 May 2020 at the Philipps University Marburg, Germany [postponed due to the Covid-19 crisis] "The Via-Political Differentiation of Citizenship through Securitizing Mobility: Mobile Governmentality and the Exclusion of Roma throughout the Twentieth Century". Presentation at the international workshop "Securitization, Politicization, Differentiation: How Security has Shaped the Configuration of Politics". To be held 18-19 May 2020 at the Philipps University Marburg, Germany [postponed due to the Covid-19 crisis] Book presentation of The Roma and Their Struggle for Identity in Contemporary Europe, edited by Huub van Baar and Angéla Kóczé (Oxford: Berghahn). Second Roma Biennale. To be held 15 April 2020 at Collegium Hungaricum Berlin, Berlin [cancelled due to the Covid-19 crisis] 2019 "The Construction of Difference in Europe". Co-organization of work-in-progress workshop with Blair Biggar, visiting PhD student at the University of Giessen. Held 2 December 2019 at the Institute for Political Science, University of Giessen "Europe and its Others: A Public Debate about Xenophobia in Contemporary Europe". Participation in a Roundtable discussion organized by the Faculty of Arts of the Charles University, Prague. Held 21 November 2019 at Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic (invited) "Xenophobia from the Perspective of Spectacular Security: Visibilizing Threat and Invisibilizing Racial Violence through Securitization". Presentation at the international workshop "Xenophobias and Xenophilias in Europe: Constructions and Transformations". Held 20-22 November 2019 at the Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic (invited) Annual conference of the SFB research consortium Dynamics of Security: Forms of Securitization in Historical Perspective. Held 31 October - 1 November 2019 at the Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany Main organizer of the international conference Racial Orders, Racist Borders. Held 16-18 October 2019 at the University of Amsterdam. Co-funded by the Amsterdam Centre for Globalisation Studies (ACGS) and the Collaborative Research Centre Dynamics of Security at the Universities of Giessen and Marburg, Germany. Information: Call for papers deadline 15 May 2019 (closed) Full program expert workshop 16 October 2019 Full program international conference 17-18 October 2019 "The Ambiguous Politics of Protection in Post-war Europe: Irregularizing Citizenship of Roma through Mobile Governmentalities". Presentation at the international conference Trajectories of Romani Migrations and Mobilities in Europe and Beyond (1945-present). Held 16-18 September 2019 at the Prague Forum for Romani Histories at the Institute of Contemporary History, Czech Academy of Sciences, in Prague "Producing Irregular European Citizens: Racialization and the Differentiation of Citizenship" Paper presentation at the international workshop Reemerging Racism: Genealogy, Mediations and Contestations. Held 6 June 2019 at the Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany "When Politicization turns into Securitization: The Politics of Roma Minority Protection in Europe". Paper presentation + several other contributions (panel discussant, roundtable) to the international conference Critical Approaches to Romani Studies. Held 15-17 May 2019 at Central European University (CEU) Budapest. Organized by the Romani Studies Program at CEU "Displacement, Evictability and the Production of Irregular EU Citizens: The Citizenship-Security Nexus beyond the State Paradigm". Presentation at the symposium De-exceptionalizing Displacement? Rethinking Citizenship and Mobility. Held 22-23 March 2019 at the University of Pittsburgh, USA. Funded by the Office of the Provost, the Global Studies Center and the University Center for International Studies (UCIS) at the University of Pittsburgh Discussant of Aidan McGarry's presentation about the political voice of marginalized communities. Held 14 March 2019 at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies (NIAS), Amsterdam Co-organization of "Roma, 'Brexit' and Freedom of Movement: A View from Scotland". An event with and guest lecture by Colin Clark, Professor of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of the West of Scotland in Glasgow. Held 30 January 2019 at the University of Giessen, Germany. Co-organized with Andreea Racles, on behalf of the departments of sociology and political theory at the JLU Giessen 2018 Participation in the workshop Visuelle Dimensionen des Antiziganismus (Visual Dimensions of Antigypsyism). Held 15-16 November 2018 at the University of Heidelberg, Germany. Organized by the "Forschungsstelle Antiziganismus" at the University of Heidelberg. Annual conference of the SFB research consortium Dynamics of Security: Forms of Securitization in Historical Perspective. Held 1-2 November 2018 at the Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany "Politics and Democracy: Towards a Critique of Spectacular Security". Presentation of paper at the 27th annual Conference of the German Association for Political Science (DVPW), entitled Frontiers of Democracy - Grenzen der Demokratie. Held 25-28 September 2018 at the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Participation in the international workshop Gender and Security in Historical Perspective. Held 20-21 September 2018 at the Justus Liebig Unversity Giessen, Germany. Paticipation in the International Workshop "Translating STS to Security Sites". Held 25-26 June 2018 in Haarlem in the context of the ERC Consolidator Grant project "FOLLOW: Following the Money from Transaction to Trial" directed by Marieke de Goede (PI), University of Amsterdam. Participation in the International Conference "Racial Displacements: Peripheries, Camps, Resistance". Held June 18-19, 2018 at the Institute for Research into Superdiversity (IRiS) of the University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK 'Enacting and Unsettling "Crises" in an Age of Spectacular Security: Visual Knowledge-Making towards Epistemic Justice', presentation at the International Workshop "Critical Minds on Ethics and Crisis". Held May 31-June 1 2018 at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Funded by the University of Pittsburgh's (PA) Global Studies Center. Lecturer at the IGK Summer School of the SFB research consortium Dynamics of Security: Forms of Securitization in Historical Perspective. Held 22-25 May 2018 at the Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe and the Philipps University Marburg, Germany. Roma Discussion Group Meeting, Held 17 May 2018 at the University of Leuven, Belgium. Participation and panel moderation in Decolonizing Justice? Bringing Political Theory and Postcolonial Theory in Conversation. International Conference. Held 26-27 April 2018 at the Institute of Political Science, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany. Participation in events dedicated to the first independent Roma Art Biennale "Come Out Now!". Held 7-10 April 2018 in Berlin, Germany. International expert meeting regarding Antigypsyism in Europe and Holocaust education and commemoration. Held 21 March 2018 at the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research in Vienna, Austria. Memorial event dedicated to the life and artworks of Damian John Le Bas. Held 30 January 2018 at the Gorki Theater in Berlin, Germany, after the performance of "Roma Armee". Presentation of the second phase of our Giessen-based, DFG-funded research project, entitled "The History of European Roma Minorities: Securitization, Racialization and Counter-Narratives" (2018-21). Held 24 January 2018 at the University of Giessen, Germany. 2017 'Reflections on Antigypsyism and its Working Definition'. Consultation for and presentation in the IHRA (International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance) expert meeting of the Committee on the Genocide of the Roma. Held 28-29 November 2017 in Bern, Switzerland. Co-organizer of the workshop "Race and the (racial construction of) Roma in Europe". Held 17 November 2017 at the University of Amsterdam in the context of the ERC project "Race Matter: On the Absent Presence of Race in Forensic Identification" (RaceFaceID), directed by Amade M'charek (PI). Presentation of my current book project The Ambiguity of Protection (in progress). Workshop of the research project Dynamics of Security. Held 14 November 2017 at the University of Giessen. 'A Decolonial Critique of Post-Racial Europe: Rethinking Eurocentrism Through the Lens of the Roma'. Paper presentation at the fourth annual AGCS international conference Postcolonial Mediations: Globalisation and Displacement. Held 26-27 October 2017 at the Amsterdam Centre for Globalisation Studies (AGCS) of the University of Amsterdam. 'Security Delivery through Selective Deregulation: Evictability and the Racialized Governing of Urban Spaces'. Paper presentation at the 6th bi-annual PACSA conference The Making of Peace, Conflict and Security: Dynamics of Inclusion and Exclusion. Organized by Peace and Conflict Studies in Anthropology (PACSA). Held 28-30 August 2017 at the University of Amsterdam. Participation in the IHRA (International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance) expert meeting "50 Years of Roma Genocide Research - Where do we stand?" Organized by the IHRA Committee on the Genocide of Roma and Sinti in cooperation with the Documentation Archive of the Austria Resistance DÖW (Dokumentationsarchiv des österreichischen Widerstandes). Held 25-28 May 2017 at the Stiftung DÖW in Vienna. Participation in the workshop Studying the State through the Lens of Science and Technology Studies (StateTS). Held 17 May 2017 at the University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam. Participation in the post-doctoral workshop of the research project Dynamics of Security. Held 25 April 2017 at the University of Marburg in Marburg. Participation in the workshop 'Racial Exclusion in and at the Borders of Europe'. Held 23 March 2017 at the Migration and Diversity Center (MDC) of the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam Cancelled - Keynote lecture to be held at the Final Conference of the MigRom Project on the Immigration of Romanian Roma to Western Europe (EU-FP7, 2013-17). Held 17-19 January 2017 at the University of Manchester, Manchester (UK) (invited) 2016 Roma Discussion Group meeting. Held 2 December 2016 at King's College London (UK) - Strand Campus (invited) Third annual conference of the SFB research project Dynamics of Security: Forms of Securitization in Historical Perspective. Held 12-14 October 2016 at the University of Marburg, Germany The Politics of Security: Understanding and Challenging the Securitization of Europe's Roma. International and interdisciplinary Conference. Organized by Regina Kreide, Ana Ivasiuc, Yasmin Feltz and Huub van Baar. Held 1-3 June 2016 at the University of Giessen in Giessen, Germany. For further details and information: Flyer of the Conference "The Troublesome Normalization of 'Reasonable' Anti-Gypsyism: Anti-Policies and Anti-Roma Racism at a Time of Crisis in and of Europe". Lecture at the Forgotten Voices conference. Held 6-7 April 2016 in the Romanian Parliament, Bucharest, Romania. Organized by the Council of Europe (ERTF) Midterm evaluation and discussion meeting of the FP7 project MigRom (2013-2017). Held 12-15 January 2016 at the University of Manchester, Manchester, UK (invited) 2015 "De Muur is weg, leve de muur! Over nationalisme en Euroscepsis in Oost-Europa". Organizer of and participant in a debate about the so-called "refugee crisis", nationalism and Euro-skepticism in Central and Eastern Europe. Held 16 December 2015 at Spui25, the debating center of the University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam "New Approaches to (De-)Securitization." A Workshop with Didier Bigo and Jef Huysmans, co-organized by Regina Kreide and Huub van Baar in the context of the SFB Research Program Dynamics of Security: Forms of Securitization in Historical Perspective, Universities of Giessen & Marburg (2014-17). Held 5-6 November 2015 at the University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany "Romaphobia and the Racialization of Poverty in Contemporary Europe", contribution to the workshop "Challenging Romaphobia". Organized by Aidan McGarry. Held 3 November 2015 at the School of Applied Social Sciences, University of Brighton, Brighton, UK (invited) Second annual conference of the SFB research project Dynamics of Security: Forms of Securitization in Historical Perspective. Held 14-16 October 2015 at Rauischholzhausen, Universities of Giessen and Marburg, Germany "Contained Mobility and the Racialization of Poverty in Europe", keynote lecture (public). Held 11 October 2015 at Freiburg University, Freiburg, Germany (invited) Main instructor and keynote lecturer at the Interdisciplinary Summer School "Mobile Life-Work Arrangements: Exploring Conceptual and Methodological Challenges". Held 9-18 October 2015 at Freiburg University, Germany (invited) "New interventionism and expulsion regimes in post-1989 Europe: The impact of Europe’s de-territorialized and securitized borders on Roma minorities". Presentation of paper at the 26th annual Conference of the German Association for Political Science (DVPW), entitled Vorsicht Sicherheit! Legitimationsprobleme der Ordnung von Freiheit. Held 21-25 September 2015 at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany "Willkommenskultur under pressure: Can Germany manage the refugee crisis?", contribution to a public debate about the refugee crisis in Europe and in Germany in particular. Held 22 September 2015 at the Volkshotel in Amsterdam. Organized by the Duitsland Instituut at the University of Amsterdam (DIA), as part of its lecture series "Germany in DIA logue". "Hypervisibility and the Limits of Operational Representations: 'Ways of Seeing Roma' beyond the Recognition-Redistribution Paradigm" (with Peter Vermeersch). Presentation of paper at the 22nd International Conference of European Studies "Contradictions: Envisioning European Futures". Held 8-10 July 2015 at Sciences Po, Paris, France, organized by the Council for European Studies (CES) Participation in the public event “Borders, Citizenship and Mobility”. Held 26 June 2015 at King's College London, UK (invited) Participation in the workshop “New Keywords: Migration and Borders”. Held 26 June 2015 at King's College London, UK (invited) Discussant at the meeting and roundtable of the network “The ‘European’ Question: Postcolonial Perspectives on Migration, Nation, and Race”. Held 25 June 2015 at King's College London, UK (invited) Chair of the round table "Visualizing Mobility, Articulating Resistance" at the international conference The politics of visualization: Vision, vigilance and violence in border surveillance, security policies and mobility management. Held 28 May 2015 at the University of Amsterdam Discussant of Ioana Vrabiescu's paper on Romani migrants in the Spanish child protection and migration system. IMES Podium. Held 28 May 2015 at the Institute for Migration & Ethnic Studies (IMES) of the University of Amsterdam "Governing the Roma, bordering Europe: Europeanization, securitization and differential inclusion". Lecture at the Symposium on "Global Governance, Democracy and Social Justice". Held 7 April 2015 at Duke University, North Carolina, USA. Organized by the Council for European Studies (CES) at Duke University, Durham NC, and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Wake Forest University, as part of the CES series "Reasonable Accommodations: Minorities in Globalized Nation States" (invited) 2014 "At the Nexus of Migration, Citizenship and Romani Studies: The Effects of the EU's Border Regime on Europe's Roma" - Lecture at the Annual Conference of the INTEGRIM network "Fissures and Ruptures in European Societies: Masses, Migrants and Minorities". Held 11 December 2014 at the Central European University (CEU) Budapest (invited) Contribution to the parliamentary meeting of the All Party Parliamentary Group for Gypsies, Travellers and Roma. Held 3 December 2014 at the British Parliament, House of Commons, Palace of Westminster, London, UK (invited) "The Securitization of Gypsies, Travellers and Roma in Europe: Context, Critique and Challenges" - Keynote lecture at the International Seminar "Crime and Punishment: Gypsies, Travellers and Roma in the Criminal Justice System". Held 3 December 2014 at New Scotland Yard, London UK. Funded by the Council of Europe, organized by the Institute for Diversity Research, Inclusivity, Communities and Society of Bucks University, CRED, University of Warwick and the Academic Network of Romani Studies (invited) Contribution to the Roundtable meeting "Roma, Sinti en Woonwagenbewoners" (hoorzitting) of the Commission "Sociale Zaken en Werkgelegenheid". Held 29 September 2014 at the Tweede Kamer der Staten Generaal, The Hague (invited) “The Impact of Europe’s Securitized Borders on the Mobility of Irregularized EU Citizens: The Case of the Roma.” Conference paper. Security/Mobility: Between Authority and Expertise. Held 25-26 September 2014 at the University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam (invited) “Een kritische reflectie op het beleid ten aanzien van Roma minderheden in Nederland.” Lecture, Inter-ministerieel overleg Roma dossiers, Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment, The Hague, the Netherlands (3 July 2014, invited) ![]() Panel discussion about the rise of anti-Roma extremism in Europe and the documentary Judgment in Hungary with filmmaker Eszter Hajdú and producer Sándor Mesters. Amnesty International Movies that Matter Festival, 23 March 2014, Filmhuis, The Hague
“The Role of Media, Politics and Science in the Roma Debate.” Lecture and debate, together with Peter Vermeersch and Marija Davidovic. 27 February 2014, Spui25, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam
2013 “Governing the Roma, Dividing Europe: Securitizing Europe’s Borders and the Demarcation of Difference.” Conference paper. European Citizenship and “the Romani Other”. Held 4-6 September 2013 at the University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK (invited) “Boundary Practices of Citizenship: Europe’s Roma at the Nexus of Securitization and Citizenship.” Conference paper. Within and Beyond Citizenship: Lived Experiences of Citizenship in Contemporary Society. Held 11-12 April 2013 at the University of Oxford, Oxford, UK (invited). Organized by the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS), Oxford Institute of Social Policy (OISP) and the Refugee Studies Centre (RSC) at the University of Oxford and the School of Social Service Administration at the University of Chicago “The Perpetual Mobile Machine of Forced Mobility: Europe’s Roma and the Institutionalization of Rootlessness.” Conference paper. Deportation, Detention and Drowning in La Mer Mortelle: Critical Perspectives on the Irregularization of Migration in Europe. Held 22-23 February 2013 at the University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam (invited) 2012 Co-organizer of the International Conference The Roma between Past and Future: Reflections upon Genocide, Recognition and the Resurgence of Extremism and Anti-Gypsyism in Europe. De Nieuwe Kerk, Amsterdam, 6 May. In collaboration with the Dutch Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies (NIOD) and the Anne Frank Foundation. This debate was integral part of the project Requiem for Auschwitz ![]() Co-organizer of the film festival and debate De Roma, erin of eruit?! Een debat over uitsluiting in Europa. De Balie, 13 May. This debate was integral part of the project Requiem for Auschwitz Instructor at the CEU Summer University Course
The Roma in Europe: Debates on Comparative
Analysis / Policy Strategy,
Central European University, Budapest, 25 June - 20 July (financed by the
Council of Europe and the European Commission)
2011 Expert consultation for the Association of Dutch Municipalities (VNG) on Roma-related policies in the Netherlands, 16 March (invited) Reflections on Contemporary Romani Minority Governance in Europe: The Double Bind. Lecture on the occasion of the Hungarian EU Presidency and the adoption of the EU Framework on National Roma Strategies by the European Commission. Netherlands Institute of International Relations Clingendael, the Hague, 14 June (invited by the Hungarian Ambassador to the Netherlands) 2010 Participation in Forum 10 of the Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance (CCIG) at the Open University, Milton Keynes, UK, 2 February Participation in the conference Reassessing European Citizenship: Citizen Rights and Citizen Acts, Framework Research Program 7 of the DG Research of the European Commission, coordinated by the Open University (UK). Held April 27 at the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), Brussels “Socioeconomic mobility and neoliberal governmentality in post-socialist Europe: activation and the dehumanisation of the Roma.” Conference paper. Romani Mobilities in Europe. Centre on Migration, Policy, and Society (COMPAS), University of Oxford, Oxford (UK), 1-2 July 2010 (invited) “De Europese Roma: lakmoesproef voor een democratisch Europa”. Lecture at SPUI 25, University of Amsterdam, 7 October 2010 “Security and the irregularization of Romani mobility in Europe” Conference paper given at the seminar Perspectives on European Security Culture, Held November 10, 2010, University of Amsterdam (invited). Organized by the research group "European Security Culture" (NWO VIDI), led and coordinated by Marieke de Goede Chair of a debate about the representation of Romani minorities in the Dutch media. Utrecht, European Roma Grassroots Organizations Network ERGO, 6 December Main guest in a debate “De Roma in/uit Europa” about the situation of the Roma in Europe. University of Amsterdam and CREA, Amsterdam, 7 December 2009 Course instructor at the Romani Studies Summer School Multi-Disciplinary and Cross-National Approaches to Romany Studies - a Model for Europe, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary, 22 June - 10 July 2009 (invited) Participation in Forum 9 of the Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance (CCIG) at the Open University, Milton Keynes, UK, 10 December 2008 Lecture on Foucault’s concepts of governmentality, biopower, and pastoral power. Res Mixtae annual workshop, Utrecht University, Utrecht, 29 February Participation in the workshop Communism and Nationalism, Eastern European History and Eastern European Studies, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 25 April 2007 “The Way out of Amnesia? Europeanisation and the Recognition of the Roma’s Past and Present.” Conference paper. Representation and Effect: the Roma in Politics, the Arts and the Academy (The third interdisciplinary workshop in the British Academy Series on The European Roma: Theorizing Marginality, Resistance and Integration). Held 23-25 March 2007 at the University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Scotland (invited) “European Governmentalities toward the Roma in Central and Eastern Europe.” Conference paper. Transnational Governmentality in South East Europe. Translating Neo-Liberalism on the Sovereign Frontier. Held 31 May - 3 June 2007 in Rabac, Croatia. Organized by the Zagreb Institute of Economics, the South East European Research Centre of City College Thessaloniki, and the University of Sheffield, UK (invited) Course coordinator and co-organizer of the CEU Summer University course Media Globalization and Post-Communist European Identities at the Central European University, Budapest, 1-13 July 2007. Organized in collaboration with Anikó Imre, Ginette Verstraete and John Neubauer of the NWO research group Globalization and the Transformation of Cultural Identities in East Central Europe 2006 “Roma en Europese Integratie”. Guest lecture. Held 14 May at Theatre Branoul, The Hague “Roma en Sinti in Europees perspectief”. Guest lecture. Held 29 November at the Volksuniversiteit Wageningen, the Netherlands Organizer of the conference Old Curtains, New Screens: Media, Politics, and Minorities in Post-Communist Europe, University of Amsterdam and De Balie, Amsterdam, 8-9 June “Romani Self-Representations in Light of Memory Discourses.” Conference paper. Held June 29 - July 2 2006 at the University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, the Czech Republic (invited) “Roma en Sinti in Europa”. Guest Lecture. Held 8 May in Den Bosch, the Netherlands 2005 “Romany Countergovernmentality through Transnational Networking.” Conference paper. Oxford Symposium on (Trans-)Nationalism in South East Europe. Held June 17-19 2005 at St. Antony's College, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, in collaboration with the John F. Kennedy School for Government, Harvard University, USA (invited) The Role of the Globalization of Holocaust Discourses in Processes of Romani Identity Formation. Third Lecture in the Series The Roma Holocaust in Europe. 12 October. Bratislava: Office of the Council of Europe (invited) “Scaling the Romany Grassroots: Europeanization and Transnational Networking.” Conference paper. Re-activism: Re-drawing the Boundaries of Activism. Held October 13-15 2005 at the Central European University (CEU), Budapest. Organized by CEU, the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, and the Open Society Institute 2004 “Romani Identity Formation and the Globalization of Holocaust Discourse.” Conference paper. Identities and Alterities. Held March 29-31 2004 at the University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam “Local and Global Memorial Practices with Regard to Romany Identity Formation.” Conference paper. Second International NEXUS Conference The Balkans and Globalization. Held June 4-7 2004 at the Central European University, Budapest, in collaboration with the Centre for Advanced Studies, Sofia |
Membership
Member of the multi-disciplinary and international research network on “The ‘European’ Question: Postcolonial Perspectives on Migration, Nation, and Race” initiated by Nicholas de Genova and Sandro Mezzadra. Vice chair of the Research group on securitization and de-securitzation at the Universities of Marburg and Giessen, Germany, as part of the research project Dynamics of Security: Forms of Securitization in Historical Perspective (funded by the German Research Council, 2014-2017) Member and coordinator or the research group on European Borders and Mobilities at the University of Amsterdam (co-ordinated with Luiza Bialasiewicz) Member of the editorial board of Intersections: East European Journal of Society and Politics. Member of the European Academic Network on Romani Studies (EANRS), funded by the Council of Europe and the European Union Member of the Dutch Research Network on Securitization (ONS), coordinated by Beatrice de Graaf and Willem Schinkel Member of the Peripheries Project at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA) at the University of Amsterdam, coordinated by Esther Peeren and Astrid van Weyenberg Member of the Interdisciplinary Research Group on Inclusion and Exclusion (IOU), coordinated by Ashley Terlouw and Marija Davidovic Member of the Roma Discussion Group, based in London, UK Member of the International Roma and Sinti Remembrance Network Member of the World Artists' Initiative Khetanes Invited Peer-Reviews * Publishing Houses Routledge London/New York; Ashgate Publishing; Berghahn Books Oxford/New York; Policy Press Bristol; Zed Books London; Palgrave Macmillan, New York; Helsinki University Press * Research Councils Humanities in the European Research Area (HERA); Horizon 2020 (Societal Challenge) of the Research Executive Agency of the European Commission (EU); Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) UK, Czech Science Foundation; Hungarian Scientific Research Fund (OTKA); Schweizerische Nationalfonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung (SNF); The Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies; Romanian Agency for Higher Education, Research, Development and Innovation Funding (UEFISCDI); National Science Center Poland (NCN); Slovak Academy of Sciences (SAS); The Icelandic Centre for Research (IRF Rannís); Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (FWO) Belgium; Research Council of Leuven University, Belgium; Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO); Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR) * Academic Journals International Journal of Cultural Policy; Citizenship Studies; Popular Communication; International Migration; International Journal of Urban and Regional Research; Czech Sociological Review; Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies; Security Dialogue; Journal of Common Market Studies; Mobilities; Intersections: East European Journal of Society and Politics; Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power; Cities: The International Journal of Urban Policy and Planning; Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography; Social Inclusion; ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies; Political Geography; Geoforum; Social and Cultural Geography; East European Politics and Societies & Cultures; Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers; International Political Sociology; Journal Sociológia; Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture; American Historical Review; Puncta: Journal of Critical Phenomenology; Patterns of Prejudice; Journal of European Integration; Journal of Contemporary European Studies; Journal of Material Culture; Journal of Social Work; Journal of Social Policy; Romani Studies; Critical Romani Studies; Ethnic and Racial Studies; Ethnicities; Ethnography; Krisis: Journal for Contemporary Philosophy; European Yearbook of Minority Issues; Journal of Intercultural Studies; Journal of Communication Inquiry Supervision Supervisor of the PhD project of Ana Marta González Sanchez on institutional ambiguity and the reception of migrants at the EU's external borders (since 2023), Leuven University, Belgium Co-supervisor, together with Margriet Schavemaker (Professor of Media and Art in Museum Practice at the University of Amsterdam, and Artistic Director of the Amsterdam Museum) and Emilie Sitzia (Professor of Illustration at the University of Amsterdam, and Associate Professor of Art and Literature at Maastricht University), of the PhD project of Julia Ferloni on the designing of an exhibition on and with Roma communities in the French national museum Mucem in Marseille (2020 - 2024), University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands Co-supervisor, together with Amade M'charek (Professor in Anthropology of Science at the University of Amsterdam), of the PhD project of Ildikó Plájás on the racialization of Roma and interrelated constructions of 'race' in contemporary border practices in Europe (2016 - 2023), University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands Co-supervisor, together with Marie-Claire Foblets (Professor in Law and Anthropology and Director of the Department Law and Anthropology at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology/University of Halle /Saale, Germany), of the PhD project of Harika Dauth on the irregularization of Romani migrants from the Western Balkans in Germany (2016 - 2021), , Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology/University of Halle, Germany Co-supervisor (together with Regina Kreide (Professor in Political Theory and the History of Ideas at the Justus-Liebig University Giessen, Germany), of the PhD project of Laura Soréna Tittel on the nexus of racialization and visual securitization of Roma in the late 19th/early 20th century (2018 - 2021), Justus-Liebig University Giessen, Giessen, Germany 2022 Consulation of the PhD thesis (member of the committee) of Dragos Ciulinaru, entitled The Free Movement of the Deprived: Exception-making in European Union Rights Application to Roma Citizens. PhD thesis defense. Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands. 29 March 2022. Consulation of the PhD thesis (member of the committee) of Anita van der Hulst, entitled Wegbereiders: Roma en Sinti in Nederland en Tsjechië over het profijt van onderwijs, 1950-2020. PhD thesis defense. Leiden University, the Netherlands. 16 February 2022. 2021 Consultation for the Dutch Ministry of Justice and Security regarding the development of a guide for Dutch Municipalities to combat practices of antigypsyism and other forms of group-based discrimination. Spring-Fall 2021 2020 Consultation regarding the European Commission's policy report Combatting Antigypsyism: Expert Reports Building on Forward-Looking Aspects of the Evaluation of the EU Framework for National Roma Integration Strategies, written by Jarmila Lajčáková, Marek Hojsík and Mirjam Karoly. December 2019-January 2020 2017 Consultation for the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance's (IHRA) Committee on the Genocide of the Roma, Bern, Switzerland 2016 Consultation for the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), Warsaw, Poland 2015 Consultation for NOS Nieuwsuur on the refugee crisis in Europe, Central and Eastern Europe in particular Consultation for the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), Warsaw, Poland 2014 Consultation for the United Nations Office of High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) of the United Nations Regional Office Europe, Brussels, Belgium Consultation for the VARA television series on new separation walls in post-1989 Europe Consultation for VPRO ARGOS television on the perception of intra-EU migration Consultation for KRO-NCRV’s program Reporter on Roma-related items 2013 Consultation for NOS Nieuwsuur on Roma-related items Consultation for the European Roma and Travellers Forum (ERTF) of the Council of Europe Consultation for the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), Warsaw, Poland Consultation for the Office of the Dutch National Ombudsman 2012 Reviewer of the draft version of Aanpak multi-problematiek bij gezinnen met een Roma achtergrond (Henk Solie et al, Dutch Police Academy, final version published in 2013, Amsterdam: Boom – Lemma) Consulation of PhD thesis (member of the committee) Gül Özateşler, The forced dislocation of Gypsy people from the town of Bayramic, Canakkale in 1970. PhD thesis defense. Leiden University, the Netherlands. 12 January 2012. Published in book version under the title Gypsy Stigma and Exclusion in Turkey, 1970. Social Dynamics of Exclusionary Violence (New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014) 2009 Consultation for the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), Warsaw, Poland 2004 - currently Consultation of several BA and MA theses (in sociology, anthropology, European Studies, philosophy, literary studies, political science, gender studies) |