Thursday, 29 September 2022
12:00 pm EDT
Groundbreaking scholars Ethel Brooks, Ioanida Costache, and László Cs?sz move between past and present and draw upon testimonies and documents as they plumb the history of anti-Roma racist violence, and the erasure of that history even as the violence persists.
Chair
Debórah Dwork, Holocaust historian and Director of the Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Crimes Against Humanity at the Graduate Center—CUNY
Speakers
- Ethel Brooks, Chair of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Rutgers University and Chair of the Board of the European Roma Rights Center
- Ioanida Costache, Recipient of a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania, with focus on Romani historical trauma and artistic practice
- László Cs?sz, Historian and Senior Archivist at the National Archives of Hungary
The event is part of the discussion series “The Marginalized and the Erased”, organized by The Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Crimes Against Humanity (The Graduate Center – City University of New York) in association with the School of General Studies and the Master of Arts in Holocaust and Genocide Studies (Stockton University) and the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies (New York University).