Roma Activism and Academia

As part of its ongoing series on antiziganism in Austria in May 2025, initiative Edut asks about transgenerational remembrance of the antiziganist persecution during National-Socialism, new research on Porajmos (NS genocide of Sinti*zze and Rom*nja) and Critical Romani Studies in international research. Maria Bogdan conducts research on eyewitnesses of the Porajmos as well as on cultural trauma of the European Rom*nja. Rufat Demirov is a social rights activist for Rom*nja in North Macedonia and currently working on his dissertation.

Maria Bogdan, Yale University / Vienna Wiesenthal Institute
Rufat Demirov, Central European University, Vienna
Moderation: Johannes Glack, Initiative Edut, Vienna

In cooperation with Initiative Edut and HÖR – Students’ Union of Austrian Rom*nja.