Congress website: http://www.ezaf.org/IIIIAZK/indexen.html

Congress description:

III. International Antiziganism Conference 2006 (brief overview) The III. international Antiziganism Conference 2006 will be held on the grounds of the Concentration Camp Memorial Site Neuengamme. Its special unifying theme is the “Holocaust and Genocide of the Roma and Sinti in Europe”. Along with the persecution of the Roma and Sinti in the Nazi period, the conference will also look at post-war developments. Sinti and Roma from various European countries will speak at the conference from their concrete life worlds as the real “experts” on their own history. In addition, scholars at universities, representatives of NGOs and institutions in the majority society, politicians and ordinary citizens will also give papers or discuss an array of relevant topics and questions. Presenters will examine the National Socialist genocide in Eastern and Western Europe and the continuation of injustice after 1945. One thematic focus will be papers on specific countries presented by Roma and Sinti from Western, Eastern and South eastern Europe. As local “experts,” they can present a situated insight into the persecution of the Roma and Sinti under National Socialism in their specific region, and the continuities in Antiziganism down to today. Groups focusing on specific themes and topics will then deepen the discussion after these presentations. In contrast with the international Antiziganism conferences in 2004 and 2005, this year a main focus will be on the experience and knowledge of the Roma and Sinti themselves – instead of the previously largely “academic” vantage dominated by perspectives of the majority society. The topic of genocide will not be limited here solely to German history. In this context, an attempt will be made to bring together the past and present and to illuminate the fate of Roma and Sinti across the European continent, East and West. Programme:  http://www.ezaf.org/down/progIIIIAZKen.pdf Congress registration form:http://www.ezaf.org/registration_december/index.php Deadline for registration November 29th 2006