Wednesday – Friday // June 1-3, 2016
Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Hauptgebäude
Ludwigstraße 23 in 35390 Gießen
We would like to announce the international and interdisciplinary conference „The Politics of Security: Understanding and Challenging the Securitization of Europe’s Roma“, which will take place at the Justus Liebig University of Giessen in Giessen, Germany at June 1-3, 2016.
The conference „The Politics of Security: Understanding and Challenging the Securitization of Europe’s Roma“ aims at reflecting on the practices, discourses and mechanisms through which and the consequences of how, in post-1989 Europe, the Roma have increasingly been problematized in terms of security. We will discuss and address this central question in four closely related contexts, corresponding to the main four panels of the conference: security and visuality; security and mobility; security and development, and security and marketization.
For those who are interested in the event, please have a look at the attachment, which will inform you about the rationale and program of the conference.
Huub van Baar, Ana Ivasiuc, Regina Kreide (Teilprojekt A07)
Wednesday June 1, 2016
Venue: Hauptgebäude, Ludwigstrasse 23, Seminarraum 316
14:00 // Registration, coffee & tea
14:30 // Welcome
14:45 // SECURITY AND VISUALITY
Chair: Huub van Baar (University of Giessen)
„Security, visuality and practices of encampment: Romani histories of the city“
Ethel Brooks (Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ)
„Antigypsyism in German police press releases“
Markus End (Independent scholar & Gesellschaft für Antiziganismusforschung, Marburg)
„Sharing the insecure sensible: the circulation of images of Roma on social media“
Ana Ivasiuc (University of Giessen)
Discussant: Greta Olson (University of Giessen) tbc
17:00 // coffee & tea break
17:30 // ROUNDTABLE | REFRAMING: SINTI AND ROMA IN ART, CULTURE AND SOCIETY
Chair: Regina Kreide (University of Giessen)
Dotschy Reinhardt (singer, writer)
Moritz Pankok (director of Gallery Kai Dikhas, Berlin)
Kenan Emini (Roma Center Göttingen, Network Alle bleiben)
Thursday June 2, 2016
Venue: Hauptgebäude, Ludwigstrasse 23, Senatssaal
10:00 // SECURITY AND MOBILITY
Chair: Ana Ivasiuc (University of Giessen)
“The securitization of Roma mobilities and the re-bordering of Europe”
Nicholas De Genova (King’s College London)
“Synchronizing states and disruptive mobilities: Searching for legible subjects, producing everyday insecurities between Slovakia and Great Britain”
Jan Grill (University of Manchester/ Universidad del Valle)
“The interference between securitization policies and the practices of Roma migrants in precarious situation in France”
Olivier Legros & Marion Lièvre (University of Tours)
Discussant: Zsuzsanna Vidra (Central European University Budapest)
12:15 // lunch break
14:00 // SECURITY AND DEVELOPMENT
Chair: Regina Kreide (University of Giessen)
“Structural oppression of Roma and the development industry”
Angéla Kóczé (Wake Forest University, Winston Salem, NC)
“Voluntary return of Romani migrants: Humanitarian logic supporting securitization technologies in Spain”
Ioana Vrabiescu (Roma Initiative Office Fellowship, Foundation Open Society Institute)
“From ‘lagging behind’ to ‘being beneath’? The de-developmentalization of time and social order in contemporary Europe”
Huub van Baar (University of Giessen)
Discussant: Ulderico Daniele (Rome Tre University)
16:15 // coffee & tea break
17:00 // CONTAINER 158 – A documentary by Stefano Liberti & Enrico Parenti
Chair: Ana Ivasiuc (University of Giessen)
Discussion with Emil Julien Costache (former Roma mediator in Rome, Italy)
Friday June 3, 2016
Venue: Hauptgebäude, Ludwigstrasse 23, Senatssaal
09:45 // SECURITY AND MARKETIZATION
Chair: Huub van Baar (University of Giessen)
„Security + capital = ?“
Mark Neocleous (Brunel University London)
„Roma popular culture in an age of securitization: a move from ‚other‘ to ‚enemy'“
Annabel Tremlett (University of Portsmouth)
„The space and crime continuum: Security and gentrification in the case of the Roma people of Cluj, Romania“
Manuel Mireanu (autonomous researcher, Romania)
Discussant: Ryan Powell (Sheffield Hallam University)
12:00 // coffee & tea break // end of conference